Belgian legend Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom has returned to aggressive Counter-Strike after six years away from the professional scene, signing with Clutchain to affix a Franco-Belgian roster that features his youthful brother Nabil “Nivera” Benrlitom.
The 31-year-old “Headshot Machine” final performed professionally for GamerLegion in 2019 earlier than stepping away from competitors. He first introduced his intentions to return on the HLTV Awards Present 2025 in January, signaling his comeback to the scene.
The Clutchain roster
ScreaM joins a mixture of acquainted French-speaking expertise and rising prospects on the Clutchain lineup. Alongside his brother Nivera, the roster options former Vitality participant Jayson “Kyojin” Nguyen, Jordan “Python” Munck-Foehrle, and rookie Frenchman Hugo “SHOGU” Lopez.
ScreaM’s highway again to aggressive play started in 2025 when he joined FUT as a sixth-man and streamer alongside the group’s short-lived French lineup. Since then, he’s been streaming and competing in smaller French occasions whereas working to regain his aggressive type.
Clutchain has been actively constructing its CS2 presence in current weeks, buying this roster alongside the previous Imperial Valkyries/Pigeons lineup in early April.
The crew will make their debut in Conquest of Prague 2026: On-line Stage when the net league kicks off on April twelfth.
Older gamers staying aggressive changing into a pattern
Counter-Strike has traditionally been a recreation the place some older gamers can grasp on for a very long time. From Brazilian gamers like FalleN hanging in there, to gamers like JW nonetheless main squads, to karrigan at 31 nonetheless dominating together with his strategic IGL abilities. CS is a recreation the place there’s nonetheless hope for knowledgeable veterans in-game main squads.
However there’s a rising pattern in esports that older gamers can nonetheless compete on the highest stage. Dota 2 has maybe the most effective instance with Puppey, the Estonian legend who at 36 years outdated remains to be actively teaching and taking part in. The previous Na’Vi champion gained The Worldwide 2011 and has attended practically each TI since, proving that management and drafting capacity can preserve you related whilst reflexes fade.
League of Legends has just a few examples too, with legendary esports participant Faker speaking about in a current interview that we wrote about from Korean media. Over in Europe, there’s a venture with SK Gaming taking among the older gamers with the likes of Wunder and an growing older MikyX, who have been at their primes in 2019, with an unconventional roster and rookie in tow.
Even VALORANT is seeing crossover success from CS veterans — Potter (Christine Chi), a 7x world champion in CS:GO, now captains Evil Geniuses’ Valorant roster, proving that recreation sense and expertise translate throughout titles.
Certain, age catches up and eats your reactions and hype. However with age comes expertise, and that will translate into video games the place you’ll be able to lead and name. We want ScreaM’s new venture the most effective, as it may well work for the proper participant with the proper mindset and micro-intensive work concerned in esports.
It’s a pleasant pattern seeing older gamers nonetheless stay aggressive, serving to the longevity for profession manufacturers, and likewise to dismiss the parable that esports careers may be extraordinarily quick.
It’s additionally fairly humorous to be speaking about veterans and retirement, and these dudes are simply 31 years outdated. However esports is a distinct animal.
