Aug 27, 2016
Team X rebrands as Heroic for Northern Arena
Team X, formerly of SK Gaming, have rebranded just in time for Northern Arena next week in Toronto. The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team has formed a player-owned organization called Heroic.
TSN.ca Staff
,Team X, formerly of SK Gaming, have rebranded just in time for Northern Arena next week in Toronto.
The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team has formed a player-owned organization called Herioc.
The team is currently ninth place in the ESL Pro League Season 4 with a 3-7 record and will compete under their new moniker for a piece of the $100,000 prize pool at Northern Arena presented by Bell at Fan Expo from Sept. 1-4.
"We have all spent multiple years in the Counter-Strike game, across many teams and brands and we are extremely excited to finally be able to call ourselves co-owners of Heroic," the team said in a press release. "We believe that the time has never been more right to take this step and we have never been more motivated to make this a global esports success."
The squad began competing as Team X after being dropped by SK at the end of June. SK would go on to acquire the Luminosity Gaming roster before both SK and Team X were disqualified from ELEAGUE for roster violations.
With the new brand in place and a few bumps in the road now in the past, Heroic is looking forward to Toronto in a week as well as SL i-League Season 2 and DreamHack Bucharest, which they have already qualified for.
The Heroics roster features:
The Heroic roster looks as follows:
• Michael "Friis" Jørgensen
• Andreas "MODDII" Fridh
• Lukas "gla1ve" Rossander
• Valdemar "valde" Bjørn Vangså
• Marco "Snappi" Pfeiffer