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The Counter-Strike team has had their first practice days together with Liam “MaiL09” Tügel, and now they’re gearing up for a bootcamp in Norway.

We are inaugurating our new bootcamp location in Sandefjord, Norway at Komplett.no’s offices next week! Peter “stanislaw” Jarguz and his forces will gather in Norway on Sunday the 19th for an 8-day bootcamp before their first tournament of 2026’s second season – $60,000 Stake Pulse Beat 1 in Stockholm, Sweden, July 31st to August 5th.

Newly reinstated MaiL09 will officially represent Metizport again for the first time in eight months in Sweden, and the team heads into the tournament as the fourth seed after HOTU, Liquid and Acend. Metizport’s predicted group, according to the seeding, will be group D together with fnatic, BRUTE and Lilmix, starting on August 3rd. August 4th and 5th will then be dedicated for the Playoffs, before everyone heads out on the road again on August 6th.

But the team will not be heading home after Stake Pulse Beat 1. Instead they will fly directly to Paris for the Esports World Cup Qualifier, where up to 128 teams will compete for four spots in the Esports World Cup 2026 with a $2,000,000 prize pool. If Metizport manage to qualify, we’ll stay in France since the main event starts only 2 days after the qualifier, on August 12th.

Visiting Norway, Sweden and France in less than a month. Talk about starting the season off with a bang?