Back to Counter-Strike? One of VALORANT’s first pros retires immediately after CS2 launch

Jacob “pyth” Mourujärvi, a former CS:GO player for Ninjas in Pyjamas and a former VALORANT player for G2, has retired from Riot Games’ FPS yesterday, the same day Valve released Counter-Strike 2 for limited testing and announced the update will launch worldwide this summer.

Pyth was on the sidelines of VALORANT‘s competitive landscape since August 2022, when he departed the Asian team Bleed Esports. He was one of the first CS:GO pros to switch to VALORANT in 2020 and most notably played for G2 between June 2020 and June 2021, helping the squad spearheaded by mixwell to dominate the early days of VALORANT in Europe and win tournaments like Red Bull Home Ground in January 2021 and BLAST Twitch Invitational in September 2020.

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