grux signs with North

19-1-2021 22:43

The 21-year-old will be hoping to kick-start his career after enduring a frustrating six months following the disbandment of ex-SMASH.

North have announced that they have completed their roster with the signing of free agent Denis "⁠grux⁠" Gutaj. The 21-year-old has sealed a permanent switch following a "successful extended trial" with the team, according to the Danish organisation.

grux is North's new fifth player

grux, who has played for teams such as Ancient and SMASH in the past, will fill a slot that had been vacant for more than a month after the organisation made Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen and Philip "⁠aizy⁠" Aistrup available for transfer, and recalled Kristoffer "⁠Kristou⁠" Aamand from his loan with AGF.

"Denis is a player who our scouting and development tool highlighted as having the right in-game characteristics for the type of role we needed, highlighted during an extended trial with the team where he impressed," Graham Pitt, Head of Esports Operations at North, said in a statement.

"Certainly, it showed a player who has not performed to his full potential in his previous teams and has a lot more to give in the right environment. Denis comes in with a lot of hunger and the desire to improve every day, something that will help drive the team forward."

grux was one of "a number of players" who tried out for North, according to Pitt. The team competed in DreamHack Masters Winter in December with Rasmus "⁠kreaz⁠" Johansson as a stand-in, finishing 9th-12th in what was their final tournament of 2020.

The 21-year-old will be hoping to prove his quality after struggling to find a team following the disbandment of the SMASH squad. He played only two matches in the last three months, competing alongside players like Alfred "⁠RuStY⁠" Karlsson and Erik "⁠truth⁠" Hansen Dyrnes in a mix team called 1ADL in an ESEA Autumn Cash Cup.

"Playing in this team will help me stay consistent and learn new things, and I'm motivated more than ever to play," grux said. "I believe in our future and the game style we will bring on our matches."

North now have:

Nicklas "⁠gade⁠" Gade
René "⁠cajunb⁠" Borg
Jonas "⁠Lekr0⁠" Olofsson
Kristoffer "⁠Kristou⁠" Aamand
Denis "⁠grux⁠" Gutaj

Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen (transfer list)
Philip "⁠aizy⁠" Aistrup (transfer list)

Jimmy "⁠Jumpy⁠" Berndtsson (coach)

i knew it

2021-01-19 22:43

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danish cs is dead

2021-01-19 22:44

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true danish players are the worst

2021-01-19 22:45

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-cajunB + good awper and i will start watching north games

2021-01-19 22:47

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ez grux domination stockholm 2021 mvp, astralis destroyed

2021-01-19 23:05

Okay Edit: who is this guy

Reasonably good pugstar, don't know if he's better than kreaz though

+1 Kreaz cute

2021-01-19 22:46

scuffed csgo version of gux

2021-01-20 13:34

Nice

solid tier 5 team

New team > Old team

It's not hard to make a better team without msl

haha poor msl get so much shit

2021-01-19 22:49

W H OMEGALUL

Great addition grux insane player

expected

Good luck mate.

Going swedish?

Really cant see how he would be better then Aizy but GL, Always nice with a Swede taking place

Aizy left the team so.. Why does that comparison matter? If they kicked aizy and signed grux then okay but they didnt.

2021-01-20 00:01

Oh, I thought they did! My bad

2021-01-20 08:15

They said in the announcement that they wanted to take the team in a new direction (wich was basically bringing in some new scandinavian younger talent) and aizy and msl was not onboard.

2021-01-20 12:52

Ah, I see!

2021-01-20 13:05

TMB cryge

TOP 40 welcome to

what a strange move

nice move tbh

Ah North is still alive Not the worst move from their management but that roster still looks trash

very flexible use of the word 'alive'

2021-01-20 00:43

yeah you're right. we're basically looking at a zombie that refuses to die

2021-01-20 08:02

And now kick Kristou and gade plz

And cajun

2021-01-19 22:48

Sometimes I think, he's not too shabby, but of course this would be good too

2021-01-19 22:51

Not kristou, young upcoming talent. Kick the old Cajunb

2021-01-20 07:52

The real headshot machine

Who carsssss norph😴😴😴

not better than kreaz though

who are you amk noob

2021-01-19 22:50

Kebab detected

2021-01-19 22:53

Faze aizy ?

2021-01-19 22:56

who?

2021-01-19 22:57

Denis "grux" Gutaj is a Swedish professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player of Albanian descent.

2021-01-19 22:59

Let's go grux!! Interesting line-up from North with some potential and firepower!

Just when you think this line-up can't get worse...

2021-01-19 23:00

awww I thought they signed Gux

2021-01-19 23:01

I feel bad for Lekr0

2021-01-19 23:04

NICEEEE !! let's go

there is no way this team will accomplish anything. Sad but true

F for kreaz

2021-01-19 23:07

they should rebrand North to Paycheck Stealers

2021-01-19 23:15

LOL

2021-01-20 04:59

Grux 100 gubbe

2021-01-19 23:28

North is like ENCE with those moves They should disband tho

2021-01-19 23:53

Just a shot in the dark but I dont think you've even watched grux and have any idea how he plays and the potential he has.

2021-01-19 23:58

I dont talk about grux? I talk about how strange roster moves north doing in the past few months, seems really messy and i dont think that they will play better than even recent roster.

2021-01-20 01:15

Great move, grux is a very good entry fragger. Its about time he got his shot. I am surprised to se kreaz go though, he showed some promise.

2021-01-19 23:57

Ok, he is pretty good. But this roster is still really bad and will make more changes soon.

2021-01-20 00:05

Average age 25, Just kick gade and cajunb as well and add two more Swedes from these random ass teams were the new fnatic player/nip youngsters Come from and then also kick kristou because the Swedes would not understand him, sadly disco doplan etc are taken now but you could just add kreaz again.

2021-01-20 05:28