Into the Breach part ways with team, close in on new roster for 2023

10/12/2022 - 18:00

The British organization is looking for a fresh start in the new year with a new lineup.

Into the Breach have decided to part ways with their roster, allowing the Swedish-British mix to explore their options in the market as free agents ahead of the winter tournament break. Additionally, the organization revealed that it is in talks with a new lineup, to be revealed in the first week of January 2023.

The news comes during the team's involvement in three different events: ESEA Advanced Season 43 Europe, CCT Central Europe Series 4, and Thunderpick Bitcoin Series 2, and it is unclear whether the squad will continue as a unit beyond these tournaments.

Adam "⁠Adam9130⁠" Ahmad's team was a consistent presence at the top of the British region but failed to take the next step and crack into the top 30 despite the signings of William "⁠draken⁠" Sundin and Alfred "⁠RuStY⁠" Karlsson in the summer.

draken's stint with Into the Breach only lasted five months

Into the Breach revamped their earlier roster in July after parting ways with Kirk "⁠Tadpole⁠" Stephens and Yaroslav "⁠isk⁠" Issakov. The team experimented with Thomas "⁠Thomas⁠" Utting and Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield, but eventually landed on the Swedish duo of draken and RuStY, which immediately propelled them to a trophy run at Assembly Summer 2022. The short burst of form drove Adam9130 and company from the No. 79 spot in the rankings to their all-time peak at No. 41 after a semi-final run at CCT Central Europe Series 2.

The British-Swedish squad eventually ran out of steam and by October they were unable to replicate their early successes. Disappointments at events such as Elisa Invitational Fall 2022, CCT Central Europe Series 3, and CCT North Europe Series 2 dragged the team back down to No. 66 in the rankings.

"Our over year long road with a core U.K. trio comes to an end today, as we say goodbye to our CS:GO roster with immediate effect," reads team manager Marvin "Punico" Matthes' statement. "We are finalizing negotiations with a new roster, to be announced in the first week of January. ITB will see you back on the server 2023!"

Into the Breach used to field the following roster:

William "⁠draken⁠" Sundin
Alfred "⁠RuStY⁠" Karlsson
Adam "⁠Adam9130⁠" Ahmad
Cai "⁠CYPHER⁠" Watson
William "⁠dobbo⁠" Dobson

Gustavo "⁠Juve⁠" Alexandre (coach)

unlucky

2022-12-10 18:01

Fakk

RIP

Draken back to NIP confirmed

6 replies

Nawwk is better tho. But hes not free agent

2022-12-10 21:16

No Godsent draken confirmed

2022-12-10 21:51

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or begrip, they are doing the same thing as godsent rn

2022-12-10 22:58

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Would be dope, happy to see a revival of the swedish scene

2022-12-11 20:23

Lol Begrip trashed Legacy with 15+ RP server well done

2022-12-12 19:13

OH GOD YES!!!

2022-12-11 19:39

draken looked pretty good there, hope he gets a shot at a bigger team, would be fun to see

nah ratio

Godsent Drakk

2022-12-10 18:02

dont waste money on cs, focus on dota

i forgor they dont have a roster anymore and lost spot in 1st divsion💀

2022-12-10 18:09

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Cierto xxd

2022-12-11 02:31

ITB welcomes benched heroes

would be huge

2022-12-10 18:03

hope smooya/thomas is in it

2022-12-10 18:04

I think you're right and this would be quite exciting! Watch this space.

2022-12-10 19:43

draken keeps getting shafted lol

That explains the performance today... unluko adam9130 :( cya dude I look forward to new roster POG

losing to jw and flusha in 2022 really made them hate their own roster

saw it coming after the game with HEET , something was clearly fucked in that team

Next time say this shit before the games 🤣

2022-12-10 18:05

They lost to Eyeballers and then straight afterwards disband unluko maluko

2022-12-10 18:06

with dobbo and adam they have no future so expected

2022-12-10 18:07

Draken Godsent bound

2022-12-10 18:12

draken/rusty good core for future any swedish roster

2022-12-10 18:13

Godsent?

2022-12-10 19:52

for example

2022-12-10 19:55

To noones surprise

2022-12-10 18:23

draken needs a good team

2022-12-10 18:29

Well, i am curious who picks up draken. Rest is pretty much T3 role players at best...

2022-12-10 18:31

They had no future anyway so it was inevitable

2022-12-10 18:33

draken is a bad player.... normal stuation

2022-12-10 18:35

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you clearly dont know anything. He carried this team and they still lost many times

it doesnt matter.if he was good, his club wouldn't be closed

2022-12-10 20:02

if REST OF HIS TEAM were good they would still be in the game

2022-12-10 20:13

I agree with you however that doesn't change anything anymore

2022-12-10 21:27

What did they expect with such a shit roster lol. Draken is the only saving grace on that roster, but even then I'm not sure if his attitude / personality has evolved to the point where good players want to play with him as a long term goal.

2022-12-10 18:36

-es3tag +draken/nawwk

2022-12-10 18:41

LOL I just look to see if EYEBALLERS won, they did, then this pops up like 5 mins after hahaha get rekt

2022-12-10 18:46

AHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

2022-12-10 18:48

hltv.org/matches/2360731/eyeballers-vs-i.. Read comments, Ez predict

2022-12-10 18:49

19 yo coach wtf

2022-12-10 18:50

BNE inc?

2022-12-10 18:53

No budget for bne bro :(

2022-12-10 18:56

Rusty to godsent confirmed

2022-12-10 19:00

they needed a break to celebrate football coming home

2022-12-10 19:01

NIP it's sign of the time, sign draken you guys need an awper quick, just make it happen! Yay go nip go go nip go!!, and es3tag to astralis in place of mistr let's gooo!!! Let's go scandavian region let's gooo!!!

2022-12-10 19:04

2022-12-10 19:54

how 'bout no

2022-12-10 21:33

Or maybe a yes cmon try it you can do it

2022-12-11 03:28

deserved they were shit

2022-12-10 19:03

RIP UK CS

2022-12-10 19:16

was never alive to begin with

2022-12-11 03:37

brit'ish things

2022-12-10 19:28

draken in 2k22

2022-12-10 19:33

Surely this will fix "into the breach" team. Surely...

2022-12-10 20:04

Draken hopefully gets a new decent team soon

2022-12-10 20:25

draken - > nip

draken should get a second(third) chance in nip

2022-12-10 20:30

Yes man

2022-12-10 20:40

must have gotten too expensive to field em

2022-12-10 20:46

Oof

2022-12-10 22:08

a little expected

2022-12-10 22:47

Peppzor, Joel, Plessen, Twist (or different IGL), Draken Godsent please

2022-12-10 22:49

kcorp come pls

2022-12-10 22:55

Godsent or Begrip is probably drakens new team i bet on godsent

2022-12-10 23:00

godsent: draken heap peppzor friberg f0rest

2022-12-11 03:40

begrip: joel ztr nilo susp fransson/spooke

2022-12-11 04:06

nilo is already signed in nip academy, isnt he?

2022-12-11 04:07

according to quix, young ninjas have a low contract salary so its not gonna be hard to convince nilo to join a new team. i just hope his transfer is not too expensive.

2022-12-11 09:02