MAD Lions sign b0RUP

20-8-2021 15:14

The European squad bought the Dane out of his contract with Heroic and return to a six-man roster.

MAD Lions have signed Johannes "⁠b0RUP⁠" Borup from Heroic, where the Dane had been sitting on the bench since he was removed from the active lineup in February alongside Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen to make way for Rasmus "⁠sjuush⁠" Beck and Ismail "⁠refrezh⁠" Ali.

b0RUP had spent over a year in Heroic's starting lineup before his removal, and was a member in the team that surprised Europe by winning some of the biggest online events of 2020, DreamHack Open Fall and ESL One Cologne Europe.

Earlier this year the Dane was seen playing with the HYENAS team that had no organizational backing, but after initial poor performances and the retirement of star player Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye the team parted ways, leaving b0RUP's future uncertain at the time.

b0RUP will help TMB with leadership in MAD Lions

The 21-year-old's addition to the MAD Lions roster comes not long after Teodor "⁠SPELLAN⁠" Nikolov moved to the bench, as the Bulgarian IGL wasn't able to adjust to the European combine and the team stalled outside of the top 60 in the world ranking. Thomas "⁠TMB⁠" Bundsbæk has now taken over the reins and will be flanked by his incoming compatriot as Jakub "⁠kuben⁠" Gurczynski continues to explore the possibilities of a six-man roster.

"From the beginning of this project, in the back of our heads we had a plan to bring an experienced player to the team who could complete it," coach kuben said. "With b0RUP, we believed to have found the perfect fit for that.

"At the start of this season, the role of IGL was taken over by TMB, hence our idea to bring a second high-profile Danish player to the squad to get a similar philosophy of the way we can play the game. We believe that by combining the experience that b0RUP will bring to the team and the youth’s hunger for success, we will improve our results from the previous few months."

The team will have a bootcamp in September at the team's house in Madrid to prepare for the final quarter of the year.

MAD Lions's six-man roster is now comprised of:

Pere "⁠sausol⁠" Solsona Saumell
Justinas "⁠jL⁠" Lekavicius
Filip "⁠tudsoN⁠" Tudev
Volodymyr "⁠Woro2k⁠" Veletniuk
Thomas "⁠TMB⁠" Bundsbæk
Johannes "⁠b0RUP⁠" Borup

Jakub "⁠kuben⁠" Gurczynski (coach)

Teodor "⁠SPELLAN⁠" Nikolov (benched)

2021-08-20 15:15

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7 man roster incoming

2021-08-20 21:46

GOOD LUCK!

nice

bruh

2021-08-20 15:16

gj sign a noob

Not bad.

okay!

2021-08-20 15:17

GL my IGL

more players pls-more players-better team

TMB overrated

2021-08-20 15:18

sadge

are mad lions malding?

2 replies

Is it really easy for ence?

2021-08-21 05:36

yes it is

2021-08-21 08:52

EZ4 danishleaks.

2021-08-20 15:19

Good pickup

2021-08-20 15:20

bald fraud

2021-08-20 15:21

When going back to full danish ?

2021-08-20 15:22

3 replies

denmark have enough t2 players to that?

2021-08-20 16:06

Ofcourse they have

2021-08-20 16:13

ofc they have, Copenhagen Flames and Lyngby Vikings already have a better ranking than Mad Lions, and I'm not even talking about MSL and aizy's project, Tricked, AGF and other young teams

2021-08-20 20:10

unexpected

Now free sausol and let him go to rideeers plz

2021-08-20 15:23

ahhahhahahahahahahaahha #freesausol

2021-08-20 15:25

excepted

Wait the mad lions team still exists?

2021-08-20 15:27

???????????? wat

Pog

finally t1 player

2021-08-20 15:32

sausol prolly bout to get sold

2021-08-20 15:34

Plz yeah let him go to riders

2021-08-20 15:36

2021-08-20 15:56

Danish leaks on point

2021-08-20 15:35

This is worse than gorillaz because it has an org backing it. Mad Lions are getting scam by the polish and the Spaniard. Watch the sign Smooya now to top it off.

2021-08-20 15:41

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Gorrilaz has an org too but I think Sunny and Flusha aren't handling the team well

2021-08-21 01:01

they said that like 6 months ago. I think it's fair to think the org backed down already (With all those roster changes too)

2021-08-21 14:45

well they had a bootcamp somewhere in EU during the playerbreak , hard to arrange that with players` own money. Xfloud on his stream also said that he is actually contracted to the org so it does exist , but the team is quite of a trainwreck atm. Maybe the org does pull the plugs if this new iteration doesnt work either.

2021-08-21 14:57

Gorillaz has an org but they're too ashamed to put their name on that trainwreck of a team

2021-08-21 08:35

#87

#89

2021-08-23 04:37

Ok? Didnt expect this

2021-08-20 15:42

Wtf? POG?

2021-08-20 15:45

nice move

2021-08-20 15:47

this is the worst lineup ive ever seen

2021-08-20 15:48

lul

2021-08-20 15:54

whos getting kicked?

4 replies

2021-08-20 16:22

Who besides Teodor "⁠SPELLAN⁠" Nikolov (benched) is getting kicked?

2021-08-20 21:31

Nobody yet, 6 man roster

2021-08-20 21:45

Sausol Going to MR soon

2021-08-21 01:02

6 man rosters kkkkkkkkkkkk

2021-08-20 16:08

Good signing.

2021-08-20 16:09

This lineup is like going to supermarket to buy a nice steak dinner but coming back with some skittles, bread and an onion ??????

2021-08-20 16:29

Perfect words really. Reading this lineup hurts my eyes

2021-08-20 16:32

lmao exactly this

2021-08-20 16:52

Finally, my wait is over Hello fellow Nepali :)

2021-08-20 17:00

NAMASTE BRUH

2021-08-20 17:12

🙏 Jai Sri Ram

2021-08-20 17:35

"just pick some fpl free agents with 1.1+ kd,roles,nationality,chemistry dont matter"

2021-08-20 18:23

7vs5 gagag

2021-08-20 16:35

what a weird lineup

2021-08-20 16:42

#MRsaveSausol

2021-08-20 17:10

expected

2021-08-20 17:27

nope

2021-08-20 17:45

kick whoro2k already

2021-08-20 18:01

Idk., like this guy has been so inconsistent, that was the reason he was kicked from Heroic, and tbh., it didn't change much in HYENAS. I don't think it's a good signing for MAD Lions, and overall keeping the 6-man roster idea isn't good imo. either. But GL ofc., I hope kuben can get something out of this roster.

2021-08-20 18:31

went from full danish to full international to soon full danish again

2021-08-20 18:33

photoshopped lol

2021-08-20 19:33

The norm nowadays :(

2021-08-21 11:34

Borup Mercedes incoming

2021-08-20 19:45

how much?

2021-08-20 20:11

considering borup's performance while being as a part of hyenas and the teams results overall, doesnt look like an obvious upgrade to the ML roster rn. Time would tell tho

2021-08-21 05:28

Don’t think anyone was expecting anything from hyenas, put together cuz they had a slot…

Good choice

2021-08-21 11:33

Good signing, good luck.

2021-08-21 13:44

lul kk

2021-08-21 14:34

slowly going back to full danish

2021-08-21 15:37