The Finnish organization is looking into its next roster overhaul after missing the Shanghai Major.
After failing to qualify for Shanghai Major RMRs, ENCE has been spotted practicing with an overhauled roster. This was leaked by multiple insiders, such as solutioN00.
Will these moves help the legendary org return to the top?
The potential seems to be there. The revamped composition, still captained by gla1ve, provides a lot of young talent with huge firepower.
The rest of the leaked roster still features former ENCE Academy AWPer podi and sdy. The two new players are Neityu and xKacpersky, joining from MOUZ NXT and Young Ninjas respectively.
Young polish talent xKacpersky has apparently signed his contract yesterday.
— xKacpersky (@XKacpersky) October 1, 2024
And former player Goofy was released from his contract two weeks ago.
Today, we bid farewell to Krzysztof "Goofy" Gorski as his contract has been terminated in mutual agreement.All the best for the future, @Goofiacz Read more: https://t.co/CW6ag1U4Bh pic.twitter.com/fIqM6EZfsJ
— ENCE (@ENCE) September 19, 2024
Besides him, Kylar will also no longer be part of the starting lineup either. He was signed alongside Goofy and hades less than a year ago.
A natural consequence for a disappointing 2024 season
Just over a year ago, ENCE was one of the best teams in the world. Winning IEM Dallas and reaching the grand final of IEM Cologne. Then they lost four players and their coach.
Snappi, Maden and SunPayus joined Falcons. Superstar player Nertz and sAw, the coach, went to Heroic. ENCE then signed the aforementioned polish trio and managed to qualify for the Copenhagen Major.
Welcome @hadesCS2, @Goofiacz, and @Kylarrek The shuffle is now over, and the work has begun ENCE CS2 2024 Lukas "gla1ve" Rossander Pawel "dycha" Dycha Olek "hades" Miskiewicz Krzysztof "Goofy" Gorski Kacper "Kylar" Walukiewicz Jakub "kuben" Gurczynski... pic.twitter.com/J7OVCJR832
— ENCE (@ENCE) December 17, 2023
However, it was only downhill in terms of results since then. They already replaced Dycha and hades earlier in the year.
It remains to be seen whether the two latest signings will be enough to allow them to compete for trophies again. But we're hopeful.
What do you think? Can ENCE return to the top?