I’ve always been into real sports such as hockey, I played myself for many years and fell in love with the competition aspect of the sport, winning felt so good, and losing made you wanna win even more. When I found out that competing in games individually or as a team, actually was a thing, I immediately got interested and started to play myself.

In 2013 before the first major (DHW13) in CS:GO I got approached by an old friend and former 1.5 and 1.6 movie making mentor, Markus Andersson, most of the community knows him as Xenoq, creator of the JAEGARN series. He had seen some of my hobby edits of CS:GO and liked what he saw. He asked me if I wanted to co-create the trailer for the tournament. Obviously I said yes and later on I got asked to work in production for the event, editing highlight segments for the live stream. Go figure, I said yes to that too



Daniel "Xyanide" Hagelin (left), Perra "Akidos" Andersen (centre) and Markus "Xenoq" Andersson (right), DreamHack Cluj-Napoca 2015.

I’m a bit torn here, when Markus and I made the trailer for the second DreamHack Major (DHW14), and I got hired to do interviews with the pros as well as to edit highlights for the live stream again on site, I was really proud and I really felt that this was something I could see myself do full time. Unfortunately they couldn’t hire me for DreamHack Summer 2015 and I resorted to work for free with one goal in sight; I was gonna meet the CEO of NiP at the time to discuss a potential opening as the video content creator for the organization. Their former guy, Kevin 'Tweeday' Tweedale had announced his departure and I was eager to get his job when he left. I had a meeting with the NiP CEO during DHS15 and one month later I was employed part time by Ninjas in Pyjamas. Six months later I got my full time contract and the rest is history.



Actually not much, when Valve announced the release of CS:GO as well as NiP making a triumphant return, my former passion for CS started to return after four years absence from the scene, and I created a few smaller videos that really didn’t get much attention at all. I guess I showed them to the right people. Being “old school” apparently has its advantages.

With the risk of sounding like a cliche, I have to say that being able to do this and also live in a house with my girlfriend and two kids is the favourite place esports has taken me. But, regarding trips or events, MLG Columbus will forever mean a lot. So much chaos with player visas and the new lineup(at the time) and the only solution was for Björn (Threat) to fill pyth’s ( Jacob "pyth" Mourujärvi

My favorite aspect of the scene is that it’s constantly evolving and getting bigger and bigger. It’s easy for me and many others who have been around during the most part of CS:GO’s history to see this. Just look at the viewership of the first major compared to the latest. This is a ride I’m looking forward to spending many many years on.



The person I have chosen to kick start this series is a man who over my years atquickly became one of my best friends in esports.To give my background on him, he is an incredibly hard worker, it would be next to impossible to find somebody with a bad word to say about him. He puts his heart and soul into his work, he lives and breathes the game, he is the definition of true believer. His name is Perra "Akidos" Andersen, he is the video director at Ninjas in Pyjamas and a wizard with Sony Vegas.In order to get to know the people I will talk to in this series, I have put together a set of questions that hope to tell a story of where they came from, how and why they got into this scene and what their favourite aspects of it are.So, now you know the story to date of Akidos, apart from the fact that he likes banana on pizza (I know, weirdo). But if you'd like to keep up with him and where he goes in the future, his social links are below.I plan to run why we do it as a series, reaching out to all of the personalities in the scene who are yet to fully tell their story who make the games so easy for us to enjoy. From movie makers, to admins, to CEOs, I'd love to hear your suggestions and maybe we can learn their story too.