This might be the final time we can make that joke…

Sources revealed to HLTV on Wednesday that everyone’s favourite United Nations General Assembly of a team, Passion UA, have decided to open up their current Counter-Strike team for bidding.

This comes just days after the team decided to pull out of the BC.Game Masters Championship Season 2 LAN event in Portugal, and just a few months after the blockbuster signings of try and Senzu, the latter on a since-expired loan.

It’s an end to the team almost as abrupt as its beginnings, taking just about two years to go from humble beginnings well outside serious competition to competing at tier one events, and even Majors.

There hasn’t been much of that in 2026, though. The team narrowly missed the Major after a loss to Sangal in Urban Riga Open - an event the team won in the previous Major cycle - meaning they were the 11th highest ranked team on the Americas ranking.

Worse yet, that Sangal team had smooya…

Last place finishes in three IEM events, an inability to compete in tier two LANs, and failing to even make the grand final in a Fragadelphia event mean one thing… this team is sh-t. Selling it is probably for the best.

Why it’s gone this poorly for the team isn’t entirely clear to us, but we suspect it has something to do with the incredible diversity of this team. Never before in CS history has a team with this many culture clashes succeeded, and that seems to still be the case.

Still, the pieces are very good, and there are plenty of moves we think should be at least considered. Perhaps JT can finally make the move to Team Liquid he was always destined for. If anyone’s shopping for two talented riflers, Kvem and sdy should be on that list, and we can see even nicx competing at a decent level on North American squads.

But the one guy we hope manages to finally catch a break is try… after finally being freed from Brazilian contract jail, he’s once again sat outside top-level play. When can this kid catch a break?

If Passion UA rebuild something new from the ashes of this lineup remains to be seen, but for now, we bid farewell to Oleksandr Zinchenko’s involvement in CS. Though you’d think if he charges $11,000 for a Cameo-video, he could afford to keep this roster a few more months…