18 Facts About Anders Blume

Anders Blume was born on December 7,1985 and is a Danish Counter-Strike commentator and co-founder of RoomOnFire.

Anders Blume has been present as a caster at all of the Valve sponsored CS:GO Majors, with the exception of EMS One Katowice 2014.

Anders Blume has worked for a wide variety of tournament organisers including Electronic Sports League, Dreamhack and Gfinity.

Anders Blume was unsatisfied with how they described the game, in particular their failure to acknowledge the use of flashes, smoke, and grenades as a tactical element.

Anders Blume had his first live-streamed cast in January 2013 on a Twitch channel called pugcasts.

Anders Blume's popularity grew quickly and he was invited to join NiPTV, a branch of the Ninjas in Pyjamas organisation.

Anders Blume began to cast at LAN events soon after.

Anders Blume's first event was a local Danish event called the Blast 2013.

In July 2014, Anders Blume officially left NiPTV to build his own brand, RoomOnFire, alongside Semmler.

In 2019, after former Fifflaren and other former people associated with NiP spoke out about disagreements with the organisation, Anders Blume publicly supported people with knowledge to speak up.

Anders Blume has been referred to as the voice of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive due to his overwhelming presence as a commentator for the game.

Anders Blume picked up the nickname of "The General" after the ESL One Katowice 2015 major due to the large collection of CS:GO related pins he had attached to the blazer he was wearing at the event.

In 2015, Anders Blume won the Golden Joystick award for esports icon of the year.

In 2018, Anders Blume was nominated for Best Esports Host by The Game Awards, losing out to Sjokz.

At the beginning of his career, Anders Blume was the target of criticism from people "for not living up to the high standards set by Counter-Strike stalwarts Joe Miller and Paul Chaloner".

Anders Blume attended the University of Copenhagen to study physics before transferring to biology and then finally English; he eventually dropped out.

Anders Blume spent his childhood in the small suburb of Farum.

Anders Blume has since described one train journey home from Copenhagen after one such session in the summer of 1999 to be an especially treasured childhood memory.