North reveal surprise return of MSL to CSGO team DreamHackNorth have announced the surprise return of former in-game leader Mathias \u2018MSL\u2019 Lauridsen to their CS:GO squad. North recently underwent a rebrand and are currently in the process of rebuilding their roster for the new year, and surprised fans by revealing the return of their former IGL. The announcement came alongside the first look at the team\u2019s new jerseys, with the video ending with MSL stepping from the shadows, once again sporting a North shirt. #DawnofNorth jersey x Capgemini x Massive Surprise Later in the video pic.twitter.com\/6qJEYPtxfw \u2014 North (@TheNorthIsHere) January 17, 2020 MSL represented North from the team\u2019s inception in January 17 through to the FACEIT London Major in September 2018. During that time, he led the team to several trophies, most notably at DreamHack Masters Stockholm where he himself was the MVP, just weeks before he would be removed from the squad. Following his departure from North, MSL moved to Rogue before joining OpTic Gaming, but following the acquisition of the organization by Immortals Gaming Club, which also owns MIBR, the OpTic CS:GO team was disbanded. Meanwhile, North have struggled to return to the peaks they hit in the MSL era, with largely underwhelming results since replacing him. They also recently lost star player and in-game leader Valdemar \u2018Valde\u2019 Bj\u00f8rn Vangs\u00e5, who for many had remained the highlight of the team, as he joined the new international roster under OG. North haven\u2019t yet confirmed their full starting line-up with MSL, as the organization now apparently houses six players. It\u2019s not currently clear which player MSL will take the place of, or whether the team is still to undergo further roster changes. So far, they have only announced that Markus \u2018Kjaerbye\u2019 Kj\u00e6rbye has re-signed with the team. Update: North have confirmed that Jakob \u2018JUGi\u2019 Hansen has been benched following the return of MSL. North roster: Philip \u2018aizy\u2019 Aistrup – Markus \u2018Kjaerbye\u2019 Kj\u00e6rbye – Nicklas \u2018gade\u2019 Gade – Ren\u00e9 \u2018cajunb\u2019 Borg – Mathias \u2018MSL\u2019 Lauridsen –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
North reveal surprise return of MSL to CSGO team DreamHackNorth have announced the surprise return of former in-game leader Mathias \u2018MSL\u2019 Lauridsen to their CS:GO squad. North recently underwent a rebrand and are currently in the process of rebuilding their roster for the new year, and surprised fans by revealing the return of their former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}