Karrigan

Finn Andersen (born April 14, 1990), better known as karrigan, is a Danish Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) player who is the in-game leader for mousesports.[1][2] He has also played for other teams including Fnatic, Team Dignitas, Team SoloMid, Astralis, FaZe Clan and Team Envy. Andersen was a founding member of Astralis, a player-owned team established in 2015. He began playing competitively in 2006 during the Counter-Strike 1.6 era.

"Finn Andersen" redirects here. For the Secretary General of Danish Cultural Institute, see Finn Andersen (politician).
karrigan
Finn Andersen
Personal information
Born (1990-04-14) April 14, 1990
HometownOdense
NationalityDanish
Career information
StatusActive
GamesCounter-Strike: Global Offensive, Counter-Strike 1.6
RoleIGL/Support
Career history
2012; 2013Fnatic
2012–2013mousesports
2014Copenhagen Wolves
2014–2015Team Dignitas
2015Team SoloMid
2016Astralis
2016–2018FaZe Clan
2018–2019Team Envy
2019–presentmousesports

Early and personal life

Andersen was born on April 14, 1990 and is from Copenhagen. He is of half Danish and half German descent and speaks Danish and German fluently, as well as English.

Karrigan's brother started playing Counter-Strike around 2001 and soon afterwards he was introduced to the game. Karrigan was playing competitively by 2006 and 2007 and on November 5, 2010 he joined Full-Gaming, whose teammates included Michael “Friis” Jørgensen and Timm “ArcadioN” Henriksen.[3]

In 2015 he finished a dual Master's Degree in business administration and auditing from Copenhagen Business School.[2] He currently resides in Aarhus.[2]

Career

Karrigan joined fnatic around March 25, 2012 and the team won many tournaments that year.[3] With the advent of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene he joined mousesports because "the offer they gave me was really good", and he felt like the Fnatic lineup did not have what it took to be successful in the new title.

Karrigan left Copenhagen Wolves and joined the Denmark-based roster of North American organization Team SoloMid.[3][4]

On January 25, 2015 Team SoloMid picked up Team Dignitas' CS roster.[5] In July SoloMid placed 3-4th the year's second Major, ESL One Cologne 2015. In October TSM got 5-8th at the last Major, DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015.

TSM's CS:GO roster left the organization on December 3, 2015 amid internal troubles.[6] For the next few tournaments the team competed under the name "Team Question Mark". On January 9, 2016 Team Question Mark unveiled the new organization they created, Astralis, because of a desire to have a "stable environment" in eSports.[7] The organization was registered as an Anpartsselskab (ApS) and received venture capital from Sunstone Capital, and is angel invested by entrepreneur Tommy Ahlers.

On June 5, 2016 he was denied entry into the United States to compete in the group stage of ELeague Season 1 due to new rules regarding Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) travel because he had been to Iran within the last five years.[8] During the matches he missed the team used coach Danny "Zonic" Sørensen in his place.[9] Astralis got 3-4th at the MLG Major Championship: Columbus in March. In July they got 5-8th at second Major, ESL One Cologne 2016.

Karrigan transferred to FaZe Clan on October 19, 2016.[10]

Tournament results

Bold denotes a CS:GO Major

Excello
  • 5-8th — DreamHack Summer 2008

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Reason Gaming

Copenhagen Wolves

Mousesports
  • 9-16th — DreamHack Winter 2014 - European Closed Qualifier
  • 9-12th — ESWC 2014
  • 1st — CSGO Asia Championship 2019
  • 1st — ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals [Road To Odense] 2019
  • 9-11th - Starladder Major Berlin 2019

Team Dignitas

Team SoloMid

Astralis

FaZe Clan
  • 1st - ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2017
  • 1st - ESL One New York 2017
  • 5-8th - ELEAGUE Major 2017
  • 2nd — Intel Extreme Masters XI - World Championship
  • 1st — StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 3
  • 3-4th - Intel Extreme Masters XI - Oakland
  • 3-4th - ESL One Cologne 2017
  • 15-16th - PGL 2017 Kraków Major Championship
  • 2nd - ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018
  • 2nd - Intel Extreme Masters - Katowice
  • 1st - Intel Extreme Masters - Sydney
  • 3-4th - ECS Season 5 Finals
  • 1st - ESL One Belo Horizonte 2018

References
  1. Sport1.de. "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: Karrigan und sein Jahr bei TSM". Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  2. "25-årige Finn lever fedt af at spille computerspil". DR.dk. Archived from the original on 2016-12-09. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  3. "Karrigan: Turning TSM around - 1337 Magazine". 27 July 2015. Archived from the original on 13 June 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  4. "Official: CPH Wolves change three". Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  5. "Team SoloMid pick up dignitas". Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  6. "Team SoloMid's Counter-Strike team leaves org, seeks European franchise". 3 December 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  7. "Team Question Mark form Astralis". Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  8. "Astralis captain Karrigan is denied visa waiver to the U.S." 5 June 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  9. "Astralis to use coach Zonic in place of Karrigan for ELEAGUE bow". 7 June 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  10. http://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/17835554/global-offensive-teams-astralis-faze-clan-transfer-karrigan-faze-eleague-season-2
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