Kjaerbye re-signs with North

7-1-2020 13:06

The 21-year-old Danish player Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye has extended his stay with North, the organization revealed today, alongside news of a rebrand and restructuring.

Kjaerbye has been a part of North since the start of 2018, joining the squad from Astralis in a blockbuster move. Success has been limited in his two years with North, though, netting him just one Big event win, DreamHack Masters Stockholm 2018, and a couple of DreamHack Open titles.

Kjaerbye is committed to North moving forward

At his last event of 2019, Kjaerbye admitted that he "believed in the future of the team" and was "hoping to stay", and that has now been confirmed by the Danish organization. Currently, it is not certain for how long Kjaerbye extended his contract with North, only that he will be staying with the team moving forward.

"I am happy to have re-signed my contract with North. North came to me with an ambitious new plan for both the team and the organisation. The rebrand looks and feels great, and more importantly, the people in the organisation behind us are determined to succeed. All in all, this feels like the perfect home for me." - Kjaerbye

Alongside the news of Kjaerbye's re-signing, North have revealed that they have rebranded and restructured the organization. Alongside an updated logo and visual identity, North revealed their internal changes starting with new management that came on in October 2019.

"It became obvious that we needed to focus on a few critical elements in the very foundation of the organization that has been built. So we have changed the way we look at branding, marketing, and sports," - Alexander Pedersen, North CMO

The key to improving will be optimizing performance, North state, which will be done with the help of the newly appointed performance coach Christian Engell, who will work together with Head of Esports Operations Graham "messioso" Pitt

"Performance optimization has existed in sports forever. It is not something we or any other esports organization has invented. Still, it is something we strive to implement in an even more refined way. North is committed to staying in esports for the long run." Christopher Håkonsson, new CEO of North

As of now, North will continue with their end-of-2019 lineup:

Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye
Nicklas "⁠gade⁠" Gade
Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen
Philip "⁠aizy⁠" Aistrup
René "⁠cajunb⁠" Borg

Torbjørn "⁠mithR⁠" Nyborg (coach)

Logo looks cool but i think they stole the idea from Furia

2020-01-07 13:06

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True! pbs.twimg.com/media/ENrSJIEXUAALaOp.jpg

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KEKW

2020-01-07 13:09

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RIP career

2020-01-07 13:22

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He is playing with the best awper in the world tho

2020-01-07 13:29

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LMFAO

2020-01-07 13:39

Allu isn't in North?

2020-01-07 13:55

9 replies

It said best, not worst

2020-01-07 14:12

7 replies

2020-01-07 14:16

Worst means best

2020-01-07 14:24

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2020-01-07 15:15

1 reply

2020-01-07 15:31

2020-01-07 15:59

bot allu?

2020-01-07 16:10

no GOD ALLU no top 1

2020-01-07 13:59

allu god but not god allu goddestestestter than deevais

2020-01-07 14:33

lol no

2020-01-07 18:48

JUGi has to be kicked before i see a future in north, any lv 10 faceit player i Come across when i pug has more talent than this fucker

2020-01-08 03:12

U're so drunk.. Even people can tell jugi > dev1ce lul

2020-01-08 06:38

2020-01-07 14:31

Lol

2020-01-07 13:26

LMAO

2020-01-07 13:11

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2020-01-07 13:21

X-)))

2020-01-07 13:23

LMAO KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

2020-01-07 13:25

HAHAHA

2020-01-07 13:31

xaxaxaxaxaxaxa

2020-01-07 13:48

2020-01-07 14:06

xDDDDDDDDDD

2020-01-07 14:10

Lmao is looks so similar

2020-01-07 14:47

Kkkkkkkkkk

2020-01-07 15:34

OMEGALUL

2020-01-07 16:06

kkkkkkkk

2020-01-07 16:47

XAXAXAXAXAXAXA Thankfully it has a fucking chin now

2020-01-07 18:30

Kkkkkkkkkkkk

2020-01-07 22:08

the logo is fucking garbage

2020-01-07 13:54

2020-01-07 15:36

LOL

2020-01-07 14:29

First I thought u wrote "na logo"

The logo was chosen by copenhagen fc, the soccer team

2020-01-07 14:39

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right! and it has many many similarities! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.C._Copenhagen

2020-01-07 15:40

its the same logo ^^

2020-01-07 15:44

Why would you think that the logo is cool?

2020-01-07 14:48

Looks like a dragon almost now

2020-01-07 18:52

Expected

8/8

N♿️RTH

2020-01-07 13:07

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+ Reply needs to have actual fucking content

2020-01-07 17:45

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2020-01-07 18:28

wtf

2020-01-07 13:08

Probably scared that the second he leaves North instantly becomes Top 1

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

HAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAA

2020-01-07 14:07

Hahahahahahahahahaha

2020-01-07 15:07

SAVAGE 8/8

2020-01-07 15:45

rip

retard

Jebaited

KJAERBOT

Nårf

WHo cars

Disabled Cs at its best!

2020-01-07 13:10

Dead team

Expected And people that were stupid enough to buy stickers: Jebaited

depends if the new logo is more popular than the old one

new logo kinda shit ngl

2020-01-07 15:35

Lol kjaerbye only resigns because leaving, would acknowledge that leaving Astralis post major winning was the biggest blunder in CS:GO history. He is holding on to the sinking ship. waste of a potential multi major winning career, sad as always

check stealer this same guy leave astralis because they were not winning btw he lose his drive shame SAD

2020-01-07 13:14

The path of backstabber... People should learn from Kjaerbye and Stew backstabs. Karma is a bitch.

2020-01-07 13:15

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What did Stew do?

hes probably talking about him leaving to mibr from c9 after major. dont blame him tho c9 fell off and he was probably annoyed by whole skadoodle retiring/not retiring

I mean Stewie has joined better and better teams since he left Cloud9. After the major and the fall-off, he joined mibr, who were better than cloud9, and then he joined Liquid, which was and still is much much better than mibr.

2020-01-07 20:50

If stew then xantares too

2020-01-08 12:43

kjaer just destroyed himself, idk we should compare him with, maybe seized

2020-01-07 13:18

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Kjaerbye is the most talented person in North. tf are you smoking???

2020-01-07 14:45

yes, he is, but his career as you can see is shit, no trophies, no popularity, nothing, just resigning from year to year..

true, wonder how much salary he's getting tho...

2020-01-07 14:49

omfg, men north.gg/ just check their website :D :D there is nothing, no teams, no nothing, some "about us", "contant us" tabs and that's all :D yep, wonder too for now :D

2020-01-07 14:54

he only won the major so not many trophies

2020-01-07 16:25

Imagine being kjaerbye and not committing not alive!

♿♿♿♿♿ Reply needs to have actual content

cheater :)

You should resign not re-sign

+1111 poopoo brain snake

2020-01-07 14:26

2020-01-07 13:28

wtf why men)

Good luck in the future

Thank you Markus, very cool!

Wow good choice, nobody wanted Kjaerbye

2020-01-07 13:34

It's kind of sad that this kind of potential is jailed in shit team, but well money talks.

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potential? hes fucking shit even with cheats :D imagine him playing without cheats

RULES: Don't troll Useless blogs, threads and posts, irrelevant posts, _*baiting*_ etc.

2020-01-07 14:08

why mad kjaerbye fanboy?

2020-01-07 15:51

Not a fanboy, just realist. There has to be a reason why North is rather high in the rankings and is kjaerbye.

2020-01-07 15:58

I'd say aizy is the one carrying

2020-01-07 16:03

Imo he's most obv cheater ever. Just check some yt explanations. His aim shakes are not physically possible. Another thing is that he never shakes when randomly spraying, but always when spraying an opponent. Stop saying it's not possible just because most people say so.

2020-01-07 21:31

Hes spraying style doesnt make any sense. If you try to be accurate while spraying why you shake mouse like that. And ofc it only happens when there is opponent :) Example when he shoots in to smoke and there is no enemy he doesnt shake hes mouse.

2020-01-08 02:21

Which potential? North is a definition of a failure, just like all its current players . Jugi is an awful awper, gade is not a true IGL, cajun should maybe buy glasses or retire, aizy was good in 2014, kjaer is a depressed superstar. Also a clueless coach with mostly stolen tactics. North is rip

2020-01-07 14:11

Kjaerbye is tier 1 player stuck with medium skilled tier 3 players.

2020-01-07 16:27

Sad, would've loved to see him in coL/OG

2020-01-07 13:47

why is this newS??

Nice

2020-01-07 13:49

why did they delete their tweets tho

2020-01-07 13:50

masochist

2020-01-07 14:00

Why does some stupid cuck who's getting overpaid at north think a "rebrand" will fix the team?

2020-01-07 14:02

expected

"rebrand" aka we delete all our shit and dont tell anybody. looks really professional.

Start read title "Kjaerbye...". Think: omg, finally he left this shit org. "... resigns with North" - facepalm.

2020-01-07 14:09

this lineup lmao

pls disband and form new team

Mistake

2020-01-07 14:13

N♿️RTH no disband :(

Jebaited wtf. Dats why sad face he was forced to BJ the best awper

2020-01-07 14:18

how to waste career 101

2020-01-07 14:20

he's hot

where's the rebranded logo. It looks the same

2020-01-07 14:27

Sign cuz no option left in EU

2020-01-07 14:32

Ok north problem is the lineup rebrand whatever u want still same tier 2

2020-01-07 14:36

Good luck kjaerbye

2020-01-07 14:46

Borg is a better nickname than cajunb

2020-01-07 14:56

hello guys its me north

2020-01-07 14:58

nice bro

2020-01-07 15:08

I bet everyone here would not re-sign for $25k+ salary LUL

2020-01-07 15:12

obviously but the problem is kjaerbye staying with the sinking ship. No one believes in north lineup, and to do so is just idiotic. he don't wanna acknowledge leaving Astralis was the greatest mistake in CS:GO history

2020-01-07 19:32

What other options does he realistically have right now? Any other danish team would be a huge downgrade in terms of salary and org support. He's not really a 'hot prospect' anymore so finding a place as a 'star' player in an international lineup wouldn't be that easy and I bet his ego would only allow him to be the main star of his team. If North is really going to restructure the team he might have a big say in what players to bring in, like blamef in col

2020-01-07 19:46

True, but the thing is if he stays in north, which is confirmed. He will always be looked as a wasted talent whom made bad decision. sticking with shitty awper jugi and noob IGL gade, is not gonna help. anyway, i think its sad that his talents is wasted he could be so much more, he is just in poor damage control mode now

2020-01-07 19:54

New logo is so bad lmfao

I say Kjaer, you say...

Good luck kjaerbye. Hope to see MSL back to the line-up instead of jugi who hasn't been impactful enough for almost 2 years. With valde & k0nfig now gone, it's not easy to find a great combinaison of players. Depressing idiotic comments as always... at least North won 4 trophies in 2 years, what about NiP & mibr for example? Get all the invites but could not win anything...

2020-01-07 15:25

Oof for NiP and MIBR XDD i think they should add MSL instead of jugi or cajunb

2020-01-07 16:09

So it was a rebranding like i suspected. Sucks that they are keeping their Danish roster. Could have signed Kjaerbye and added players outside of Denmark or Kjaerbye + 4 talents

2020-01-07 15:28

Bad logo

2020-01-07 15:53

NRG logo>

2020-01-07 16:07

agreed

2020-01-08 04:52

Where would he have gone if not North? -Magisk +Kjaerbye

2020-01-07 16:22

From Major MVP to this average player in average Danish team. That shows you what a bad mistake can do to your career. Good luck.

2020-01-07 16:30

Sad I thought they finally call it quits

2020-01-07 16:37

They desperately need to bring MSL back. They need identity.

2020-01-07 16:40

again

2020-01-07 17:06

21 and already washed up for years

2020-01-07 17:09

kick cajun

2020-01-07 17:34

The Norf is here

2020-01-07 17:38

Sick move, glhf

2020-01-07 18:16

2020-01-07 18:49

from AUSTRALIS to this FeelsBadMan

2020-01-07 20:33

KICK JUGI

enjoy the cash while it lasts kid, you wont be even near the top ever again

2020-01-07 20:43

Corrected: Kjarbye signs his career's death sentence

2020-01-07 21:56

Poor guy

2020-01-07 21:57

Good luck with that

2020-01-07 22:26

Rip

2020-01-07 22:35

Tier 3 player stays on tier 3 team.

2020-01-07 23:47

This rebrand is worse than before. It looks like an amateur brand : the font used is too childish compared to the previous one, doesn't feel aggressive as the logo tries to be. The logo looks like a failed attempt at making it look like a lion... More like : twitter.com/TheMonkeyKing4/status/121459.. And it's really worse once you use it in a smaller version like a twitter profile pic. They have the funds and yet are making horrible decisions. Are they in freewheel ? 😂

2020-01-08 10:01

2020-01-08 10:46

its ok to be in retarded North and to compete in tier 3 with a lot of dollars ofc, good job Kjaerbye mate :)

2020-01-08 14:01

XD!

2020-01-13 14:52

North ceo really brainwashed this kid smh, rip career

2020-01-13 14:54