Karrigan
Introduction
Finn Andersen (born April 14, 1990), better known as Karrigan, is a Danish Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who is the in-game leader for FaZe Clan. Andersen is considered one of the best players in the world. He has also played for other teams including n!faculty, Team Dignitas, Team SoloMid, Copenhagen Wolves, fnatic, and mousesports. Karrigan 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.
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.
In 2015 he finished a master's degree a dual Master's Degree in business administration and auditing from Copenhagen Business School. He currently resides in Aarhus.
Career
Karrigan joined fnatic around March 25, 2012 and the team won many tournaments that year. 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.
On January 25, 2015 Team SoloMid picked up Team Dignitas' CS roster. 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. 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. 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. During the matches he missed the team used coach Danny "Zonic" Sørensen in his place. 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.
Tournament results
Bold denotes a CS:GO Major
Excello
- 5-8th — DreamHack Summer 2008
!nfaculty
- 9-12th — DreamHack Winter 2013
Reason Gaming
- 9-12th — EMS One Katowice 2014
Copenhagen Wolves
- 9-16th — ESL One Cologne 2014
Mousesports
- 9-16th — DreamHack Winter 2014 - European Closed Qualifier
- 9-12th — ESWC 2014
Team Dignitas
- 3rd — MLG X Games Aspen Invitational
Team SoloMid
- 5-8th — ESL One Katowice 2015
- 3-4th — ESL One Cologne 2015
- 5-8th — DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015
Astralis
- 3-4th — MLG Major Championship: Columbus
- 5-8th — ESL One Cologne 2016
- 5-8th — ELeague Season 1