Why mzinho Joined BC.Game, “Maybe I Should Go International For a New Experience”

Ayush “mzinho” Batbold has explained why he left The MongolZ to sign for BC.Game, and his first answer to the offer was no. In an interview shared by the organisation on 18 July 2026, the 19-year-old rifler traced his decision to a MongolZ roster reshuffle and two separate approaches from his countryman and “lifetime friend” Azbayar “Senzu” Munkhbold.

Why did @Mzinhocs decide to join BC Game? 🤔

Full interview releasing on our YouTube channel next week 🙌 pic.twitter.com/DdUzmyqTOH

— BC Game Esports (@BCGameEsports) July 17, 2026

The account fills in the reasoning behind a signing that completed BC.Game’s rebuilt Counter-Strike 2 roster earlier this month, and it lands a fuller picture than the confirmation alone offered.

mzinho Said No The First Time

By mzinho’s telling, Senzu approached him early and was turned down. “Senzu asked me before, and I just told him, ‘Next time, not this time,'” the rifler said. What shifted the answer was a change inside his own team. mzinho said he heard that teammate Cobrazera would be moving to the bench for the following season, and read that as the start of a wider rebuild.

“I heard about Cobrazera will be moving to the bench next season, so I decided that if we had one more new player, everything would start from the beginning,” he said. “Maybe I should go international for a new experience.” Faced with a MongolZ side entering its own transition, the pull of a first move abroad outweighed staying to rebuild at home.

The second ask closed it. mzinho said Senzu returned with a deadline attached: “Okay, I’m asking you one last time. Last time for this season.” In his words, “It kind of linked up, and I said, ‘Okay.'”

Read More: BC.Game Sign mzinho From The MongolZ To Complete New CS2 Roster

The Reunion With Senzu Was Not Straightforward

The friendship driving the move had been split apart twice over in the months before. The MongolZ benched Senzu in a shock call in October 2025, and he spent the first half of 2026 on the move, first a loan spell at Passion UA, then a loan to BC.Game from late April.

That BC.Game stint nearly ended the reunion before it started. Senzu’s loan expired in June, and on 21 June BC.Game announced his departure, with the player stating publicly he had an offer from a “top-10 team” and wanted somewhere that gave him “space and freedom.” Only hours later, the organisation reversed course and confirmed it had struck a deal with The MongolZ for Senzu’s permanent transfer. mzinho’s first “not this time” reply had come while that future was still unsettled; by the time the second ask arrived, Senzu’s own place at BC.Game was locked in.

What mzinho Left Behind At The MongolZ

The decision carried real weight because of what mzinho was walking away from. He broke out with The MongolZ after joining in August 2022 and played five Majors across his tenure, finishing as a runner-up at the BLAST.tv Austin Major and winning a historic first Big Event trophy for Mongolia at Esports World Cup 2025.

BC.Game is his first international team, a jump that requires him to communicate in English and adapt to a lineup built around Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev, Denis “electroNic” Sharipov and new in-game leader Emil “Magisk” Reif. His exit also lands as a heavy blow to The MongolZ, who had already been struggling for results since losing Senzu and now face limited replacement options within Mongolia.

The Squad mzinho Chose To Join

The “fresh start” mzinho described is a literal one in competitive terms. BC.Game spent the first half of 2026 tearing the roster down, benching the entire former SAW core of MUTiRiS, krazy and aragornN in April before cycling through Senzu’s loan. During that loan the team went winless, exiting both IEM Atlanta and the CS Asia Championships without a map, playing with analyst ScrunK standing in.

The completed five now carries serious pedigree but starts with nothing on the board. With an entirely new core, BC.Game hold zero Valve Regional Standings points and no ranking, which means grinding open qualifiers to climb back into invite range for the larger events. That is the rebuild mzinho signed up for, and CEO Ali Muhanned’s stated goal of reaching the world’s top five by the end of the year now rests on the completed roster proving it, starting from the bottom of the standings.

The full interview explaining mzinho’s move is scheduled for release on BC.Game’s YouTube channel in the week following 18 July, which may add further detail to the reasoning behind one of the summer’s more consequential Mongolian transfers.