Case sign 15-year-old prospect Snowzin

10/3/2023 - 00:34

Case have taken a gamble on one of Brazil's hottest youngsters.

Case have announced the signing of João "⁠Snowzin⁠" Vinicius. The 15-year-old will fill the void left by Leonardo "⁠leo_drk⁠" Oliveira, who was benched by the organization in February.

The move comes after Case failed to qualify for the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 South America RMR in February, falling in the open qualifier stage. The squad was eliminated by ODDIK in the Round of 16 in their first attempt and lost even sooner the second time around.

The youngster makes the step up to Case

Snowzin has so far only competed for two academy squads in Los Grandes Academy and Young Gods. He played 41 maps during his two stints and averaged a 0.93 rating, but his incredibly young age makes him a hot prospect for the future.

He joins a Case team that has struggled for results in recent times, sporting an 11.1% win rate in the last three months and suffering last-place exits at events such as European Pro League Season 5 and Wandercon 2023.

The squad led by ex-Liquid member Lucas "⁠steel⁠" Lopes is currently not slated to attend any events featured on HLTV, meaning their newest recruit will have ample time to bed in his new team.

Case are now:

Lucas "⁠steel⁠" Lopes
Rodrigo "⁠RCF⁠" Figueiredo
Yan "⁠yepz⁠" Pedretti
Lucas "⁠honda⁠" Cano
João "⁠Snowzin⁠" Vinicius

Leonardo "⁠leo_drk⁠" Oliveira (benched)

not legal to play?

2023-03-10 00:35

21 replies

this isnt football, he can play

2023-03-10 00:37

8 replies

cant play esl tournaments until 16

2023-03-10 00:51

4 replies

>Prospect >0.94 rating Well, at least he may become good in 2 years or smth

2023-03-10 16:30

3 replies

10 IQ? Look how many maps he played, his current rating means nothing

2023-03-10 17:11

started to watch cs in 2020 kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

2023-03-10 22:49

1 reply

u literally got a 7 digit uid kekw

2023-03-12 06:58

Wow Casemiro so smart

2023-03-10 01:46

fake flagger you didn't say soccer

2023-03-10 20:26

lmao

2023-03-10 23:43

Probably just about to turn 16, then he can be emancipated and sign legal contracts on his own without need of legal guardians.

2023-03-10 01:25

10 replies

In Brazil you can legally work when you turn 14yo

2023-03-10 05:07

7 replies

yes but esl isnt based in brazil is it

2023-03-10 08:22

esl isnt hiring him - his org does it

2023-03-10 12:25

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i'll be honest i thought he was replying to #1, he was talking about tournaments most likely

2023-03-10 12:27

True, but ESL doesn't allow people on their stages that are under the age of 16

2023-03-10 13:54

is based in spain. 16 yo to work.

2023-03-10 14:40

full time or just part time? because part time is legal here as well when you're 14 iirc

2023-03-10 13:28

in Brazil under 18yo just part time

2023-03-10 13:48

Haru legend

2023-03-10 13:42

On his twitter it says his birthday is the 23rd of March, so he's 16 in 2 weeks

2023-03-10 18:09

I think at least not in Germany until he turns 16

2023-03-10 05:03

0.93 kid, nice

2023-03-10 00:36

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Never had an experienced player to teach him around and used to play with 13yo against 17yo plus teams perhaps he can learn with steel how to play properly because aim he has

2023-03-10 00:54

He's not ready. He's better than you would expect a 15y/o, but worse than the average pro.

2023-03-10 02:51

yeah, who knows... but people hype so much that it's crazy. they say he's the next coldzera. like, bro, kid's 15, you can't tell anything at this age.

2023-03-10 02:57

Depends on the player, frozen for example destroyed pros and semipros for years already at that age, he was just to young to get signed Monesy also clearly showed what direction he was gonna go most likely

2023-03-10 11:52

Both played in the best environment. They've got the mentality already, snowzin only plays Gamers club pugs or tournaments.

2023-03-10 13:16

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Just wanted to provide cases where you could definitely tell at 15 yo that they will likely become some of the best. Didnt mean to comment on this case particularly because idek the player:D

2023-03-10 13:18

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Yeah, Ikr, but HLTV rating is not the only way to measure something. Insani came from nowhere for example

2023-03-10 13:20

No, definitely not. But ive watched a few m0nesy clips and a demo or two while he was on navi junior and together with the stats it was pretty obvious that hes gonne be one of the best players of his generation

2023-03-10 13:22

Yes but Insani is Asian, they smart and good at gaming. The next Sneak2k but better. Snowzin looks like average kid.

2023-03-10 17:50

Yeah, I'm asian as well in your concept ( I even got the Japanese citizenship ) and I'm bad af

2023-03-11 01:35

u built diff but in a bad way

2023-03-11 22:35

Case average player is garbage, so good signing

2023-03-10 11:49

bro they literally double his age

lol

2023-03-10 03:20

2023-03-10 18:40

damn im getting old

2023-03-10 00:38

gud player caried Sharks younsters to beat team like Fuscao

Niko said that this kid will be the next coldzera

2023-03-10 00:45

Where did you hear that?

2023-03-10 13:29

snowzin the brazilian coldzera

2023-03-10 16:46

rip career

2023-03-10 00:47

Unfortunately I can’t see this thing winning even ranked pro on Gamers Club, but nice for Case to invest in our scene I guess

2023-03-10 00:48

you can`t see this because you dont play ranked pro on Gamers Club

2023-03-10 00:52

and he have to thank gob about it rpro makes everyone crazy

2023-03-10 16:37

And yet my DGL topping ZA friend can't get into pro CS because "they're foreign".

South American monesy.

2023-03-10 00:57

Steel is gonna teach him a lot, good for him 👍👍

2023-03-10 00:58

overrated

2023-03-10 00:59

This team still exist?

2023-03-10 01:03

considering Casemiro's nw money is not a problem

2023-03-10 03:21

mid lol should've went for noway at least

2023-03-10 01:15

snowzin is great but Case is a apathetic team in Europe, Casemiro just dribbling the taxes by investing money in his organtization

2023-03-10 01:16

GOD

cool

2023-03-10 01:23

4x <1kd rating soon top1 team

2023-03-10 01:27

0.94 rated prodigy.. sure..

2023-03-10 01:31

Nice rating for someone who's playing since 13yo

2023-03-10 01:48

Nope. At his age and at his level of competition - a prodigy should have 1.10+ rating to be even considered a prodigy or someone for the future. Because all the competition is bad, in order for him to be the best amongst them he should atleast destroy his level of competition.

2023-03-10 01:50

No. You dont develop your game if the competition is too bad. Why do you think players and teams need to do bootcamp in europe to develop ?

2023-03-10 02:05

Disagree. The kid is smashing in Brazil, he competed in Europe where the bar is higher. Considering this, 0.94 is a good rating for a 14yo in his debut when while playing Academy’s team. Let him have some Europe experience to see it. I don’t think he will be a monesy, but I believe he can be a great player.

2023-03-10 05:20

5 maps played dude, chill Not even a 12521.10 rating would mean anything with so few registered matches.

2023-03-10 01:54

how many hours you think this kid has in CS? or is CS genetic?? jajaja edit: i dont mean it in any bad way just making sure that is clear B^)

2023-03-10 01:47

one year ago he had 10k hours xD twitter.com/Snowzincs/status/15249107974..

2023-03-10 02:03

nice move thinking on the future!

2023-03-10 01:49

snow is one of the best Br diamonds of CS in the last few years. I know ppl will talk about his rating, but i'm sure he's gonna prove how good he can be. GL snow, it's your time to shine, boy

2023-03-10 01:53

Thank you case, you are investing in the future. I dont know why hltv orgs are talking trash about this move LoL About his rating : the only time he played against good competition was on we play academy last year with godsent. Otherise he was playing against brazilian bots. It is impossible to develop your skill just playing in Brazil. This is true since 1.6...He still has a lot of learn, and playing in Case will give him an opportunity to develop his game. He will become smarter.

2023-03-10 02:02

they dont know this guy played on sharks academy and already smashed fuscao before. they have no idea how this guy playing

2023-03-10 05:33

2023-03-10 02:09

GL Snoww, voa

2023-03-10 02:14

deserved.

2023-03-10 02:25

.94 rsting just because u are young doesn't mean u are good Better than interz already tho

2023-03-10 02:38

I remember my 15 years old, good times of cs1.6

2023-03-10 03:04

I feel like HLTV has been telling us about Brazilians "prospects" or "prodigies" for the last 4 years, every single one of them end up being average at best.

2023-03-10 03:12

ksc and yuurih

2023-03-10 03:27

who have been in the scene for more than 4 years.

2023-03-10 03:33

vsm is the most overrated of them all, dude cant even qualify to major and honestly that freevsm movement was all for nothing

2023-03-10 06:36

everything related to plano was really ridiculous

2023-03-10 09:09

You are ridiculous

2023-03-10 17:36

Cope

2023-03-10 21:37

2023-03-10 10:44

Mentored by Fallen. Next gen is coming

2023-03-10 04:01

Go Case!

2023-03-10 04:35

*Case has been invited to EPL World Series: Americas | Season 3, which starts today

2023-03-10 05:34

Brazilian Zywoo

2023-03-10 06:16

I cant really blame them, that roster is going nowhere so might as well gamble and hope you find the next prodigy

2023-03-10 06:30

18+ game btw!!!

2023-03-10 06:35

Ez for Casemiro

2023-03-10 06:39

The thing about e-Sports is that a lot of the times, unless said person played on sport teams, you want to get them at a younger age. Obviously, their talents are still developing but more importantly you have a better chance at molding the player into someone who can act like a professional. So many of these talented 17-20 year olds never played on a sports team where the players weren't making the decisions, but the coach was. They don't know how to practice or how to act within a team atmosphere.

2023-03-10 07:16

Monesy.BR?

2023-03-10 09:24

Bench Leo for snowzin lol

2023-03-10 10:11

It's pure business move. If he gets any good, sell him for ridiculous amount of money. Ez.

2023-03-10 10:18

endrick of cs

2023-03-10 11:13

Case signed an infant

2023-03-10 11:54

what's the trend with "ZIN" for br players?

2023-03-10 12:11

Zin = little/young So he is VERY zin haha

2023-03-10 17:08

"Zin" come fro "zinho" its a way to call things small or young or even cute. Another languages have something like that, like spanish with "Ito" in Chicharito for example.

2023-03-10 18:30

standard player no have nothing special

2023-03-10 12:33

2023-03-10 13:13

tbh case is a bad team but everyone has to start from some place

2023-03-10 13:51

who won won't win anymore, its time for the goat to win

2023-03-10 13:53

Idk why so many of you are talking about his weight, acting like most kids weren't lanky as fuck, including me.

2023-03-10 15:31

How many orgs does Brazil have? Jesus Jesus!

2023-03-10 15:54

The only thing that is impressive about him is his age really, I remember him in academy league and he struggled massively, Idk. what they see in him but I don't like this signing, I really think there is no hope for this roster, honestly, it feels like there is not a single good player in this team atm., crazy.

2023-03-10 16:29

Imagine moving to another continent to play CS when you are 15yo... The kid is living a dream