Adam Friberg

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Adam Friberg
Status	Active
Date of birth	October 19, 1991
Hometown	Gothenburg, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Current team	Ninjas In Pyjamas
Games	Counter-Strike: Source Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Championships	ESL One Cologne 2014
Nickname(s)	King of Banana
Professional career
2012	Ninjas In Pyjamas

Adam Friberg (born October 19, 1991) is a Swedish competitive Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player, currently playing "rifler" or "entryfragger" for Ninjas in Pyjamas. As of 2015, he has earned approximately $748,000 in CS:GO tournament winnings.

Tournament results 2015

Bold denotes a CS:GO Major

• 2nd MLG X Games Aspen, 2015 ^[1]
• 1st ASUS ROG Winter, 2015 ^[2]
• 2nd ESL One Katowice 2015 ^[3]
• 2nd Gfinity Spring Masters 1, 2015 ^[4]
• 2nd SLTV StarSeries XII Finals, 2015 ^[5]
• 3rd CS:GO Championship Series, 2015 ^[6]
• 2nd FACEiT League 2015 Stage 1 Finals, 2015 ^[7]
• 5th-6th Gfinity Spring Masters 2, 2015 ^[8]
• 3rd-4th DreamHack Open Summer, 2015 ^[9]
• 1st ESPORT-SM CS:GO, 2015 ^[10]
• 2nd Gfinity Summer Masters 1, 2015 ^[11]
• 5th-8th ESWC CS:GO 2015 ^[12]
• 5th-6th FACEiT League 2015 Stage 2, 2015 ^[13]
• 5th-8th ESL One Cologne 2015 ^[14]
• 3rd-4th DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015 ^[15]
• 2nd Fragbite Masters Season 5, 2015 ^[16]

2015 Slump

Throughout 2015, Friberg received an overload of negative attention, as he struggled to keep up with the best players in the world, like Olofmeister or his own teammates, like GeT RiGhT. Friberg's 2015 rating was 0.96, with -220 kills (4788/5008, K/D).^[17] With the NiP player's contracts were up for negotiations during the holiday season 2015, it was rumored that Friberg would retire,^[18] but these rumors were quickly denied by the organisation.^[19] In 2015 NiP severely struggled to win anything, with their only international win being ASUS ROG Winter in January 2015.

2016 Results

Bold denotes a CS:GO Major

• 5th-12th IEM X World Championships Katowice 2016 ^[20]
• 5th-8th MLG Major Championships Colombus 2016 ^[21]
• 1st DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016 ^[22]

Merchandise

In October 2015, NiP in co-operation with Alvesta Glass released an ice cream in Friberg's honor, called "King Of Banana",^[23] referring to his nickname as the "king" of a certain part on a CS:GO map (de_inferno) called "Banana".

References

1. "LDLC win MLG X-Games Aspen". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
2. "NiP beat Titan to win ASUS ROG". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
3. "fnatic beat NiP to win Katowice major". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
4. "EnVyUs beat NiP to win Gfinity". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
5. "EnVyUs win StarSeries XII". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
6. "TSM triumph over fnatic with CCS win". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
7. "TSM beat NiP to win FACEIT Stage 1". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
8. Gfinity - Generation eSports (2015-05-18). "CS:GO Spring Masters II Results and Recap :: News". Gfinity. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
9. "fnatic win DH Summer over Na`Vi". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
10. "NiP beat Acer to win ESPORTSM". HLTV.org. 2015-06-14. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
11. "EnVyUs beat NiP to win Gfinity Summer". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
12. http://www.hltv.org/news/15460-navi-win-eswc-2015-over-cloud9>
13. "TSM take down Cloud9, win FACEIT S2". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
14. "ESL One Cologne 2015". Esl-one.com. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
15. "EnVyUs win CS:GO's seventh major". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
16. "Fnatic win their second Fragbite Masters title | Nyhet | Fragbite Masters". Fragbite.se. 2015-12-06. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
17. "CS:GO Statistics for Friberg". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
18. "G2 Trio to NiP". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
19. "NiP: "No changes planned"". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
20. "IEM Katowice 2016". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
21. "Na`Vi beat NiP; to semi-finals". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
22. "NiP win DreamHack Masters Malmö". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
23. "King of Banana Ice-Cream Takes Over Sweden". NiP.gl. Retrieved 2016-03-14.