Tricked puts professional esports division on hold

7/2/2023 - 15:26

The Danish organization stated that it can't meet the ambitions of the current market as the reason for downgrading its professional division.

Tricked has announced that it will no longer field professional teams and all players currently employed by the organization through professional contracts are free to find new homes in other organizations.

The closure of the professional esports division is due to Tricked's inability to "meet the ambitions in the current market," the organization's statements reads. "As the country [Denmark] stands today, the professional esports setup that Tricked Esport wants to operate is too difficult to lift and Tricked Esport does not see that we can fulfill our esports ambitions in a responsible way in the current market."

Tricked players raising the V4 Future Sports Festival 2019 trophy

The storied Danish structure, which has been operating for 11 years, will still field its teams until the end of the season, although it will not stand in the way of its players moving elsewhere immediately.

Throughout its history Tricked has been one of the main pipelines for upcoming Danish talent to flourish before moving on to some of the country's top sides, as well a home for veterans looking to rebound after being cut from bigger teams. The likes of Patrick "⁠es3tag⁠" Hansen, Ismail "⁠refrezh⁠" Ali, Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen, Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen, and Johannes "⁠b0RUP⁠" Borup all sported the team's black and red colors.

At its pinnacle, Tricked fielded the squad made up of Nicolai "⁠HUNDEN⁠" Petersen, Lucas "⁠Bubzkji⁠" Andersen, Frederik "⁠acoR⁠" Gyldstrand, Rasmus "⁠sjuush⁠" Beck and Fredrik "⁠roeJ⁠" Jørgensen that won V4 Future Sports Festival 2019 in Budapest, Hungary, beating Virtus.pro and MIBR in the process.

Tricked's current members that are now free to seek new opportunities are:

Magnus "⁠Nodios⁠" Olsen
Oliver "⁠kwezz⁠" Rasmussen
Philip "⁠Lucky⁠" Ewald
Oliver "⁠IceBerg⁠" Berg
Mathias "⁠PR1mE⁠" Carlsen

Sebastian "⁠larsen⁠" Larsen (coach)

Sagde :(

2023-02-07 15:26

2 replies

rip legendary org !

2023-02-07 15:33

1 reply

Two danish orgs going down now. Sad times for danish cs.

2023-02-07 17:48

:( sad

So sad

Should've done that years ago

2023-02-07 15:27

5 replies

says the fnatic fan. How about they disban their team...

2023-02-07 16:17

4 replies

0/8

2023-02-07 16:31

3 replies

Its valid though, they aren’t even better than the jw, brollan, krimz, flusha and golden squad that where too bad to reach their goals…. Barely being t1 nowadays is a shame of their history and is only beaten by nip in disappointment

2023-02-07 17:16

Not saying they should disband but they do need to rebuild or at least rethink and retool

2023-02-07 17:17

just get dev1ce

2023-02-07 21:39

Understandable, they've been playing such an ugly CS so far

2023-02-07 15:28

This has nothing to do on how their team is performing

2023-02-07 15:57

Perfect executes with brilliant nade usage is ugly? Okay then… you do you…

2023-02-07 17:18

Sad :(

I was a big fan of this team back in the days but sadly they never really got a solid roster again after 2019

couldnt handle the 12:3 choke today

oh no..... anyway

2023-02-07 15:29

2023-02-07 15:30

no money rip

tricked themselves

2023-02-07 15:31

Sadge....

Un...Lucky.

2023-02-07 15:32

Ba dum tsss...

2023-02-07 15:39

sad news for danish cs

2023-02-07 15:34

Yes, that team has a tier 1 talent factory :(

2023-02-07 17:38

un lucky

2023-02-07 15:36

#15

2023-02-07 15:49

Original mate… At least be first in the thread to do it…

2023-02-07 17:19

yea, my bad cuz i don't spend my time to read what some weebo type here

2023-02-07 17:58

good decision, these players wont be bought out or progress in better tournaments because they are stuck in CCT!

2023-02-07 15:38

unlucky for lucky

2023-02-07 15:40

Hate to see it

2023-02-07 15:43

danish-based cs is suffocating ecstatic and masonic are next

2023-02-07 15:47

Feels bad man, danish cs turning swedish… at least Heroic are doing great and hopefully for quite a few more years despite them not being the biggest of orgs

2023-02-07 17:21

its teams like astralis, heroic and even flames, who get most of the few sponsor money available in the market. and thats sad. we need these medium pro t2/3-teams to develop talent, before the players can take the jump into international teams

2023-02-07 18:40

Same thing here, nip and fnatic took it all

2023-02-07 21:18

maybe a mix swe/den org would be a good idea. harvest talent from both countries. maybe include norway.

2023-02-07 21:36

Enough money farmed😂

2023-02-07 15:52

Most intelligent HLTV user

2023-02-09 13:19

+agree

2023-02-13 12:10

I mean… what other dept did they have

2023-02-07 15:55

Very sad

2023-02-07 15:59

unlucky for Lucky

2023-02-07 16:01

no one cares

i car))

2023-02-07 16:07

Found the astralis only watcher

2023-02-07 16:12

about you

2023-02-18 20:44

nooo, i liked them

Sad

2023-02-07 16:18

Sad day for csgo. Gl boys and hopefully org will recover and comeback.

2023-02-07 16:23

Lucky is, ironically, actually quite unlucky. At least when it comes to his cs career.

2023-02-07 16:30

f for lucky and his teammates, hopefully they find a new home

UnLucky

2023-02-07 17:02

sad

2023-02-07 17:12

F, hopefully new orgs pop out

2023-02-07 17:54

Sad to see for the scene

2023-02-08 07:17

My question is wtf is bubzkji doing, wasting all his prime time on the bench or no team, wtf?

2023-02-08 12:04

Bubzkji isnt playing anymore lmao after he left Astralis he joined a danish esports news station and now he works as an esports reporter for them and i remember him saying multiple times that he doesnt have any intentions of ever coming back as a professional player too

2023-02-18 20:42

What a waste of talent holy shit it's his choice but damn look what astralis does to players xd

2023-02-19 04:50

Reading that and also knowing about the struggles in german CS, I think at one point HLTV community will get its wishes, where everyone is either T1/T2 or completly washed and/or bad at the game. On national level in Europe, CS seems to really, really struggle

2023-02-08 21:05

2023-02-14 20:48

Now imagine if they qualify

2023-02-16 22:06

even if they qualify they will still cease operations of their professional esports division "The storied Danish structure, (...) will still field its teams until the end of the season" end of the season = end of the year which means they will still operate until the end of the year if the players dont find new teams until then

2023-02-18 20:35

kkkkk

2023-02-18 20:40

Another sign CS is going down.

2023-02-18 20:45

poverty industry AKA esports claims another victim

2023-02-18 20:48