CS2 team owner claims TSM tried to \u201csteal\u201d RMR slot by poaching players Riot GamesThe founder of Into The Breach esports has accused TSM of trying to \u201csteal\u201d his team\u2019s RMR slot by poaching two of his CS2 players. TSM recently jumped back into Counter-Strike after six years away from the esport. The organization announced the signing of a European squad on August 26 and has since competed in a smattering of tournaments leading up to 2024. The organization\u2019s return was a long time coming as TSM indicated that it was interested in coming back to Counter-Strike esports in 2022. TSM reportedly dealt with issues with the team before publicly announcing its return to CS2. The players and coach reportedly butted heads with the organization as head coach R\u00e9my \u2018XTQZZZ\u2019 Quoniam allegedly threatened to leave the team at one point. Those issues seemed to be smoothed over as of now and has XTQZZZ left the project to return to Team Vitality in October. It seems there was even more behind-the-scenes drama as an org owner has accused TSM of trying to poach his players and \u201csteal\u201d their RMR spot. TSM accused of trying to poach CS2 players Sam Macedonio, the founder and CEO of ITB esports, claimed on social media that TSM tried to poach two of his CS2 players to take their RMR slot for Major tournaments. \u201cFYI TSM tried (and failed) to poach both Karol \u2018rallen\u2019 Rodowicz and Joey \u2018CRUC1AL\u2019 Steusel to steal our RMR slot. After a string of mediocre results from their overpaid staff and players, what\u2019s TSM\u2019s solution? Take a few steps back, focus on sustainability, rebuilding their fan base and infrastructure, creating a tournament-winning team worthy of their heritage? Nope,\u201d Macedonio said. The accusation has a quote post of ITB announcing that the two players re-signed with the organization. TSM signed K\u00e9vin \u2018misutaaa\u2019 Rabier from ITB and, if they also signed rallen and CRUC1AL, then they would inherit ITB\u2019s RMR points. Regional Major Ranking is a way for Valve to keep track of teams\u2019 ranking over the season for invitations to Major qualification tournaments. TSM has not responded to the allegation at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CS2 team owner claims TSM tried to \u201csteal\u201d RMR slot by poaching players Riot GamesThe founder of Into The Breach esports has accused TSM of trying to \u201csteal\u201d his team\u2019s RMR slot by poaching two of his CS2 players. TSM recently jumped back into Counter-Strike after six years away from the esport. The organization announced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}