Starting his career at a very young age, NiKo competed on the local Balkan scene in Counter-Strike 1.6 and got to experience international competition as just a 14 to 15-year-old as part of eu4ia and iNation. With some of the scene's veterans at his side in Nemanja "k1Ng0r" Bošković and later also Aleksandar "kassad" Trifunović, he got to play at Adepto BH Open in 2011 in Sarajevo and at one of the game's last tournaments in late 2012, DreamHack Bucharest, getting experience from playing one of the best teams in the world as he lost to different versions of fnatic in the quarter-final stages of both tournaments ...