Finn “karrigan” Andersen has spent the better part of two decades proving that competitive Counter-Strike isn’t a young person’s game. On June 22, he made that argument bulletproof, lifting the trophy at the IEM Cologne Major 2026 and becoming just the fifth player in history to win a Major in both CS:GO and CS2.
He did it at 36 years old, making him the oldest Major champion the game has ever seen.
A clean sweep in Cologne
Team Falcons didn’t just win the IEM Cologne Major. They made it look easy. The grand final against FURIA ended 3-0, a scoreline that left little room for debate about who the best team in the world was that weekend.
The victory earned Falcons $500,000 and, more importantly, the organization’s first-ever Major title. For a team that karrigan had joined only roughly 61 days before the tournament, the result was nothing short of remarkable.
