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It seems that one of the oldest and most popular North American esports organizations, known as Complexity Gaming, continues to almost indefinitely struggle with their multiple CS: GO roster’s issues.
One of the historically best CS teams originating from the United States, the COL organization recently made another important announcement of their roster change in their official Twitter account.
A true leader, in and out of the server. Thank you @blameFFFFF for all your hard work.
We wish you the very best in the future, wherever you go.#WeAreCOL pic.twitter.com/ZFMnmbnXH0
— Complexity Gaming (@Complexity) October 29, 2021
According to the short tweet coming directly from the official Complexity’s account, one of the NA CS: GO team‘s last core players, its prominent in-game leader and tactician named Benjamin Bremer, who is known in the esports community under the nickname blameF, has officially left the roster of the Complexity Gaming’s team.
Players keep leaving the Complexity Gaming organization
The recent announcement related to the fact of the 24-year-old professional CS: GO player from Denmark leaving the NA squad interestingly came in less than two weeks after the previous news of the departure of the other former COL team’s members — Valentin “poizon” Vasilev and Kristian “k0nfig” Wienecke.
In the series of our previous articles covering the roster changes in the North American multigaming esports organization, we already wrote about the upsetting state of the COL’s falling apart CS: GO lineup.
The current roster situation started getting pretty much out of control when injured k0nfig was forced to take a continuous break due to his inability to fully train and adequately compete with his COL squad in the official CS: GO matches.
The 24-year-old who was picked up by Complexity Gaming in the year of 2017, officially left the CS: GO roster of the North American organization on October 7. There were even some rumors floating on the CS: GO scene that the Danish talent was presumably immediately signed by his native Danish CS: GO team known as Astralis.
So for k0nfig’s emergency replacement in the team, the NA organization decided to sign one of the best fraggers the world has ever witnessed — Marcelo “coldzera” David.
The famous 26-year-old Brazilian rifler who was two times ranked best player in the world in the 2016 and 2017 season, was transferred to Complexity Gaming from the FaZe Clan organization and started acting as a temporary stand-in for the COL team.
It was later announced that poizon was also one of the players who was leaving the COL roster. The news came in ten days after the k0nfig’s departure — on October 17.
The Complexity Gaming CS: GO team then managed to even bring in a quick replacement for the young Bulgarian AWPer. The 29-year-old popular Finnish player Aleksi “allu” Jalli was playing for the squad during their recent CS: GO tournaments. And, apparently, without that much of a luck.
With the new substitute player the results were not that great, as the multinational CS squad was unable to qualify to the PGL Major Stockholm 2021 championship in Sweden due to lack of RMR points and also because of losing their qualification matches for the main IEM Winter 2021 event.
blameF’s situation and his achievements
During one of blameF’s latest streams on Twitch, former COL’s in-game leader interestingly revealed some of the peculiar details of his recent break-up with the Complexity Gaming organization.
The Dane stated that he was literally kicked out of the CS: GO squad by the North American esports organization itself. He mentioned obvious issues with the roles on the team, and also said that due to his IGL job on the team, he did not have enough time to properly practice himself.
Speaking of the player’s results, blameF started his professional esports career six years ago in 2015. Bremer earned about $200,000 of prize money playing for strong CS: GO teams in Europe, such as Epsilon eSports and Heroic.
One of his biggest professional achievements was winning the BLAST Premier: Spring 2020 European Finals — $500,000 online event which was held in June of 2020.
During the victorious BLAST Premier series tournament, blameF’s Complexity Gaming squad was able to consistently beat other strong opponents, such as OG team from EU, Natus Vincere from Ukraine, also FaZe Clan, and the Frenchmen from Team Vitality.
One of the best results in his career and also blameF’s most recent victory was when his Complexity Gaming organization triumphed at the smaller Spring Sweet Spring #3 tournament in June 2021.
As one of the invited organizations, the COL team was able to start the event straight from the quarterfinal playoffs bracket of the event and beat Team Fiend, 1WIN, and Entropiq.
In the final result, blameF’s COL squad grabbed $40,000 prize for their first place finish at the Serbian event, which was organized by Relog Media company.
The Dane also won $35,000 by placing second and losing with the 0:2 score in the Complexity Gaming vs Natus Vincere matchup during the finals of the group B of the BLAST Premier: Spring 2020 Regular Season tournament — another BLAST event, which was held in the beginning 2020.
It appears that blameF’s recent free agency status almost immediately drew some of the serious attention of multiple esports organizations. Among the interested ones might be as well teams from the EU and even the CIS region.
Some of the previous rumors that were actively circulating in the CS: GO scene indicated that blameF was also one of the most well-paid members of the North American CS: GO squad of COL.
After all of the dust settled down, the current Complexity Gaming CS: GO lineup consists of the following members:
- Luis “peacemaker” Tadeu (Coach)
- Justin “jks” Savage
- Patrick “es3tag” Hansen
- Marcelo “coldzera” David (Stand-in)