Team EnVyUs Adds Familiar Face Back to CS:GO Roster
By Nicholas Barth ·
The storied esports organization has brought back one of their former players to their CS:GO roster and is hoping he can help the team return to playing high-level Counter Strike.
Reunions can be great, especially in the world of esports. This is the case for Team EnVyUs, as they announced on the their website earlier today that they have successfully acquired Fabien “kioShiMa” Fiey from FaZe Clan for their CS:GO team.
The problem is now the solution.
— Team Envy (@TeamEnVyUs) February 3, 2018
We have acquired @kiocsgoo from @FaZeClan. He will be added to the Envy CS:GO starting lineup immediately. Read more: https://t.co/3MeVQ3QjFU pic.twitter.com/py9XaAnLc1
KioShiMa was a member of Team EnVyUs from 2015 and 2016 and was instrumental in the team’s run of success during those years. This success included winning multiple international CS:GO titles with the biggest victory being the team’s championship at the DreamHack Cluj-Napoca Major. FaZe Clan acquired kioShiMa after he had been moved from Team EnVyUs' starting line up due to the team's performance slump. KioShiMa would help FaZe Clan achieve the best success they had ever seen in CS:GO, up until recently, but after the team's poor performance at the PGL 2017 Kraków Major he was replaced by former Fnatic star Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer Gustafsson on August 20th, 2017.
How many RTs for a roster announcement?
— Team Envy (@TeamEnVyUs) February 2, 2018
Rumors of kioShiMa making his way back to EnVyUs have cropped up ever since he was replaced on FaZe Clan. With the team beginning to tease a roster announcement on February 2nd, many members of the community believed that the time had finally come for kioSHiMa to make his highly anticipated return to the French roster.
The French star has not competed in any major LAN tournaments since being removed from FaZe Clan's starting roster, but now he will be able to show the CS:GO world that he can still perform at a high level with his new teammates. The current Team EnVyUs CS:GO roster now consists of Vincent “Happy” Schopenhauer, Christopher “SIXER” Xia, Adil “ScreaM” Benriltom and Cedric “RpK” Guipouy, and Fabien “kioShiMa” Fiey. Alexandre “xms” Forte will now be playing in a substitute role for the team.
February 3rd will be the first time that this new roster competes together, as they will be playing the European closed qualifiers for IEM Katowice 2018.
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