Chinese esports organization FunPlus Phoenix has announced that it will stop investing in its CS:GO division. The team in this discipline existed for less than a year, and management explained its dissolution as “limitations and difficulties associated with remote management.”
In January 2021, the organization acquired several players who were previously part of GODSENT, and Jonathan "Devilwalk" became the team's coach. Landberg. At the beginning of the year, FunPlus Phoenix was able to win the Snow Sweet Snow tournament and also qualify for IEM Summer, but after that a chain of failures awaited it. At subsequent events the team failed to achieve significant success. In addition, the team failed to qualify for PGL Major Summer, ending up in 14th place in the European RMR ranking after being eliminated from IEM Fall in the group stage and ninth place at Flashpoint3.
The Chinese esports organization first tried to break into the professional CS:GO scene back in March 2020, when it partnered with Flashpoint. However, due to the pandemic, plans to hold offline events were curtailed, and FunPlus Phoenix failed to reach the international level.
The latest FunPlus Phoenix roster included players from Finland, Slovakia, Montenegro, Denmark and Serbia. It remains unclear exactly when they will be released from their contractual obligations, but the Draft5 information portal is already reporting that Astralis is considering the possibility of acquiring one of them, Asger “Farlig” Jensen to strengthen his lineup.
