Eternal Fire is a Turkish
esports
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organization founded on 13 August 2021. The organization has teams competing in ''
Counter-Strike 2
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'' and ''
Valorant
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''.
''Counter-Strike''
Eternal Fire's ''CS:GO'' team was announced on 13 August 2021, featuring four of the most notable Turkish players in ''CS:GO'' history—woxic,
XANTARES
İsmailcan Dörtkardeş (born 7 August 1995), better known as Xantares (stylized in all caps), is a Turkish professional ''Counter-Strike 2'' player for Aurora Gaming. Playing as an entry-fragger, Xantares is considered the best Turkish FPS play ...
, Calyx, and imoRR—and one Jordanian player.
Two months later, the Jordanian player, ISSAA, left the team and the organization became a fully Turkish roster. The team attended the
Antwerp 2022 Major, but did not advance to the playoff stage. In July 2022, Calyx left the team and was replaced by MAJ3R. A week later, xfl0ud was moved to the inactive lineup and replaced by Ahmet "paz" Karahoca. The move brought the core of
Space Soldiers
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The book coll ...
back together.
After failing to qualify for the
IEM Rio Major 2022
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, MAJ3R was removed from the team in October, while xfl0ud was brought back from inactivity. Later that month, paz requested to be benched for personal reasons, while coach Canpolat "hardstyle" Yıldıran was removed by the organisation itself. In early November, AWPer Özgür "woxic" Eker also benched himself, stating that he wanted to continue his career in an international team. Calyx and MAJ3R were brought back to fill in, while Sezgin "Fabre" Kalaycı was appointed as the new coach.
On 18 September 2024 Eternal fire announced their new Brawl Stars roster which consisted of players Ope, GuGu and Mebius. Eternal Fire were qualified for Brawl Stars World Finals 2024 where they finished 9-11th. On 13 December 2024 Mebius left the team.
2025
Eternal Fire had to sell their Counter-Strike team to the Serbia-based esports organization
Team Aurora on April 5, 2025, due to sponsor issues and political reasons. As a result, Eternal Fire participated in the PGL Bucharest 2025 tournament under the
Team Aurora name with their current CS2 roster on April 6, 2025.
Roster
''Valorant''
The ''Valorant'' roster of Eternal Fire was announced on 21 April 2024.
Roster
References
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Counter-Strike teams
Esports teams established in 2021
Valorant teams
Esports teams based in Turkey