Olof ‘Olofmeister’ Kajbjer is not going to return to aggressive Counter-Strike: Global Offensive till subsequent season, following an prolonged break to take care of private points. The Swede, who was meant to return to FaZe’s line-up for the ECS Season Five finals in London this weekend, issued an apology final week for leaving his group within the lurch only some days earlier than the event.
FaZe have been capable of safe Jorgen ‘cromen’Robertsen from Team Heroic as a stand-in for the event, which began earlier right this moment, however the group’s in-game chief Finn ‘karrigan’ Andersen instructed SE7EN.WS yesterday how he thinks their probabilities stand.
“We can’t speak much about Olof, but we don’t expect him to come back this season, which is quite devastating for us,” he says. “We anticipated him to come back again this event and have the entire line-up collectively to arrange for the Major.
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“Everyone is aware of it’s fairly exhausting to fill Olof’s sneakers, as he has fairly a novel place in our group and he balances out all the things – just like the temper and the playstyle. He is superb at that, so discovering a alternative was very exhausting, particularly with all of the gamers being locked in. Cromen impressed a few of us with Team Heroic in Dallas and that’s why we thought we’d give him an opportunity.”
Given how shortly FaZe has needed to discover a alternative, the group have hardly had any time to follow with Cromen. Karrigan isn’t anxious, nonetheless: FaZe have a simple group on paper, and in the event that they escape the double elimination bracket, they need to have a great shot at reaching the ultimate. But having a stand-in can nonetheless trigger issues.
“We never go into a tournament and not expect to have a chance of winning,” karrigan says. “There’s no denying that Astralis are the big favourites here, and everyone is looking to take that away, including us. Everyone is scared of them, but we are one of the only teams who has won more maps than anyone else on LAN. Astralis have a hard time playing us and maybe they are a little happy that Olof isn’t here.”
We’ll see how Cromen matches in with FaZe once they face Luminosity within the first sport of Group B from 18.15 BST (10.15 Pacific).
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