Gentle Mates will play at Stake Ranked Episode 3 with Joey "CRUC1AL" Steusel as a stand-in, HLTV has learned.
The 29-year-old will fill the empty spot on the French organization's roster following Antonio "MartinezSa" Martinez's departure for HEROIC on July 7.
CRUC1AL has been without a team since parting ways with Nemesis at the start of the year, and has recorded just two officials on HLTV in the last six months after briefly standing in for illwill in CCT Europe Series 4.
The BLAST.tv Paris Major quarter-finalist's last LAN appearance dates back to November at XZONE Masters Season 1, and his return to offline competition with Gentle Mates will come against Wildcard at Stake Ranked on Wednesday.
Gentle Mates are also set to compete in the online stage of BLAST Bounty Season 2, which runs from July 21-26, but have yet to confirm their roster for the event, HLTV understands. The organization is also in the midst of negotiating its exit from Counter-Strike, with Heretics, KOI, and GiantX suggested as possible destinations for the roster by Sebastien "KRL" Perez before MartinezSa's sale to HEROIC.
Gentle Mates' roster for Stake Ranked Episode 3, which runs from July 15-18 in Barcelona, Spain, is as follows:
Alejandro "alex" Masanet David "dav1g" Granado Bermudo Alejandro "mopoz" Fernández-Quejo Cano Pere "sausol" Solsona Saumell Joey "CRUC1AL" Steusel (stand-in)
Angel "repk3ys" Gracia Navarro (coach)
Sebastien 'KRL' Perez
Wildcard
Nemanja 'nEMANHA' Đukić
Miłosz 'mhL' Knasiak
Danny 'Cxzi' Strzelczyk
Ethan 'reck' Serrano
Jadan 'HexT' Postma
Łukasz 'splawik' Jahns
Alejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo Cano
Nemesis
Ivan 'SELLTER' Miroshnikov
Evgeny 'r3salt' Frolov
Alemkhan 'mag1k3Y' Moldakamalov
Philipp 'tex1y' Moskvitin
Daniil 'Sdaim' Tupov
Maksim 'NMV' Naumov
Gentle Mates
Alejandro 'alex' Masanet
Alejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo Cano
Pere 'sausol' Solsona Saumell
David 'dav1g' Granado Bermudo
Angel 'repk3ys' Gracia Navarro
illwill
Alejandro 'alex' Masanet
David 'dav1g' Granado Bermudo
Antonio 'MartinezSa' Martinez
Angel 'repk3ys' Gracia Navarro
HEROIC
Antonio 'MartinezSa' Martinez
Ludvig 'Brollan' Brolin
Linus 'nilo' Bergman
Tim 'susp' Ångström
Christoffer 'Chr1zN' Storgaard
Joonas 'doto' Forss
Heretics
Joey 'CRUC1AL' Steusel
Pere 'sausol' Solsona Saumell
KOI