Bubzkji picks the weirdest rosters in CS history
Recently we’ve looked at some of the best rosters in CS history, the best roster moves in CS history, and the weirdest roster moves in CS history, but now it’s time to turn our attention to the weirdest rosters in CS history.
Once again, we asked bubzkji to provide us with the list, and we have to say that even in the current international team meta, the names included would still look downright weird.
Photo: Stephanie Lindgren#1 TYLOO
The roster:
- BnTeT
- bondik
- DD
- captainMo
- somebody
- peacemaker (coach)
Kicking off bubzkji’s list of the weirdest CS rosters of all time is also the only roster on the list to include a coach, and that’s TYLOO’s temporary roster from 2017.
It only lasted four months, but this roster is still utterly bizarre to look at. Back then, TYLOO were the best team in Asia, and although there may not have been too much talent within the roster that was suited to join the team, surely there were options before Ukrainian bondik and Brazilian peacemaker?
The crazy part is that the roster didn’t even do too badly, the team came second at ROG Masters 2017, only falling to Gambit - a team who had won a Major that year - in the final.
#2 SPLYCE
The roster:
- DAVEY
- arya
- AcilioN
- CRUC1AL
- Machinegun
What do you get when you put a Dane, a Dutchman, an American, a Canadian, and a Mongolian together on a team? You get SPLYCE, the next team to feature on bubzkji’s list of the weirdest rosters in CS history.
In truth, this team may have just been massively ahead of the curve. It’s an entirely international team formed in an era when that wasn’t the norm, but we might be reaching by saying this.
Even in the international era, there isn’t many teams that feature players from five different nations, but this team takes it to a whole other extreme by having those players come from three different continents too.
Photo: Stephanie Lindgren#3 FURIA
The roster:
- yuurih
- KSCERATO
- arT
- VINI
- junior
The penultimate team in bubzkji’s list of the weirdest rosters in CS history is FURIA and their ultimately bizarre stint with NA AWPer, junior.
Granted, junior had been performing very admirably within the domestic scene at the time FURIA signed him, but was it really enough to justify the necessary language change and the culture shock? Probably not.
Unsurprisingly, it didn’t work out all too well, and junior lasted just five months before he was benched by the Brazilian organisation.
Photo: Michal Konkol#4 ENCE
The roster:
Rounding out bubzkji’s list of the weirdest rosters in CS history is the ENCE team that was only recently changed as dycha and hades were benched in favour of podi and sdy.
A team that was formed somewhat out of desperation after the collapse of their successful 2023 roster, ENCE had already signed gla1ve to replace Snappi, but their response to losing the rest of their players was to sign three players from 9INE to form a four-man Polish majority alongside dycha. To make it even weirder, their new coach kuben is also Polish.
This team hasn’t exactly been unsuccessful, they made the home crowd incredibly happy as they made it to the Spodek arena at IEM Katowice 2024, but that has been their sole success as a team.