The German team BIG announced that Turkish e-sportsman Ismailkan "XANTARES" Dortkardesh, who played for her for almost two and a half years, will leave her team. He will receive the opportunity to transfer, and his place in the main roster will be Niklas “gade”, who recently joined the team. Gade.
The head of the esports organization, Daniel Finkler, said that BIG is now choosing between several options, and the decision to transfer XANTARES to another team will be made “as soon as an offer is found that suits all parties.” The contract currently binding the player to BIG is valid until the end of the current year.
Commenting on this news, XANTARES published a post in which he explained that he had decided to look for a new path to build his career. The player signed his first contract with BIG at the end of 2018, forming the core of the squad together with Johannes "tabseN" Vodarz and Tizian "tizian" Feldbush. By 2020, BIG managed to form a roster with which it won its first victory at a major LAN tournament – DreamHack Open Leipzig, and then won several more international competitions. For two months, BIG managed to remain at the top of the world rankings, and XANTARES received the title of MVP at DreamHack Open Summer. However, in 2021 the team failed to maintain the same level, as a result of which its management decided to change the composition.
