It’s a slow week for CS, but that doesn’t mean nothing happened!

Eight teams faced off in the closed EU qualifiers for ESL Challenger Jönköping with most of the attention on one team: NIP.

Newly added r1nkle made his debut for NIP, and it’s been impressive. He’s clearly added a spark to the team who’ve managed to beat both Monte and Metizport., going 13-0 against the latter on their own map pick of Vertigo.

Unfortunately for the Ninjas, it wasn’t enough. Aurora swept NIP twice to qualify for the event.

At least it’s a promising start for a new roster, who even played this event without a permanent fifth and instead had to field academy player BluePho3nix as a stand-in.

Apeks, on the other hand, are in a much shittier position.

The European squad only managed a single series win before Aurora knocked them down to loser bracket, where Monte continued to make short work of them. This is yet another event with bad results for Apeks.

jkaem went as far as to apologise for his team, saying he doesn’t know what’s next. All we know is that STYKO is for sure sticking around after the org confirmed as much to HLTV.

We’re no GMs, but if you asked us, we’d prescribe a dosage of 1 CIS wonderkid, and whatever Danish IGL is currently free. Wh has MSL’s phone number?