Super Smash Bros. competition in 2016 Lindgren started his gaming career in 2003 competing in the Swedish Nintendo Championship. Lindgren came to prominence in
2007 finishing 4th at The Renaissance of Smash 4, his first national tournament. Seven months later, he finished 3rd at Epita Smash Arena 2, the largest tournament in
Europe at the time, defeating top ranked Japanese player, Masashi, before losing to Ryota "Captain Jack" Yoshida. In 2009, Lindgren had firmly established himself as the strongest player in Europe and decided to enter GENESIS, a tournament held in
Antioch, California, which was attended by the best players in the larger and more prominent American community. Many Americans did not expect Lindgren to do well, but he shocked the country by reaching the finals of the tournament, upsetting top American players such as
Mew2King and
Mang0. Lindgren would eventually lose in Grand Finals to Mang0, but GENESIS established Lindgren as a legitimate contender for best in the world and was the start of a prolific rivalry between Lindgren and Mang0. Each passing year, Lindgren was ranked progressively higher. In July 2011, Lindgren won the major tournament at the time, GENESIS 2, defeating number one ranked player, Mang0. Lindgren remained undefeated worldwide for two years until EVO 2013 where he lost the title and 1st rank back to Mang0. After Apex 2013, Lindgren announced his retirement from competitive
Melee although he did return to compete in
EVO 2013, where he placed 4th, losing to PPMD 0–2 in winners' bracket and being eliminated by Mang0 0–2 in losers' semis. He returned to the scene a year later, with B.E.A.S.T, a tournament held in his hometown of Gothenburg which he helped to organize, as his first tournament back. Lindgren also had a fairly short-lived, but very successful career in
Project M, winning Apex 2014's
Project M title by defeating Mew2King in grand finals. On 6 November 2014 he left Empire Arcadia and became sponsored by professional gaming team
Alliance. Lindgren initially showed some interest in
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U stating that he found it considerably different from
Melee and felt that he needed to spend more time playing it, but has not publicly practiced or competed in the game since a short time after its release. Since 2015, Lindgren has switched from using only Peach to both Peach and Fox in tournaments. He cites Fox's ability to put mental pressure on opponents as a reason for this change. Lindgren faced
PPMD in the Grand Finals of
Apex 2015, while coming from the losers bracket, but eventually lost after forcing a bracket reset. Lindgren was the
EVO 2015 Melee champion after defeating
Hungrybox in the Finals. By winning EVO, Lindgren received the largest single prize ever awarded in a
Melee tournament at that time. After winning EVO 2015,
Melee It On Me (MIOM) ranked Lindgren as the best
Melee player for the 2015 Summer SSBMRank, ahead of Leffen and Mang0. At The Big House 5 in
Dearborn, Michigan, Lindgren and his Europe crew lost to SoCal, placing 2nd. In doubles, Lindgren won with his brother Android, beating Mew2King and Hungrybox in Grand Finals. In Singles, he beat Hungrybox 3–2 in Grand Finals to win the tournament. Lindgren was ranked the number one player in the world on the
Melee it On Me (MIOM) year end SSBMRank for 2015. Lindgren continued his tournament success in 2016 and 2017, winning events such as
GENESIS 3, Dreamhack Winter 2016,
GENESIS 4, and
EVO 2017 as well as a multitude of doubles events with his teammate and brother Android. In addition, Lindgren won the first four iterations of the highly prestigious invitational tournament series
Smash Summit. In doing so, Lindgren became the first
Melee player to win the same major tournament series three and four times consecutively. Lindgren's lowest placing in his entire
Melee career, excluding tournaments which he forfeit or did not seriously compete, is 5th place at both Paragon Orlando 2015 and Get On My Level 2016. Lindgren retired from professional
Melee singles tournaments in September 2018, citing declining interest in the game, although he still occasionally enters doubles tournaments teaming with his brother Andreas "Android" Lindgren. He also runs a
YouTube channel with over 117,000 subscribers. ==Personal life==