After one season with BBL Esports BBL Esports Europe Rank #42 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen sociablEE Volkan Yonal chiwa Egor Stepanyuk PROFEK Dawid Święć LewN Burak Alkan , pAura announced that he will be allowed to explore options with a new team, effectively ending his second stint with the Turkish organization.
“Even though our talks with BBL for 2025 is ongoing, they have allowed me to explore my options as a restricted free agent,” he said.
The sentinel player, who in 2024 expanded to play a number of initiator roles, was BBL's in-game leader this past year.
This past season, BBL failed to qualify for the knockout rounds of any competitions they were in. A 3-3 start in EMEA Stage 1 saw them finish in a five-way tie on win-loss record in Group Alpha, but they finished fourth and missed out on playoffs.
In EMEA Stage 2, they went 1-3 and again narrowly missed out on playoffs, finishing with the same overall record as Karmine Corp Karmine Corp Europe Rank #31 saadhak Matias Delipetro Avez Hazem Khaled Elite Efe Teber SUYGETSU Dmitry Ilyushin marteen Martin Pátek but finishing behind them by two maps. BBL ended their 2024 season ranked 7th in Europe.
pAura rejoined BBL at the end of the 2023 season after a successful season with Turkish team S2G Esports S2G Esports Europe Rank #134 pAura Melih Karaduran reazy Kaan Ürpek Turko Mehmet Özen DeepMans Yiğithan Kesici , which saw them fall short of reaching EMEA Ascension, being eliminated in the play-ins.
Prior to S2G, he also played for Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #1 MiniBoo Dominykas Lukaševičius Wo0t Mert Alkan RieNs Enes Ecirli benjyfishy Benjamin David Fish Boo Ričardas Lukaševičius , and Papara SuperMassive Papara SuperMassive Europe Rank #13 skylen Asil Yalçın ip0TT Yiğit Karadeniz VenTT Emre Bozkurt Celasun Emir Celasun umu7 Umut Pekdoğan . In 2021 with Papara SuperMassive, he reached Masters Berlin, becoming the first team to represent Turkey on the international stage. In the group stage, they eliminated Paper Rex Paper Rex Asia-Pacific Rank #3 mindfreak Aaron Leonhart Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov , but eventually fell to Acend Acend Inactive ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk in the group stages.
Earlier in 2021 with Team Heretics, he finished second at Europe Stage 1 Masters, losing to Acend, the eventual Champions Berlins winners, in the grand final.
“I am highly motivated & dedicated to win. Open to all regions as IGL or Sentinel/Flex, depending on the project,” he said in his announcement.
BBL Esports is now: