It looks like the door labelled “AWP” in B8’s camp will keep on revolving - after an unsuccessful campaign in IEM Kraków, 16-year-old academy graduate segukawa will return to the junior team.

And isn’t that a relief? It pained our hearts enough to watch npl waste away with headtr1ck last year, and watching them have to drag along the heavy burden of a 0.54 rated AWPer wasn’t much better. Let’s see which exciting new player will pick the gun up for PGL Cluj-Napoca…

Wait, who the f-ck is s1zzi?

Oh… they’ve done it again.

For the second time in 2026 - and we’ll remind you, January just ended - B8 have promoted a no-name 16-year-old Ukrainian AWPer from an academy team, only this time he’s coming in on loan from Spirit. B8’s CEO would also make a statement on Telegram claiming that segukawa was never a real B8 player, and was instead some kind of social experiment, or something. We don’t know, we don’t speak Ukrainian.

But honestly, he might as well have been permanent, because even on paper, s1zzi doesn’t look that much better. He’s virtually unknown, having only played two series covered by HLTV with Spirit Academy’s junior team.

Yeah, you read that right. The academy team’s academy team. Because there isn’t enough cracked Russian 16-year-olds in the world.

Admittedly, his first two official series were better than segukawa’s in Kraków, but they were against significantly worse opposition. So it begs the question: why would this be any different?

On the one hand, Spirit’s academy operations are significantly larger and have produced prodigies like donk and kyousuke. On the other hand, they have also been able to scam large organisations with loan deals for subpar AWPers like Alkaren.

Place your bets on which one s1zzi will turn out to be.

Poll

With segukawa’s single-tournament stay on B8 going down as one of the worst big event debuts of all time, we ask you this: