Mousesports has officially announced that the historic player from Virtus.Pro, Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski will replace their Slovakian player, Martin "STYKO" Styk .
The issue that Snax will join Mousesports was first heard as he left Virtus.Pro roster on the ESEA page. And plus the response of Virtus.Pro General Manager who stated that Snax is likely to join the mousesports team.
This move is one of history, since this is Snax's first move since 5 years ago in Virtus Pro. In addition, the VP will test one of the players from tomorrow.gg , Piotr "morelz" Taterka .
A glimpse of the " Golden Five " team. Since their peak at ELEAGUE Atlanta Major 2017 , when they won second place, their performance continued to drastically drastically afterwards and several times lost by a team of unknown origin.
They also decided to find a solution, one of them by replacing one of the famous names in the history of Counter-Strike, Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas with young players from Kinguin, Michał 'MICHU' Müller .
Now, with the disappearance of Snax, Filip "neo" Kubski , Jaroslaw "pashaBiceps" Jarzabkowski , and Pawel "byali" Bielinski roster original Virtus.Pro we often call "Golden Five" the remaining 3 royal.
On the other hand, the substitution of this player is quite surprising for Mousesports, because of their previous stable performance, and did not show any problems, such as in the ESL One Belo Horizonte game , StarSeries Season Five , IEM Sydney , or StarLadder Season 4 .
"From now on, I am a mousesports player," snax said in an official mousesports announcement . "I'm really happy to join a new team and I think we all needed a fresh start. Of course I'm a bit sad that I'm leaving my second home that is Virtus Pro, but sometimes you need to go forward and stop looking back. I hope this will be a good change for both sides and that my former mates at VP will wish me luck, as I wish them the best to get back to form and to be on the top again. Cheers to everyone out there, we will be great. "
The debut of this international team will take place at ESL One Cologne 2018 in July, where they will play against Gambit Esports at the opening of Group A. Let's hope for the best for Snax, as well as Virtus.Pro!