HEROIC signs gr1ks

Norwegian esports club HEROIC has announced an addition to its Counter-Strike 2 roster. The new member of the team is Gleb "gr1ks" Gazin, who has been competing for Astrum for the last couple of months, while before that was part of Aurora.

The 19-year-old Belarusian esports athlete took one of the positions in the starting five that was vacated after the departure of Alvaro "SunPayus" Garcia and Yasin "xfl0ud" Koç. The former moved to G2, while the latter was benched by the club.

Yesterday, HEROIC also unveiled the new coach of its CS2 squad – 30-year-old Danish esports athlete Tobias "TOBIZ" Theo. Theo replaced Eetu "sAw" Saha in this position.

HEROIC placed 17th-19th at BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 in the USA. Currently, the team occupies 13th place in Valve's world ranking.

 HEROIC are now:

 Andrey "tN1R" Tatarinovich
 Linus "LNZ⁠" Holtäng
 Simon "yxngstxr" Boije
 Gleb "gr1ks" Gazin

 Tobias "TOBIZ" Theo (coach)

Origin: x.com