Ninjas in pajamas

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Ninjas in pajamas
Abbreviation NiP
operator Ninjas in Pajamas Gaming AB
Manager Hicham Chahine (CEO) Emil "HeatoN" Christensen (until 2018)
SwedenSweden
Headquarters SwedenSweden Stockholm
founding year 2000
resolution 2007; active again since 2012
Clan color brown
Homepage www.nip.gl
Teams
Former teams

Ninjas in Pajamas (NiP) is a Swedish E-Sport - Clan . He is best known for his success in the Counter-Strike discipline .

history

NiP was originally founded in 1999 by Tommy "Potti" Ingemarsson and Emil "HeatoN" Christensen . After advancing to # 1 on ClanBase and winning the 2001 CPL World Championship , they were considered the best Counter-Strike team in the world. In 2002 the team disbanded. Many of the players switched to SK Gaming .

In January 2005, Ninjas in pajamas was revived because players refused to renew their contracts with SK Gaming. A month later, Gamers Paradise Holding bought the Clan Ninjas in pajamas. However, there were repeated changes in personnel. So it happened that Christensen was left by his four teammates in May 2005 in favor of SK Gaming and had to put together a new team. Second place at the 2006 World Cyber ​​Games is one of the greatest successes of the new NiP era . NiP was one of the seven founding members of the G7 teams .

At the end of 2005, Ninjas in Pajamas was expanded to include a South Korean Warcraft III section. This played in the ESL WC3L Series until it was dissolved in 2006 due to personnel departures and unsatisfactory results.

In September 2007, the then NiP players Dennis "walle" Wallenberg and Kristoffer "Tentpole" Nordlund were lured away by SK. At the same time Emil "HeatoN" Christensen accepted a post as General Manager at the Championship Gaming Series and left NiP. These two events resulted in ninjas in pajamas being closed again. In 2012 NiP returned to the professional esports arena, this time with a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team. The Swedes dominated this discipline until the end of 2013 by winning tournaments, which were mostly endowed with smaller prize money. Only with the introduction of the major tournaments sponsored by Valve at the end of 2013 did the competition become more professional. At the major events DreamHack Winter 2013 and 2014 , as well as at EMS One Katowice 2014 , NiP had to admit defeat to rivals fnatic , Virtus.pro and Team LDLC in the final. With the ESL One Cologne 2014 alone , the Swedish quintet won a major tournament. As a result of poor performance, Robin "Fifflaren" Johansson left the team in early November and was replaced by Mikail "Maikelele" Bill . In February Maikelele was removed from the team due to unsatisfactory performance; The Finn Aleksi "allu" Jalli became the new fifth man . In April 2015, Joona "natu" Leppänen was hired as the new coach after he had withdrawn from professional eSport as a result of the dissolution of 3DMax. At the same time, the previous coach Faruk "pita" Pita left the organization. Both natu and allu did not stay with the team until the end of 2015. Both were replaced in 2016 by the new players Jacob "pyth" Mourujärvi and Björn "Threat" Pers. After a loss to Flipside Tactics at ESL One Cologne 2016 , the Swedish team missed the playoffs of a major tournament in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for the first time and at the end of 2016 they were able to compete in the offline qualifier of the Eleague Major: Atlanta due to three defeats 2017 did not qualify for the next major tournament.

At the beginning of January 2015 NiP signed the players of the Swedish team LAJONS and opened a Dota 2 department. The team was abandoned in November 2015.

In September 2015, Emil "HeatoN" Christensen and two other founders of ninjas in pajamas were charged with tax evasion. The previous owner of NiP, the now bankrupt Stockholm E-Sport Produktion AB , did not pay any wage tax. While Christensen has been fined on probation, one of his co-owners has been sentenced to community service equivalent to two months in prison.

At the beginning of August 2016 NiP signed the players of the team "SG-1" and got into the game Overwatch .

In July 2019, the organization came under massive pressure because the former Counter-Strike player Robin "Fifflaren" Johansson had disclosed, among other things, that the players had received unfair contracts during his playing days.

In November 2019, the newly formed CS: GO lineup reached second place at the BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen 2019. At the IEM Katowice 2020 they were eliminated in the preliminary round.

League of Legends

Between 2013 and 2014 NiP also provided a team in League of Legends, which was, however, characterized by numerous changes in line-up. In May 2013, NiP put a team in League of Legends for the first time with the takeover of the former Copenhagen Wolves team . This also took over the starting place in the EU LCS . However, several changes were made during the summer split . After the playoffs , in which only the 6th place was reached, the team had to fight for the starting place in the LCS in the relegation. Although after a few departures with Morten "Zorozero" Rosenquist, Erlend "Nukeduck" Holm and Alfonso "Mithy" Aguirre Rodriguez three players from the Lemondogs who had reached 2nd place in the Summer Split , NiP lost as favorites against the Kiedyś Miałem team (now known as Team ROCCAT ) and thus lost the place in the LCS.

After the Lemondogs could not provide a team for the spring split next year, NiP got a new chance for a place in the LCS. In a short-term online tournament NiP was supposed to compete against Meet Your Makers and Supa Hot Crew , the winner would have taken the vacant place. However, after Zorozero could not update the official tournament client on time to the required version, NiP was disqualified and the tournament took place without them.

In the next season, the team entered the Challenger Series . There, NiP reached 2nd place after Cloud 9 Eclipse and thus qualified for the relegation tournament for the LCS Summer Split . There NiP competed against Millenium , but lost 3: 2 and once again missed the chance to get back into the LCS. After the renewed disappointment, the team went with changes to the Summer Split of the Challenger Series . Zorozero left the team to finish school and was replaced by Alexey "Alex I" Ichetovkin, who had become known as the midlaner of the then internationally successful team Moscow 5 (now Gambit Gaming ) and who had only recently left. In addition, Tri “k0u” Tin Lam became the team's new jungler, while Nukeduck, Freeze and Mithy stayed in the team. After a short time, however, Nukeduck and Mithy were banned from official Riot-organized tournaments by Riot Games , developer of the game and organizer of the LCS and the Challenger Series, after they were noticed with negative behavior on the normal servers. Both were fired as a consequence of NiP.

Afterwards, the team was without a permanent midlaner and support for a while, but NiP managed to win the DreamHack Summer 2014. After a month Aleksei "Alex Ich" Ichetovkin finally switched back to the midlane, Lucas "Cabochard" Simon-Meslet became the new top lane and Erih "Voidle" Sommermann became the new support. In the playoffs of the Challenger Series , however, the team was forced to make another change in the team after k0u left the team due to differences. With Jean-Victor "loulex" Burgevin as a jungler, NiP only reached 4th place and thus not the relegation. In September, the players separated from the organization, which meant the exit of NiP from League of Legends.

On May 23, 2017 NiP bought the LCS spot from Fnatic Academy. The team at that time consisted of Profit, Shook, Nagne, HeaQ, sprattel, Zhergoth and Hoon. NicoThePico also joins as head coach. However, in 2018 they could not receive this spot.

Current players

Counter-Strike - Global Offensive

(As of January 7, 2020)

League of Legends

(As of July 16, 2017)

  • Korea SouthSouth KoreaJun-hyung "Profit" Kim (Top)
  • NetherlandsNetherlandsIlyas "Shook" Hartsema (Jungle)
  • Korea SouthSouth KoreaSang-moon "Nagne" Kim (Mid)
  • EstoniaEstoniaMartin "HeaQ" Kordmaa (AD)
  • SwedenSwedenHampus "sprattel" Abrahamsson (Support)
  • NetherlandsNetherlandsBenjamin "Zhergoth" Sánchez (Top)
  • Korea SouthSouth KoreaKwon "M1RAGE" Noh-hoon (top)

Rainbow Six Siege

(As of June 2018)

  • Gustavo "Psycho" Rigal
  • João "Kamikaze" Gomes
  • Julio "Julio" Giacomell
  • Pedro "Pzd" Dutra
  • Wagner "Wag" Alfaro

Important former players

Successes (excerpt)

Counter-Strike

date space competition Prize money
Aug 2001 1. Cyberathlete Professional League - London 0€ 5,000
Sep 2001 1. Cyberathlete Professional League - Berlin € 10,000
Dec 2001 1. Cyberathlete Professional League - World Championship $ 50,000
Jun. 2006 1. World Series of Video Games - DreamHack Summer $ 12,500
Jul. 2006 5th-8th Electronic Sports World Cup 0$ 8,000
Aug 2006 1. NGL ONE - Season 1 € 20,000
Sep 2006 1. KODE5 - Global Finals $ 25,000
Oct 2006 2. World Cyber ​​Games $ 30,000

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

date space competition Prize money
Sep 2012 1. DreamHack Valencia 00€ 2,500
Nov. 2012 1. Electronic Sports World Cup 0$ 10,000
Nov. 2012 1. DreamHack Winter 2012 150,000 SEK
Dec 2012 1. THOR Open 100,000 SEK
Dec 2012 1. NorthCon 00€ 5,000
March 2013 1. TECHLABS Cup Moscow 00€ 8,000
March 2013 1. Copenhagen Games 0€ 16,500
Apr. 2013 1. EMS One - Spring 0$ 12,000
Apr. 2013 1. ESEA Season 13 Global Invite Division 0€ 17,500
Jun. 2013 1. DreamHack Summer 2013 070,000 SEK
Jul 2013 1. SLTV Starseries VI Finals 00$ 6,000
Nov 2013 2. DreamHack Winter 2013 0$ 50,000
Nov 2013 1. Svenska E-sportcupen 2013 150,000 SEK
March 2014 2. EMS One - Katowice 0$ 50,000
Apr. 2014 1. Copenhagen Games 2014 0€ 14,000
Jun. 2014 1. DreamHack Summer 2014 0$ 10,000
Aug. 2014 1. ESL One Cologne 2014 $ 100,000
Nov. 2014 2. DreamHack Winter 2014 0$ 50,000
March 2015 2. ESL One Katowice 2015 0$ 50,000
March 2015 2. Gfinity Spring Masters I 2015 0$ 15,000
March 2015 2. StarLadder StarSeries - Season 12 00$ 9,000
Apr. 2015 3. CSS Finals Season 1 0$ 10,000
May 2015 2. FaceIT League 2015 Stage 1 not known
June 2015 1. ESPORTSM 2015 100,000 SEK
June 2015 2. Gfinity Summer Masters I 2015 0$ 20,000
Sep 2015 3rd - 4th ESL ESEA Pro League Dubai Invitational 2015 0$ 25,000
Sep 2015 3rd - 4th Gfinity Champion of Champions 2015 0$ 10,000
Nov 2015 3rd - 4th DreamHack Cluj-Napoca 2015 0$ 22,000
Dec 2015 2. Fragbite Masters Season 5 125,000 SEK
Apr. 2016 5th - 8th MLG Major Championship: Columbus 2016 0$ 35,000
Apr. 2016 1. DreamHack Masters Malmo 2016 $ 100,000
Apr. 2016 1. ESL Pro League Season 3 EU Division -
May 2016 3rd - 4th ESL Pro League Season 3 Finals 0$ 44,000
June 2016 2. DreamHack Summer 2016 0$ 20,000
July 2016 5th - 8th Eleague Season 1 0$ 50,000
Sep 2016 1. Star Ladder i-League StarSeries Season 2 $ 130,000
Oct. 2016 3rd - 4th ESL Pro League Season 4 Finals 0$ 45,000
Nov 2016 1. IEM Oakland 2016 $ 128,000
Dec 2016 5th - 8th Eleague Season 2 0$ 50,000
Jul. 2016 5th - 8th ESL One Cologne 2017 0$ 10,000
Jul. 2016 1. DreamHack Valencia 2017 0$ 50,000
Sep 2017 3rd - 4th DreamHack Masters Malmo 2017 0$ 22,000
Nov 2017 1. Intel Extreme Masters Season XII - Oakland $ 129,000
Feb 2020 9th - 12th IEM Katowice 2020 $ 4,000

Warcraft III

League of Legends

date space competition Prize money
Aug 2013 6th LCS - Season 3 Summer Playoffs -
Nov 2013 2. IEM - Season VIII - Cologne Amateur Tournament 0$ 8,000
Apr. 2014 2. EU Challenger Series Spring Playoffs $ 10,000
Jun. 2014 1. DreamHack Summer 2014 70,000 SEK

Web links

Individual evidence

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Current squad of ninjas in pajamas


Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund  | Richard "Xizt" Landström  | Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg  | Fredrik "REZ" Sterner  | William "draken" Sundin

Paladins

Pasi "Shipa" Piiparinen  | Pietro "Perdo" Eronen  | Kevin "Laizy" Jensen  | Malkolm "Bonkar" Rench  | Erik "Bird" Sjösten

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

Drew "Sweaterr" Jacob Miser  | Stian "Borg" Stakset  | Karl Johann "Ekkz" Kallevik  | Adam Jeremiah "Crunch" Escobedo

As of November 23, 2017