niko

Niklas "niko" Johansson (born December 5, 1986) is a retired Swedish professional Counter-Strike player. He is most known for his time in Eyeballers and H2k.

Biography

Niko started his professional career in the early years of Counter-Strike, more precisely, in 2001. As most of the pros of that time, he started to play with his friends and with some lower tier Swedish teams until he joined Lemondogs in the early months of 2003. He only played a couple tournaments with Lemondogs before joining SpeedLink in 2005. He gained attention after placing second at a couple of tournaments with SpeedLink, such as DreamHack Winter 2005, CPL 2006: Singapore, and EuroCup_XIII. Niko got recruited by Ninjas in Pyjamas in 2007, however, a couple weeks afterwards, he left to join Begrip. He spent his next couple of months with Begrip before officially joining Blank towards the start of 2008. Niko was participating the KoTH tournaments in 2008 that were hosted by SteelSeries. In 2009, Niko announced that he joined H2k 's new roster, but the roster fell apart only a couple of days later. Following the European Nations Champions 2010, he joined LIONS and was with them till the roster was signed in 2012 by Lemondogs. His most notable results with LIONS were the ASUS Open Summer 2010, ESL Pro Series: Nordic - Season 3, and DreamHack Winter 2011. In 2012, Lemondogs signed the former roster of LIONS, but after a few months, Niko and co left to join WinFakt. After Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was released, every professional team moved to the new game, but Niko stated that he will not be moving to the new version of Counter-Strike and that he will retire from competing.

Achievements

Date	Place	Tier	Type		Team	Result		Prize

2012-04-29	1st	C-Tier	Offline	Nordic Masters 2012		2 : 0	(feolb)	$5,952.92
2012-03-09	3rd	S-Tier	Offline	Intel Extreme Masters VI		2 : 1		$8,000
2011-11-27	2nd	S-Tier	Offline	MSI Beat IT! at DreamHack Winter 2011		1 : 2		$7,134.04
2010-11-15	1st	C-Tier	Offline	Inferno-Online League: Season 3 - Qualifier #1		2 : 1		$7,350
2010-08-29	1st	B-Tier	Offline	ASUS Open Summer 2010		2 : 0		$9,790.47
2010-08-22	1st	A-Tier	Online/Offline	European Nations Champions 2010		2 : 0		$7,626.60
2010-07-18	4th	S-Tier	Offline	Arbalet Dallas 2010		1 : 2		$7,000
2010-06-22	2nd	S-Tier	Offline	DreamHack Summer 2010		0 : 2		$3,907.08
2010-04-03	1st	C-Tier	Offline	The Gathering 2010	(Concode)	2 : 0		$8,423.75
2006-09-17	2nd	A-Tier	Offline	2006 CPL Singapore		0 : 2		$5,000
Extended list of results