Complexity end 14-year LAN trophy drought with ESL Challenger Jönköping title

16-6-2024 21:46

EliGE was the star as the North American team came out on top in the championship match.

Complexity toppled Falcons to win ESL Challenger Jönköping

Complexity beat Falcons 2-0 on Sunday to claim the ESL Challenger Jönköping 2024 trophy and put an end to the American organization's 14-year wait for a LAN trophy.

The last time Complexity won an offline event was in 2010, when a full Brazilian roster that included Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo beat Evil Geniuses in New York in the grand final of the IEM V American Championship Finals, in 1.6. Since then, Complexity had been to several finals, in CS:GO and then CS2, but had always been on the losing end of such matches.

Complexity traveled to Sweden hoping to end the season on a high note after group stage exits at IEM Dallas and YaLLa Compass. A 13-10 loss to ENCE was the only bump in the road for Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou's troops, who edged past MIBR in the group's decider stage and Aurora in the semi-finals to set up a clash with Falcons in the final.

Date	Matches
ESL Challenger Jönköping 2024
14/06/2024	Complexity Finished 13:2 Alliance	Match
14/06/2024	Complexity Finished 10:13 ENCE	Match
15/06/2024	Complexity Finished 2:1 MIBR	Match
16/06/2024	Aurora Finished 1:2 Complexity	Match
16/06/2024	Complexity Finished 2:0 Falcons	Match

Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski played a key role in Complexity's victory in the final with a series-high 1.47 rating in two close maps (13-10 on Vertigo and 13-9 on Nuke). His performance capped off a solid tournament in which he averaged a 1.34 rating, the third-highest overall, only behind Azbayar "⁠Senzu⁠" Munkhbold (1.40) and Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen (1.37).

"It feels really good," EliGE said after the match. "We've been through a lot. A lot of really close losses. A lot of crazy wins. To be able to end it with something to show for it makes me really happy."

ESL Challenger Jönköping 2024Best of 3

Complexity

Matchpage

16th June 2024

Falcons

Vertigo

Nuke

Complexity	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	40 - 26	+6.70%	94.1	77.8%	1.47
Ricky 'floppy' Kemery floppy	36 - 28	+2.56%	84.0	80.0%	1.23
Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou JT	28 - 31	+1.55%	68.9	73.3%	1.07
Håkon 'hallzerk' Fjærli hallzerk	27 - 27	-2.74%	68.5	75.6%	1.04
Michael 'Grim' Wince Grim	26 - 27	-0.49%	69.1	73.3%	1.03

Falcons	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Álvaro 'SunPayus' García SunPayus	39 - 28	+1.65%	82.6	84.4%	1.33
Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen dupreeh	38 - 34	+1.62%	91.9	73.3%	1.27
Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer Snappi	20 - 30	-4.44%	61.6	64.4%	0.79
Emil 'Magisk' Reif Magisk	22 - 36	-2.98%	64.0	66.7%	0.77
Pavle 'Maden' Bošković Maden	19 - 32	-3.43%	53.3	57.8%	0.70

Despite the loss, Falcons have qualified for ESL Pro League Season 20 as Complexity already hold a spot in the tournament as a Louvre Agreement team.

That, together with the fact that the team gave a good account of itself in Jönköping by beating The MongolZ, ENCE, and playing two close games against Complexity, will ease some of the pain from a season in which Falcons fell short of expectations.

"Lost in the final, too many clutches lost, that's Counter-Strike" Álvaro "⁠SunPayus⁠" García wrote on X after the match. "Got the EPL spot anyway. Happy for the team. We showed a better face of ourselves, disappointed with the loss. See you next season and sorry to the fans out there."

mental

2024-06-16 21:47

1 reply

Finally

2024-06-16 21:49

Easy for Brazilian destroyed teams

what a headline lmfao same headline will be made if brazil wins something again in CS

6 replies

MIBR won this same type of tournament a month ago... what are you talking about?

2024-06-16 22:00

5 replies

Furia won that Elisa too...

2024-06-16 22:18

xDD

2024-06-17 08:52

i obviously meant in tier1, nobody cares about tier3 event wins

2024-06-16 22:44

2 replies

Elisa Masters 2023, isn't a Big Event but It's kind of a tier 1

2024-06-16 22:57

Nah esl Melbourne was something respectable by mibr, even though the quality of teams there were not as high as jokoping, but elisa was like blast, mickey Mouse events There are like 9z, pain and mibr that comes before furia when talking about strongest in SA

2024-06-16 23:56

nice

real final was mibr vs col, ez for elige

elige MVP?

i guess, simply no hltv-mvp :(

2024-06-17 01:05

They had to join a tier 3 tournament to end the drought lmao

2024-06-16 21:48

15 replies

This was a tier 2 event for sure. 6/8 of the teams are solidly in tier 2 or on the cusp of tier 1

2024-06-16 22:33

4 T1 teams 2 T2 teams and 2 T3 teams and col was the highest rank of the T1 so it was kinda expected

2024-06-16 22:43

13 replies

There was not a single tier 1 team there, maybe Mongolz but even that is a stretch

2024-06-16 22:45

11 replies

Mongolz is a top 11 team in the world. They are tier 1 lol.

2024-06-16 22:55

Not really

2024-06-16 22:58

T1 are ranks 1-19, T2 are 20-39, T3 are 40-59. so yea Col, Mongols, Mibr, and falcons are T1.

2024-06-16 23:03

8 replies

This is either the worst bait ever or you just have 0 CS knowledge

o did you want to use pseudoscience to determine who's T1? my apologies

2024-06-16 23:08

Tier 1 are those who are regarded as top-tier and receive invites to the most prestigious tournaments. Complexity and Falcons are at the bottom of tier 1 right now. MIBR and Mongolz are definitely not tier 1 since they're not getting big invites. They would have to be a consistent top 10 team for a while to be considered tier 1.

2024-06-16 23:33

3 replies

counterpoint, EG kept getting invites to big tournaments despite not being a tier 1 team

2024-06-17 08:45

True, there is the exception of teams who bought into franchise leagues when they used to be tier 1. EG and NiP only stuck around because they paid ESL and Blast a lot and signed a contract.

2024-06-17 21:04

2024-06-17 12:08

don't argue with the mouth breathers brother, you are absolutely correct

2024-06-17 14:21

wtf na copium

2024-06-17 06:19

orgs? sure teams? no way org =/= team/core

2024-06-16 22:54

14 years is crazyyy💀

let’s go CoL nice work boys

Yeah but them winning upset the Europeans. Na living rent free as usual.

2024-06-16 23:22

ahh it’s about time they put in some hours and do the malding we always have to do it

2024-06-16 23:26

they won in 2020 but that was online

thats why they said LAN lol

2024-06-16 22:16

also. col never had an all BR team in 2010.... lmfao

2024-06-17 00:13

EliGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

They can beat Falcons

Holy smokes, 14 years, that means, despite all their CSGO rosters, not a single LAN trophy during the entirety of CSGO. Also FALLEN??!?!? That's some good lore, sidnt know Fallen was one of the 5 players who had last won a LAN trophy for COL.

2024-06-16 21:50

14 years, jeeeeeesus.

NICE SHIT LETS GOOOO

2024-06-16 21:51

luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuulllllll

Tier 2 tournament and low tier teams. Good job at not failing for once

2024-06-16 21:52

thats great but you will fill history books with a Falcoons win that is kindd of embarressing.

2024-06-16 21:54

GZ to COL! Nice to see them performing.

2024-06-16 21:55

wow

wp jl

wow gratz

2024-06-16 21:56

Aurora should've won this istfg.

2024-06-16 21:58

-1 lol

2024-06-16 21:59

nah they should've honestly, they fumbled the fucking bag in that last map

Col havent won longer than most hltv users are alive. Wild

col won in 2020, the title is a bit misleading

2024-06-16 22:10

that was online because of covid

2024-06-16 23:17

hello

2024-06-17 01:49

they won blast spring 2020 sir change the title to first lan victory in 14 years

2024-06-16 22:01

Yeah I’m guessing they meant LAN trophies I was so confused.

2024-06-16 22:04

ha they fixed it

2024-06-16 22:17

Crazy

2024-06-16 22:05

Donk is 17 btw, that is crazy

2024-06-16 22:09

1st W for winning 2nd W for doing it vs the falcons

btw the "Journalism" is strong with this one. they latest win is in like 23, and as some point out, if it means the offline - it was in like 2018 or something

Nice! that's a good end of season for the guys :)

2024-06-16 22:14

14 years wtf

Yeah they were essentially the Mouz of NA having players poached from them. It wasnt until they went EU with that BlameF team did they really aim to start being bigger than that.

2024-06-17 06:16

Mongolz lost to falcons for this?

Sweden is the best place to do it.

Complexity was really good in 2010. Dominated EG and the other NA teams

2024-06-16 22:22

These generations of tiktokers and online heroes destroyed, ruined everything which was good & full of quality last 7-8 y. ofcourse with exception ... ★ Imagine we are witnessing where Brazil is dominated by Mongolians ( all respect to them ) .. How much this potato generation can surprise, imagine CS pro scene disappeared in Sweden, Finland, Germany, South Korea, Poland .. World has changed last 7-8 y. in every aspect, there is so much quantity but 0 quality.

2024-06-17 05:31

Why no MVP? 2023 Jonkoping had MVP.

2024-06-16 22:24

Nice they won a tournament that noone knew existed because of blast series

2024-06-16 22:26

Even floppy with a 1,23 against Pigeons

2024-06-16 22:30

Bald Eagleeeeee

2024-06-16 22:31

Fairly meaningless lan, but its not at the same time, still a decent one due to an actual qualification to more serious one, so good job!

2024-06-16 22:53

Only people hating are European bums. Na lives rent free

tough games for col, so many mistakes, so many close rounds that could have went either way, so many hallzerk misses yet they pulled it through somehow.. 14 years is crazy.. Lake deserves more trophies at CoL camp

2024-06-16 23:07

finally, failcons xD

2024-06-16 23:14

NA SO BACK??

2024-06-16 23:15

Last time complexity won LAN Jason Lake was in high school

The org has never won anything prior period

2024-06-16 23:41

coL era has been started.

2024-06-16 23:59

2024-06-17 00:02

congratulations, complexity!

2024-06-17 00:49

hltv.org/events/6868/esl-challenger-jnkp.. 2023 has hltv mvp award where is this one?

Insane

2024-06-17 01:42

The trophy is so mickey mouse that hltv doesn't have an icon for it on the team profile 😭

2024-06-17 01:44

Finally some news that I remember like it was yesterday.... IEM events.

2024-06-17 01:50

Happy for JT, Tc and the rest of the Complexity boys. GG WP!

2024-06-17 02:03

Falcons kekw

2024-06-17 02:12

Don't call this a title please, all good teams were in Blast.

2024-06-17 02:35

For jackson 😘

2024-06-17 04:34

Just the other day some guy commented that "at least MiBR can win Challenger events" in regards to coL (he was implying MiBR were better). Pretty funny really. Maybe this will give them some actual confidence so they can win a real trophy at some point. Also wtf is this photo:

2024-06-17 05:29

Mans enjoying his post-game Italian sausage sandwich ofc!

2024-06-17 06:14

... or maybe this "title", which let's face it, it's a B-tier event, will only validate the management and Jason Lake into thinking that this mediocre roster can actually compete in S/A-tier events so that they can waste EliGE's prime even more.

2024-06-17 08:13