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One of the last Mathias “MSL” Lauridsen’s CS: GO projects, team South, which was a Danish CS: GO team, disbanded after less than a month of their activity on the professional Valve FPS’ scene.
Some of the recent news stated that the fifth player on the team, Frederik Sorensen, nicknamed Fessor, announced that he did not want to be a part of the MSL’s project. The young talent also said that he is fully open to other opportunities.
South’s lineup consisted of the following players:
- Mathias “MSL” Lauridsen
- Philip “aizy” Aistrup
- Jesper “TENZKI” Plougmann
- Jakob “JUGi” Hansen
- Frederik “Fessor” Sorensen
Team South
MSL’s organization, South, was just recently announced as a whole new project, and ended up being active as a CS: GO team for less than a full month.
Before forming team South, there were rumors in the Danish esports community that MSL may also join Sweden‘s Fnatic CS: GO lineup. Lauridsen decided to form his own team instead.
The Danish CS: GO team was announced back at the end of July this year. The squad was looking for additional sponsorship ever since.
Lauridsen stated that he formed the South’s roster himself, mixing some experienced CS: GO players in the team, as well as adding a bit of younger talent.
MSL’s team only managed to play a few professional matches, before the official announcement of the roster’s break up.
It is said that South decided to disband after a lengthy conversation and mutual consent of all the team’s members.
Team South managed to place 5th-8th at the tournament in IEM series, Intel Extreme Masters XVI — Fall: European Open Qualifier #4 playoffs competition. In the final game, the team lost to Denmark’s AaB esport with the 17:19 score in the overtime.
MSL’s team also failed in the Eden Esports series tournament, the $50,000 Malta Vibes Knockout Series #2 championship in September.
MSL’s legacy
MSL is a Danish professional CS: GO player, one of the strongest and most recognizable in-game leaders in the title’s history.
Lauridsen is known for competing in many famous CS: GO teams, such as Reason Gaming, Team Dignitas, North, Rogue, and OpTic Gaming.
The 26-year-old Dane managed to earn approximately $350,000 of prize money during his esports career. He used to play Counter-Strike: Source professionally since 2011, and switched to Valve’s newly released Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in 2012.
One of the Dane’s biggest achievements was winning EPICENTER 2016 tournament in November, a part of EPICENTER Series, where his Dignitas team managed to overcome the opposition of Russia‘s Virtus.pro, with one of the most recognizable Polish CS: GO lineups, with the 2:1 score in the finals, taking home $250,000 in prize money.
One of Lauridsen’s last CS: GO teams was team North.
The Danish captain took first place at the DreamHack CS: GO series championship, the DreamHack Masters Stockholm in September 2018, where his North squad earned $100,000, defeating the mighty Astralis with the 2:1 score. MSL also managed to earn an individual award as the MVP of the tournament.
Lauridsen left the North organization as soon as it disbanded this year, in February, because of the financial difficulties and the global pandemic situation.
After the team South’s disband, in the middle of September, the esports personality stated that he is once again in active search of another Counter-Strike team.