Aleksandar "kassad" Trifunović issued an official statement today that the CS2 team that he personally formed and trains has separated from BLEED Esports, and the reason for this is the organization's ignoring of the problem with the payment of salaries to players that are delayed by months.
Just a few days after Riot announced that it was removing BLEED from the Valorant party program, new information is coming about the enormous problems within the organization itself, this time directly from the celebrated Serbian CS2 expert.
Kassad's arrival in BLEED heralded a bright future for the organization in CS2 esports, fans eagerly awaited news about this project, after the initial five with a few changes, a team was formed that began to regularly win Tier 2 online tournaments, but then somewhere around the EU RMR closed qualifications, there was a backlog of results, and now it is only clear why.
As Kassad himself states in the official announcement, the players did not receive their salaries for 4-5 months, and in the end they had to pay for the entire preparations themselves, which affected the loss of motivation and great stress among the players themselves.">Aleksandar "kassad" Trifunović issued an official statement today that the CS2 team that he personally formed and trains has separated from BLEED Esports, and the reason for this is the organization's ignoring of the problem with the payment of salaries to players that are delayed by months.
Just a few days after Riot announced that it was removing BLEED from the Valorant party program, new information is coming about the enormous problems within the organization itself, this time directly from the celebrated Serbian CS2 expert.
Kassad's arrival in BLEED heralded a bright future for the organization in CS2 esports, fans eagerly awaited news about this project, after the initial five with a few changes, a team was formed that began to regularly win Tier 2 online tournaments, but then somewhere around the EU RMR closed qualifications, there was a backlog of results, and now it is only clear why.
As Kassad himself states in the official announcement, the players did not receive their salaries for 4-5 months, and in the end they had to pay for the entire preparations themselves, which affected the loss of motivation and great stress among the players themselves.
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Players have had to boycott tournaments and matches on several occasions and threaten not to play in order to get even a part of their earnings, and to make matters worse, BLEED has not even paid money to other organizations for transfers, including $42,000 for the transfer of Nemanja "nex" Isaković from G2 Esports. Apex owners confirmed to HLTV that BLEED has yet to pay any money for the transfers of Tim "nawwk" Jonasson and Joakim "jkaem" Myrbostad, and according to Kassad, BLEED owes all parties over $300,000 in total.
The former BLEED is playing in Belgrade from Wednesday in a big LAN organized by Relog, RES Regional Champions, and in the new tournament as well as at TWC 2024, they will perform under the name UNPAID.
Nexa will also play for the team, although he was initially transferred to the reserve bench.">In conversations with members of the BLEED organization from other esports divisions, Kassad found out that the situation of the portal is identical in other games, Dota2, Valorant and R6, and as he states "the CEO of BLEED seems to have fallen into the ground and no one can find him". .
Players have had to boycott tournaments and matches on several occasions and threaten not to play in order to get even a part of their earnings, and to make matters worse, BLEED has not even paid money to other organizations for transfers, including $42,000 for the transfer of Nemanja "nex" Isaković from G2 Esports. Apex owners confirmed to HLTV that BLEED has yet to pay any money for the transfers of Tim "nawwk" Jonasson and Joakim "jkaem" Myrbostad, and according to Kassad, BLEED owes all parties over $300,000 in total.
The former BLEED is playing in Belgrade from Wednesday in a big LAN organized by Relog, RES Regional Champions, and in the new tournament as well as at TWC 2024, they will perform under the name UNPAID.
Nexa will also play for the team, although he was initially transferred to the reserve bench.
