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// since Russell has made a return to America and Team Liquid, his success has been very few and far between as the roster struggles to find any momentum across all events they have attended. As we have seen here against the Turkish team of ECSTATIC their woes are not yet over.

// After being benched 3 weeks before his home event of IEM Melbourne, Australia has been itching to get Justice for JKS… and we finally have it.

// After much disappointment at Cologne last year, Team Spirit are back with a vengeance. Against MOUZ in the Cathedral of Counterstrike, Team Spirit claim victory and donk has achieved the big three in CS.

// After limited success against Vitality in every event this year, MOUZ have a mountain to climb if they want a shot at the trophy in Cologne. Vitality are lining up to be the second team in history to claim the trophy in back-to-back years, where on the MOUZ side, Spinx could claim it back to back as a player, not the team.

// After being moved to the inactive roster in January, the Israeli Rifler Spinx found his new home in MOUZ. Now ranked the second-best team in the world, he is edging closer to securing his second Cologne Trophy in 2 years, with 2 different organisations.

// As a Counterstrike Community, we are better than the things that are being said at Cologne throughout the proceedings of Day 1. We need to do better as a collective, and the organisers need to acknowledge the disgusting actions of yesterday.

// After much speculation, s1mple has found his new home. Not in Tier 1 Counterstrike like suspected, but in fact he finds himself in the Navi Retirement Home... many ex-Navi players have found their life after Navi here, and Sasha has done the same.

// After spending many millions of dollars, and going through several different rosters... it might be time for The Falcons to give up on their hopes of trophies.

After 5 long years being in European Teams, Justin 'jks' Savage makes a long-awaited return to an Australian Counterstrike Team, finding his home in FlyQuest. With IEM Cologne being the team's first event with Justin, it will be interesting to see how well prepared they are for their European opponents.

// Since the major finished towards the end of June we have had some very exciting weeks of player transfers and even some unfortunate benching of players. Today we discuss some of the most important transfers and benches and discuss the exciting start to the next season of counterstrike