Rumors: Kauez will replace drop as part of FURIA

According to the official page of the upcoming ESL Pro League Season 17, the Brazilian esports organization FURIA is preparing to make changes to its CS:GO roster. As a result, Kauez will replace drop in the squad, as he is already registered for the main squad for the upcoming championship. At the time of publication of the material, the club has not made an official statement about the changes in the composition.

drop has been playing for the FURIA roster since August 2021. For a season and a half, the 19-year-old Brazilian player helped the team win Intel Extreme Masters XVI - Fall: North America and PGL Major Antwerp 2022: American RMR, as well as get into the top three at ESL Challenger #48, ESL Pro League Season 15, BLAST Premier: Spring American Showdown 2022, Intel Extreme Masters XVII - Dallas and Intel Extreme Masters Rio Major 2022.

In addition, together with the team, he managed to reach the quarterfinals of PGL Major Stockholm 2021 and PGL Major Antwerp 2022.

In turn, Kauez is an active player of FURIA Academy, where he joined at the end of 2021. Together with the team, the 19-year-old Brazilian became the winner of FURIA Academy and Gamers Club Liga Série B: April 2022, and also entered the TOP-3 at the end of WePlay Academy League Season 4, BGS Esports 2022 and EPL World Series: Americas Season 2.

Probably, these changes were a response to the failure of FURIA at the recent Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2023, where the team could not even make it to the group stage after a sensational defeat from IHC Esports with a score of 1:2.

As expected, the transition of the young player to the main team will be announced before the start of the group stage of ESL Pro League Season 17. The Brazilian team got into group B, which also includes BIG, SAW, MOUZ, Heroic, Movistar Riders, Imperial Esports and Complexity Gaming.

Estimated composition of FURIA in CS:GO discipline:

• yuurih
• art
• KSCERATO
• saffee
• Kauez
• guerri (head coach)
• sidde (assistant coach)