10 year CS2 esports veteran hints at dramatic career change

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 19/11/2025

Current Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) pro and former Counter-Strike Global Offensive (CS:GO) competitor Tilde ‘7licious’ Byström has hinted at a major career change.

The Swedish pro has been competing for a decade, mostly in CS:GO, playing for the likes of Ninjas in Pyjamas and Evil Geniuses.

This year, she began competing in CS2 with North American esports organisation Ghost Gaming and is still playing with them.

However, 7licious has now posted on social media that her career has now taken a potentially dramatic turn.

She tweeted out a picture of her working in what appears to be a cafe saying:

“After 10 years in esports, I’m officially a sandwich maker.”

It’s not known whether 7licious has taken on a new side job or whether this was a joke, but the esports community has certainly enjoyed it.

At the time of writing, the tweet has exploded in popularity with 175k likes and over 2k replies.

It’s no secret that the esports industry has been struggling financially with mass layoffs hitting multiple companies, including the ESL FACEIT Group last month.

7licious’ fellow pro Ksenia ‘vilga’ Klyuenkova, the team captain of Ninjas in Pyjamas Impact, jokingly responded to the tweet saying:

“Finally, a woman doing her job.”

Unfortunately, with the amount of eyes on the tweet, and the current state of Twitter, the tweet attracted the worst kind of people to which vilga responded:

“[The] amount of likes under the pic and the comment says a lot about our society and is very concerning.”

The current state of women’s esports

Of course, 7licious’s tweet is a tongue-in-cheek comment about the current struggles of women in esports.

Last month, it was announced that the ESL Impact women’s CS2 circuit was indefinitely suspended.

Tournament organisers ESL announced the circuit was closing after Season 8, claiming: “The current economic model is simply not sustainable.”

However, it isn’t all doom and gloom for women’s esports. Far from it.

The Game Changers scene in Valorant is still thriving; the most recent GC Championship attracted the huge girl group KATSEYE to use their global hit ‘M.I.A’ as the tournament’s official theme.

Additionally, Riot Games has brought the success of GC to League of Legends after hosting the publisher’s own first official women’s LoL tournament.

Eterna shocked G2 Hel to win League of Legends’ first-ever Game Changers Rising championship.

Eterna defeated tournament favourites G2 Hel 3-1 to win the tournament and take home €5,000 (£4.3k) in prize money.

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

In my seven years of esports writing, I've introduced esports coverage to newspapers, interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry, and driven viewers mad with the puns in my YouTube scripts. I'm most proud of the latter.

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