The Indian CS:GO scene is growing fast both in scale and quality. With ESL India Premiership, every CS:GO team in India has had a chance to compete against good teams. This has laid the foundation for the regular competitive scene in India.
Among the top teams, 5orgless – the ex-Signify squad has topped the chart in the latest Master League #1 with a perfect 7 victories in a row. However, the roster dissolved after various hardship, with Debanjan "DeathMakeR" Das going to Entity Gaming.
A young talent
Recently, Entity Gaming has made another move and announced another signing with Francisco 'escudo' Mascarenhas, a young gun from Team Brutality. The 15-year-old Macanese CS:GO player entered the scene at quite a young age. He came from Macau, China and played for Team Brutality in ESL India Premiership: Summer Phase of the Masters Cup.
escudo started playing Counter-Strike at the age of 10 when his dad bought a computer for his own office work. He first played CS:GO in the summer of 2016 with his friend. After watching competitive CS:GO in ESL Cologne 2016, he was motivated much by the victory of SK Gaming and decided to devote himself to the game. He even quit sports to play FACEIT online and got decent success and recognition from the community.
A promising future
escudo was pretty lucky to get full support from his parents as an Esports player. He has entered the competitive CS:GO scene since an early age. His first tenure was with Wanted Esports, a French organization. He would later join the Indian scene in Brutality this year alongside the likes of Ankit “V3nom” Panth and Aakash “RiX” More.
So far, he has achieved decent success with some notably placing in many tournaments:
2017
5th-8th - Macau G4 Tournament - (June)
2nd - Macau G4 Tournament - (July)
2018
5th-8th - eXTREMESLAND Elite Cup
2nd - Macau CESG & KOM Tournament
9th-16th - CORSAIR DreamHack Stockholm Qualifier
2019
17th-32nd - AOES Epics Series Tournament
33rd-64th - ESL One Cologne 2019 Qualifier
8th - ESL India Premiership CS:GO Summer Masters
With the addition of escudo, Entity Gaming now has 6 members to keep track and make changes when necessary. With the signing of escudo, Entity Gaming aims at “nurturing escudo's raw talent and hone his skills". This is truly a good opportunity for the young talent to develop his talent in one of the best Indian Esports organizations.
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