Official: 100 Thieves return to CS:GO with signing of Renegades roster

31/10/2019 - 20:22

100 Thieves have formally announced their return to competitive Counter-Strike with the signing of the Renegades line-up.

The confirmation came after Renegades had jumped the gun in announcing the departure of the team in a Twitter post that was quickly deleted.

100 Thieves founder and owner Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag had revealed in July that his organisation were looking to return to CS:GO "in full force". A month later, while the StarLadder Major was going on, he announced that he was traveling to Berlin to conduct negotiations with a view to assembling a "championship-caliber team" with players who were "hungry to build a winning legacy".

Renegades' players to represent 100 Thieves

The Australian team, who had been on Renegades' books since 2015, have spent a significant part of 2019 inside the top 10 in the world rankings, breaking into the top five for the first time in April. They are automatically guaranteed a spot at the first Major of 2020 after reaching the semi-finals at the StarLadder Major - their highest finish at a tournament of this caliber.

"This is a long-term play," Nadeshot said in a YouTube video. "We want to support not only our players and this team, but we want to help to support the CS:GO ecosystem so that this game continues to have more success as it already has in the last two decades.

"We had a lot of teasers on Twitter over the last few months because I have just been so genuinely excited to be a part of this community once again.

"I think Counter-Strike is the most passionate esports fanbase that I have been around. There is so much history, so many storylines, players and organisations who have been here before us that have laid out the groundwork for an incredible esports game."

This will be 100 Thieves' second foray into competitive Counter-Strike after a brief experience in late 2017, when the North American organisation signed a Brazilian team featuring the core of the Immortals lineup that had finished in second place at that year's PGL Major Krakow. The team ended up missing the ELEAGUE Major due to immigration issues, with Vito "⁠kNgV-⁠" Giuseppe and then the rest of the team being released without even making a tournament appearance for the organisation.

Aaron "⁠AZR⁠" Ward's troops will make their first appearance for 100 Thieves at IEM Beijing, scheduled for November 7-10. Eight teams will be taking part in the Chinese tournament, where $250,000 will be on the line.

100 Thieves have the following line-up:

Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage
Aaron "⁠AZR⁠" Ward
Joakim "⁠jkaem⁠" Myrbostad
Sean "⁠Gratisfaction⁠" Kaiwai
Jay "⁠Liazz⁠" Tregillgas

Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović (coach)

Very interesting pick-up. Good luck austrians!

2019-10-31 20:22

! Poggers

2019-10-31 20:23

why would you pick a garbage team?

2019-10-31 20:25

best team in 2020 but ok..

2019-10-31 20:26

EXPECTED

2019-10-31 20:33

EVIL GENIUSES CEO > 100T CEO

2019-10-31 20:44

OG CEO > EG CEO.

2019-10-31 20:50

lul talking about none existing team good

2019-10-31 20:52

Looking more like a DotA2 meme than a cs meme.

2019-10-31 22:49

xDDDD OG dominates dota2, eg means nothing to them :P

2019-11-01 02:05

That's what I'm saying.

2019-11-01 02:40

yeh i know, im giving you the reason, OG is my fav team in dota so i'd love to see them on cs

2019-11-01 20:00

IT EXISTSTS! Aleksib rulez! SFUT nerd.

2019-11-02 11:12

EG CEO = OG CEO

2019-10-31 20:53

That means; O>E So what is O or E. Or maybe X

2019-10-31 21:21

quote me in 2020

2019-11-01 02:01

????????????????????!!11

Indian talk about garbage..ok

2019-10-31 20:27

Are you butt hurt, Aussie?

2019-10-31 20:28

He’s not even an Aussie, he’s a New Zealander, here have some dumb fuck juice

2019-10-31 20:30

HHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2019-10-31 20:35

okay, fatfuck ;-;

gord gord

2019-10-31 21:11

Dumb fakin retard. Atleast Americans dont starve

2019-10-31 22:34

Okay, fatfuck;-; What's in your other hand a burger or a pizza?

2019-11-01 00:18

Ok paki

2019-11-01 00:45

No mens. Sushi

2019-11-01 00:55

dON'T LIE

2019-11-01 18:55

and you're calling me "toxic"? lmao the hypocrisy is real, Bihari.

2019-11-01 07:47

Same thing.

2019-10-31 21:17

lol hey benchod

2019-10-31 21:55

2019-11-01 00:02

Top10 Team?? Literally no team better that they could get

Still better than G2 lmao.

ahh, I remember you, toxic kid

2019-10-31 20:45

but he was right so stfu

ok plastic fan ;-;

2019-10-31 21:22

kennyS irrelevant since 2017 lmao.

2019-11-01 07:46

See you are kid, trying to trigger me by calling kennyS "irrelevant." Go and find a job kid, please don't make your parents feel guilty for not using a condom that night. I wish I could give your parents money for a condom. Enough attention for you, sick donkey ass kiddo.

2019-11-01 18:51

I already have a job with good salary lol. But you're just delusional thinking kennyS is relevant.

2019-11-01 19:00

Everything checks out.

2019-11-01 13:46

Calm down forsaken

2019-10-31 22:17

How do you know im forsaken?

2019-11-01 00:16

India flag

2019-11-01 00:51

but forsaken is from Australia

2019-11-01 00:54

wrong

2019-11-01 01:14

no scener talking garbage

2019-11-01 01:29

lmao Indians talking about csgo

2019-11-01 11:57

2019-11-01 18:28

What do you mean garbage team?? #7 world rankings. 3-4 at Berlin. But trash team.

2019-11-03 01:26

dumb move, disband inc.

): ok I disband brb

-Gratisfaction +Sico/Alistair/Sterling or anyone that can hit awp shots Easy top5.

if gratata is on point he's one of the best awpers of the world:))

2019-10-31 20:38

no need to lie here, he is clearly worst awper in top 10

2019-10-31 20:49

grat is great when he plays well. he just needs to find consistency because sometimes its almost like he is playing with a controller

2019-10-31 21:03

sometimes... thats the problem. Most of the time he takes really unnecessary risks and cost them the round. You cant have an awper that just randomly peek 5 Ts with AKs for no reason instead of hold. He's getting overhyped too easy and do ridiculous bs.

2019-11-01 00:44

+1 agreed, the only bad part about grat is that inconsistency, I love grat as a player and when he's popping boy he be popping. But the moment his form drops then its pretty much gg. Im hopping the new env in 100Thieves can change that cause he is still personally my favorite player in the team

2019-11-01 01:34

he is like that most of the time thats why he is not good

2019-11-01 09:29

Better than Allu Oh wait ENCE out of top10 xAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXA

2019-10-31 21:13

2019-11-01 09:28

Yea man he totally didn't show up in StarSeries. Dumbass.

2019-11-01 00:13

oh played 1 good match niw he doesnt suck!!!

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK WHAT A WASTED!

lol renegades are better than furia

ReneGODS > BR joke scene. Furia had 1 lucky game , get over it. Furia disband in 2 months.

2019-10-31 20:29

Baited by the most retarded hltv user... he is mibr_is_overrated

He is right.

2019-11-01 13:48

Who is right? The retarded trying to bait or the other that dont know what he say?

2019-11-01 15:07

Aussie is damn right, and the retard has the most relevant username on hltv.

2019-11-01 16:18

Ez4furia

2019-11-05 03:18

Jks poggerssss

Bestest player. 10/10 top10 player in terms of consistency.

Big facts. He's so good.

2019-10-31 20:34

austrians

Ireland wat doink men...

- _______---_-_-__-____--__------____-_-__-_----_____--- Weird face guy

2019-10-31 21:50

hltv.org/forums/threads/2176892/100t-sca..

Its true

2019-10-31 20:31

Australians not Austrians dumbo

2019-10-31 20:57

Thats the joke, elephant

2019-10-31 21:54

Welp i suk

2019-10-31 22:44

2019-11-01 19:24

dude, honestly... "gotta chance to win the major"?

2019-11-04 02:53

2019-11-05 06:32

nice

Doesnt matter the roster will leave 100T after getting major stickers LUL

very nice

"returned"? not like they even started lol

2019-10-31 20:24

100t had csgo roster

2019-11-01 01:21

With no matches but stickers.

2019-11-01 02:27

100t picked up the old immortals squad, but it fell apart before they could even play a match

2019-11-01 19:25

EZ4100T

NAIS

wtf so many good players signing renegades waste of money

Yeah it would be better to sign polish losers instead

or maybe baitzera for $1m doing nothing with faze

and nikos boyfrend :p

2019-10-31 20:42

This aged well

2019-11-01 23:36

Nice

2019-11-04 04:38

Renegades roster was the best option. Solid top10 roster

Already top7 mens

Exactly

2019-10-31 20:37

I'm pretty sure they got them for pretty cheap since contracts were up/close to being up

2019-10-31 23:50

Expected

HOLY SHIT

#100T

yesss

Ok cool. Only name change

kinda unexpected

wtff

WTF BOISSSS

uwu

expected

Lul

100T can do much better

Like who?

.... what do you mean lmfao. Spend a shit ton of money to buyout contracts and build a Faze 2.0 that might not even work? Or buy an already established consistent top 10 team that you can build on? FOH.

2019-10-31 20:36

2019-10-31 20:47

+117172734447337 Don't wanna be FaZe 2 0

2019-10-31 21:33

Faze isn't even faze anymore. 100T could've easily bought out Cold and everyone that's going to be on OG months ago.

2019-11-01 02:41

2019-11-01 01:51

+1 thx for showing logic

2019-11-01 07:50

2019-11-02 01:27

XDDDDDDDDD

so much to championship contender

YTB

OHHH BOIS IT'S OOOONNN LET'S GO 100T

Nooooooooooo

Nice acquisition. Good luck to both parties in the future!

still waiting for OG roaster

WHAT. A. MOVE. So happy it finally materialized. <3

Welcome back Renegades, GL on the server after approximatively 1 day out of the game

HAHAHA

alrighty then

tier 10 ok

Top10

in australia

They are already #7??

tier 7

2019-10-31 20:54

Let me change my flair real quick

Expected.

nice t3 team, 30m dollars to spend and bought renegades omegalul

Who else would they be able to get?

zywoo + 4

Zywoo is probably in a long contract under a heavy buyout. Name a realistic roster they could acquire better than RNG

yeah. I really can't think of any other full roster other than the rng one. if they didn't get rng roster, they would've had to settle for a European mix, which was supposed to be Aleksib and nbk's team, but that fell through

2019-10-31 21:12

This roster is probably better and more reliable than spending bank on making a new EU roster. Not to mention having them baed in the US which RNG already where.

2019-10-31 22:06

yup.

2019-10-31 22:07

POGGERS

very interesting

Nooo the Boys

Boa

I think it might be time to change the flair ladies and gents

i think so bruv

Weird. Was expecting a more international mixed roster but this makes the most financial sense. Why buyout giant contracts and try to make something new work when there’s an already built top 10 team available. Smart move.

bruh

2019-11-01 05:29

Even if they ahd money, this is better than an EU mixed roster that would do jackshit

Get your 100T flairs on

meh sorry but with 1.00 kdr awper they are not gonna go further

Top10 team??

wat????

2019-10-31 20:32

Renegades is already #7 in hltv ranks

and they are not gonna go further lol

#7 is still good?

yes, i mean that they are not going to be top 1-3, probably

2019-10-31 20:39

Yeah but no roster they could get would be. 1-EG - New contracts 2- Astralis - Player owned won't leave 3- Fnatic - Long time Swedish org won't leave

stay with jkaem jks azr built a better team with better players there is many eu and some na players teamless than are better than liaz and gratisfaction also players in lower teams that they can "easily buy" in eu na and even in oceania oskar calyx mertz byali xsepower sdy msl espiranto etc etc

I don't think the org changing players like that would work and they probably wouldn't sign.

Yes let's change the roster for no reason when it's currently working really well.

2019-11-01 00:28

they are at them same spot since start of the year :D

2019-11-01 01:00

Oskar Byali MSL Espiranto OMEGALUL

2019-11-01 13:52

All better than liaz gratisfcation apex and rpk BAGUETTE braindead

2019-11-01 14:48

>byali better than Liazz :D

2019-11-01 14:53

Hard to say atm but liaz sucks for a top10

2019-11-01 14:58

Why the fuck do apex and rpk come into the conversation?

2019-11-01 16:15

i mean i really doubt it will be ever top 3, but definetly top 10

that was i said lol

Roster is already #7

Perdonad semejante error, os pido misericordia

LOL

Bruh

WHo cares! Still old renegades! Nothing changes! Just their salary

PogU

the boys...

POG

Nice, now -gratisfaction

Decent t2 KekW

Nice. Of course 100 Thieves takes the team from a former penal colony

Aren't you guys the bad guys in most fps games?

2019-11-01 02:43

Haha niceone m8 Dont forget about the bad russians in the movies

2019-11-02 17:29

POGGGG

POGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

yikes

Great job. This team is amazing.

I would replace gRaTaTo with some good awper but gl anyway

100T best team. last roster did not lose a map ever.

The easiest sign of all time.

POGGERSSSSS

god damn gl

epic bruh moment

This will supercharge their potential.. 100T SOON TOP 3

Pog

topkek

2019-10-31 20:41

noice

2019-10-31 20:43

lul

championship contender xddd

So aleksib where?

2019-10-31 20:46

100T will win next major

Whoaaaa

The boys! <3

Not sure how I feel about this...

Cs right now is crazy. Any of the top 10 teams could win at any of these events.

people really acting as if this were a shit roster??? title contender? no top1-3? no top5 maybe with a ton of heavy work...overall just consistent top10 but theyre not shit mens!!!

2019-11-01 02:55

So this is championship caliber roster he was talking about? Okay then

2019-10-31 20:51

Now lets hope they wont just slack once they start to recieve - most likely - very good salaries.

this nadeshot fella looks like a creep, but gl to the team

Easy sticker money. Good to see 100T ended up back in CS, one way or another. GL to the boys.

2019-10-31 21:02

Wow grat move

2019-10-31 21:04

Sick

Solid signing, Renegades has proven to be a consistent tier 1 team.

2019-10-31 21:06

I thought they gonna assemble a now team... this is quite disappointing tbh...

Nooo My 100T sticker is worth nothing now :/

RIP

2019-10-31 21:32

sell fast

2019-11-01 01:44

strong team!

renegades so much sounds better and nicer

2019-10-31 21:14

Awesome!

2019-10-31 21:18

Great signing, consistent top 10 team. They now have access to better coaches, better therapists, better analysts, I think they'll only improve from here!! Jks deserves this move!! But please grat, get consistent. 100T!!

2019-10-31 21:19

players from number 7 in ranking to 88 lmao what a bad decision

? Reply blah blah blah

2019-11-02 02:42

LMAO RENEGADES BECOME A THIEFS!

2019-10-31 21:30

NICE!!

Wasnt they supposed to be a top team lol

unexpected rip VOX (;_;)

2019-10-31 21:40

Who cars they changed the org but lineup is the same Good for players cuz they probably got higher salaries but why should we care?

2019-10-31 21:42

better facilities and people helping them etc

2019-10-31 23:32

The question still remains

2019-11-02 21:20

i guess but hopefully it makes them play better which would make me care :)

2019-11-06 01:46

future player changes may more likely contain washed up eu players instead of aussies and if you see their choppy results... maybe soon

2019-11-01 15:48

2019-10-31 21:43

So much expectation to this. Omg

2019-10-31 21:47

lol for real what a huge disappointment...

2019-10-31 21:49

i thought they said they would sign a top tier team

2019-10-31 21:53

hltv.org/matches/2337123/vitality-vs-ren..

2019-11-01 09:35

inb4 jkaem tells someone that he will kill him

what a meme the convicts are thieves

2019-10-31 22:12

Nooo whyt, i loved RNG

2019-10-31 22:26

I'm gonna miss the cowboy hat. Time to update my flair.

2019-10-31 22:28

2019-10-31 23:00

Very excited to see 100T at CSGO! :)

2019-10-31 22:47

the logo is weak but i like the team colors/uniforms

Nice! Looking forward to watch you guys in the server :)

2019-10-31 23:06

Good luck boys!

2019-10-31 23:13

lmao gg @gratisfaction boy fr bout to get kicked

2019-10-31 23:34

2019-10-31 23:35

Australia flag & 100T flair. <3

2019-10-31 23:41

wtf....

2019-10-31 23:49

Bruh i though they would buy some players not pick up a team.

Wasted money disband

2019-10-31 23:51

Flair change time

2019-11-01 00:10

2019-11-01 00:29

boring

2019-11-01 00:58

YTB still wouldn't change my flair

2019-11-01 01:01

this was the best team they could've get

2019-11-01 01:07

It's actually pretty clever

2019-11-01 01:10

So they’re not being left behind after all, glbto 100T! Very interesting pickup

2019-11-01 01:22

YEAH THE THIEVES

2019-11-01 01:25

Congratulations, welcome back 100T!

2019-11-01 01:28

Congratulations to all involved. Get amongst it lads!! #YTB

2019-11-01 01:53

2019-11-01 02:07

THEY WONT PLAY MAJOR JUST WATCH

2019-11-01 02:10

I wish the May 2020 major will be ELEAGUE again, their sticker designs are slick, paired with the 100T logo.

2019-11-01 03:06

Is AZR going to sign s1mple? It has to be s1mple right...

2019-11-01 03:14

OATHHHH YTB

2019-11-01 05:35

100T Would have made a better investment donating the money they spent on Renegades.

2019-11-01 06:26

Lets go boys

2019-11-01 06:54

Lmao this roster has been shit since kato

2019-11-01 07:25

hltv.org/matches/2335647/ence-vs-renegad..

2019-11-01 09:33

+1 omegalul

2019-11-01 11:43

Not what I expected, but I'm glad RNG got better org, hope it will help them to become better.

2019-11-01 09:31

So they are going to na??

2019-11-01 10:17

2019-11-01 11:34

If AZR retires in the next year or so, would give them a chance to pick up a stronger entry/anchor. NA or AU AZR is a great fragger but I think the younger players need to find something more.

2019-11-01 11:39

you know Azr is the IGL right? sure you could get a new entry but then who calls?

2019-11-02 01:31

me :)

2019-11-02 01:41

Unexpected by 100T to sign this team I think, never thought I would see an AU 100T before EU international team

2019-11-01 13:53

Now just get new sniper player and maybe they can contest for titles

2019-11-01 14:07

sticker renegades rare =)

2019-11-01 14:49

No. They will take Grayhound roster

2019-11-01 17:16

Rarehound

2019-11-01 23:08

Smart move. Now replace gratisfacton and liazz in the future when upgrades become available and you have a perennial top5 team

2019-11-01 19:49

Buildable roster, a couple of moves and this team is top 3 peaking and stable top 5-6 Gratis faction needs to be replaced with Wardell or an awper who has promise

2019-11-01 20:58

single player from this roster who i would pick is jks.

2019-11-01 23:31

Jkaem is good too men

2019-11-04 06:02

gj Nadeshot

2019-11-02 15:08

congrats

2019-11-02 16:51