SINNERS sign MoDo

2-1-2026 15:09

SINNERS are back up to full strength.

SINNERS have announced the signing of Mădălin-Andrei "⁠MoDo⁠" Mirea, bringing their roster back up to full strength after the benching of Peter "⁠Pepo⁠" Ružička in December.

The move marks a continued shift in an international direction for SINNERS, who picked up Pole Kamil "⁠kisserek⁠" Banak and Macedonian Jordan "⁠stressarN⁠" Manevski mid-way through last year.

SINNERS enjoyed a strong end to 2025, picking up wins in regional competition as well as online events, such as ESL Challenger League. This saw the team rise to their peak VRS ranking of 40th by the end of the year.

AWPer Pepo had, however, struggled to shine during his stint on SINNERS, posting a 1.02 average rating during his time on the team, the lowest rating for that period.

MoDo arrives having most-recently featured for 9INE, where he averaged a 1.07 rating and helped the team make several deep runs, both in online competition and on LAN. Most notably MoDo won Birch Cup and came second at Fragadelphia Blocktober with 9INE, a run that saw them only narrowly miss out on StarLadder Budapest Major qualification.

SINNERS are now:

Sebastian "⁠beastik⁠" Daňo
Max "⁠SHOCK⁠" Kvapil
Kamil "⁠kisserek⁠" Banak
Jordan "⁠stressarN⁠" Manevski
Mădălin-Andrei "⁠MoDo⁠" Mirea

Jakub "⁠Bfull⁠" Kokoška (coach)

SINNERS with the braincell, <30 year old player instead of recycling oskar for the 10000th time lmao.

2026-01-02 15:09

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24 replies

but lost cz/sk core sinners big L move

2026-01-02 15:22

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Why? They had the EU flag on hltv even with Pepo and MČR is going to change big

2026-01-02 15:26

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Czechoslovakia doesn't exist anymore

2026-01-02 15:52

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Yeah, thats my point

2026-01-02 15:55

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Don't you need a czsk core in order to attend MČR and MSR?

2026-01-02 18:00

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i dont think so, i dont think mcr would be allowed to have vrs if they enforced the core thing, imo its just kinda respected only that teams dont just sign up

2026-01-02 18:36

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There aren't any rules preventing TOs from running regional tournaments

2026-01-02 19:18

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really? i was not sure about that, thanks then

2026-01-03 15:27

From now on, no. MCR is gonna undergo big changes

2026-01-02 18:38

Not L move if your scene is not able to develop talents while CZ/SK events are really good with good prizepools even with no salaries its good to play there. Meanwhile somewhere in Middle of nowhere there is literally Top 5 team from basement PC cafe tournaments. CZ/SK had good tournaments since 2014 I remember a Prague lan then it was Asus Rog Masters or something then Hitpoint then MCR. All of them had good prizepool for local event only for CZ/SK teams. Idk how you dont have any players there and recycle same players over and over. Literally there is non under 20 year old CZ/SK player with potential except PR. Maybe thats why PR chose Academy team over CZ team.

2026-01-02 16:27

Hrdina 15 yo playing for Heroic academy and Fazery 17 yo playing for Navi academy

2026-01-02 21:34

As I said young prospects are about to join academy teams because local teams like Sinners and Eclot brings imports or recycle same players every year.

2026-01-02 21:41

Or maybe blame the player from cz/sk not being good enough?

2026-01-02 16:56

and MODO is trash overrated.... made 9INE lose qualification to the major vs FNATIC with stand-in. watch last 2 maps of bo5 , especially overpass , dude throwed the game ON A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE 9ine rifflers deserved the major much more than fnatic and because of the failure , faveN was removed , without fault , and they are worse now ,even with phyz faveN > bonx on this team.

2026-01-02 17:38

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Overrated? How? Only like 2 romanians actually think hes any good and the rest of everyone either think hes average or think hes trash like you. Please learn what overrated is.

2026-01-02 21:05

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i dont mean overrated as fans rating him. when ORGs keep recycling this awper SO MUCH, when there better options on the market, its "overrating him" his value going up by joining teams with good players. if my amatuer 18yo average footballer praticcer goes to AllNassar play with ronaldo and felix, all the sudden people expect him to have a certain value (his value increases by him just being around other good ones) but by your flag , you probably cannot be unbias

2026-01-03 01:44

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Thats more understandable, but still, he was on the bench/without a team for a while, and after his stand-ins with monte and 9ine he deserved another chance. He did good in 9ine full time as well, so it made sense that t2/3 eu would have a place for him. Also, lets not pretend like he was really the weakest link in 9ine, and he wont be in sinners, im sure, his talent is enough to keep him afloat at this level.

2026-01-03 04:11

TOO passive to make a impact on winning conditions. Sure he can put very nice ratings ,ALOT OF GREENS, but in game if you analyse his games , he does 0 when its hard. EVER. Reminds me of overrated headtr1ck when he got a chance in NIP too afraid to make game-changing plays. But hits all the solid normal shots , good at holding angles, so his stats are never the problem in itself.

2026-01-03 19:50

genuinely who's better benched/free agent that SINNERS could afford?

2026-01-03 10:47

forsyy was free and went to a worse roster ... ALOT WORSE. play with jackinho. Thats not my 1st option but i just intant remember by looking at your flair danistzz , roster disbaned last week JBOEN , very underrated, good on LAN aswell. plays the awp in a smart way , not afraid to do plays. eraa good enough in cs2 , but never in proper rosters. Woro2K flayy, shield , smooya, SpavaQu , draken(probably dont want) , etc THERES MORE.

2026-01-03 20:01

i think forsyy didn't want to sign with SINNERS because they kicked him in 2022, so he doesn't have good relationship with management danistzz is sidegrade over MoDo imo + Blade (SINNERS's influencer) is known for not liking russians xd JBOEN is better on paper. question is how much money BIG would want for him idk why eraa would sign with SINNERS, because they're on same level as Alliance Woro is "top 5 most overrated players oat" + he's toxic allegedly flayy would be better signing i guess shield is playing good only now under FF, until then he was dog shit smooya is same as Woro SpavaQu xdd draken is old + kinda downgrade from MoDo

2026-01-04 09:24

"SINNERS, because they're on same level as Alliance" i dont feel like they are , vs harder teams , sure they can both win easily vs the top 60+ teams, but when its harder teams SINNERS gets more wins. Also poii is leaving Allience which is the agro riffler , so Allience is dead without him. eraa will be forgotten again and again danistzz is not a sidegrade.. he just playing in dead teams, he is a bit better than passive Modo woro was always IGLing + awping .. still putting good impact ... if he doesnt have to IGL , he would be a good awper, also always mantatined in the t1.5 level consitently when he had good rosters... surely he might be toxic , but theres not big evidence , except clips with s1mple and faceit stuff. you rate bot passive Modo to high. he never makes any team better ,he just gets good stats .. thats all.

2026-01-04 17:10

I forgot story , who is going to flyquest shit team , PUT SINNERS IN OCEANIA PLAYING SHIT TEAMS , they would do same or better than flyshitquest story Sinners isnt bad tbh

2026-01-03 20:32

yeah you're right, but there's problem. FlyQuest is AU team who is playing tier 1 LANs and SINNERS are "just" tier 2 EU team. it's good decision from story to go to FlyQuest to play on LANs

2026-01-04 09:27

so now they will have zero fans since they don't even have a czech core

2026-01-02 15:10

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romanians

2026-01-02 15:12

the only sinners fan i know is that macedonian guy here on hltv with stressarn flair

2026-01-02 15:13

They have big Czech fanbase. Czech Republic is cheering for Sinners

2026-01-02 15:14

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not anymore

How did you get to this point? Now its gonna be even bigger because of the end of DNE

2026-01-02 15:23

2026-01-14 09:50

I'm a fan. I'm fan of Czech scene, I love their lans.

2026-01-02 15:19

lul and you are still alive? respect

2026-01-02 15:20

Idk what it means, but thank you maybe

2026-01-02 15:25

They will have the same fanbase, beastik and SHOCK stayed

where is BIOSHOCK? or whatever his name was the czech guy with all caps in his name... what was that dude's name? he looked droopy most of the time BIOSCHOKE, PLAYERSCHOCKE, something like that ... he was actually pretty decent

2026-01-02 17:20

just SHOCK, playing for Sinners, czech headshot machine

2026-01-02 17:29

did you mean NEOFRAG? lmao

2026-01-02 19:22

lol yes NEOFRAG, what happened to that dude

2026-01-02 20:21

he signed with ITB and he got kicked after a couple of weeks because of some internal drama (rumour at the time was that he said the n word during practice, but i have no idea if that's true) since then he's been jumping around Czech teams and has fallen off AFAIK

2026-01-02 21:25

he's now IGL in UNITY, which is kinda team of czsk rejects and woozzzi

2026-01-03 10:49

czech rejects UNITE!

2026-01-03 12:41

you truly underestimate the power of Romanian fanbase of players that are playing 'abroad'

2026-01-02 15:28

k so ukrainians can't cheer for navi now

2026-01-02 16:19

we are winning the major buddy dont worry

2026-01-02 15:17

amazing news for tier 3

solid

2026-01-02 15:11

not signing forsyy is a fumble

Extremely. It was the best option for sinners and they let it slip.

2026-01-02 16:02

big one actually I am trying to not underestimate MoDo, but i struggle quite a bit. I would say, he can only surprise (but i think he won't). I expect similar performance as pepo, maybe tad bit better. Not enough of "upgrade" imo. //edit hltv.org/stats/players/21113/modo?startD.. I take it back. This seems like str8 up downgrade, LOL.

2026-01-02 16:30

Honestly, if he shows up the level he had in 9INE during his stint, it could prove to be an upgrade. But letting forsyy go is just straight up comedy in my opinion, hopefully I am proven wrong.

2026-01-02 19:24

i think they wanted to sign him, but for some reason he decided to go in the Metizport

2026-01-03 10:51

Pepo died for this...

Pepo was horrible

MoDo is very mid, he will fit well in sinners.

Are you based in Seychelles?

Why Ademar doesn't type anything about this news? Oh, i forgot that he is a fake fan xdxdxdxd

2026-01-02 15:16

I thought they would try to get flay, seems a bit better than modo and perfect for a tier2 team

waste

congrats modo you made it outta short news

2026-01-02 15:21

well xd

way to kill any sort of remaining relevancy this team barely had

2026-01-02 15:39

ok who better could they get in your opinion?

2026-01-02 15:43

Any one is better then Pepo tbh

Signing MiDo in big 2025

2026-01-02 15:51

he is good for sinners

2026-01-02 16:07

Entropiq 2.0

2026-01-02 16:09

Entropiq were a top 10 team at one point. With forester and its core they were a staple in cs go in 2021. Sinners barely cracked the top 20 once. They are not in the same category as entropiq, they are in the same category as Alter-Ego.

2026-01-02 17:24