Eternal Fire \u201cTurkish super team\u201d forms with CSGO stars XANTARES, w0xic, more Stephanie Lindgren\/DreamHackA new CS:GO \u201csuper team\u201d is in the works at Eternal Fire. The new organization has signed Turkish heavyweights like Ismailcan \u2018XANTARES\u2019 D\u00f6rtkarde\u015f and \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u2018woxic\u2019 Eker in a final push ahead of the 2021 Major. The Space Soldiers are back but under a new name. Eternal Fire is looking to rekindle the \u201cTurkish super team\u201d project with faces, new and old. The organization, founded by former mousesports AWPer woxic, comes after rumors of the super squad reforming following XANTARES\u2019 departure from BIG. The squad features veterans of the Turkish scene woxic, XANTARES, and Bu\u011fra \u2018Calyx\u2019 Ark\u0131n. 21-year-old rising star \u00d6mer \u2018imoRR\u2019 Karata\u015f is getting an opportunity with the squad, having been a part of the old Space Soldiers core following their break-up in 2018. Hulk ger\u00e7ek! T\u00fcrkiye\u2019ye ve D\u00fcnya\u2019ya yepyeni bir soluk getirmek i\u00e7in geliyoruz! #forEF Hulk is real! We are coming to breathe new life into Turkey and the world! @XANTAREScsgo @w0xic @CalyxCSGO @imorcs @OG_ISSAA @bishopcsgod https:\/\/t.co\/xnbqlSMOr9 pic.twitter.com\/aoWt0DagZJ\u2014 Eternal Fire (@eternalfiregg) August 13, 2021 Jordanian player Issa \u2018ISSAA\u2019 Murad is the only non-Turkish player on the team. Formerly of OG and Hellraisers, ISSAA has previously played with woxic and has plenty of experience across his five-year career. \u201cWe made the decision to fulfill XANTARES\u2019 wish and to prematurely dissolve his still-active player contract,\u201d BIG CEO Daniel Finkler said in a statement following XANTARES\u2019 departure on August 13. \u201cThereby, we would like to contribute to helping XANTARES continue his playing career with a Turkish team.\u201d Thank you and goodbye @XANTAREScsgo! We have made the decision to release Can from his contract so he can pursue his wish of competing for a Turkish team. \ud83d\udcf0 https:\/\/t.co\/8AAfrVyCLR pic.twitter.com\/1u0nq1JL0V \u2014 BIG (@BIGCLANgg) August 13, 2021 The Turkish super team has been teased since June when woxic announced he was \u201cready to compete and grind in CS:GO\u201d again after taking a break following his Cloud9 stint. They were originally looking for an organization to represent but failed to find backing. Eternal Fire will be eligible to make a last-minute sprint to the PGL 2021 Stockholm Major, with two European RMR events still to play. This article was originally published as \u201cBIG releases XANTARES amid \u2018Turkish super team\u2019 rumors\u201d. Additional reporting by Dexerto\u2019s Andrew Amos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eternal Fire \u201cTurkish super team\u201d forms with CSGO stars XANTARES, w0xic, more Stephanie Lindgren\/DreamHackA new CS:GO \u201csuper team\u201d is in the works at Eternal Fire. The new organization has signed Turkish heavyweights like Ismailcan \u2018XANTARES\u2019 D\u00f6rtkarde\u015f and \u00d6zg\u00fcr \u2018woxic\u2019 Eker in a final push ahead of the 2021 Major. The Space Soldiers are back but […]<\/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-37377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37377","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=37377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}