NiP moves es3tag to the bench after ‘a bumpy road’ in 2022 CS:GO season
Ninjas in Pyjamas will move the mantle of primary AWPer to someone else for the 2023 CS:GO season after announcing today that the org is benching Danish sniper Patrick “es3tag” Hansen following an end-of-year evaluation of the team composition.
The move comes just a couple of months after the organization parted ways with another Danish sniper in legendary superstar Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz, who returned to Astralis. Dev1ce joined NiP in an all-star-sized transfer in April 2021 but spent all of 2022 on medical leave.