Friberg (gamer)

Adam Friberg is a Swedish former professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who last played for Dignitas. He is the cousin of Erik Friberg, a footballer who previously played for Seattle Sounders FC.^[1] Friberg previously played for Ninjas in Pyjamas where he won his only CS:GO Major, ESL One Cologne 2014.

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Friberg during Dreamhack Winter 2013
Personal information
Name	Adam Friberg
Nationality	Swedish
Career information
Games	Counter-Strike: Source Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Playing career	2010–2022
Role	Entry fragger
Team history
2012–2017	Ninjas In Pyjamas
2017–2018	OpTic Gaming
2018–2019	Heroic
2020–2022	Dignitas
Career highlights and awards
CS:GO Major champion (Cologne 2014) 2x HLTV Top 20 Player of the Year (2013-2014) HLTV Major MVP (Cologne 2014)

Career

Counter-Strike

Friberg began his professional esports career in 2009 playing for Games4u.se in Counter-Strike: Source.^[2]

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

After playing with several teams from 2010 to 2012, Friberg signed with Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP). During his time with the team, he helped them go on a record 87-map win streak on LAN,^[2] and took home the Major trophy from ESL One Cologne 2014.^[3] On July 31, 2017, Friberg parted ways with the team.^[4]

In August 2017, Friberg signed with OpTic Gaming.^[4]

Friberg signed with team Heroic in May 2018.^[5] In his 18 months with the team, he won several tournaments, including the GG.Bet Sydney Invitational in March and TOYOTA Master CS:GO Bangkok in November 2018. In August 2019, he was released from the team.^[6]

In January 2020, Friberg, along with Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg, Richard "Xizt" Landström, Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund, was signed by Dignitas, reuniting with former NiP teammates, until the team was disbanded in 2022.^[7][8]

Merchandise

In October 2015, NiP in co-operation with Alvesta Glass released an ice cream in Friberg's honor, called "King Of Banana",^[9] referring to his nickname as the "king" of a certain part on a CS:GO map (de_inferno) called "Banana".

References

1. "Twitter conversation between Adam and Erik Friberg". twitter.com. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
2. Smith, Andrew (August 27, 2019). "CS:GO Player Friberg Departs Heroic". TheGamer. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
3. Cropely, Steven (November 23, 2019). "Dignitas looking toward f0rest, friberg, and Xizt to build CS:GO team - report". VPEsports. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
4. Nordmark, Sam (August 21, 2017). "Friberg to compete on new OpTic Gaming roster". Dot Esports. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
5. Biazzi, Leonardo (August 22, 2019). "Fnatic reportedly in talks to sign friberg". Dot Esports. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
6. Geddes, George (August 27, 2019). "Friberg leaves Heroic". Dot Esports. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
7. Cropley, Steven (January 21, 2020). "Dignitas return to CS:GO with f0rest, GeT_RiGht, friberg, Xizt, and hallzerk". VPEsports. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
8. @dignitas (May 10, 2022). "Dignitas CSGO Roster Update" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
9. "King of Banana Ice-Cream Takes Over Sweden". NiP.gl. Archived from the original on 2016-03-15. Retrieved 2016-03-14.