Bad News Eagles Are Coming Back, and Their Website Already Has a Date

Bad News Eagles are coming back. The Kosovar team that knocked the reigning Major champions out of Rio in 2022 posted a teaser on Saturday. It comes more than a year after the team disbanded.

“A new era. A new BNE. Coming soon.” It went up on X at 14:03 CET on November 7, with a link to a new website. BNE has not announced any players, staff or official date.

Latest Bad News Eagles news: what the teaser says

Three short lines, and the post itself gives nothing else away. The one concrete detail sits on the website it links to. According to Dust2 Brasil, the site lists November 29 as the date for a new lineup announcement. BNE has not repeated that date on X, so treat it as the plan rather than a promise.

The post does not name a game either. It hardly needs to, since BNE has only ever competed in Counter-Strike.

The wording is worth reading twice. “A new BNE” is not how you would announce the old five getting back together. It sounds more like the name, the badge and the Kosovar story coming back with a roster that is still to be revealed. That is our reading, not a confirmation, and November 29 should settle it.

Why Bad News Eagles mattered

In April 2022, BNE beat SINNERS 2-1 in Bucharest and became the first team from Kosovo to qualify for a Major. They did it without an organisation behind them, and Prime Minister Albin Kurti congratulated them on Instagram.

Then they kept doing it. The same five players, SENER1, gxx-, juanflatroo, sinnopsyy and rigoN, reached three Majors in a row.

Major	Place	What happened
PGL Major Antwerp 2022	15-16th	The first Major for a team from Kosovo
IEM Rio Major 2022	12-14th	3-0 in the Challengers Stage, then knocked out FaZe
BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023	12-14th	A third straight Major

Rio is the one people remember. FaZe arrived as reigning champions after winning Antwerp. In the Legends Stage, with both teams one loss away from going home, BNE beat them and sent the champions out.

From Guild Eagles to the 2025 break-up

• November 14, 2023: Guild Esports signs the roster, which plays as Guild Eagles and narrowly misses PGL Major Copenhagen
• May 2024: Guild parts ways with the team, and the five go separate ways
• February 1, 2025: the original five reunite under the Bad News Eagles name, again without an organisation
• February 18, 2025: Brazilian coach peacemaker joins
• End of June 2025: BNE announces it will disband after one last event, the IESF World Championship

The months between Guild and the reunion show how far apart they had drifted. rigoN spent the rest of 2024 with BIG. juanflatroo and sinnopsyy played together for Into the Breach, SENER1 tried to reach a Major with DRILLAS, and gxx- joined aimclub in December.

The reunion lasted five months. Results never came back to Major level. The farewell post was honest about why: “These past few months were tough and we couldn’t find us improving as a team.”

Where the five went after June 2025

ENCE signed rigoN in July 2025 and benched gla1ve to make room for him. SENER1, juanflatroo and sinnopsyy carried on together under the M1X tag.

The teaser names none of the five, and BNE has not said whether any of them are involved.

What happens on November 29

If the date on the website holds, BNE reveals the new lineup at the end of the month. Three things will tell you what kind of comeback this is:

• Whether the roster is Kosovar, which is the whole point of the name
• Whether an organisation is behind it this time, after two runs without one
• Whether any of the five who beat FaZe in Rio are back

Bad News Eagles FAQ

Are Bad News Eagles coming back?

Yes. BNE teased a return on X on November 7, 2026, with the line “A new era. A new BNE. Coming soon.” and a link to a new website.

When will the new BNE roster be announced?

The new website reportedly lists November 29, according to Dust2 Brasil. BNE has not confirmed the date in a post of its own.

Who played for BNE?

The core five were SENER1, gxx-, juanflatroo, sinnopsyy and rigoN. They reached three Majors together between 2022 and 2023.

Why did BNE disband in 2025?

The 2025 reunion did not produce results. The team said it could not find a way to improve and would play one last event, the IESF World Championship, before shutting down.

What was BNE’s best result?

The IEM Rio Major 2022. BNE finished 12-14th and knocked out FaZe, who had won the previous Major in Antwerp.

We will update this article when BNE names its roster. The team’s full results history is on HLTV, and the rest of the off-season is in our CS2 section.