According to a ​report from Danish newspaper BT, OpTic Gaming paid nearly $500,000 to buy out​ Marco "Snappi" Pfeifer and Jakob "JUGi" Hansen. In the Danish kroner, they were bought out for 4 million kroner total.





The two players were both ​confirmed as part of the OpTic roster on Tuesday, along with former North coach Casper "ruggah" Due. DBLTAP had originally ​reported that Snappi and JUGi were sought after by OpTic in a move to set up an ​entirely Danish roster.





According to Kasper Hvidt of Heroic, the deal happened very quickly. He explains details of the deal stating, "We are working on building Heroic's profile and identity around the performance model and structure, we’ve seen working with other teams. With this in mind and the nature of the offer we received from OpTic, the choice was not that hard, especially when considering the players were very positive about the offer that was made. It has all happened very fast from receiving the initial offer, through negotiation with both parties and then the players."

Welcome Jakob Rask Hansen aka JUGI and Marco Pfeiffer aka Snappi, as well as former North Coach Casper "ruggah" Due to the starting lineup of OpTic CSGO.

Announcement: https://t.co/soPy0QhYDV pic.twitter.com/at1eRGjZdV — OpTic Gaming™ (@OpTicGaming) April 24, 2018

The two players replaced Shahzeeb "ShahZaM" Khan and Peter "stanislaw" Jarguz in the active lineup. Ruggah replaced former coach Chet "ImAPet" Singh.





Cover photo courtesy of Adela Sznajder/DreamHack