Niels Christian "NaToSaphiX" Sillassen and Miikka "⁠suNny⁠" Kemppi are the two of the new players in a revitalized Ambush roster. The two Nordic players are flanked by Mikkel "⁠Maze⁠" Sparvath, Joonas "⁠doto⁠" Forss, and Milen "⁠milky⁠" Iliev.

The team will go under the name Ambush By Preasy after a merger between the energy company Preasy and the esports organization Ambush Esports took place recently. The owner of Ambush By Preasy, Michael Hertz is excited about the future of the team.

- I'm impressed by the effort our new lineup has already shown, and I look forward to seeing what the future holds for Ambush By Preasy. We have a mix of talent and experienced players, and we will continue to attract the best players to our organization.

The new in-game leader will be the former Fnatic Rising player Mikkel "⁠Maze⁠" Sparvath, who had a very short trial with Sprout recently. The Danish captain is pleased to return to Ambush, where he played both in 2020 and 2021.

- As a leader, I will continue to motivate and inspire the team to do their best, and I am confident that we can achieve great results together, he states in a press announcement.

{cflag:DK} Niels Christian "⁠NaToSaphiX⁠" Sillassen

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A mix of experience and talent are the key components of the new TITANS roster, that were announced last night on Twitter.

27-year-old Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen will be leading the new teams as the in-game leader, while the two former MOUZ players, Tomáš "⁠oskar⁠" Šťastný and Miikka "⁠suNny⁠" Kemppi join the Dane on the new team. The three experienced players will be assisted by the Ukrainian coach Sergey "⁠lmbt⁠" Bezhanov, while Estonian Anton "⁠supra⁠" Tšernobai and the 23-year-old Dane Magnus "⁠Nodios⁠" Olsen is the two youngest players on the team with the latter having played for Copenhagen Flames two times earlier in his career.

The team has been playing matches and practices together for some while and is now ready to try and establish themselves as a top-tier CS:GO team according to a press release.

{cflag:CZ} Tomáš "⁠oskar⁠" Šťastný 

{cflag:EE} Anton "⁠supra⁠" Tšernobai

{cflag:UA} Sergey "⁠lmbt⁠" Bezhanov (coach)

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Robin “flusha” Rönnquist will not play under the GORILLAZ-banner going into next year, the Swede has confirmed on Monday via his [link:{"url":"https://twitter.com/flusha/status/1467886099838210053","isNewTab":true,"text":"Twitter"}]. In the announcement, flusha affirms that he’s still committed to playing competitive esports as he states “Looking for new opportunities next year”.  

The former Fnatic profile and three-time Major winner is therefore set to leave the CS:GO project, which he co-founded with Miikka "⁠suNny⁠" Kemppi back in April this year. The experienced duo joined forces with suNny’s countryman and former ENCE star Jere "⁠sergej⁠" Salo alongside the likes of Buğra “Calyx” Arkın and Rokas “EspiranTo” Milasauskas. However, the international mix didn’t manage to find a consistent level or any particular success in the tier-2 scene.  

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Since its creation, GORILLAZ hasn’t had a stable lineup where multiple players have been in and out of the team, either on trial or as stand-ins. Some of the most renowned names are Jesper "JW" Wecksell, Niels Christian "NaToSaphiX" Sillassen, and Yasin "xfl0ud" Koç.

{cflag:EE} Anton "⁠supra⁠" Tšernobai (trial)

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GORILLAZ

Fnatic

The Desert Eagle, otherwise known as the "Deagle", is one of Counter-Strike's most iconic weapons and a fan-favorite for many. Questions have been raised about the gun and if it is perhaps too powerful at the price of only $700. Whether or not you think that the weapon needs changing, one thing is for sure, it can be extremely deadly if used correctly by a skilled player. 

The Finnish rifler Miikka "suNny" Kemppi proved exactly this when he and his teammates from GORILLAZ faced the Sinners roster. Dancing around the B-bombsite, only wielding the Deagle, "suNny" managed to execute four opponents with nothing but headshots in a matter of seconds. Take a look at the incredible 4K from "suNny" and the power of the "hand cannon" that is the Deagle: 

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GORILLAZ hold many great minds on the roster, with the team having both Robin "flusha" Rönnquist and Miikka "suNny" Kemppi in their player arsenal. The former Fnatic and mousesports veterans seem to lead the way on GORILLAZ, which may be a great idea due to their huge experience in CS:GO. 

In a match yesterday against Sinners, GORILLAZ took a hard eco on Overpass, where they afterwards literally ran into their own death. At first, it looked like a massive fail, but it was actually a very smart and rare play. One would maybe say that they should go for the win instead of losing the round on purpose, but it's still a quite innovative play. 

In April this year, the CS:GO world saw the rise of a new and promising roster called GORILLAZ, led by Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist and Miikka "⁠suNny⁠" Kemppi. Besides the former mouz and fnatic profiles, the two experienced veterans brought in the likes of Jere "⁠sergej⁠" Salo, Rokas "⁠EspiranTo⁠" Milasauskas, and Niels Christian "NaToSaphiX" Sillassen.

However, the time has come for NaToSaphiX who now has been dropped by the new team, flusha has announced on Twitter this Wednesday.

- Was an insanely good time with the Gorillaz-guys. Some of the nicest people I’ve met in esports for sure and will miss them all until next time They decided to search for a guy who is more “natural” in a rifle-role, something I am not yet as I was AWP most of my career, NaToSaphiX writes on Twitter. 

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NaToSaphiX looks forward to a new challenge following the departure from GORILLAZ, with the 24-year-old Dane expressing his desire to "start a new CS:GO journey" as an AWP + IGL or as a Rifler. The versatile player has previously represented strong teams like Heroic, mousesports and Sprout, where he showed promising abilities from time to time. 

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In the match between Caronte and GORILLAZ, Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi put himself in the spotlight with a rather unfortunate grenade.

On Dust2, two GORILLAZ players were trying to retake the A-bomb site. In the end, Niels Christian 'NaToSaphiX' Sillassen was the only player left alive on the server, but as he started the defuse a grenade thrown by Miikka 'suNny' Kemppi just before his death landed on top of the Danish player and eliminated him from the round.

Luckily for suNny, GORILLAZ went on to win the match 2-0.

Caronte

Since the start of the year, discussions and rumors about a new roster featuring Robin "flusha" Rönnquist and Miikka "suNny" Kemppi have been floating around. Due to a lack of interest from organizations the project was delayed. Today, however, it has been confirmed by "flusha" that the line-up has been finalized for now and that an organization is ready to bring them back on to the professional Counter-Strike scene. 

In conversation with HLTV the 26-year-old "sunNy" confirms the newly founded team, as well as the fact that four out of the five players have signed with the organization: 

"Today we can finally confirm that this project is actually happening and we have started to practice. It will be a long road ahead but happy to work with these players,"  He continues by stating: "Four of us have signed and we will be starting with flusha, sergej, EspiranTo, me, and trialing Calyx as our last piece of the puzzle."

The newly shaped European roster looks as follows: 

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In January this year, the legendary Swede Robin "flusha" Rönnquist were removed from fnatic’s active roster, as the Counter-Strike veteran wished to start a new adventure with a completely new roster. The 27-year old rifler stated that he had talks with Miikka "suNny" Kemppi, and that they will partner each other in a new potential top CS:GO team.

After some months without any concrete news regarding their plans, players, and organization, several rumours can tell that they have found their complete roster. flusha and suNny have allegedly managed to sign the profiled and promising Finn Jere "sergej" Salo, who is most known for his remarkable tenure at ENCE.

It’s the website GAMEINSIDE.UA that has published a report stating that the Russian team 1win has practised and played against the newly established roster.

[link:{"url":"https://gameinside.ua/news/sergej-i-sunny-vojdut-v-novyj-sostav-flusha-sluhi/275098/","text":"Full report: sergej and suNny will join flusha's new roster "}]

If the rumours are true, the roster possesses these players:

The Slovakian rifler thinks that chrisJ can replace sunNy on a permanent agreement, he has been on loan from mousesports, but according to STYKO he won’t be anymore, because they will sign him permanently.

In an interview with HLTV confirmed STYKO stated the following.

-We want to return to the negotiations with Chris if everything works out. The contract isn’t signed yet, but the situation looks way better than for a couple of months ago, where the deal got canceled. We want to play with each other because he fits in our game plan and is a great in-game leader. ChrisJ is cheering us up in the games, which is important for our team, and I think that he has learned a lot from karrigan.

sunNy replaced ChrisJ in the roster from march 1st, and with him, in the roster, the organization secured a place in the playoffs of ESL Pro League after a third place in Group A

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FunPlus Phoenix

Today's Pley of the Day is spectacular as it is important. In the third map between FunPlus Phoenix and OG, Aleksi "

" Virolainen threw what seemed to be the perfect molotov-cocktail at the bomb, that would have denied FPX a defuse. But with immense timing, Miikka "

" Kemppi started the defuse and was left with exactly one health point, when the molotov-cocktail died out. A true "Olofmeister-defuse" in the fire!

[link:{"url":"https://pley.gg/news/pley-day-march-1/","text":"You can see this month's other Pley of the Day's here."}]

In the match between FunPlus Phoenix and BIG it was the German team who tried to get away with a classic "four-man attacks A-site and one plants the bomb at B".

But FunPlus Phoenix didn't buy it, and had their player suNny positioned on the B-site just waiting for the last BIG player to arrive.

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syrsoN

In the first matchup of the day at ESL Pro League Season 13, FPX came out on top following a clean 2-0 victory over the Oceanic rulers from Renegades in Group A, rising from yesterday’s loss against Complexity. FPX’s suNny who yesterday got his first official match for the team, shined on top of the scoreboard as he delivered 46 frags and won important key rounds that helped secure his team the victory.

The action started on FPX’s map pick of Nuke where Farlig and company had a great showing on their T-side, picking up 8 rounds before switching sides. Renegades managed to grab 4 rounds before FPX’s strung the last rounds together to close out the map 16-11.

On Dust2 FPX secured the victory and showed good structure in their defense. In a controlled manner, the newly established squad went on to close the map after a good comeback from Renegades who lowered their deficit to only 1 round on CT-side, before FPX took 6 in a row to close out the map 16-9 and wrap up the series 2-0.

MVP: Miikka “suNny” Kemppi – 1.49 Rating | 84.8 ADR | 46-24 K/D

Renegades

ESL has just announced the Group Draw for the upcoming Season 13 of the ESL Pro League. The last contender to be found among the 24 competing rosters was that of FunPlus Phoenix. Due to the fact that the tournament organizers were unable to bring an Asian representative to Europe, the newly shaped FunPlus Phoenix roster has been given the chance to compete instead. 

The event marks the first time Miikka "suNny" Kemppi competes for FunPlus Phoenix as he will be filling the shoes of "chrisJ" as their stand-in. Read more about the recent departure of "chrisJ" and the addition of "suNnY" right here: 

[link:{"url":"https://pley.gg/news/chrisj-part-ways-with-funplus-phoenix-sunny-stand-in-/"}]

Group A of the ESL Pro League Season 13 will compete from 8-12 March and features the likes of BIG and Heroic. 

Group B will have their battles from 13-18 March with the likes of Vitality and FaZe going head to head. 

Group C, most notably, consists of NAVI, FURIA, and Gambit and will be competing from 19-24 March. 

Group D is the fourth and final group that sees the current best team in the world in Astralis fight against the likes of Liquid and Evil Geniuses. Their matches will span from 25-29 March. 

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Team Liquid

Chris "chrisJ" de Jong's loan period has come to an end. Failing to reach an agreement that suits both parties, the organization of FunPlus Phoenix has announced that the 30-year-old AWP'er will no longer be competing as part of their roster. Instead, however, they have confirmed a stand-in for "chrisJ" by the name of Miikka "sunNy" Kemppi, who will be competing in the FPX roster in their campaign in ESL Pro League Season 13. FunPlus Phoenix and "sunNy" will have the chance to prove themselves when the new ESL Season starts on the 8 of March. 

After agreeing to a loan deal, "chrisJ" made the move from Mousesports to FPX to be their new in-game leader. The new roster of FunPlus Phoenix showed great promise from the beginning and managed to secure a second-place in DreamHack Open January, as well as winning Snow Sweet Snow 1 ahead of Gambit. It is therefore rather surprising that "chrisJ" is returning to the bench of Mousesports. The General Manager of FunPlus Phoenix states the following in regards to the situation: 

"Unfortunately, we could not make a mutual agreement with chrisJ that works for both parties on time, and that's why we decided to try out another player..."

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This player goes by the name of "suNny" and is by no means a novice player. The 26-year-old has had experience at the highest levels of professional Counter-Strike, competing under ENCE's banner when they peaked. Having been released from the Finnish organization, however, he is without any doubt one of the most talented and experienced free agents currently available on the transfer market. He will be put to the test as he re-enters the Counter-Strike scene, this time under the FunPlus Phoenix banner. 

With "suNny" as a stand-in, the FunPlus Phoenix roster currently looks as follows: 

Miikka “suNny” Kemppi who returned to ENCE for a fourth spell back in September, has now been released from his contract, the 26-year-old announced on Friday. The Finnish players had spent the last two months on the bench, practicing individually.

“Good news today, I am officially a free agent! In the past months there hasn’t been anything else to do than think and practice individually. One thing is very sure for the future. I am eager and ready to play and compete on the big stages again.”

The 26-year-old has been linked to some moves recently, like joining the former GODSENT squad who now plays under the FPX banner. suNny also attempted to build a roster with Robin “flusha” Rönnquist, but the project fell through.

At the beginning of 2021, the rumors about a new team including Autimatic, Flusha, and suNny was flying around in the CS:GO community.

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But yesterday at HLTV Confirmed, Robin "flusha" Rönnquist revealed, that the project was not close to being realized.

The future of all three players are still unknown.

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Miikka “suNny” Kemppi has just confirmed the speculations regarding the building of a new top CS:GO team. The ENCE player has talked with Finnish media site Ilta-Sanoma, where the profiled Finn confirms that he’s on track to ground a new team, featuring Timothy “autimatic” Tan and Robin “flusha” Rönnquist.

In the article, suNny touched on a potential move to GODSENT/FunPlus Phoenix and on the decision to go international, with flusha and autimatic.

“I thought about the offer(GODSENT) for at least three weeks and the decision was really difficult. I would probably play there if this second project hadn’t come up.

The reason I chose this “risk” is that a new beginning is always a new beginning. We already talked about it with Flusha and autimatic at the turn of 2018/19, but then it was not possible.”

The three players are still contracted, but the profiled trio have all been giving permission to pursue new teams. The Finnish media site do not offer some new information regarding the last two players, but they can inform discussions and talks with several orgs, had taken place.

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With the 2021 season coming closer and closer, many teams have opted to make roster-changes in order to have the strongest possible roster going into the new season. Whilst this is great news for the general Counter-Strike fan, it is also sad when some players are left without a team and the possibility to compete. 

Not always is a roster-change smooth and easy for everyone involved and players are often left as free-agents or on the transfer list. At this current moment of time, there are more players than ever before that are simply just too good not to be competing. 

Let's take a look at some of the players we hope to see competing again as soon as possible. 

The Finish 26-year-old was removed from the ENCE roster in December 2020 after having played for them for just over a year. The team decided that something needed to change after lacking performance and never quite hitting their previous form. Whilst ENCE didn't have great results at the time "suNny" played for them, he is an experienced complementary player that most teams will benefit from having on their side. He has shown exactly that, not only when playing for ENCE, but also in his performances for Mousesports, his previous team. 

"oBo" departed with Complexity in September 2020, and despite not having found a new team yet he is undoubtedly one of the more exciting free-agents available at this current moment of time. At an impressively young age of only 17 years old, he managed to compete with the world's best players and put Complexity on the Counter-Strike map alongside his, at the time, teammates. Without much experience under his belt, he seemed composed and geared to compete at a very high-level. Once given the right environments to grow, it seems as if the sky is the limit for this young prospect. 

From a 17-year-old prospect to a 27-year-old icon in the Counter-Strike scene. fnatic announced their roster-changes going into the 2021 season yesterday, which sadly meant the end of "flusha's" 7 years of service for the Swedish team. You can read more about the departure here:

[link:{"url":"https://pley.gg/news/fnatic-annouces-flusha-departure/"}]

Despite having played at a high-intensity level for over 7 years "flusha" shows no signs of stepping down or even slowing down. At this current moment of time rumors have it that he is currently in talks with Miikka "suNny" Kemppi and Timothy "automatic" Ta in regards to establishing a new top-tier roster. 

Whilst it is sad to say goodbye when a great player is removed, it is just as exciting to follow their new journeys in finding a team and competing alongside new players. Hopefully, we will see all the phenomenal free-agents, that are currently without a team, competing again in 2021. 

compLexity Gaming

January is silly season in professional Counter-Strike. And this time around it's no different. 

According to dbltap.com Autimatic, Flusha, and suNny are actively approaching several Organizations intending to create a new CS:GO team around the three players.

Autimatic is still under contract with Gen.G but has been allowed to search for a new team. The same situation is expected for Flusha, who is close to being replaced by Jack "Jackinho" Ström Mattson at Fnatic, dbltap.com reports.

suNny was benched at ENCE in late December and is also allowed to search for a new team.

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