karrigan — Finn Andersen

On June 21, 2026, Finn "karrigan" Andersen won his second Counter-Strike Major. Winning two is rare enough by itself. What makes this one different is the number attached to it: 36 years and 68 days old, the oldest anyone has ever been when a Major trophy landed in their hands. He had already set that exact record once, back in 2022. Somebody else took it from him in between.

That somebody is Nicolas "apEX" Doucet, the Team Vitality in-game leader. karrigan set the oldest-winner mark first, at PGL Major Antwerp 2022, aged 32 years and 42 days. That win dethroned Astralis legend Zeus, whose PGL Kraków 2017 title had held the record since. apEX then broke karrigan's mark in 2025 at the BLAST.tv Austin Major, four months older than karrigan had been. Fourteen months later, karrigan took it back by almost four years.

Nobody else in Counter-Strike has set this specific record, lost it, and won it back. karrigan and apEX have effectively been racing each other in reverse for four years, competing to be the oldest man standing on a Major stage. Right now, karrigan is winning that race again.

karrigan was born Finn Andersen on April 14, 1990, to a German mother and a Danish father. He started competing online around 2006, in the DSRack Counter-Strike 1.6 scene, years before most of today's CS2 rosters were born.

What sets his background apart from almost every other top CS2 player is what he was doing off the server. In 2015, while already a professional player, karrigan graduated from Copenhagen Business School with a dual master's degree in Business Administration and Auditing. Most of the game's biggest names turned pro as teenagers and never looked back at formal education. karrigan built a career and a business degree at the same time, and teammates and coaches have pointed to that structured way of thinking as part of why he ended up calling the game instead of just fragging in it.

karrigan's rise through Danish Counter-Strike ran through Copenhagen Wolves, Team Dignitas, and Team SoloMid before he joined fnatic in March 2012, picking up his first real trophies as CS:GO replaced 1.6 as the competitive standard. A short loan to Astralis in October 2016 sat in the middle of a career built on short stints, and it previewed the organization he would later help beat from the outside.

The pattern across these years was consistent: solid individual results, restless roster movement, and a growing reputation for organizing a team's strategy better than he organized his own career path. HLTV ranked him the 8th-best player in the world in 2011, proof he could frag before anyone knew him purely as a caller.

karrigan joined mousesports in the mid-2010s and helped the German-based org win two S-Tier titles in late 2019, the CS:GO Asia Championships and the ESL Pro League Season 10 finals, both as in-game leader rather than star rifler. That stretch cemented his move away from being judged on kills.

FaZe Clan brought him in for a first stint that produced two more S-Tier trophies in 2017, the ELEAGUE Premier and the Esports Championship Series Season 4 finals, but no Major. The pattern of winning almost everything except the tournament that mattered most was already forming, four years before Antwerp.

karrigan returned to FaZe Clan in 2021, and the second stint delivered what the first one couldn't. FaZe beat Natus Vincere 2-0 in the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 grand final, and karrigan became the first in-game leader ever to win a Major with a genuinely international roster, one built from players across five different countries rather than a single national talent pipeline. Every Major-winning team before that had been built around one country's core.

The same roster followed it with IEM Katowice and IEM Cologne titles later that year, then an Intel Grand Slam Season 4 win in 2023 worth $1,000,000 split among five players. By the time FaZe's core started to age out, karrigan had more than 20 S-Tier tournament wins to his name, including two of those titles being Majors and one being that Grand Slam.

Even that $1,000,000 Grand Slam payout, split five ways, doesn't put karrigan near the top of the sport's career-earnings list. For where he actually ranks against the rest of the scene, see our breakdown of the highest earning CS2 and CSGO players.

karrigan left FaZe Clan in 2026 after five years across two stints, as reports connected him to the Saudi-backed Team Falcons project. He signed with Falcons in April 2026, joining after the roster lock for IEM Cologne had already passed, which meant he entered the tournament as a substitute. It's an unusual footnote for a Major-winning in-game leader: because of that substitute designation, he didn't receive the in-game autograph sticker full roster members get for that event.

Sixty-one days after signing, Falcons swept FURIA 3-0 in the Cologne grand final, taking Mirage, Anubis, and Inferno by an identical 13-8 scoreline on each map. It was the first Major trophy in Falcons' history and karrigan's second, arriving faster than almost any veteran signing has paid off at this level of the sport. Nikola "NiKo" Kovač, one of his new teammates, called it eleven years of competing and twenty years of playing building to that single moment, a description that fits karrigan's own two-decade arc just as well.

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karrigan isn't on Falcons for his aim. His individual numbers have trailed the rest of his rosters for most of the last decade, and nobody, including karrigan, pretends otherwise. What he brings is structure: mid-round calls, matchup planning, and the ability to get several different personalities pointed at the same strategy under tournament pressure.

That's a specific skill, and it means his teams have often looked worse on paper than they performed on LAN. Falcons' Cologne roster carries real firepower in NiKo and Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov, and karrigan's job is less about outdueling opponents himself and more about making sure that firepower gets pointed at the right site at the right time. It's the same role he played at FaZe in 2022, just with different names filling the star slots.

That prize money total covers two decades and three generations of Counter-Strike, from 1.6 through CS2. It is not a full picture of his income, since salary and sponsorships are not public, but it is the only figure that can actually be sourced and checked.

Read that finals record next to the wins record and the career gets more interesting, not less. Six grand finals is the most anyone has played. Four losses in those finals is also the most anyone has taken, tied with four CS:GO-era legends. karrigan is simultaneously one of the winningest and one of the losingest players ever to reach the sport's biggest stage, and both halves of that are true at once. These marks track Liquipedia's records page as of August 2026 and will move again the next time either man plays a Major.

karrigan's setup has stayed close to the same shape for years, built around consistency rather than the fast, flick-heavy sensitivities some rifle-focused stars run. The numbers below are current as of August 2026, cross-checked across public trackers. If you want to see how his setup compares against the rest of the tier-one field, our CS2 pro player settings roundup lines them up side by side.

This is one of the few cases on this site where we can't hand you a single clean number and call it settled. One current tracker lists karrigan at 400 DPI with a 1.4 in-game sensitivity for an eDPI of 560, matching his long-running SteelSeries Rival 3 setup. A separate current tracker lists him on a different mouse entirely, a Razer DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed, at a 1.8 sensitivity or an alternate 800 DPI and 0.9 sensitivity, both landing around 720 eDPI. Both numbers are plausible for a veteran IGL who prizes stability over flicks. We're citing the range instead of picking one, because a false single number would be worse than admitting the trackers don't agree yet.

The crosshair's core shape hasn't moved in years: small, static, no outline, negative gap. What changes across sources is the exact color and length, which tracks with karrigan cycling codes between events rather than any real strategic shift. The video settings are less contested and fit the profile of most veteran pros: 4:3 stretched to widen enemy models slightly, and texture and shader detail dropped to Low to protect frame rate on his 360Hz panel.

How old is karrigan?

Finn Andersen was born on April 14, 1990, making him 36. That makes him the oldest active Major champion in Counter-Strike.

How many Majors has karrigan won?

Two: PGL Major Antwerp 2022 with FaZe Clan, and IEM Cologne Major 2026 with Team Falcons.

What team does karrigan play for now?

Team Falcons, which he joined in April 2026 after leaving FaZe Clan.

Why didn't karrigan get a Cologne Major sticker?

He signed with Falcons after the roster lock deadline for the event, so he played as a substitute rather than a full roster member, and substitutes don't receive that event's in-game autograph sticker.

What are karrigan's CS2 settings?

400 DPI with an in-game sensitivity that public trackers put between 1.4 and 1.8, for an eDPI between 560 and 720, on a 1280x960 stretched 4:3 resolution, with a small static crosshair. See the settings section above for the full breakdown and why the exact number is contested.

Did karrigan really study business while playing professionally?

Yes. He graduated from Copenhagen Business School in 2015 with a dual master's degree in Business Administration and Auditing while already competing at the top level of Counter-Strike.