fnatic star Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer has been featured on The Players' Tribune contributing a post about his life as an esports player.

Founded by baseball legend Derek Jeter in 2014, The Players' Tribune is a website that aims to give professional athletes a platform where they can connect directly with fans by publishing first-person stories.

Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer is the first Counter-Strike player to share his story on The Players' Tribune, joining SK Telecom T1 prodigy Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok and Echo Fox owner Rick Fox as the esports personalities to have been featured on the website.

olofmeister opens his heart on The Players' Tribune

In his article, the fnatic star talks about his wrist injury, which forced him out of action for several months in 2016, his early days as a competitive player and his thoughts on winning a Major and being part of an esports ecosystem that has grown exponentially in recent years.

Below you can find a snippet of the article:

"In March 2014, that opportunity came. Katowice, Poland, hosted a major Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament. I was playing for LGB eSports at the time. We weren’t a huge name, but we had had some impressive results leading up to that tournament. In the quarterfinals, we went up against one of the best teams in the world, Fnatic. "We were definitely the underdog, but everyone on our team just clicked. We were playing the best Counter-Strike of our lives and we won. I think we caught them off guard, a bit. To be honest, I think we caught the entire CS:GO scene off guard. People who weren’t really sure about our talents became our biggest fans. "We lost in the semis to Virtus.pro, but it hardly mattered. We had arrived. People knew our team, and they knew my name, too. That weekend I saw what I could become. But more important, I saw what Counter-Strike could become."

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