Official: North sign aizy

8-2-2017 18:00

North have announced the signing of Philip "aizy" Aistrup from FaZe Clan.

The Danish talent will step into the shoes of Ruben "⁠RUBINO⁠" Villarroel, who expressed his wish to step down from the team after their elimination at the ELEAGUE Major.

Philip "⁠aizy⁠" Aistrup returns to a full-Danish team after little over a year with FaZe, whom he joined in January 2016 from G2. During his time with the North American organisation, he found success hard to come by despite the team showing signs of improvement in recent months.

aizy joins North after a year with FaZe

This is the first roster change for the Danish team since signing for F.C. Copenhagen, at the start of the year. The team made their debut under the name North at the ELEAGUE Major, in Atlanta, where they made it through the Swiss round before being knocked out by Virtus.pro in the quarter-finals.

"I was super happy when North first approached me," Aistrup said in a statement.

"I have missed playing on an all-Danish team, and it means a lot to me that I am coming “home” to players that I know and are comfortable around.

"I see a great potential in this team and I am looking forward to giving my all to make it a success!"

aizy will make his official debut for North on Wednesday, against fnatic, in the ESL Pro League. His first offline event will be the $450,000 DreamHack Masters Las Vegas, which will run from February 15-19.

North now have:

René "⁠cajunb⁠" Borg
Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen
Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif
Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke
Philip "⁠aizy⁠" Aistrup

Casper "⁠ruggah⁠" Due (coach)

Welcome aizy!#HearTheRoar pic.twitter.com/tt4HhRVbrm
— North (@TheNorthIsHere) February 8, 2017

EXPECTED FAZE SCREAM INCOMING

2017-02-08 18:02

28 replies

expected

2017-02-08 18:01

1 reply

Gogogogo North

2017-02-09 09:57

RIP Rubino

3 replies

how is it rip rubino, when he wanted to step down himself?

2017-02-08 18:14

2 replies

not saying he was kicked but it's still RIP for him apparently

2017-02-08 18:31

It's some kind of a trend nowadays, where organizations are saying in their statements that player decided to step down which is actually understandable due both sides are receiving benefits from this. Organization is not damaging their brand in front of the fans since player decided to "step down hismelf" and for player it means that he wasn't kicked out, because, for example, he was performing bad. I think NiP was first who did this, with Fifflaren.

2017-02-09 07:48

scream? arent think that

2017-02-08 18:03

Or Rubino to FaZe .-.

Lol where is Rubino on that chart. Seems like the rumours of him leaving were true. Sad to see him go he really saved Dignitas/north in many situations, but he had limits on certain maps. I think aizy will be more stable, still they need Karrigan as IGl instead of msl, maybe sack Cajun also and make rain main awp.

2017-02-08 18:08

13 replies

Rain awper? Karrigan instead of MSL :D?? What are you smoking dude, I want some of that stuff too.

2017-02-08 18:18

12 replies

that's some top analysis right there lol xD

2017-02-08 18:32

If u get it, hit me, wanna try it as well

2017-02-08 18:34

What is wrong with karrigan instead of MSL? MSL is shit for tier1 cs and should be kicked asap.

2017-02-09 17:20

8 replies

Why would you think he should be kicked :D?

2017-02-09 18:33

7 replies

Because he is worse than pronax. The worst player in tier1 cs by far.

2017-02-09 18:34

6 replies

Welp, I guess that sums up your CS knowledge.

2017-02-09 18:41

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Not an argument. Sorry.

2017-02-09 18:42

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lol, what argument do you want me to give you :DDD? If you actually believe Pronax is better than MSL, then the only thing I could possibly advise you is to watch some demos of North/Dig. Until then, no matter what would I tell you, you would just keep saying otherwise, thus this conversation would go nowhere and only waste my time..

2017-02-09 18:51

Come on, you are most likely a gold nova bot who knows jack shit. Why would I watch demos? I watched MSL countless times live. He averages 0.80 rating and almost every game North loses is his fault.

2017-02-09 18:53

Why did you just get so defensive :DD? If I'm gold nova, then who are you? Everyone who has atleast 1,5 hours in this game knows that you can see and learn a lot more from demos, than just watching observer feeds on Twitch. And if you watched POVs of some players, then maybe you would realise which ones are good, or bad. But then again, you obviously know better, cuz you are a fuckin global averaging 1.20 k/d on MM. Before I leave you with your own thoughts, ask yourself why is MSL the only player from Dignitas core that didn't get kicked eventually and if he's so bad why are his teammates praising him? So what if he has 0.8 rating, if he can put his mates in a position to get 1.15? It's not for ppl like you to understand the impact of an IGL either way. You can now continue proving something to yourself, but I won't waste my time.

2017-02-09 19:11

But then again, you obviously know better, cuz you are a fuckin global averaging 1.20 k/d on MM. 1.25* csgostats.gg/player/76561198152918429 While playing with no headset and dropping fps and while never playing premade. LOL! Before I leave you with your own thoughts, ask yourself why is MSL the only player from Dignitas core that didn't get kicked eventually and if he's so bad why are his teammates praising him? So what if he has 0.8 rating, if he can put his mates in a position to get 1.15? It's not for ppl like you to understand the impact of an IGL either way. So irreplaceable! They said the same about ex6tenz, as soon as he got kicked they started winning and they did not even get a good player instead, they got a fucking bodyy LOL! Karrigan is generally viewed as one of the best callers in the game while cajun has to help bot MSL with his strats. No reason to keep him.

2017-02-09 19:15

karrigan is igl, was igl on a much better team than north for quite some time and is also danish. rain as awper is just absurd, but karrigan instead os msl is not so far fetched

2017-02-09 21:44

its NV Scream vakarm.net/news/read/ScreaM-finalement-e..

2017-02-08 18:13

Scream going to nV Also North is overrated.

2017-02-08 18:47

Not anymore. They now have 2 star Danish players.

2017-02-09 00:51

They already did, magisk & k0nfig. They are probably the most overrated top10 in cs rn. Why are they even still hyped at LANS?

2017-02-09 17:44

would be a shame if scream joined envy Kappa

2017-02-08 19:16

nV Scream

2017-02-08 21:03

NICE ! Expected

GL AIZY

NICE!!!!

Astralis #1 LETS GO ASTRALIS

everytime...

he wanted to step down himself dude?

2017-02-08 18:15

nah its justs that, teams stop thinking about friendshit and training together towards something good. They only start thinking about A GOOD LINEUP or really good players... just that...

2017-02-08 18:16

but you can only blaime rubino then

2017-02-08 18:17

i guess so

2017-02-08 18:21

Aizy lyfe

Unexpected! Now rubino to eZaF

[header]North have announced the signing of Philip "aizy" Aistrup from FaZe Clan.[/header

sad for rubino, but good luck for north

noice

FaZe ScreaM

nope. Not happening twitter.com/neLendirekt/status/829376849..

2017-02-08 18:25

nice

unexpected

lol

sad

ez 4 aizy

nice!!

N1ce

finnalys its official

rip north

EXPECTED LUL

LUL

RIP Rubino!

ScreaM FAZE UP

rubino no!

[/header

HOW UNEXPECTED lul

omgoodnes s

this team :o

insane danish firepowa

wow, ez 4 VP

haha signing a noob are they trying to scare fnatic now? fnatic will make north poop bricks in the toilet

fnatic will make north poop bricks in the toilet

rubina my darling

RUBINOOOOOOO :CCCCCCCC

why rubino?

yeah, nice

poor rubino :( i feel sorry for him.

Not rubino :'(

goodbye RUBINO

xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

gl in new team

I only hope they exactly why Rubino was removed.

Woww

so scream is going to faze ^^

Nope, he just signed up with nV.

2017-02-08 18:24

ScreaM FaZe?

NV Scream vakarm.net/news/read/ScreaM-finalement-e..

2017-02-08 18:12

Yes kick the most stable player, fucking muricans

While seemingly sudden, the change in the lineup comes at the request of Ruben himself. Following our exit at the ELEAGUE Major, Ruben told the team that he would like to take a step down, as he felt he was holding them back. Despite our combined efforts to convince Ruben otherwise, he remained adamant about his decision.

2017-02-08 18:11

RiP.

unexpected kappa

wtf

Rubino?

to the jkaem's team!

2017-02-08 18:05

SOOOOO EPIC CLIP

Rubino + jkaem + maikelele + Fox + another one = another faZe!!

2017-02-08 18:04

No fucking way... Rubino>Cajunb.They will regret it,i believe.

Wasn't their choice...

2017-02-08 18:28

finally

PLEASE + SCREAM AND - FKIN ALLU + RUBINO

overrated

2017-02-08 18:06

FaZeUP!!!!!!!!

dumbest roster move of the year so far

Poor rubino, hope he gets to another great team

He wanted to leave "The Danish talent will step into the shoes of Ruben "RUBINO" Villarroel, who expressed his wish to step down from the team after their elimination at the ELEAGUE Major"

2017-02-08 18:10

-MSL +RUBINO OMG.

2017-02-08 18:07

this lineup > fnatic

2017-02-08 18:09

xdddddddddddddd

#286

2017-02-11 10:34

Hahahahaha not even Astralis and you say this is better? kys boi

hltv.org/match/2307753-fnatic-north-esl-.. hltv.org/match/2307752-north-fnatic-esl-.. xDDDDDDDDDDDD

2017-02-11 10:33

Online*

2017-02-11 11:15

still its EPL

2017-02-11 11:44

Yes.

nice try Choker

so unexpected kappa xDDD

rip

No more fAizy. DAMN

who aizy replaced/.

no Scream in faze => vakarm.net/news/read/ScreaM-finalement-e..

ouch ... Scream picked bad... nothing against nV but I think he´dd fit better @ Faze

2017-02-08 18:20

yea sure but it's all about the communication. ScreaM don't want to go a an english speaking team as there is envyus left as a possibility so..

Sometimes we forget to take this in consideration (me included) Thx m8!

2017-02-08 18:22

-sixer or -rpk and bring Kioshima and it would be a decent team.

2017-02-08 18:39

Good luck to both. Really looking forward to see aizy play with his old team again. He was a complete monster back then. This could bring North up to an entirely new level of play. I wish you the best of luck.

how is ur name black??

Secret trick!

2017-02-08 18:19

:( i want this aswell :D

he is jonathan E's 4th account c:

2017-02-08 18:40

"This could bring North up to an entirely new level of play".... wake up dude ;p

2017-02-08 18:42

looking forward to see BatiGoal back in action, cause I am really tired of all this Messi-Cristiano staff

2017-02-08 20:43

woo

bad move

oh well !! GG for him !! North´s Mkt team is fucken awesome !!! W8tin on Rubino´s future news

[*] Rubino

from reading rubinos statement, it seem like he decided to retire completely, how sad is that he was such a good support player.

wtf Rubino himself stepped down? Why, North was newly created, had a great 2016 and they're on insane wages. Can't see him getting a better team than north either. Seems like a weird choice, mabye he just lost motivation to play with those guys, idk.

aizy one of the best aimers and always taking impact kills. good move

very good move, aizy one of the best aimers

My new favourite team gl

think the rubino situation is similar to pronax in 2015: he was essentially kicked one way or another.

2017-02-08 18:27

if -msl +karrigan that would be great, but it's impossible ^^

he joined north bcus he can share some vacne love with magisk

I'm glad to see that, but what about FaZe now? ScreaM decided to waste himself in nV, so whom will FaZe pick in place of aizy?..

I'm really hyped to see this! :) Good luck to Aizy and North. Hope you'll continue playing Rubino you are srsly a good player and deserve to have a good team best of luck mate.

2017-02-08 18:29

why no - support MSL? :| always 15-40. aizy = rubino msl = hunden

2017-02-08 18:33

sad for rubino :(

jkaem rubino maikelele ? ?

yep +fox +1 some1 else

2017-02-08 18:46

gl my friend

next major finals denmark vs denmark

Yeeees one of my fav player he was wasting his talent in shit team FaZe. And finally im back to supporting Danish team again (that kjb make astralis unsupport for me) and konfig can play support pretty well wait and see

2017-02-08 18:37

where's the kid who said that RUBINO will not leave North? ;>

I hope valde will find his way into this team in the future... For now, let's see if this lineup can accomplish anything good enough

WOW!!!! WHAT AN UNEXPECTED MOVE!!!!!!!! SO SURPRISING!!!!!

E X P E C T E D

i like rubino, great guy

2017-02-08 18:48

EXPECTED HAHA

2017-02-08 18:49

If Scream's going to envy, then WHO'S GOING TO FAZE?

2017-02-08 18:50

If they pick lekro it would help both the org and lekro personally but I doubt if he is ready to leave his friends.

2017-02-08 18:51

lekr0 isn't skilled enough imo

2017-02-08 18:52

lol why he was the only brightspot in GODSENT excluding twist

2017-02-08 18:53

u may be right but i don't think he's going to fill the gap. Aizy is far more skilled and experienced than him. Twist would be a better addition, or chrisJ

2017-02-08 18:56

Faze already has primary Awper and a secondary awper why would add another guy and regd lekro he is on par with aizy regd aim(-experience though) so if he gets a good team, he will definitely fill the role.

2017-02-08 18:58

Why rubino? Most consistent player in north..good luck 4 him tho

youtu.be/5S9qSsX-UWM?t=1253

2017-02-08 19:56

why is msl still in the team

plz, -msl + karrigan

2017-02-08 18:57

Now kick msl and its good

need - MSL idiots....

rubinoooo

2017-02-08 19:12

this team has some real firepower now

2017-02-08 19:13

rly sad for rubino :( he is very talented player

2017-02-08 19:20

Nice! Good luck bro! :)

2017-02-08 19:31

Rubino to FaZe xD

2017-02-08 19:33

nice BOT MSL kicked RUBINO, u are next BOT

2017-02-08 20:00

Aizy, Konfig, Magisk - a fuckton of firepower.

2017-02-08 20:13

rubino making the calls -MSL + AIZY

2017-02-08 20:14

I literally cannot understand at all why RUBINO wanted to step down. He had it all served to him on a silver-platter. Great salary, great bonuses, great potential in prize money, all while playing a freaking game :O Sounds a hell of a lot better to me than working in some bank for instance. But it requires some huge balls to take such a decision, so mad props to him!

2017-02-08 21:51

gl aizy, rubino to maikelele team ;)

2017-02-08 23:06

-msl +rubino gg konfig, cajunb, magisk, aizy + rubino <3

2017-02-09 00:08

Astralis is still going to wipe the floor with you this change is meaningless North will never be a top team.

2017-02-09 00:34

I really cant wait to see what North can bring to the table.

2017-02-09 04:45

NICE. North will have better communication. If RUBINO join FaZe, Rain & RUBINO = Deadliest norske.

2017-02-09 04:50

Rubino is living in Denmark for some time already, his girlfriend is a Dane.

2017-02-09 08:01

team looks stronggggg

2017-02-09 06:38

Lol at so many people saying to kick MSL. He's proven to be plenty viable as a fragger for a strong IGL

2017-02-09 06:43

eZaF 4 FaZe sunNy. North is going to kick some 455. Fartralis bois are shaking from fear atm. Looks like Danish teams are getting their shit together. Three strong teams in top~20 soon in top10.

2017-02-09 07:03