Nordavind revamp roster with four new players

8-3-2019 12:21

Nordavind have announced that they have finalised their team with the addition of four new players.

The future of the Norwegian team had been up in the air since the start of the year, when the roster was depleted to just three players following the departures of Kristian "⁠akez⁠" Kornbakk and Allan "⁠AnJ⁠" Jensen.

Nordavind have now announced that they will be keeping only Håkon "⁠hallzerk⁠" Fjærli in the starting lineup, with Morten "⁠zEVES⁠" Vollan Christensen and Haris "⁠H4RR3⁠" Hadzic having both been moved to the bench.

cromen, RUBINO and tenzki sign for Nordavind

The 18-year-old will be linking up with the former dignitas trio of Ruben "⁠RUBINO⁠" Villarroel, Jorgen "⁠cromen⁠" Robertsen and Jesper "⁠TENZKI⁠" Plougmann, all of whom had been looking for a new challenge for quite some time.

Of the trio, cromen is the one who enjoyed the most success in 2018. He filled in for FaZe as a replacement for Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer, helping the team to win ESL One Belo Horizonte and to reach the semi-finals at the ECS Season 5 Finals and at ESL One Cologne.

Rounding out the roster is Haakon "⁠Radifaction⁠" Tholo, who had recently stepped down from NoChance. This will be his second tenure with Nordavind after previously representing the organisation last year, during which the team placed top four at Nordic Championship Season 3.

"We're thrilled to announce our new Counter-Strike: GO lineup after several months of talks and negotiations. To be able to work with a seasoned veteran such as RUBINO is a privilege, and we hope his experience will further develop a talented group of Norwegian players assisted by a skilled Dane in TENZKI," Nordavind's General Manager, Stein Wilmann, said in a statement.

"One can't help but be inspired by what ENCE has accomplished the last year, and we will strive to do our best in order to represent Norwegian Counter-Strike in the best possible way."

Nordavind's roster looks as follows:

Håkon "⁠hallzerk⁠" Fjærli
Ruben "⁠RUBINO⁠" Villarroel
Jorgen "⁠cromen⁠" Robertsen
Jesper "⁠TENZKI⁠" Plougmann
Haakon "⁠Radifaction⁠" Tholo

Morten "⁠zEVES⁠" Vollan Christensen (benched)
Haris "⁠H4RR3⁠" Hadzic (benched)

CROMEN POGGERS

2019-03-08 12:21

43 replies

Nice to see Cromen and Rubino back in action. Lets hope Tenzki will make some really good tactics, cause there is lot of potential in Cromen and Radifaction duo.

2019-03-08 12:22

27 replies

+11637

2019-03-08 12:23

7 replies

Recycling team with potential let's go

2019-03-08 12:54

6 replies

i see much potential in this team

2019-03-08 13:16

5 replies

This is probably the best "all" norwegian lineup weve seen since LGB in 2015? Great potential, but we've seen that in alot of former norwegian teams that never managed to get anywhere. This will be fun to follow though!

2019-03-08 14:10

4 replies

hallzerk is promising norweigan talent too, excited to see what this team can accomplish

2019-03-08 14:14

2 replies

i dont think they will be top 10, but they can do damage in the scene

2019-03-08 17:39

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they wil be >>>Movistar Garbagers without a doubt

2019-03-08 20:39

Not all norwagian. But all scandic

2019-03-09 12:33

rubino will be IGL and tenzki support according to rubino

2019-03-08 12:28

9 replies

Oh, well, thats a twist. Now the team can only surprise, lets hope Rubino will be one of the better igls not like others *cough* shox *cough* niko.

2019-03-08 12:29

8 replies

agreed, lets see

2019-03-08 12:30

*cough* NBK

2019-03-08 12:31

*cough* HUNDEN

2019-03-08 13:13

Don't insult God hunden

2019-03-08 13:38

You peasant of a human, insulting a God, WTFFF

2019-03-08 15:13

reported

2019-03-08 15:40

+1 overrated

2019-03-09 15:30

Reported

2019-03-09 19:51

2019-03-08 12:57

Rubino that had 17k in mm against LEMs and got carried sure

2019-03-08 15:46

Rubino that was in a best North lineup North would ever have .

2019-03-08 16:03

I was playing against him he is trash.

2019-03-08 17:01

go pro then.

2019-03-08 17:07

giv tem and i will )

2019-03-08 17:26

Ehm , no. Dignitas btw , he was just a stand in for North during Eleague major 2017. They won Epicenter and thats it.

2019-03-08 20:52

In that time (Dig/North) stage, they were Top5, never happened since then

2019-03-08 20:57

Hello my kokot friend

2019-03-08 17:00

RUBINO POGGERS

-tenzki +jkaem

why should he leave the renegades? wtf

2019-03-08 13:02

we want to cumstain our pants with: rain jkaem cromen rubino radifaction

2019-03-08 15:36

jks > rain azr > rubino liazz < cromen gratisfaction > radifaction

2019-03-08 16:16

Liazz is better

2019-03-09 12:53

Radifaction over hallzerk? Drunk? :)

2019-03-08 16:32

2019-03-08 20:41

OMEGALUL

2019-03-08 15:25

yessssssssssssssssssssssss

2019-03-08 16:15

Danish normie and an astralis fan - what a conclusion

2019-03-08 17:54

This is actually a really solid team now

2019-03-08 20:59

WeirdChamp

2019-03-08 23:50

Hes soooooo fkn underated

2019-03-09 01:05

epic

2019-03-09 21:30

Hi mom

Yeet

Fake Gratisfaction

3 replies

You get a Norwegian guy - they get one aussie. Fair is fair!

2019-03-08 13:39

Kiwi*

2019-03-08 13:58

All the same (triggering some aussies now, i am aware)

2019-03-08 15:03

Noob team

That logo sucks Anyway, the team looks pretty decent

2019-03-08 19:14

Yessssssssss

This is actualy a good team now

faking tenzki...

2019-03-08 13:43

yep +1

2019-03-08 14:26

cool for cromen to finally find a team

hoppefully this time they do something decent

that might actually be a decent lineup

10 replies

Do you know who is igl in this team or even any roles these players have? Yes im asking you because you are norwegian.

2019-03-08 13:29

Rubinho IGL, tenzki support. Other than that idk

cromen probably entry?

2019-03-08 13:41

What the guy said, Rubino is the only one with IGL experience so, tenzki support, Rad on AWP and then its a tossup between cromen/hallzerk on who gets to be midrounder. I'm assuming since the lineup seems built around hallzerk its probably cromen entry and then hallzerk 2nd or 3rd in depending on rubino. but tbh im not very familiar with hallzerk, only heard things about him, I think he was former teammate with Rad at one point.

Hallzerk will awp, radi is good but hallzerk is a main awper

oh he awps? fair enough then, really have no clue how the setup will be then.

2019-03-08 16:01

Maybe radi entry? He is a rifler, or atleast thats what i saw in red reserve. And nochance

no clue, i only saw him when he was main awping

2019-03-08 17:10

Isnt hallzerk norway`s best awper? I atleast heard about it.

2019-03-08 14:21

His brother WAS norways best awp in 1.6 «hellzerk» playing for norway, lions and another team if i dont remember wrong. Hopefully he will get as good as him :}}

2019-03-09 02:25

Crowman boi

real Norwegian team woo

kick tenzki ffs

No IGL nt

RUBINO

2019-03-08 19:30

-Tenzki +rain

+1111

2019-03-11 13:11

Does tenzki speak norwegian?

I was wondering too

2019-03-08 12:24

Nah dont think so. but rubino speaks fluent danish so he will probably translate if he dosent understand callouts etc.

That is still horrible...

2019-03-08 13:40

The languages are very similar..

2019-03-08 13:45

2019-03-08 18:04

norwegians and danish people understand each other

2019-03-08 14:56

Depends lol.

2019-03-08 20:09

Yeah if you're f*cking inbred

2019-03-08 21:04

Ummm I understand basic Danish, but talking to them, is not like with a fellow Norwegian ofc. It's not the same. Their pronunciation is hella different.

2019-03-08 21:16

+1 If you can't make norwegians get good coms with danes you don't deserve to be a pro. It requires little effort to make that work with below average IQ.

2019-03-10 00:12

rain should leave FaZe for this

Jkaem too -tenski -radisfaction and have a team top 20

2019-03-08 14:37

+1 i believe jkaem wrote on a blog that he wanted to play for a norwegian team

2019-03-08 19:31

2019-03-11 13:12

This can work out actually. With decent practice this can be a solid tier 3 / potential tier 2 team.

Let's make norsk cs great again

norsk cs always best

2019-03-08 13:35

Real abd prb gods

2019-03-08 14:43

2019-03-08 20:10

CROMEN, RUBINO AND RADIFACTION IN SAME TEAM POGGERS

Hallzerk Pog

2019-03-08 12:35

nice

lol tier5 at best

Nice team, i mean they never going to major, but it's nice team with cromen and radifaction carrying them

2019-03-08 12:25

I can see them playing at a minor tho mby major with luck

2019-03-08 14:57

oh shit nice roster

Nice

when croman in faze,he get a trophy.What a free win for a player

2019-03-08 12:26

Actually an ok team

i wish them good results

2019-03-08 12:27

-tenzki +rain

zeves to coach probably

Making their best ENCE impression

no kalle no win

no chance for next ENCE without rain and jkaem

2019-03-08 14:44

Decent lineup, gl

tier 9

good team tbh

Great team, can become Tier 2-3 team, think we'll see them in the hltv top 30 in some time

-tenzki +anj / ztk / doplan / haampus

isent ztk swedish? we aint gon have any more scandinavian normies. +rain +jkaem -tenzki -radisfaction

2019-03-11 13:16

Im the normie when you do even know the few players you have ? hltv.org/stats/players/9873/ztk rain & jkaem will never join that lineup.

2019-03-11 18:28

ztk = randy for me

2019-03-11 19:55

Ur the randy man, ztk is well known in the NO scene the fuck are u doing bro ? oh.... gyazo.com/1d588b19898dc4e8ac412b6c0ab9f8.. That explains everything lmao

2019-03-11 20:06

-tenzki make all norsk team

+cENTRYZ

2019-03-08 12:37

Hope this team does well enough that rain considers going there if he gets kicked from FaZe, same for Jkaem (although that’s less likely)

2019-03-08 12:32

kicked from faze? omegalul

2019-03-11 13:17

tbf this team seems very decent and could be a new dark horse

not too bad, might be a decent top30 contender

2019-03-08 12:34

-tenzki +elemeNt

+rain +jkaem

Lets f#*king GOOO!!!!

No cENTRYZ!?!?!?

2019-03-08 12:36

retired like 2 years ago

2019-03-08 12:39

Awww :(

Holy crap, looks like it could be an actually decent roster from Norway, poggers

2019-03-08 12:45

this team has insane skill ceiling. tier 3 should be easy.

good team hallzerk potencial top player

2019-03-08 12:38

hallzerk potencial top 20 player

2019-03-08 14:59

yes

2019-03-08 15:28

Expected after Radifaction quit Nochance.

2019-03-08 12:41

Why did he tho? And who did they get?

2019-03-08 12:47

he quit to join this. They are testing zhen or something

Radisfaction is worse in this team

2019-03-08 16:40

cromen deserve a lot...

Holy fuck, almost the best possible norwegian lineup (excluding rain and jkaem). Hallzerk is a sick awper Cromen and Radifaction are great riflers Rubino is also a good fragger, with much experience And tenzki is shit, would be better with zeves as igl

2019-03-08 12:43

2019-03-08 12:51

NORWAY CSGO ERA INCOMING BOIS xD

Oof

2019-03-08 12:46

Marcelious > Radifaction

2019-03-08 12:48

-tenzki when will people understand that he is a toxic dog

- tenzki -radisfaction +rain +jkaem

2019-03-08 16:41

looks promising

2019-03-08 12:53

Why tenzki? His not good and it would be awesome with a good clean norwegian lineup for once. Just for the sake of the old days <3

+1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

2019-03-08 15:00

top 30 coming soon! btw, in the picture, it's write "nodavind" and not "Nordavind"

2019-03-08 12:55

TOP 20 SOON. Finally Norwegian cs relevant!! Hell yes!!

2019-03-08 12:56

I hoope so

2019-03-08 13:04

Decent norway team Pog

cromen FeelsGoodMan

2019-03-08 13:05

-Tenski -Radifaction +Rain +Jkaem in a few months please

2019-03-08 13:06

Yesss

2019-03-08 16:44

-tenzki +REAL

Nice. Top 30?

2019-03-08 13:09

Does Rubino have any charisma or leader skills? If not, that team wont work

2019-03-08 13:12

gl boys.. rubino and cromen together looking good.

This could be interesting!

2019-03-08 13:17

next ence kappa

2019-03-08 13:19

meh

2019-03-08 13:21

-tenzki +truth solid top20 contender

2019-03-08 13:23

maybe interesting

-TENZKI -hallzerk +rain +jkaem then we got a competitive team

2019-03-08 13:24

Hallzerk is their best player

2019-03-08 13:28

hallzerk good sniper and rain/jkaem rifles

2019-03-08 14:00

hallzerk is one of the best on the team xd

2019-03-08 15:01

Hallzerk is the best awper in Norway..

2019-03-08 20:38

too bad they cant have the 2 best norwegian players jkaem and rain :/

2019-03-08 13:25

w0w nice

2019-03-08 13:30

Everyone said it, but with Tenzki, there is no chance they will do an impact. He is a toxic bot.

2019-03-08 13:32

Ola elemeNt

Quite good team but most players are quite similar

Admins fix Nodavind under picture

Nice roster! GL!

WOW PROMISING!

2019-03-08 13:46

If they play the way they played in tempo storm/2019 they won't even make top30

This good except hallzerk

2019-03-08 13:49

hallzerk good sniper

2019-03-08 13:53

Yeah right

2019-03-08 13:56

hallzerk is one of the best players on the team xd

2019-03-08 15:02

Wym.. Hallzerk is Norways best awper

Promising, hope they can show some results

2019-03-08 13:51

Nice, GL

No Kalle?

2019-03-08 14:01

Shit thats hot

2019-03-08 14:05

Dead scene tbh

2019-03-08 14:06

who is hallzerk?

2019-03-08 14:12

Norways best awper atm, he is aswell the little Brother to the 1.6 player hellzerk

2019-03-08 20:40

+rain and top10 ezpZ

2019-03-08 14:17

next major incoming

2019-03-08 14:18

It's actually awesome, Cromen and Rubino...

2019-03-08 14:19

+rain +jkaem Norway superteam

2019-03-08 14:20

-botenzki +jkaem PogChamp

2019-03-08 14:27

NICE!

2019-03-08 14:29

rubino will leave after 1 month again

-tenzki +zeves for igl and all norwegian

2019-03-08 14:33

wow decent lineup! lets go norway

-tenzki +zeves btw hltvy you wrote Nodavind under the picture

2019-03-08 14:35

Tenzki hidden agent

2019-03-08 14:36

with rubino no team can be top tier

Imagine this roster: Cromen Rubino Jkaem Rain (Some norwegian awper) eZ top 10

+hallzerk. best AWP in norway

gl to them!

2019-03-08 14:38

- TENZKI + XeqtR

Kkkkkkk Agree 100% XeqtR legend

2019-03-08 14:55

gl boys

2019-03-08 14:45

Good team, but Disband in 1mounth

Cromen and Rubino back from the dead. Hope they do well.

2019-03-08 14:48

EZ4NORWEIGANENZE

There's a suspect Dane hiding in the bushes of Norway...

-tenzki +everyone else

Even VP is better lul

2019-03-08 15:04

the same team that lost to izakooo boars lul

2019-03-08 15:21

Yes

2019-03-08 17:52

NICE TEAM

2019-03-08 15:09

If Tenzki won't igl, what's his use in this team? He doesn't bring NOT EVEN NEARLY enough firepower to compensate for some language problems that might occure. There are Norwegian players better than him, like centryz, or even zeves to igl and let Rubino have freedom cause the igl role is gonna take a toll on his stats. But let's hope maybe Faze remove rain, that would be ideal! Rain (entry) Radifaction (support/2nd awp) Rubino (2nd entry/igl) Hallzerk (awp) Croman (end round / lurk) Instead of having radi or croman as entry..

2019-03-08 15:20

Tenzki is a really good support player, atleast in comparison to any Norwegian player. IMO I think Radifaction is going to be the weak link in this team. And i don't think the language barrier will be a problem, Norwegians and Danes almost use the exact same words, but they pronounce them differently.

2019-03-08 17:29

skurk rubino rain jkaem mystic ez

2019-03-08 15:23

Mystik retired as he was tired of the scene after so many cheating accusations

2019-03-08 20:42

2019-03-08 15:38

Great roster, gl

2019-03-08 15:39

Doesn’t look bad tbh.

2019-03-08 15:42

Nice to see perspective norway cs team.

2019-03-08 15:58

I would love to see something like: Rubino Cromen Hallzerk Jkaem Rain Imho it could easily be a top10 team, but considering jkaem's and rain's teams right now, I don't see it happening any time soon. Or, you know, just bring back elemeNt and XeqtR :>

2019-03-08 15:59

Ohhh would love to see that team, could be more interesting in todays scene. but too bad rain and jkaem already in a good team right now

2019-03-08 16:06

There is a interview at gamer.no. I'll translate some of it freely. "The team roles are relative simple. "Cromen", "Radi", and "hallzerk", will frag as much as possible, "tenzki" will support, where I think he fits best, and I'll be the tactical leader" says Villarroel (Rubino). [About language issues] "The situation is exactly the same as when I joined Dignitas in 2016. You get used to it, and it improves every single day. I speak Danish, so I try to teach him whatever words he might not understand, but I think he's getting it really well, and I haven't noticied that many misunderstanding. Furtherly, it helped that we had a six days bootcamp where we trained and figured out different things".

at least its not an international roster, so i like it

Poggers

2019-03-08 16:09

Lets go, id like them to succeed

2019-03-08 16:29

+Rain +Jkaem

2019-03-08 16:30

jkaem prefers to play Renegades rather than a team without a future

Ik but those two would do them to decent tier 2 team atleast

2019-03-08 17:16

Jkaem might join if this team shows promise, I think he misses playing with Norwegians. As for rain I doubt he will ever join as he has almost never played with other Norwegians through out his whole career.

2019-03-08 17:32

That’s a decent mdl squad.

2019-03-08 16:34

Looks nice

2019-03-08 16:37

Good for Ruben :)

2019-03-08 16:39

rubino and cromen is proven to be good. the rest needs to surprise bigtime. otherwise this announcement will be the only time we will hear from them xd

hallzerk is best player in Norway

2019-03-08 17:04

i've read hEllzErk and i thought wow is he really back??? then i saw 18yo :P

2019-03-08 16:50

hallzerk is hellzerks little brother :)

2019-03-08 17:49

they have different last names

2019-03-10 21:59

2019-03-08 16:53

- hallzerk +Dark - Rubino + Naikon - cromen + elemeNt - tenzki + XeqtR - radificatio + Damien - nordavind + eolithic

not 2008 anymore brother

2019-03-08 20:12

Actually 2004

2019-03-09 00:00

Brasil so slow internet u still think 1.6 is relevant

2019-03-08 20:45

Sorry, how many majors?

I want to share this moments with all of u guys. This hyped lineup from nordavind here is 1 of those players. Faceit match. "Great Roster" xD steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetai..

2019-03-08 17:05

2019-03-08 17:37

ill take it tenzki can talk norweigan then ?

Language's are simmlar, they can converse togheter fine. Prob Just gotta get used to calls

Very similar

2019-03-09 01:08

2019-03-08 17:40

nice lineup

Nice roster

2019-03-08 18:02

2019-03-08 18:09

I would love to see marcelius on this line up, but still a pretty interesting team has been born.

2019-03-08 18:30

If marcelius would be in the team i guess he would be the awp-er, while hallzerk is Norways best awper?

2019-03-08 21:57

Hallzerk can play both, and as an awper I consider him way too aggressive, he usually gets traded immediately at the start of the round. On the other hand the last time I saw noreg with cromen and marcelius they were pretty decent.

2019-03-09 00:03