Dev1ce opens up about personal struggles during year-long CS:GO hiatus

Dev1ce is fully back to playing CS:GO after taking a year away from the esports scene while he was with Ninjas in Pyjamas. His last tournament for the Swedish organization was at IEM Winter in December 2021 and he didn’t play in an event again before December 2022, when he had already rejoined Astralis, the organization he helped win four Majors between 2017 and 2019.

To this day, little information was given on why dev1ce didn’t play for NiP throughout 2022. The CS:GO star told fans in December 2021 that he was dealing with mental health issues due to personal problems and the pressure of competing, and urged the media to respect his privacy during his leave from NiP. It was only yesterday that dev1ce opened up about the struggles that made him step away from NiP’s lineup at the end of 2021 and not compete anymore until December 2022.