Ninjas in Pyjamas
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Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP) are a professional Counter-Strike clan based in Sweden. They are considered to be one of top teams in the world by many, including GotFrag?, Fragbite and AmpedNews.
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[edit] History
Ninjas in Pyjamas were originally formed in 2001. Their biggest success was winning the 2001 Cyberathlete Professional League World Championships after a very close final with X3 (a forerunner to Team 3D, still one of the best teams in the United States). 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.
Feeling they could secure a larger share of the sponsorship money, they left SK in early 2005. Later in the year some of those players returned to SK Gaming leaving NiP to seek out new talent to replace them.
[edit] NiP today
The reformed NiP have continued their participation in international tournaments placing high in many of the events they attend. 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. Partly due to opposition such as this, the Cyberathlete Professional League have announced they will stay with the original version and use it for their 2006 World Tour despite previously aiming to increase their use of Source. They are on a "winning streak" on LAN (cs 1.6) since the beginning of 2006.
[edit] Players
The NiP Counter-Strike team currently consists of 7 main players and one inactive player (Potti):
- Emil HeatoN Christensen
- Dennis walle Wallenberg
- Marcus zet Sundström
- Oskar ins Holm
- Robert RobbaN Dahlström
- Abdisamad SpawN Mohamed (stand-in)
- Tommy Potti Ingemarsson
SpawN has been filling in for NiP-HeatoN- since HeatoN has lost his skill and is trying to get if back since mid August 2006. (It has been heard thought that he might return in a up coming tournament)
[edit] Notable accomplishments
2000: 1st Swedish Clanbase Ladder, 1st International Clanbase Ladder 2000, 1st PC Gamer Cup, 1st CS League, 4th CPL Cologne, 1st CPL Dallas Babbage’s CPL, 1st The Gathering Norway
2001: 1st Remedy Stockholm 2001, 1st CPL London 2001, 1st CPL Berlin 2001, 1st CPL World Championship Qualifier 2001, 1st CPL World Championship Dallas 2001
2002: 1st Birdie lan in Uppsala Sweden 2002, 1st Dreamhack 2002
2005: 3rd CPL Barcelona 2005, 2nd Rixhack 2005, 1st Swedish ESWC Pre Qualifer 2005, 1st Swedish ESWC Qualifer 2005, Top 15 ESWC 2005, 1st GameGune 2005, 2nd CPL UK 2005, 4th WEG III, 4th CPL Winter 2005
2006: 1st ESWC Pre qualifer 2006, 1st WSVG Dreamhack 2006, 1st Swedish ESWC Qualifer 2006, 5th ESports World Cup 2006, 1st WEF 2006, 1st NGL Online Qualifer league 2006, 1st NGL League 2006, 1st KODE5 UK Qualifer 2006, 1st ESL Extreme Masters Swedish Qualifier, 1st WCG Sweden Qualifier 2006, 1st KODE5 Final, 2nd WCG 2006
A total of five first place finishes at The CPL.
