TaZ Reportedly in Talks to Join Team Kinguin
By Nicholas Barth ·
A report by Flickshot indicates that the former Virtus.pro player could be making his way to a new team.
According to a report by French Counter-Strike news website Flickshot, former Virtus.pro player Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas is in talks with Team Kinguin to join their Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team. TaZ's addition to Team Kinguin would coincide with the acquisition of Polish players Jacek "MINISE" Jeziak and Pawel "reatz" Janczak of Pride, according Flickshot's report. These two players would replace the two Portuguese players of Ricardo "fox" Pacheco and Christopher "MUTiRiS" Fernandes. TaZ would fill the void left by Michal "MICHU" Müller, who was loaned over to Virtus.pro to replace TaZ in early February. These roster moves would give Team Kinguin a 100% Polish roster.
The CS:GO community was shocked when rumors of TaZ's potential benching began surfacing, which were made reality when Virtus.pro had announced that the long time member and captain of the famous Polish Plow lineup would no longer be apart of the organization. MICHU would be TaZ's replacement on Virtus.pro, and the team has not seen much success since the roster move, as they have placed 12th to 14th at StarSeries i-League Season 4 and 13th to 16th at IEM Katowice 2018. Team Kinguin has also been struggling, as AGO and Pride have begun to pass the team as the best in Poland.
The addition of TaZ would give Team Kinguin a legendary player to help them restablish themselves as the best CS:GO team that Poland has to offer, while the move would give TaZ an opportunity to lead another team to prominence in the world of professional CS:GO. If the negotiations go as planned, Team Kinguin will consist of TaZ, Karol "rallen" Radowicz, Mikolaj "mouz" Karolewski, MINISE and reatz.
We will continue to update this story as it develops.
(cover photo courtesy of DreamHack)