Biography

Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz (known as device and devve prior to 2016) (born September 8, 1995) is an inactive Danish professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and former professional Counter-Strike: Source player who is currently on medical leave in Ninjas in Pyjamas. He is known as one of the best players of all time, consistently playing at a very high individual level since 2014.

During his 5-year tenure with Astralis from January 2016, when the organization was founded by the Team Questionmark players, to April 2021, when he was acquired by NIP, dev1ce won four Majors, earned the MVP award at two of them, and won numerous other tournaments and MVP awards.

2013
Reedtz’s first official CS:GO debut was with the Swedish team Fnatic as a temporary stand-in in March 2013 in the ESL Major Series One – Spring 2013: Cup – No. 4 . After that, he started in the Copenhagen Wolves team[5] with Nico, Cajunb, Dupreeh and Fetish. He won several small events with Copenhagen Wolves and in the DreamHack Winter 2013, the biggest event in 2013, he finished at fifth to eighth place.[citation needed

2014
In February 2014 he was hired by the United Kingdom organization Team Dignitas with cajunb, dupreeh, Xyp9x and FeTiSh[8] (Fetish was replaced with Karrigan in December 2014. Dev1ce played well with this team but never won first place in any tournament; they often won third place. He claimed the 20th place in a top 20 CS:GO players in the world of 2014.

2015
In 2015, with the same lineup, they switched to the American organization Team SoloMid (TSM).Dev1ce started with the new organization and competed in many tournaments and won the top place. He finished the year being number 3 out of the top 20 players in the world on HLTV.org.

2016-2018
At the end of 2015, dev1ce and teammates separated from Team SoloMid and continued without any organization with the same teammates in the team named Question Mark.[14] In January 2016, they created their own organization called “Astralis”.[15] At the end of 2016, he claimed the 3rd place in top a 20 players in the world of 2016.[16] In 2017, Astralis won the major tournament ELEAGUE Major 2017[17][18] and claimed the 1st team ranking in the world in 2017 and have been so throughout most of 2018 on HLTV.org.Device placed – No. 2 in 2018, surpassing GeT_RiGhT’s record for the most tournament MVP’s earned in a single year (6 in 2013), earning his seventh at the ECS S6 Finals.

2019–present
Dev1ce won four Major titles with Astralis and two MVP titles at the FACEIT Major: London 2018 and the StarLadder Major: Berlin 2019.[23] On 23 April 2021 he joined Ninjas in Pyjamas (NIP).

Reedtz was named listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe: Sports & Games in 2020

CS:GO

CS:GO Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO for short) is a computer game from the genre of online tactical shooters. It was developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment and is the fourth part of the Counter-Strike series. The game was released on August 21, 2012 for Windows, Linux, macOS, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. A release for the PlayStation 3 in Europe failed to materialize for unknown reasons. Global Offensive achieved a Metascore of 83 points. Since September 14, 2017, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has also been available in China via the Perfect World client. In December 2018, the game was switched to a free-to-play model, which drew criticism.