Complexity part ways with EliGE

EliGE departs Complexity after a year and a half with the American organization.

EliGE is headed for greener pastures after a disappointing 2024 with Complexity

Complexity have announced the departure of star rifler Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski. The announcement comes following rumors that EliGE is headed to FaZe to take the spot left behind by Robin "⁠ropz⁠" Kool's exit from the European side.

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Sources: FaZe in advanced discussions with EliGE

EliGE's year-and-a-half-long tenure with Complexity netted little in the way of results for the team. The North American side's most notable results with EliGE included a victory at ESL Challenger Jönköping 2024, a runner-up finish at IEM Sydney 2023, and a semi-final placing at ESL Pro League Season 19.

Outside of these highlights, Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou's men struggled to find deep runs at top events throughout the latter half of 2023 and much of 2024, culminating in an Opening Stage exit from the Perfect World Shanghai Major to wrap up the year.

EliGE continued to excel individually despite Complexity's woes in 2024, securing an EVP award at ESL Pro League Season 19 and snagging 19th place on the Top 20 players of 2024 list. All told, EliGE concludes his time with Complexity with a 1.20 average rating across 227 maps played.

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Top 20 players of 2024: EliGE (19)

As Complexity recently parted ways with Ricky "⁠floppy⁠" Kemery, the team is now down to just three active players. A recent report from Dust2.us suggests that the American organization will be looking to domestic talents Danny "⁠Cxzi⁠" Strzelczyk and Nick "⁠nicx⁠" Lee to fill the gaps in their lineup.

Complexity are down to:

United States Michael "⁠Grim⁠" Wince
South Africa Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou
Norway Håkon "⁠hallzerk⁠" Fjærli

South Africa Tiaan "⁠T.c⁠" Coertzen (coach)

United States Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski
Age:
27
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.08
Maps played:
1981
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.68
United States Nick 'nicx' Lee
Nick 'nicx' Lee
Age:
20
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.97
Maps played:
296
KPR:
0.68
DPR:
0.71
Norway Håkon 'hallzerk' Fjærli
Håkon 'hallzerk' Fjærli
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
1110
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.64
Estonia Robin 'ropz' Kool
Robin 'ropz' Kool
Age:
25
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.12
Maps played:
1560
KPR:
0.74
DPR:
0.61
United States Danny 'Cxzi' Strzelczyk
Danny 'Cxzi' Strzelczyk
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.01
Maps played:
954
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.72
United States Ricky 'floppy' Kemery
Ricky 'floppy' Kemery
Age:
25
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
1190
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.65
United States Michael 'Grim' Wince
Michael 'Grim' Wince
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
1272
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.68
South Africa Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou
Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.93
Maps played:
1438
KPR:
0.62
DPR:
0.68
gl elige last hope of norwood cs
2025-01-09 02:35
195
2 replies
bro its not even norwood at this point
2025-01-09 02:37
2
best of the rest
2025-01-09 07:24
0
RIP Complexity
2025-01-09 02:33
121
FaZe incoming Pog
2025-01-09 02:33
74
#4
nexa | 
Serbia XD___
sad
2025-01-09 02:33
4
#5
Faceit level 7  | 
flameZ | 
United States Cashen
good luck to NA's hope
2025-01-09 02:34
12
1 reply
#100
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United States murph2k
There goes my hero
2025-01-09 17:48
1
#6
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Sweden Vrede
Finally LETS GO ELIGE FOR MAJOR WITH KARRIGAN
2025-01-09 02:35
70
3 replies
#68
Faceit level 10  | 
Jame | 
Chad deeeadpool
elige is gonna shit on these kids with a proper team ez major for the bald eagle
2025-01-09 10:34
15
2 replies
Not happening. ELiGE is like niko. All aim and no brains. Neither eillevr win a major.
2025-01-09 17:43
0
1 reply
You dont watch ELiGE at all do you?
2025-01-10 14:20
0
complexity is so sour LMAO "From the Sydney arena to the Jönköping trophy, it's been quite a journey." a journey to the corner store and back
2025-01-09 02:36
36
1 reply
#65
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
m0NESY | 
Poland Mardex
oof
2025-01-09 09:00
1
Good on Jason for letting him walk
2025-01-09 02:38
40
3 replies
#13
Faceit level 10  | 
s1mple | 
Bhutan testingTheories
CoL fell so EliGE could walk
2025-01-09 02:42
53
#46
EliGE | 
United States cmohr
Bad on Jason for forcing him to play with this team for as long as he did and refusing to make changes
2025-01-09 05:39
4
1 reply
#52
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Greece her-1g
He just couldnt afford new olayers man. This is not 2005 when you could get the best for free
2025-01-09 06:30
35
Hope the best for elige at faze and complexity!
2025-01-09 02:39
9
Eskimo bro time you and twist clapping eu from the back in a faze jersey bro
2025-01-09 02:40
2
#14
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United States GiantDays
there goes america's last, best hope.
2025-01-09 02:42
22
8 replies
Nicx is joining COL not leaving it
2025-01-09 03:00
6
7 replies
#37
JT | 
North America b00tleg
I thought slump was gonna save us
2025-01-09 04:09
0
6 replies
I mean I am in talks with Jason, we are soon gonna get hallzerk kicked and get slump on its place
2025-01-09 04:11
3
5 replies
#39
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United States Zake_
You will be living up to your name if true
2025-01-09 04:24
0
#56
JT | 
North America b00tleg
Lol "its"
2025-01-09 07:21
0
3 replies
It's place
2025-01-09 16:51
0
2 replies
#103
JT | 
North America b00tleg
It wasn't a typo it was calling hallzerk an "it" like he's some foul creature
2025-01-09 19:09
0
1 reply
Yes you are right it wasn't a typo i meant it
2025-01-09 21:10
0
#15
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
roman | 
Portugal MUTIRIS_VAC_SHOT
It was good while it lasted, too bad they lost the Sydney decider on OT, Elige deserved a T1 trophy in his stint.
2025-01-09 02:44
11
3 replies
It definitely wasn't good. It was hilariously bad while it lasted. Without Vertigo in pool it would have been even worse.
2025-01-09 15:27
0
2 replies
#104
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
roman | 
Portugal MUTIRIS_VAC_SHOT
it was good for coL fans :)
2025-01-09 19:56
0
1 reply
Guess so, probably have to be a masochist to be a COL fan. For a normal person the only entertaining thing about this project was hallzerk and elige crying and malding and slamming the table.
2025-01-09 20:55
0
#16
 | 
Russia HikZ
Faze Elige pog
2025-01-09 02:47
2
#17
 | 
United States jaank
go win goat
2025-01-09 02:49
2
#18
 | 
England DB_R20
Respect col for letting him go tho Never been a GM with as much heart as Jason lake
2025-01-09 02:54
38
3 replies
#23
 | 
United States cybonics
Whoever Heroic's GM is, is climbing the ranks for me. The NertZ tweet definitely added some rep
2025-01-09 02:58
9
2 replies
#32
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England DB_R20
Agreed. And gamerlegion just for hiring ash really.
2025-01-09 03:31
2
1 reply
Seriously ash, sAw, and Jerry are probably some of the craziest roster builders that have played in CS in a long while. Jerry may have PARIVISION as a mark on his record, but getting forZe to majors despite having to play with a different lineup in some, usually significant capacity is worth respect in my book, and sAw and ash are doing this shit on hardcore mode due to losing their IGLs.
2025-01-09 05:21
9
#19
 | 
Russia I_D_R_C
Faze EliGE
2025-01-09 02:54
3
#20
 | 
United States cybonics
WELCOME TO GAMER LEGION!!!
2025-01-09 02:57
1
IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING
2025-01-09 02:57
1
finally it's done. i wish he finds success. high hopes for the bald eagle
2025-01-09 03:00
0
#25
 | 
United States blargCS
Gotta be faze
2025-01-09 03:01
0
finally
2025-01-09 03:02
0
gl man
2025-01-09 03:06
0
#28
 | 
Norway Xaitzberg
bad move from complexity
2025-01-09 03:10
0
2 replies
*bald move
2025-01-09 04:56
3
#49
 | 
United Kingdom Revvylo
do you think this was coL's choice lol?
2025-01-09 05:47
1
back to Bottom of the tournament team
2025-01-09 03:26
0
Lets be real Faze are going to use Elige for Austin BUT WILL BACKFIRE due to Faze Curse so sorry Elige better off rebuilding NA. :/
2025-01-09 03:29
1
#31
 | 
United States Protoguy
thank you jon <3 we appreciate everything you did for col
2025-01-09 03:30
0
karrigan is so useless without 4x top20 players (bar rain just this year)
2025-01-09 03:41
1
9 replies
Respect the goat He has been competing in tier1 for over 24 years Where are other players who played with him before? Washed and retired
2025-01-09 05:24
13
6 replies
shabi he has been getting carried for too long.
2025-01-09 05:32
0
5 replies
Shabi? I am not chinese bro Igl always looks carried in stats But he always leads teams very well
2025-01-09 06:23
6
4 replies
he leads his team into disadvantages, and waits for them to clutch rounds. countless times. just watch final game of recent major.
2025-01-09 08:35
0
3 replies
#69
 | 
Finland EetuuZz
You are basically saying that all IGLs are bad. Karrigan led his team to Katowice final and Major finals twice. It requires some solid captaincy and good calling. Despite his age he managed to beat many strong teams like Vitality and G2. What more do you want from your leader? Also, other FaZe players were struggling individually this year which makes leading even harder.
2025-01-09 10:39
4
2 replies
they did name apex igl of the year...... when he got carried by zywoo. just -zywoo as a single player, and apex will be back to the same tier he was at before zywoo joined the team. remember alex who led the team? after alex left, what became of him? so is apex a great igl just because they won many events that year? was alex a great igl? great igl's: biguzera ; blitz sure they didnt win much, but they rose from nothingness. and you can clearly see igl-ship is smart. karrigan's useless. he only begs management for expensive players. who are the most expensive players in the game? igl? or zywoo / simple (washed for now) / donk? are stars more expensive or igl? so yes, i view karrigan is no more than an annoying kid. siuhy and kyxsan also had relative success without having tier1 superstars. and these players are being seen more and more as superstars now. so i'd give some credit to these igls. not karrigan sort, not apex sort.
2025-01-09 12:00
1
1 reply
just biased and broken man keep believing what you believe
2025-01-09 14:21
0
Karrigan is old as fuck and still outaims most of these kids in the top. You are delusional
2025-01-09 13:06
1
1 reply
'all aim no brain'
2025-01-09 13:17
0
#34
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Korea syjeon
EliGE to FaZe, i are think that vrey many
2025-01-09 03:56
0
#35
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India pquest10
time to faze tf up
2025-01-09 04:02
1
#36
 | 
Yugoslavia lapace
ITS HAPPENING.
2025-01-09 04:04
1
#40
 | 
Iceland Barkleys
Welcome to FaZe 🙏🏻
2025-01-09 04:37
1
NA officially dead xd thank god
2025-01-09 05:27
1
Welcome to FaZe!
2025-01-09 05:42
1
FaZe EliGE
2025-01-09 05:43
1
elige major mvp incoming
2025-01-09 06:05
2
Fazeeee
2025-01-09 06:43
0
At least EliGe gave us coL fans hope when he joined, even if the results weren't the best, it was a good run. Best of luck champ o7
2025-01-09 06:49
1
Col was eliges car + he drove that car + even paid the fuel to take his mates somewhere. Thats how col felt for me last year. You cant be happy with that.
2025-01-09 06:54
0
Welcome to Faze bro
2025-01-09 07:43
1
#60
rain | 
United States RyoGTO
oooh shit now faze is NA again
2025-01-09 08:02
1
#62
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Venezuela Sinkzer
Fnatic just got a whole lot stronger.
2025-01-09 08:33
0
#63
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Russia KopHuLLloH
Plz not faze
2025-01-09 08:34
0
rip col welcome to FaZe MY GOAT
2025-01-09 09:08
0
Say hi to coL.Spinx :eyes:
2025-01-09 10:00
0
5 replies
#73
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Greece her-1g
not gonna happen. nicx and cxzi will join the other 3. J Lake doesnt have the money required to buy or pay big players like spinx
2025-01-09 11:01
0
4 replies
Damn, no idea where spinx might land then :D
2025-01-09 11:20
0
3 replies
G2 instead of hunter ?
2025-01-09 12:18
0
2 replies
how bout volt g2
2025-01-09 12:23
0
1 reply
its a possibility too
2025-01-09 12:24
0
Gl
2025-01-09 10:41
0
#71
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Latvia Bouncy2370
finally the best portugese-speaking player can get a good team
2025-01-09 10:54
0
elige gone and suddenly the roster looks like tier 9999
2025-01-09 11:00
0
Ngl this season is crazy, ropz vita, elige faze, HeavyGod G2, new falcons, everything is hype af
2025-01-09 11:10
0
-botzerk when
2025-01-09 11:13
1
#77
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Norway Namoysio
How cool would it be if col got sonic from wildcard now, making a majority ZA team
2025-01-09 11:58
1
Soon Elige and Twistzz reunion on FaZe
2025-01-09 12:21
0
bald amouranth
2025-01-09 12:40
0
This happens when you re-sign a mid awper
2025-01-09 12:55
0
#85
Faceit level 9  | 
agony | 
Finland Tori9th
Elige gives tips for pugs 5 minutes later Complexity parts ways with elige I guess they didn't like their stratbook being shared
2025-01-09 12:59
3
Shouldve picked up a stew and an upcoming player, trying to get 2 rookies on a team never works out
2025-01-09 14:24
0
2 replies
#93
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United States cybonics
stew posted below a .9 rating man it's not worth it in big 2025
2025-01-09 15:43
0
1 reply
he played randomly because someone dropped out with no practice on a team he had never played with before. You are leaving out so much context LOL, but you do you
2025-01-09 18:08
0
-jks +elige ?
2025-01-09 14:52
0
#92
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
manne | 
Sweden FREE_XELOS
They kick floppy and theyll bring in NA players that are worse. There's no clear upgrades unless they go international
2025-01-09 15:32
0
1 reply
#94
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United States cybonics
Floppy left because he wanted a break from competitive play. Also taking risks is how you develop talent
2025-01-09 15:49
0
i think elige should do team with ropz sunpyus and sjush
2025-01-09 16:44
0
#97
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
cAmyy | 
Other ToRu
pls give a good team to Elige
2025-01-09 16:47
0
bro why am I still waiting for this faze announcement AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
2025-01-09 18:29
0
Lets go FaZe Elige
2025-01-09 20:24
1
I guess they didn't like his video
2025-01-09 20:41
0
Whelp, Tier 1 NA CS is boned. Because what European superteam in their right mind is gonna gamble on our guy? Seriously. This is a dark, dark day for North American CS. I’m glad that the parting was amicable, but I hate what this means for the scene.
2025-01-09 21:28
0
2 replies
#111
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United States SN33D
NA has been dead since 2019. It’s time to let it go
2025-01-10 06:23
2
1 reply
Yeah, I know…
2025-01-19 10:04
0
#110
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Europe micassd
I remmember Hiko using that shirt. Old school Complexity shirt...
2025-01-09 22:22
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