Heroic talent Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen will be OpTic's fifth player in the European qualifier for StarSeries i-League Season 6, HLTV.org has learned.

The 20-year-old will be standing in for the team as a replacement for Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke, who will be away on holiday while the qualifier is taking place.

In the tournament, niko will reunite with his former Heroic teammates Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen and Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer, who left the team in April to further their careers in the North American organisation.

niko will play for OpTic in the StarSeries qualifier

The Danish team recently qualified for their first Major after finishing in second place at the Europe Minor, where they beat NiP and ENCE in the playoffs before losing to Jonas "⁠Lekr0⁠" Olofsson's side in the battle for the title.

OpTic have been seeded into the qualifier's second playoff round, in which they will take on the winner of the match between forZe and EURONICS. The tournament winner will earn a spot at the StarSeries, where $300,000 will be on the line.

With niko filling in for OpTic, the Danish team will take part in the qualifier with: