Frederik "LOMME" Nielsen is a staple Danish CS:GO player and the in-game leader of North's academy squad, who will be making their LAN debut on home soil at the Copenhagen Games 2017.

Here's what North Academy's roster looks like:

Frederik " LOMME " Nielsen

" Nielsen Daniel " mertz " Mertz

" Mertz Nicolai " glace " Jensen

" Jensen Frederik " acoR " Gyldstrand

" Gyldstrand Nicklas " gade " Gade

" Gade Alexander "ave" Holdt (Coach)

Ahead of LOMME's games in Copenhagen, he spoke to the theScore esports about joining North and gave us some insight into this brand new team.

What are your initial thoughts on being part of North’s Academy team? How has it affected your life, or your life as a competitor?

It’s a great feeling being a part of this project. It will enable me to go full time in CS, something that I haven’t really experienced before to the same degree.

Everything outside the game will be taken care of for us, so we can focus on just one thing, making sure we develop and be the best team we can be.

We will be training daily in Telia Parken, so it’s a big step towards professionalism, instead of sitting at home by yourself. This way we will get to know each other and build great team chemistry.

You’ve been a long-time stand-in with Rogue, why did you ultimately decide not to stick with that team or organization?

Rogue was a great team with great players, and we had some decent results, even with me transferring from the coach position to being a player. However there were some personal issues in the team, and the overall chemistry was not great. That really held the team back I think.

It’s hard to play in a mixed team with mixed nationalities.

Nicolai "glace" Jensen was a former teammate of yours on fan jävla, Team Preparation and more, but how does the rest of the team come into the picture? How did the five players come to form what is now North Academy?

I have known glace for eight or nine years and I have played with him ever since in different teams dating back to 1.6. So when this opportunity came along, I knew that I had to have him on the team.

mertz [Daniel "mertz" Mertz] and acoR [Frederik "acoR" Gyldstrand] were the heavy hitters on the eFuture lineup, so they were a natural pick for the team. I played with both acoR and gade [Nicklas "gade" Gade] for a short while before they ended up on their former teams, so I knew they have a lot of talent and potential.

What is the role setup for the team, who’s IGL, AWPer, etc.? How would you describe each of your teammates in their roles?

I will be in-game leading this team. It’s something that I don’t have a lot of experience with, but throughout the years I’ve played with most of Denmark’s great callers (MSL [Mathias "MSL" Lauridsen], Snappi [Marco "Snappi" Pfeiffer], karrigan [Finn "karrigan" Andersen]) so I would like to think that I picked up a thing or two from them. Also with my recent work as a coach for Heroic and Rogue, I think I have a good idea of how to play the game and how I want things to work.

Mathias "MSL" Lauridsen is the in-game leader for North's primary roster and one of the most renown IGL's in the world

mertz will be AWPing and I’m looking forward to hopefully help him be an even better AWPer overall. He has so much skill and when he goes off, he’s not fun to play against. acoR will mostly play as a lurker, since he’s really good at outsmarting the opponent and playing positions that require a certain calmness.

glace will have a variety of roles, sometimes it will be lurk, sometimes it will be hitting the sites as the first or second guy and sometimes playing more of a supporting style. He will also assist me in keeping everything in order in the team, as we are the two more experienced. gade is the hard fragger of the team, and his role is mostly taking a lot of duels, and winning them of course.

The team is still very new and we will be working towards what we think is the most optimal style for us, and which roles fit the best.

How close will you guys be with North’s primary roster? Will you guys be able to scrim together or share the same bootcamp space, or will the teams be treated as separate entities?

Since we are going to be training from Telia Parken daily, we will be close to them when they are bootcamping there. And I hope that we can scrim them and just generally learn from them, they are definitely a team I look up to.

What are your thoughts on the strength of Danish CS:GO compared to CS:GO from other countries?

It’s hard to say what separates Danish CS:GO from other countries, but I think it definitely has something to do with our teams’ playstyle. It doesn’t rely on just pure firepower or having only good strats.

We have many good callers in Denmark, and they’re all good at putting together a team that has roles that fit the players, and playing a style that has a lot of variety.

You guys will debut on home soil at the Copenhagen Games 2017. How have you prepared for that event and what will be your big obstacles there?

I think in total we have been playing together for two weeks, half of that being a bootcamp. We have been trying to get all the maps ready, and figuring out how we want to play the game. It will be difficult because we’re a new team and we still have to get to know each other both in-game and socially.

I think we just need to play with a calmness so we don’t stress too much which will hurt the communication and teamplay.