SAW official announcement: Rifleman NOPEEj has been relegated to the bench, and his position will be temporarily filled by Jayy2s.

Portuguese CS2 team SAW announced on Friday that they have relegated Filip Diaz (ID: NOPEEj) to the bench.

The 25-year-old NOPEEj primarily plays as a rifler and has played for several top CS teams throughout his career, including Panthers, HD, For The Win, eXploit, Giants, OFFSET, SQUAD, Fourteen, GTZ, Secret, Rhyno, and RBLS. His greatest achievement during this time was winning the 8th season of the Portuguese Masters League with OFFSET.

NOPEEj officially joined SAW in July of this year during the team's roster rebuild. To date, he has played 62 maps for SAW, recording an average rating of 1.04, and won the Leon.bet Masters Season 1 championship with the team.

According to the official statement, NOPEEj's starting position will be taken over by 23-year-old Gonzalo Machado (ID: Jayy2s) for the remainder of the season. Jayy2s previously played for several local teams, including GTZ, Portugal Family, Rhyno, Rhyno YNG, and CALAOSCORNOS. After joining SAW in January, he played 57 maps for them. However, since July, he has been competing with SAW's reserve team in various tournaments.

After some personnel adjustments, SAW's current roster is as follows:

Commander/Rifleman: Christopher Fernandez (ID: MUTiRiS)

Sniper: João Vieira (ID: story)

Rifleman: Michel Pinto (ID: ewjerkz)

Rifleman: Adonis Nobre (ID: krazy)

Rifleman: Gonzalo Machado (ID: Jayy2s)

Interim Coach: Miguel Vydra (ID: ner0)

Substitute: Philippe Diaz (ID: NOPEEj)

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