After eight rounds of play during PGL's Minor Qualifier #1 yesterday LDLC White and CG, a team consisting of three Swedish and two Danish players, found themselves with the two first spots at the minor's 3 day LAN finals, which start January 29th in Bucharest.

Particularly interesting is CG's story, as it is a group of players who have not set foot on a stage of this caliber yet. In order to find out more about the team, we talked to CG's in-game leader, Christian "⁠rezex⁠" Bjerregaard, to learn a little bit more about the team's background, experience during the qualifier, and outlook for the future.

First of all, who are CG? Tell me a little bit about the players' histories and roles in the team. How did this team come together?

So the name CG is more of an internal joke we came up with while playing FACEIT pugs: "Cringe Gods." We are all fairly new players in the scene, but we have our fair share of experience from playing in different rosters before starting to play with each other. Our roles on the team for the qualifier were: Fredrik "⁠REZ⁠" Sterner as our entry fragger, William "⁠draken⁠" Sundin as our AWPer, Andreas "⁠mOkEn⁠" Karlsson as a rifler, Christian "⁠rezex⁠" Bjerregaard as in-game leader and support, and Stephen "⁠S1ck⁠" Hvam also rifling. The team was basically created playing FACEIT pugs where I collected players and formed the team. Some of us have played with each other for two years on and off, but never as a team.

Did the team practice before the qualifier or did you go as a mix?

We actually went as a mix, but I guess you could say that our practice was the amount of time we played FACEIT together. But there have been no real PCWs before the qualifier.

What was the hardest match you had during the qualifiers?

Of course the game against HR was the hardest one, but we also had a match in the Ro16 against an FPL mix consisting of Isak "⁠cype⁠" Rydman, Erik "⁠zende⁠" Sundeqvist, Jacek "⁠MINISE⁠" Jeziak, Miran "⁠dumz⁠" Matković, and Benjamin "⁠BENDJI⁠" Söderena that we played on overpass and won 16-8.

What were your expectations of the minor qualifier? What do you expect from the LAN finals?

The plan was to make it far and get streamed by Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer and Matt "Sadokist" Trivett, but making it to the LAN was not something we were expecting. The way we look at the LAN is we have nothing to lose, we think it can give us a lot as a team, and just having qualified for it opens up a lot of new doors.

What are the team’s goals for the future?

Our current goal is to do well in our leagues [ESEA, CEVO, and RGN] and move up in them. We also want to find an organization we can call home. Currently the future looks bright and we can't wait to see what it holds.