❘ Revealed: 2022-12-21T14:51:04
❘ Up to date: 2022-12-21T14:51:16
Ninjas in Pyjamas have benched Patrick ‘es3tag’ Hansen as they proceed to shake up their roster forward of the 2023 CS:GO season.
After the frustration of 2021, the place they have been hyped as much as make a march on the highest stage of Counter-Strike as soon as once more, 2022 proved to be one other rocky 12 months for Ninjas in Pyjamas.
The enduring Swedish group has reshaped its roster a number of occasions over the previous couple of months because of this, bringing in Ludvig ‘Brollan’ Brolin and Aleksi ‘Aleksib’ Virolainen from Fnatic and G2, respectively. They’ve additionally just lately bid farewell to Nicolai ‘dev1ce’ Reedtz as he returned to Astralias, in addition to benching Nicolas ‘Plopski’ Gonzalez Zamora to liberate a spot for Aleksib.
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That upheaval is about to proceed into the early a part of 2023 on the very least, as they’ve now benched es3tag and allowed the Dane to search out new alternatives away from NiP.
NiP bench es3tag from CS:GO roster
NIP introduced the roster change on December 21, confirming that the Dane could be allowed to discover a new residence for the 2023 season.
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“In preparation of the subsequent 12 months we’ve been evaluating the workforce composition total, and have moved Patrick ‘es3tag’ Hansen to the bench, and are permitting him to discover new alternatives forward of the 2023 season,” NIP stated.
“Patrick has been a incredible teammate, colleague, and participant to have at NIP. We have now nothing however good issues to say about him, and we’re positive he’ll discover success the place ever he goes subsequent.”
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As of writing, NIP haven’t but introduced a substitute for es3tag, nor has the Dane given any hints about his subsequent transfer.
Forward of 2023, the present NIP roster seems like:
- Aleksi ‘Aleksib’ Virolainen
- Fredrik ‘REZ’ Sterner
- Hampus ‘hampus’ Poser
- Ludvig ‘Brollan’ Brolin