
For the first time in the history of ESL/IEM Cologne tournaments, there will be no Danish players in the playoffs. Since 2014, at least one Dane has managed to reach the quarterfinals, but with FaZe’s loss and karrigan’s elimination at Cologne 2025, that streak has come to an end. π

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Danish scene has long been running on the fumes of the gilden era. Its been a while now where the only Danish top players were old IGLs.
The Danish counter-strike is dead. All that’s left are Danish teens with huge egos in premier and faceit.
Danish scene is dying and it will only get worse
Itβs still surprising that Denmark, a country with a population of 6 million, has such a strong CS scene.
For example, Belarus has a population of 10 million, but decent players have only recently started emerging in small numbers.
danish cs has been completely dead after heroic lost their main roster
Bring in s1mple
Astralis just need to get glave back, they will be #1 real quick
Maybe stop losing to pistols karrigan yeah? You might actually win games then.
man π i need my goat on top again
Is it similar as to the downfall of french CS ? But like, worse of course
what happened to the Danish CS scene
It’s over y’all. We had a good run.