f0rest to stand in for ex-Finest at Swedish LAN

11-10-2022 15:38

The 34-year-old will temporarily return to competition at a local offline event.

Patrik "⁠f0rest⁠" Lindberg will compete at the Svenska Cupen 2022 with ex-Finest, the Swede announced on a recent stream. The veteran rifler will replace Rasmus "⁠kreaz⁠" Johansson in the squad as the 24-year-old has not played with the lineup since Finest closed its esports operations earlier in October.

The ex-Ninjas in Pyjamas and Dignitas player is currently without a team for the first time in his 20-year-long career following his departure from the latter organization in June.

f0rest will compete at the upcoming Svenska Cupen with ex-Finest

f0rest has not remained inactive since being sidelined from Dignitas. The Swede recently stood-in for fnatic at the Pinnacle Cup Championship and helped the European squad claim a narrow win against HEROIC in the group stages.

Most recently he also appeared at the Kinguin Legends 2022 tournament with NEO's Team, finishing in third place alongside Swedish legends Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer and Adam "⁠friberg⁠" Friberg.

The Svenska Cupen 2022 is a $46,900 tournament set to take place in the Space Arena in Stockholm, Sweden between October 14-16. The event will host six Swedish Majority lineups, two of which qualified from the online component of the Cup while the rest received invites directly to the playoffs.

Ninjas in Pyjamas will be the most recognizable name on the list of teams attending as the Swedish core starts its journey at the event directly from the semi-finals. ex-Finest will also be waiting in the second round of playoffs while EYEBALLERS with Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist and Jesper "⁠JW⁠" Wecksell will begin their campaign in the quarter-finals.

Lilmix are the second team to start in the first round of the knockout stage, joined by PROSPECTS and Kappa Bar, the two teams that made it through the online portion of the tournament.

The LAN finals will be played in a single-elimination format with best-of-three matches across the board and a third-place decider.

ex-Finest will compete with the following lineup:

Kristjan "⁠shokz⁠" Jakobson
Olek "⁠hades⁠" Miskiewicz
Simon "⁠twist⁠" Eliasson
Niclas "⁠PlesseN⁠" Plessen
Patrik "⁠f0rest⁠" Lindberg (stand-in)

Jędrzej "⁠Bogdan⁠" Rokita (coach)

2022-10-11 15:39

nice

GOAT

ez4goat

forest deserves better smfh

2022-10-11 15:40

F0rest god just like Snax, good decision Finest

He’s good

ill be watching this event now. thx forest <3

2022-10-11 15:41

Sad

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why sad? the GOAT is back

2022-10-13 20:31

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knocked by JW later

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your name

2022-10-13 20:32

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enjoy your sad life :)

2022-10-13 20:33

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yes

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the GOAT is back

2022-10-11 15:42

Snax is good

ex-Finest smart org but man idk last time i saw twist play good match

2022-10-11 15:43

gigachad

pog

2022-10-11 15:44

Forest in fnatic jersey <3 waooow !!

2022-10-11 15:47

ezzz

2022-10-11 15:48

goat

2022-10-11 15:50

Goat

2022-10-11 15:51

LETSGOOOOOOOO

The GOAT is back!

2022-10-11 15:52

Let's go!! <3

2022-10-11 15:53

Pog

2022-10-11 15:54

Shokz will be able to show him the ropes

2022-10-11 15:55

THE GOAT IS BACK

2022-10-11 15:56

the real GOAT

lets goooooooo

f0rest pog

SIIUUUUU

2022-10-11 15:58

2022-10-11 16:04

Fantastic news!

2022-10-11 16:05

hades and f0rest, definitely watching these games

2022-10-11 16:08

Was hoping for Hades-Snax duo, but f0rest in team is always fun

2022-10-11 16:18

Snax will play with them at any other tournament but in this one they need a Swedish core

2022-10-12 08:50

this very very nice 🙂👍

2022-10-11 16:25

THE ONLY GOAT

EZnoGouD

no news about finest disband?

2022-10-11 16:27

money issues.............

2022-10-11 16:34

no wonder when they buy hades from top 3 team

2022-10-11 16:49

he's on loan

2022-10-11 17:31

the org ran out of money, the team is still playing together with snax for now

2022-10-11 21:14

f0rest only pro that is not hated in here

2022-10-11 16:36

True i never seen anyone hate on f0rest or even critize like idk no other player like that hes humble and real og understandable

2022-10-11 18:48

idk who you are but if you hate on my man KRIMZ then you're not a true CSGO enjoyer >:c

2022-10-11 19:20

? if you having difficulties comprehending simple sentence then feel bad for you. As i said i never seen anyone hate on f0rest i never mentioned about myself or others not enjoying someone? i like krimz and for so many years he might not top frag always but always consistent and puts atleast 1.00 rating or higher and KD. But i seen people say bot krimz or kr0mz etc by newfrogs even tho he is legend when he lost a game some say bad and i never seen anyone say bad things about f0rest even when he lose they just say save f0rest from this bots team xd

2022-10-11 20:31

2022-10-11 23:51

f0rest we love f0rest we love patrik we love f0rest

2022-10-11 16:37

very nice

2022-10-11 16:47

Awsome :D Hope he smashes the event.

2022-10-11 16:52

goat, he deserves a spot on a real team, still sharp enough and tons of experience, paired up with some zoomer they could do damage

2022-10-11 17:02

Who cares about him in 2022 anyway?

2022-10-11 17:05

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most people who didn't start watching cs yesterday

2022-10-11 17:50

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I started watching cs in 2014... And I care about CURRENTLY good players and teams, not the players that were good like min 5 years ago lol

2022-10-11 17:55

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f0rest is still good individually. Put him in a decent t1.5 - t2 team and he'll put up decent numbers.

2022-10-11 18:04

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If your standards for tier 2 is same as mine... (top 10~30 teams) Maybe in your dreams. Or maybe 1.05-ish rating if he plays 'baiter' role like blamef.

2022-10-11 18:11

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No way, he would put up at least a decent numbers. F0rest is still too good for this game

2022-10-11 18:40

You already implied in your original comment that you don't care about him in the current year, which means you have no valid metrics of his current form. He's just as good as he was back in NiP.

2022-10-11 18:44

Flair. Simply look at his 2022 stats

2022-10-11 18:58

"Flair" is not an argument. Also funny how you didn't choose to attack my flair from the get-go, but only resorted to do so when you didn't have anything left of value to add.

2022-10-11 19:48

If f0rest scores higher than 1.00 rating vs nip in the tournament, I will give you a hundred dollars. If they can beat their first opponent at least...

2022-10-11 19:00

screenshot taken

2022-10-11 19:23

what has f0rest ever done to you? you act like a reactional bot

2022-10-11 19:32

I don't hate f0rest and I don't have any reason to do so. It just doesn't feel right that there is one whole article only because he stands in for a match or two in a tier-3 team in a B-tier event. I found 30+ yo players who can't react in 0.5 seconds thinking 1.6 is still a thing stupid. So I posted a 7-word comment. And youguys are going mad lol.

2022-10-11 20:35

You started the fire

2022-10-11 22:28

I don't expect an almost disbanded team with a stand-in to perform vs a NiP who went 3-0 in the RMR. I never claimed such a thing. I'll take you up on that though, not that you're gonna hold up your end of the bargain anyway but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

2022-10-11 19:51

hltv.org/stats/matches/91403/neos-team-v.. hltv.org/stats/matches/91369/kennys-team.. hltv.org/stats/matches/91486/neos-team-v.. ur brainwashed or smthng? still better than navi losing to endpoint and nip xoxoxoxoxo

2022-10-11 19:57

Why are you linking non-competitive matches?

2022-10-11 20:28

yes f0rest is like ronaldo atm

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2022-10-11 17:06

great, gl to him, hope he does great :D

2022-10-11 17:07

YES LETS GO

2022-10-11 17:08

g0atest

2022-10-11 17:14

New euro imperial…oldies but goldies

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2022-10-11 17:27

why not snax

2022-10-11 17:34

snax? bot

2022-10-11 17:41

I'm pretty sure they need at least 3 swedish players in the team. Only swedish teams allowed in this tournament.

2022-10-11 18:17

ok that makes sense

2022-10-11 18:21

2022-10-11 17:35

let's go forp <3

2022-10-11 17:51

bra fett nice f0rpwOw~

2022-10-11 18:03

F0rest 🐐

2022-10-11 18:14

cya at lan!

2022-10-11 18:19

Wtf

2022-10-11 18:28

He said he found a new team i tought it was TSM, but watching f0rest is enough for me

2022-10-11 18:35

Great news

2022-10-11 18:49

Just make him a permanent addition and replace shokz for Snax and we have a decent Swedish/Polish T2 team that can have the capability to sometimes upset some T1 teams. Snax and f0rest are some of the most naturally skilled players that barely needs practice and still puts out decent performance despite the age factor.

2022-10-11 18:55