G2 lineup, history, achievements - CS2

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G2 - History

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Topic: CS:GO G2 team/lineup/history/achievements

G2 is an originally Spanish Esport Organization with headquarters in Germany. The long-standing French lineup decided to switch to an international roster at the end of last year. G2 was founded in 2013 and joined CS:GO almost two years later.

G2 - Archievments & price money

The organization has already achieved several S-tier successes with their CS:GO teams, but a really big title has yet to come. While the big tournament win is still missing they managed to place second at IEM Cologne 2021 and also the PGL Major in Stockholm. A total prize money of around 3.5 million USD is nevertheless considerable.

G2 - Previous lineups & players

After G2 had a polish lineup in 2015 centered around IGL innocent, in 2016 a mostly nordic lineup built around Maikelele and rain has been established. In the following three years the focus was on French and initially Belgian players.

Since the end of 2019, the team consisted of the two young stars huNter- and nexa, who completed the French lineup. Due to fluctuating performances, the organization decided to buy NiKo out of his contract at FaZe at the end of 2020 and further strengthen the team. After first JaCkz was removed from the active lineup, finally kennyS had to leave and Audric (JaCkz) returned to the team. After the PGL Major coach maLeK had to leave the lineup. The decision was already made before the event.

Over the winter break 2021/22, G2 decided to further change the lineup. As a replacement for AMANEK as the main AWP they bought m0NESY from NAVI Joungsters and completed a swap deal with OG between nexa and Aleksib, who was the new IGL of G2 Esports. Together with Aleksib G2 also brought XTQZZZ on board as the new head coach in January 2022.

In mid 2022 G2 surprised with the announcement of Aleksib leaving the organisation after only 8 months, as well as the departure of long-term member JACKZ. The organisation decided to sign HooXi as the new IGL and acquire jks for the rifle position.

G2 - World-Ranking & current players

The current lineup of G2 consists of the two cousins huNter- and NiKo, as well as youngster m0NESY and jks, as well as IGL HooXi. The coach for the team is the French XTQZZZ.