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susp — Tim Ångström

A documentary biography of the Swedish entry rifler who moved from itinerant European mixes through Metizport and Wildcard into the rebuilt HEROIC, built from HLTV profile data, HLTV news records and published interviews.

1. Tim Ångström and the Itinerant Route to Stability

Tim Ångström competes under the name susp. He is listed as 21 years old, representing Sweden, and at the time of the profile record he is a rifler for HEROIC, a tenure that began in January 2026 after spells with Wildcard and Metizport. His career prize money is recorded at $75,060, his three-month Rating 3.0 at 1.05, and his Major record at three appearances: Legends at Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 with Wildcard, Stage 1 at BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 with Wildcard, and Stage 1 at IEM Cologne Major 2026 with HEROIC. He has no HLTV Top 20 placements, no Major titles and no Major MVP awards. His LAN table is empty and his trophy section is empty in the Big Event sense, though the summer 2026 Stake titles with HEROIC constitute his first team honours.

The attribute block describes a designated entry-opener. On the 0 to 100 scale he is recorded at Entrying 78, Opening 72, Trading 51, Firepower 43, Clutching 39, Utility 38, Sniping 0. Entrying at 78 is the highest entry score among the HEROIC rifles, above nilo at 66 and Brollan at 40. Opening at 72 is similarly the highest opener score in the five apart from Brollan's 75, achieved in a more specialised role. The pair defines the assignment: the first player through executes, the seeker of first contact in mid-rounds. Trading at 51 shows midpoint second-man capacity — sufficient to convert when required but not the positional habit. Firepower at 43 shows the cost of the entry burden: raw duel output suppressed by low-survival attempts against prepared defences. Utility at 38 shows the minimal grenade book of a player whose economy is devoted to flashes for his own swings.

His team history is the longest chain in the HEROIC set by organisation count. It lists Juggernauts in February 2023, Budapest Five from February to April 2023, Portugal from May to August 2023, QM in August 2023, 00Nation with no dates, Metizport with no dates, Wildcard with no dates, and HEROIC from January 2026 to the present — eight periods in three years. The news index contains 73 items, concentrated in the Wildcard Major cycle and the 2026 HEROIC rebuild. The age — 21 — places the entire itinerant sequence between the ages of 18 and 20, with stability arriving only in the HEROIC tenure.

Ångström belongs to the cohort of Swedish riflers who came of age after the academy pipeline contracted, when Young Ninjas reduced its intake and the MOUZ NXT route absorbed the Danish but not the Swedish surplus. Without a twelve-month academy formation, his development was conducted in short-term international mixes — Portuguese, Hungarian, Balkan and stateless rosters assembled for single CCT seasons — before the Metizport second-tier project and the Wildcard Americas project provided the first extended tenures. His biography is the record of that itinerant route and what it produces when it succeeds: an entry rifler whose mechanics were hardened by constant adaptation rather than by systematic formation.

2. Juggernauts, Budapest Five and Portugal: The 2023 Mix Circuit

The profile lists three periods in the first eight months of 2023. Juggernauts in February 2023, Budapest Five from February to April 2023, and Portugal from May to August 2023. Each tenure lasted between a few weeks and three months. Each organisation existed in the CCT open-qualifier bracket: Juggernauts as a stateless mix, Budapest Five as the Hungarian national project that recruited Swedish and Balkan riflers around a Hungarian core, Portugal as the Portuguese national project that similarly imported entry talent.

No trophies are listed against any of the three periods, and the news index contains no dedicated coverage of Ångström from these months. That absence reflects the coverage threshold. CCT open-qualifier mixes in 2023 generated match pages but not headlines; a Swedish entry rifler could play forty officials across three mixes in a single spring without appearing in a single report. The developmental content lies instead in the variety. A rifler who plays under a Hungarian caller in February, a Portuguese caller in June and a stateless mix caller in August learns three default books, three timeout disciplines and three trade-spacing conventions in the time an academy player learns one. The Entrying 78 that appears in his mature profile — the willingness to swing first in unfamiliar systems without hesitation — was formed here, in matches where hesitation meant losing the starting place to the next trial rifler.

The QM period in August 2023, listed as a single-month tenure, continued the pattern into the autumn. QM, a short-lived qualifier brand, competed in the same CCT bracket with a roster that reformed monthly. The one-month duration indicates a trial that did not convert into an extended tenure — the normal outcome in the mix circuit, where five riflers compete for two starting positions in every transfer window. For an 18-year-old entry player, the relevant achievement is not the absence of trophies but the continuity of employment: eight months in the mix circuit without dropping out of the qualifier bracket, maintaining sufficient output for the next mix to sign him.

3. 00Nation and Metizport: The First Extended Tenures

00Nation with no dates and Metizport with no dates cover the late-2023 to 2024 period between the mix circuit and the Wildcard move. 00Nation, the Norwegian-backed organisation that fielded Brazilian, Danish and international rosters in succession, competed in the European CCT finals and the ESL Challenger qualifiers. Metizport, the Swedish second-tier project that also employed his future HEROIC teammate nilo, competed in the same bracket with a Swedish-majority roster. The two tenures together provided the first extended stability: multi-month spells in which the five practised together daily, developed a map pool beyond the three-map mix minimum, and competed in closed qualifiers rather than open brackets.

The news index for these years places both organisations in the CCT playoff picture without Major qualification. No Major entry is listed for either tenure in the achievements table, and the LAN table remains empty. The significance lies in the formation of the entry-trade partnership that would later define the HEROIC axis. nilo and susp overlapped in the Metizport-adjacent pipeline during this period, developing the complementary habits — one entries, the other trades — that the HEROIC rebuild would later institutionalise. The Entrying 78 and Opening 72 on one side, the Trading 76 and Firepower 83 on the other, describe a partnership formed against second-tier opposition and preserved into the top twenty.

The June 2024 report "Media: Wildcard close in on phzy and susp" on 18 June, headlined by the Wildcard organisation's pursuit of two players, marks the exit from the European second tier. Wildcard, the American organisation competing in the Americas RMR bracket, identified the Swedish entry rifler as its target for the Shanghai Major cycle. After eighteen months in European mixes and second-tier projects, the path to a Valve event lay through the Americas qualifier — the same regional arbitrage that had carried MartinezSa from Spain to 9z.

4. Wildcard: Shanghai Legends and Austin Stage 1, 2024 to 2025

The Wildcard tenure, listed with no dates but covering the 2024 to 2025 season between the Metizport exit and the January 2026 HEROIC arrival, contains his two deepest Major results. The achievements table records Legends at Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 with Wildcard and Stage 1 at BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 with Wildcard, each with a link to his event statistics page. The Shanghai Legends — the middle Swiss group in the 2024 format, short of the arena but beyond the opening stage — remains his deepest Major run. The Austin Stage 1 — the opening Swiss group in the expanded 2025 format — ended the follow-up campaign a round earlier.

The Shanghai qualification path ran through the Americas RMR, in which Wildcard navigated the Swiss group into the Major's opening stage and then through the opening stage into Legends. For a 19 to 20-year-old entry rifler in his first season outside Europe, qualification itself constituted the achievement; the Legends placement constituted confirmation that his entry game functioned against Major opposition rather than only against CCT defences. His event statistics page for Shanghai, linked from the achievements table, preserves the individual output: entry attempts and opening duels maintained at the career rate, with the Firepower suppression characteristic of entries against prepared Major defences.

The surrounding Wildcard results define the broader tenure. The organisation competed in the Americas Pro League qualifiers, the BLAST Showdown brackets and the ESL Challenger circuit, maintaining a ranking sufficient for RMR qualification without breaking into Big Event playoffs. The Austin cycle repeated the qualification but not the depth: Stage 1 exit in the home-region Major, in front of the American audience that Wildcard represented. The distinction between Shanghai Legends and Austin Stage 1 — one round deeper in the tougher field — suggests not a decline but the variance of Swiss groups, in which the draw determines whether the decider falls against a qualifier or a top-ten core.

The tenure ended in late 2025. The HEROIC rebuild, which had installed Chr1zN in November and was assembling the Swedish rifle pair for the new year, identified the entry position as its priority vacancy. On the January 2026 timeline, susp's arrival reunited the Metizport-adjacent entry-trade axis — susp entries, nilo trades — inside a salaried top-twenty five for the first time.

5. Joining the HEROIC Rebuild: January 2026

The HEROIC tenure from January 2026 to the present began six months before the Brollan and MartinezSa completions, placing Ångström among the first arrivals of the rebuild rather than among its finishing pieces. The winter and spring of 2026 tested the incomplete five in the Stake circuit and the European qualifiers, with the results documented in the companion biographies: early exits, qualification matches, and the gradual installation of Chr1zN's defaults around a young rifle core.

His function from the first weeks was the designated entry. With nilo on the trade-heavy conversion game, Brollan from July on the mid-round stabilisation, MartinezSa from July on the AWP anchor, and Chr1zN on the calling and grenade book, susp took the first attempts on executes and the first contact in mid-rounds. The Entrying 78 and Opening 72 describe that assignment without ambiguity. The Firepower 43 shows its statistical cost: entries against prepared defences in the Stake and qualifier brackets convert at lower rates than trades and mid-round swings, suppressing the aggregate rating even as the round-win contribution remains high.

His 1.05 three-month rating, recorded across the late-rebuild period, sits below nilo's 1.16 and Brollan's 1.13 but above the threshold for a designated entry player in a rebuilding team. Entry fraggers in young fives typically sit between 0.98 and 1.06, as the role sacrifices survival for information and space. A 1.05 indicates that the entries are producing sufficient openings for the trades to convert — the exact division of labour the susp-nilo axis was designed to provide. The Trading 51 shows that he converts when the spacing requires it, but the primary trade burden belongs to his partner.

6. Stake Titles, Beijing and the Cologne Stage 1: Summer 2026

The summer of 2026 provided the first trophies. On 19 July: "New-look HEROIC sweep K27 to win Stake Ranked Episode 3", twelve days after the Brollan and MartinezSa completions made the five whole. On 7 July, in the same week: "HEROIC complete roster with Brollan" and "Official: HEROIC unveil MartinezSa", confirming the finished project. On 25 August: "yxngstxr departs HEROIC", closing the previous era. On 5 September: "HEROIC, B8 complete IEM Beijing team list". On 27 September: "HEROIC beat 100 Thieves to lift Stake Pulse Beat II trophy", with MartinezSa's developmental-framing interview on the same day.

The Major record for the period shows Stage 1 at IEM Cologne Major 2026 with HEROIC, with a link to his event statistics. Stage 1 — the opening Swiss group — ended the campaign before Stage 2, matching the result of his HEROIC teammates Chr1zN and nilo and falling one round short of his own Shanghai Legends with Wildcard. In the expanded format, Stage 1 elimination reflects best-of-one variance and opening-series conversion as much as best-of-three quality; the distinction between his Shanghai Legends and his Cologne Stage 1 is narrower than the stage names suggest, amounting to a single Swiss decider.

The June 2024 to June 2026 arc from the Wildcard pursuit headline to the Cologne Stage 1 exit thus forms a complete cycle: identified as a Major-level entry prospect, confirmed at Shanghai Legends, tested at Austin Stage 1, reinstalled in a rebuilding top-twenty five, and returned to the Major opening stage. The Stake titles of July and September 2026 show that the five can close best-of-three series against the middle of the field; the Beijing qualification shows that those victories convert into calendar access. The remaining step — the Swiss decider that separates Stage 1 from Stage 2 — is the precise point at which his last two Majors have ended.

7. Entry Craft: Entrying 78, Opening 72 and the First-Man Burden

The attribute pair requires the extended technical analysis because it describes the most specialised role in the HEROIC five. Entrying at 78 measures the frequency and effectiveness of first-entry attempts on executes — the willingness to swing first through smokes, to take the initial site duel, to absorb the defence's crossfires so that teammates can trade. Opening at 72 measures first-kill involvement across all round states — not only set entries but mid-round swings, CT aggressions and retake initiations. A player who scores highly on both is a player whose team asks him to seek first contact constantly, on his own initiative as well as on call.

Trading at 51 shows the midpoint counterpart. A pure entry player who never trades would score in the 20s or 30s; a score in the 50s indicates a player who converts trades when the round requires it but whose default spacing places him first rather than second. Firepower at 43 shows the aggregate cost: across a full map, the entry player's kill total trails the traders and anchors, because a significant fraction of his duels are taken at a disadvantage — swinging into prepared angles, absorbing utility, creating the information his teammates exploit. Clutching at 39 shows the late-round consequence: few isolations reach him, because his survival rate in opening attempts determines whether the round reaches the final thirty seconds. Utility at 38 shows the minimal book: entry flashes for his own swings, but no set-piece responsibility.

The comparison with nilo completes the picture. susp entries at 78 and opens at 72 with Firepower 43; nilo entries at 66 and opens at 38 with Firepower 83 and Trading 76. One player creates the advantage at personal statistical cost, the other converts it at personal statistical benefit. The 1.05 and 1.16 ratings reflect that distribution exactly. Organisations that understand the exchange retain both players; organisations that read only the ratings release the entry player and discover that the trader's rating declines without the entries to convert.

8. Prize Money, Stage Results and the Entry Player’s Horizon

The aggregate record can be stated completely. At 21, Tim Ångström has earned $75,060 in recorded prize money, attended three Majors to Legends once and Stage 1 twice, won two Stake titles with HEROIC in the summer of 2026, and maintained a three-month rating of 1.05 with Entrying 78 and Opening 72. He has no Big Event playoff appearances, no Top 20 placements and no individual awards. His team history spans eight organisations in three years, with the Wildcard Shanghai Legends as its deepest run and the HEROIC tenure as its first extended stability.

The comparative framing is positional. Among Swedish entry riflers who developed outside the academy system after 2022, Ångström is one of a small number to have reached a Major Legends stage before the age of 21 and then to have been retained as the designated entry in a rebuilding top-twenty five. The Shanghai Legends remains his ceiling; the two Stage 1 exits remain his floor. The gap between those results and a Stage 2 or playoff appearance is the outstanding item, and at 21 it is a team-conversion gap rather than an individual one. No entry player with Firepower 43 advances beyond Stage 1 without his traders converting the openings he creates, and the nilo partnership provides exactly that conversion.

Whether that conversion carries the five beyond the opening stage will depend on the retention of the axis and the maturation of the defaults around it. The Stake victories show that the entries function against the middle of the field; the Beijing calendar will test them against its upper end. The Brollan stabilisation, the Chr1zN grenade book and the MartinezSa anchor provide the structural conditions an entry player requires: smokes to swing through, trades positioned to convert, and an AWPer who holds the late rounds the entries make possible. With the first stability of his career, the entry burden he has carried since the mix circuit, and the bulk of his career ahead, the horizon is the specific Swiss decider — the best-of-three that ended his Austin and Cologne campaigns — and whether the rebuilt five can win it.

Sources

• https://www.hltv.org/news/45579/heroic-beat-100-thieves-to-lift-stake-pulse-beat-ii-trophy — September 2026 trophy.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/45160/new-look-heroic-sweep-k27-to-win-stake-ranked-episode-3 — July 2026 trophy.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/45078/heroic-complete-roster-with-brollan — July 2026 rebuild completion.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/45077/official-heroic-unveil-martinezsa — July 2026 rebuild completion.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/39279/media-wildcard-close-in-on-phzy-and-susp — June 2024 Wildcard pursuit.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/45380/yxngstxr-departs-heroic — August 2026 roster context.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/45452/heroic-b8-complete-iem-beijing-team-list — September 2026 Beijing qualification.
• HLTV news headline index for the player (73 items, 2023–2026) — dates, roster transactions, Major results cited throughout.
• HLTV player profile record (player ID 21163) — attributes, prize money, team tenure, Major placements.

Data source: HLTV player profile record. Generated: 2026-10-11.