Official: Passion UA announce new roster featuring Complexity quartet

20-8-2025 00:04

Kvem replaces cxzi to complete the lineup.

Passion UA has announced its new roster after completing the transfer of Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou, Michael "⁠Grim⁠" Wince, Håkon "⁠hallzerk⁠" Fjærli, and Nick "⁠nicx⁠" Lee from Complexity, confirming a previous report by HLTV. The American organization announced on Tuesday that it would step away from CS amidst economic struggles, with its team set to move on.

Complexity exit Counter-Strike: "It's been an incredibly difficult time economically"

The lineup is rounded out by Vladyslav "⁠Kvem⁠" Korol, who was retained by the Ukrainian organization from its previous lineup and replaces Danny "⁠Cxzi⁠" Strzelczyk as the final player alongside the incoming quartet.

The move reunites the Complexity players with head coach Tiaan "⁠T.c⁠" Coertzen after the organization parted ways with him in March. The South African had been the team's skipper for over three years and stood behind JT for over eight years before his departure, and made the move to Passion UA in April.

Passion UA will still be assigned to the Americas in the VRS despite having a 2-2 Europe and Americas split with Kvem, as JT counts toward the lowest-priority region following the June 25 ranking model update.

The organization also inherits the core's VRS rank and tournament invite slots, with the team's debut under the new banner set for August 29 at DraculaN Season 1.

Passion UA is now:

Vladyslav "⁠Kvem⁠" Korol
Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou
Michael "⁠Grim⁠" Wince
Håkon "⁠hallzerk⁠" Fjærli
Nick "⁠nicx⁠" Lee

Tiaan "⁠T.c⁠" Coertzen (coach)

ok, expected. (weird, but understandable move)

2025-08-20 00:04

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wonder if Passion UA pay more than Jason Lake

2025-08-20 07:41

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nvm

2025-08-20 09:06

Now T.c in Passion UA actually makes sense. Was so weird when he joined a full ukranian team.

2025-08-20 08:54

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Back again with his boys

2025-08-20 09:44

He knew complexity was over probably

2025-08-20 09:57

Now the move to black and red jersey also makes sense XD

2025-08-21 00:03

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kvem overrated ass... another chance , another time to fraud check should have kept demQQ instead of nicx and jackshamo instead of kvem.

2025-08-20 01:03

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Agree

2025-08-20 01:07

Nobody wants to play eu qualifiers

2025-08-20 01:16

Jackasmo instead of kvem? I mean kvem might be overrated but Jesus he’s miles better individually than jackasmo, not sure how nicx managed to stay on when yeah demqq would have been a sick replacement

2025-08-20 02:01

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Regions. They get passage through NA instead of having to grind out of EU. Look at how well that is working out for liquid

2025-08-20 02:21

They just need to make a deal with g2 amd swap malbs for nertz, liquid gets americas core and saw gets his boy back

2025-08-20 09:13

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Not a bad idea. But probably too complicated to actually make it happen.

2025-08-20 09:47

g2 would still ask for lot of money, knowing they'd offer liquid the major

2025-08-20 10:02

still have same opinion? Complexity was better EVEN WITH czxi as 5th. can´t even win vs bot bymas in 2025

2025-09-12 23:25

Kvem is NOT overrated /closed

2025-08-20 09:27

passion usa

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Fuck, I went and found my password just to log in and comment this and you got there first

2025-08-20 00:56

the S is silent :D

2025-08-20 07:50

WERE SO BACK

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i mean, it's nice for the players for being paid. but nothing will come from this. this roster is cool, but will fall apart in the next year eventually. why should they suddenly become much better? they will have a honeymoon, sure, and after that continue to play against BIG and ENCE in tier 2...

2025-08-20 01:44

btw, NA CS now super dead.

2025-08-20 01:51

FLAG TIMES 1,000

2025-08-20 15:37

Complexity showed some promise and kvem is miles better than cxzi so who knows. Grim, Goatzerk and Kvem is not a bad core. JT is a solid mid tier IGL nicx is definitely the weak link but maybe he will get motivated and grind

2025-08-20 04:00

PASSION USA GOOD LUCK KVEM

lmao L for complexity

?? the org is literally dead bro wtf do you mean "L for Complexity"

2025-08-20 00:12

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Massive L Jason Lake should have gotten into counterfeiting to keep the org afloat This is business management 101

2025-08-20 00:54

Nah he should've just done the classic USA businessman Epstein island trip and gotten a loan in exchange of selling his soul forever. Skill issue from Jason Lake

2025-08-20 08:14

Nice!

rip cxzi

2025-08-20 00:05

good

2025-08-20 00:48

Good luck Passion UA or USA hehehhehe but happy to see my boy Kvem in a decent squad rn jokes aside.

Good luck new PassionUSA, NA needs it

PASSION NA

what can coL even do now...

They disbanded (I am really sad for Jason lake)

2025-08-20 00:19

just checked their twitter... really sad day for NA CS not even coL's fault, they just can't take the gambling sponsor money everyone else is getting i'm sure Jason Lake tried everything for coL to stay in CS but it just wasn't meant to be. e: didn't see the HLTV article really need to go to sleep lol

2025-08-20 00:25

The gambling sponsors also have less reason to advertise to US markets when online gambling/casinos are still illegal in quite a few states

Gambling sponsor laws in the US are also just filled with legal landmines that you can step on if you're not incredibly careful. It's not a coincidence that not a single NA based org has a gambling sponsor, and all the good sponsors that can pay for an org are already sponsoring much bigger orgs like Liquid and C9. There is just nothing for you if you're not one of the big orgs in NA.

2025-08-20 03:06

I’m sure Jason Lake, a lawyer, would have looked at every option before disbanding. Thank you Jason for everything you’ve done to keep the NA scene alive.

2025-08-21 05:32

Passion UA basically bought a spot in the next Major... that's it

2025-08-20 00:07

NA saved. Just dropped to my knees and prayed in Walmart

Based. I went outside and started shooting my gun in the air. Euros could never.

2025-08-20 04:01

T.C securing paycheck for his boys W coach

2025-08-20 00:09

Now it makes sense why TC stayed, they got rid of the matchfixing ukrainians and bought the col lineup

2025-08-20 00:10

No one complains. Akuma = you should be canceled from the game for good. Hope we will never see toxic Wallhack2K and RadarQQ again.

2025-08-20 01:30

finally good ukrainian take W btw i like kvem, dunno how it will end still

2025-08-20 08:03

+ elige and we might have a era in our hand

Should have welcomed the Passion USA roster would have been funny

NA IS BACK!

T.c. was on a mission

2025-08-20 00:17

Tc knew, LOL

2025-08-20 00:23

Hope they dont qualify for major ditching UA roster for tier5 NA bots lol

they didnt ditch ua roster because of that. Ua roster was heavily dysfunctional to the point demqq refused to play as ex-PUA core with woro and topa who left PUA altogether. There clearly were internal conflicts and they just didnt want to play together. Given that its not a bad move for PUA

2025-08-20 00:35

Ohhhh... Where you hear that ?

2025-08-20 02:18

woro2k and kvem both said in their Tg that team didnt click and that there was no harmony etc. Demqq on his stream recently mentioned woro and topa asked him to play some of the tournaments they were invited to play as ex-PUA but demqq refused. Now they couldve asked jackasmo as well, but topa also wrote in his tg that there will be no ex-PUA core performing in events which means they either didnt ask jackasmo or he refused as well. In the end it seems like team just split up into 2 pieces and picking up new core was easier then fixing UA core mid-season. Since there was only one potential spot in complexity core and PUA had 3 riflers on bench its no surprising they gave chance to kvem

2025-08-20 02:39

Damn well thanks for the information. Unfortunate was hoping they would do the whole ex pua thing.

2025-08-20 03:12

Insightful thanks

2025-08-20 04:03

They are a much better team

They kept nicx over DemQQ?

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For Americas spot

2025-08-20 00:30

so why not -hallzerk +Woro2k then?

2025-08-20 00:32

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Sidegrade at best individually (imo a downgrade) while messing up team chemistry. No real point

Wrong, they kept him for aura, that's enough for me.

2025-08-20 07:34

hellzerk > worobot

2025-08-20 00:36

"Hellzerk" is actually "Hallzerk's" bigger half-brother... but still hellzerk>worobot hltv.org/player/936/hellzerk

2025-08-20 08:08

Why would the downgrade by keeping woro? They clearly don't wanna matchfix anymore.

2025-08-20 00:40

hallzerk def just has more t1 experience

2025-08-20 00:42

woro better on stats while he plays in t2, but hallzerk more experience, more chemistry and it seems woro is a bit toxic

2025-08-20 05:29

2025-08-20 05:37

they kept the Major spot over DemQQ

Never forget that DemQQ was on the legendary Akuma roster that used clean-feed radar "cheats" (not an in game software, just a stream on the second monitor) against NaVi in EPIC League CIS 2021, which was an RMR event. That was the event where 14/16 of the attending teams wrote an open letter to Valve asking them to investigate Akuma. So he is, at best, guilty by association of helping to cover up his teammates' cheating in a Major-qualifying event (worst case being he did it himself too).

2025-08-20 01:09

he knew It's amazing why he still plays

2025-08-20 10:00

T.c mastermind

2025-08-20 00:28

Glad to see Hallzerk is being given another home, love that guy.

Atleast now he should be able to attend lans in NA because he doesn't need to get the harder to acquire visa when he's not employed by an american company

2025-08-20 00:41

Lmao how does that work? Bud literally works for US org but cannot get into the US. Their visas are weird af.

2025-08-20 07:43

much more understandable given complexity's situation

2025-08-20 00:29

Nvm i cant read

Hold on, let them cook

thank god cxzi is gone, holy he was underperforming alot and yea kvem does deserve this kind of team

2025-08-20 00:34

T.c FNS level of planning

2025-08-20 00:39

kvem is going to drop kato-donk like numbers on na competition lmao. he was absolutely crushing europe t2 scene

2025-08-20 00:51

what happened to complexity?

2025-08-20 01:35

hos is kvem's english?

2025-08-20 01:54

He's got really good English tbh

2025-08-20 02:20

hope it works out then. he should be a solid upgrade for that core of coL

2025-08-20 02:25

Oh kvem is the goat for sure no question there

2025-08-20 02:32

what in the fuck are these orgs smoking

2025-08-20 01:58

Hoping for the boys this works out. Sad to see Complexity go like this. Hoping they can carry the legacy on, let’s go Passion USA lol

2025-08-20 01:59

I'd love to see Passion UA use this to branch into 2 different divisions. They could have Passion.USA as their top tier competition team, and keep developing home talent under Passion.UA

2025-08-20 02:07