Team BEASTS have reviled that George “ZED” Bear has been dropped from their lineup shortly after three of their players, Philip “whindanski” Nicholas, Josh “mole” Rowley and Som “s0m” Haddow, won epic.SEVENTEEN under the Barrage eSports banner. This change came across very suddenly, as the team only unveiled themselves earlier this month, but it looks like a small scale post-LAN-shuffle caused the split.
No longer playing with beasts. Think it's time to stop playing this game competitively for now, UK cs is kind of a joke atm :/
— ZED (@ZEDcsgo) February 22, 2016
Clearly ZED felt hard done by after his removal so we tracked him down to get his input on how he felt after the split.
Full statement from ZED –
So yesterday I got told I was removed from BEASTS. Actually came as quite a shock, as we were playing well and was all getting along up until then… 3 of the team went to epicLAN with a mix and won it, whilst they were there they decided that they wanted to pick up surreal. (even though I got told that wasn’t the reason) But I was told they was speaking about it at the LAN and then neilzinho made a phone call to neil_M and said we’re going to do it. Lost all the respect I had to those players now and was really quite surprised that neilzinho allowed it to happen, known them all for about 5 years and at the first opportunity they decide to make a change even though it wasn’t needed. Especially neil_M who I thought had my back in the team as had to convince the guys to get him in, just goes to how shit the scene is really.
Funny thing is that I thought I was playing at a good level and was performing as one of the best in the team, but oh well. Just proves that UK CS won’t be improving much anytime soon with the attitudes the players have. Not sure what I will be doing in terms of competitive cs anymore, think the UK cs dream is dead only hope will be an EU team which is unlikely.
Soon after ZED was released, the BEASTS twitter account announced that Kia “Surreal” Man, who just last weekend played with three of the team during epic.SEVENTEEN, has now joined Team BEASTS officially as their fifth player.
We officially welcome @Surrealcs as our 5th for the future moving forward! #BEASTS #CSGO
— Team BEASTS (@BEASTS_CSGO) February 23, 2016
This comes just as the team are closing in on a deal with an organisation, which is set to be announced next week.
