500 parts ways with two players

Esports organization 500 announced changes to its Counter-Strike 2 roster ahead of the start of the new competitive season.

Teodor "SPELLAN" Nikolov and Blagoi "⁠oxygeN⁠" Dimitrov deported the team – the club did not renew their contracts with the players. SPELLAN represented 500 since May last year, while oxygeN – since July. It is still unknown which esports athletes will fill the vacant positions in the squad. According to Nikolov, the organization will assemble an international roster.

Note that 500 lost the European regional qualifier for the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 in the USA. The roster currently occupies 73rd place in Valve's world ranking.

 500 are now:

Hristiyan "REDSTAR" Pironkov
 Aleks "⁠Rainwaker⁠" Petrov
 Tsvetelin "⁠CeRq⁠" Dimitrov

 Kaloyan "⁠POP0V⁠" Popov (coach)

Origin: x.com