Free agent British CS:GO sniper Owen “smooya” Butterfield will temporarily replace OG’s star player Abdul “degster” Gasanov, who is recovering from an illness, at the quarterfinals BLAST Premier Spring Showdown Europe today against Ninjas in Pyjamas at 9:30am CT.
This tournament will see just one team qualify for the $425,000 BLAST Premier Spring Final in June and alongside OG and NiP, other top teams such as Fnatic, Cloud9, and BIG are fighting for the spot. Smooya has been in free agency and dedicating his time to streaming since June 2022, when he parted ways with Into The Breach. The AWPer is most known for his time with BIG between 2018 and 2020 and for a short but successful stint with Fnatic between October 2021 and February 2022.