Sprout part ways with alpha; raalz to take over in-game leadership

31-8-2023 16:12

raalz returns to a role he held in the team for a time in 2021-2022.

The veteran Dane will once again captain Sprout in the server

Sprout have announced that they are parting ways with in-game leader Daniil "⁠alpha⁠" Demin after three months. Calling duties will then fall on Rasmus "⁠raalz⁠" Steensborg, who already led the squad during a stint in 2021 and 2022.

The German organization plans on rotating its squad in the coming months in anticipation of Counter-Strike 2. It will be an academy player, Sebastian "⁠Tauson⁠" Tauson Lindelof, who will help the main team on trial for the time being.

The change comes in an already hectic year for Sprout. They lost two rising talents, Victor "⁠Staehr⁠" Staehr and Laurențiu "⁠lauNX⁠" Țârlea, early in the summer off-season, and parted ways with AWPer Adrian "⁠XELLOW⁠" Guță not long after.

The European squad posted some big wins against the likes of B8, FURIA, and Movistar Riders since returning to action after the break, but failed to make it deep in any online qualifiers and cups they participated in.

Sprout will now field:

Rasmus "⁠raalz⁠" Steensborg
Rasmus "⁠Zyphon⁠" Nordfoss
Olle "⁠spooke⁠" Grundström
Ihor "⁠w0nderful⁠" Zhdanov
Sebastian "⁠Tauson⁠" Tauson Lindelof (trial)

Danny "⁠BERRY⁠" Krüger (coach)

Save w0nderful Kick raalz

2023-08-31 16:14

13 replies

Save zyphon as well!

2023-08-31 16:22

12 replies

nah

2023-08-31 16:25

3 replies

Sprout kicking igl more frequent than G2

2023-08-31 19:19

1 reply

+1 lolol

2023-08-31 22:51

Well Zyphon is just as big a talent as w0nderful, he is one of the best non proven riflers in t2 and a phenominal second awper, but you didnt know that cuz you dont watch sprout matches

2023-08-31 20:53

2023-08-31 16:44

7 replies

typical russian answer

6 replies

typical danish answer

2023-08-31 20:57

5 replies

I was stating facts. You where making an toxic and non necesesary comment :D

2023-08-31 20:58

4 replies

i was just sharing my opinion and wasnt trying to be toxic, zyphon is good where he is now

2023-08-31 21:09

and w0nderful too, but that doesnt change that both deserve better than this sprout org

2023-08-31 21:10

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ah,i however think that wonderful deserves better even tho hes toxic

2023-08-31 21:28

well, yeah i guess so too, but but zyphon is a close followup

2023-08-31 21:29

Why is Sprout like this

2023-08-31 16:13

Just cause he was Russian playing with w0nderful it’s fucking lame

2023-08-31 18:51

It hasn't even been three months and they already kicked him out? :DDD

2023-08-31 16:15

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it was either him or w0nderful, due to the ukrainian esports federation's decision (w0nderful wouldn't be able to leave ukraine to go to tournaments, bc he was playing with a russian iirc), and the choice between them is pretty obvious

2023-08-31 16:21

nope, thats not the case at all here

2023-08-31 16:23

oh ok, i thought that was connected in some ways, but if not then idk

2023-08-31 16:28

w0nderful is already banned by the federation I believe and alpha left because BERRY made raalz IGL

2023-08-31 16:31

2023-08-31 16:56

well didn't alpha play under neutral flag, as he decided that he deos not want to represent his country?

2023-08-31 17:26

atm he is probably not even in ukraine lol

2023-08-31 16:24

ye he's probably living somewhere in Germany or Serbia and will probably never return to Ukraine after that shit unless the UEF is forced to unban him lmao.

2023-08-31 16:35

fpx/godsent did the same. We have a "okay core", let's bring a new igl who can call stuffs for us. He's bad, let's try something else. Me ? No, I don't want to igl.

2023-08-31 18:46

i forgot w0nderful was in this team, what a waste of talent

Can this be considered a beta move from the organization?

ahahhahaha, they are legend

2023-08-31 16:16

2021-2002, fix pls

Sprout, went from having a great roster with spidi Denis FaVeN Dycha Snatchie. to than bringing in kessy/slaxz which set them back years. To going from major with refresh syphon to now relying on raalz to bring them to the glory land. Just disband and step away from csgo. the team could have been in the top of the top with refresh zyphon staehr slaxz launx. what could have been..

yep, sad to see this downfall ... wondering if there are at least a couple of fans left ...

2023-08-31 17:58

Refresh did not want to be IGL and that ruined all promising future. If Refresh is not IGL than who will be? Then, who we will replace to get IGL. Then, we have problems to get decent IGL. Then why other teams wants our best players and ruin our mega plans...

2023-08-31 18:43

berry as coach = kick igl every month

gigachad berry kicking players left and right so could play himself.

2023-08-31 16:26

+1 xd true the pattern always like this

2023-08-31 16:40

Sprout is becoming the european EG. the only reason no one is shitting on them is because they don't have partner slots, but this management is so fking bad someone save wonderful please

2023-08-31 16:29

Why does Sprout kick every IGL ever :DDD