The Major Is a Sign People Want Me Again - Reflections with Anders 3/3 - CSGO / CS2

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"Anders" Blume, veteran Counter-Strike commentator, is the star of the 495th Episode of 'Reflections'. This is part three of three about Anders's career.

Anders capitalised on the early days of CS:GO to establish himself as "The Voice of Counter-Strike" along with commentary partner Semmler, best known for Bloodline Champions and work with the GD Studio. Barring an early industry tussle over EMS One Katowice 2014, the Dane was a main stay of majors and practically any meaningful CS event talent group.

Famed for being the narrator of some of CS's most hype moments ever it would be his "Are you kidding me?" call of Hiko vs. Dignitas at ESL One Cologne 2014 which quickly caught on and would even haunt Anders with some suggesting he overused the line later.

A bold decision to go with the freshly launched ELEAGUE on Turner's TBS, the US's number one basic cable channel at the time, showed he was willing to push the boundaries of the industry, while it did ruffle some feathers elsewhere. Similarly, he would later be involved with my FLASHPOINT project and Denmark's own BLAST.

Through the years Anders has seen his duo with Semmler come to an end, partnered with Moses as the American transtioned fully from being a desk analyst and in more recent years has worked more closely with the likes of HenryG, dinko and now ddk.

Nobody in CS:GO or CS2 history has worked more significant events than Anders and he remains a fan favourite to this day.

In part two, Anders talks about the Room on Fire project, the potential of working in other games over his career, the impact of Semmler on his career, gambling on ELEAGUE and becoming overtaken by Sadokist and HenryG.

This interview was recorded on the 28th of June, 2025.

► Time-line of topics discussed:
00:00 Embracing new opportunities
03:07 Losing weight
08:14 Accent
09:21 Explain Pimp
14:39 Partnership with Semmler ending
20:10 Time not getting the biggest events
27:18 Getting the major again
29:56 Worked the most S tier events ever
32:07 Casting with ddk back in 2013
34:16 Caster he looked up to the most
34:57 Best technical caster
35:52 Smoothest caster
36:27 Best wordplay
35:54 Funniest
37:42 Most under-rated
38:42 Dream to cast with
40:06 Final words

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