Xerial

Player Information

Nicknames:

xeri, flingan, Benny, mehmet, Opium

Name:

Benjamin Sjögren

Born:

February 27, 1985 (1985-02-27)

Country:

Sweden

First spawned:

1997

Status:

Active

Clan:

Exodus

History

Exodus

Tribe of Tjernobyl

Osams

Fragomatic

Slackers

The Divines

=X=

Spartacus

Da Imperial Executors

E-tuna Bastardz

After having played mostly Marathon on Mac, Xerial got a PC and discovered Quake in 1997, while reading the PC gamer issue that covered Quake SM '97. He played mostly on local LAN parties in Eskilstuna together with  Ztorm and at that time recently transitioned RQ player  Wretch, who was associated with Clan Tjack. As an HPW he made brief appearances in some clans sporadically and organized local LAN parties in Eskilstuna.

Gaining access to an ISDN connection 98/99, Xerial joined Da Imperial Executors and was taken under the wings of more senior player  Scarym, who trained him to play proper 2on2 on DM6, skills Xerial began to leverage also on other maps shortly thereafter. In 2000, Xerial participated in a small 16 man LAN named dunnolan arranged by  Malo in Uppsala, where he teamed up with  Nikita,  Angua and  Javve under the Spartacus flag. Although no official tournament was held, they had success against Swedish Chefs, Clan Dunno and began playing together online.

Achievements

Year	Place	Event	Mode	With	Prize
2025	A66th	EQL Season 23 Div1	4on4	Exodus
2025	A11st	UppsaLAN 2 Mix	4on4	The Good Guys
2008	A33rd	EQL Season 7 Div1	4on4	Sega Gubbar
2006	A11st	NQR Season 9 Div2	4on4	Osams
2005	A11st	SD Season 6	4on4	Fragomatic
2005	A33rd	QHLAN 8	4on4	Slackers
2004	A33rd	QW.nu povdmm4	1on1
2004	A22nd	NQR Season 7 Div1	4on4	Slackers
2004	A11st	Quakeworld World Championships Captain	4on4	Swedish National Team
2004	A99th	NQR Season 6 Div1	4on4	The Divines
2004	A77th	QHLAN 6	4on4	=X=
2003	A55th	NQR Season 5 Div1	4on4	=X=

Trivia

Broadcasted games as commentator in the mid 2000s together with players like  Paradoks,  HangTime,  Sassa and  Gaz.

Frequently casts big div1 games together with  Peppe on https://twitch.tv/peppe_qw and https://twitch.tv/xerialqw. Long-term storage of games are found on https://youtube.com/@xerialqw

Introduced Quakeworld and FPS games to his younger cousin, who grew up to become CS:GO pro Maikelele.

He was a member of the fake nicker clan - Clan Iran - under the pseudonym mehmet, together with players such as  Javve,  Vortex,  Sassa and  Killis

Quotes

• "Sacrifice is the ultimate token of love" - NQR Season 10 final, 9th of May 2007
• "Razor has quad, yellow armor, rocket launcher and enough rockets to support a mexican family" - EQL Season 5 final, 27th of May 2007
• "Finns are much warmer than Swedes, much more oriental in that sense." - 28th of may 2007
• "Since my return to Quake, I seem to be giving out RL's like business cards." - December 2024