Lock up your players and coaches, tier-two teams. It’s hunting season and Dota 2 organizations have a taste for sticker money.

ECSTATIC were the big underdog of the Copenhagen Major, out-doing Astralis and matching HEROIC as the de facto home Danish team.

Now a top 20 team, it’s no surprise that offers were barreling through the players’ doors.

But unlike Paris, (where Into the Breach lost volt and CYPHER, Apeks lost jL, and Monte lost BOROS) this Major’s underdogs will be able to stick together.

kraghen is an aggressive rifler that actually gets frags, and must have had some interest. Patti is the latest 3D-printed ready-made tier one IGL out of the Danish manufactory.

So it wasn’t inevitable we would see these five players together, but they’ve all been poached as one big prize, moving to Canadian side Gaimin Gladiators — a far bigger org with enough backing to pay these players Major-ready salaries.

ECSTATIC, without gambling money zipeL refused to take, could not match that.

But, let’s be honest. It still feels like a team that outperformed the sum of their parts, and now they must set their attention on staying in the top 20 against teams with far more firepower, popularity, and all-important partner slots.

With an RMR slot secured, however, it’s a gamble GG must think will pay off. Let’s just hope they have more luck than most of Counter-Strike’s gambling community.