{"id":8097,"date":"2023-09-06T16:53:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T16:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/report-into-the-breach-set-to-announce-qikert-signing"},"modified":"2023-09-06T16:53:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T16:53:50","slug":"report-into-the-breach-set-to-announce-qikert-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/report-into-the-breach-set-to-announce-qikert-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Into the Breach set to announce Qikert signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources with knowledge of the transfer have confirmed to BLIX that British organization Into The Breach are set to announce former Virtus.pro player, Alexey &#8220;Qikert&#8221; Golubev, as their new fifth in short order. The upcoming signing sees the IEM Rio 2022 Major winner return to activity after being benched by the Armenian-Russian organization in late August in favor of Nikolay &#8220;mir&#8221; Bityukov.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the addition of Qikert comes after Into The Breach&#8217;s former IGL Thomas &#8216;\u009cThomas&#8217;\u009d Utting recently benched himself, and follows on from the arrival of Kevin &#8216;\u009cmisutaaa&#8217;\u009d Rabier in the wake of Adam &#8220;NEOFRAG&#8221; Zouhar&#8217;\u0099s departure. It is the second rebuild of the team in as many months following the departures of Major quarter finalists Cai &#8220;CYPHER&#8221; Watson to TSM, and Sebastian &#8220;volt&#8221; Malos to GamerLegion.<\/p>\n<p>BLIX understands that Qikert will come in to be the team&#8217;\u0099s new IGL, a role he has previously undertaken in earlier stages of his time with the Virtus.pro lineup on AVANGAR.<\/p>\n<p>With Qikert, Into the Breach&#8217;s lineup will consist of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joey &#8216;\u009cCRUC1AL&#8217;\u009d Steusel<\/li>\n<li>Karol &#8216;\u009crallen&#8217;\u009d Radowicz<\/li>\n<li>Aurimas &#8216;\u009cbymas&#8217;\u009d Pipiras<\/li>\n<li>Kevin &#8216;\u009cmisutaaa&#8217;\u009d Rabier<\/li>\n<li>Alexey &#8220;Qikert&#8221; Golubev<\/li>\n<li>Thomas &#8216;\u009cThomas&#8217;\u009d Utting (Substitute)<\/li>\n<li>Martin &#8216;\u009ctrace&#8217;\u009d Heldt (Coach)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Photo Credit: Simon Howar\/ESL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources with knowledge of the transfer have confirmed to BLIX that British organization Into The Breach are set to announce former Virtus.pro player, Alexey &#8220;Qikert&#8221; Golubev, as their new fifth in short order. The upcoming signing sees the IEM Rio 2022 Major winner return to activity after being benched by the Armenian-Russian organization in late<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":8098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[198,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-8097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-aleksei-qikert-golubev","9":"tag-into-the-breach"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}