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Team Information

Location:

United Kingdom
Australia

Manager:

Elroy "Noname" Pinto

Sponsor:

Seagate
Fnatic Gear
Monster Energy
MSI
AMD
Newzoo
DXRacer
Chillblast
Strafe
OnePlus
Ballistix Gaming
Deezer

Links

Achievements

Solo Achievements

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

2

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History

Created:

2010-04-02

Disbanded:

2015-04-03

Recent Player Trades:

2014-11-20 - Miniraser leaves
2014-10-04 - Neeb leaves
2014-08-11 - Zanster & Ignite leave
2014-07-15 - souL joins

Fnatic is a gaming organization originating in Australia and the UK, with registered offices in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands. The Fnatic team was founded by Sam Mathews with help from Joris Van Laerhoven and Anne Mathews. The organization is widely known for a variety of teams, most particularly in having one of the most successful Counter-Strike 1.6 teams in the world. Fnatic's main offices are in London.

Despite being mainly concentrated on Team FPS and Duel eSport titles in the past, Fnatic recruited a strong Asian Brood War team in 2008, with players such as Sen, JayStar, Never and F91 - the team which later became DuskBin. Fnatic enjoyed two fruitful spells with Warcraft III. Their European team held players such as Satiini and RotterdaM, while their later Korean team included FoCuS and Shy.

In anticipation of the release of StarCraft II, Fnatic organized a Rookie Draft, with the aim of discovering StarCraft talent for their new squad. Over 300 players from all around the world fought in the FnaticMSI Rookie Draft for the chance to become a FnaticMSI player, with four players from the top 16 in the tournament taking up places with the competitive gaming behemoth. Fenix, TT1, KawaiiRice and funkay were awarded the spots in Fnatic's new team, but eventually another two top players from the tournament, Krr and Praetor were recruited. With Xeris as their manager, Fnatic continued building up their squad after SC2's release, recruiting bigger names such as Sen, IefNaij and LucifroN.

On June 24, 2011, FnaticMSI signed Korean player Rain. Although not the first time a Korean professional gamer has joined a foreign team, this is the first time that someone as notable as the GSL 3 runner-up has. Rain would be living in the U.S. to practice and participate in tournaments. Fnatic also created a Korean Academy team. After the departure of Xeris as manager, as well as most of their western squad, Fnatic continued building their Korean lineup, most notably, with the Warcraft III legend, Moon, and in March 2012, Fnatic opened a South Korean team house, from where their new team would be based, and well placed to participate in the GSL and GSTL.

Despite mixed results in Korea, in January 2013, Fnatic announced the closure of their operations in South Korea, including letting go of their South Korean players, and closure of the gaming house, and that they would be shifting focus back to Europe, after the huge investment of around $250,000 proved to be unsustainable. Over in Europe, they would be represented by several well known players, such as NightEnD, Naama and SaSe.

Whilst retaining a strong base of professional players, Fnatic's General Manager and StarCraft II Team Manager, Elroy 'Noname' Pinto continued to acquire and develop young and talented European and North American players such as Harstem, Miniraser and Zanster the most successful of which would eventually be promoted to the professional roster. Fnatic ensured that all their players remained in the limelight by creating content particularly through their own dedicated caster, Pughy to host events such as the Fnatic Showmatch and the SteelSeries King of the Hill.

Timeline

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• April 3, Fnatic disbands. Harstem joins Invasion eSport, and souL is left teamless.

• February 4, SaSe and NightEnD leave Fnatic.
• February 18, Avast becomes a sponsor.
• April 11, Fnatic partners up with the Azubu streaming service.
• April 26, Naama retires from SC2, whilst Miniraser and Zanster are promoted to the professional division, and Harstem is made team captain.
• May 27, hellokitty retires from SC2.
• July 15, souL joins the academy.
• August 11, Zanster and Ignite both leave the team.
• November 4, Neeb leaves the team.
• November 20, Miniraser announces that he is leaving the team.

• January 16, Fnatic issue a press release announcing the closure of the Korean gaming house and a shift of focus to Europe, with the possibility of opening a new house in Europe. Luvsic, is also released from the team.
• February 11, Fnatic parts ways with aLive and Oz after shutting down of their gaming facility in Seoul and the closure of Fnatic's Korean SC2 operations.
• February 12, Pink and Zanster join the academy.
• March 3, SaSe joins Fnatic.
• March 19, Miniraser joins the Fnatic Academy from Western Wolves.
• May 28, hellokitty joins the Fnatic Academy.
• December 27, Neeb joins the Fnatic Academy.

• January 12, Fnatic restarts its Korean Academy, releasing August, Skit and Porigo, and recruiting DeParture and SoN.
• January 17, Moon joins the team.
• January 19, Brood War legend IefNaij retires from competitive StarCraft II, whilst the Spanish 2v2 duo of IeZaeL and eXeCuToR also depart from Fnatic with the latter retiring, and the former looking for a new partner.
• January 31, After some controversy, Fnatic officially sign aLive and make Hwanni Fnatic's Korean General Manager.
• February 19, Fnatic sign Ares to their Korean Academy.
• March 19, former Samsung KHAN player, ByuL joins the Korean Academy.
• March 19, Fnatic opens a team house in Korea.
• April 15, SoN retires from progaming because of personal issues and subsequently leaves Fnatic.
• May 6, Fnatic signs Oz from FXO.
• June 11, Translator Brian "DoubleD" Choi leaves Fnatic.
• June 28, Luvsic officially joins Fnatic after sightings of him unofficially bearing the Fnatic team tag.
• July 1, Kevin "Harstem" de Koning joins Fnatic and is now part of their Academy.
• July 15, ToD and Fnatic part ways.
• July 17, Naama joins Fnatic.
• September 30, Hwanni, the Korean coach, departs from Fnatic to continue his work with MLG and Evil Geniuses as a consultant.
• November 6, Rain retires from professional StarCraft II.
• November 13, ByuL and Ares leave Fnatic.
• December 11, Moon leaves Fnatic.
• December 12, Harstem and Luvsic are promoted from Academy to Professional.
• December 21, TwitchTV becomes a sponsor.

• February 25, Fnatic officially announces the departure of LucifroN.
• April 30, Fnatic is invited to participate in the Evil Geniuses Master's Cup Series V.
• May 8, Fnatic sign NightEnD.
• May 20, Fnatic parts ways with Gretorp.
• June 25, Fnatic signs Rain.
• August 14, Fnatic parts ways with Sen.
• August 23, Fnatic parts ways with Fenix.
• September 10, Fnatic sign ToD.
• September 16, Fnatic signs the 2v2 pair of Team Wizards, IeZaeL and eXeCuToR.
• September 18, Fnatic starts a Korean Academy team and recruits three players to their roster: August, Skit and Porigo.
• November 1, Fnatic and TT1 part ways on amicable terms.
• December 23, Fnatic announces the departure of StarCraft II manager Duran "Xeris" Parsi.
• December 30, Fnatic parts ways with KawaiiRice.

• April 2, the Fnatic StarCraft II Team is formed, with the top four from the FnaticMSI Rookie Draft being picked: Fenix, funkay, TT1 and KawaiiRice.
• April 9, Fnatic add Krr and Praetor.
• May 21, Fnatic acquires Gretorp.
• May 28, Fnatic sign Moutas.
• July 25, Fnatic drop Praetor due to communications and activity issues.
• August 12, Fnatic sign LucifroN.
• August 18, Fnatic sign IefNaij.
• September 1, Fnatic sign Sen.
• September 10, Fnatic release Krr and Moutas.
• October 22, funkay leaves Fnatic and joins Team LDLC.com.

Roster

Notable Former Players

Full list of player transfers and former players here.

Former Players
		ID	Name	Join Date	Leave Date	New Team
		aLive	Han Lee Seok	2012-01-30	2013-02-10	Evil Geniuses
		ByuL	Han Ji Won	2012-03-18	2012-11-12	Incredible Miracle
		Fenix	Jian Carlo Morayra Alejo	2010-04-01	2011-08-22	Incredible Miracle
		Harstem	Kevin de Koning	2012-07-01	2015-04-02	Invasion eSport
		hellokitty	Zifeng Wang	2013-05-27	2014-05-26	Retirement
		Ignite	Alexander Cvitanich Haugsted	2013-02-11	2014-08-10	Redbloods
		KawaiiRice	Lok-Yin Kwong	2010-04-01	2011-12-29	LighT eSports
		Rain	Park Seo Yong	2011-06-24	2012-11-05	Retirement
		Miniraser	Viktor Malmberg	2013-03-18	2014-11-19	Imaginary Gaming
		Moon	Jang Jae Ho	2012-01-16	2012-12-10	Retirement
		Naama	Santeri Lahtinen	2012-07-16	2014-04-25	Retirement
		Neeb	Alex Sunderhaft	2013-12-26	2014-11-03	Ting
		NightEnD	Silviu Lazar	2011-05-07	2014-02-03	NewRoSoft
		Oz	Kim Hak Soo	2012-05-05	2013-02-10	Evil Geniuses
		SaSe	Kim Hammar	2013-03-02	2014-02-03
		Sen	Chia Cheng Yang	2010-08-31	2011-08-13	Gama Bears
		souL	Piotr Walukiewicz	2014-07-14	2015-04-02	BrawL eSports
		ToD	Yoan Merlo	2011-09-09	2012-07-15	ROOT Gaming
		TT1	Payam Toghyan	2010-04-01	2011-10-31	mTw
		Zanster	Anton Dahlström	2013-02-11	2014-08-10	Team Property

Organization

Nickname	Name	Position
y Sam	Sam Mathews	Managing Director
y Annaky	Anne Mathews	Finance Director
y Kboy	Neil Kirk	Business & Logistics Manager
y Noname	Elroy Pinto	General Manager
y cArn	Patrik Sattermon	Chief Gaming Officer
y StreeT	Danijel Remus	General Manager, Dota2 & PLAY/BEAT IT Manager
y Matt	Matthew Gillott	General & Marketing Manager
y bkerr	Brian Kerr	Business Development Manager
y Lexx	Alexander Zavoloka	Editor in Chief

Team Achievements

Date	Placement	Tier	Tournament	Result		Prize
2014
2014-02-08	5 - 8th	A3Minor	RaidCall ESL Euro Series Winter 2013	2 : 3		$0
2013
2013-11-08	2nd	A3Minor	The Gathering 2013 Team Battle	1 : 3		$400.43
2013-10-04	3rd	A3Minor	RaidCall ESL Euro Series Summer 2013	3 : 1		$1,355.7
2013-06-21	9 - 12th	A3Minor	RaidCall EMS Spring 2013	0/2	Grp. S.	$0
2013-03-19	5 - 8th	A3Minor	Cascade1xbet Clan League Season 4	1 : 4		$0
2012
2012-12-08	5 - 6th	A1Premier	2012 Global Starcraft II Team League Season 3	0-2	Grp. S.	$1,848.43
2012-07-28	5 - 8th	A1Premier	2012 Global Starcraft II Team League Season 2	1-2	Grp. S.	$1,756.93
2012-07-01	2nd	A2Major	Evil Geniuses Master's Cup Series League VII	2 : 3		$3,000
2012-06-03	7th	A1Premier	Korean StarCraft II League 2012 Season 1: Group Stage	2-5	Grp. S.	$400
2011
2011-09-22	3rd	A2Major	Evil Geniuses Master's Cup Series League VI	0 : 3		$2,000
2011-06-30	1st	A3Minor	Crota's Team Tournament S1	3 : 2		$2,000
2011-03-20	1st	A1Premier	GosuCoaching Premiere League Season 1	3 : 2		$7,000
2010
2010-12-01	2nd	A3Minor	SGL Season 1	3 : 4		$0

Highlight Videos

• Fnatic : What is eSports ?

Interviews

2014

• 2014-04-20 |  Interview with Harstem and Miniraser after I51 by Darko ‘Mighty’ Ikonic of Fnatic at Insomnia51