k0nfig parts ways with Complexity amid reports of Astralis move

7-10-2021 20:13

The Dane has "chosen a different direction" heading into 2022.

Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke has departed Complexity, the Dallas-based organization has announced, ending his 21-month long tenure with the team.

The 24-year-old's move away from the 'Juggernaut' follows in the wake of a report from Jaxon in September that pointed towards an impending move to Astralis, indicating that k0nfig would not re-sign with Complexity as his contract neared its end.

Astralis' interest in k0nfig is not new, and dates back to before they acquired Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif in 2018. In his book The Brain Behind Astralis, head coach Danny "⁠zonic⁠" Sørensen revealed that the team had previously targeted k0nfig to fill the gap left by the departure of Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye, but due to k0nfig's attitude at the time and because he showed up late for his interview, he was left out of contention.

k0nfig is no longer a part of Complexity

The Danish powerhouse currently have three members locked in for their squad heading into 2022, including in-game leader Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander who inked a new, three-year deal in July, as well as Lucas "⁠Bubzkji⁠" Andersen and Philip "⁠Lucky⁠" Ewald.

However, with Magisk, Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen, Andreas "⁠Xyp9x⁠" Højsleth, and zonic's contracts all set to expire at the end of the year, the team are in a transitional phase as they look to finalize a lineup heading into the new tournament season.

Due to suffering a freak wrist injury during the tournament break, k0nfig has been out of action since mid-August as he recovered from surgery, forcing Complexity to field Niels Christian "⁠NaToSaphiX⁠" Sillassen and later, Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David in his place.

While k0nfig's departure opens up the opportunity for coldzera to extend his stay with Complexity beyond his current deal, which is temporary until after the PGL Stockholm Major, the role overlaps on the team between Benjamin "⁠blameF⁠" Bremer, Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage, and the Brazilian rifler could prove to be an issue, as evidenced by a post-match interview from the Danish captain during the BLAST Premier Fall Groups.

The Dallas-based organization will have time to ponder their next move as they have a suitable roster to play out the remainder of the season, with changes possibly on the way as they head into the new year.

Complexity now have:

Benjamin "⁠blameF⁠" Bremer
Valentin "⁠poizon⁠" Vasilev
Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage
Patrick "⁠es3tag⁠" Hansen
Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David

Luis "⁠peacemaker⁠" Tadeu (coach)

Sad!

2021-10-07 20:13

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expected

2021-10-07 20:15

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Very nice move, konfig is a GOD

2021-10-07 20:24

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damn that wrist injury really changed him

2021-10-07 21:08

Good for him, complexity now is literally coldzera +4 (which will 100% leave the team after the major)

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More like coL is just "5 average players" now lol No one is good enough to carry them solo anymore, they'll need to be team oriented, something blameF can't do

2021-10-07 22:27

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usually poizon are trying hard to carry them but when he bottomfrags the team lose BAD

2021-10-07 23:42

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people should utilize CIS awping style, otherwise you will have these teams struggle with "average" awpers

2021-10-12 00:28

clodzera aim is close to a 3500 elo pugger

2021-10-08 07:10

Future of goatstralis <3

2021-10-07 20:27

2021-10-08 05:18

RIP, the best Danish player will finally be on Astralis though

2021-10-07 20:14

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I hate it

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its so sad... imagine prime astralis with k0nfig... they dont need glav... magisk igl dev,konf,xyp,dup or glavie instead of dup :D

2021-10-07 20:17

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yeah remove dup mhmm worst take ever

2021-10-07 20:29

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2021-10-07 20:44

if device magisk fixed for me all day all night prime xyp over dupree... but i wrote a solution... if magisk igl they dont need glav

2021-10-07 21:19

You are delusional if u think -glaive

2021-10-07 23:31

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so u - dev,magisk or prime xyp instead of glav? all day all night -glav or dup instead of dev,magisk, or xyp

2021-10-07 23:32

Wtf with ur all -, glaive is the one that made them work, without gliave there wouldnt be prime astralis, n e v e r. Idk why u try to make all these players -, how can u -igl for a riffler like X D.

2021-10-07 23:35

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i didnt notice magisk doing as good as glav when igl...

2021-10-07 23:50

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2021-10-08 00:39

And who do you think teached magisk how to IGL effectively?

2021-10-09 01:32

prime astralis is the goat. why'd you make any change?

2021-10-07 20:51

2021-10-07 20:52

remove dupreeh? Any of the astralis players can adapt and change roles on the fly, theres almost no players who can do it as well as them. the team with k0nfig instead of anyone would be worse, even if k0nfig is a god. CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON THE DUMBEST COMMENT OF THE DAY.

2021-10-07 20:53

so if u need change someone to konfig... who is your pick tell me??? :D 1.dev 2. magisk 3. xyp (prime) 4-5 dup and glav for me...

2021-10-07 21:21

no one... no one needs to be removed from one of the only lineups who didn´t do mistakes almost , and never had role overlap.

2021-10-07 22:21

dupreeh and k0nfig comparison is like kante and lewandowski... its a different planet

2021-10-07 21:27

idk football that well. so i didn´t understand. but if you mean that dupreeh is worse than k0nfig for astralis team , you are plan delusional. best entry fragger ever existed. csgo is not all about aim.

2021-10-07 22:23

dupreeh good team player but not a star like k0nfig... but that magisk,xyp,dev,konfig+ dup/glav looks insane aswell

2021-10-07 23:30

Clearly you are gold nova.

2021-10-08 00:10

silver talk

2021-10-08 03:49

What a dumb eastern eu take

2021-10-08 10:15

made me sign in just to say ure dumb asf

2021-10-08 11:22

what will astralis do?

ast konfig

NICE ASTRALIS -BUBZKJI +KONFIG TOP1 TEAM AGAIN

Dupreeh might leave to join device on NiP

that would be sick, -plopski +dupreeh

2021-10-07 20:34

Many danes can understand enough swedish and speak in a manner so swedes understand it. Don´t know if Dupreeh can though, but it´s likely.

2021-10-07 21:20

Is he moving to sweden as device's new girlfriend?

2021-10-08 03:31

Bromance <3

2021-10-08 14:06

Astralis incoming

Interesting!

hahahahahaahhaahha

super sad news :(

Who cares they still got GODks

2021-10-07 20:26

2021-10-07 20:36

+1, btw still sad

2021-10-11 19:28

rip the best player on the damn team lmao

RIP Complexity but good move for K0nfig

Goodluck but don’t see how going to Astralis gives him a better future imo.

+1 they had finally weathered the storm after Obo's departure, poizon's illness, all of the useless stand ins... Ofc k0nfig manages to take the next shitty decision of the team cuz why not

2021-10-07 20:35

The fact of them only playing like three official LANs together as a team as well because of the online Covid era. There was a lot of potential there.

2021-10-07 20:43

Agreed. With obo, this looked like a solid fucking top 5 team they could split other ones in half but man they are cursed, they are the unluckiest team to have ever grazed cs

+1 they really can’t catch a break with this bs.

?? That's faze lol. But faze had karrigan and not botf to win tournaments during that time

2021-10-08 10:18

Nah, FaZe is just a dumb concept. You can't just buy really good players and expect them to sinergize perform together. Even if they somehow do perform, like they did in Boston, 5 huge egos won't be able to stomach a defeat that should be making them stronger instead of splitting them up, again, like after Boston.

2021-10-09 19:52

They wee literally winning everything or reaching the finals, almost won the grandslam, adn the major. olof leaving fucked the team up. Nothing to do with egos

2021-10-09 20:28

Karrigan literally said he couldn't get his ideas through, because the others were simply not listening to him.

2021-10-09 21:13

damn

POG ASTRAAAAALIIIS

NOOOOO FAKIN ASTRALIS

Strong addition for Astralis

Complexity is finished

Best danish rifler with best igl ever pog

real question is who is out of astralis? Xyp to faze? Dupreeh to NIP?

spicy

HLTV you almost give me heart attack. I think konfig Valorant.

wasnt this something everyone knew a few weeks ago?

It wasn't officially announced.

2021-10-07 21:03

Now -LNZ +Dupreeh in Nip and everything will be okay

So - Xyp and - Dupreeh? Glaive Lucky Magisk Konfig Bubzkji? Doesn't look bad

-Bubzkji +jabbi

I dont think CPH are selling anyone or anyone from that team leaving soon.

I wish

2021-10-07 20:20

top 5 2022

but his ego doesnt fit Astralis

Its has been like 3 years sicne the last drama with him, he surly managed to deal with it

2021-10-07 20:16

it wasn't even drama. he admitted in interview that it was just banter to hype up the match. + he got depressed after the hate he got, so after that he became even better person.

2021-10-07 20:22

Astralis comeback?

Ast konfig confirmed pog?

Pog

Expected

guess I'll have to be cheering for astralis too from now on lol org sucks but they sure as hell know how to win fans over + to buy every good danish player so they can stay the best in denmark lmfao

Fuck, rip Col

Biggest heel turn of the year

POG

very smart move of k0nfig, to abandon ship, before it sinks :)

The ship is sinking because of his injury

2021-10-07 20:21

I arent think that. When they went for pric3tag, it went downhill. Also BlameF is noway near good enough as an IGL, he's way too selfish

Please delete this my eyes are bleeding

2021-10-07 23:33

Bro coL is sinking since oBo left. It was a slow and painful sink. Replacing RUSH would never be a game changer move, because he is just support.

2021-10-08 03:29

sperman KEKEKEKEKE

[insert Ron Paul's It's Happening gif here]

Underrated comment for sure

2021-10-08 15:25

Konfig belongs in a team thats good enough to actually win something, so wherever he goes i wish he ends up in such a team. Complexity is not that team right now

Astralis k0nfig pog

SAVE COLD

2021-10-07 20:18

Astralis top 1 again, if true will be boring another domination

Only good for Astralis if it's -Bubzkji

Gla1ve, K0nfig, Lucky is a solid core... if they can hold 2 of Dupreeh/Xyp/Magisk they got a good roster

2021-10-07 20:19

pls -BUBZKJI

omg

konfig magisk lucky dupreeh xyp9x glaive coach and substitute?

Glaive will be back in time for the major.

2021-10-07 20:23

Snake move imo. Just when CoL added es3tag and would have had a solid roster. Now CoL is in shambles again with washed up Coldzera.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

who he will replace tho. Bubzki ? Dupreeh ? Xyp9x already out, so i guess it will be Dupreeh who will join NiP afterwards...

they should get rid of bubzki

2021-10-07 20:25

i guess so hltv.org/stats/players/compare/9612/bubz..

yeah but its more likely to be dupreeh or xyp

2021-10-07 20:58

it's really not, xyp has already been replaced by lucky. Can be anyone now, bubzki is the worst player ever so it better be him

2021-10-07 21:22

?? what you think they will remove THE 5 of astralis? i doubt it

2021-10-07 21:43

xyp9x is no longer in astralis lucky is awp, so he won't be replaced gla1ve literally signed long contract, he will stay magisk is under question dupreeh is under question bubzki is under question If you ask me, bubzki is the one that should go, if astralis want to remain relevant

2021-10-07 22:28

Magisk won't leave. He is still very young, i don't think dupreeh leaves aswell. And how do you know xyp is already out?

2021-10-08 03:26

rip Bubzkji going to warm the bench again

Sadge :(

nah bubz been doing okay lately, doubt they bench him.

2021-10-07 21:00

Wrong Lucky in the article. The Lucky mentioned in the article is the DBL Poney Lucky.

2021-10-07 20:28

fixed ty

2021-10-07 20:41

nice

wrong lucky

RIP coL

French Lucky died for this

2021-10-07 20:30

2021-10-07 20:32

Hm... this probably means we will see Xyp9x and Dupreeh leave Astralis, maybe Xyp9x/Dupreeh to FaZe/NiP replacing Olof and Plopski?

2021-10-07 20:33

OMEGAKEKW

Wrong Lucky. So dumb.

-olof +k0nfig?

this isnt the same col i fell in love with anymore :( sadge

french lucky lol

FUUUUCKKK FUCKKKKKKKKKKKK FUCKK

SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

2021-10-07 20:45

"because he showed up late for his interview" lmao what a power move

2021-10-07 20:49

Rush & Konfig to Astralis confirmed!!

2021-10-07 20:50

nice to see astralis will get back to dominating again Sadge

Snake

now -plopski +dupreeh and we are talking

saw it coming

We ALL seen this coming from many months.

2021-10-07 20:59

reunite North: msl aizy konfig nawwk/jugi fessor/sanden

okay but who is leaving?

xyp after major and glaive as coach and thats it

2021-10-07 21:11

hahaha

2021-10-07 22:07

you will see :) Gla1ve wont back to igling and to play he will be back as coach when zonic leave. its simple move, magisk as igl is very good and he is still learning, konfig for xyp is huge firepower improvement. Gla1ve did a lot of space to his teammates but i think Bubzkji can take some roles from glaive ( i mean agression, and takin good calls )

2021-10-07 22:13

Magisk is good, but not that good.Gla1ve is the best igl of all time after all.I don't believe zonic is leaving, that s why i can t agree with you.But one thing is for sure : with k0nfig on the team, and nobody else except xyp leaving, Astralis is still a number 1 contender, but if gla1ve switches to coaching, everything will turn upside down.

2021-10-10 15:39

I see this. gla1ve as coach, xyp will play his last major probably and then leave so -xyp +k0nfig and gla1ve as coach in new 2022 year line up

2021-10-07 21:10

AHAHAHAHa col ruined - imagine having washedzera instead of god konfig col up to be the biggest disappointment of 2021

Time to abandon ship; CoL's status right now: A new coach who heavily conflicts with the IGL in Peacemaker An inconsistent AWPer in poizon A struggling IGL as a result of the coach change in BlameF A rifler who has shown some shine, but is still underperforming in JKS A new player who has been pretty good in Es3tag A new fragger who, although is notorious for being washed up, has been alright in Coldzera. Replace the whole roster, or one piece, not fucking half of it.

Weird shuffles happening. What's up with the Heroic cheating and Hunden case? Has it shut down or what? It's been so quiet about them as if nothing happened.

2021-10-07 21:39

Heroic and Huden probably in mutual silence. As longs as Heroic doesn't report him for strategy leak he keep taking all the blame on coach bug case and players remain safe.

2021-10-07 21:52

we're way past that already

2021-10-07 21:59

finally he leaves that stupid team with stupid calls. no more wasting

2021-10-07 21:40

inb4 k0nfig, xyp, magisk and dupreeh join with MSL and revive North or something lol

2021-10-07 21:42

what a snake

2021-10-07 21:57

People get tired of baitF baiting XD

2021-10-07 22:06

probably + almost 0 awards

2021-10-11 16:50

jks now its your time to leave and this team is dead)))

Damn Astralis 6 majors now

2021-10-07 23:39

2021-10-07 23:49

That timely hand thingy though

2021-10-08 00:01

- Goes to Astralis - Wrist magically healed!

2021-10-08 00:06

Twofaced Toledo should be proud of him kkk

2021-10-08 00:56

Nice downgrade noob, “congrats” :/

2021-10-08 00:55

Unless they do a full rework on the team, coL is likely going downhill even further. k0nfig carried them a lot.

2021-10-08 03:23

COL unluckiest team in csgo

2021-10-08 05:17

tactical wrist fracture to move astralis gg

2021-10-08 09:14

People finally realised how bad complexity is without star player. BaitF can't get anything done with some top tier fraggers creating space for him.

2021-10-08 14:57

I mean, with his wrist injury I don't think it's actually that bad of a situation for coL, don't get me wrong, but no players in history have cameback to form after having a wirst injury, remember olofmeister or GuardiaN? I don't know, I think he will still get a nice offer but for me Astralis.k0nfig seems really weird and I just can't imagine that happening, idk. why but it just feels like to for me, GL though.

2021-10-08 17:15

gl, remember leg day

2021-10-09 10:21

Complexity brings in Chelo next time :D

2021-10-09 16:47