Envy Tease CS2 Return as 3DMAX Roster Deal Reportedly Nears

Envy have hinted at a Counter-Strike 2 comeback with a video on X captioned “The bomb has been planted”, posted straight after the 3DMAX roster, they are reportedly set to acquire, won Logitech G Play Connect in Warsaw on 23 September. The North American organisation hasn’t named a roster yet, but the teaser followed closely on reports linking Envy to the French side.

The bomb has been planted pic.twitter.com/gqAM5gTaMQ

— ENVY (@Envy) September 23, 2026

Those reports come from Sheep Esports, whose sources said days before the teaser that Envy are set to sign all five 3DMAX players, along with the ranking points attached to the lineup. Neither Envy nor 3DMAX have confirmed the transfer. If it goes ahead, it would be Envy’s first Counter-Strike team since January 2021, when the organisation disbanded its roster and put the division on hold.

What Sheep Esports Reported About the 3DMAX Deal

According to Sheep Esports, Envy would take over captain Bryan “Maka” Canda, Lucas “Lucky” Chastang, Filip “Graviti” Brankovic, Kévin “misutaaa” Rabier and Jeremy “Kursy” Gast, plus the lineup’s points in the Valve Regional Standings (VRS), the ranking system that decides Major invitations. The five have played together since July 2026, when Kursy joined. French outlet lasourcegg had reported the same rumour before Sheep Esports did.

The players’ departure follows months of trouble at 3DMAX. Sheep Esports has reported extensively on unpaid salaries, prize money and sticker earnings at the club, with missed payments starting well before this season. Other suitors, Team Heretics among them, had earlier offered to buy the roster while also taking on part of 3DMAX’s debts. Envy, per Sheep Esports, would take on none of those debts and would acquire only the players and their VRS points. That makes Envy’s reported terms cleaner than the earlier offers: the organisation gets a ranked roster, and the financial problems stay with 3DMAX.

3DMAX also have two benched players, Pierre “Ex3rcice” Bulinge and Alexandre “bodyy” Pianaro. Bodyy is currently on loan at OG Esports.

3DMAX Win Logitech G Play Connect in Warsaw

Five maps and nearly seven hours settled the Logitech G Play Connect grand final, which 3DMAX won 3-2 over Luminosity on 23 September. 3DMAX took Cache 13-11 and Dust2 19-16 in overtime, then dropped Ancient 15-19 and Inferno 8-13 before closing out Nuke 16-13 in overtime to stop the reverse sweep. It was the French side’s second title this month, after NODWIN Clutch Series 11.

The group stage was far shakier. Losses to Inner Circle and Liquid left 3DMAX in a three-way tie with BBL and EYEBALLERS, and they came through in second place before winning two tight three-map series against M80 and Inner Circle.

Stage	Date	Opponent	3DMAX Result
Group stage	18 September	EYEBALLERS	Won 19-17
Group stage	18 September	Inner Circle	Lost 9-13
Group stage	18 September	BBL	Won 16-14
Group stage	18 September	Liquid	Lost 6-13
Group stage	19 September	INFINITE	Won 13-7
Playoffs	19 September	M80	Won 2-1
Playoffs	23 September	Inner Circle	Won 2-1
Grand final	23 September	Luminosity	Won 3-2

Maka carried the final. His 1.32 rating across the five maps was the best on the server, ahead of Luminosity’s Aurélien “afro” Drapier on 1.17, and he was the only 3DMAX player to finish with more kills than deaths by a clear margin. ADR is average damage per round.

Player	K-D	ADR	Rating
Maka	111-82	88.2	1.32
misutaaa	93-97	73.2	1.07
Kursy	104-98	69.1	1.03
Graviti	85-104	61.7	0.96
Lucky	82-99	67.8	0.85

The title earned 3DMAX 214 Valve points. Since Sheep Esports reported that the VRS points are part of what Envy are acquiring, the Warsaw win added to the value of the asset in the reported deal just as Envy posted their teaser.

Envy’s Counter-Strike History and 2015 Major Title

Envy’s first Counter-Strike roster was also made up of five French players. The organisation, founded around Call of Duty esports and known at the time as Team EnVyUs, entered Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in February 2015 by signing the former LDLC lineup of Nathan “NBK-” Schmitt, Richard “shox” Papillon, Fabien “kioShiMa” Fiey, Vincent “Happy” Schopenhauer and Edouard “SmithZz” Dubourdeaux.

That team reached the grand final of ESL One Cologne 2015, where it finished second to fnatic. By DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015, Kenny “kennyS” Schrub and Dan “apEX” Madesclaire had joined, and Envy beat NAVI 2-0 in the final, winning Train 16-14 and Cobblestone 16-5, to become Major champions. The same year brought wins at IEM Gamescom, DreamHack Open London and Gfinity Champion of Champions, and Envy added the WESG 2016 World Finals title and its $800,000 first prize after a 2-0 final against Kinguin.

Envy later moved on from that core and cycled through several rosters. In January 2021, the organisation transfer-listed its entire active team, then disbanded it and put the division on hold, leaving the brand out of Counter-Strike for more than five years.

3DMAX’s Path to PGL Major Singapore

This year has been the weakest in 3DMAX’s recent run. The club had qualified for three consecutive Majors, finishing in the 12th to 14th range each time after falling just short of the playoffs, before narrowly missing the Cologne Major in July. Sheep Esports linked that slide to the club’s internal problems and described the roster as having dropped outside the global top 30 in Valve’s most recent official standings.

The September titles have reversed some of that. The 214 points from Warsaw put 3DMAX 18th among European teams and inside the qualification places for PGL Major Singapore, which starts in late November, seven points behind 17th-placed Luminosity.

Maka’s side head to Belgrade next for the $100,000 1win Private Club Season 1, which starts on 25 September. Envy have yet to announce the lineup that will play under their name.