{"id":14842,"date":"2022-08-23T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T17:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/imperial-completes-its-csgo-roster-signs-chelo"},"modified":"2022-08-23T17:37:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T17:37:09","slug":"imperial-completes-its-csgo-roster-signs-chelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/imperial-completes-its-csgo-roster-signs-chelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial completes its CS:GO roster, signs chelo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian professional esports organization Imperial has officially announced signing Marcelo &#8220;chelo&#8221; Cespedes, completing its CS:GO roster.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of the 24-year-old rifler from MIBR to the Imperial&#8217;s CS:GO roster was not unexpected; rumors<a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/report-imperial-wants-to-replace-fnx-with-chelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> about it<\/a> appeared back in July. He was supposed to replace Lincoln &#8220;fnx&#8221; Lau, who recently announced that he <a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/fnx-retires-as-a-player-to-become-a-coach-and-a-streamer-for-imperial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would retire as a player<\/a> and shift to a streamer and coach position at Imperial.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dust2.com.br\/noticias\/30066\/imperial-encaminha-contratacao-de-chelo-por-r-1-milhao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dust2 Brazil sources<\/a>, the chelo&#8217;s transfer costs for Imperial are approximately $200,000 (1 million Bazilian reals).<\/p>\n<p>In turn, MIBR has <a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/mibr-replaces-chelo-with-hen1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already hired a replacement for chelo<\/a> where Henrique &#8220;HEN1&#8221; Teles took his place.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d1\u0081helo will debut with Imperial at ESL Challenger Melbourne in September.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Imperial&#8217;s current CS:GO roster is:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gabriel &#8220;FalleN&#8221; Toledo (in-game leader)<\/li>\n<li>Fernando &#8220;fer&#8221; Alvarenga<\/li>\n<li>Ricardo &#8220;boltz&#8221; Prass<\/li>\n<li>Vinicius &#8220;VINI&#8221; Figueiredo<\/li>\n<li>Marcelo &#8220;chelo&#8221; Cespedes<\/li>\n<li>Lincoln &#8220;fnx&#8221; Lau (coach) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"_1VPbNXp6UZ1K-ChQg-UhsA==\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian professional esports organization Imperial has officially announced signing Marcelo &#8220;chelo&#8221; Cespedes, completing its CS:GO roster. The addition of the 24-year-old rifler from MIBR to the Imperial&#8217;s CS:GO roster was not unexpected; rumors about it appeared back in July. He was supposed to replace Lincoln &#8220;fnx&#8221; Lau, who recently announced that he would retire as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":14843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}