NiP announce "Path of a Ninja" talent program

4-12-2020 13:01

The program will focus on developing Swedish CS:GO players of the future in cooperation with Tommy "⁠Potti⁠" Ingemarsson's Area Academy, which runs the Elitserien tournaments.

Ninjas in Pyjamas has unveiled its talent program which will work on scouting, recruiting, and supporting a new generation of players together with the Swedish CS:GO tournament series Elitserien. After each season of Elitserien, two to three players that stand out will be added to the "Path of a Ninja" program, which aims to lower the gap between grassroots and professional CS:GO.

The players will be selected by a jury featuring Potti, a member of the original Ninjas in Pyjamas team and co-founder of the organization, as well as the team's current coach Björn "⁠THREAT⁠" Pers, their COO Jonas Gundersen, and Area Academy's Frederik "⁠JAEGARN⁠" Andersson.

THREAT will help select the players for the talent program

Jonas Gundersen, Ninjas in Pyjamas's Chief Operating Officer and a former CS 1.6 professional himself, sees the benefits of academy teams and six-player rosters, but points out there is a step before that which their project aims to help with: "We see the need to support the underlying ecosystem and provide ways into a potential academy team in the future".

Potti, the CEO of the company behind the Elitserien, Area Academy, adds that this project feels like "a full circle" as "the reason we became so successful during my first session in NIP 20 years ago is because we picked up young talents who we saw huge potential in".

The Svenska Elitserien Fall 2020 season will conclude the upcoming weekend, with four teams still in competition, including Max "⁠quix⁠" Lindkvist's Lilmix and DreamHack Open November attendees flowskola.

Ninjas in Pyjamas's project makes them the latest Nordic organization to put emphasis on nurturing young talent. North have unveiled their long-term talent development strategy and partnership with Danish team AGF in September, while Astralis followed by launching their development program in November.

nip going japanese pog

2020-12-04 13:01

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Pat of an niña

2020-12-04 13:03

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nina is a somewhat common japanese name and ninja = japan so sorry but your opinion is wrong

2020-12-04 13:04

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Lol how is nina a japanese name

2020-12-04 18:57

The name is cringe tbh, also Naruto fans will now see a reference and spam it everywhere (I’m not a naruto hater)

2020-12-04 15:07

+1 generic shonen weebs with an american flag are going to be spamming nip academy as naruto and making naruto references (I'm not a racist)

2020-12-04 16:15

nip academy as naruto and making naruto references (I'm not a racist)

2020-12-04 18:01

bout to sign up

2020-12-04 13:02

8 replies

quacke is underrated

2020-12-04 13:17

He sure is

2020-12-04 13:26

gl I was here Paaaaaag

2020-12-04 14:46

-messi +quacke to c9 when?

2020-12-04 16:16

4 replies

Contract is on the table, I just gotta sign it B)

2020-12-04 16:24

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GL men waiting for quacke hltv flair

2020-12-04 16:27

Coming soon

2020-12-04 16:57

#kolossen

2020-12-05 08:21

They saw the twitch copypastas of XI Wu way of the awp, and came up with NI PU path of a ninja.

xaxaxa +1

Lol

Naruto

i thought there were gonna announce disbandment xd

Xd haha much funny

in the text before you click i saw ''NIP ANNOUNCE.....'' my dreams got crushed xd

2020-12-04 13:05

same

2020-12-04 13:12

Good luck!

ooff. What a cool name of program.

Sounds like the title of the first episode of a ninja-themed anime

Yeah nice cool but you have no talents ahahahah noobs

Flair checks out

2020-12-04 13:06

Nice, good luck

My turn to shine!

disband soon

no u

Nice

2020-12-04 13:08

nice concept for an academy team

Pick some of the flowskola players. Huge potential in atleast 3 of them.

2020-12-04 13:10

22 replies

joel, chawzyy and dottie and 2 of them are under 17

2020-12-04 13:14

MistFire as well, even though he's a bit older if I remember it correctly

2020-12-04 13:24

yea they are young and could be good under good leadership in the future

2020-12-04 13:15

indeed. They have the passion that all the other swedish teams miss.

2020-12-04 13:25

Only joelxd.

2020-12-04 13:23

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no? dottie, chawzyy, Mistfire (argueable) as well.

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MistFire could a good in-game leader, but I obviously can't judge on it. Chawzyyy is nothing much in my opinion, and dottie is actually fucking great, but wasn't he VAC Banned before? If I'm mistaken, then sorry.

2020-12-04 13:30

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MistFire's aim is quick and crisp clean, chawzyy and dottie are amazing and I don't know about the VAC part, sorry. The real question is, wtf is nilo doing in this team? :P

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And there are also Svedjehed, isak from Lilmix who are very good. Perhaps Peppzor and ztr, too. NiP can definitely build a relatively strong academy team with the amount of talent Sweden's got, like Gambit did with the Youngsters roster back in the day. I'm looking forward to see it.

2020-12-04 13:41

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isnt svedjehed roughly coded from sweden-jehad?

2020-12-04 13:44

Huh?

Are you retarded or something?

2020-12-04 16:39

2020-12-04 16:59

Its his lastname

2020-12-04 22:59

the kids 15 hes performing fine he"ll only get better

2020-12-04 13:42

yep

2020-12-04 13:45

Edit wrong reply.

I haven’t seen anything promising from him so far.

2020-12-04 14:01

Yes ik hes playing avg i would call him a tier 3 player who should just retire or throw nine to five matches to make money if he was 20+ but the fact he is 15 i still have hope for the kid. Hes young and probably has a dream of joining a tier 1 team and going full pro and id love him to achieve what we all dreamt about when we were 15 playing csgo

2020-12-04 16:13

Csgo wasn't out when I was 15.

2020-12-04 18:08

Yea, their should be an organisation willing to sign them and give them what they need to develop. Would be amazing if an org like The Alliance did it.

Indeed!

2020-12-04 14:02

hahhahhhaahhhhhhh

2020-12-04 13:11

sign chawzyy end of the program

aWsemoe

Disband nip shameful team

JAEGARN⁠ :) frag movie youtube.com/watch?v=3xy3qKzWhng

"Path to 5th-8th as your best result in NiP"

just sign flowskola

2020-12-04 13:18

dattebayo?

2020-12-04 13:21

They need to fix their main team before worrying about this

They worry about this exactly to fix their main team.

2020-12-04 13:32

PHOH-TI BigPhish WAY OF THE NINJA

God Potti

Imagine telling your mum and dad as a 15 year old that: "I've got signed to the path of a ninja!".

Parents ask what the hell is that stupid shit 15 year old says "I might be able to make 5-10k a month playing videogames" Parents *🤩*

2020-12-04 14:10

2020-12-04 14:44

2020-12-04 16:38

I thought they were gonna announce Heaton, Potti, GeT_RiGhT, F0rest and Fifflaren as new NiP roster 2020... Crushed dreams..... Crushed dreams....

can you guys imagine how cool this would be, no one would care if they win or lose because their personalities would make the world a better place when u see them on lan!!!

Spawn over fifffffflaren

2020-12-04 13:33

People would care when they get 16-0'd

2020-12-04 16:41

This should be a thing in every country.

fisker heaton potti walle spawn <3 best org ever NiP i grow with this and this is real gods.

2020-12-04 13:28

oop time to switch flair

this programs are basically pay to play.

2020-12-04 13:36

Hard pog

2020-12-04 13:49

+1 for sweden

2020-12-04 13:53

cringe name

2020-12-04 13:55

2020-12-04 15:08

im 15 and very edgy, my life is very poggers and everything is cringe to me xD

2020-12-05 10:14

thank you for showing your disabled badge on hltv that takes a lot of courage

2020-12-05 19:35

Really interesting project, gl to NiP.

2020-12-04 13:56

Wasn't NiP broke not too long ago

hahaahaha PATH OF A NOOB

WHO THE F*** is this Potti? prolly some newfag

bad bait tbf gl next time

2020-12-04 17:48

NAVI Junior > NiP

2020-12-04 14:04

WEEB

pathetic path of beeing bot xDD

wkakwkakak boleh boleh...

Good news for the swedish scene!

2020-12-04 14:14

probably most here have no clue who is potti , legend of counterstike just like spawn, element jonhy R ect .. amazing memories, i think it was cs 1.3 back then or even earlier .. btw first cs movie for your cultur, with some stars from that time.. maybe cs was still beta can t remember youtube.com/watch?v=JOTXF02otTg

2020-12-04 14:32

2020-12-04 15:01

NICE

2020-12-04 15:09

Weebs AYAYA

2020-12-04 15:21

GL!

2020-12-04 15:22

Holy shit potti is still involved in cs? I had no idea

2020-12-04 15:34

Where can I sign up :D

2020-12-04 15:42

Potti funny name, it means poop/shid in Urdu.

2020-12-04 15:49

limited to swedish players?

2020-12-04 15:52

Very needed, swe talent pool has been meh for some time

2020-12-04 15:58

yep astralis way we gonna lock under the contracts every young player we can so no one else can have a competent team in 5 year cuz it worked perfectly fine in football

2020-12-04 16:11

nt astralis fakers

2020-12-04 16:31

I am ready to embark on my path to being a ninja

2020-12-04 16:37

Good stuff.

2020-12-04 17:19

Path of a nothing in paypal

2020-12-04 17:22

Time to apply

2020-12-04 17:57

Naruto ?! WTF

2020-12-04 18:58

Nice NiP ! Fnatic doesent seen to care at all. Good job NiP ! <3

2020-12-05 02:05

This has been done before. numeros times in all versions of CS. Hope this time this is more thought out and structured form the ground up. best of luck to the 'Path' creation

2020-12-05 02:46