{"id":18025,"date":"2024-12-04T20:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T20:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=18025"},"modified":"2024-12-04T20:30:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T20:30:25","slug":"xign-takes-a-break-from-counter-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/xign-takes-a-break-from-counter-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"XigN Takes A Break From Counter-Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Alter Ego<\/strong> in-game leader Hyun-Pyo<strong> &#8216;XigN&#8217;<\/strong> Lee has announced that he will be stepping away from competition to begin his compulsory military service as required by South Korean law. <strong>&#8216;XigN&#8217; <\/strong>recently participated in the <strong>Asia RMR<\/strong>, where he was unable to achieve his goal of qualifying for a Major. <strong>Alter Ego<\/strong> finished in<strong> 7th-8th<\/strong> place at the regional tournament after losing to <strong>The MongolZ <\/strong>and <strong>Lynn Vision<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8216;XigN&#8217; <\/strong>has been a professional player in <strong>Counter-Strike<\/strong> for nearly ten years. He started participating in international competitions in 2016 with<strong> MVP Project<\/strong>. His <strong>MVP PK <\/strong>team was just one victory shy of qualifying for the<strong> StarLadder Major <\/strong>but fell short in three qualifying matches against <strong>TYLOO<\/strong>, <strong>North<\/strong>, and <strong>INTZ<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facing limited opportunities in his home country after many players transitioned to <strong>VALORANT<\/strong>, <strong>&#8216;XigN&#8217; <\/strong>sought his fortune in international <strong>CS<\/strong>, competing for <strong>BTRG<\/strong>, <strong>NG<\/strong>, and <strong>NKT <\/strong>before joining <strong>Alter Ego<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">XigN Statement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P0a5i65WXA\">pic.twitter.com\/P0a5i65WXA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; XigN (@OfficialXigN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialXigN\/status\/1864255541578739737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 4, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Keep up with our coverage for more insights on the latest esports news and updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alter Ego in-game leader Hyun-Pyo &#8216;XigN&#8217; Lee has announced that he will be stepping away from competition to begin his compulsory military service as required by South Korean law. &#8216;XigN&#8217; recently participated in the Asia RMR, where he was unable to achieve his goal of qualifying for a Major. Alter Ego finished in 7th-8th place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":18026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-18025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2","9":"tag-cs2-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18025","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18028,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18025\/revisions\/18028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}