The news comes only days after it was unveiled that Jonathan “Jonji” Carey would be standing in for Nathan “leaf” Orf at Chaos Esports Club for their journey through ESEA Season 34: Premier Division – North America. Meanwhile, his teammate Michael “dapr” Gulino, who had hinted before that he was thinking about transitioning to VALORANT, confirmed on Wednesday that he was leaving the CS:GO esports scene.

“Team [Bad News Bears] disbanded and ultimately I decided the best decision for me personally would be to switch over to Valorant instead of being in the bottom pro league loop I’ve been in for the last couple years – I wouldn’t trade all the memories good and bad for anything at the end of the day,” dapr said in a Twitter post.

Dapr is not the only CS:GO pro, nor the only one of his former teammates, to pursue a career in Riot Games’ new tactical first-person-shooter. In mid-April, the team suffered a huge blow when they parted ways with Austin “crashies” Roberts, who retired from the CS:GO scene and has since joined T1’s VALORANT roster.

It remains to be seen what will happen with dazzLe, Mitch “mitch” Semago and Peter “ptr” Gurney. DazzLe has already denied speculation he could be transitioning to VALORANT, while mitch and ptr have yet to make any official announcements about their future.

“I love counterstrike, no game can ever replace it for me,” said dazzLe.

“Even if the chances to make money are better in Valorant, I’m not going to switch as of right now. I’ll continue grinding the game I love.”

Bad News Bears’ core first came together in January 2019 and were offered contracts with Riot Squad in June that year. In August, Riot Squad signed Jonji and Pujan “FNS” Mehta, who helped the team reach new heights. They finished top-two at ESEA Season 32: Premier Division – North America and in December became the first NA team to reach the grand finals of the ESEA Season 32: Global Challenge, although they ended up losing to forZe.

FNS left in January this year and triggered the disbandment of Riot Squad, ushering ptr, mitch, Jonji and crashies to return to play under the Bad News Bears banner. They failed to register any notable success from that point on, although they made headlines in April when they represented FunPlus Phoenix at FLASHPOINT after the Chinese esports organisation��s deal with Heroic fell through. There, they finished in seventh-eighth place after losing to MAD Lions and Gen.G in round one of the playoffs.

Bad News Bears also secured a ticket for DreamHack Masters Spring 2020: North America after finishing top two in the closed qualifiers, but the disbandment means they will no longer take part at the tournament.

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Bad News Bears will take on FURIA in a BO1 match in ESEA MDL Season 31 North America on Friday evening.

FURIA are currently ranked third on the league leaderboard. They lost to TeamOne and MASSIVEimpact but managed to defeat Chris and the boys, ATK, Variance and Ascent. FURIA’s last 10 matches have resulted in nine wins, so it is safe to say they are in quite a good form.

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Bad News Bears, on the other hand, are only placed eighth in the ESEA MDL Season 31 NA standings, as they have only managed to win two matches out of four played. They won against MASSIVEimpact and Singularity and lost to TeamOne and Ascent.

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The upcoming match will be played on Mirage, which only slightly favours FURIA. They have played a total of 17 matches on this map in the past three months, winning 71 per cent of them. Bad News Bears are also quite proficient on this map, winning seven matches out of their last 10 played. The last time these two teams played on Mirage, Bad News Bears came out victorious, winning 16-14 in quite a close match.

FURIA and Bad News Bears have played a total of six maps in three matches between them. FURIA won all of three matches, taking five maps in total. The last time these two teams met was at the ESL One Cologne 2019 North America Closed Qualifier, where FURIA won the match 2-1. Bad News Bears took the first map, 16-14 on Mirage, but FURIA managed to come back 16-10 on Inferno and 19-16 on Overpass to win the match. They then won all the upcoming matches in the tournament, thus qualifying for ESL One Cologne 2019.

FURIA vs Bad News Bears betting predictions

FURIA are considered favourites at around -285.71, which is about fair. They are still the better team; however, the match could be quite close as both teams have Mirage in their map pool.

Bad News Bears came quite close to beating FURIA at the ESL One Cologne qualifiers, but they were ultimately defeated in a close match on Overpass that went to overtime and could have gone either way. The outsiders are priced around +220, which is far too high for a BO1 match on a map that both teams perform well on.

We recommend a value bet on Bad News Bears, as they have a legitimate chance to stage an upset.

Prediction: Bad News Bears to win – Best odds at BetOnline

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