Copenhagen Flames to retain roster for 2022

23-12-2021 16:28

The Danish organization revealed that they intend to keep the five-man lineup that impressed at the PGL Stockholm Major.

The widely reported move to Complexity is out of the picture for Fredrik "⁠roeJ⁠" Jørgensen and co. as Copenhagen Flames announced that they intend to keep their roster for the upcoming year.

"After two months of talking and negotiating with several parties; we’ve found that the best available option for all of us is to stick together for 2022," Daniel Vorborg, the team's Head of Esports wrote in an open letter. "Now I know, with all of the rumors that some of you will think that is a solution we are unhappy with. But I can tell you that that is not the case."

nicoodoz remains a part of Flames

Vorborg said that their imperative since signing their current roster was to keep it together as long as possible, but "there are some opportunities that we cannot offer in Copenhagen Flames, such as franchise slots and big salaries", explaining that offers such as the one Complexity was reported to put on the table had to be taken into consideration.

"We've achieved much more, much faster than we could have ever imagined with this roster, and as such, we're extremely pleased to continue with the team," wrote the Head of Esports, putting an end to speculation about the roster's future.

We might not get the big bucks and the league spots, but we get a feeling of security

Rasmus "⁠HooXi⁠" Nielsen

The team's in-game leader HooXi added that after months of uncertainty, he is happy to stay with the Danish organization. "We might not get the big bucks and the league spots, but we get a feeling of security and room to develop that no other big organization can provide."

Since the breakout performance in Sweden, Copenhagen Flames entered a slump, losing to teams such as BLUEJAYS, K23, and BLINK, an have been playing without a coach since Faruk "⁠pita⁠" Pita's departure to Dignitas. Vorborg takes responsibilities for the underwhelming results, claiming that conditions for the team have not been up to par.

However, with the team's future now set and the distractions of transfer negotiations out of the picture, Copenhagen Flames aim to impress in 2022, with IEM Katowice being their first big challenge in the new year.

Sources: Complexity in talks to sign Extra Salt trio; add Grim, junior

The news from Denmark backs up the latest report by HLTV.org's Danish "⁠Nohte⁠" Allana from the other side of the Atlantic, who revealed that Complexity is considering signing Extra Salt's trio and building a North American roster for 2022.

Copenhagen Flames have the following lineup for next year:

Rasmus "⁠HooXi⁠" Nielsen
Nico "⁠nicoodoz⁠" Tamjidi
Fredrik "⁠roeJ⁠" Jørgensen
Jakob "⁠jabbi⁠" Nygaard
Rasmus "⁠Zyphon⁠" Nordfoss

Nice

2021-12-23 16:29

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Sucks for them, this is a business, should of went for more money and resources over "comfortability, security" RIP CPH

2021-12-24 00:04

More like Copenhagen F players Retain On 2000$ contract

2021-12-25 09:09

cool

wow

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buy low sell low, interesting strats

2021-12-23 16:30

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/r/wallstreetbets if they were csgo org owners

2021-12-23 16:32

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They would have bought the Colossus, lost 90% and gotten 100k upvotes

2021-12-23 16:36

now probably regret throwing to ttc, savage, ldlc, nemiga lmao

2021-12-23 16:56

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lmao +1

2021-12-23 19:46

lol

2021-12-23 16:46

Good. Tired of tier 2 teams being bought out because people like henryG can't fucking scout

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henry never bought out any roster? I will admit henry got a bit too excited and had almost too much faith in the players he brought on, but what you said is just simply false. If anything its a better idea to buy out a established roster that all the players have chemistry together than to find 5 random players who have never played together and throw them together and instantly expect results.

2021-12-23 16:38

Go and read again. I'm implying it's because scouting sucks for new players that teams have to buy entire rosters And also henryG never watched a tier 2 match in his life

2021-12-23 16:43

He was excited because the main idea was to get NiKo and hunTer, with both they would have been a good team, but finally ocelote was the one bringing NiKo

2021-12-23 17:05

+xeppa lmao henryJoke

COL SIGN EXTRA SALT PLEASE

coL sign ChocoCheck

2021-12-23 16:31

col sign BNB

2021-12-23 16:33

Oh god Probably won’t show up to EPL cause they just “didn’t feel like playing” or had a “vacation planned”

2021-12-23 19:43

Now GODSENT can beat them in a different org NICE.

2021-12-23 16:55

With that paycheck increase I don’t think they’d mind somehow

2021-12-23 19:42

Oh really..?

yeah they really thought they could get away with 600k lul, now that they got 16-0'oed they start being quiet

2021-12-23 16:51

True low t2/t3 team since major ended

2021-12-23 17:31

2021-12-23 17:41

nice

Nice 🙂

Poggers

Bet this is because out of all the parties that negotiated w CPHF, no one gave them a good enough offer. I'm thinking maybe they asked for COL to pay 1mil+ for the squad but they offered less so no good lineup for COL.

Buyout for whole cph flames roster was reported to be like 500k

well that's the thing. The org isn't going to accept 500k for them because I could see that lineup in the top 20 so maybe they were asking COL to pay 700k+ and COL isn't interested so here we are.

More likely col realised it was single fluke and it isn't worth. They are pretty rich so spending even 1m instead of 500k for having top20 roster isn't problem for them. Also CPH's main goal is to earn money and they are known for that, they would sell them even for 500k.

2021-12-23 17:04

Depends what's in their contracts.

2021-12-23 18:43

WE WANT NA COL

good for coL, they fell off hard after the major

orgs finally realized this tier 2 roster ain't worth 500k lmao

and here carlos threw 600k for a single player

yep cuz he's worth it. flames aint

2021-12-23 16:42

:tf:

2021-12-23 17:30

nope. a tier 2 team that gets 16-0ed is not worth 500k. m0nsey already has 125k followers on insta at only 16 + he's a god in game. he will be worth the money 100%

2021-12-23 21:17

complexity so cheap kekw

Good for CPH Flames, CoL would have ruined their potential

Good for them

the first time cphf hasn´t sold players as a farm team which means less dollars but congrats on them for retaining their best squad ever. the org fits the team like a glove :) . this should mean that those NA COL rumours had some truth in them...

2021-12-23 16:34

col refund after 0-16 against nemiga lul

nemiga destroyed cpf

2021-12-23 16:41

On one map and then went on to still loose the series 1-2. I agree that they fell of quite a bit after the major but you make it sound like that 0-16 is representative of their entire performance wich it just isn’t, they are still a solid T2 team

2021-12-23 17:07

Jason lake dodged a bullet

In another saying: we waited too long, they realized we're noobs and don't wanna buy us

2021-12-23 16:35

Jason lake made a good choice by not wasting paychecks on this fluke team.

2021-12-23 16:40

NA CoL? Lesss goo, NA is going to have more than one team!

2021-12-23 16:39

Dont like them but good move. They had strong last 3 months. Strong tier 2 team with aspirations to be tier 1 team.

Nice, NA org should support na players

Waiting for this... hltv.org/forums/threads/2561985/brazilia..

This lineup lose to CPH every day every week every month every year

2021-12-23 16:49

Give them 3-4 months practice and I'll take this line-up in a bo3 over CHF.

2021-12-23 16:57

2021-12-23 19:36

So, NA coL is real?POG

2021-12-23 16:44

Flames flukers lol

2021-12-23 16:45

Haha losers

2021-12-23 16:47

Big risk with little reward imo. Their capital is probably at the highest it ever will be rn.

2021-12-23 16:50

RIP extra salt

2021-12-23 16:52

player by player going to get sold for money. Probably cut the players in on a deal to get a cut of the transfer like Endpoint

2021-12-23 16:54

I doub't it, they would earn more selling full roster.

Orgs reportedly agreed on the transfer price for the team and it looks like things stalled with negotiations directly with players. hltv.org/news/32901/copenhagen-flames-cl.. like what type of payment are they looking for? In history, North and Optic Gaming would be the only two with this type of roster that they would consider paying more.

2021-12-23 17:22

YES GRIM GETS A TEAM

2021-12-23 17:01

Next news: col signed nemiga

completely out of left field

2021-12-23 17:08

that was the last chance to make some money on this bots

2021-12-23 17:06

Yeah, the more time they give the more orgs will realize they are a fluke team

2021-12-23 17:16

what happen with complexity kek

2021-12-23 17:14

If only they could have beat the low tier teams they played after the major they could have fooled CoL into signing them

2021-12-23 17:26

then release jks

2021-12-23 17:33

that depends on jks too tho, bench salary vs. buyout

2021-12-23 17:35

he might be part of ‘NA COL’ or something

2021-12-23 19:21

who spend time with extra salt lul

2021-12-25 06:26

im afraid all of the teams interested in signing them stopped after seeing how bad they were doing after the major, or just offered lower salaries than their expectations

2021-12-23 17:39

+1 That run of form after the major hurt their stock big time.

2021-12-23 18:09

Got to respect that. I hope for them they make the Copenhagen flames name big and have much success

2021-12-23 17:53

Unlucky for them( would have deserved it

copenhgen flukes

2021-12-23 17:55

better logo anyways

2021-12-23 17:59

Nemiga broke them 🤣🤣

2021-12-23 18:00

Expected. fluke team

Let's go, NA complexity incoming. I'm pretty hyped for that lineup

2021-12-23 18:01

less go falmes 🙂

2021-12-23 18:08

mega fluke anyways

2021-12-23 18:10

Imho it's good. Firstly, they have to prove themselfes one more time that at the last pgl they were flames not flukes.

2021-12-23 18:11

Copenhagen Flukes

2021-12-23 18:14

falmes the almost transfer 🙂 but not todays maybe 🙂

2021-12-23 18:29

Not surprised at all, they looked trash after the Major quite frankly, nothing worked tbh., their firepower dropped, the tactical side of the game was just not there, overall it looked like a completetly other team, I would be very surprised if an org. like coL would buy them in such shape. Good luck coming back guys.

2021-12-23 18:36

Unexpected. Hopefully they keep up strong results, because otherwise it will be a quick dismantling, like we have seen many times in the past.

2021-12-23 18:48

Nice falmes 🙂

2021-12-23 18:49

Very interesting. Judging by their recent matches, it seems this is the highest the roster will ever get, so good luck to them and the org

"since singing their current roster" nice england

CPH > EXTRA SALT complexity braindead

2021-12-23 18:59

CoL Grim time lfg!!!

2021-12-23 19:17

they got 16-0'ed...fluke team.hahaha

2021-12-23 19:28

Great, now they should go sweat mode

2021-12-23 20:25

in other words, complexity realized in time that this is just a fluke team, and they shouldn't waste money on it.

2021-12-23 20:30

2021-12-23 21:04

Honestly this move didn't make much sense. Danish squad that might or might not be a fluke full of unknown unmarketable players at the moment for one of the biggest US orgs with a NA fanbase ? And the price was probably overrated too, until they confirm their performance. coL did well not signing them atm.

2021-12-23 21:42

yep.

2021-12-23 22:13

hooxi is even worse than hunden

nah, hunden was way worse than hooxi

2021-12-24 01:55

Unlucky

2021-12-23 21:43

Astralis just buy nicoodoz plz

2021-12-23 21:56

Either him or stavn ( and make him awp ) or devve ( seems out of the question for let's say at least a few monthes but who knows ). Only serious options are those 3 for Astralis to have a good AWPer to rise back to top level

2021-12-23 22:38