GUILD enter CS:GO with ESL Impact team

8/3/2023 - 12:39

The UK-based organization, co-owned by David Beckham, makes its first foray into Counter-Strike.

GUILD have announced they have signed a women's roster, picking up the OUTCASTS lineup that qualified for ESL Impact Season 3 Europe.

Three of the squad have a shared history in GODSENT fe, namely Marita "⁠Minnie⁠" Siljan Sørensen, Thea "⁠pullox⁠" Evensen and Anna "⁠Ann4⁠" Laurinoviča. The trio played together in 2022, although Minnie and pullox represented NIP Impact together more recently before being benched by the Ninjas in January. Kaia "⁠KiKi⁠" Holmen briefly represented Ambush fe and SUL before forming up with the aforementioned trio.

The team's captain, KiKi, represented Saints at ESL Impact Katowice

The move represents the second major esports organization investing in an ESL Impact team in recent times, with the news of G2 Oya’s formation announced on March 7. GUILD are represented across multiple esports, most notably Valorant, and were the first esports organization to be publicly traded in the UK.

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"We intend to compete at the highest levels of Counter-Strike and GUILD is the perfect place to achieve this," team captain KiKi said in a statement. "With leading facilities, high-quality coaching staff and a state-of-the-art headquarters, GUILD gives us the opportunity to learn and grow as a team in a supportive environment."

The roster will debut for GUILD when they kick off their ESL Impact Season 3 campaign on March 8 against Angels. They will also have to face off against the likes of NAVI Javelins and G2 Oya in Group B, and will need to place at least top-two in the group to have a chance to qualify for the LAN finals.

The GUILD lineup is:

Anna "⁠Ann4⁠" Laurinoviča
Kaia "⁠KiKi⁠" Holmen
Marita "⁠Minnie⁠" Siljan Sørensen
Thea "⁠pullox⁠" Evensen
Linnea "Nea" Claesson

Damn that's pretty cool. I used to follow their APEX team

2023-03-08 12:40

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Gz to these women. Playing CS for living, or just part time, it's a dream for many here. I would have left out the David Beckham angle out, but I guess it brings the article closer to more audience

2023-03-08 12:47

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Wish I was a woman considering what type of players they sign on these teams.

2023-03-08 15:11

ok!

2023-03-08 12:41

hltv david beckham?

Female CS more alive than male CS

more than NA CS in general for sure

2023-03-08 12:42

gg congratz for winning esl impact 3

Cool. Not a coincidence that it's international women's day when we get these announcements. I hope I will see a young girl being the next monesy one day, truly

2023-03-08 12:43

Romanian Anna > Latvian Anna

2023-03-08 12:45

great news, sign into the bin now too

2023-03-08 12:46

kiki do you love me

2023-03-08 12:51

cool, it seems the women scene is really developing. hopefully we get to see some of them in t3 tournaments, that would be really cool, and even if they lose its valuable training to make a potential t1 fe team

2023-03-08 12:54

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Well, nigma galaxy faced a tier 3 male team, and they got stomped

2023-03-08 13:01

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Well, they need to get stomped more! ;) There are fe players who have enough raw aim to be able to beat t2 pros in 1v1s, so the issue is obviously strats. If you play vs the same opponents all the time, ofc you won’t improve! Put a silver in dmg lobbies, of course he will get stomped but after dozens of matches and training he will be way better than even gold novas, for example

2023-03-08 15:25

no disrespect, but its not worth investing in the fe scene when the viewers are soo low all the time

2023-03-08 15:26

It's unlikely viewership will improve without the quality of their teams improving, so it's kind of a moot point.

2023-03-08 15:56

2023-03-08 13:02

Best female team (Nigma Galaxy) struggle in Esea Main and they didn't even face any opponents with name or hltv. They won against Dusty, but it's like tier 4-5 team i guess, they are not even top 1 in Iceland rn, in Iceland bro. Just check their Esea page they are literally losing 16-2, 16-4 to faceit lvl 10 friends. Its impossible that female team will compete in t3

2023-03-08 13:13

first you would need individuals playing in t3 counterstrike, then if there was 5 of them and they would group up, theoritically they should hold up to some level, but you cant expect current female team doing so when there isnt even a single one yet playing at that level. And thats fine, they should be playing on their level, which right now is Impact league or very low open divisions.

2023-03-08 14:06

It’s not impossible imo

2023-03-08 13:28

hltv.org/matches/2358777/nigma-galaxy-vs.. this was the best fe team's closest match vs a tier 4 male team in hltv. not ready for tier 3 and these games will 100% not train them for tier 1

2023-03-08 13:59

No shit. Before getting into t1 you need to beat t4 But if they play more they will obviously improve, that’s why some NA/Asia move to EU. You practice vs better opponents instead of always the same ones

2023-03-08 15:27

They can't get in those tournaments, people really don't understand how competitive tier 3 is, these fe teams struggle against lvl 10 mixes, they get stomped on any open qual. I would say the gap is as big as a silver playing against lvl 10s.

2023-03-08 19:03

good for cs

2023-03-08 12:56

pullox cute

2023-03-08 12:57

Thorin died for this

2023-03-08 13:00

His redemption arc for being a misgynist maybe

2023-03-09 12:16

About time guild entered csgo after hiring Thorob as a consultant 😂😂😂

2023-03-08 13:03

About time guild entered csgo… didn’t they hire thorin too as a consultant?😂😂😂

it's okay you can edit too we won't judge

2023-03-08 14:00

cool

2023-03-08 13:04

ez 4 papu ''beckham'' gomez team

2023-03-08 13:12

2023-03-08 14:10

interesting

2023-03-08 13:26

how can i get a jersey?

2023-03-08 13:38

minnie and pullox, the players who did not make it out of ESEA Open last season with NiP Impact? okay then...

2023-03-08 13:49

nothing surprising just woman moment

2023-03-08 13:51

nah, I don't mind, I am actually glad that the scene is growing what bothers me is that they are recycling players instead of looking for new talent...

2023-03-08 14:13

I'm glad there is some love for FE CS. :)

2023-03-08 13:55

2023-03-08 14:05

I saw face/off a couple of days ago and now pullox is joining a cs team. The matrix is showing its cracks Anyway good luck!!

2023-03-08 14:07

glad to see saudi money at work

2023-03-08 14:11

Looking at this statement, it looks like kiki is org's new PR manager too!

2023-03-08 14:18

how about a male cs team would be cool to get a guild sticker

2023-03-08 14:32

no one above 0.95...

2023-03-08 14:55

Wasnt this supposed to be Thorins contracting team? Heard it was supposed to be a t1 team too. Did he tell them to just make a team for esl impact and get free money?

2023-03-08 15:22

ez for Ann4

2023-03-08 15:35

money pit inc

2023-03-08 16:10

these girls have 2100 elo on Faceit. And that is 2100 elo where they have been obviously carried by 1.2kd 3000 elo men. I mean an average male player can get 2100 elo with less than 100hrs lifetime played. It's hilarious

2023-03-08 16:12

Nice

2023-03-08 16:33

whats up with all the new fe cs rosters? no way its just for cs2 right

2023-03-08 17:57

hello David Beckham

2023-03-08 18:01

Budget Ana nt

Why suddenly so many new orgs that too in female cs ? M i missing something ? Even the ladies find valorant easy now that they want harder challenges , lmao ?

2023-03-08 23:11

Amazing to have another womens team signed and supported!

2023-03-08 23:59

They are missing Olga ;)

2023-03-09 03:45