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Player Information

Name:

Patrik Lindberg

Birth:

June 10, 1988 (1988-06-10)

Country:

Sweden

Status:

Active

Years Active (Player):

2003 – Present

Team:

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Roles:

Rifler
AWPer

Approx. Total Winnings:

$608,071

Alternate IDs:

iZnoGouD

Games:

Counter-Strike
Global Offensive

Links

History

Counter-Strike

2003-??-?? – 2003-??-??

Realitysucks

2003-??-?? – 2003-??-??

da4ce

2004-??-?? - 2004-04-21

calx

2004-04-21 – 2004-07-08

VxO

2004-07-13 – 2004-10-09

VxO

2004-12-01 – 2005-05-05

Embrace

2005-05-05 - 2006-01-04

Begrip

2006-01-05 - 2010-12-07

Fnatic

2010-12-07 - 2012-07-30

SK Gaming

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

2012-08-10 – Present

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg (born June 10, 1988) is a Swedish professional gamer, who is known for his long-standing superior performance in the competitive Counter-Strike scene. Having played competitively since 2005, Lindberg, going by the pseudonym of "f0rest", has widely gained a reputation within the electronic sports scene as one of the best-performing Counter-Strike players in the world. Lindberg is best known for his four years of tenure on the Fnatic roster, which he helped bring to prominence as the dominant team of 2009, during which year the team broke the record for the highest-earning team in Counter-Strike history. Near the end of 2010, Lindberg left Fnatic and joined SK Gaming, which he remained with until July 2012. Soon after, he transitioned over to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and joined the team Ninjas in Pyjamas.

Information

Early years

It all began in Upplands Väsby, where f0rest grew up. He began playing video games at an early age and kept his interest in gaming during his growth. Soon after the year 2000, he came in touch with the Half-Life modification called Counter-Strike, all thanks to a father to one of Patrik's friends, who played the game. After a lot of playing, Patrik joined up with clans named seadogs and d00m, and later on advanced to a LAN café sponsored team called Virtual Experience Online, VxO abbreviated, where Tentpole among others played. He was only 15-16 years old during his time in these teams, and it didn't take long until people started noticing him. After a lesser success in VxO, both f0rest and Tentpole went to a newly renovated team called Embrace. This group of people did a lot of noise during Optihack 2005, where they were their performance was a huge upset. They defeated, among others, Pentagram, Eyeballers, e-star and mTw to end up in second place, winning 25 000 SEK, which is approximately 2,900€. Only months later, f0rest, RobbaN and Tentpole left Embrace to become a part of Begrip alongside Calippo and IsKall.

Professional career

Lindberg began his professional gaming career in early 2005, when he made his international debut at the global finals in South Korea for the World e-Sports Games, alongside the new Swedish team of Begrip Gaming. There, Begrip defeated all opponents, including the defending champions Catch-Gamers and won the prize pot of 50,000 USD. Following this victory, Lindberg dropped out of high school to concentrate on his Counter-Strike career. In 2005, Lindberg was nominated for the eSports Award 2005, under the categories for "Newcomer of the Year" and "Best Counter-Strike Player". In early 2006, Lindberg left Begrip alongside his teammate Kristoffer Nordlund, (known also as Tentpole), and signed a contract with Fnatic and became a permanent member of the team.

Lindberg's first year in Fnatic proved to be successful, having the team earn upwards of 100,000 USD, which was acknowledged by Turtle Entertainment. During 2006, Fnatic won the Cyberathlete Professional League Championship, the World Tour, along with a silver medal at the Electronic Sports World Cup. Lindberg was once again nominated for the eSports Award and won the Counter-Strike Player of the Year Award. However, Fnatic faced a major slump from 2007 through 2008, as the team failed to win any major tournaments and only achieved a handful of medals. The team regained its form and chemistry in 2009, however, with the retirement of Oscar "Archi" Torgersen and Oscar "ins" Holm and the recruitment of Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund and Rasmus "GuX" Ståhl. During 2009, Fnatic was the single most dominant team, having garnered gold medal victories at the Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge, European Finals and World Championship, ESWC 2009, e-Stars Seoul, KODE5 and World eSports Masters. In 2009, Lindberg was nominated for the eSports Award 2009, under the category of "Regional eSports Player of the Year Northern Europe", but lost to his teammate Alesund, who won the main category for eSports Player of the Year.

Fnatic could not repeat its success from 2009 in the 2010 season, however, as the team found itself at odds with the Ukrainians from Natus Vincere- the single most-dominant team in the history of the professional Counter-Strike scene, with their winnings being upward of 220,000 USD. Following this underwhelming year, Lindberg, along with his teammates Alesun and Ståhl, attempted to have Fnatic replace the team's in-game leader, Patrik "cArn" Sättermon, as well as its captain, Harley "dsn" Örwall, with SK Gaming's Jimmy "allen" Allén and Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström. This was, however, not approved, so Lindberg and Alesund left Fnatic and joined SK Gaming. Early 2011 proved to be slow for SK, as they failed to impress at their first event, IEM European Championship Finals, being unable to surpass the group stage, while Lindberg's previous team won the event themselves. SK Gaming managed to regain their form, however, and finished as the second highest-earning team of 2011, behind the Polish team of ESC Gaming.

On July 26, 2012, it was reported that SK Gaming had gone into a state of disarray, with the head coach, Anton Budak, resigning from the organization, along with Patrik Lindberg and his teammates Robert Dahlström and Christopher Alesund. According to Budak, this came as a result of SK refusing to send the players to GameGune 2012. The following August, it was announced that Lindberg would be making a transition over to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, by joining the team Ninjas in Pyjamas, which included Alesund in its roster.

Gear and settings

Mouse settings (list of)
Mouse	Effective DPI	cm/360	in/360	DPI	In-game sens.	Windows sens.	Zoom sens.	Raw input?	Polling rate
ZOWIE by BenQ EC2-A	1400	29.7	11.7	400	3.5	6/11	1	Off	500 Hz
Last updated on 2018-05-01 (174 days ago).

Hardware

Mouse		Mousepad
	ZOWIE by BenQ EC2-A		Xtrfy XTP1 (f0rest Edition)

Monitor		Refresh rate	In-game resolution	Scaling	Saturation
	ASUS ROG SWIFT PG248Q	180 Hz	1024×768	Black Bars	75%

Keyboard		Headset
	Xtrfy K2-RGB		Xtrfy H1
Last updated on 2018-05-01 (174 days ago).

Crosshair settings (list of)
Style	Size	Thickness	Sniper	Gap	Outline	Dot	Color	Alpha	Preview [upload]
4	6	1	1	-1	No	No (0)	Green (1)	50
Last updated on 2018-05-01 (174 days ago).

Click "Expand" for a code to copy and paste into your console.
cl_crosshairalpha 50; cl_crosshaircolor 1; cl_crosshairdot 0; cl_crosshairgap -1; cl_crosshairsize 6; cl_crosshairstyle 4; cl_crosshairusealpha 1; cl_crosshairthickness 1; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1; cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0;

Career achievements

Date	Placement	Tier	Tournament		Team	Result		Prize
2017-11-19	A11st	A1Premier		Intel Extreme Masters XII - Oakland		3 : 2		$129,000
2017-07-15	A11st	A2Major		DreamHack Open Valencia 2017		2 : 0		$50,000
2016-11-20	A11st	A1Premier		Intel Extreme Masters XI - Oakland		2 : 1		$128,000
2016-09-11	A11st	A1Premier		StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 2		2 : 0		$130,000
2016-04-17	A11st	A1Premier		DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016		2 : 0		$100,000
2015-03-15	A22nd	A1Premier		ESL One: Katowice 2015		1 : 2		$50,000
2014-08-17	A11st	A1Premier		ESL One: Cologne 2014		2 : 1		$100,000
2009-03-08	A11st	A1Premier		Intel Extreme Masters III		16 - 13		$50,000
2006-12-20	A11st	A1Premier		2006 CPL Winter		2 : 0		$30,000
2005-07-01	A11st	A1Premier		WEG 2005 S02		13 - 7		$50,000
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Trivia

• Was named the best Swedish player of 2009 by FragBite.
• Was ranked the 6th best player of 2010 by HLTV.org.
• Was ranked the 5th best player of 2011 by HLTV.org.
• Was ranked the 2nd best player of 2013 by HLTV.org.
• Was ranked the 7th best player of 2014 by HLTV.org.
• Was ranked the 16th best player of 2015 by HLTV.org.
• Was ranked the 7th best player of 2016 by HLTV.org.
• Was named the MVP of StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 2 by HLTV.org.
• Was named the MVP of Intel Extreme Masters Season XI Oakland by HLTV.org.
• Was named the MVP of DreamHack Valencia 2012 by HLTV.org community.
• Considers RobbaN and Xizt two of the best players he's been under the leadership of, due to their unique way of in-game leading.
• Got engaged to longtime girlfriend Sandra on January 14, 2017. The couple married on August 5, 2017.
• f0rest was part of the longest standing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player trio (f0rest, GeT_RiGhT, Xizt) lasting for 5 years and 187 days: from August 10th, 2012 (when the original Swedsih NiP CS:GO roster was created) to February 13th, 2018 (when Xizt was benched to make place for dennis). It must also be said that through this period the whole trio only represented one organization: Ninjas in Pyjamas.

Interviews

2017

• 2017-02-17 | f0rest: "Actually we're kind of tired of hearing king of banana, so we're gonna get him (friberg) out of there" by hungipham of Fragbite at DreamHack Masters Las Vegas 2017

2015

• 2015-10-31 | f0rest: "The magic was on our side" by Milan "Striker" Švejda of HLTV.org at DreamHack Cluj-Napoca
• 2015-06-15 | f0rest: "I'll come back (to form)" by Milan "Striker" Švejda of HLTV.org at DreamHack Summer 2015
• 2015-03-11 | f0rest: "We are where we want to be" by Michal "stich" Malachowski of HLTV.org
• 2015-01-23 |  f0rest: "Det är jäkligt mäktigt att gå runt här" by rich of Fragbite at MLG Aspen Invitational

2014

• 2014-10-31 |  f0rest: "Det kan ju sluta illa ganska fort i CS" by rich of Fragbite at Electronic Sports World Cup 2014

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