Antwerp Aces have announced they have added Decio "DeKMaTcHeR" Pinto on a permanent basis.
The Belgian player acted as a stand-in for Antwerp Aces at GameGune last week, helping the team to a 13-16th place finish at the event.
He has now earned a permanent move to Aces, stepping into the shoes of Ivan "Apollo" Wuddhisukhum, who has opted to step down as player to become inactive.
"Overall I think we had a better campaign than the previous ones," Pinto told HLTV.org. "We passed the group stage with much more confidence with a strong performance against the French team Prodigy-esc.
"I felt we could have done better against Fnatic, but that’s not the team you expect to grab some points
"In the brackets, however, we faced the Brazilian team CnB on de_train. We started of pretty well with a 7-2 lead on T side and felt really confident. Unfortunately we couldn’t finish them off and CnB made a strong comeback and managed to take the game.
"Actually we’re quite happy with our general performance at Gamegune despite the lack of luck in our last game against wCrea."
Antwerp Aces, who are hoping to attend DreamHack Winter providing the Benelux will hold qualifier for the event, now have:
Dries "ciseta" van Houdt
Fréderic "Monu" Dewever
Jules "nookbrid" Wydoodt
Felix "nunji" van de Put
Decio "DeKMaTcHeR" Pinto