Copenhagen Wolves shuts down

Copenhagen Wolves have been fixtures on the Danish and European esports scenes for nigh-on seven years, but that's over now. The team is closing its doors.

In a message on the Copenhagen Wolves website, founder and co-owner Jakob Lund Kristensen writes that he and the other owner, Diglife, are focused on other endeavours. And as such, closing down Wolves is the only thing that makes sense.

The story of Copenhagen Wolves has been one of ups and downs. Most top Danish Counter-Strike players have been part of the team at one point or another, and for a while the Wolves also fielded a moderately successful League of Legends team in the European LCS.

"We managed to create one of the most polarizing brands in Danish e-sport during the last few years but also one of the most controversial," Kristensen writes. "To paint a picture of a fairy tale where everything was happiness would be very wrong, we definitely took our beatings and learned quite a few lessons the hardest way possible. I must state however that I also feel quite a sense of pride when considering all the amazingly talented people we helped foster and move up in the e-sport world."

Though Copenhagen Wolves were founded by Kristensen, he sold off a stake in the company to Diglife in 2014. Diglife also owns a major stake in Ninjas in Pyjamas, and Kristensen is a co-founder and managing partner in Danish Counter-Strike team Astralis. Diglife and Kristensen are choosing to focus on those projects, and thus Copenhagen Wolves are no more.

The Wolves' League of Legends roster disbanded a few days ago, and their Counter-Strike team has been released and mostly reformed under their previous banner, unu.AiN.