[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":317},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-45714":3},{"id":4,"slug":5,"url":6,"title":7,"lead":8,"authors":9,"date":11,"dateText":12,"hero":13,"flag":22,"tags":25,"players":28,"commentCount":32,"leadHtml":8,"segments":33,"comments":154},45714,"where-are-they-now-pashabmw","\u002Fnews\u002F45714\u002Fwhere-are-they-now-pashabmw","Where are they now: PashaBMW","The Russian rifler, a seven-time MVP who peaked in the online era with Virtus.pro and finally won on stage with Volna, has spent almost two years without a team, but insists that his playing career is not over.",[10],"MarekCS",1792339200000,"18-10-2026 18:00",{"id":14,"src":15,"w800":16,"thumb":17,"preview":18,"width":19,"height":20,"credit":21},90017,"\u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F90017.jpg","\u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F90017-800.jpg","\u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F90017-400.jpg","\u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F90017-500.jpg",1600,1067,"PashaBMW",{"code":23,"name":24},"RU","Russia",[26,27],"feature","where are they now",[29,30,31],20226,20227,20239,14,[34,37,152],{"kind":35,"html":36},"html","\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">A Flashpoint champion, the owner of four MVP medals in four consecutive events, and one of the few players to collect six of them before ever setting foot on a big LAN stage, few careers of the last decade have been as hard to categorize as that of \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fplayer\u002F20226\u002Fpashabmw\" class=\"player-name\">Pavel \u003Cspan class=\"player-nick\">\"⁠PashaBMW⁠\"\u003C\u002Fspan> Tishchenko\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">Veterans remember him as the teenager who replaced AdreN in Virtus.pro in the spring of 2020 and won four titles in a row from a bootcamp. Tier-two regulars know him from four years of CCT and ESL Challenger League runs with Kometa and Volna. Newer fans may only know him from the Volna side that won YaLLa Compass in 2024, the biggest of his sixteen titles and the last big one before an absence that is now approaching two years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">His story begins in 2018 with \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fteam\u002F10127\u002Fbimmer-gaming\">Bimmer Gaming\u003C\u002Fa>, a Russian tier-three team assembled by \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fplayer\u002F20227\u002Fkombat\" class=\"player-name\">Kirill \u003Cspan class=\"player-nick\">\"⁠kombat⁠\"\u003C\u002Fspan> Somov\u003C\u002Fa>. The five spent a year and a half in CIS open qualifiers, winning a single online cup along the way, and PashaBMW, then 16, quickly became the player the rest of the team was built around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">"Pasha was always the best player in our team, from the first practice," says kombat, who left competitive Counter-Strike in 2020 and now works outside of esports. "We knew he would leave at some point. For a team like ours it was normal, the best player goes to a better team. We were only surprised how fast it happened."\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"image-con\">\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F90011-800.jpg\" srcset=\"\u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F90011-800.jpg 800w, \u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F90011.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 975px) 600px, 100vw\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" alt=\"Two weeks as a stand-in for Heroic in April 2020 changed the course of PashaBMW's career\" loading=\"lazy\">\u003Cdiv class=\"imagetext\">Two weeks as a stand-in for Heroic in April 2020 changed the course of PashaBMW's career (\u003Cem>Photo credit: Heroic\u003C\u002Fem>)\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">The exit came in April 2020, when Heroic needed a fifth player for ESL One: Road to Rio. Two weeks and a 1.37 rating later, PashaBMW was signing for Virtus.pro, and by January he had three MVP medals, a spot in the HLTV Top 20 at 17th, and a reputation as one of the most dangerous online players in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ca class=\"news-read-more-1\" href=\"\u002Fnews\u002F30912\u002Ftop-20-players-of-2020-pashabmw-17\">\u003Cdiv class=\"news-read-more-left\">\u003Cimg class=\"news-read-more-image\" src=\"\u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F90012-400.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003Cdiv class=\"news-read-more-right\">\u003Cdiv class=\"news-read-more-1-top\">Read more\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003Cdiv class=\"news-read-more-1-bottom\">Top 20 players of 2020: PashaBMW (17)\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">"2020 was a strange year to have your best year," PashaBMW reflects. "Everybody was at home, nobody knew when LANs would come back, and we were playing almost every week from the bootcamp. For me it was perfect, because I had a lot of time to practice. But I always had this feeling that something was missing, that people would say it doesn't count."\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"featured-quote\">\u003Cdiv class=\"featured-quote-quote\">I always had this feeling that something was missing, that people would say it doesn't count\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003Cdiv class=\"featured-quote-author\">\u003Ca href=\"\u002Fplayer\u002F20226\u002Fpashabmw\" class=\"player-name\">Pavel \u003Cspan class=\"player-nick\">\"⁠PashaBMW⁠\"\u003C\u002Fspan> Tishchenko\u003C\u002Fa> on the online era\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">The Virtus.pro chapter ended in March 2021, six weeks after a fourth straight title at cs_summit 7. PashaBMW still does not elaborate on the exit, other than to say it was "a decision of the club" that he accepted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">What followed were almost four years in the tier-two scene that produced more silverware than headlines, broken up only by short stand-in spells with Spirit in 2021 and Cloud9 in 2024. With Kometa he won four titles, from IronWar in his first summer to CCT Central Europe Series 1, where he collected another MVP medal, and was named an EVP at three of the big CIS events of 2021. With Volna he added seven more titles, two more MVP medals, an EVP, and, in June 2024, the one thing his career had been missing: a LAN title.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"image-con\">\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F90010-800.jpg\" srcset=\"\u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F90010-800.jpg 800w, \u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F90010.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 975px) 600px, 100vw\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" alt=\"PashaBMW won four titles with Kometa, but never played a big LAN in the purple jersey\" loading=\"lazy\">\u003Cdiv class=\"imagetext\">PashaBMW won four titles with Kometa, but never played a big LAN in the purple jersey (\u003Cem>Photo credit: CCT\u003C\u002Fem>)\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">YaLLa Compass 2024 in Abu Dhabi was his first big LAN, six years after his debut with Bimmer Gaming. He won it, was named MVP after a 1.55-rated tournament, and still names it as the best week of his career.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">"When we won the final I didn't know what to do with my hands," he says. "I had played so many finals online, you win and you take off the headphones and you are in the same room. In Abu Dhabi there were thousands of people. I think about that moment a lot."\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"image-con\">\u003Ca href=\"\u002Fgallery\u002Fview\u002F205702\" class=\"image-link\">\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F205702-800.jpg\" srcset=\"\u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F205702-800.jpg 800w, \u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F205702.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 975px) 600px, 100vw\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" alt=\"PashaBMW in Abu Dhabi, the first and so far only big LAN of his career\" loading=\"lazy\">\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cdiv class=\"imagetext\">PashaBMW in Abu Dhabi, the first and so far only big LAN of his career\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">Six months later, Volna let him go. The organization's general manager, Askar Nurgaliyev, framed it as a move towards youth, and PashaBMW, then 22, started looking for a team at the worst possible moment of the calendar, with rosters locked for the start of the 2025 season.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">He has been looking ever since. PashaBMW has kept playing on FACEIT, practiced with several mixes, and, according to people close to him, turned down offers from teams outside the top 50 that did not match what he was looking for. Volna, meanwhile, have not played an official match since his departure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">"I didn't stop," he says. "I play every day, I watch a lot of matches, and in the last months I started to practice with a team again. My aim is the same, maybe the game sense is even better, because I see the game from outside. What I need now is a real team and real matches."\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">Not everyone from his past is still in the game. \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fplayer\u002F20239\u002Fshakal\" class=\"player-name\">Artem \u003Cspan class=\"player-nick\">\"⁠SHAKAL⁠\"\u003C\u002Fspan> Zuev\u003C\u002Fa>, the former Bimmer Gaming AWPer whose breakout PashaBMW predicted in our Top 20 series in 2021, never made it to a bigger team, and now coaches aspiring players online.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">"Pasha always believed in me more than I believed in myself," SHAKAL says. "It didn't work out for me as a player, but I'm happy that at least one of us made it. I think he still has a lot to give."\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">Here is the full picture of PashaBMW's career on record, year by year:\u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"kind":38,"widget":39},"stats",{"title":40,"player":41,"firstColumn":43,"secondColumn":44,"ratingLabel":45,"extraLabel":46,"rows":47},"Career stats by year",{"nick":21,"flag":42},{"code":23,"name":24},"Year","Team (maps)","Rating 2.0","Impact",[48,68,87,106,120,136],{"label":49,"teamName":50,"teamLogo":51,"place":53,"rating":54,"adr":57,"kpr":59,"dpr":61,"kast":64,"extra":66,"award":63},"2019","Bimmer Gaming",{"day":52,"night":52},"\u002Fimg\u002Fteams\u002Fbimmer-gaming.png","59",{"text":55,"tone":56},"1.22","won",{"text":58,"tone":56},"89.3",{"text":60,"tone":56},"0.82",{"text":62,"tone":63},"0.64","",{"text":65,"tone":56},"74.8%",{"text":67,"tone":56},"1.39",{"label":69,"teamName":70,"teamLogo":71,"place":73,"rating":74,"adr":76,"kpr":78,"dpr":80,"kast":82,"extra":84,"award":86},"2020","Heroic, Virtus.pro",{"day":72,"night":72},"\u002Fimg\u002Fteams\u002Fvirtuspro-2020.svg","135",{"text":75,"tone":56},"1.33",{"text":77,"tone":56},"95.9",{"text":79,"tone":56},"0.88",{"text":81,"tone":56},"0.62",{"text":83,"tone":56},"78.2%",{"text":85,"tone":56},"1.52","3× MVP",{"label":88,"teamName":89,"teamLogo":90,"place":92,"rating":93,"adr":95,"kpr":97,"dpr":99,"kast":101,"extra":103,"award":105},"2021","Virtus.pro, Kometa, Spirit",{"day":91,"night":91},"\u002Fimg\u002Fteams\u002Fkometa.png","119",{"text":94,"tone":56},"1.32",{"text":96,"tone":56},"95.0",{"text":98,"tone":56},"0.86",{"text":100,"tone":56},"0.60",{"text":102,"tone":56},"77.7%",{"text":104,"tone":56},"1.48","1× MVP",{"label":107,"teamName":108,"teamLogo":109,"place":110,"rating":111,"adr":112,"kpr":114,"dpr":115,"kast":117,"extra":119,"award":105},"2022","Kometa",{"day":91,"night":91},"124",{"text":75,"tone":56},{"text":113,"tone":56},"96.5",{"text":79,"tone":56},{"text":116,"tone":56},"0.61",{"text":118,"tone":56},"77.0%",{"text":85,"tone":56},{"label":121,"teamName":122,"teamLogo":123,"place":125,"rating":126,"adr":127,"kpr":129,"dpr":131,"kast":132,"extra":134,"award":105},"2023","Volna",{"day":124,"night":124},"\u002Fimg\u002Fteams\u002Fvolna.png","126",{"text":75,"tone":56},{"text":128,"tone":56},"95.8",{"text":130,"tone":56},"0.87",{"text":81,"tone":56},{"text":133,"tone":56},"78.1%",{"text":135,"tone":56},"1.50",{"label":137,"teamName":138,"teamLogo":139,"place":140,"rating":141,"adr":143,"kpr":145,"dpr":147,"kast":148,"extra":150,"award":105},"2024","Volna, Cloud9",{"day":124,"night":124},"136",{"text":142,"tone":56},"1.35",{"text":144,"tone":56},"97.3",{"text":146,"tone":56},"0.89",{"text":116,"tone":56},{"text":149,"tone":56},"77.6%",{"text":151,"tone":56},"1.55",{"kind":35,"html":153},"\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">As for a comeback, PashaBMW chooses his words carefully. Sources close to the player tell HLTV that at least three teams have made contact since the summer, though none of the talks are believed to be at an advanced stage, and the player himself will neither confirm nor deny anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">"I can't say anything about teams," he says. "But I am ready. If the right project comes, I will be there."\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ca class=\"news-read-more-1\" href=\"\u002Fnews\u002F41204\u002Fpashabmw-i-am-looking-for-a-team\">\u003Cdiv class=\"news-read-more-left\">\u003Cimg class=\"news-read-more-image\" src=\"\u002Fimg\u002Fgallery\u002F90016-400.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003Cdiv class=\"news-read-more-right\">\u003Cdiv class=\"news-read-more-1-top\">Read more\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003Cdiv class=\"news-read-more-1-bottom\">PashaBMW: "I am looking for a team"\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">Asked where he sees himself a year from now, PashaBMW does not hesitate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"news-block\">"On stage. That's the only place I want to be."\u003C\u002Fp>\n",[155,181,192,205,218,227,235,254,272,282,305],{"id":156,"num":157,"author":158,"country":159,"fan":160,"text":166,"time":167,"edited":168,"plus":169,"replies":170},"r71884698",1,"yerbol",{"code":23,"name":24},{"kind":161,"player":162},"player",{"id":163,"slug":164,"nick":164,"external":165},7998,"s1mple",true,"he's 24, why is this a \"where are they now\"",1792365338537,false,31,[171],{"id":172,"num":173,"author":174,"country":175,"text":178,"time":179,"edited":168,"plus":173,"replies":180},"r71885315",2,"timeout_tactician",{"code":176,"name":177},"EE","Estonia","because nobody knows where he is, that's the format",1792369874135,[],{"id":182,"num":183,"author":184,"country":185,"text":188,"time":189,"edited":168,"plus":190,"replies":191},"r71886695",3,"meowth",{"code":186,"name":187},"AU","Australia","4 MVPs in a row in 2020 and now no team, crazy how fast CS moves",1792380021394,8,[],{"id":193,"num":194,"author":195,"country":196,"fan":199,"text":202,"time":203,"edited":168,"plus":190,"replies":204},"r71890097",4,"apps_rush",{"code":197,"name":198},"KZ","Kazakhstan",{"kind":161,"player":200},{"id":29,"slug":201,"nick":21,"external":168},"pashabmw","PashaBMW comeback 2027",1792405046512,[],{"id":206,"num":207,"author":208,"country":209,"fan":212,"text":214,"time":215,"edited":168,"plus":216,"replies":217},"r71891342",5,"tomkoo",{"code":210,"name":211},"BY","Belarus",{"kind":161,"player":213},{"id":163,"slug":164,"nick":164,"external":165},"the Abu Dhabi part is so real",1792414202512,33,[],{"id":219,"num":220,"author":221,"country":222,"text":223,"time":224,"edited":168,"plus":225,"replies":226},"r71895743",6,"frezzyy",{"code":23,"name":24},"\"a decision of the club\" still not saying anything after 5 years lol",1792446573656,13,[],{"id":228,"num":229,"author":230,"country":231,"text":232,"time":233,"edited":168,"plus":194,"replies":234},"r71898424",7,"smoke_criminal",{"code":186,"name":187},"SHAKAL quote is wholesome",1792466290851,[],{"id":236,"num":190,"author":237,"country":238,"text":241,"time":242,"edited":168,"plus":225,"replies":243},"r71899505","almaty_hype",{"code":239,"name":240},"NO","Norway","he was so good online in 2020, people forget",1792474238785,[244],{"id":245,"num":246,"author":247,"country":248,"text":251,"time":252,"edited":168,"plus":173,"replies":253},"r71900322",9,"pixel_smoke",{"code":249,"name":250},"MN","Mongolia","and he won a LAN MVP in 2024",1792480246831,[],{"id":255,"num":256,"author":257,"country":258,"fan":261,"text":268,"time":269,"edited":168,"plus":270,"replies":271},"r71903852",10,"olegator",{"code":259,"name":260},"PT","Portugal",{"kind":262,"team":263},"team",{"id":264,"slug":265,"name":266,"external":165,"logo":267},5378,"virtuspro","Virtus.pro",{"day":72,"night":72},"someone sign him, tier 2 needs players like this",1792506211695,0,[],{"id":273,"num":274,"author":275,"country":276,"text":279,"time":280,"edited":168,"plus":270,"replies":281},"r71905224",11,"ivy_lurker",{"code":277,"name":278},"UA","Ukraine","hope to see him on a LAN again",1792516301788,[],{"id":283,"num":284,"author":285,"country":286,"fan":287,"text":292,"time":293,"edited":168,"plus":294,"replies":295},"r71911414",12,"olli_",{"code":23,"name":24},{"kind":262,"team":288},{"id":289,"slug":290,"name":108,"external":168,"logo":291},11014,"kometa",{"day":91,"night":91},"best WATN in a while",1792561825354,19,[296],{"id":297,"num":225,"author":298,"country":299,"text":302,"time":303,"edited":168,"plus":270,"replies":304},"r71912153","flashbanged",{"code":300,"name":301},"BR","Brazil","Fifflaren one was better but this is good too",1792567263385,[],{"id":306,"num":32,"author":307,"country":308,"fan":309,"text":314,"time":315,"edited":168,"plus":270,"replies":316},"r71915818","window_merchant",{"code":23,"name":24},{"kind":161,"player":310},{"id":311,"slug":312,"nick":313,"external":165},13915,"yekindar","YEKINDAR","1.32 career rating and we're doing \"where are they now\" pieces. sign him",1792594221360,[],1792595748196]