The Danish Counter-Strike scene just lost an organisation overnight. Legendary Gaming Group (LGG) — the company behind the 2025 Tricked revival — has entered bankruptcy proceedings, leaving the active CS2 roster without organisational backing during one of its most productive competitive stretches. Coach Allan ‘Rejin’ Petersen has publicly confirmed the five-player core intends to remain together while searching for a new home.
Who LGG were
LGG was founded specifically to revive the Tricked brand, with an ownership structure that mixed Danish sports celebrity backing and esports veteran experience:
- Former Danish football star Nicklas Bendtner as a high-profile public face
- Original Tricked founder Morten ‘Phy’ Jensen bringing organisational continuity
- Entrepreneur Atle Stehouwer on the business side
The Bendtner involvement gave Tricked unusually loud Danish mainstream-media coverage for a Tier 2/3 CS2 project. That coverage now becomes the headline risk: a bankruptcy filing with a celebrity backer attached carries reputational weight beyond the esports vertical itself.
The roster’s position
Rejin’s public statement is what stabilises the story. He described the recent period as turbulent, but emphasised confidence in the roster’s future and confirmed the active search for a new organisation. The core five intend to continue competing as an unsigned lineup until a deal is reached. That’s a meaningfully better position than most bankruptcy-casualty rosters end up in.
The recent Tricked trajectory
The timing makes the bankruptcy harder to absorb. Tricked have been one of the cleaner Danish Tier 2 projects of 2025/2026:
- Victory at Gamebox Masters 2025
- Recent POWER Ligaen Season 31 trophy
- Steady VRS climb across the European Tier 2/3 circuit
- Building momentum that was starting to attract Tier 1 attention
What an unsigned-lineup window actually looks like
Operating without organisational backing for any extended period is structurally difficult. Tournament registration deadlines, prize-money tax handling, venue-side logistics, scrim partnerships and bootcamp infrastructure all flow through an organisational wrapper. A coach-led unsigned lineup can survive the short-term gap — but the medium-term clock starts immediately. Two months without a new home would be manageable; six would not.
The wider Danish CS2 picture
Denmark’s Tier 1 CS scene is anchored by Astralis, Heroic and BIG (the latter being Danish-led even with the international lineup), but the Tier 2/3 Danish pipeline has historically been one of CS’s strongest talent funnels. Losing Tricked as a developmental organisation thins that funnel meaningfully. Whichever organisation signs the Rejin-coached core will absorb a project that has already done most of the structural work — but for the broader Danish ecosystem, the Bendtner bankruptcy is the kind of story that becomes the cautionary tale for the next celebrity-backed esports launch.
