Transfer Recap: March

March has passed and we rewind and recap it by taking a look at the many transfers that took place.

The first transfer of the month was done during CeBIT, but not by a team attending the IEM5 World Championship. Norwegian alchemists Unleashed announced they had brought in the Swede André "BARBARR" Möller, who would fill in for Kristian "KORN" Hokland, who stepped down from his active role in the team.

The next day, Portuguese-based Online Kingdom announced the signing of the Finnsh Elukkaveljekset Gaming Club team. Two days later on March 5, Made in Brazil saw their Counter-Strike team move back to playArt, after the players were reported to be unhappy with the Brazilian organization's lack of support. On March 7 Tobias "Troubley" Tabbert announced his return to TBH, filling the shoes of Dominik "d0m AZ" Wrabetz.

March 2-7
Sweden alchemists add BARBARR for KORN
                                 Full Story
Finland Online Kingdom sign EGC
                                 Full Story
Brazil mibr lose CS team
                                 Full Story
Germany TBH see Troubley return
                                 Full Story

News from the States ticked in the next day as UMX Gaming announced their new US-based team. The new team was announced to be the former Ruins squad, a top ranked ESEA Invite team. On March 10 Moscow Five announced they had removed Alexandr "xek" Zobkov. Roster changes had already been in the air at the IEM5 World Championship, where the team did not manage to pass the group-stage. The same day compLexity announced changes, as they released Bruno "bit" Fukuda from the team.

Borja "GuMmY" González later that day announced he would make a quick return to active gaming with Gaming.CO for the Spanish Reus LAN Party. The next day Danish team Cheap Times! announced their return with a newly-established line-up, bringing in the former TCM member Taymaz "TAY" Babaisl. News from Russia came later that day, as Iron Will announced the removal of Viktor "Sally" Filimonchenko, Boris "Snoop" Podvalshikov and Alan "Fly" Temirov, while they brought in Aleksey "HEL1" Novikov.


Sally & Snoop out of IW

More news from Finland came on March 13, as Binary Evasion announced they had acquired the Finnish-based team doozies. Once again news from Russia came to the surface when a new Russian project called "together as one" saw the light, housing departed Iron Will member Alan "Fly" Temirov as well as former Moscow Five member Alexandr "xek" Zobkov. On March 15 news came from Norway, when it was reported that zX9 had been brought down to just two members, as Øyvind "KF3" Magnestad, Morten "zEVES" Vollan and Benjamin "Ben" Brahimi all parted ways, leaving Kenneth "REASTEN" Kristiansen and Hans Petter "CLd" Nykkelmo as the  remaining members. The same day German-veteran David "CHEF-KOCH" Nagel announced his departure from Alternate, replacing him was Gerhard "gerdi" Grimm.

March 8-15
United States UMX announce US team
                   Full Story
Russia Moscow Five remove xek
                   Full Story
Brazil compLexity release bit
                   Full Story
Spain Gaming.CO get help by GuMmY
                   Full Story
Denmark Cheap Times! announce return
                   Full Story
Russia Iron Will lose trio
                   Full Story
Finland Binary Evasion acquire doozies                    Full Story
Russia tao come to life                    Full Story
Norway zX9 down to two players                    Full Story
Germany Alternate lose CHEF-KOCH                    Full Story

Three days later Ukrainian team DTS announced the addition of the spraynpray squad, removing Aleksandr "Shara" Gordeev to make space for Egor "pops" Zinoviev. France spawned news on March 22, when nSydia announced the change of two, dropping Kyle "nota" Saadi and Yannick "P0My" Analoro and bringing in Rémy "RevZ" Prieur and Alexandre "maLou" Male. Later that day Brazilian playArt.sp saw Matheus "urb" Oliveira part ways with the organization, having already been tested by the Brazilian top-team compLexity.

On March 23 alchemists Unleashed they had decided to part ways with their Counter-Strike team, after a disagreement regarding the makeup and composition of the team. News from Poland came the same day, where Universal Soldiers picked up Daniel "myth" Bukalski, filling the place of Mateusz "amateur" Witkowski, who has stepped down as player due to his lack of time for training activities.

March 18-23
Ukraine DTS raid spraynpray
                   Full Story
France nSydia replace two
                   Full Story
Brazil playArt.sp without urb
                   Full Story
Norway alchemists lose CS team                    Full Story
Poland Universal Soldiers pick up myth                    Full Story

The next day, alchemists started to reveal their Xperia PLAY lineup, which started out with Preben "prb" Gammelsæter being announced as the first member. Former eoL member Ola "elemeNt" Moum was the second, ex-4Kings Jon Thomas "DaY" Rudstrøm the third and Tommy "syrtekz" Skoglund the fourth. Completing the team was Gunnar "zEn" Eng.


elemeNt to Copenhagen with alchemists

March 24 also saw iDemise announced the addition of BACKFiRE, a team housing Frenchmen David "Xp3" Garrido and four US-based members. March 25 saw Moscow Five announcing their new fifth in the shape of Alexandr "Twist" Sharipov, a rather unknown Russian talent. The following day Romania brought us news as TeG announced the return of Marius "MaRiuS" Ionita, who replaced Liviu "DecE" Munteanu.

Brazil once again made headlines as semXorah on March 28 announced the addition of Frederico "atx" Marques, who replaced the released Caike "caike1" Silva. Later that day Polish team DELTA announced the pickup of Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski, filling the spot Daniel "myth" Bukalski left open.

March 24-28
Norway alchemists Xperia PLAY lineup add prb
                   Full Story
Norway alchemists Xperia PLAY lineup with elemeNt
                   Full Story
Norway alchemists Xperia PLAY lineup attatch DaY
                   Full Story
Norway alchemists Xperia PLAY lineup bring in syrtekz
                   Full Story
Norway alchemists Xperia PLAY lineup  finalize with zEn
                   Full Story
United States iDemise sign BACKFiRE
                   Full Story
Russia Moscow Five pick up Twist
                   Full Story
Romania TeG change DecE for MaRiuS                    Full Story
Brazil semXorah add atx
                   Full Story
Poland DELTA snare Snax                    Full Story

The next day RG-Esports revamped their Counter-Strike team, announcing the arrival of three former alchemists members - Andreas "moddii" Fridh, Karl William "kalle" Haraldsen, Tommy "tacky" Mosgaard – and brought along the Swede André "BARBARR" Möller. The fifth in the team would be captain of the previous RG team, Markus "pronax" Wallsten.


pronax in control of new RG squad

Two days later Universal Soldiers captured CEFO as their new Counter-Strike division. Wojtek "break" Paszkiewicz was the only player to make the transition from the old US team as he filled the shoes of Damian "DREQ" Matuszak. Later that day playArt released Carlos "viol" de Paula, allegedly due to his lack of time to practice.

On the last day of the month, ENTiTY announced the return of Aleksandar "helius" Kiselinov, who replaced Serbian Nemanja "k1ng0r" Bošković, making ENTiTY 100% Macedonian again. The last transfer of the month came as Australian Mindfreak added the former Vulcan300 squad to their ranks.

March 29-31
Sweden RG revamp Counter-Strike team                                  Full Story
Poland Universal Soldiers capture CEFO                                  Full Story
Brazil playArt release viol
                                 Full Story
North Macedonia ENTiTY bring back helius
                                 Full Story
Australia Mindfreak aquire Vulcan300
                                 Full Story
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Ukraine CunninLynguist
elemeNt to Copenhagen with alchemists THIS. p.s. didn't read
2011-04-11 10:28
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Bahrain Jason Bourne
wow I think this is the longest unedited first comment that I've ever seen on hltv gratz
2011-04-11 20:45
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Sweden Chaez
Not that much action though. I mean for the bigger teams.
2011-04-11 10:29
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Belgium Ruban M.
This why they are big teams, they don't change players very often :D
2011-04-11 10:42
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Netherlands liQuidmoTion
you got it :]
2011-04-11 14:31
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Finland perunamuusi
nice :D
2011-04-11 10:37
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Australia jimNeso
Great to see Aus included :D
2011-04-11 10:41
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World fodetudo
Some good surprises :D
2011-04-11 10:47
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Romania PALERMO-.-
good achieve for TeG
2011-04-11 10:50
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India xypnexfan.ftw
offtopic could u please just lock this topic hltv.org/?pageid=135&userid=159600&blogi.. thread turned into a flame war and then too racism
2011-04-11 11:02
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World nikof47
Best is eLement come-back ^^
2011-04-11 12:27
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Europe arctick
Yeah, alchemists with elemeNt <3
2011-04-11 14:40
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eoL. da best ,nothin else !
2011-04-11 16:08
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Ireland asasasdxx
was a twisted March ! gl RG!
2011-04-11 12:34
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Bulgaria SHISHETu
so great Transfers in March ..
2011-04-11 15:49
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great month
2011-04-11 19:14
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Russia TheaKill
I want to tell here that: gl urubuzinho (nice aim).Interesting player. gl alchemists :> moscow meat pick up Twist,omg :D noname. moscow meat want to be top3 world :D
2011-04-14 05:45
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