Ninjas in Pyjamas

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Ninjas in Pyjamas
Founded2000
2012
LocationSweden
ManagerSweden Emil Christensen
DivisionsCounter-Strike: Global Offensive

Ninjas in Pyjamas is a Swedish professional electronic sports organization known for their exploits in the Counter-Strike scene. The team was dominant force during their days of playing the original version of the game from their founding in 2000 to their dissolution in 2007. In 2012, the team returned with a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive squad.

History

Ninjas in Pyjamas was originally formed in June 2000, but was solidified as a team in 2001 after several lineup changes and namechanges.[1]

Their biggest success was winning the 2001 Cyberathlete Professional League World Championships after a very close final with X3 (a forerunner to Team 3D). Soon after this they had trouble finding sponsors but the solution came when they joined the prominent e-sports organization SK Gaming and were known by the names SK Scandinavia and SK Sweden during their time there. At SK they continued their success and became a dominant force in Counter-Strike. The prize money from their tournament victories in 2003 totalled approximately 170,000 U.S. dollars.[2]

Feeling they could secure a larger share of the sponsorship money, they left SK in early 2005.[3] Later in the year some of those players returned to SK Gaming leaving NiP to seek out new talent to replace them.

Emil Christensen, together with co-player and friend Tommy 'Potti' Ingemarssen, managing directors Peter Hedlund and Victor Lindqvist reformed NiP as a Swedish stockcompany in 2005 due to problems with the German organisation SK. The reformed NiP continued their participation in international tournaments, placing high in many of the events they attended. Emil Christensen, Peter Hedlund and Victor Lindqvist managed to take the company to the next level by closing some of the biggest sponsorship deals in the scene so far. They got about 100 000 members on their international e-sport community website in Europe during their first two years and was also the first Counter-Strike team, not from Asia, to enter the Asian market. Within six months they had about 90 000 members on their Asian website. The team have been among the most outspoken opponents of competitions changing from the original version of Counter-Strike to the newer Counter-Strike: Source.

On the 10th of August Ninjas in Pyjamas announced their comeback by switching from CS 1.6 to CS: Global Offensive. The roster as of now consists of Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg (formerly SK Gaming), Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund (formerly SK Gaming), Richard "Xizt" Landström (formerly fnatic), Robin "Fifflaren" Johansson and Adam "friberg" Friberg on the roster, the last two players coming from the Counter-Strike: Source scene. The situation is strikingly similar to that which arose in 2005 when HeatoN and Potti left SK-Gaming to revive the Ninjas in Pyjamas. It is reported the players were unhappy with the play action from SK's side, as expressed in various interviews. This also means that Xizt will leave fnatic's team success, a team he took over as captain after carn put his gun on the shelf. The Swedish-Danish team has recently won all the tournaments and went down in history as the last dominant team in 1.6 's history. The remaining players on fnatic are moddii, trace, karrigan and Friis, and it seems that fnatic 1.6 may be coming to an end. Ninjas in Pyjamas backed not surprising by ZOWIE Gear, and it appears that GeT_RiGhT has abandoned his long-time sponsor SteelSeries. But the biggest sponsors are expected to be HeatoN's own brand of computer 'Heat Gaming' and Anton Budak's 'Inferno Online'. HeatoN, who was NiP's biggest star when it came to be assumed to be the driving force behind the building along with Anton Budak, who earlier expressed interest to house its own team in the Inferno Online. As of 12/12/12 Ninjas in Pyjamas, are arguably the best Counter-Strike:Global Offensive team in the world.

Major achievements

Counter-Strike:

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive:

  • 1st SteelSeries GO, 2012 [4]
  • 1st Dreamhack Valencia, 2012 [5]
  • 1st ESWC, 2012 [6]
  • 1st DreamHack Winter, 2012 [7]
  • 1st AMD Sapphire, 2012 [8]
  • 1st THOR Open, 2012 [9]
  • 1st NorthCon, 2012 [10]
  • 1st Mad Catz CS:GO Invitational 2013 [11]
  • 1st TECHLABS Cup 2013 [12]

Line-up

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

NiP's line-up has been the same since they started to play CS:GO. It's made of the following players :

NiP's record in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Since NiP started to play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, they have been the most dominant team on the game, staying unbeaten on LAN on 25th March 2013. They won every LAN event they attended so far, and every major (international) LAN event so far.

They have also won every match they played on LAN so far, without losing any map in the process.

Their LAN record on 25th March 2013 (maps): 70 wins - 0 draw - 0 defeat
Their LAN record on 25th March 2013 (matches): 49 wins - 0 draw - 0 defeat

Rivalries

Despite the fact that they are still unbeaten on LAN, they played against many great teams throughout all these tournaments. Here is a quick list of the teams they played the most, and their head to head :

FranceVeryGames

The French team VeryGames (VG) was considered by most as the world's second best team in CS:GO in 2012, being in the final four times in a row, three of them on a major event. As it happened, NiP was their opponent in all these finals, and won all of them[8][5][6][7]. NiP and VeryGames have not played each other on LAN in 2013 yet.

LAN SwedenNiP France VG
matches 4 0
maps 8 0
rounds 128 69

PolandESC Gaming

ESC Gaming (ESC) was one of the best CS:GO teams in 2012, winning the only LAN international event that NiP couldn't attend [13] and reaching one major LAN final, which they lost against NiP.[10]. They also reached a LAN major semi-final in 2013, where NiP beat them again to take the title.[14][11]

LAN SwedenNiP Poland ESC
matches 4 0
maps 6 0
rounds 96 51

Statistics

Players

...

Team

LAN On-line Over-all
Titles 9
Finals played 9
Matches won 49
Matches drawn 0
Matches lost 0
Maps won 70
Maps drawn 0
Maps lost 0
Rounds won 1120
Rounds lost 494

References

  1. ^ CS history: NiP, The E-Sport Entertainment Association
  2. ^ As SK.SWE, NiP won €5,000 in Cannes, another €5,000 at Copenhagen, $60,000 at the summer championships, $30,000 at the winter championships, and every CPL event that year.
  3. ^ HeatoN speaks out on NiP, SK Departure
  4. ^ http://www.hltv.org/news/8995-nip-triumph-at-steelseries-go
  5. ^ a b http://www.hltv.org/news/9149-nip-over-vg-to-win-dh-valencia
  6. ^ a b http://www.hltv.org/news/9472-fifflaren-i-am-speechless
  7. ^ a b http://www.hltv.org/news/9611-nip-triumph-at-dhw-over-verygames
  8. ^ a b http://www.hltv.org/news/9664-nip-over-vg-2-0-wins-amd-sapphire
  9. ^ http://www.hltv.org/news/9709-nip-wins-thor-open-2012
  10. ^ a b http://www.hltv.org/news/9753-nip-see-off-esc-to-win-northcon
  11. ^ a b http://www.hltv.org/news/10109-nip-wins-mad-catz-csgo-invitational
  12. ^ http://www.hltv.org/news/10288-nip-see-off-virtuspro-to-win-techlabs
  13. ^ http://www.hltv.org/news/9796-esc-gaming-win-sltv-starseries-iv
  14. ^ http://www.hltv.org/news/10100-nip-to-grand-final-after-esc-scare
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