JUGi announces comeback: "I've missed CS like crazy"

The Danish player is ready to pick up where he left off after leaving the game to compete in Valorant.

JUGi spent the last two years playing Valorant

Former HEROIC and North AWPer Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen has announced his return to Counter-Strike after a nearly two-year Valorant spell. The 26-year-old played his last competitive CS match in September 2021 with South.

“I have decided to look for opportunities only in CS2,” he wrote on X/Twitter. “I've missed CS like crazy and I'm really motivated to make a comeback.

“I've been grinding FACEIT a lot lately. Back to the game I love and I'm ready to show the world what I'm capable of once again!”

JUGi burst onto the international scene in 2017 with HEROIC following a controversial transfer from Tricked. He enjoyed an impressive first year of elite-level competition, averaging a 1.16 rating, but he couldn’t find the same consistency in 2018 and 2019 after moving to OpTic and North.

In April 2020, after four months on North’s bench, he was surprisingly picked up by Astralis, initially as a backup option. He ended up being moved into the starting lineup a week later, after Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander had taken a medical leave, but his time with the Danish giants lasted only a month. He was released by the organization at the end of July to make way for Lucas "⁠Bubzkji⁠" Andersen.

JUGi went on to play for Complexity in the BLAST Premier Global Final and cs_summit 7 as a replacement for the injured Valentin "⁠poizon⁠" Vasilev. In the summer of 2021, he returned to action with South, but the Danish team disbanded shortly afterward following an unsuccessful search for an organization.

During his time competing in Valorant, JUGi represented only one organization, FOKUS. The team notably finished 5th-6th in VCT 2023 Ascension EMEA, the qualifying tournament for the VCT EMEA partner league.