Ninjas in Pyjamas

"NiP" redirects here. For the grey body based on a nickel-phosphorus alloy, see Super black. For other uses, see NIP.
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Location Sweden
Founded 2000
2012
Dissolution 2007
Manager(s) Emil Christensen
Sponsors Xtrfy Crucial Technology Komplett.se EIZO CKRAS Gunnar Optiks DXRacer NOCCO XMG SkinArena
Divisions Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Website http://www.nip.gl/

Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP) is a professional eSports organization from Sweden that currently fields a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team. NiP's Counter-Strike enjoyed its greatest success from their initiation in 2000 until their dissolution in 2007. One of the star players on the team was Emil "HeatoN" Christiansen, who later became the organization's manager. In 2012, the team reformed with a Counter Strike: Global Offensive lineup upon the release of the game. The NiP CS:GO team is anchored by former fnatic players Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg and Christopher "GeT RiGhT" Alesund. NiP previously had a League of Legends team that competed in the League of Legends Championship Series Europe. In November 2015 NiP's Dota 2 team left the organization.

History

Ninjas in Pyjamas
Nicknames NiP
Sport Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Founded 2000
2012 (reformed)
Folded 2007
League Electronic Sports League (ESL)
DreamHack
Based in Halmstad (gaming house)
Championships Copenhagen Games: 2013, 2014
DreamHack: Winter 2012, Summer 2013, Summer 2014
Electronic Sports World Cup: 2012
Broadcasters Twitch.tv
Local media ESL

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

Their biggest success was winning the 2001 Cyberathlete Professional League World Championships after an extremely close final with X3 (a forerunner to Team 3D). Ninjas in Pyjamas struggled to find a sponsor, and as a result, joined the prominent e-sports organization SK Gaming and were known by the names SK Scandinavia and later SK Sweden. At SK, they continued their success. The prize money from their tournament victories in 2003 totalled approximately US$170,000,[2][3][4][5] and every CPL event that year.

Feeling they could secure a larger share of sponsorship money, the team left SK in early 2005.[6] Later in the year, some members returned to SK Gaming, forcing NiP to replace them.

Emil Christensen with Tommy 'Potti' Ingemarsson, Managing Directors Peter Hedlund and Victor Lindqvist reformed NiP as a Swedish stock company in 2005, due to problems with SK. NiP continued to participate in international tournaments, placing high in many events. They signed some of the biggest sponsorship deals in the scene at that time. The team received about 100,000 members on their website in Europe during their first two years and was also the first team outside of Asia to enter the Asian market. Within six months, they had about 90,000 members on their Asian website. The team was among the most outspoken opponents to the change from the original version of Counter-Strike to the newer Counter-Strike: Source.

On November 3, 2015 Richard Lewis wrote an article on Breitbart.com claiming that Ninjas in Pyjamas allegedly ows its Counter-Strike: Global Offensive division a significant amount of prize money from previous tournaments.[7] Since this was released, the organisation has received a massive backlash from the community who are trying to support the players, and put pressure on the organisation to both tell the truth and give the players their earned winnings. Ninjas in Pyjamas quickly released a statement which states that the claims made by Richard Lewis are false, simply dismissing them and saying that their players are being paid properly.[8] Shortly after this statement was released the team pulled out of the next tournament they were set to attend IEM Season IX - San Jose, however the player's claim that the reason for this has nothing to do with the recent controversy.[9]

On November 13, 2015 NiP's parted ways with its Dota 2 team, consisting of Elias 'Sealkid' Merta, Jonas 'Jonassomfan' Lindholm, Adrian 'Era' Kryeziu, Simon 'Handsken' Haag and Linus 'Limmp' Blomdin.[10] The cited reason was disappointment over recent performances, as the team had failed to qualify for both The International 2015 and Frankfurt Major 2015.[11]

Roster

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Roster

Nationality ID Name Age Join date
 Sweden GeT_RiGhT Christopher Alesund 25 2012-08-10
 Sweden friberg Adam Friberg 24 2012-08-10
 Sweden Xizt Richard Landström 25 2012-08-10
 Sweden f0rest Patrik Lindberg 27 2012-08-10
 Sweden pyth Jacob Mourujärvi 22 2015-12-29

Former

Dota 2

Former

Results

Counter-Strike

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Bold denotes a CS:GO Major

League of Legends

Dota 2

References

  1. ↑ Archived April 14, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Archived June 15, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20060427054033/http://www.cyberfight.org:80/site/coverage/51/. Archived from the original on April 27, 2006. Retrieved November 21, 2006. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20050223082315/http://ukterrorist.com:80/news/3767/. Archived from the original on February 23, 2005. Retrieved November 21, 2006. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ Archived November 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ Lewis, Richard (November 3, 2015). "ESPORTS TEAM NIP’S STARS REPORTEDLY STILL OWED THOUSANDS FROM ORGANISATION". Breitbart.com. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Addressing the rumours regarding player payments". Ninjas in Pyjamas. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  9. ↑ MIRAA (November 5, 2015). "G2 replace NiP at IEM San Jose". Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  10. ↑ "DOTA2 Announcement". Ninjas in Pyjamas. November 13, 2015. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  11. ↑ Fischer, Annabelle (November 13, 2015). "Ninjas in Pyjamas' Dota 2 team disbands". TheScore eSports. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
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  14. ↑ "News: NiP triumph at SteelSeries GO". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
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  20. ↑ "News: NiP see off ESC to win NorthCon". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
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  30. ↑ "News: NiP hold off Na`Vi to win StarSeries VI". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  31. ↑ "News: NiP beat coL 2-1 to win ESEA Finals". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  32. ↑ "News: NiP win DH Bucharest over LD". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  33. ↑ "News: VeryGames win StarSeries VII". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  34. ↑ "News: VG over NiP to win RC EMS One Finals". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  35. ↑ "News: fnatic win DreamHack Winter 2013". HLTV.org. 2013-12-01. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
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  37. ↑ "Virtus.pro win EMS One Katowice". HLTV.org.
  38. ↑ "News: NiP wins Copenhagen Games 2014 over Virtus Pro". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2014-04-20.
  39. ↑ "News: NA`Vi beat NiP to win starseries ix". Hltv.org. Retrieved 2014-05-04.
  40. ↑ "News: NiP beat dignitas; win Mikz Challenge". Hltv.org. Retrieved 2014-05-20.
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  42. ↑ "ESEA - League - View Bracket". esea.net.
  43. ↑ "CS:GO Event: Gfinity 3 - GosuGamers". gosugamers.net.
  44. ↑ "News: NiP win ESL One Cologne 2014". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
  45. ↑ "LDLC: "We were mentally strong"". HLTV.org.
  46. ↑ "LDLC win MLG X-Games Aspen". HLTV.org.
  47. ↑ "NiP beat Titan to win ASUS ROG". HLTV.org.
  48. ↑ "fnatic beat NiP to win Katowice major". HLTV.org.
  49. ↑ "EnVyUs beat NiP to win Gfinity". HLTV.org.
  50. ↑ "EnVyUs win StarSeries XII". HLTV.org.
  51. ↑ "TSM triumph over fnatic with CCS win". HLTV.org.
  52. ↑ "TSM beat NiP to win FACEIT Stage 1". HLTV.org.
  53. ↑ Gfinity - Generation eSports. "CS:GO Spring Masters II Results and Recap". Gfinity.
  54. ↑ "fnatic win DH Summer over Na`Vi". HLTV.org.
  55. ↑ "NiP beat Acer to win ESPORTSM". HLTV.org.
  56. ↑ "EnVyUs beat NiP to win Gfinity Summer". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
  57. ↑ "Na`Vi win ESWC 2015 over Cloud9". HLTV.org.
  58. ↑ "TSM take down Cloud9, win FACEIT S2". HLTV.org.
  59. ↑ ESL. "ESL One Cologne 2015". esl-one.com.
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