SunPayus officially leaves G2 after fourteen months: "we needed someone more aggressive"

Álvaro "SunPayus" García's spell at G2 is over. The organisation announced his departure on 29 September, ending fourteen months under contract — the last three of them spent entirely on the bench. The 27-year-old Spanish AWPer is now a free agent.

From m0NESY's replacement to reserve

SunPayus joined G2 in July 2025 with an awkward brief: replace m0NESY, one of the most sought-after snipers in the world. The start was promising and the team won BLAST Open London 2025, but consistency never followed.

In June 2026 the club moved him out of the starting five and brought in Artem "r1nkle" Moroz. He hasn't played an official map since, and his absence was most visible at the IEM Cologne Major, which he watched from the sidelines.

The reason, according to the coaching staff

G2 coach Eetu "sAw" Saha put it into words, and the explanation is less about individual level than about fit: "we needed someone more aggressive," because the team already had other passive players.

That nuance is worth underlining, because SunPayus took a fairly harsh beating from the community for months. Statistically he held his place among the circuit's solid AWPers without reaching the elite; the actual problem was role, inside a system asking for something else.

A career that doesn't start here

It's worth remembering where he came from. SunPayus made his name at Movistar Riders, broke out at ENCE — where he won IEM Dallas 2023 and HLTV placed him among the best players of that year — and then passed through Falcons and Heroic before signing for G2. Ten teams since 2019 in all, and around $406,000 in prize money.

That Heroic spell also left something relevant to his future: it's where he worked surrounded by young players, which fits the kind of project a veteran tends to look for at this stage.

So, FUT?

Reports circulating for days place him at FUT, taking the spot of Nikita "cmtry" Samolotov, whose form has been poor — a 0.95 rating across his last 30 maps. It adds up: a team that needs a reliable AWPer and a player who needs minutes.

That said, it's worth being clear about what's confirmed and what isn't. The G2 exit is official. The FUT move, as of today, is sourced reporting awaiting an announcement, so it's worth waiting for the statement before treating it as done.

For the Spanish scene, either way, this matters: SunPayus remains the national player with the longest run at the top level, and where he lands next says a lot about the current ceiling of Spanish CS.

Source: HLTV, Sheep Esports, G2 Esports.