In the first years of Rocket League esports, when online brackets were still figuring themselves out and the RLCS was only an experiment, Remco “Remkoe” den Boer became one of the players who defined what a European superteam looked like. As the playmaker behind We Dem Girlz and Northern Gaming, an RLCS Season 3 world champion, and later a veteran captain for Team EnVy and TSM, his career traces the rise of European Rocket League from weekly cups to global stadium events. Psyonix would later introduce him in an official RLE Pro-File as one of Rocket League esports’ longest standing and most decorated veterans, a title earned over thousands of hours, painful slumps, and a world championship run that still anchors his legacy.
Early Years And The Birth Of We Dem Girlz
Remco den Boer came into Rocket League from the European PC scene, playing for Team Spectral in the game’s first competitive months. When Rocket League’s early hierarchy began to form in late 2015 and early 2016, two players from Supersonic Avengers, Nick “Maestro” Bang and Marius “gReazy” Ranheim, left one of Europe’s top lineups to build something new. The squad that emerged was We Dem Girlz, with Remkoe brought in from Spectral as the third piece. An ESPN feature later described that core as “destined for success,” with Maestro and gReazy’s established chemistry tied together by Remkoe’s arrival as the new playmaker.
From the beginning, We Dem Girlz played at a pace that set them apart. In the same feature, gReazy jokingly called their identity “fast and stupid,” a high pressure, high speed approach that could overwhelm opponents when it worked. Within weeks of forming, the team started turning that chaos into results. In their first run through a Gfinity weekly, We Dem Girlz took down Europe’s top ranked FlipSid3 Tactics in the grand final, a statement that the trio was not just another new roster.
When the inaugural Rocket League Championship Series opened qualifiers in 2016, We Dem Girlz quickly became the benchmark for Europe. RLCS coverage noted them as the top European seed during Season 1 group stages and framed the central question of that first season around whether they and iBUYPOWER Cosmic could hold on to their number one spots through league play and into the live finals. Remkoe’s individual impact was already visible in the record book. During Season 1, Guinness World Records credited him with five assists in a single RLCS game, tying Mark “Markydooda” Exton for the most recorded by any player in an RLCS match at that time.
Northern Gaming And The First RLCS Era
By the time the Season 1 World Championship arrived in August 2016, We Dem Girlz had already outgrown their independent status. Shortly before the LAN, the roster was acquired by Northern Gaming, a Canadian organization that saw their performance through qualifiers and league play as proof they were Europe’s best chance at an early RLCS crown.
Northern Gaming did not win that first world title, which went to iBUYPOWER Cosmic, but they cemented themselves as a permanent threat. Tournament records on the Rocket League Esports Wiki show the Maestro, gReazy, and Remkoe trio stacking wins across European online events and finishing in the top places of the RLCS system. They won Season 1’s European RLCS Online Final 2, took first in multiple Rocket Royale weeks, and established Northern Gaming as a regular champion in Europe even as they fell short of a world title.
Season 2 followed a similar pattern. Northern Gaming again qualified for the RLCS World Championship, and again finished within the top four, this time with Miztik in place of gReazy beside Maestro and Remkoe. The same RL-Esports records list a third place finish at the Season 2 RLCS Finals after the team topped the European group stage and regional playoffs. Those placements gave Remkoe back-to-back world championship top finishes at a time when the RLCS was still solidifying its prestige.
Outside of formal results, contemporary coverage stressed how difficult Northern Gaming were to beat when they were in form. Red Bull’s recap of early RLCS seasons highlighted Northern Gaming, formerly We Dem Girlz, as the top seeded European team and described how they swept North American opponents Genesis and Exodus in earlier rounds, presenting them as tournament favorites built around the core of Remkoe, Maestro, and gReazy.
RLCS Season 3 Champion With Northern Gaming
The long chase for a world title finally broke Northern Gaming’s way in Season 3. In European league play, the new trio of David “Deevo” Morrow, Maestro, and Remkoe topped the standings and then navigated a tight regional championship. RL-Esports Wiki entries show Northern Gaming winning the Season 3 EU league, placing fourth in the regional championship itself, and then traveling to Los Angeles for another RLCS World Championship run.
What happened at the Wiltern Theatre in June 2017 turned into one of Rocket League’s early classic stories. Deevo, Remkoe, and substitute Pierre “Turbopolsa” Silfver entered the World Championship with Maestro unexpectedly sidelined and had to fight from the lower bracket after dropping a series earlier in the event. Official RLCS coverage later described how Northern Gaming forced a bracket reset in the grand final, then won a seventh game against Mock-it Esports to take the Season 3 title and 55,000 dollars in prize money.
For Remkoe, the moment of finally lifting a world championship trophy was central enough that Psyonix built his 2019 RLE Pro-File around it. In that feature he recalled riding the bus back to the hotel and trying to process what had happened, calling the whole day “like a dream.” After two prior world championships that ended in disappointment, Season 3 completed the arc of Northern Gaming’s rise from top European seed to RLCS champions, and it secured Remkoe’s status as one of the game’s defining early winners.
Trials With Team EnVy And A New We Dem Girlz
The Season 3 victory also changed his career off the field. In June 2017, North American organization Team EnVyUs acquired the Northern Gaming roster, bringing the RLCS champions under the EnVy banner. As the team shifted into the RLCS Season 4 era, EnVy signed another world champion, Marius “gReazymeister” Ranheim, and tried to build an even more star-studded European lineup around Remkoe.
The experiment did not work the way the names on the roster suggested. Season 4 league play ended with EnVy at the bottom of the European table, forced into a promotion tournament with their RLCS spot on the line. In his RLE Pro-File interview, Remkoe described those months as the toughest stretch of his life, talking about the depression of watching the opportunity to compete at the highest level begin to unravel over the course of a single season, and the pressure of possibly losing his place in the league. EnVy did survive the promotion tournament, but the roster could not recapture the form that had carried Northern Gaming to a world title.
Season 5 brought a different EnVy look. The organization moved gReazy to substitute, signed Jordan “EyeIgnite” Stellon, and fought their way to another trip to the Season 5 World Championship, where they exited in the 7th to 8th range. It was progress, but a relocation of the EnVy brand and a decision to leave the European Rocket League scene effectively ended that chapter. When EnVy released the roster, Remkoe, EyeIgnite, and Otto “Metsanauris” Kaipiainen decided to stay together and open a new one.
Free agency in 2018 could have scattered them, yet instead it helped regenerate a familiar name. The trio rebuilt We Dem Girlz around themselves and went back into RLCS as an unsigned powerhouse. Psyonix’s Pro-File describes how they started scrimming with their new lineup, found chemistry quickly, and realized that results would be the only way to convince sponsors to take a chance on them.
The results came. In Season 6 of the EU RLCS, We Dem Girlz finished second in league play and followed that with a third place at the Season 6 World Championship in Las Vegas, establishing the roster alongside Cloud9, Dignitas, and others in the conversation for best team in the world. Their breakthrough as a LAN champion came at the ELEAGUE Cup 2018 in Atlanta, where they defeated reigning world champions Cloud9 in the grand final to claim a 150,000 dollar title. Both Psyonix’s feature and independent LAN records list that ELEAGUE win as the high point of We Dem Girlz’ late 2018 surge.
Within a few months, the project was rewarded with an organization that matched its ambitions. In early 2019, We Dem Girlz signed with Team SoloMid. Psyonix described the move as a kind of coronation for the trio, and Remkoe spoke of the overwhelming support from fans and his desire to prove that TSM’s investment had been worth it. As captain and world champion, he became the face of TSM’s entry into Rocket League at a time when the RLCS was about to expand again.
Veteran Seasons, Retirement, And The Shift To Coaching
The TSM years stretched Remkoe’s career through to Rocket League’s last pre RLCS X season. He continued to qualify for top level events and built on an already crowded resume of LAN appearances. Esports data sites that track viewership and tournament history note that his most watched events include RLCS Season 3 Worlds, RLCS Season 5 Worlds, and the Season 9 European league, underlining how long he stayed near the top of the scene.
By early 2020, however, there were signs that his time as a player was nearing its end. Coverage of RLCS Season 9 storylines highlighted that he had hinted at retirement if TSM’s attempts to stay in the RLCS did not pan out, describing him as a legendary veteran who had been part of Rocket League esports since the beginning. In April 2020 he made that decision official, announcing that he would step away from competition. Esports earnings records now list his career as a former Rocket League player and coach, with nearly 140,000 dollars in prize money from more than one hundred tournaments, a figure that reflects both his early world championship and the long grind of league seasons and side events.
Retirement as a player did not mean leaving the game. In November 2020, Team Liquid announced that Remkoe would join its Rocket League roster as coach, bringing a Season 3 world champion onto the staff of one of Europe’s most ambitious new lineups. Reports on Liquid’s early RLCS campaigns described him as the experienced figure guiding younger players like fruity, Speed, and later Ronaky, and a 2021 roster report emphasized that the team’s rebuild would be carried out with the help of their coach and “former world champion” Remkoe.
In that sense, his post playing years mirrored his early career. He had once been the young player who tied together more established names on We Dem Girlz and Northern Gaming. Now he became the veteran voice behind another generation of European talent, translating an entire era’s worth of RLCS experience into coaching and tactical guidance.
Playing Style, Records, And Esports Legacy
Throughout his career, Remkoe’s identity as a player rested more on intelligence and positioning than on flashy solo mechanics. Interviews and features routinely cast him as the organizer of his teams, the one who stabilized rotations and set up his teammates. In a Red Bull piece on car choices among pros, he explained why so many top players gravitated toward the Octane, saying that its hitbox made it easier to avoid mistakes and “just get a good hit on the ball” in tight situations, a comment that fits his reputation as a player who valued consistency and reliability over spectacle.
The record book backs up the image of a player who saw the field well. His shared Guinness World Record for five assists in a single RLCS game came from Season 1 group play, when We Dem Girlz were still establishing themselves as Europe’s top seed. Years later, Psyonix’s Pro-File highlighted how he navigated the peaks and valleys of pro play, from near demotion with EnVy to the resurgence of We Dem Girlz and the signing with TSM, framing his career as a story about resilience as much as raw talent.
Most of all, his legacy lives in a sequence of teams that defined a formative era of Rocket League esports. We Dem Girlz announced themselves by beating FlipSid3 Tactics when that meant confronting the best team in Europe. Northern Gaming carried the same core to top finishes in the first three RLCS World Championships and finally claimed a world title in Los Angeles in 2017. The second We Dem Girlz lineup turned an unsigned roster into ELEAGUE champions and then into the flagship Rocket League squad for TSM.
Seen from that perspective, Remco “Remkoe” den Boer stands as one of the central captains and playmakers of Rocket League’s first RLCS era. He helped establish Europe’s early superteam, lifted an RLCS trophy as a world champion, survived the restructuring of organizations and leagues, and then came back to the scene as a coach guiding the next wave. In a competitive ecosystem where a single bad season can end a career, his journey from Team Spectral to world champion and finally to Team Liquid’s coaching staff is itself a testament to the staying power that defines an esports legacy.