Chinese organization NDO Esports is in discussion with multiple of international Counter-Strike players to form a potential team, according to multiple sources. One proposed lineup includes Alexander "SKYTTEN" Carlsson, Martin "percy" Wessel, Benjamin "moxie" Kou, Andrew "kaze" Khong, and Patiphan "CigaretteS" Posri.





SKYTTEN is a Swedish veteran who played most recently for Denial and Defuse kids in 2017. Percy is a Danish player who has bounced around multiple mixed teams since his time with Copenhagen Wolves and tRICKED Esports in 2016. Moxie played for B.O.O.T-dreamScape until March as a hybrid player and is from Singapore. Kaze is a Malaysian born AWPer who most recently played for Flash Gaming, leaving before the organization merged with ViCi Gaming last month to form a new lineup. CigaretteS is a member of a full Taiwanese lineup under the Signature Gaming banner.





Bektiyar "fitch" Bahytov was originally considered to join NDO on this international lineup instead of CigaretteS, but NDO was unable to acquire him. Fitch recently started playing with Tengri while on loan from Gambit Esports, where he has been benched since the start of February. NDO will participate in the Asia Minor Qualifier because of the three Asian players on their team, which is widely known as the easiest region to qualify for Valve sponsored Majors in the current format.It is unclear at this time how close all parties are to an official signing, but movement is expected soon.





When reached for comment, Volkan Arslan, a representative of NDO, gave the following statement:





" Can't confirm that yet since we didn't sign any of those players yet. But yes they are definitely in the pool of players that we are considering for our main team but if you look back, we literally changed our roster 6 times already so I can't confirm the roster yet. we were aiming for more Chinese players, they prefer playing at already established organizations even tho those teams have a really shady background. So it's basically young chinese talents wasting their talent at organizations who are known for throwing games.





"But in the same wave of names you named, there are definitely some more names that you could mention. I know that a lot of people expect big EU players to go to China but I have bad news for those guys: they won't. China provides a market, but not the infrastructure to build a healthy CSGO scene. They have a lack of talents, a lack of younger established players and all in all almost none of the players speak English. That's why I decided to keep the main line up a South East Asian/European Mix to establish the org in Asia first before going to fish talents. I mean I'm still a agent and scout so I'm sure after placing some of my scouts in China will find some talents that I will develop with the help of Performance and Language coaches to make them ready for the main line up.





"Our goal is to have at least 2-3 Chinese players in the future who are able to perform at the top level while being able to communicate without any problems. Besides that we will release a lot of job offers for chinese people to make sure the job market in chinese esports is growing while offering those people a competitive salary. So all in all we lack in talents in china, the working speed over there is horrible and there's a lot of shady people who slow down my work. If my line up is going to be the one you named, I'm more than happy and won't say no to it since I know all of those player really well and would love to work with them!"





Photo courtesy of NDO Esports/Twitter

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