ProUnite Esports AS, the organization behind the Norwegian Counter-Strike team Apeks have raised no more than 32 million NOK, equivalent to +$3.5 million dollars in a "private placement to existing owners". With the capital injection, the org wishes to bring its's CS:GO team to the very top of the game and to make its brand more internationally.

- We are seeing an exciting market for e-sports in Norway and internationally, and are therefore working to strengthen the company financially in order to realise our vision of becoming an internationally recognised e-sports club.

We see it as a natural part of our efforts that we should have the best players at all times, and we might look into the possibility of raising additional capital at some point in the future, including from external investors, CEO of ProUnite Esport AS, Brit Denise Anfinnsen states.

The strengthening of their financial base comes with great timing as Apeks’ CS:GO division right now is in a major rebuilding phase. Last week the organization decided to cut their roster down to only one man, leaving Asger “AcilioN” Larsen all alone.

The decision means that the quartet of Sander "⁠Grusarn⁠" Iversen, Dennis "⁠dennis⁠" Edman, Fredrik "⁠FREDDyFROG⁠" Gustafsson, and Joakim "⁠Relaxa⁠" Gustafsson all will leave the team at the end of the year.

- The main team in Counter-Strike is also being restructured now – and the goal here is of course to be on the biggest stages in all our games, says Head of Esports, Anders Kjær.

(…) we will always work hard to achieve our goals. We will help professionalise e-sports in Norway, and to this end, we’ll build the club by drawing on the good structure found in Norwegian sports. In the last couple of years, Apeks has performed well in both Norwegian and foreign tournaments, Kjær concludes.

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Apeks' future CS:GO team will be build around the the Danish in-game leader AcilioN

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What does is take to be the absolute best at something?

Is it an unwavering, unquestionable self-belief? Is it the countless hours of grueling practice? Maybe it’s just a natural, God-given talent. Or maybe it has to do with a little bit of luck?

For most players, it’s probably a combination of those things.

But in the case for CS:GO legend Dennis “dennis” Edman, his specific talent remains a bit of a mystery.

And throughout his long career as one of Counter-Strike’s most feared, frugal skull shatterers, dennis didn’t need to explain much.

Instead, he preferred to let his pistol do the talking.

The Norwegian team of Apeks is currently placed on the #47 spot on HLTV’s world ranking, possessing strong players like the promising rifler Rasmus “kreaz” Johansson and the former NiP and fnatic star Dennis "dennis" Edman.

Yesterday, Apeks played a qualifier match for the prominent Flashpoint 3 event, which will hand out vital RMR point for the upcoming PGL Major in Stockholm, later this year. The Scandinavians played against the unknown RatPatrol, where they lost the bo1 match. However, the surprising upset may have happened on an unfair and very unethical foundation.

Because after the match, the Apeks profile Dennis went on Twitter stating that their opponents from RatPatrol cheated and that they can't do anything about it. He follows up by saying “it's a bit fucked up that it works like this”  

dennis can't understand why he and Apeks still are out of the tournament, owing to the fact that he believes that one or multiple RatPatrol players cheated.  

dennis provides a screenshot of the alleged cheater RatPatrol player "peterpik-" and his FACEIT profile, where you can see that he has a VAC-ban. RatPatrol consists of a mix of five players from Denmark, Sweden, and Romania. 

The alleged cheater peterpik- had the following stat line against Apeks: 26-17 K-D / 84 ADR / 57% headshot percentage.

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RatPatrol has afterwards been removed from the tournament, as Flashpoint has kicked them out, owing to fielding a player with a VAC-ban.

Here you can find the match-page and the demo:

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