After the home team at Pinnacle Cup Championship Finest got eliminated against Heroic in a 1-2 series, we caught up with kreaz to talk a bit about the match, the energy on their team, and the next goal for the Finest team. 

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Listen to what kreaz had to say right here:

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The former Fnatic and Ninjas in Pyjamas player, Simon "twist" Eliasson has found himself a new home on the Israeli Team Finest.

Another Swede Niclas "PlesseN" Plessen has also been announced on the roster, which peaked in 36th place on the World Ranking last year. The team has had a troublesome 2021 with 16 different players on the roster throughout the year. 

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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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Apeks has signed a fully Swedish trio including two Galaxy Racers players, the Norwegian organization confirms in an official statement. It’s the two twin brothers Fredrik “FREDDyFROG” Gustafsson and

Joakim “Relaxa” Gustafsson who´s switching from Swedish to Norwegian Counter-Strike. The youngster Rasmus “kreaz” Johansson concludes the trio, coming from a trial period at North.

“It is with excitement that we announce the roster we have put together for the up and coming season. With a Swedish core, it’s a huge change for us, but in this business we must be both willing and able to change at all times. This roster is the best we have had in Apeks, and with several tournaments coming up we have no time to lose.”

 - Head of Esports at Apeks, Anders Kjær.

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The former 100 Thieves star Joakim "jkaem" Myrbostad leaves Apeks after a very short spell

Apeks coach Pål «Polly» Kammen continues by saying that the trio will boost the team for their upcoming campaigns at ESEA Premier and Snow Sweet Snow. 

“We are really happy to have signed «Relaxa», «FREDDyFROG» and «kreaz» to our team. They will bring alot of experience and skill to our line-up and give us alot of new ideas which will help us get to the level we want. Our focus now will be on doing well in ESEA Premier and Snow Sweet Snow, while we continue to climb the HLTV rankings.”

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North announced last week that their two experienced players Mathias “MSL” Lauridsen and Philip “aizy” Aistrup was being released, and replaced by two youngsters in Rasmus “kreaz” Johansson and Kristoffer “Kristou” Aamand.

Read more - "North removes MSL and aizy from their starting line-up"

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North IGL, Nicklas “gade” Gade spoke with the desk at DreamHack Masters Winter following their 2-1 victory against Nemiga yesterday. In the interview, gade addresses their new trial player kreaz, and his role on the team.

kreaz has represented teams as Syman Gaming and Epsilon in his short career so far. The young Swede is one of the first players being tested in this newly announced talent development strategy by North.

North’s next match is in the important lower semi-finals today at 16:30 (CET), where they will play against GODSENT.

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North has announced that Philip "aizy" Aistrup and Mathias "MSL" Lauridsen have been placed on the transfer list, and will no longer have a role in the North roster. 

To replace the two players North has announced the return of 18-year-old Kristoffer "Kristou" Aamand. North decided, shortly after signing the young Dane, to send him on a loan spell to the fellow Danish team AGF. With aizy and MSL leaving North, however, Kristou will once again be representing North and his teammates. 

As for the second replacement, nothing is yet final, but a step towards finding the fitting player has been taken. Rasmus "kreaz" Johansson will have his chance to steal the fifth and final place in the roster, as he will partake in the upcoming matches and training in order to showcase his capabilities and role in the team. 

North describes the decision as a part of their 2nd step in their Talent Development Strategy. This is of course emphasized by the young "Kristou" who is granted a chance to perform at a higher level than what he has previously been tried at. The strategy is based on giving younger players the environment and tools to grow as players. With aizy and MSL being the longest-serving players of the North organization it is, therefore, no surprise that it is them, who will have to step aside to let the younger talents prosper.

With MSL and aizy being removed from the team, changes in roles within the roster will have to take place. North's Head of Esports Operations Graham Pitt gives insight by explaining that: "Nicklas “gade” Gade will once again take on in-game leading duties with the team, with a refreshed outlook upon his own play and the leadership role, having learned a lot during 2020. During the COVID period, Nicklas will call with aid from head coach Jimmy “Jumpy” Berndtsson who is able to be much more active during online games,"

The team will compete together at Dreamhack Masters where their new journey begins. 

“I am really shocked,” The words from commentator Anders Blume said it all. OG is on a three-match loss-streak after a disappointing effort against Gen.G.

The disbelief was real after the first map on Train, where Gen.G ran away with a 16-5 victory. Having played their last game in September, and playing with two stand-ins, the expectations for the North American team were low.

But while OG struggled all the way on Train, stand-in Rasmus “kreaz” Johansson made a brilliant debut scoring +10 in K/D-ratio and making clutches like this.

Despite losing big on Train, the odds were still in OG’s favor before the two teams headed out on Dust2. Again OG was having a hard time. On their T-side, they went behind 1-7. Gen.G was constantly in command, and especially Kenneth "koosta" Suen was running the show on both Train and Dust2.

Gen.G finished the match with a 16-10 win and is ready for an exciting match against Virtus.pro in the upper bracket final on Sunday. OG will face Cloud9 in the lower bracket.

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