OpTic add MSL and niko

28/3/2019 - 20:06

After René "⁠cajunb⁠" Borg's departure, OpTic have announced they are bringing on Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen and Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen.

Just hours after OpTic made a statement announcing the departure of longtime player cajunb, the North American organization is now making official the signing of MSL and niko.

The Danish duo comes from Rogue, with whom they qualified for the ECS Season 7 Finals during the first week of play in North America, although ultimately their place was later revoked as the team disbanded.

MSL will now play under the OpTic banner

The move is a first for MSL, as the former North in-game leader has never been a part of OpTic, but it will be a return apparition by niko who played on the team for three months until the end of last year when he was replaced by Ismail "⁠refrezh⁠" Ali.

The two players now joining OpTic shared a stint in North, where they went on to win DreamHack Masters Stockholm over their countrymen, Astralis. With a six-man roster as it stands, it now remains to be seen what the starting five will be.

With the addition of the two new players, OpTic is:

Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke
Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer
Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen
Ismail "⁠refrezh⁠" Ali
Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen
Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen

Casper "⁠ruggah⁠" Due (coach)

Expected tbh

2019-03-28 20:05

4 replies

6 player roster lol

2019-03-28 22:30

3 replies

They will beat astralis 6v5

2019-03-30 00:23

2 replies

i think not, it would be interesting to see :D

2019-03-30 08:41

1 reply

2019-03-30 21:08

Very good move

EXPECTED

2019-03-28 20:06

team of 6 players xd

11 replies

-snappi incoming

10 replies

2019-03-28 20:08

2019-03-28 20:25

-refrezh should be better

2019-03-28 22:35

5 replies

2 IGLs?

2019-03-28 22:55

-refrezh -snapi +?

2019-03-28 23:45

+who as the 5th?

2019-03-28 23:46

valde

2019-03-29 22:26

Not happening, but would be good

2019-03-30 00:06

jugi not playing tomorrow xD

2019-03-29 01:03

Oh Snapp...

2019-03-29 07:12

Nice pog

Nice

ez4faze

NICE

Fakk no Faze MSL D:

Thank God that's not happening...

2019-03-29 08:42

expected

Just announce snappi leaving lol

ikr

2019-03-28 20:58

Expected

blackberry buttsauce

6 players?

Lol

ezforMSL

Rip Hiko, time to retire

GL OPTIC!

Very expected

2019-03-28 20:07

excuse me wtf msl :D

nice move

oh deam

who's leaving besidescajunb ?

Snappi ofc

expect the expected

byebye Snappi

expected, but JUGI stays ? bit weird roles if he is

Why ? Jugi is the awper who else is awping?

2019-03-28 20:13

MSL ? He is decent with awp , he awping since DH Stockholm

2019-03-28 20:14

Msl only awped cause he gave mertz the boot like an idiot

2019-03-28 20:43

kick snappi and let msl be the igl better

2019-03-28 21:12

finally snappi is out

rip faze

2019-03-28 20:10

OpTic: add niko kick niko add niko ... ?

Just like mouz with Styko

2019-03-28 20:23

Holy fuck that rhymed good

2019-03-29 11:27

the classic +niko -niko +niko, works every time.

2019-03-28 22:15

Not as bad as mouz -ChrisJ +ChrisJ -ChrisJ +ChrisJ

2019-03-29 22:23

2019-03-28 20:09

playing 6 vs 5 then i guess PepeLAUGH

Why would Niko leave Faze?

0/8

2019-03-28 20:48

god msl

Hope this is the move that optic needs to finally start scraping together some wins

*pretends to be shocked* Bye Snappi ))))))))

2019-03-28 20:11

niko leave faze? idiot

Bye snappi

2019-03-28 20:12

i dont like this change because msl is dogshit

2019-03-28 20:16

nice if they add mertz for jugi and valde for refrezh they can be a legit threat

lmao wtf

who is out?

2019-03-28 20:15

Snappi apparently

2019-03-28 20:17

Yup - the only one that makes sense...

2019-03-28 23:08

Congrats to msl he deserves to be in a good Danish team

Nice, now -refrezh +valde -JUGi +es3tag

This is nice move

MSL reunited with k0nfig OMEGALUL

2019-03-28 20:18

Finally msl back to a good team

2019-03-28 20:19

now put msl on awp and it's good

I agree but i’m Bored about JUGi who is a great awp. They should move JUGi and snappi instead of cajun

2019-03-28 20:47

+tenzki inc

Noice

add two bots

2019-03-28 20:20

ladsp

2019-03-28 20:21

Budget Niko

2019-03-28 20:22

y no nato?

looks very promising.

ez 6v5

2019-03-28 20:24

Ah yes optic going with the new strat of having 6 players on the server at once so it's 6 v 5. Brilliant

Cant believe nobody ever thought of this before, ez top1

2019-03-28 20:26

exactly not even astralis thought of this

2019-03-28 20:31

🤢🤮 BUT IN THIS DARK TIME I WILL STILL STAND BY MY TEAM #GREENWALL

fantasy league hltv.org/fantasy/7/league/27444/join?sec..

byebye snappi

2019-03-28 20:27

-Snappi and it can be a really good team

2019-03-28 20:29

No shit it’s -snappi considering they just added MSL, whose sole purpose is calling strats

2019-03-28 20:44

2019-03-28 20:32

super expected

2019-03-28 20:33

Back to the source days for danish CS. Every roster change is just a mix of the same people, who's trying a similar lineup for the 'X'th time. And again, only the top team actually tries something new each time, instead of going back to something that didn't work in the first place. No surprise when you look at the managers of the teams though, should've seen it coming.

2019-03-28 20:35

I knew msl would end up in optic the moment he left north, it just took some time xD

2019-03-28 21:18

What surprises me the most, is that the orgs keep players, that even HLTV know are toxic af.

2019-03-29 20:39

Players like simple who used to be toxic was still kept in orgs bc he was too good, but for some i dont rly know why do they keep them

2019-03-29 21:11

Well yeah, but he was an extreme talent in a country/region that hasn't put out as many top tier players, as they used to. There's plenty to choose from in Denmark - And it'll only rise with esportscolleges almost becoming a norm.

2019-03-30 18:46

6 players for the new csgo valve update format 6v6 it's gonna get lit

2019-03-28 20:37

Good move bye snappi

2019-03-28 20:39

good maybe they can win some games because they have 6 players. they should have done -snappi +msl cajunb>niko

Cajunb also > snappi why not just keep cajun and kick snappi

2019-03-28 20:52

2019-03-28 21:27

why does niko reminds me of troubley

cuz he IS Troubley

2019-03-28 21:16

maybe they will change players in the middle of the game.

2019-03-28 20:49

MSL PogChamp

2019-03-28 20:51

Bye snappi but cajun is still better than niko

2019-03-28 20:53

Are they going to act Friends?

2019-03-28 20:57

6V5 EZ PZ

6>5 optic smart

6 PLAYERS OMEGALUL

2019-03-28 21:00

- snappi in close time

2019-03-28 21:01

Kick Snappi, see if JuGi starts performing. If not, add mertz/Nato/let MSL AWP and add someone else

Remember when everyone said that North would be a top 5 team if they replaced MSL with Snappi? OMEGALUL.

2019-03-28 21:03

niko again xD

2019-03-28 21:09

imo snappi out!!

2019-03-28 21:11

6v5?

yea, theyre gonna win alot now since they're playing 6v5. tactical move

2019-03-28 21:14

New meta

2019-03-28 21:15

wonder when people realise 7 is even better

okay

finally someone realize how to beat Astralis 6vs5

OpTic need 10v5 to win against Astralis

Doble awp style Pog

jugi to c9

Kinda obvious that its -snappi. No other reason to get another igl, if they want to keep him. Also optic was garbage whole time with snappi, so yeah

2019-03-28 21:20

Kinda sad since Rogue qualified for ECS

finally 6 men lineup astralis is done Pog

2019-03-28 21:21

-snappi inc

-snappi please Heroic -friberg +snappi

2019-03-28 21:24

6 vs 5 EZ

2019-03-28 21:31

Nice 6 players easy win

2019-03-28 21:34

Finally Snappi out

2019-03-28 21:35

hiko omegalul

2019-03-28 21:36

F I N A L L Y ! ! ! ! ! LEEETS GOOOOOO #GreenWall

2019-03-28 21:37

6 players? RIP astralis era

2019-03-28 21:39

- snappi

2019-03-28 21:40

good move but that smells like the end for snappi

2019-03-28 21:48

-snappi right?

2019-03-28 21:50

they need 6 players to win a game lul

2019-03-28 21:56

they are making a Overwatch team

Expected gl

2019-03-28 22:00

cl_hairline 01

2019-03-28 22:16

Desperate fools, enjoy tier 4 spot

nice 6 players team. 200 IQ

2019-03-28 22:20

msl konfig valde blamef if msl awp pick niko or stavn if not pick mertz really good team

2019-03-28 22:22

6 players yeyaaaaa Remove refrezh tho

2019-03-28 22:27

6vs5 should be easier for them

2019-03-28 22:32

Niko left faze for this LUL

Smart choice for NiKo, Faze dead team

2019-03-28 22:36

wtf

2019-03-28 22:47

bye snappi, bot player.

2019-03-28 23:12

Cool. Hopefully Optic will now be able to win games! probably snappi is being kicked

2019-03-28 23:29

snappi and MSL ? They'll lack firepower for sure

2019-03-28 23:30

One bot Snappi for another bot MSL LUL

2019-03-28 23:31

Nice move Better than n♿️rth

2019-03-28 23:44

FAKEniko btw

2019-03-29 00:05

6v5 NEW META

2019-03-29 00:55

6v5 they should win

2019-03-29 01:02

MSLUL

They finally have a chance with 6 players.

2019-03-29 01:09

MSL KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

2019-03-29 01:16

finally they can kick snappi ffs

2019-03-29 03:02

now they kick niko soon OMEGALUL

2019-03-29 04:46

2019-03-29 05:01

-snappi pls. He's awful

2019-03-29 05:51

Finally niko left faze

2019-03-29 06:32

NiKo finally left FaZe Respect!

2019-03-29 07:27

Rip snappi and you can write your original "niko left faze for this lulw hahah looooooool",noone did that

2019-03-29 08:37

6 man roster

2019-03-29 08:43

nice 6v5 they have a chance :D

2019-03-29 09:19

How is snappi still on thos team, fuckin cut this scrub jesus

2019-03-29 09:22

Gl Optic! Lets do this!

2019-03-29 10:28

Msl leader goat

2019-03-29 10:51

so rogue are hiko one man team?

2019-03-29 10:54

rip FaZe

2019-03-29 11:48

mko

2019-03-29 14:48

Optic ->top 1 hltv incoming🤔🤔🤔

2019-03-29 15:04

rip snappi

2019-03-29 15:50

Yeaah finally Niko can move on from Faze

2019-03-29 19:12

RIP HIKO

2019-03-29 20:50

+ magisk

2019-03-29 21:17

K0nfig Valde MSL Refrezh niko Pls

2019-03-30 02:25

This team is a dumpster fire.. wish them all the best but holy cow OpTic should of just disbanded and started over.. would be more successful with a lineup like Envy, and that’s not saying much..

2019-03-29 22:28

One is a poor dude

2019-03-30 02:40