Counter-Strike is a funny game.
While 6 months may feel like a short time in real life, 6 months is a huge span of time in Counter-Strike. Empires rise and fall, and crumble to dust in the space of a single year – NaVi’s 2024 seems a lifetime ago. With that in mind, how do you encapsulate Maciej ‘F1KU’ Miklas’s time at OG?
After 1,161 days in the roster, F1KU leaves OG’s CS2 roster; several lifetimes in Counter-Strike terms. To put that into perspective, here is the roster for F1KU’s first official with OG:
Shahar ‘flameZ’ Shushan
Adam ‘NEOFRAG’ Zouhar
Nemanja ‘nexa’ Isaković
Mateusz ‘mantuu’ Wilczewski
Maciej ‘F1KU’ Miklas
flameZ is now a major winner, having won the BLAST.tv Austin Major with Team Vitality, nexa is now playing with s1mple of all people in tier three Counter-Strike for BC.Game, NEOFRAG is 100 ranks below even that in UNITY, and mantuuu is a free agent.
Counter-Strike is a completely different landscape than when F1KU joined; it is literally a different game, having transitioned from CSGO to CS2.
F1KU departs OG having averaged a 1.02 in his time there. F1KU fluctuated between being one of the better performers on abject rosters to being one of the worst performers on good ones, but he seemed, for the most part, never quite bad enough to kick. A solid role player, as they say.
OG moving on from F1KU
Attending three majors with OG, they qualified for successive majors at RIO and the Paris Major. OG were, at the time, a partnered team with ESL and BLAST. As the partnered era ended, so did OG’s relevance in Counter-Strike, yet their recent roster has proved to be an extremely promising young roster that qualified for the BLAST.tv Austin Major.
It seems OG’s core has fresh ambition, causing it to move on from F1KU. With Christian ‘Buzz’ Andersen also being recently benched, replaced by Adam ‘adamb’ Ångström, OG’s strategy seems to be to build around that promising core and up their ambitions in Counter-Strike following their injection of CS Major sticker money.
The roster’s core of Nico ‘nicoodoz’ Tamjidi, Olle ‘spooke’ Grundström, and Christoffer ‘Chr1zN’ Storgaard can provide a platform for the organisation to attempt to climb the rankings enough to reach the Starladder Budapest 2025 Major.
OG benefited from the EU MRQ to qualify for the Austin Major in an unlikely fashion, according to esports betting sites; they will not get that luxury for Budapest with the removal of MRQs and all slots being decided by VRS ranking. That means that OG’s new-look roster must climb from currently sitting at #28 in the EU VRS to claim one of the region’s spots for the major.
OG are now:
Nico ‘nicoodoz’ Tamjidi
Olle ‘spooke’ Grundström
Christoffer ‘Chr1zN’ Storgaard
Adam ‘adamb’ Ångström
Lambert ‘Lambert’ Prigent (coach)
Darragh Harbinson is an esports writer specialising in Counter-Strike. He has written for Esports News UK, Esports Insider, UKCSGO, Dexerto, and Rush B Media.