Anders Blume

In July 2014, Anders officially left NiPTV to build his own brand, RoomOnFire, alongside Semmler. Initially, the only other member of the organization was Halvor "vENdetta" Gulestøl. In the beginning they ran their own weekly online cups in partnership with Caseking.de called the CaseKing of the Hill. These cups ran weekly featuring a variety of different top teams. The series of cups culminated with an eight team online invitational tournament called the CaseKing of Kings.[9] Among the invited were several of the winners of the previous cups.

The duo of Anders and Semmler signed an exclusivity deal with Twitch in April 2015 as part of a larger acquisition of talent including former NiP player Robin "Fifflaren" Johansson and the current Professional player, Spencer "Hiko" Martin.[10]

Semmler revealed on his personal Ask.fm page that the North American section of the organization was being run by Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett, a Canadian commentator who rose to prominence in early 2015 when PGL brought him out to Bucharest to commentate their Kickoff season.[11]

As a method of raising funds and providing a method for the community to support the organization,[12] together with artists known as Hanzo and Coyote, they uploaded a variety of in-game weapon skins to the Steam Workshop. Since then, two of these items have been added to the game.

In 2015 they stopped organizing their own online cups. This was caused by the large number of other online leagues and offline events that happened throughout the year. Top teams lacked the time to participate due to commitments to other larger, leagues.

• Dreamhack Summer 2013[13]
• Dreamhack Winter 2013[13]
• ESL One Katowice 2014[13]
• ESEA Invite Season 16 Global Finals[13]
• ESL One Cologne 2014[13]
• Dreamhack Winter 2014[13]
• ESL One Katowice 2015[13]
• Dreamhack Open Tour 2015[13]
• ESL ESEA Pro League Finals Season 1[13]
• ESL One Cologne 2015[13]
• DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015[13]
• Faceit League Stage 3 Finals at Dreamhack Winter 2015[13]
• TVSYD Championship[13]
• MLG Columbus 2016[13]
• ESL One Cologne 2016[13]
• ELeague Major 2017[13]
• PGL Major: Kraków 2017[13]
• ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018[13]
• FACEIT Major: London 2018[13]
• ESL One Cologne 2019[13]
• StarLadder Major: Berlin 2019[13]
• BLAST Premier Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Global Final 2020[13]

Blume is frequently referred to as the voice of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive[7] due to his overwhelming presence as a commentator for the game. Blume has become a figure of interest partially due to his energetic style of casting, in addition to his deliverance of the phrase "Are you kidding me!". So much so that compilations of him saying it have enjoyed mainstream success on YouTube, with as many as over a million views.

Anders picked up the nickname of "The General" after the ESL One Katowice 2015 major due to the large collection of CS:GO related pins he had attached to the blazer he was wearing at the event. People immediately drew similarity between the pins and medals such that a general might have.

At the beginning of his career, Blume was the target of criticism from people "for not living up to the high standards set by Counter-Strike stalwarts Joe Miller and Paul Chaloner".[14]

Blume spent his childhood in the small suburb of Farum. His interest in gaming developed at a young age, attending late-night Internet cafes with his friends to play Counter-Strike at as young an age as 13 years old. He has since described one train journey home from Copenhagen after one such session in the summer of 1999 to be an especially treasured childhood memory. In his own words, "I think [then] I realized that we really had something with this game."[7]