Ninjas in Pyjamas! R BacK

The legendary team Ninjas in Pyjamas! R BacK. 

"NiP" redirects here. For the grey body based on a nickel-phosphorus alloy, see Super black. For other uses, see NIP.

Ninjas in Pyjamas is a Swedish professional electronic sports organization known for their exploits in the Counter-Strike scene. The team was dominant force during their days of playing the original version of the game from their founding in 2000 to their dissolution in 2007. In 2012, the team returned with a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive squad.

History

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

Their biggest success was winning the 2001 Cyberathlete Professional League World Championships after a very close final with X3 (a forerunner to Team 3D). 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.[2]

Feeling they could secure a larger share of the sponsorship money, they left SK in early 2005.[3] Later in the year some of those players returned to SK Gaming leaving NiP to seek out new talent to replace them.

Emil Christensen, together with coplayer and friend Tommy 'Potti' Ingemarssen, managing directors Peter Hedlund and Victor Lindqvist reformed NiP as a Swedish stockcompany in 2005 due to problems with the German organisation SK. The reformed NiP continued their participation in international tournaments, placing high in many of the events they attended. Emil Christensen, Peter Hedlund and Victor Lindqvist managed to take the company to the next level by closing some of the biggest sponsorship deals in the scene so far. They got about 100 000 members on their international e-sport community website in Europe during their first two years and was also the first Counter-Strike team, not from Asia, to enter the Asian market. Within six months they had about 90 000 members on their Asian website. 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.

10th of August was the history rewritten, Ninjas in Pyjamas announced their comeback, switching from CS 1.6 to CS: Global Offensive. As of August 10, 2012, we will see GeT_RiGhT (formerly SK Gaming), Forest (formerly SK Gaming), Xizt (formerly fnatic), Fifflaren and friberg the two last name comes from the source scene. The situation is strikingly similar to that which arose in 2005 when HeatoN and Potti left SK-Gaming, to, like now, once again revive the Ninjas in Pyjamas. When the players were unhappy with the play action from SK's side, as expressed in various interviews several times since. The publication also means that Xizt leave fnatic team success, a team he took over as captain after carn put his gun on the shelf. The Swedish-Danish team has recently won all the tournaments and went down in history as the last dominant team in 1.6 's history. Remaining in the team he leaves moddii, trace, karrigan and Friis, and fnatic 1.6 seems to be coming to an end. Ninjas in Pyjamas backed not surprising of ZOWIE Gear, who recently appeared in GeT_RiGhT abandoned his long-time sponsor SteelSeries. But the biggest sponsors are expected to be HeatoNs own brand of computer Heat Gaming and Anton Budaks Inferno Online. HeatoN, who was NiP's biggest star when it came to be assumed to be the driving force behind the building along with Anton Budak, who earlier expressed interest to house its own team in the Inferno Online.

Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP) Team

Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund

Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg

Robin "Fifflaren" Johansson

Richard "Xizt" Landström

Adam "friberg" Friberg

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