{"id":7451,"date":"2023-10-24T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/nip-replace-hampus-with-es3tag"},"modified":"2023-10-24T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:00:34","slug":"nip-replace-hampus-with-es3tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/nip-replace-hampus-with-es3tag\/","title":{"rendered":"NIP replace hampus with es3tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Counter-Strike veteran Patrick &#8220;es3tag&#8221; Hansen has returned from the bench to the active Ninjas in Pyjamas CS roster.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old athlete will replace Hampus &#8220;hampus&#8221; Poser, who was the in-game leader of the squad. hampus replaced Aleksi &#8220;Aleksib&#8221; Virolainen on the team this past summer. He did not gain any significant success as the IGL of NIP and goes to the bench.<\/p>\n<p>es3tag joined NIP in 2021 and before he was benched at the end of 2022, he led the team to four top-four finishes in Tier 1 competitions.<\/p>\n<p>During this year&#8217;s gap, he played with FaZe Clan as a substitute during the qualifications for BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023. FaZe played in the Finals without him and finished only at the 5th-6th place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NIP CS2 starting roster currently is:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fredrik &#8220;REZ&#8221; Sterner<\/li>\n<li>Patrick &#8220;es3tag&#8221; Hansen<\/li>\n<li>Ludvig &#8220;Brollan&#8221; Brolin<\/li>\n<li>Danyyl &#8220;headtr1ck&#8221; Valitov<\/li>\n<li>Kristian &#8220;k0nfig&#8221; Wienecke<\/li>\n<li>Daniel &#8220;djL&#8221; Narancic (Coach) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"_1VPbNXp6UZ1K-ChQg-UhsA==\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counter-Strike veteran Patrick &#8220;es3tag&#8221; Hansen has returned from the bench to the active Ninjas in Pyjamas CS roster. The 27-year-old athlete will replace Hampus &#8220;hampus&#8221; Poser, who was the in-game leader of the squad. hampus replaced Aleksi &#8220;Aleksib&#8221; Virolainen on the team this past summer. He did not gain any significant success as the IGL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":7452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[138],"class_list":{"0":"post-7451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-ninjas-in-pyjamas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}