{"id":38991,"date":"2025-01-28T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/sources-msl-and-niko-in-talks-with-optic-gaming-csgo-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:17:04","slug":"sources-msl-and-niko-in-talks-with-optic-gaming-csgo-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/sources-msl-and-niko-in-talks-with-optic-gaming-csgo-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: MSL and niko in talks with OpTic Gaming CS:GO &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources: MSL and niko in talks with OpTic Gaming CS:GO Danish Counter-Strike players Mathias \u201cMSL\u201d Lauridsen and Nikolaj \u201cniko\u201d Kristensen are in discussions with OpTic Gaming, according to multiple sources. As the post-IEM Katowice Major roster shuffle continues, it looks as though another North American organization will be making some moves. With Kristian \u201ck0nfig\u201d Wienecke and Jakob \u201cJUGi\u201d Hansen reportedly on their way to Cloud9, OpTic Gaming is now in talks with both MSL and niko to feel the vacancies in their roster. MSL and niko are part of the active roster for the Rogue, who hold a spot in ESL Pro League: North America. Losing the two players would leave Rogue with less than a week to fill their roster prior to the Season 9 roster lock, meaning they will be forced to scramble in order to round out their roster before games begin. niko only joined in late January, while MSL has been on the roster since late October of 2018. OpTic Gaming recently earned a spot is ESL Pro League: Europe with a victory over Virtus.pro during Season 8 relegation. Despite this accomplishment, they were unable to reach the IEM Katowice Major last month after a loss to Mousesports in the European Minor. OpTic Gaming and Rogue aren\u2019t the only teams making moves, as multiple others have been reportedly in talks for a bevy of roster moves. Fellow North American Organization Cloud9 are not only in talks with OpTic Gaming for K0nfig and Jugi, but are also not expected to hold onto Fabien \u201ckioShiMa\u201d Fiey moving forward. Meanwhile, mousesports just debuted a new roster on March 14 with Finn \u2018karrigan\u2019 Andersen at the helm. They will also be trialing Allan \u2018Rejin\u2019 Petersen as their head coach, according to sources. With Season 9 of the ESL Pro League around the corner and many teams rushing to lock down their rosters, it\u2019s likely that this won\u2019t be the last roster move we hear about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources: MSL and niko in talks with OpTic Gaming CS:GO Danish Counter-Strike players Mathias \u201cMSL\u201d Lauridsen and Nikolaj \u201cniko\u201d Kristensen are in discussions with OpTic Gaming, according to multiple sources. As the post-IEM Katowice Major roster shuffle continues, it looks as though another North American organization will be making some moves. With Kristian \u201ck0nfig\u201d Wienecke [&hellip;]<\/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-38991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38991","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=38991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}