karrigan: "I'm stronger than I was in Boston and I think that showed today"

22-5-2022 23:41

The FaZe captain reflected on his first Major victory in an interview on the stage.

Four and a half years after ELEAGUE Major 2018, Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen and Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard have found redemption following the loss they suffered at the Boston event to Cloud9 and that the in-game leader admitted haunted him for over a year after.

Immediately after hoisting the PGL Major trophy on the Sportpaleis stage, karrigan reflected on that moment when asked by James "⁠BanKs⁠" Banks about whether he experienced flashbacks to the Boston debacle when Inferno reached overtime, saying he has become stronger since then and highlighting the positive mindset the team employs.

"I'm stronger than I was in Boston and I think that showed today," karrigan said. "Whatever we've been through with this team, [we have] a positive mindset. We can lose a 1v5 and we can win the next round."

The FaZe captain went on to talk about fulfilling his ultimate goal before going over to enjoy the victory with his team.

"Never back down, doesn't matter how hard life hits you. All I wanted in my life is to make history, an international team to win a major, and we fucking did it in here. I'm proud to call all these my teammates and I'm just so happy where I am right now. FaZe is my family."

"Keep making history, that's what we're here for and that's why I grind CS every day."

Nice one!

2022-05-22 23:42

28 replies

Niko was a problem

2022-05-22 23:43

8 replies

NiKo IS The problem*

2022-05-22 23:44

7 replies

NiKo is cursed

2022-05-22 23:47

3 replies

he choses to be the curse

2022-05-22 23:59

2 replies

+1, toxic attitudes kill teams long before players getting worse.

2022-05-23 00:35

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this guy niko got no chill. he should focus on his job and let other do their job.

2022-05-28 07:35

2023 prediction: karrigan retires, aleksib gets kicked by NiKo, he joins FaZe and wins major before NiKo

2022-05-23 00:32

I'd like that headline. Chok0 LUL

2022-05-23 00:43

That would be hilarious

2022-05-23 10:16

Niko punching air rn

2022-05-22 23:45

Niko's desk more abused than Amber Heard (allegedly)

2022-05-23 18:25

Niko's desk more abused than Johnny Depp , you are welcome

2022-05-23 22:35

Karigam luck that the scenary now is bad. They would never won from SK 2016/2017

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Luck? This major was very stacked more than last 3-4

2022-05-23 00:04

6 replies

You saw how far imperial got. I kinda feel like a prime sk would still be kinda good, just maybe not as good as faze

2022-05-23 00:14

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I doubt it. The meta as we know it today started building itself from Astralis. The game is different compared to how it was back then.

2022-05-23 00:34

If that’s the case then how did imperial get so far with outdated strategies? You are absolutely right but that the meta is slightly different now but I don’t think it’s that big of a change.

2022-05-23 00:40

They werent as off meta as they were in their prime compared to now surely? I do agree that they are still behind, but its not like fallen stopped playing from prime sk until imperial 2022 =D

2022-05-23 01:43

Fallen, Vini and boltz are on par with the current meta and Fer hasn't been inactive for more than 1.5 years, the only one who I can argue is/was behind the meta is fnx but fnx is getting better from day to day

2022-05-23 03:31

Brazilian dude, u can't give him credit 😅

2022-05-23 13:19

lol nice bait buddy

2022-05-23 00:26

0/8, LG/SK at that level wouldn't be top1 now, maybe am ence level team

2022-05-23 00:29

baiter

2022-05-23 00:31

cs players are continuously getting better. Top teams today would beat top teams from back then no question. It's really hard to dominate the scene because as a whole cs has better players than it did then.

2022-05-23 00:36

No way boy. F0rest 2009 would 1 v 5 all teams

2022-05-23 10:11

lul

2022-05-24 18:36

I agree that SK would won against this Faze but if they were in a very good day with coldzera and fer demolishing the entire server , but there was no luck here , Faze played better and Karrigan is probably the best igl in the world right now and top 5 even 3 in the history of CS, if he can achive a little bit more throphies , Faze just outplayed Navi , and they deserved .

2022-05-23 01:42

8/8

2022-05-24 18:37

carrygun

lucky

My Goat

god

Sick

pog

-karrigan +dexter

lol

2022-05-23 00:28

Deserved

Deserved 👍

GREATEST IGL OF ALL TIME

Congratulation karrigan you finally did it 👊

gg boss

It did

I don't know, He is not much more muscular than in 2018

LOL

2022-05-23 00:00

Congratulaciones King!

Where was Faze's coach at?

2022-05-23 00:55

Suspended

2022-05-23 01:16

Coach banned

Aaaaah Ok, didn’t know he was involved in that

2022-05-23 19:24

The FaZe guys have insane chemistry. Well played!

people said he will never win a major…

so deserved

deserved

Congrats!

legend

LEGEND

2022-05-22 23:46

Congratulations. So fking deserved its indescribable

Peak Viking Genes

2022-05-22 23:48

ChoKo the problem, congrats Karrigan 👏👏👏

Congratulations karrigan ! I have always been rooting for you! Well deserved! I am so happy. Today is my birthday too. What a present !!!!

2022-05-22 23:49

today's my birthday too and as a FaZe fan I'm just as happy :D

2022-05-23 00:07

Today's not my birthday, but boy, does it feel like one :)

2022-05-23 00:57

congratz

2022-05-22 23:50

LEGEND CONGRATS

2022-05-22 23:51

*4 years POG anyways

2022-05-22 23:52

sad niko. gz for karrigan! this man are in our hearts boys FazeUp #1 <3

2022-05-22 23:53

wasn't it 4 and a half years?

2022-05-22 23:56

gg you deserve it bro, don't stop now, you still have much to achieve

True. Keep grinding. Don't ever give up your dream.. I'm wishing NiKo will get his major too in the future.

2022-05-23 00:01

Goat

2022-05-23 00:02

Karrigan and Rain deserved this so much, really happy for them man.

2022-05-23 00:03

GOAT IGL

2022-05-23 00:06

He finally did it. I've been following his story since the tsm days and I have to say it's one off, if not the most motivational and heartwarming comeback story in csgo history. Well deserved Carrygun, you are a true champion of this sport.

2022-05-23 00:09

Stronger? Dunno. Has the most firepower among the entire CSGO scene in 2022? For sure! Still, congrats for IGL'ing the first ever international team to win a CSGO major. That's quite an achievement. Even though FaZe contains four extremely talented aimers, only one of them speaks English natively.

2022-05-23 00:15

So did he in 2018....

#17 #18 #20 = most firepower in the world, very weak at math's aren't you?

2022-05-25 09:53

U deserved it!!

XDDD??? He literally has 1 insane awper 2 top10 riflers and a washed up rain having the best lan of his life. Yeah, all karrigan tho, he carried kkkkkkkkk

farT fan spotted

2022-05-23 01:24

If you add some more X’s and D’s, people would probably take your comment more seriously.

2022-05-23 01:54

That's why furia got eliminated

2022-05-23 06:03

GREAT IGL

2022-05-23 00:24

Ohhh Karrigan you deserved this trophy more than anyone else. So proud of you and the entire team! FaZe wrote history today! First international squad - oldest major winner! Respect!

2022-05-23 00:25

BuT Aleksib0t BetTer IgL

My boy Karrig0d! Superb! One word. Superb!

So deserved!

2022-05-23 00:41

Jogou muito e calou a boca de muitos críticos. Esse cara fez a FaZe jogar de forma consistente todos os mapas, e hoje foi crucial tbm nos rounds decisivos. Que pena o coldzera não ter continuado, e por conta do seu ego.

2022-05-23 00:42

Coldzera was the problem

2022-05-23 02:01

This was awesome to watch. Wish they had Truesight for this.

2022-05-23 00:59

:DDDDDDDDD

2022-05-23 01:08

EASY

2022-05-23 02:43

deserved, lets gooo !!! congrats faze

2022-05-23 07:55

lol he meant, I don't have Guardian, Olof, and Choko on the team. I actually have decent firepower in brokey, Twistz, and ropz haha!

2022-05-24 20:21

Guardian? Did you watch boston final?

2022-05-25 09:55

He choked too

2022-05-25 22:27

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He didn't. He was the one performing.

2022-05-25 22:30

Broky is so much better than Guardian ever was. Guardian was absolute trash with the rifle, at least broky can AK/M4 when he needs to

2022-05-26 05:55

Guardian wasn't trash with the rifle. He was decent. Heck, he was good with deagle as well. Don't make up stuff because you don't like him. broky is good. And he turned up in the finals. The only difference this time around compared to Boston final is rain turned up. Faze would have won Boston had he done the same there.

2022-05-26 09:48

Not making anything up. He was weak with the rifle and was best with the awp. He wasn't playing terrible in the Boston Major, but he definitely choked on many points during the series. To even deny that, would mean you need to take your rose tinted glasses off. It's not me bud, its you that isn't be objective.

2022-05-28 07:32

You are saying he isn't good with rifles. Based on what exactly? Since you are the one coming up with it, might as well show me something where we see it. Since you seem to be comparing him to broky. This is guardian vs broky's stats in their respective major. hltv.org/stats/players/2757/guardian?eve.. hltv.org/stats/players/18053/broky?event.. Just because you have new blood doing good now doesn't mean you disrespect the old guys who were decent themselves in their time.

2022-05-28 11:41