Kjaerbye and dennyslaw link up with JiJieHao

The Asian team has picked up two European players ahead of the Esports World Cup.

Kjaerbye takes up the IGL mantle for JiJieHao

JiJieHao have secured the services of Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye and Denislav "⁠dennyslaw⁠" Dimitrov, the team has confirmed to HLTV. The two signings get the Asian side back to a full roster just weeks before the Esports World Cup in Riyadh.

Kjaerbye played for the team during their qualifying run for the Saudi event, helping JiJieHao to victories over Onyx Ravens and VC. Now a full-fledged squad member, he takes over as in-game leader.

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dennyslaw will take up the AWP from Love "⁠phzy⁠" Smidebrant, who played for the team during the Esports World Cup qualifiers. According to recent reports, the Swedish AWPer is on the brink of joining Wildcard alongside compatriot Tim "⁠susp⁠" Ångström.

This will be dennyslaw's first international challenge after playing for Bulgarian teams like SKADE and 500. In a statement to HLTV, he said the goal at the Esports World Cup is to get experience against top teams, which he hopes will help them qualify for the Shanghai Major.

"We will give it our 100% because this is a huge opportunity for an unknown team like ours," he said. "We will start in the last-chance qualifier due to coming from the local qualifier, and the best of one single elimination for us can be a blessing or a curse.

"We will work as best as we can and keep a positive mindset whatever happens at EWC and use it as an experience for future tournaments and the upcoming Major qualifiers in August."

With these two additions, JiJieHao now have:

Jordan Issa "⁠ISSAA⁠" Murad
Lebanon Hussein "⁠m1N1⁠" Hijazi
Palestine Osama "⁠0SAMAS⁠" Orabi
Denmark Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye
Bulgaria Denislav "⁠dennyslaw⁠" Dimitrov

Denmark Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye
Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye
Age:
26
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
1561
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.66
Lebanon Hussein 'm1N1' Hijazi
Hussein 'm1N1' Hijazi
Age:
19
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.07
Maps played:
78
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.68
Sweden Tim 'susp' Ångström
Tim 'susp' Ångström
Age:
19
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.00
Maps played:
429
KPR:
0.68
DPR:
0.67
Jordan Issa 'ISSAA' Murad
Issa 'ISSAA' Murad
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
891
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.65
Palestine Osama '0SAMAS' Orabi
Osama '0SAMAS' Orabi
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.09
Maps played:
36
KPR:
0.78
DPR:
0.71
Sweden Love 'phzy' Smidebrant
Love 'phzy' Smidebrant
Age:
21
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
703
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.62
Bulgaria Denislav 'dennyslaw' Dimitrov
Denislav 'dennyslaw' Dimitrov
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.07
Maps played:
1640
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.63
Wow such career highs
2024-06-30 21:20
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major mvp with 322 legend
2024-06-30 22:38
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OSAMAS finnaly on same team as ISSAA... they are not even close to winning world cup , but if they keep this roster for the usual major qualifiers in that region , with this lineup is pretty ez
2024-07-01 00:13
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lmao what? Are you high? There is no world where this team even takes a map away from FlyQuest, TheMongolZ, TyLoo or even Lynn Vision / ATOX / the new Talon roster
2024-07-01 14:18
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#73
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Slovakia GloryMole
Tyloo/Lynn Vision/ATOX/Talon is possible
2024-07-01 21:03
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TyLoo, definitely not ATOX/Talon/Lynn, they might take a map or upset in a Bo1, but no chance at beating them in a Bo3
2024-07-01 22:06
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Legimately no shot.
2024-07-02 02:15
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Hungary ShadYyBoy
no way !!!
2024-06-30 21:20
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#3
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Moldova salkoay
Speechless
2024-06-30 21:20
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#58
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Germany Sol1taire
why does Kjaerbye want to qualify for Shanghai?
2024-07-01 08:58
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stealing spots
2024-06-30 21:22
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#5
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Turkey Tagan35
what a downfall
2024-06-30 21:23
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#12
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Latvia g45
asia only region with open qual
2024-06-30 21:49
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#7
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cyx | 
North Macedonia Svetskii
this is what peak performance looks like
2024-06-30 21:29
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#8
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United States ddown
this team lowkey goes hard m1n1 underrated kjearbye shaking dennyslaw matxchfixing top 30 hltv soon
2024-06-30 21:29
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lmaoooooo
2024-06-30 21:53
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Theyre gonna qualify for the major
2024-07-01 19:06
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#9
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Austria heartheroar
one of the teams of all time
2024-06-30 21:31
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wtf?
2024-06-30 21:39
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#13
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Latvia g45
sticker money sir cuz asia has 3 spots + only region with open qual
2024-06-30 21:49
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no way they're getting anywhere close to stickers with mongolz, tyloo, lynn vision, flyquest, rooster, atox etc existing
2024-07-01 01:04
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#41
bLitz | 
Latvia g45
mongolz are the real threat, other teams are not that menacing looking
2024-07-01 01:07
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everything is looking menacing compared to this lineup
2024-07-01 01:08
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Exactly
2024-07-01 08:28
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jijiehao is actually ass and the roster might not even exist come the shanghai major with how there last rosters have ended
2024-07-01 11:39
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When has any of these eu mixes actually done anything at the asian rmr?
2024-07-02 02:21
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#11
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United Kingdom Jonty04l32
That's an interesting combination indeed.
2024-06-30 21:46
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Lmaoo
2024-06-30 21:53
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Dude..:
2024-06-30 21:53
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#17
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senka | 
Poland szlajmer
XDDDD KJAERBYE IN 2024
2024-06-30 21:57
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#18
Faceit level 10  | 
senka | 
Poland szlajmer
whats next, pashabiceps to tyloo?
2024-06-30 21:57
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#27
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Ukraine Iskyss
Snax to gl Wait...
2024-06-30 22:47
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#64
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senka | 
Poland szlajmer
wait fr xddd
2024-07-01 10:50
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Come on guys, Kjaerbye is still young.. just hope he has SHAKEN off his rust ;)
2024-07-01 17:28
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o_O
2024-06-30 22:01
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No way
2024-06-30 22:07
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#22
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kennyS | 
New Zealand aotearoa
Worst transfer award gg
2024-06-30 22:20
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goood luck boysss!
2024-06-30 22:28
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I wonder if this will be their lineup for the Asian XPL liquipedia.net/counterstrike/XSE_Pro_Lea.. Its the 26th so its after EWC, if they bomb out maybe they just disband, but I hope not, would love for more asian tournaments to have more than just 1 good team
2024-06-30 22:39
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#28
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Israel mcnamaras_EEEdiots
looks like kjaerbye trying his ass off in that showmatch paid off
2024-06-30 22:50
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What a waste of fucninf money - I guess there aov team must be doing alright
2024-06-30 23:00
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#31
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Cuba meIody
okay but check out those flag colors thats so clean
2024-06-30 23:02
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#32
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Sweden Vrede
XD
2024-06-30 23:32
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#33
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Kenya SkibidiHussein
gl kjerby
2024-06-30 23:36
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major winner
2024-06-30 23:40
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the gold black and purple jerseys where so sick and now they look like they wear cheap souvenir shop shirts..
2024-07-01 00:04
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I though Kjaerbye said he retired
2024-07-01 00:05
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Kjaerbye retires, goes out fucking bitches in the Danish summer, and then comes back to CS for some fresh cash
2024-07-01 03:46
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Money speak :D
2024-07-01 10:10
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#37
Faceit level 10  | 
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Latvia emzijs
phzy goes somewhere better i reckon
2024-07-01 00:05
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#39
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Canada minibeech
this asian lineup has 0 asians on it. lol
2024-07-01 00:51
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How to publicly display, that you do not know geography. Some Arab countries are a part of Asia, and as such people from those countries are also Asians. They have three players from different Asian countries, those countries being Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine.
2024-07-01 10:45
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a transfer to play 1 (one) bo1 is crazy
2024-07-01 01:08
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#46
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Ukraine DANTOP1
I hope I will see a few of their games
2024-07-01 02:14
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Quite the oddball team, but I hope they find success :)
2024-07-01 02:50
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#48
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Sweden slyde123
Good luck!
2024-07-01 03:35
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#50
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Europe LastBlast
dennyslaw instead phzy? lol
2024-07-01 04:44
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#53
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New Zealand Skye620
Swear kjaerbye retired?
2024-07-01 06:15
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this is cool.
2024-07-01 06:16
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if they bomb out from XSE Pro League Season 2, it's gg
2024-07-01 09:51
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#61
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Sweden skorpan
Danish washed up has-been trying to get back by switching to the IGL role, name something more common ……
2024-07-01 10:26
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which washed up dane except device (who isn't washed) tried to get back by becoming a IGL?
2024-07-01 11:33
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#75
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Sweden skorpan
Kjarbye now raalz valde maNKz To name a few. And then there's the players which actually succeeded to continue their careers by switching to the igl role such as karrigan, snappi and hooxi. And then there's 2 cases of increasing their own performance while making the switch: glaive and device (as u mentioned)
2024-07-01 22:17
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im not sure about valde because he also igled for a bit in North (he wasnt a good IGL) even tho his performances were still good. No clue about raalz and maNKz tbh, i never followed their career. Can't talk about Snappi and Karrigan either because they have always been IGLs since i watch CS. But i get your point and also see the pattern. I think cadiaN too
2024-07-02 00:39
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#62
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Lithuania sqvar3
What the hell is this team
2024-07-01 10:39
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#67
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Brazil 4vengerr
WTF ?????
2024-07-01 13:58
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#69
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DZ | 
Algeria SilverQuick
Brings back such memories seeing Kjaerbye competing again.
2024-07-01 14:20
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Good luck guys!!!!
2024-07-01 20:23
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I thought this guy retired?
2024-07-02 01:37
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