Flipside land Highgrade

FlipSide Tactics have announced that they have secured the services of the Highgrade CS:GO team.

The Swedish team have been very active online in recent weeks and currently sit fourth in ESEA Intermediate, while they finished runners-up to Belarussian side 97CLUB in their SLTV ProSeries group.

Considered to be an up-and-coming team, Highgrade have in Marcus "windster" Andersson, who had a brief spell in LGB eSports, their most famous player, and are looking to break into the top of the Swedish scene in the coming months.

And they have now taken a giant step towards reaching that goal, having been picked up by FlipSide Tactics, an international organisation created in 2013 who also support a Dota 2 team.

"We have been looking for a stable organisation for a while now and when F3 contacted us it seemed like a really good fit for us," Tim "hydrox" Vallen told Flipside's organisation.

"They seem to be very serious and dedicated and that is something that is not easy to find.

"We are very excited to play under their banner and hope that together we can become one of the best teams out there."

Flipside's CS:GO division consists of:

Daniel "barsiC" Fanous
Marcus "windster" Andersson
Eddie "zape" Härdeman
Andre "relik" Larsson
Tim "hydrox" Vallen

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