The European team OG announced on the eve of the start of the DreamHack Masters Spring closed qualification that Danish e-sportsman Nikolai “niko” will be part of it. Christiansen. The twenty-two-year-old will replace Nathan "NBK" Schmitt, who was sent to the reserve at the end of February as a result of an internal conflict. NBK has been criticized a lot lately due to the fact that the team started the season poorly, failed to qualify for the BLAST Premier Spring Seasons, and also failed to reach the playoffs of IEM Katowice. Schmitt later issued an official statement in which he mentioned that, in the end, “he was unable to reach agreements with the team that would have allowed him to achieve consistently high results.”
Now his place will be taken by niko, who previously played for Heroic, but since the end of February remained in the reserves after a change in the active roster. It is possible that in the future the e-sportsman will move to OG on a permanent basis. OG announced that the player will continue to play for it in the ESL Pro League group tournament, but it is not yet clear whether he will be able to take part in the next match. On Thursday, OG will play against Heroic, and it may turn out that the rules will not allow him to play against the team with which he has a current contract. If this happens, OG will have to use NBK again, who is listed as a reserve player.
