Anders Blume
| Anders Blume | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 7, 1985 Denmark |
| Nationality | Denmark |
| Occupation | Counter-Strike: Global Offensive commentator |
| Years active | 2013–present |
Anders Blume (born December 7, 1985), is a Danish Counter-Strike: Global Offensive commentator and co-founder of RoomOnFire. He has been present as a caster at all of the Valve Corporation sponsored CS:GO Majors, with the exception of EMS One Katowice 2014. He has worked for a wide variety of tournament organisers including Electronic Sports League (ESL), Dreamhack and Gfinity. He is more often than not paired with Auguste 'Semmler' Massonnat, also a co-founder of RoomOnFire, for his casts. He is famous for his energetic casts, including the use of what has become his catchphrase, "Are you kidding me?". In 2015, he won the Golden Joystick award for eSports icon of the year.
Blume's entry into commentary stemmed from his dissatisfaction with the commentators at the time he played the game. He 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.
Blume had his first livestreamed cast in January 2013 on a Twitch.tv channel called pugcasts. His popularity grew quickly and he was soon invited to join NiPTV, a branch of the Ninjas in Pyjamas organisation. He began to cast at LAN events soon after. His first event was a local Danish event called the Blast 2013. Soon after this, Anders had his first major break at a large event with his selection as a commentator for DreamHack Summer 2013. At the time, the event had the second highest prize-pool in the game's history. Another commentator at the event, Auguste Massonnat, would go on to become a regular fixture of any NiPTV broadcast. No one would suspect that this duo would turn out to be one of the most successful casting duos in Counter-Strike history. There is rarely an event where one appears without the other.
To date, Anders has been part of the main commentary team for four out of the seven finals at the Valve sponsored majors. As such he was part of the commentary of the match with the highest concurrent viewer count, the final of ESL One Cologne 2015 between Fnatic and Team EnVyUs which hit over 1.3 million online viewers and had around 10,000 people live in the Lanxess Arena.
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