Mathias “MSL” Lauridsen has officially signed on with North American organization Rogue. The Danish player will be taking the place of the Kevin “kRYSTAL” Amend who had taken over the in-game leading role following the departure of Casper “cadiaN” Møller. In somewhat of a player swap in the end, cadiaN would leave Rogue to sign with the full Danish lineup of North as their new in-game leader leaving MSL without a home before ultimately ending up with Rogue.

Im officially apart of @GoingRogueGG . I took some time to consider my offers and in the end I went with my gut feeling. I think the team has a really good mixture of talent and experience and I'm really excited to work with these guys. Let the grind begin! — Mathias Lauridsen (@MSLcsgo) October 28, 2018

Sources close to the team have informed us that MSL will take over the AWPing role allowing Ricardo “Rickeh” Mulholland to move toward rifling while still being able to secondary AWP if needed. MSL had taken up the AWP for North near the end of his time there, showing an impressive performance initially with the team taking home first at DreamHack Masters Stockholm by defeating Astralis in the finals. The AWP role honeymoon phase would not last, however, and in turn he was put on the chopping block following a disappointing exit from the FACEIT Major New Challenge Stage in London.

MSL is a veteran in-game leader and has led teams at the top tiers of Counter-Strike for years and will need to lean on that experience in order to help pull this team from the bottom of the leaderboard in ESL and try for a positive record in ECS. Rogue currently sits at 4-11 in the ESL Pro League while 5-5 in ECS.

The IGL will make his debut with the squad tonight against TeamOne in the DreamHack Open Winter NA Qualifier quarterfinals.

Rogue CS:GO roster:

Mathias “MSL” Lauridsen

Spencer “Hiko” Martin

Hunter “SicK” Mims

Daniel “vice” Kim

Ricardo “Rickeh” Mulholland

(Photo: SteelSeries)