GeT_RiGhT to undergo surgery

9-11-2012 13:10

Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund has explained that the reason Ninjas in Pyjamas will not attend the fourth season of SLTV StarSeries is because he will have to go under the knife in December.

The Swedish team surprisingly announced on Thursday that they would skip the $15,000 league, whose LAN finals are scheduled for December 20th-23rd in Kiev, stressing that a statement explaining the decision would be released at a later time.

In his video blog on Youtube, Alesund revealed that he will undergo surgery on December 17th after suffering a ear infection back in May which has never fully healed.

As a result, he experienced around 45 per cent hearing loss in one ear, and if the problem is not treated properly, he may suffer further complications in the future, such as complete loss of hearing in one ear, complete loss of sight in one eye, and loss of smell.

GeT_RiGhT has been battling an ear infection for six months now

After being operated on, the Swedish star will not be able to travel by plane for around a month, and even though he will not be able to wear a headset for up to 10 days, he will still practice with the team.

Despite the fact that NiP will skip SLTV StarSeries, it is still possible that they will be in action at NorthCon, which will take place between December 14th-15th in Germany.

"experienced around 45% hearing loss in one ear, and if the problem is not treated properly, he may suffer further complications in the future" - professional counter-strike player, hi. Volume 0.01 pls :D gl GTR

2012-11-09 13:15

9 replies

It`s worst case scenario if infection goes to worst.

2012-11-09 13:15

5 replies

"It's all gone Pete Tong" - lol.

2012-11-09 13:18

3 replies

haha

2012-11-09 13:29

hahahah yeah, he will have to feel vibration on his mousepad

2012-11-09 13:30

hah,first thing that came on my mind when I read this :D

2012-11-15 09:51

45% is fact, all other is possible.

2012-11-09 13:40

hahahaha

2012-11-09 17:31

I'm absolutely sure this infection came after he started playing CS:GO!

2012-11-10 07:50

1 reply

2012-11-10 08:10

OMG

2012-11-09 13:11

Good luck :D

2012-11-09 13:11

oh fuck, Hope u get well soon GTR!

2012-11-09 13:12

lucky hes not american, cause that sounds expensive!

2012-11-09 13:12

5 replies

sounds expensive? i see what you did there :D

2012-11-09 13:54

3 replies

No pun intended

2012-11-09 14:04

rofl

2012-11-09 15:04

2012-11-09 16:19

yeah every american without insurance would be in huge trouble haha

2012-11-09 14:55

Although I dont like him but I feel bad for him . Hope he makes full recovery

2012-11-09 13:13

good luck!

2012-11-09 13:14

Good Luck in the surgery, hope you will full recover!

2012-11-09 13:14

Ok! they have the DreamHack so..!

2012-11-09 13:14

GeT_HeaLthY fast! Good Luck :)

2012-11-09 13:15

6 replies

+100

2012-11-09 13:40

2012-11-09 18:38

+1 :D

2012-11-09 19:36

2012-11-09 20:08

2012-11-09 20:37

2012-11-10 08:39

get well soon, chris

2012-11-09 13:16

honestly, i'm impressed he can still play at the top level with 45% hearing loss in one ear. That sounds like a huge disadvantage (pun not intended)

2012-11-09 13:16

16 replies

you can always make a disbalanced audio with more sound going into one ear :D

2012-11-09 13:19

Volume up 45%=just as normal? :x

2012-11-09 13:21

14 replies

if you watch the video, he says hes been having trouble balancing sound. When your inner ear is affected, it hinders your ability to percieve locations of sound, its not about simply turning up volume

2012-11-09 13:34

well... mathematically it's about 82% up.

2012-11-09 13:42

8 replies

...? If he plays with volume x and now he can hear only 65% of the x, turn x up 45% = +-0?

2012-11-09 14:00

7 replies

It doesn't really work to increase volume to compensate, but you're wrong about the math. If something's at 55% of normal, increasing it by 45% brings it up to 79.75%, that is 0.55x1.45. The correct calculation in this case is 0.45/0.55, which gives you 0.818, rounded up to 0.82. When you know that, you can do 0.55x1.82, and you'll get 1.001, which is rounded down to 1. Ergo, you're at 100%

2012-11-09 14:24

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The math is correct. But you cant just turn volume up to compensate his hearing loss. We do not perceive volume as %, its logarithmic, decibels (dB). Its not ever going to be the same for him. Oh shit, just read again what you said and, sorry. lol though i added some information

2012-11-09 15:44

"If something's at 55% of normal, increasing it by 45% brings it up to 79.75%, that is 0.55x1.45." Yea but we are not increasing his hearing but the lvl of volume... His hearing is 55% of normal but the volume is still 100%. So your not adding 45% to the 55% but the 100% of the volume which is still the same. Dumbass :)

2012-11-09 21:45

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Wrong. Audiolevel is 100%, aka 1. Increase by 45%, aka 0.45 1+0.45=1.45 GTR's hearing with the right ear reduces that by 45%, meaning his hearing ends up at 55% of nominal 1.45x0.55=0.7975=79.75%, as in my original calculation. You still need an 82% increase in the scenario. Easy math to calculate and verify.

2012-11-10 00:24

2 replies

i.chzbgr.com/completestore/2012/2/21/e3f..

2012-11-10 09:05

im impressed to see a fellow swede doing math the right way

2012-11-10 16:00

nope.

2012-11-09 15:36

Wow? Wouldnt that increase 45% volume in the other side of the headfone too? So basically he will be hearing normal in infected ear and super high volume in other? :GENIUS:

2012-11-09 14:13

3 replies

Headphones are stereo, meaning 2 channels of output. There are ways to manually change the level of each output. This is essentially panning/balancing. He can turn things up or down manually on each side of his headphones.

2012-11-09 16:27

2 replies

Oh, thats kewl :D

2012-11-09 17:18

1 reply

2012-11-09 17:45

everything will be okay, you'll be healthy and lose to fnatic soon brah :)

2012-11-09 13:17

3 replies

fnatic... bunch of scrubs nowdays.

2012-11-09 15:57

2 replies

Best team in the world* nowadays Ftfy

2012-11-09 20:43

1 reply

yeah because its much of a 1.6 scene left... everything is dead.

2012-11-09 21:17

get well soon, community needs you!

2012-11-09 13:18

GeT_wellsoon

2012-11-09 13:24

fast recover gtr!

2012-11-09 13:25

GeT_WeLl

2012-11-09 13:28

That's unfortunate :/

2012-11-09 13:30

GeT_RiGhT ---> GeT_WeLl #RESPECT Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund

2012-11-09 13:33

Get well soon, hope for the best :)

2012-11-09 13:33

Good luck mate!

2012-11-09 13:34

Ear infection? serious bizz gl

2012-11-09 13:37

Get well soon!

2012-11-09 13:36

GeT_HeALthY

2012-11-09 13:37

Best of luck.

2012-11-09 13:38

I don't like him at all, but this is a serious thing. GL and get well soon.

2012-11-09 13:39

good luck dude

2012-11-09 13:39

Well the doctor will be one of the rare persons that knifed Get_Right :) gl gtr

2012-11-09 13:40

12 replies

AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2012-11-09 13:48

2 replies

Ahahah! Awesome.

2012-11-09 17:03

da fuq =))))))))

2012-11-10 00:37

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

2012-11-09 14:14

epic comment is epic

2012-11-09 14:21

1 reply

ty :)

2012-11-09 21:32

2012-11-09 14:25

lol, made my day :D

2012-11-09 15:48

WIN! :DD

2012-11-10 04:00

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAh

2012-11-10 08:41

Kapio knifed him Neo also..? who else

2012-11-10 12:24

hahahaha

2012-11-10 16:02

No wonder why SK didnt do any good in 2012 and had to disband after trying to perform with semi-deaf players... mad haters from easternEU bashing GTR and Sweden Counter-Strike. I say GL to you GeT_RiGhT and stay strong fellow!

2012-11-09 13:41

1 reply

well, I'm not from ukraine and still don't like GTR, swedish fanboy but don't wish him ill

2012-11-09 17:16

he must win that knife round..GL

2012-11-09 13:42

1 reply

AHHAHAHAHHAHAHA>

2012-11-15 10:23

GeT_WeLL Soon!

2012-11-09 13:52

1 reply

2012-11-11 12:22

i dont know him but ich wish good luck

2012-11-09 13:53

Why not just play with heaton?

2012-11-09 14:00

gl !

2012-11-09 14:03

Get well soon.

2012-11-09 14:04

Get well dude

2012-11-09 14:04

gl GTR!!

2012-11-09 14:06

GL i hope he get better

2012-11-09 14:08

no wonder why he has ear problem, because using headset for many hours will get problems for you like that

2012-11-09 14:16

5 replies

i think it depends on the volume and not on how long you use headsets.

2012-11-09 16:12

3 replies

hey actually, i think it also depends on the number of hours. Here in my country many Telecom Customer Service people lost there hearing because of continuous use of headphones.

2012-11-10 11:16

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2012-11-10 12:20

i believe wearing headsets for too long creates humidity inside the ear, wich leads to infections of the eardrum either that, or use a headset that has holes so air can travel, but as you can see, most CS tournaments kinda force you use closed-ear headsets like the Steelseries 7H , or the on-stage Noise-Cacelling Sennheiser Headsets . so basicly, using closed-headsets for too many consecutive hours could in theory lead to an ear infection.

2012-11-10 14:30

It says it was an infection.

2012-11-09 20:11

get_well

2012-11-09 14:13

I have 50% weaker hearing in my right ear. I just move the volume balance bar to the right from windows audio settings. Then I can hear sounds almost equally loud. :) Try this, GTR!

2012-11-09 14:16

5 replies

Nice solution xD

2012-11-09 14:25

it's an infection, it can get worse.

2012-11-09 14:40

2 replies

And what it has to do with this volume balance thing? Until the surgery I meant...

2012-11-09 14:41

1 reply

What he meant was go see a doctor...

2012-11-09 17:50

Good idea.

2012-11-09 16:11

sad...

2012-11-09 14:17

'he will have to go under the knife in December' The doc must have a lot of guts to knife GeT_RiGhT. He must be Dr. GuT_RiGhT! :P

2012-11-09 14:17

GL with the surgery.

2012-11-09 14:18

GeT_WeLl, Sir

2012-11-09 14:20

Get well GTR

2012-11-09 14:21

youtube.com/watch?v=cjVQ36NhbMk

2012-11-09 14:34

good luck in the surgery

2012-11-09 14:40

oh, gl GTR and get well soon

2012-11-09 14:43

Very bad news... GeT_RiGhT, get well!

2012-11-09 14:45

get well soon!

2012-11-09 14:48

feel better :)

2012-11-09 14:56

Get well soon you little drama queen

2012-11-09 15:20

get well soon!!!

2012-11-09 15:21

gl in the surgery!

2012-11-09 15:44

omg ;O good luck

2012-11-09 15:52

sad for gtr, but gl!

2012-11-09 16:07

Good Luck GTR!

2012-11-09 16:11

Funny to see comments like "playing too much CS has these consequences." That makes no sense because the article says it's caused by an infection. Infection can be many things and not just eardrum's exposure to high amplitude sound pressure levels (SPL). Even, uneven bone development near your ear can cause hearing loss, it's caused by an infection, it can be anything.

2012-11-09 16:19

8 replies

Using headphones too much helps create a nice, cozy environment for bacteria and viruses to grow. Lots of nice humidity and warmth, and reduced air circulation. So that could very well have been a major contributing cause for the infection.

2012-11-09 16:31

7 replies

Possibly, although many other people also operate in similar circumstances a this doesn't happen that often to them. Call centres use even shittier headphones and are worn for longer durations. While this could be a cause and can not be ruled out as one, it seems very unlikely. There are greater chances of other infections taking place compared to what you mentioned.

2012-11-09 16:40

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But it does happen. And call centres use better quality headphones for the purpose(and tbh, they are probably better than overpriced junk like Steelseries, Razer etc). And, what I wrote was that it CONTRIBUTES by creating a nice environment for bacteria and viruses to thrive. Not to mention that the headphones themselves tend to pick up a lot of gunk.... Scrape with your nail across the cups sometime and you'll see...

2012-11-09 23:41

1 reply

I agree with everything you've said apart from call centres using better quality headphones.

2012-11-10 00:07

that's probably cus people who have to use headphones all day as a job should use Open-Air headphones, instead of Closed-Air Headphones, like the Steelseries 7H for example. however, playing CS in tournaments pretty much forces you to use closed-air because of the ambient sounds.

2012-11-10 14:35

1 reply

Yeah, but he doesn't attend a tournament on a day to day basis.

2012-11-10 15:11

not all headphones have low breathability. I haven't used the steelseries ones, so I can't comment on those. Has more to do with open cup/closed cup & ear cushion material. "Headphones and ear infections" to my knowledge, is more of a wives' tale. There are cases where...someone didn't realize the plastic ear tips to their headphones became dislodged in their ear and later caused an infection. But just "listening to headphones" isn't likely to cause an infection.

2012-11-09 21:54

1 reply

If you carefully read what I wrote, I didn't state that they caused it, I stated that it HELPED cause it by creating a nice environment for it. Not to mention that no matter what headphones you have, the headphones WILL pick up a lot of gunk. Just scrape your nail over the cups and cushions sometime....

2012-11-09 23:42

why wouldn't HeatoN play?

2012-11-09 16:26

1 reply

It probably has a lot in common with that it's around christmas time

2012-11-09 18:30

I wish you the best Alesund!

2012-11-09 16:27

get well soon mate , hope it won't become worse.

2012-11-09 16:31

why nip wouldn't get stand-in for gtr -_-

2012-11-09 16:58

OMG! Good Luck in the surgery, Christopher.

2012-11-09 16:58

Im surprised that in 142 comments, only like 10 are retarded with things like "rip gtr" etc. Guess this community is only 100% retard and/or braindead when it comes to cs:go.

2012-11-09 17:01

3 replies

You're statement doesn't make sense

2012-11-09 20:04

2 replies

1.6 audiance is super immature and has 0 common sense when it comes to a simple new game launching, like GO (as i said). I was surprised people kept their composure and actually went full respectfull and mature towards such a severe condition as the one gtr has, makes sense now ?

2012-11-09 20:23

1 reply

They can be mature for one things, and be completely selfish,ignorant and retardeds in others

2012-11-15 10:27

Good luck Chris!

2012-11-09 17:02

2 replies

I hear ya' :)

2012-11-10 01:27

1 reply

hiihi

2012-11-10 16:04

GeT_WeLl soon pro

2012-11-09 17:06

Good LUCK!!!

2012-11-09 17:12

Good luck man, all will be well

2012-11-09 17:14

2012-11-09 17:17

Good luck! get well soon, Nip needs you full healthy

2012-11-09 17:18

you will be get right man god bless you

2012-11-09 17:23

GeT_kNifeD wish you a full recovery:)

2012-11-09 17:25

First when I read the title I thought its his wrist. I hope you win this knife round Chris!

2012-11-09 17:32

gl get well

2012-11-09 17:43

cs didnt cause this. gl man

2012-11-09 17:51

GL ;)

2012-11-09 18:01

that's what you get when you use headphones all day long

2012-11-09 18:15

instant healthshot! gl gl wish the best result in the surgery!

2012-11-09 18:36

oh, gl gtr!

2012-11-09 18:39

omg.. GLGLGL BRO

2012-11-09 18:52

Sad situation.. Hope it goes well and he recovers..

2012-11-09 19:04

2012-11-09 19:10

how do you still play this well with 45% hearing loss in one ear?! i guess someone with those conditions would feel disoriented from time to time and that can affect concentration =O. Get well soon!

2012-11-09 19:47

1 reply

I thought exactly the same mate :D Still pwning like a boss.

2012-11-09 20:44

good luck out there ninja!

2012-11-09 19:48

what if told you... Nip won ESWC with a half deaf player

2012-11-09 19:49

GeT_WeLl_SoOn :)

2012-11-09 19:50

GL!

2012-11-09 19:56

He said in his vlog that this was something he'd been keeping between him, his family, his girlfriend, and his teammates... So HLTV.org makes a news post about it.

2012-11-09 20:02

3 replies

as long as it's in a vlog it's not between him and his family..

2012-11-09 20:05

Everyone at HLTV is one big family. Apart from the Saucers, and the rest of the split :P Some dysfunctional family eh!

2012-11-09 20:43

1 reply

ahahhah yeah that's true, but some sourcers are actually cool :)

2012-11-09 23:28

GeT_Well_SooN <3

2012-11-09 20:17

Get_well Get well soon gtr! Need you back in action buddy! Giving all the other teams a chance at least :P

2012-11-09 20:40

3 replies

You seriously are rly weird man.. have any explenation?

2012-11-09 20:57

2 replies

What's weird about that mate? Besides, blame my hormones :P

2012-11-09 21:01

1 reply

Haha yea that could be it man. keep it real and put more effort in your own game in stead of pro gamers :P

2012-11-09 22:03

wish u nothing but a full recovery.. get well soon bro, good luck!

2012-11-09 20:41

hope it goes well get_right.

2012-11-09 21:28

still top rating in ESWC with 1 ear :D

2012-11-09 21:54

Get well GTR :)

2012-11-09 21:59

good luck!

2012-11-09 23:15

Really? My comment was deleted because I trashed abit on SteelSeries headsets? Not to mention, I said "just kidding" or something, Whats wrong with that, there is 1000's of trolls writing way worser things and dont say "Just kidding" afterwords. Prrryd Got Sensored by: HLTV.org -.-

2012-11-09 23:24

6 replies

You trashed them and nothing else. Thus it ended up deleted. Next time avoid your trashing and most likely all will be fine.

2012-11-09 23:53

2 replies

Get your facts right, I trashed them, said I was just kidding and then I said get well gtr, if I remember everything correctly. and what if I would use steelseries headset and got earinfection, and I would write it, would it be removed again? just hypothetically speaking.

2012-11-10 03:23

1 reply

Are you sure it is me who has to get the facts right? As said, there was just trashing and nothing else in your message. No, no saying that you were just kidding. Not that it would help anyway as you associate two different things in a pejorative way. If you included best wishes for GeT_RiGhT too, well, that did not help to clean the already existing mess. And the same would apply if you cheaply associate you using a SS headset and getting an ear infection. All the sudden SS would be responsable for the personal hygiene of their customers too?

2012-11-10 04:40

Same here. Big minus to HLTV admins

2012-11-10 03:26

my comment got deleted too :P i just asked why they would be writing an article like that and instead of answering they chose to delete it, what a joke

2012-11-10 12:05

1 reply

Seems your joke is better than ours as what you state isn't what your message said. Mock HLTV.org because of what the site decides to post news about isn't just asking. And you know as well as I do.

2012-11-11 01:31

GL GTR : )

2012-11-09 23:53

GeT_RiGhT ;)

2012-11-09 23:54

How can laugh about a health issue? cs player even is a person and this is about your health :/

2012-11-10 00:55

GeT_FiNe

2012-11-10 00:57

1 reply

lovely one

2012-11-10 01:45

i remember spawn had a chest pain in the middle of a match and was moved off stage on a stretcher.

2012-11-10 01:43

>is because he will have to go under the knife in December That's pretty bad wording.

2012-11-10 02:23

I dont like him ,but sad story :(

2012-11-10 02:55

hope he gets right!

2012-11-10 05:09

so much worse things happening in the world and some people here get sad just because of get_right's little infection.. what the fuck?! go to watch life for example in Haiti and you will realise that get_right situation ain't that bad after all

2012-11-10 10:45

12 replies

None of the comments are stating this is the worst that could happen. The people writing here are doing it to show support for GeT_RiGhT. Getting deaf might not be the end of the world, but people that can't feel sympathy for one that risks it are likely to be the ones that causes the end of the world ;)

2012-11-10 11:03

2 replies

Are you serious. Did you even read article? "he may suffer further complications in the future, such as complete loss of hearing in one ear, complete loss of sight in one eye, and loss of smell." He still would hear with one ear, he still would see with one eye and sense of smell isn't really needed in live. Get_right situation isn't bad at all even if (worst happened) he would loose one eye, ear and sense of smell. You should not feel sad for him, you should feel sad for those who actually suffers a lot like most people in Haiti. Those people who can't or don't understand feel sympathy for people who live in places like Haiti (Get_right have things REALLY WELL compared to them) makes this world bad and really bad things really dont change..

2012-11-10 12:02

1 reply

wtf r u talking abt! we do know there r millions of ppl exist with worse case scenario than what get_right is going through but it wouldnt be appropriate to discuss abt all those ppl in here, specially not in this thread.

2012-11-11 11:51

retarded 10-year-old logic

2012-11-10 11:36

So, if you get a disease that may ruin your life. You would just say "Don't pray for me, pray for haiti" to everybody that wants you to get well? OK.

2012-11-10 15:37

2 replies

do you really think that asking other people praying would help you getting better if you get sick?? And my point was also that this thing can't ruin his life. he still will be able to see and hear.

2012-11-10 15:58

1 reply

So you don't want your family to cheer you up when you have a disease? Sure bruh.

2012-11-12 15:31

this is a cs news site not some bbc, retard kid..

2012-11-10 16:11

4 replies

yeah, thats why here should not be news about players little personal issues. We want gaming news, not players' personal life stuff

2012-11-10 16:44

3 replies

it is gaming new, its news about why nip cant participate

2012-11-10 16:47

2 replies

well for example, if f0rest stomach/intestines suddenly doesn't work as fast as normally and he can't defecate/have a shit for example in three days, do you want that this little personal issue is also added to HLTV news? Players little personal issues should not be added to HLTV news.

2012-11-10 17:01

1 reply

Get right not attending event = CSGO news. If hltv said 'oh, he just can't go'. Everyone would be asking why, hence why they told us...

2012-11-15 10:55

Get well GeT_RiGhT.

2012-11-10 14:25

What the fuck is wrong with people.

2012-11-10 14:43

4 replies

Maybe people don't like that HLTV write news about insignificant matters. This is site for gaming news, not for some personal little issues. There are much bigger issues in the world if you really have to write about some issues happened. People want to read about gaming news, not about players little personal issues

2012-11-10 16:15

3 replies

This is a gaming issue, and the issue is Haiti is completely different to this...

2012-11-10 17:26

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well for example, if f0rest stomach/intestines suddenly doesn't work as fast as normally and he can't defecate/have a shit for example in three days and cant play because of that, do you want that this little personal issue is also added to HLTV news? Players little personal issues should not be added to HLTV news.

2012-11-10 18:07

1 reply

lol, u should stay ingame cuz real life is pretty dangerous too, news n shit

2012-11-16 03:17