{"id":12515,"date":"2022-09-09T16:53:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T16:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/aleksib-to-replace-plopski-in-ninjas-in-pyjamas"},"modified":"2022-09-09T16:53:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T16:53:31","slug":"aleksib-to-replace-plopski-in-ninjas-in-pyjamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/aleksib-to-replace-plopski-in-ninjas-in-pyjamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleksib to replace Plopski in Ninjas in Pyjamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish esports organization Ninjas in Pyjamas has signed a Finnish professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player Aleksi &#8220;Aleksib&#8221; Virolainen.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old esportsman came to NIP from G2 Esports, where he has been playing since January this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/aleksib-to-looking-for-a-new-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He started to find a new team<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n<p>To make room for Aleksib, NIP has benched Nicolas &#8220;Plopski&#8221; Gonzalez Zamora, who has performed for the team since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>NIP management also announced that Aleksib would be the new in-game leader and the squad would use English for communication. Before the appearance of Alexib, the NIP&#8217;s CS:GO roster included Swedes and a Dane (Danish is close to Swedish).<\/p>\n<p class=\"_3f4ivU+NDDYIgGWpcriHGw==\">&#8220;Under the leadership of djL [Daniel &#8220;djL&#8221; Narancic, coach], we&#8217;re excited to see how this new constellation of Brollan, REZ, hampus, es3tag &amp; Aleksib will evolve with new roles and ideas, and will continue our quest towards growing into a championship contending team,&#8221; <em>said Jonas Gundersen, COO Ninjas In Pyjamas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aleksib will debut with NIP at IEM Road to Rio RMR in Malta from October 4-9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ninjas in Pyjamas currently are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fredrik &#8220;REZ&#8221; Sterner<\/li>\n<li>Hampus &#8220;hampus&#8221; Poser<\/li>\n<li>Patrick &#8220;es3tag&#8221; Hansen<\/li>\n<li>Ludvig &#8220;Brollan&#8221; Brolin<\/li>\n<li>Aleksi &#8220;Aleksib&#8221; Virolainen (IGL)<\/li>\n<li>Daniel &#8220;djL&#8221; Narancic (coach)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish esports organization Ninjas in Pyjamas has signed a Finnish professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player Aleksi &#8220;Aleksib&#8221; Virolainen. The 25-year-old esportsman came to NIP from G2 Esports, where he has been playing since January this year. He started to find a new team in July. To make room for Aleksib, NIP has benched Nicolas &#8220;Plopski&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":12516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}