Windigo set to cease operations

31-10-2019 14:26

Maksym Bednarskyi, co-owner of Windigo, has announced that the organization will cease operations amid cash flow problems and the departure of the team's star player.

Windigo will be no more, co-owner Maksym Bednarskyi has announced, in part stemming from cash flow problems due to not receiving several tournaments' payouts. The news also comes mere days after a report was released stating that the team's star AWPer, Valentin "⁠poizon⁠" Vasilev, is to join the ranks of Complexity in the near future.

Windigo have not received their $500,000 grand prize from WESG

The statement noted that a transfer deal for poizon has been agreed upon and that news about his future will be announced next week, while the rest of the team and staff will become free agents on November 1st.

One of the main reasons given for the shuttering of the company is that prize money from several tournaments is yet to be paid, including the $500,000 grand prize from the WESG 2018 World Finals celebrated earlier this year in Chongqing, China, as well as prize money from the past season of ESL Pro League and Moche XL Esports.

Mr. Bednarskyi also made an announcement regarding his personal future, in which he hopes to create another Kiev-based organization.

The players that last represented Windigo are:

Valentin "⁠poizon⁠" Vasilev
Kamen "⁠bubble⁠" Kostadinov
Yanko "⁠blocker⁠" Panov
Ali "⁠hAdji⁠" Haïnouss
Sabit "⁠mirbit⁠" Coktasar

Aleksandr "Shockwave" Netreba (coach)

UPDATE: E2tech, the company behind Moche XL Esports, contacted HLTV.org clarifying that the prize money was transferred to Windigo on September 23 before being returned due to unknown reasons. The tournament organiser explained that Windigo were the only team with such issues and added that the money has since been transferred again to a different bank account.

wtf RIP windigo

2019-10-31 14:27

34 replies

coL Poizon POG

33 replies

OG POIZON NT

32 replies

coL Salary > OG Salary NT

2019-10-31 14:29

30 replies

OG TEAM > COL TEAM

2019-10-31 14:30

29 replies

existing team > non-existing team

28 replies

liquipedia.net/dota2/OG back-to-back TI champions nt, coL who?

2019-10-31 14:31

27 replies

since when was D OMEGALUL TA 2 mentioned LUL

2019-10-31 14:32

26 replies

u say OG has non-existent team and i prove u wrong)))

2019-10-31 14:33

25 replies

non-existent COUNTER STRIKE team LUL CS website HELLOOOO

24 replies

acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/HLTV ok?

2019-10-31 14:34

23 replies

LUL NT. Where are the Half Life matches, teams, stats, and news

2019-10-31 14:38

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thats what i say, this is not just CS website bruh

2019-10-31 14:54

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but it is lul

2019-10-31 14:55

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hltv.org/forums/threads/2176511/favorite.. ok

2019-10-31 14:57

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and guess what the category is "OFF-TOPIC" of guess what. CS LUL NT

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so its not just CS website + the category is Movies LUL

2019-10-31 14:58

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if you dont think this is a CS website i really can't help you GG NT

2019-10-31 14:59

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only CSGO =/= majorly CSGO

2019-10-31 15:00

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maybe i wouldve understoood you if you said OG ORGANIZATION > coL ORGANIZATION. 0/10 English

2019-10-31 15:01

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OG ORGANIZATION > COL ORGANIZATION EZ FOR ME

2019-10-31 15:02

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International teams are a waste of money.

2019-10-31 15:07

and LOL the only other category thats not related to CS is movies NT

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hltv.org/forums/7/bugs-and-improvements hltv.org/forums/2/hltvorg-organisation hltv.org/forums/1/hltvorg-webpage nt

2019-10-31 15:04

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHH NT all HLTV stuff which is guess what. a CS WEBSITE NTNTNTNT

2019-10-31 15:05

6 replies

#76 nt

2019-10-31 15:24

5 replies

#48 nt

2019-10-31 15:25

hltv.org/forums/threads/2176511/favorite.. why do u replay to this with half life wtf

2019-10-31 15:26

This is a cs website bruh... it was founded in 2004, and back then cs 1.6 was still relevant, and we all know cs 1.6 is a mod for half-life. Therefore Half Life TV. OG is still a non existent cs team

2019-10-31 20:17

N I G G E R

2019-10-31 16:32

reported

2019-10-31 16:45

MEN??????? IQ - 404 NOT FOUND??????????????????????????????????????????????

IQ 404 POG

Normie

2019-10-31 17:27

RIP windigo! Best team ever. Legends

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hltv.org/matches/2331667/windigo-vs-mibr.. xaxaxaxaxaxaxa

no shame in losing to the best team ever made.

2019-10-31 14:28

True

lol wtf

LMAOO

poizon only good player here anyways

None cars

KKKKKKK

WESG SCAM UNEXPECTED

ikr wtf half a million dollars

2019-10-31 17:11

Typical chinese scumbags

2019-10-31 18:27

very sad

Sad for Hadji and Mirbit

Match fix but no money LOL

So you're one of those screaming match fix at everything huh...

2019-10-31 16:35

FUCK ME

Haha sad1 change ur name now

2019-10-31 17:29

What the actual fuck? How can they never received the money from these tournaments? This is fucking absurd

Yup

about time

RIP

What a surprise. WESG not paying a dime. How are those people still allowed to operate in the industry?

And people asking why all the tier1 teams didnt want to go WESG 2017 and 2018 despite the absurd money prize...

2019-10-31 18:31

Yeah what a joke

2019-10-31 20:09

What kind of assholes don't pay the money for that long Fucking bullshit The windigo lineup with vactor was fun to watch, shame they failed to make the last major

That really sucks :(((

WTF ARE YOU SERIOUS? fuvk this!!! this is my favorite team

WESG SCAM

This was pretty obviously coming ever since they added hAdji

Bro what the fuck is wesg doing

WTF WESG I wonder if Fnatic got their money from WESG2017

crazy

WESG GO SUCK WINNIE THE POOH'S DONG CORRUPT FUCKS

This is actual scum from event organizers. Not only one event but SEVEN FUCKING EVENTS? why is their no deadline for event organizers to pay the teams who fucking won? why don't valve step up? this is in utter fucking bullshit Orgs need to make money somehow.

In a reddit ama, the head of Windigo said that the deadline for wesg was october 8 and nothing had come through

2019-11-01 00:14

What a fcking joke

2019-11-01 02:41

ikr

2019-11-01 03:16

WESG and dont paying money Name more iconic duo

GESC indonesia (dota tournament) not paying money

2019-11-02 06:07

wtf why didnt wesg pay them

Rip In Peace

WESG has the shittiest organization for a big prize pool tournament I've ever seen and you guys are surprised they don't even pay their prizes?

Pay ur goddamn price pool ching chong

2019-10-31 14:35

WESG confirming its a fcuking scam once again XD

They dont get the wesg prize money due to China foreign exchange control. Fnatic got WESG 2017 prize money in late 2018.

2019-10-31 14:36

So basically it was a horrible idea to hold the event in China as many stated when it was announced?

2019-10-31 14:42

The problem is that wesg organizer is a mainland China company. So they need time to accumulate enough American dollars for the prize money under the control of goverment.

2019-10-31 14:50

#56

who cars

2019-10-31 14:37

Wesg,okay ESL TOO?

I find it hard to believe that they received no money from these tournaments unless they signed something that gave the organizer an amount of time to pay out the prize money. Even then, it has been a long time for WESG not to pay the winners

2019-10-31 14:39

I think WESG has a history of not paying orgs

2019-10-31 14:43

Shitty way to go...

Ripdigo

2019-10-31 14:40

Nice niccname

2019-10-31 15:48

WESG is biggest scam ever

wtf 500,000 that's bullshit, they should get paid that shit fast

RIP😢 it was a cool team

2019-10-31 14:45

Just yet another reason China sucks

2019-10-31 14:48

Bestest team is dead 😭

RIP mirbit

2019-10-31 14:51

this is sad happens..

2019-10-31 14:52

expected

Organizers need to get their crap together, its 2020, organizations need to be forced to pay out within a certain amount of tome and if they fail to do it then legal action needs to take place against them! Imho.

I agree. It's unacceptable that orgs put so much time and money into teams and events only to not get their winnings and tournament organisers need to be reprimanded.

2019-10-31 15:23

rip

" the $500,000 grand prize from the WESG 2018 World Finals celebrated earlier this year in Chongqing, China, as well as prize money from the past season of ESL Pro League."

2019-10-31 14:56

expected from winnie the pooh wesg

expected from wesg, the scam chinese organization

Oh no whaaaaat :(

Expected but WE WUZ MOR BULGARIANS IN CSGO

RIP, really enjoyable team to watch, killed by money and overbuying

It’s a sad end, but the players should be proud of what they did. A huge event win. They will find a new home soon, although they are likely to split.

2019-10-31 15:11

did they at least cash out with poizon transfer ? lul

2019-10-31 15:15

NIP took their money

2019-10-31 15:21

Typical scumbag WESG... Windigo for once actually win something that is somewhat relevant and they get f*cked with the payment. But what about ESL and Moche...? Smells like Windigo is also pretty scummy to me, which I'm not surprised at all. I'm just happy poizon will finally be free from this ELO hell and he will be able to prove himself against real competition, he deserves so much better than this. I'd put him on the same level as CeRq, easily tier1 material, given a solid team around him.

2019-10-31 15:29

2019-10-31 20:10

Imagine winning these amounts of money and not receiving them. I am without words tbh, they were a top 20 team without problems. 2020 already and organizers are like this.

Expected disband

2019-10-31 15:31

fuck wesg... ESL is DOGSHIT. Pay the fucking money ya monkeys.

2019-10-31 15:33

This is fucked up dude...

2019-10-31 15:39

2019-10-31 15:40

Players received their money as far as I know. The org probably didnt. Good riddance anyways, these people have no idea what they're doing ukranian monkey brains.

2019-10-31 15:41

That’s rude :c

2019-11-01 17:13

10 IQ SHITTEST ORGANIZATION.

2019-10-31 15:45

LUL

2019-10-31 16:04

RİP

2019-10-31 16:13

Sad, RIP

2019-10-31 16:15

expected after they decide to go international, that was 10 iq decision

2019-10-31 16:16

wtf how are TO's still not paying prizes?? deserve to be hanged if they are deliberate

2019-10-31 16:27

Windigo have not received their $500,000 grand prize from WESG WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

2019-10-31 16:29

Noic scam wesg

2019-10-31 16:33

WHAT??????? They haven't been paid yet? FUCK. CHINA. Rip Windigo.

2019-10-31 16:38

Its because the autistic ORG decided to get rid of the old Bulgarian lineup that WON WESG 2018! They were consistently in Top 10-20 and they had a very solid lineup but NOOOOOOOOOOOOO lets get rid of one very good lineup and bring some good talents that will make the chemistry go SHIT. :CLAP CLAP CLAP:

2019-10-31 16:51

Undeserved :( Also fk WESG How do you fk up half a million fkin US dollars?

2019-10-31 16:59

+1 Monkeys

2019-10-31 17:26

finally

2019-10-31 17:34

chinese mafia

2019-10-31 17:44

"E2tech, the company behind Moche XL Esports, contacted HLTV.org clarifying that the prize money was transferred to Windigo on September 23 before being returned due to unknown reasons. The tournament organiser explained that Windigo were the only team with such issues and added that the money has since been transferred again to a different bank account." Weird, transferred again on the Windigo CEO's offshore bank account ?

2019-10-31 17:58

I am not attacking anyone but I think windigo are lieing about the prize money not being given to them. I find it really hard to believe that half a year after windigo won wesg, they haven't received their money but everyone else in the tournament (ago,fnatic,g2,mibr...) have. Also windigo said that moche xl hasn't given them the 40k which was later confirmed that the money were send from moche's side but refused fron windigo's side

2019-10-31 17:59

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2019-10-31 18:29

Vince came out and said a couple of days ago he's been waiting months for some events to pay him. This wouldn't be a shock if Windigo are still waiting for prize money

2019-10-31 18:36

Yeah but second and third place got their money so whats with windigo not receiving them?

2019-10-31 23:08

less money than what Windigo won... if they did get paid WESG could easily come out and prove it

2019-11-01 10:38

Very sad i hope they find a new home soon

2019-10-31 18:39

This was to be expected due to the retarded Windigo CEO with his non sense decisions and poor management

2019-10-31 20:04

if you dont know the full story then dont be a internet talking hater

2019-11-01 18:05

Dont join coL Poizon <.< Join OG please.

2019-10-31 20:05

Sad

2019-10-31 21:24

I would not be surprised if the players haven't been paid for a while either. Remember the case with an ex Windigo player (Spellan i believe) where he accused the CEO of Windigo of not being paid.

2019-10-31 21:46

Wesg scammed them?

2019-11-01 17:20

well 1million dollar prize money for a tournament that wasn't even livestream was always fishy...

2019-11-01 23:38

Another trash team dissapears

2019-11-14 03:35