Due to huNter-'s visa issues for rifler, coach TaZ will be participating the PGL Astana 2025 with G2 as a stand-in..

German Counter Strike 2 club G2 announced on Friday through its official X (Twitter) account that due to visa issues for rifler huNter-, coach TaZ will be participating the PGL Astana 2025 with G2 as a stand-in.

According to G2's official statement, huNter- will not be able to travel with the team to participate in the PGL Astana until his visa issues are completely resolved. During this spell, coach TaZ will replace him as a stand-in in the first few games of this tournament.

The following is the G2 team roster in this PGL Astana:

malbsMd - Coach

HeavyGod - Rifler

Snax - In-Game Leader / Rifleman

hades - AWP-er (on loan - formerly Monte)

TaZ - Head Coach / Stand-in

About huNter-

The 29-year-old huNter- was born on January 3, 1996 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He mainly plays as a rifler and has dual nationality of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. His cousin NiKo, who currently plays for Falcons, was also his teammate.

huNter- has been a Counter Strike 2 professional e-sports player since 2015. In his early years, he played for GamePub, iNation, Binary Dragons, Valiance and CR4ZY. He joined G2 in 2019.

Since becoming a member of G2, huNter- has won the BLAST Premier World Finals twice, as well as the Intel Extreme Masters Dallas, the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice, and the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne once each.

About TaZ

The 38-year-old TaZ was born in Poland on June 6, 1986. Before retiring, he mainly played as a In-Game Leader and rifler. He was a ace player for the Eastern European powerhouse Virtus.pro (VP). During which, he won the ESL Major Series 1 Katowice in 2014, the ELEAGUE Major Atlanta 2017, and the DreamHack Masters Las Vegas 2017.

After retiring in 2023, TaZ joined G2 as its head coach.

Under TaZ's leadership, G2 has won the BLAST Premier World Finals 2024 and Intel Extreme Masters Dallas 2024. Recently, the team also reached the 2025 PGL Bucharest finals, but lost 0:3 to Falcons and had to finish second.