With a Major Grand Final coming up, the young players of GamerLegion have already reached a milestone that many others can just dream about. The fairytale run at the Major in Paris has undoubtedly made several teams interested in the service of the Grand Finalist of the last CS:GO Major in history.

One of them could be Frederik "acoR" Gyldstrand, who has played an excellent tournament so far. Speaking to Dust2.dk about the future of GamerLegion, the Dane hinted towards a time to come, when the likes of 23-year-old Ivan "iM" Mihai and 20-year-old Kamil "siuhy" Szkaradek could be hard to keep on the team.

- I would probably count on many of the players on the team getting offers from other teams. Of course, I can't speak for myself, I'm probably getting a little older compared to what many people think. It's hard to say, but I believe that there will be team offers left and right for the young guys on the team.

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One of the issues for GamerLegion, in order to be able to keep their new superstars on the roster, will undoubtedly be the salaries.

- You can't really do anything about it. If a tier-1 team comes knocking on a guy who gets 20.000 DKK ($2900) a month and he gets an offer of 150.000 DKK ($21.700). There is no one who can say no to that. You get to play all the high and good tournaments and be in the tier-1 tournaments all the time, Frederik "acoR" Gyldstrand says.

GamerLegion faces Team Vitality tomorrow in the Grand Final of the BLAST.tv Paris Major.

You can read the full interview (in Danish) with Frederik "acoR" Gyldstrand on Dust2.dk [link:{"url":"https://www.dust2.dk/nyheder/36599/acor-teaser-omkring-loenninger-paa-cs-scenen","isNewTab":true,"text":"here"}].

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The upcoming release of Counter-Strike 2 has generated buzz within the the CS:GO community, with players eagerly anticipating the new game. However, the snippets that have been released by Valve have sparked debate and discussion, particularly around changes to smoke grenades.

While some players are excited about the new game and the changes that have been made, others have expressed concerns about the game’s direction. In particular, professional CS:GO players have weighed in with their opinions, and there is a significant range of perspectives.

One of these pro players is GamerLegion’s AWPer, Frederik “acoR” Gyldstrand, who recently took to Twitter to express his disappointment with the new game, Counter-Strike 2. He provided feedback on the game’s performance, visuals, and gunplay after playing Deathmatch.

acoR mentioned that the game needs significant performance optimization, as it felt too bright, and the gunplay felt weird and clunky. He expressed hope that the developers would address these issues in the future updates but made it clear that the current state of the game was not up to par.

That’s what's on the schedule today at the $200.000 LAN tournament Elisa Masters Espoo. You can read a brief preview of the tournament down below.

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The tournament is divided into two groups of six teams where Top 3 will advance to the playoff stage. Both Group A and B is set to be kicked off with 15 Bo1 matches, starting at 10:00 (CET) this Wednesday. You can watch the CS:GO action on the channels below the groups.

ENCE – BIG – Sprout – GamerLegion – HEET – HAVU

Fnatic – Astralis – Complexity – Bad News Eagles – SAW – 500

Frederik “acoR” Gyldstrand has made a strong comeback to high-tier Counter-Strike after he joined GamerLegion in September this year.

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It was not something many would have imagined happening taking his rough tenure and disappointing individual performance on MOUZ in mind. In this ‘Deep Dive’ episode, we’ve asked our CS:GO analyst Niels Christian “NaToSaphiX” Sillassen to analyze and compare acoR when he was playing in MOUZ and GamerLegion. 

You can watch the entire thing in the video below. 

If you want to get a deeper insight into acoR and his thoughts on joining GamerLegion, his struggles in MOUZ and more, then you can watch our lengthy interview with him on our YouTube channel. 

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The Cinderella story at IEM Rio starring GamerLegion came to an end last night, with the European underdogs failing to secure a Legends Stage spot after falling short against Cloud9.

Despite the loss, the young Kamil "siuhy" Szkaradek-led squad can look back at a very impressive two-month period where they have managed to take down the likes of Vitality, G2 and also barely the PGL Antwerp Major winners from FaZe.

GamerLegion’s Danish AWPer Frederik “acoR” Gyldstrand is also very pleased with their development and their current performance, he explained in a recent interview with ESL.

- We definitely got a lot of experience playing here, and we have beaten good teams. I think we got smashed against Bad News Eagles. I believe we have played really well and also gave a good fight against Cloud9, and I think we have established ourselves around Top 20 in my opinion, where we still have a bit more time to keep pushing.

- Coming up we have a LAN tournament in Finland [Elisa Masters Espoo], where we will do our best – let’s see what happens, acoR stated in the interview (watch the entire thing down below).

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At the ongoing IEM Rio Major, there has been a lot of talk and discussion about how the crowd inside the Riocentro arena has interfered with the game by shouting crucial information to the players.

To such an extent that ESL felt compelled to remove the minimap and x-ray vision during yesterday’s match between Cloud9 and the home favourites from Imperial in order to protect the integrity of the tournament, Shaun Clark, ESL Senior Director of Game Ecosystems for CS:GO has stated. 

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Following the episode and discussions, caster and analyst, Jason “Moses” O’Toole went to Twitter saying that people should “stop asking for sound proof booths” and that “the players “can't distinguish words with this audio set up”.

Something, GamerLegion’s Frederik “acoR” Gyldstrand contradict completely in a response to the North American, after having played on the stage with the exact audio setup.

- I agree with the open scene. But the noise-cancelling headsets do not work whatsoever on stage. You hear EVERYTHING. The backstage headsets are 10x better both mic and cancelling noise.

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When Frederik “acoR” Gyldstrand joined MOUZ in January last year it was to conquer the top of CS:GO. The Dane was handpicked by the Germans to take over the AWP duties after an impressive spell on MAD Lions.

But why did it not work out for the otherwise talented AWPer?

In an interview with us, acoR opens up about the struggles in MOUZ and why both him and the team underperformed. Here, the current GamerLegion player point towards the lack of chemistry within the team.

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In our lengthy talk with acoR, he also accounts how he and his family received death threats while he played for MOUZ and why he actually considered benching himself at one point.

Q: Did you feel that the criticism around you was fair?

You can watch the entire interview with acoR in the video below (timestamps included).

MAD Lions

After a long period away from top-tier CS:GO and competitive play, Frederik “acoR” Gyldstrand seem to have made his comeback. The 25-year-old AWPer has been picked up by GamerLegion where he has presented a stellar level of CS so far, leading the team to the Rio Major.

We have had the opportunity to sit down with acoR for an interview regarding his comeback, joining GamerLegion and his impressive performance at the RMRs.

You can find the entire interview with acoR down below.

 MOUZ struggles and receiving death threats

 The importance of chemistry within a CS:GO roster

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G2 is not going to Rio! The star-studded roster was eliminated by GamerLegion after three maps.

Against GamerLegion it did not take G2 long to lock in their own map pick of Vertigo. It was only GamerLegion's AWP'er Frederik 'acoR' Gyldstrand, who had anything to bring to the table on the first map. That changed quickly on Mirage, as GamerLegion dealt G2 a huge blow. A stellar T side gave GamerLegion an 11-4 lead at the break which was converted to a 16-4 win. 

Inferno was left as the decider, and what a game we got! GamerLegion continued impressing and took a 12-8 lead in the second half. The confidence was clearly growing round after round for the underdogs, who had activated their AWP'er Frederik "acoR" Gyldstrand, who had several impactful rounds with rifles. An intense round saw NiKo win a 1vs1 clutch to keep GamerLegion within a distance. But then acoR created havoc again! With only a tech-9, the Dane plowed through the B-site to give his team the map and match point. 

GamerLegion broke through the defense again on the B-site and secured the win despite m0NESY's best efforts. G2 is eliminated from the RMR, while GamerLegion still needs one more win to qualify. What a game!

G2 - GamerLegion 2-1 | IEM Road to Rio RMR (Group A)

16-3 (Vertigo) | {cflag:RU} m0NESY – 1.89 Rating / 19–10 K-D / 110.7 ADR

4-16 (Mirage) | {cflag:PL} siuhy – 1.62 Rating / 18–10 K-D / 95.0 ADR

16-12 (Inferno) | {cflag:DK} acoR – 1.62 Rating / 30–16 K-D / 103.4 ADR

Player of the Match: Frederik "acoR" Gyldstrand

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Frederik “acoR” Gyldstrand was once one of the most exciting AWPers in CS:GO making it through the ranks of the successful MAD Lions squad, where he later on were acquired by the proud Germans from mousesports.

Despite a promising start, the big transfer didn’t pan out at all for acoR and after a lackluster period individually and a benching later, the Dane saw himself being pushed away from the competitive scene.

However, now it looks like acoR could be on his way back to the top of CS:GO with him presenting a stellar level for his new team GamerLegion. Something he touched on in a post-match interview with ESL yesterday.

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acoR has an average rating of 1.27 while playing for GamerLegion (Numbers from HLTV)

GamerLegion came extremely close to beating the reigning Major winners and world leaders from FaZe in the opening round. In fact, acoR and company had several match points to solidify the impressive upset. In the interview, acoR also touches on the thrilling battle against FaZe and how they managed to recover by defeating Aurora yesterday. 

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Frederik "acoR" Gyldstrand and Kamil ”siuhy” Szkaradek are no longer tied with MOUZ with the German organization having announced their farewell on Twitter.

The latter one has represented MOUZ NXT with great success winning four consecutive WePlay Academy League titles, while acoR on the other hand has sat on the bench since January this year, where he was replaced with Ádám "torzsi" Torzsás.

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The future of siuhy and acoR is still uncertain, however, both of them were a part of the GamerLegion roster that managed to qualify to the European RMR tournament for IEM Rio. Whether they will continue on this roster after the RMR cycle is as said; still uncertain.

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The promising Hungarian Ádám "torzsi" Torzsás has been promoted to MOUZ’s main team, the German organization announce on Twitter this Monday. The 19-year-old gets the chance to play top-tier Counter-Strike after showing powerful forces for MOUZ NXT since his arrival in May 2021.

torzsi is set to take upon the important AWP-role on MOUZ, where the former Budapest Fire player will replace Frederik “acoR” Gyldstrand. Following the news, MOUZ inform that acoR has been moved to the bench.

- Due to the promotion of torzsi, we are moving acoR to the bench for now. We want to thank acoR for his hard work in the past months that was crowned with a tournament win at Flashpoint 3, MOUZ state on [link:{"url":"https://twitter.com/mousesports/status/1478028688398692356","isNewTab":true,"text":"Twitter"}].

{cflag:AU} Christopher "⁠dexter⁠" Nong

{cflag:SK} David "⁠frozen⁠" Čerňanský

{cflag:HU} Ádám "⁠torzsi⁠" Torzsás

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In the opening round of IEM Winter, MOUZ and Team Vitality faced each other in a best of 1 match. After the usual “Day 1 technical issues”, the two teams went head to head on Overpass. A map that MOUZ very rarely plays with their latest match on the map dating back to the end of August.

MOUZ started well and had luck with keeping the starplayer of Vitality, Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut quiet in the first half. Instead, it was the two experienced Frenchmen, apEX and shox who kept Vitality in the fight during the first 15 rounds.

After the pause, Team Vitality won five rounds in a row to create a gap to MOUZ. Again it was shox and apex, who broke their opponents with their aggression.

But slowly MOUZ began to fight their way back into the match. Frederik "acoR" Gyldstrand won several duels against ZywOo, who could not make his usual impact on the server.

MOUZ made it 15-13 before throwing a 4vs2 situation to win the map. 

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Instead, Vitality equalized and forced the match to overtime. Here Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut finally came alive to help his team to a 19-16 win in their opening match. The Frenchmen will continue in the upper bracket, while MOUZ will need to make a run through the lower bracket to stay alive. Both teams will play their next match tonight.

MOUZ vs. Team Vitality 0-1 | IEM Winter Opening Round

Overpass (16-19) | {cflag:FR} apEX - 1.51 rating / 35-23 K-D / 113.4 ADR

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DreamHack Open November 2021 is in full swing these days, as we saw the tournament kick off yesterday with a thrilling opening round. The first day offered a quite surprising result, with the PGL Stockholm Major competitors from MOUZ losing to MAD Lions. 

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Despite yesterday's loss, Frederik "acoR" Gyldstrand still gave up a strong fight for MOUZ, ending the series as their highest-rated player, including getting this excellent quad kill near the A-site on Dust2.

It will be MOUZ, who will represent Germany at the Legend stage at PGL Stockholm Major. The Hamburg-based Organisation won their elimination match against Berlin International Gaming (BIG) after three maps of pure drama at the studio in Stockholm.

BIG kicked the match off by winning their map pick of Dust2. Another stellar performance from Johannes "

" Wodarz helped BIG take a huge step towards the next stage at the tournament. It was a flawless CT-side that had the map tipping BIG's way. 

On to Inferno, it was an unlikely hero in Frederik 'acoR' Gyldstrand, who turned up big time for MOUZ. The Danish AWP'er has been heavily criticized for subpar performances, but today the Dane was on point. On Inferno he was not only the top fragger on his team but also won all his duels against BIG's reliable sniper, Florian 'syrsoN' Rische. MOUZ equalized the score with a 16-12 to take the match to Nuke.

For the third time in a row, MOUZ had the lead at halftime. And for the second map in a row, they managed to keep hold of the lead, and eliminated BIG. MOUZ is ready for the Legends Stage at the PGL Stockholm Major.

MOUZ – BIG 2-1 | PGL Major Stockholm Challengers Stage

10-16 (Dust2) | {cflag:DE} tabseN – 1.67 Rating / 28-17 K-D / 110.5 ADR

16-12 (Inferno) |{cflag:DK} acoR – 1.50 Rating / 23-8 K-D / 82.4 ADR

16-12 (Nuke) | {cflag:LT} Bymas - 1.37 Rating / 19-11 K-D / 78.1 ADR

MVP: {cflag:DK} Frederik 'acoR' Gyldstrand - 1.24 Rating / 62-43 K-D / 77.5 ADR

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The last match was between the two leaders of group A, G2 and Copenhagen Flames, where the winner would go into round four as undefeated. It was a close affair and went back-and-forth, but the favorites from G2 got off to a great start on the attacking took the early lead 6-1. Despite the strong start, Copenhagen Flames' defense began to find their right footing, but it was G2 who edge out a lead at halftime. In the second half, the Danes strung together seven rounds in a row, taking the lead and seemingly complete control of the game.

Copenhagen Flames initially seemed to have the upper hand on their offense, extending their lead 14-8 before a G2 defense put a temporary halt to their ambitions. The European squad managed to climb back and force the match in overtime, but the Danish underdogs made the unthinkable and continued their impressive run at IEM Fall, putting them on the top of Group A at 3-0.

19-16 (Nuke) | {cflag:BA} huNter- – 1.48 Rating / 36-22 K-D / 99.5 ADR

Mousesports – AURA (16-10) | {cflag:DK} acoR – 1.78 Rating / 28-15 K-D / 124.7 ADR

BIG – Funplus Phoenix (16-7) | {cflag:DE} tabseN - 1.54 Rating / 22-11 K-D / 92.8 ADR

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It was a rough day at the office for mousesports' AWP'er Frederik "acoR" Gyldstrand. Not only did his team lose their opening round in the playoffs at ESL Pro League. The Dane delivered two terrible maps, which did not go unnoticed at the desk at ESL Pro League, where the two analysts Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquerez and Janko "YNk" Paunović pointed out the Dane as the scapegoat for the bad performance from mousesports on both Ancient and Inferno. Furthermore, the future of Frederik "acoR" Gyldstrand on mousesports was questioned.

You can hear what the two analysts said after the match here.

The playoffs at ESL Pro League are on! mousesports and Ninjas in Pyjamas kicked off the opening round of the tournament with a much-anticipated matchup.

Both teams with tons of talent, but also a recent record of mixed results desperately needed a win to kickstart the second half of the season. The action actually started before the first round. In the veto round NIP did not ban their usual auto-ban Vertigo. A map that mousesports has not won a match on since April. So was it a trick, or did they just assume, that mouz would leave the map to be banned in the next round? Well, mousesports jumped in and picked Vertigo. 

First Ancient had to be dealt with. The newest map on the circuit has been played by NIP 11 times during the last three months, and three times at ESL Pro League with three victories. The Swedes added another today with a 16-12 win. It looked troublesome for NIP in the middle of the second half, but the roster managed to change 9-12 to 16-12 and seal the deal.

On to Vertigo and to what mousesports hoped would be their punish pick. Quickly it turned out, that they were right. A 12-3 lead at the break was converted to a 16-6 win, which forced the match into a third map decider.

For the Swedish Ninjas, the biggest problem was, that their Danish star AWP'er, Nicolai 'device' Reedtz had performed worst of all on the server in the two first maps. An ominous sign for NIP, who badly needed their most experienced player to step up and lead the way.

Inferno delivered right away. The two teams traded rounds until 8-8. On NIP's CT side the Swedes began to create a gap. device found some much-needed momentum at the exact right time and created the space that NIP needed to deny mousesports any chance in the second half. NIP played their CT side flawlessly to win 16-8 and eliminate mousesports from the tournament.

Ninjas in Pyjamas will now face OG in the next round.

mousesports - Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-1| ESL Pro League Season 14 

12-16 (Ancient) | {cflag:SE} REZ – 1.55 Rating / 25-12 K-D / 91.4 ADR

16-6 (Vertigo) | {cflag:DK} acoR – 1.71 Rating / 19-6 K-D / 93.9 ADR

16-12 (Inferno) | {cflag:SE} hampus – 1.45 Rating / 21-17 K-D / 111.2 ADR

MVP: {cflag:EE} Robin 'ropz' Kool | 1.22 Rating / 64-43 K-D / 82.9 ADR

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From aspiring car mechanic to professional esports player, Frederik “acoR” Gyldstrand is a rising star in CS:GO.

In today’s era of Counter-Strike, potential prodigies are scouted from their early teen years and are already in their country’s best teams with a dozen of Big events played and a couple of trophies in the cabinet. But that wasn’t the case for acoR who faced more sort of a late bloom in his career.

The story of acoR we know today, truly began when he was transitioned from a supportive player into a consistent and exciting main AWPer in Tricked.

We had our working hours and our demo reviews to create a strong AWP player. He had a hard time in the beginning; let’s be honest, he had a hard time for the first four months. But after a good period of practice and too many demos watched, he finally started to create his own AWP style. When that happened, he started to shine and became the star player of the team.

” HUNDEN said in an interview with HLTV.org.

acoR began to get onto people’s radar as a 22-year-old at MAD Lions where he averaged a 1.14 rating in 2020 and helped the team to win Flashpoint 1 and to become ever-present in the Top 15 in the world rankings of 2020.

When acoR came up as a rising talent, a lot of people probably thought he was going to be a flash in the pan, but actually turned out to be one of the rare people who managed to combine the benefits of both ends of the spectrum. He fires very quickly and doesn’t do a lot of conservative play, but his hit rate is very high and that isn’t typically whatever causes problems, the firing speed. So as a result, he’s basically been able to go from being an up-and-coming player to pretty much just skipping to almost the top of his field already, even though his teams haven’t been at that level proportionally.

Confidence is a really big part of Counter-Strike, you play against a really good player, like a player that you’ve been looking up to for years, and you’ve been watching him play, or another team play, and then you actually play against them one time and you do good, or decent, and better than your own expectation. That’s going to gain you a lot of confidence and belief that you can actually do it.

acoR’s biggest achievement in his career so far was when MAD Lions came back from a map down to beat MIBR and win Flashpoint 1 in 2020. MAD Lions secured the Flashpoint title and a $500.000 cheque. The 23-year-old AWPer was a solid performer for the Danish squad in the grand final and averaged a 1.12 rating throughout the tournament in 28 maps.

Watch the best highlights from the Grand final of Flashpoint 1 where MAD Lions took the victory.

The German organization announced their new signing in the Danish AWPer in January and stated that acoR will be replacing their iconic Dutchman Chris “chrisJ” de Jong, who is the longest-serving player of mousesports, having joined the organization in October 2013.

Read more: “mousesports sign acoR as replacement for chrisJ” 

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The match against FaZe in cs_summit 7 marked the 23-year-old Danes’ debut. Whilst acoR was far from the best performing player on the server, he seemed comfortable in the roster and showed glimpses of what he is capable of.

Watch acoR’s debut for mousesports here.

Tricked esport

Bymas, acoR, frozen, dexter, and ropz put on some CS:GO highlight reel worthy displays, beating fnatic, G2, Astralis, and Ninjas in Pyjamas on their way to the crown.

The renowned analyst, Richard Lewis admits he was wrong about mousesports, after previously saying that they were a ‘dead team’, and that ‘in the absence of karrigan they would become directionless.’ Richard Lewis also gives a shoutout to some of mouz’ standouts at the vent, namely the Estonian predator, ropz.

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acoR: I expect there will be offers from left and right for our young players

acoR on CS2: I’m really disappointed, the game needs a lot of performance optimization

Live: Elisa Masters Espoo

The Reawakening of acoR! What has changed since he left MOUZ?

acoR: We have established ourselves as a Top 20 team

acoR contradicts expert about crowd influence: You hear EVERYTHING

acoR on receiving death threats and MOUZ struggles: I considered benching myself

acoR: I definitely see myself joining a top team again in the future

No Rio for NiKo! G2 eliminated in huge downfall!

acoR on reinventing himself: I‘ve been streaming, playing FPL and grinding to get my individually level back

MOUZ release two players from their duties

Confirmed: torszi replaces acoR on MOUZ

Vitality’s “Grand Old Men” stars in opening round win

Video: acoR with four surgical AWP kills on Dust2

MOUZ send BIG packing at PGL Stockholm Major

Copenhagen Flames lead Group A after defeating G2!

Harsh critique of Danish AWPer from the desk of ESL Pro League

NIP eliminate mousesports and qualifies for the Quarter-Finals at ESL Pro League

Introducing: acoR – The new device?

Analyst reacts to mousesports’ run at Flashpoint 3

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