Robin “flusha” Rönnquist will not play under the GORILLAZ-banner going into next year, the Swede has confirmed on Monday via his [link:{"url":"https://twitter.com/flusha/status/1467886099838210053","isNewTab":true,"text":"Twitter"}]. In the announcement, flusha affirms that he’s still committed to playing competitive esports as he states “Looking for new opportunities next year”.  

The former Fnatic profile and three-time Major winner is therefore set to leave the CS:GO project, which he co-founded with Miikka "⁠suNny⁠" Kemppi back in April this year. The experienced duo joined forces with suNny’s countryman and former ENCE star Jere "⁠sergej⁠" Salo alongside the likes of Buğra “Calyx” Arkın and Rokas “EspiranTo” Milasauskas. However, the international mix didn’t manage to find a consistent level or any particular success in the tier-2 scene.  

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Since its creation, GORILLAZ hasn’t had a stable lineup where multiple players have been in and out of the team, either on trial or as stand-ins. Some of the most renowned names are Jesper "JW" Wecksell, Niels Christian "NaToSaphiX" Sillassen, and Yasin "xfl0ud" Koç.

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Jimi 'Jimpphat' Salo, who is the little brother to the former ENCE star Jere 'sergej' Salo, was recently acquired by SJ Gaming. A transfer, which looks to be a very great idea by the Finnish team. 

In a match yesterday, the young and promising Jimpphat did this to his opponents in a tough 1v4 clutch on Overpass, which completely fired up the commentators.

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The Finnish e-sports organiztion of ENCE took the world by storm in 2019, when they managed to catapult themselves to the top of the global rankings in Counter-Strike. However, they weren't always a big contender. Whilst the Finnish Counter-Strike scene was filled with players trying to compete with their fellow Scandinavians and their impressive results it seemed as if it was never going to happen.

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After 5,5 years of hard work and determination ENCE finally managed to secure a top-8 finish in a premier event. Thanks to former ENCE player Joona "natu" Leppänen taking on a managerial role and star player Aleksi "allu" Jalli ENCE finally proved to be a real contender in the professional Counter-Strike scene once they announced the launch of their new roster in 2018.

The predominately unknown roster that would become one Counter-Strikes biggest surprises featured the following players: 

At last, it seemed as if ENCE had finally managed to put together a roster that could compete at the top of the professional Counter-Strike scene. And they did. At least until the roster that had proven that the Finnish Counter-Strike scene was more than just a meme fell apart. Just as quickly as they had appeared and started to dominate top teams they started hitting slumps and fell down the rankings once again. 

In December 2020 the core of the Finnish roster fell apart, leaving behind only captain "allu" of the sinking Finnish ship. ENCE is currently trying to rebuild the roster and is sporting a new European look featuring the likes of Marco "Snappi" Pfeiffer and Lotan "Spinx" Giladi. They are currently ranked as the 24th best team in the world. 

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To watch more about how ENCE proved to everyone that they were not just a laughing matter, you can watch the entire video down below: 

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Since the start of the year, discussions and rumors about a new roster featuring Robin "flusha" Rönnquist and Miikka "suNny" Kemppi have been floating around. Due to a lack of interest from organizations the project was delayed. Today, however, it has been confirmed by "flusha" that the line-up has been finalized for now and that an organization is ready to bring them back on to the professional Counter-Strike scene. 

In conversation with HLTV the 26-year-old "sunNy" confirms the newly founded team, as well as the fact that four out of the five players have signed with the organization: 

"Today we can finally confirm that this project is actually happening and we have started to practice. It will be a long road ahead but happy to work with these players,"  He continues by stating: "Four of us have signed and we will be starting with flusha, sergej, EspiranTo, me, and trialing Calyx as our last piece of the puzzle."

The newly shaped European roster looks as follows: 

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In January this year, the legendary Swede Robin "flusha" Rönnquist were removed from fnatic’s active roster, as the Counter-Strike veteran wished to start a new adventure with a completely new roster. The 27-year old rifler stated that he had talks with Miikka "suNny" Kemppi, and that they will partner each other in a new potential top CS:GO team.

After some months without any concrete news regarding their plans, players, and organization, several rumours can tell that they have found their complete roster. flusha and suNny have allegedly managed to sign the profiled and promising Finn Jere "sergej" Salo, who is most known for his remarkable tenure at ENCE.

It’s the website GAMEINSIDE.UA that has published a report stating that the Russian team 1win has practised and played against the newly established roster.

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If the rumours are true, the roster possesses these players:

The 26-year-old Finish player Miikka "sunNy" Kemppi will have to look elsewhere to further his career. The Finish roster of ENCE has had a rough end to 2020 and has come to a mutual agreement with "sunNy" to bench him, with the opportunity for him to look for a place in a new roster.  

After former teammate, Jere "sergej" Salo was benched earlier this year the decision to bench "sunNy" sees the ENCE roster existing of only three players, needing two additions to the roster, as well as a new in-game leader, to be able to compete in 2021.

ENCE explains in the statement on Twitter that they will continue rebuilding and restructuring the lackluster roster in 2021: "The process to restructure and rebuild our CS:GO team is ongoing and we will further communicate our 2021 plans after the Christmas holidays have concluded."

"SunNy" is yet to have found new teammates to compete alongside with but has been linked with GODSENT already, as reported by DBLTAP.com. He states in a Twitter post that: "There is talks going on, but nothing has been decided yet."

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The Finnish team Havu Gaming is according to DBLTAB.com and their renowned reporter Jarek Dekay Lewis, very close to signing Jani "Aerial" Jussila from ENCE. Lewis states that the transfer already has been completed back in October, through ENCE's signing of Joonas "doto" Forss. 

Aerial has been on sick leave since the 22nd of October alongside teammate Jere "Sergej" Salo, who afterwards have been criticizing the team and star player Aleksi "allu" Jalli. It's clear that there has been something going on behind the scenes at the Finnish organizations for some time now, but only now have been made public. 

Read more. "ENCE issues a statement after allu interview" 

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Aerial joined ENCE in April 2018 together with the notable trio of xseven, Aleksib and sergej, where allu already was signed. The Finnish roster won several prominent tournaments as Blast Pro Series Madrid 2019 and StarSeries & i-League Season 6 in 2018. However, the most remarkable achievement was their impressive second place at the IEM Katowice Major in 2019, where the Finns took down both NAVI and Liquid. 

At HAVU, Aerial will reunite with his former teammate from ENCE Sami "xseveN" Laasanen who joined the Finnish team in early August this year. The rest of HAVU's roster will hold the following players if the transfer goes through: 

You can read the full report from DBLTAB.com and Jarek Dekay Lewis right here.

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Aleksi “allu” Jalli took part in tonight’s HLTV Confirmed to discuss player changes, the future of his team, and circumstances that saw them drop out of top 30 for the first time since July of 2018. 

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Jere “sergej” Salo parted ways with ENCE as he lacked motivation for Counter-Strike and decided to step down from the active roster in order to fulfill his Finnish military service duties. 

“Jere (sergej) has come to the conclusion that he currently doesn’t have the necessary motivation to pursue forward in the intense world of professional Counter-Strike,” ENCE’s statement reads. 

The former teammate of allu wasn’t quite happy about some of his statements in the interview and decided to make a post on Twitter to express his emotions about the situation. 

“I wouldn’t take everything that allu says as granted. He isn’t as simple and harmless persona as it may look. There’s a reason he’s the only one left in the team for the original roster,” adding that he will “Not going to open out more about this situation because it’s a mental health thing and that is not for me or Twitter to handle. Old teammates can back up my tweet. Just wanted to let this out cause no one else did.”  

The Finnish team has announced its stand-in, following their star player sergej’s decision to step down from the active roster. ENCE announces that they had made an agreement with their Finnish countrymen from SJ Gaming, to loan Tuomas “SADDYX” Louhimaa for the upcoming DreamHack Masters Winter.

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ENCE has announced that their young star player Jere “sergej” Salo steps down from the active roster due to a lack of motivation “ to pursue forward in the intense world of professional Counter-Strike”. ENCE explains that it’s a mutual agreement between sergej and the Finnish organization and further insures that sergej still will remain contracted with ENCE.  

"Jere has come to a conclusion that he currently doesn’t have the necessary motivation to pursue forward in the intense world of professional Counter-Strike and has asked to be removed from the playing roster. He has decided to fulfill his Finnish military service duties starting January, 2021 and therefore will not be a part of the active ENCE roster for the time being."

The young Finn has been with ENCE since April 2018 and is a player who has been a key factor for the organization and its entry to the top of the CS:GO world. It's unclear when ENCE once again can benefit from sergej and his contribution.

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