Although we think it’ll be a while until we know the full roster, 100 Thieves have gotten off to a strong start - their new head of CS, messioso, has said that the NA org won’t be focused on NA players as they make their return to the game.

A statement that saw him get into a little spat with “news” reporter Ozzny, the reason why was clear: unlike Complexity, 100 Thieves are actually operating with a budget, and therefore don’t need to rely upon propping up a dying region for a brand or noble mission.

Thank f-ck for that.

In addition to that, they’re already flashing their muscle as they’ve managed to entice FaZe legend rain to join the team. And, to make it even more exciting, he’ll be IGLing for his new squad, regardless of who they sign.

Given that previous reports indicated that rain will only be joining the team on the basis that a “strong” core is signed, we have no concerns that 100 Thieves will at least be somewhat competitive when 2026 begins, but to what level is anyone’s guess.

There’s only two cores we see being both affordable and actually viable - GamerLegion and 3DMAX - and based on current form, one of those teams (annoyingly) is a lot better than the other.

Both teams also raise big questions as to who the fifth may be. Signing 3DMAX without picking up Maka would be foolish, whilst signing GamerLegion and including hypex instead of their rifle core would mean you’ve probably been sold a lie, so what type of player are 100 Thieves even likely to be after at the end of all of this?

Our (very large) brains tell us the GamerLegion core is the one they’ll have targeted, using PR, REZ, and Tauson to secure a solid 19th place on the VRS rankings for when the year begins. That will leave them in need of an AWPer, and likely one that’s actually able to shoot back and not Kursy or hypex if they want to improve on that current ranking.

If 100 Thieves were to listen to the best CS2 podcast, that means they’ll go after SunPayus or kl1m, whichever one of the two snipers isn’t on G2 when next year begins.

Of course, no one ever actually does listen to us, so:

Welcome L00m1 to 100 Thieves.

Poll

With the announcement that rain will be transitioning to IGLing when he gets underway with 100 Thieves, we want to ask you this:

In the last edition, we asked you who should be OG’s 5th? Here’s what you said:

🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️ 🇩🇰 It doesn’t matter, cadiaN dooms the team – 37,5%
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🇩🇪 k1to - after all, he must always be on OG – 12,5%
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🇷🇺 Some random Russian kid no one has heard ever of – 43.8%
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🇱🇹 bymas, because taken must be right one day – 6,2%