In the first era of the Rocket League Championship Series, when the game was still learning what professional play would look like, one Norwegian forward kept turning chaotic ideas into winning series. Marius “gReazymeister” Ranheim came into the scene as a mechanically gifted attacker who believed in playing faster than everyone else, living with the mistakes that came with that pace, and trusting that pressure would eventually break the other side.
That approach carried him from early weekly tournaments to a first world championship with Northern Gaming’s rival FlipSid3 Tactics in RLCS Season 2. Along the way he helped define the identity of We Dem Girlz and Northern Gaming in Season 1, tried to rebuild another championship roster at Team EnVyUs, and later helped bridge the gap between the early RLCS years and the modern RLCS X era through stints on Complexity, Magnifico, and even a coaching role.
This Esports Legacy Profile looks at that full arc and the lasting legacy of one of Europe’s original world champion forwards.
Early Years And A Norwegian Forward On The Rise
Marius Ranheim was born on April 5, 1996, in Norway. When Rocket League launched in 2015, he entered competitive play almost immediately. EsportsEarnings’ tournament ledger shows him cashing his first prizes in December 2015 through Go4RocketLeague EU and Gfinity 3v3 cups, small online brackets that were already drawing the best European players into regular competition.
Those early months did not come with a polished structure or established organizations. Ranheim cycled through early European lineups such as Nice One Team and Error 404 Name Not Found before forming a more stable partnership with Danish player Nicolai “Maestro” Bang on Supersonic Avengers. Match records and later features describe that roster as one of Europe’s strongest teams in the months before the first RLCS season, regularly contesting FlipSid3 Tactics in Gfinity and Mock-It weeklies.
From the start, his style stood out. In a 2016 feature on We Dem Girlz, ESPN quoted Ranheim describing the team’s approach as “fast and stupid,” a phrase that captured both their pace and their willingness to embrace chaos in order to keep opponents uncomfortable. That mindset would follow him through each roster move, shaping how fans remembered him long after his first championship run.
We Dem Girlz And Northern Gaming: Contenders From The Start
The turning point in Ranheim’s early career came in March 2016, when he and Maestro left Supersonic Avengers and formed We Dem Girlz with Dutch player Remco “Remkoe” den Boer. From the moment the roster came together, they looked less like an experiment and more like a finished product.
According to ESPN’s history of the team, We Dem Girlz entered their first Gfinity Weekly as a new lineup and promptly defeated FlipSid3 Tactics 4–2 in the finals, signaling that Europe’s pecking order had already changed. In the first RLCS Season 1 European qualifier, they topped league play, then in the second qualifier they adjusted their style, leaned harder into their high speed offense, and won the event to secure Europe’s number one seed for the live finals.
Ranheim’s influence showed in that shift. The same article notes that the team’s new rapid shot, high pressure approach became a revelation in Europe, trading some defensive stability for relentless offense. At a time when many teams still played at a slower, more cautious pace, We Dem Girlz put three cars into the air and trusted their mechanics to sort out the rest.
Just before the RLCS Season 1 World Finals in Los Angeles, the roster was signed by Northern Gaming, giving the trio organizational backing and turning them into a rival to FlipSid3 Tactics not just on the field but as a brand. At the LAN itself, Northern Gaming battled through the bracket and finished third in the world, behind iBUYPOWER Cosmic and FlipSid3.
For Ranheim, that first world championship appearance confirmed that his risk heavy, pace first style could work on the biggest stage. It also put him directly into the path of his future home.
FlipSid3 Tactics And The RLCS Season 2 World Title
The European offseason after Season 1 brought major roster moves. Liquipedia and contemporary reporting show that FlipSid3 Tactics, already one of Rocket League’s foundational organizations, parted ways with long time player M1k3Rules. The team chose Ranheim as his replacement, creating a new trio of Mark “Markydooda” Exton, Francesco “kuxir97” Cinquemani, and Marius “gReazymeister” Ranheim.
From the start of RLCS Season 2, that roster looked terrifying. Esports earnings data shows Ranheim winning a string of Gfinity 3v3 cups and Mock-It weeklies throughout the fall of 2016, often alongside RLCS league and playoff matches. In the European RLCS league, FlipSid3 finished near the top and then won the Season 2 regional championship, confirming that they were still Europe’s most consistent team.
The climax came in Amsterdam at the RLCS Season 2 World Championship. The official winners list and tournament summaries record FlipSid3 as the champions, with Markydooda, kuxir97, and Ranheim defeating Mock-It Aces in the grand finals.
Ranheim’s individual stat lines from that event fit his reputation. He played as FlipSid3’s main forward, hunting for demos, challenging at impossible angles, and trusting his teammates to cover behind him. EsportsEarnings credits him with 16,666.67 dollars from the world finals alone, the single largest prize of his career and a payoff for two seasons of grinding both RLCS and weekly events.
By the end of 2016 he had become what many early fans expected him to be in Season 1: a world champion for a European powerhouse, with a style that matched FlipSid3’s aggressive, mechanics first identity.
Holding The Line In Season 3
Rocket League did not freeze around him. RLCS Season 3 brought deeper rosters, stronger North American teams, and a higher baseline of mechanical skill. FlipSid3’s results remained good but no longer untouchable.
In Europe, the team finished near the top of league play and reached second place in the Season 3 regional finals. At the Season 3 World Championship in Los Angeles, they advanced out of groups but finished fifth through sixth, missing a chance to defend their title in the later rounds.
Norwegian outlet Gamer.no interviewed Ranheim before that event. He acknowledged that the European field had tightened, explaining that the level in Europe had risen so much that nothing felt guaranteed anymore and that form and practice hours mattered more than ever. That realism contrasted with the early We Dem Girlz confidence and hinted at a player who had experienced both domination and the reality of staying on top.
By mid 2017, FlipSid3 opted for change. Reports and team histories note that Ranheim left the roster in the summer and was replaced by Miztik as the organization tried to adapt to a new era. For the first time since Rocket League launched, he found himself moving from a reigning champion to a project in need of rebuilding.
Team EnVyUs And The Cost Of Constant Pressure
His next stop kept him in the middle of the story. In June 2017, Team EnVyUs entered Rocket League by signing the reigning Season 3 world champions, the Northern Gaming trio of Remkoe, Pierre “Turbopolsa” Silfver, and David “Deevo” Morrow. When Turbopolsa later left to form Gale Force Esports, EnVy spent the offseason testing lineups before signing Ranheim to reunite him with Remkoe on a new EnVy roster.
On paper, the move made sense. GameHaus and Red Bull both framed the signing as EnVy bringing in a former world champion to stabilize a roster that still expected to contend for titles. In practice, the season showed how quickly the RLCS field had closed the gap.
During RLCS Season 4 in Europe, EnVy struggled through league play and finished seventh, forcing them into the promotion tournament instead of a world championship return. They survived relegation but missed the LAN entirely, an abrupt fall for a roster that still carried Northern Gaming’s championship expectations.
The following season brought some recovery. In RLCS Season 5, Ranheim and EnVy placed third in the European regional championship, qualifying for the World Championship in London. At the LAN they finished seventh through eighth, another reminder of how thin the margins had become at the top.
Team timelines on the Rocket League Esports Wiki show that by early 2018, EnVy shifted Ranheim into a substitute role and retooled around Remkoe, Deevo, and substitute-turned-starter EyeIgnite. After more than two years as an automatic starter on elite teams, he had to confront a different kind of professional reality: being the veteran who no longer fit the starting five as well as newer options.
Complexity Gaming And A Second Act
In July 2018, a new chapter opened. Complexity Gaming signed Ranheim to their Rocket League roster, putting him alongside Mognus and Metsanauris on a European lineup that had already proven it could hang with the best.
The move revitalized his results. EsportsEarnings lists 2018 as the single most lucrative year of his career by total prize money, with more than twenty one thousand dollars earned from fourteen events. Complexity qualified for RLCS Season 6 in Europe and finished eighth in league play, but they made the Season 6 World Championship and finished in the five through eight bracket, marking Ranheim’s fourth world championship appearance in three different organizational jerseys.
His best non RLCS finishes of that period came at the DreamHack Pro Circuit stops in 2019. At Dallas and Valencia, Complexity reached the playoffs, finishing fifth through eighth in Texas and third through fourth in Spain. Those runs showed that even as new mechanical stars emerged, a veteran trio with strong structure and a forward who understood tempo could still create deep offline runs.
Still, the field kept evolving. By the end of 2019, Complexity’s RLCS Season 8 campaign brought only an eighth place finish in Europe. The organization and Ranheim eventually parted ways, and for the second time he found himself outside the most stable tier one structures.
Magnifico, Coaching, And Late Career Comebacks
What followed was a mix of experiments that linked the early RLCS era to the new open format of RLCS X. In late 2019 and early 2020, Ranheim joined new lineups, including a revived We Dem Girlz and the Spanish core Magnifico, often built around younger talent trying to break through.
With Magnifico, formed alongside players like DmentZa and AtomiK, he returned to prominent RLCS broadcasts. EsportsEarnings records show Magnifico taking third through fourth place in the European RLCS Season X Fall Regional Event 1 and qualifying for the Fall Major, where they finished in the middle of the pack. In an era of constant regional events, that top four performance stood out as a reminder of his ability to navigate new formats and metas.
When Magnifico later restructured and moved under the Team Queso banner, Ranheim shifted again, appearing briefly on other European mix rosters and then trying something different. Liquipedia timelines and tournament records note that in 2021 he took a coaching role with North American organization Stromboli, trading the starting spot for a staff position mentoring younger ranked talents.
Even that did not fully close the book. EsportsEarnings lists small cash results for him in three RLCS 2024 European open qualifiers, indicating that he returned to compete in the open format that allowed veterans and up and comers to share the same regional brackets. The prize totals are modest compared to his world championship days, but they underline a simple point. Nearly a decade after his first Gfinity cups, he still found reasons to queue up with a team and test himself against the modern field.
Playstyle And Personality
Across each of these eras, Ranheim’s core identity stayed consistent. The ESPN feature on We Dem Girlz described their style as “fast and stupid,” a phrase he embraced rather than ran from. He repeatedly chose lineups that valued pace, aggressive rotations, and relentless pressure instead of conservative, low risk setups.
Interviews ahead of RLCS events paint him as confident but grounded. In the 2017 Gamer.no piece before the Season 3 World Championship, he acknowledged that Europe’s level had risen to the point where no match felt guaranteed and that training volume mattered more than ever, even for reigning champions. That combination of swagger in how he wanted to play and realism about how hard it had become to stay ahead helped make him a relatable figure to fans and teammates.
On the field, his legacy sits in the lineage of European strikers who pushed the speed limit. The willingness to double commit, to follow a teammate into the same aerial at full boost, and to treat every loose ball as a chance to suffocate the opponent became standard at the top level. In the mid 2010s, Ranheim was one of the players who made that approach look both viable and entertaining.
Legacy In Rocket League Esports
By the numbers, Marius “gReazymeister” Ranheim’s career is already secure. As of 2026, EsportsEarnings credits him with more than 81,000 dollars in prize money across 118 tournaments, including a world title, four world championship appearances, and deep runs at DreamHack and RLCS X events. In most all time earnings tables for Norwegian Rocket League players, he sits at or near the top, a benchmark for his country’s presence in the game’s history.
More important for a legacy profile is the shape of his story. He was part of two of the most influential early European rosters in We Dem Girlz and FlipSid3 Tactics. He helped Northern Gaming reach a Season 1 world championship podium, then crossed the stage to beat his old organization with FlipSid3 in Season 2. He tried to help Team EnVyUs hang on at the top across Seasons 4 and 5 and then found a second act with Complexity and the wide open RLCS X era.
Along the way, he lived both sides of the esport’s growth. In 2015 and 2016 he helped pioneer a blistering offensive style that many teams would copy. By the late 2010s he was a veteran adapting to younger talents who had grown up in the scene he helped build. His willingness to keep competing, to coach, and to reappear in open qualifiers even after bigger stages faded speaks to a player who genuinely loved the game’s competitive side, not just its trophies.
In any GOAT conversation his name sits behind later multi title champions and long term franchise faces. Yet when fans and historians look back at the formative RLCS era, it is hard to tell the story of European Rocket League without him. The “fast and stupid” forward from Norway gave We Dem Girlz its spark, helped FlipSid3 finally lift a world championship trophy, and left a trail of fast break highlights that still show up in old montage videos nearly a decade later.