{"id":39444,"date":"2024-11-04T21:12:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T02:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=39444"},"modified":"2024-11-04T21:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T02:12:43","slug":"g2-esports-hint-at-niko-departure-after-cs2-shanghai-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/g2-esports-hint-at-niko-departure-after-cs2-shanghai-major\/","title":{"rendered":"G2 Esports hint at NiKo departure after CS2 Shanghai Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G2 Esports general manager Petar &#8220;peca&#8221; Markovi\u0107 has added more fuel to the rumours of Nikola &#8220;NiKo&#8221; Kova\u0107&#8217;s looming departure from the team after the conclusion of Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The first reports of NiKo getting ready to leave the European <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\">Counter-Strike<\/a> squad started in August, linking the 27-year-old with Team Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>While NiKo&#8217;s departure has yet to be officially announced peca&#8217;s recent post on X suggests the roster changes are all but confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See you soon in Shanghai for the last dance,&#8221; he said, hinting that the Shanghai Major will indeed be the last time this roster plays together.<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Singapore, you were awesome. We are your BLAST WORLDS Champions! \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Important one for the reassurance but also crucial to keep our heads cool for what is coming next. <\/p>\n<p>See you soon in Shanghai for the last dance. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/57UV4t1IKM\">pic.twitter.com\/57UV4t1IKM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; G2 Peca (@pecagg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pecagg\/status\/1853061267541606561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The X post surfaced less than a week after G2 Esports CEO Alban Dechelotte revealed in an interview that the team might be planning for a future without NiKo after the signing of Mario &#8220;malbsMd&#8221; Samayoa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the fact that we signed malbsMd in July when he&#8217;s playing the same positions as NiKo, maybe it&#8217;s a bit of an anticipation of what&#8217;s to come, and maybe we&#8217;re already working on who will replace malbs in his anchor position, and he could move into the positions that NiKo will be leaving at the end of December,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time Team Falcons have chased NiKo, who they first approached in 2023 amid an ambitious roster rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, it was reported he would join the Saudi squad, but <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/nikola-niko-kovac-decides-to-stay-with-g2-esports\/\">NiKo decided to stay with G2 Esports<\/a> in a surprising twist.<\/p>\n<p>New reports, however, suggest a deal has been finalised and NiKo will leave G2 after four years upon the conclusion of Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is set to kick off on November 30, featuring 24 Counter-Strike teams who will vie for the lion&#8217;s share of the US$1.25 million prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/sites\/\">top esports betting sites<\/a> have yet to release outright markets for the Major; however, punters can find odds for the upcoming Regional Major Rankings (RMR) events in the Americas, Asia, and Europe.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">Esports news<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G2 Esports general manager Petar &#8220;peca&#8221; Markovi\u0107 has added more fuel to the rumours of Nikola &#8220;NiKo&#8221; Kova\u0107&#8217;s imminent departure from the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":20107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[508,3212,103,1368],"class_list":["post-39444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-counter-strike","tag-cs2","tag-g2-esports","tag-nikola-niko-kovac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39446,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39444\/revisions\/39446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}