Olofmeister

Olofmeister
Olof Kajbjer
Kajbjer playing at DreamHack Open Summer 2015
Status member of Fnatic (CS:GO)
Date of birth January 31, 1992 24 years old
Hometown Tyresö Municipality
Nationality Swedish
Current team fnatic
Championships CS:GO Majors:
ESL One Katowice 2015
ESL One Cologne 2015
Nickname(s) olofm , olof

Olof Kajbjer, (born January 31, 1992) better known by his in-game name olofmeister, is a Swedish professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who currently plays rifler and secondary AWPer for fnatic. He has previously played for TEAMGLOBAL, LGB eSports, Absolute Legends, and H2k. Olofmeister is considered one of the best CS:GO players in the world.[1]

Early life

Olof lived with his sister and two parents. Olof developed an interest in playing soccer at the young age of four. He played until he was around the age of fifteen where he got a knee injury resulting in an inability to play soccer for a period of time as recommended by a specialist in Stockholm. Olofmeister eventually transitioned his interest to playing Counter-Strike.

Career

2012-2013

Olofmeister played in some smaller teams, and was not widely known as great player like today. Olofmeister played on H2k, Absolute Legends, and LGB eSports.

2014

Kajbjer joined Stockholm-based fnatic in June. Fnatic finished 5-8th at CS:GO Major DreamHack Winter 2014.[2] Furthermore Olofmeister was part of a large controversy, which was known as the "Olofboost". Olofmeister was boosted in an illegal boost, which won a pivotal game against Team LDLC during DreamHack Winter 2014. Olofmeister considered leaving Fnatic after that with KRiMZ and JW, but in the end he stayed on Fnatic.[3]

2015

In February fnatic won IOS Pantamera after beating Titan in the finals.[2] In March fnatic won CS:GO Major ESL One Katowice 2015. In August fnatic won the second Major of the year, ESL One Cologne 2015. In December Fnatic finished first at ESL ESEA League finals.[4] The team finished 5-8th at DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015.

After Markus "pronax" Wallsten left fnatic on the 12th of November 2015, the team recruited Dennis "dennis" Edman. The team proceeded to win the next three tournaments that they attended: FACEIT 2015 Stage 3 Finals, Fragbite Masters Season 5, and ESL ESEA Pro League Season II - Finals. Olofmeister was considered the best csgo player in 2015

2016

In January, Olofmeister and his team won the SLTV Starseries XIV over Natus Vincere. On March 5th, Olofmeister and fnatic won the IEM Katowice World Championship 2016, beating Luminosity Gaming 3-0 in the finals.[5] Fnatic placed 5–8th at the MLG Major Championship: Columbus in April. Shortly after on April 8, it was announced that Olofmeister would be taking a break due to a hand injury and would be temporarily replaced by Niclas "Plessen" Plessen.[6][7]

Major Tournaments

Other Tournaments

Teams

H2k

Olofmeister played with Joel "emilio" Mako, André "keiz" Carlsson, John "wenton" Eriksson, and Hugo "huggan" Lopez.

Absolute Legends

Olofmeister played with Andreas "schneider" Lindberg, Markus "pronax" Wallsten, Dennis "dennis" Edman, and Alexander "rdl" Redl. In 2013 Absolute Legends decided to disband their csgo division. Andreas "schneider" Lindberg and Markus "pronax" Wallsten joined Fnatic, the team which Olofmeister joined in 2014 replacing Andreas "schneider" Lindberg.

LGB eSports

In LGB eSports, Olofmeister played with Simon "twist" Eliasson,Lars Freddy "KRiMZ" Johansson, Dennis "dennis" Edman, and Isak "cype" Rydman. He played there with his current teammates dennis and KRiMZ.

TEAMGLOBAL

Olofmeister played in another Swedish lineup with the same players as in LGB eSports. KRiMZ and dennis leave and the team exits from Dreamhack Summer 2014. The team then disbanded in June.

Fnatic

Olofmeister joins flusha, JW, and pronax with KRiMZ. He has played from 2014-06-30 – present.

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ http://www.dailydot.com/esports/most-important-people-esports-2015/
  2. 1 2 Ehrnberg, Björn (12 March 2015). "Olofmeister: "I’ve never been scared of anyone, but I’m scared of KennyS"". Aftonbladet.
  3. ↑ thorin. "'Reflections' with JW (2nd appearance)". Youtube. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Raven, Josh (December 14, 2015). "Fnatic end dominant year in Counter-Strike with Pro League victory". The Daily Dot.
  5. ↑ Lüthje, Thomas. "Fnatic over Luminosity to win IEM Katowice 2016". Gosu Gamers. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  6. ↑ Kelly, Will. "Fnatic CS:GO - Official Update". fnatic. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  7. ↑ http://www.dailydot.com/esports/wenton-fnatic-counter-strike-olofmeister/
  8. ↑ Mira, Luis. "fnatic beat Virtus to win ESEA S17". HLTV. Retrieved 9 April 2016.

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