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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

Overview

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

Roster at the time of disbandment

		ID	Name	2012	2013	2014	2015
nl	P	Harstem ()	Kevin de Koning	5 - 8th	9 - 12th	9 - 12th	9 - 12th
Academy
pl	t	souL	Piotr Walukiewicz	-	-	-	-

Notable Former

Full list of player transfers and former players here.

		ID	Name	Join Date	Leave Date	Duration	New Team
nl	p	Harstem	Kevin de Koning	2 July 2012	3 April 2015	2 years 8 months	Invasion eSport
pl	t	souL	Piotr Walukiewicz	15 July 2014	3 April 2015	8 months	BrawL eSports
se	z	Miniraser	Viktor Malmberg	19 March 2013	20 November 2014	1 year 8 months	Imaginary Gaming
us	t	Neeb	Alex Sunderhaft	27 December 2013	4 November 2014	10 months	Ting
se	z	Zanster	Anton Dahlström	12 February 2013	11 August 2014	1 year 6 months	Team Property
dk	p	Ignite	Alexander Cvitanich Haugsted	12 February 2013	11 August 2014	1 year 6 months	Redbloods
us	p	hellokitty	Zifeng Wang	28 May 2013	27 May 2014	1 year	ZZZZZ Retirement
fi	t	Naama	Santeri Lahtinen	17 July 2012	26 April 2014	1 year 9 months	ZZZZZ Retirement
ro	p	NightEnD	Silviu Lazar	8 May 2011	4 February 2014	2 years 9 months	NewRoSoft
se	p	SaSe	Kim Hammar	3 March 2013	4 February 2014	11 months	ZZZZZ
kr	t	aLive	Han Lee Seok	31 January 2012	11 February 2013	1 year	Evil Geniuses
kr	p	Oz	Kim Hak Soo	6 May 2012	11 February 2013	8 months	Evil Geniuses
kr	z	Moon	Jang Jae Ho	17 January 2012	11 December 2012	11 months	ZZZZZ Retirement
kr	z	ByuL	Han Ji Won	19 March 2012	13 November 2012	8 months	Incredible Miracle
kr	t	Rain	Park Seo Yong	25 June 2011	6 November 2012	1 year 4 months	ZZZZZ Retirement
fr	P	ToD	Yoan Merlo	10 September 2011	16 July 2012	10 months	ROOT Gaming
us	T	KawaiiRice	Lok-Yin Kwong	2 April 2010	30 December 2011	1 year 8 months	LighT eSports
ca	P	TT1	Payam Toghyan	2 April 2010	1 November 2011	1 year 7 months	mTw
pe	T	Fenix	Jian Carlo Morayra Alejo	2 April 2010	23 August 2011	1 year 4 months	Incredible Miracle
tw	Z	Sen	Chia Cheng Yang	1 September 2010	14 August 2011	11 months	Gama Bears

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		League	Result	Winnings
2014
2014-03-29		SteelSeries King of the Hill #10	Fnatic 3 : 2 against All authority	$500
2014-03-01		SteelSeries King of the Hill #9	Fnatic 4 : 1 compLexity Gaming	$250
2013
2013-12-27		SteelSeries King of the Hill #7	Fnatic 3 : 2 Karnage eSports	$500
2013-11-26		SteelSeries King of the Hill #6	Fnatic 4 : 1 Alien Invasion	$250
2013-11-08		The Gathering 2013 Team Battle	Fnatic 1 : 3 NewRoSoft	£250
2013-09-23		RaidCall ESL Euro Series Summer 2013	Fnatic 3 : 1 Team Dignitas	€1,000
2013-08-29		SteelSeries King of the Hill #4	Fnatic 3 : 2 Team Property	$250
2013-04-24		SteelSeries King of the Hill #1	Fnatic 4 : 1 Copenhagen Wolves	$250
2012
2012-07-01		Evil Geniuses Master's Cup Series VII	Fnatic 2 : 3 coL.MVP	$3,000
2011
2011-10-30		Evil Geniuses Master's Cup Series VI	Fnatic 0 : 3 Team Empire	$2,000
2011-06-17		Evil Geniuses Master's Cup Series V	Fnatic 0 : 3 compLexity Gaming
2011-06-30		Crota's Team Tournament Season 1	Fnatic 3 : 2 mousesports	$2,000
2011-03-20		GosuCoaching Premiere League Season 1	Fnatic 3 : 2 Team Dignitas	$7,000

GosuCoaching Premiere League
Preceded By: None	GosuCoaching Premiere League Season 1 12 January 2011 – 13 August 2011 Fnatic	GCPL Season 2 Succeeded By: Empire

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