G2 Esports

European professional esports organisation

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2025 G2 released Mikyx and Yike, and announced the additions of Rudy 'Skewmond' Semaan and Labros 'Labrov' Papoutsakis as Jungler and Support respectively.
April 2 2025 G2 Esports announced G2 Football Club (G2 FC), a seven-a-side football team to participate in the German division of Kings League, a new football league founded by Gerard Piqué.
January 11 2025 G2 unveiled Nikita 'HeavyGod' Martynenko as part of the main roster.
January 3 2025 Nikola 'NiKo' Kovac departed the team in an expected move to Falcons Esports.
2024 Dominated RLCS scene, making all 6 regional finals and winning 4 of them.
2024 Reached their 3rd World Championship final, losing 4-2 to BDS.
2024 Won their first LAN title in 2 years at the London major by beating Team Falcons.
2024 G2 completed the first LEC Grand Slam in the new LEC format by winning both Spring and Summer events.
November 7 2024 Released entire Rocket League roster after 8 years in the North American Rocket League scene.
June 28 2024 G2 replaced Nexa with Guatemalan star Mario 'malbsMd' Samayoa from M80.
June 2 2024 G2 won IEM Dallas with Jake 'Stewie2k' Yip standing in for HooXi.
2023 G2 Esports won the 2023 LEC Season Finals with a 3-1 victory over Fnatic, securing their second domestic title of the year.
2023 G2's Rainbow Six Siege team won their second World Championship at the Six Invitational 2023 through a lower bracket run to the final.
December 11 2023 G2 announced ex-Virtus.pro player and Major winner Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas had joined the team as their head coach.
December 5 2023 G2 Esports merged with Version1, owned by WISE Ventures, which included operating rights to the Minnesota RØKKR team in the Call of Duty League.
November 9 2023 G2 reportedly benched jks and replaced him with the return of nexa on 21 November.
September 23 2023 G2 was announced as a non-partner team for VCT Americas, with a two-year roster comprised of four former players from Ascension winner The Guard.
September 22 2023 Reported to be acquiring Daniel 'Daniel' Piecenski and Landon 'BeastMode' Konerman from Version1.
August 18 2023 Fabian leaves G2's coaching position.
June 2 2023 G2 won IEM Dallas with Jake 'Stewie2k' Yip standing in for HooXi.
May 31 2023 Announced a full female roster called G2 Luna.
March 7 2023 G2 announced an all-female line-up named G2 Oya, consisting of Ex-G2 Gozen players zAAz and juliano.
2022 Reached the RLCS 2021-22 World Championship grand final as the No.1 seed from North America, losing 4-1 to Team BDS.
2022 Won the RLCS Winter Major 2022 in Los Angeles, their first RLCS LAN tournament in 5 years.
December 2022 G2 began operating a North American Valorant roster competing in the Valorant Challengers stage.
December 18 2022 G2 won the Blast Premier World Final 2022, defeating Team Liquid 2-0. m0NESY was crowned the HLTV.org MVP for the event.
November 2022 G2 Gozen won the VCT Game Changers Championship in Berlin, defeating Shopify Rebellion 3-2 and becoming the first team to win championships in both Valorant and CS:GO.
November 15 2022 KennyS departed the roster after 6 years, marking the first time since 2016 that the CS:GO division did not have a French member.
November 13 2022 Carlos Rodriguez was suspended from Riot-sanctioned competition, with a requirement to complete sensitivity and executive training to be allowed back to the LEC (League of Legends European Championship).
November 1 2022 G2 parted ways with team manager Niak after 6 years and announced Serbian manager Petar 'peca' Marković as the new team manager.
September 23 2022 Carlos Rodríguez resigned as CEO of G2 Esports amidst controversy surrounding his association with Andrew Tate, following a viral clip of him partying with Andrew and Tristan Tate.
September 1 2022 G2 announced their full female League of Legends team called G2 Hel.
August 16 2022 G2 signed Australian player Justin 'jks' Savage from Complexity Gaming. Aleksib was benched and Danish IGL Rasmus 'HooXi' Nielsen was signed from Copenhagen Flames.
August 10 2022 Longtime member JaCkz left G2 following a lackluster performance.
January 23 2022 G2 announced a completed new roster, replacing IGL nexa with Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen from OG Esports, benching AmaNEK, and adding m0NESY as primary AWPer. Rémy 'XTQZZZ' Quoniam joined as head coach.
January 3 2022 G2 acquired 16-year-old prodigy AWPer Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov from Natus Vincere Junior.
January 2 2022 Traded Dreaz for Franceschi 'Atomic' Massimo from Team Envy.
November 7 2021 G2 made their first appearance as Major finalists at the PGL Major Stockholm 2021, finishing second place to Natus Vincere.
October 2021 G2 announced their first-ever all-female Valorant team, G2 Gozen, led by Julia 'Juliano' Kiran.
July 6 2021 G2 Esports parted ways with Fortnite player Sean 'Coop' Cooper.
June 25 2021 Cista 'keloqz' Wassim was announced as the fifth team member, following pyth's self-benching two weeks earlier.
June 10 2021 G2 benches Kantoraketti and UUNO, and introduces Lucas 'Hungry' Reich and Jonas 'Jonka' Kaczmarzyk to the roster.
June 1 2021 G2 Esports returned to the Apex Legends scene by signing the former AimAssist roster, with Christopher 'BixLe' Dunbar joining as the new manager.
May 31 2021 G2 Atlantis Fortnite team was officially revealed, featuring a roster of players including Kevin 'LeTsHe' Fedjuschkin, Zach 'smqcked' Ebersole, Jesus 'Jelty' Navarez Espinoza, and Mack 'MackWood' Aesoph.
April 12 2021 Danish racing driver Dennis Lind was signed as Sim Racing Lead by G2 Esports.
March 2021 Pengu announces his retirement at age 23, and G2 subsequently adds Jordan 'Kayak' Morley to the roster.
March 18 2021 Dillon 'Rizzo' Rizzo announced his retirement from professional Rocket League, with his last event on 29 June 2021.
March 5 2021 G2 benched kennyS and brought back JaCkz into the active roster following underwhelming results.
2020 G2 Esports disbanded their PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds team, concluding their involvement in the PUBG competitive scene after three years.

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