In the first three seasons of the Rocket League Championship Series, Nicolai “Maestro” Bang stood at the front of Europe’s attack. A Danish forward born in 1997, he helped carry Supersonic Avengers through the RLC Pro League, formed the core of We Dem Girlz, and then turned that trio into Northern Gaming, a team that defined the early RLCS years.
By the time Psyonix highlighted his Fnatic squad in 2018, Maestro held the career RLCS record for goals per game among players with at least one hundred games, averaging 0.96 goals across 158 league matches. It was the statistical confirmation of what fans already knew from watching him in 2016 and 2017. He was one of the purest strikers the early esport produced.
From Dot Dot Dot to Supersonic Avengers
Maestro entered top level Rocket League in the fall of 2015 with the team Dot Dot Dot, playing weekly events like Rocket Royale and early invitational cups. Within months he stepped up to Supersonic Avengers, joining ELMP and long time teammate Marius “gReazymeister” Ranheim. That roster reached the RLC Pro League group stage and playoffs in early 2016, giving Maestro his first sustained taste of structured league competition instead of only weekend brackets.
Those months with Supersonic Avengers established him as a fixture in the European scene. He was not yet the headliner in every event, but the RLC Pro League results and Gfinity invitationals showed a player who already understood rotation and spacing at a time when much of the scene still learned on the fly.
We Dem Girlz and the Launch of RLCS
In March 2016, Maestro, gReazymeister, and Remco “remkoe” den Boer formed We Dem Girlz, a trio that would become one of the pillars of the first RLCS seasons. Their impact was immediate. In the team’s very first outing, a weekly Gfinity tournament, they beat top ranked European side FlipSid3 Tactics four games to two in the finals, a statement that WDG could already topple the region’s established order.
That form carried into Rocket Royale and the debut season of the Rocket League Championship Series. Psyonix’s coverage of the Season 1 group stages framed IBP Cosmic in North America and We Dem Girlz in Europe as the number one seeds everyone else had to chase, a sign of how quickly Maestro’s trio climbed to the front of the pack.
Across the Season 1 European group stages and online finals, We Dem Girlz finished first in Group Stage 1, second in Group Stage 2, and then won the second online final, locking in their spot at the inaugural RLCS World Championship in Los Angeles. turn10search19 At that LAN they reached the top four and earned third place, giving Maestro his first world championship podium.
On the field, this was the period when his identity as an attacking centerpiece hardened. WDG built its offense around fast passing and pressure, with gReazy and remkoe often feeding Maestro in the final third. That constant forward motion made them volatile, but when it worked, they looked like the future of how the game would be played.
Northern Gaming and the Season 2 Breakthrough
In July 2016 Northern Gaming signed the We Dem Girlz roster. The names on the scoreboard changed, but Maestro’s role did not. He remained the primary striker on a team that settled into a long rivalry with FlipSid3 Tactics, Mock-It, and later The Leftovers.
Through the Season 2 European league and playoffs, Northern Gaming became the most consistent team in Europe. They topped the RLCS Season 2 EU group stage, finished runner up in the regional playoffs, and then placed third at the Season 2 World Championship, once again falling just short of a title while adding another world semifinal to Maestro’s record.
The result sheets from 2016 tell the same story as the eye test. Esports Earnings lists more than fourteen thousand dollars in prize money for Maestro that year alone, eighth highest among all Rocket League players worldwide, with his income spread across RLCS runs and a string of Rocket Royale and Pro League finishes.
Analysts noticed. RLCS analyst Randy “Gibbs” Gibbons ranked Maestro third in his “Top 10 Rocket League Players of 2016” video series, praising a full year of elite performances rather than a single hot streak, and helping cement his reputation as one of the defining European forwards of the pre franchise era.
Season 3: European Champion, Absent Champion
Season 3 brought Maestro one of his most impressive domestic runs. Northern Gaming won the European league play with a six win, one loss record, finishing ahead of The Leftovers, FlipSid3 Tactics, and the new Gale Force lineup. Along the way, RLCS content highlighted him with a “Player of the Week: Maestro” feature, symbolic recognition of how important his scoring was to the team’s first place finish.
Northern Gaming reached the Season 3 World Championship in Los Angeles as Europe’s top seed. There, they finally captured the world title in a memorable lower bracket run that ended in a reverse sweep over NRG in the grand finals. Yet the roster on stage was missing one familiar name. Due to high school exams, Maestro could not travel to the event, and the team turned to Pierre “Turbopolsa” Silfver as a stand in.
The result created one of Rocket League’s early sliding door moments. On paper, Maestro belongs to a world championship winning Northern Gaming roster and shares in the results. In the public memory, he is the star striker whose absence opened the door for Turbopolsa’s legendary debut. Both things are true. His performance over Seasons 2 and 3 helped build the seed and resume that put Northern Gaming in position to lift the trophy. His own story, however, stayed tied to the runs that ended in third place rather than the one that ended in a title photo.
EnVyUs, The Leftovers, and a New Chapter With Fnatic
After Season 3, Northern Gaming’s roster shuffled and Maestro’s journey through Europe’s organizations accelerated. In mid 2017 he briefly joined Team EnVyUs, reuniting with Deevo and remkoe for the Brisk 7 Eleven RLCS Summer Series, then moved to The Leftovers for a short stint late that summer.
The most stable second act of his career came with Fnatic. The organization signed The Leftovers core in October 2017 and entered RLRS Season 4 with Maestro, Sikii, and Snaski. In that Rival Series campaign, Fnatic dominated the league. Psyonix’s “Calculated” feature on the team noted that they finished 7–0 with a plus 1.48 goal differential per game, and that Maestro averaged 0.93 goals per game, just behind Snaski’s full goal per game.
That undefeated Rival Series run led into a successful promotion tournament, an SPL Gauntlet title, and a return to RLCS. Once again Maestro found himself back in the top division, this time as the veteran presence on a roster fighting to establish itself among newer European powers.
Fnatic’s RLCS results never reached the heights of his Northern Gaming years. In Season 5 Europe league play they finished eighth, followed by a stronger rebound in Season 6 Europe where a seventh place league finish still brought his single biggest prize check, more than six thousand dollars from the regional prize pool.
Even as top eight and mid table results replaced regular podiums, Maestro’s statistical profile remained impressive. The Fnatic feature pointed out that at that time he still held the best career goals per game average in RLCS history among players with at least one hundred games. For a player whose teams so often lived or died on offensive pressure, that record felt fitting.
Style of Play and Legacy
Across the years, Maestro’s teams shared certain traits. They played fast. They trusted each other to rotate aggressively into the play. And when a loose ball bounced into the middle of the field, Maestro was often the one striking through it at full speed.
Stats from his RLRS and RLCS runs show an attacker who combined high shot volume with strong conversion. The Calculated analysis of Fnatic noted that Snaski and Maestro carried most of the team’s shooting burden while Sikii, the playmaker, led the league in assists, a pattern that echoed his We Dem Girlz and Northern Gaming days.
Prize money records and ranking lists give another measure of that impact. Esports Earnings places Maestro in the top ten Rocket League earners for 2016 and credits him with more than thirty nine thousand dollars in career Rocket League winnings, almost a third of which came in that single breakout year. Community discussions and analyst lists from that era regularly put his name alongside players like Markydooda, kuxir97, Paschy90, and Kronovi when talking about the best in the world.
By the time his results tapered off after 2018 and his appearances became rarer, Maestro had already finished his main work in the esport. He helped set the standard for European striking before the rise of later world champions, served as the offensive centerpiece for one of the most important early dynasties in Northern Gaming, and bridged the gap between the RLC Pro League era and the modern RLCS system.
In any long view of Rocket League’s first years, Nicolai “Maestro” Bang is not only a name in the standings or a number on a goals per game chart. He is one of the players who taught Europe how to attack at the speed the game demanded, and he left a record of league titles, world championship podiums, and Rival Series dominance to prove it.