Fnatic

Overview

Team Results

Transfers

To read about this organization's Dota 2 team, see: Fnatic.

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Team Information
Location:	Australia
	United Kingdom
Manager:	Elroy "Noname" Pinto
Website:	FNATIC.com Facebook
Sponsor:	MSI SteelSeries EIZO TwitchTV SLAPPA Bouncer4You FSHost DXRacer Origami Sound
TLPD:	FnaticRaidCall International FnaticRaidCall Korean
Twitter:	FNATIC
Player Breakdown
Number of Players:	7
4  1  2
History
Created:	2010-04-02
Recent Player Trades:	2013-03-19- Miniraser joins 2013-03-03- SaSe joins 2013-02-12 - Pink, Zanster join 2013-02-11 - Oz, aLive leave

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 organisation 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. Their main office is found in London.

Fnatic consists of the following divisions:

• StarCraft II
• League of Legends
• Counter Strike
• Dota 2
• Halo

History

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 organised 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.

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 will live in the U.S. to practice and participate in tournaments.

2010

• April 2, the Fnatic StarCraft II Team is formed, with the Top 4 from the FnaticMSI Rookie Draft being picked: Fenix, Funkyy, 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 (Funkyy) leaves Fnatic and joins Team LDLC.com.

2011

• 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 24, 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 Wizard, IeZaeL and eXeCuToR.
• September 18, Fnatic starts a Korean Academy team and recruits three players to their roster: LinkProS (previously known as August), Skit and PorigoJung.
• 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

2012

• 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, IefNaij, and the Spanish 2v2 duo of IeZaeL and eXeCuToR depart from Fnatic. The Canadian IefNaij, famous in Brood War, as well as eXeCuToR, retired from competitive StarCraft II, while IeZaeL will be looking for another partner for 2v2.
• 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 joined the Korean Academy.
• March 19, Fnatic opened a team house in Korea.
• April 15, SoN retires from progaming because of personnal 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.

2013

• January 16, Fnatic issue a press release stating that their StarCraft II division will be shifting its focus to Europe. The gaming house in Korea had already been closed, but a new house is being planned in Europe. J (Luvsic), was also released.
• 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.

Player Roster

Active

Best Yearly Results:

		ID	Name	2010	2011	2012	2013
nl	P	Harstem	Kevin de Koning	Y-	Y-	A8Ro8	LG4 Ro40
fi	t	Naama	Santeri Lahtinen	A11st	A8Ro8	B6Ro16
Ro	P	NightEnD	Silviu Lazar	Y-	A33 - 4th	B6Ro16	G4Ro64
se	P	SaSe	Kim Hammar	Y-	B414th	A44th	B6 Ro16

Academy

Best Yearly Results:

		ID	Name	2010	2011	2012	2013
se	z	Miniraser	Viktor Malmberg	Y-	Y-	D2Ro32	G4Ro64
dk	p	Pink	Alexander Cvitanich Haugsted	Y-	Y-	Y-
se	z	Zanster	Anton Dahlström	Y-	Y-	Y-	G4Ro64

Notable Former

Full list of Former Players

		ID	Name	New Team
kr	P	Oz	Kim Hak Soo	Evil Geniuses
kr	T	aLive	Han Lee Seok	Evil Geniuses
kr	Z	DeParture	Hyun Sung Min	Team oGaming
kr	z	Luvsic	Jo Chang Ho
kr	Z	Moon	Jang Jae Ho
kr	P	Ares	Deok Seo Chang	MJ Team
kr	Z	ByuL	Han Ji Won	Incredible Miracle
kr	T	Rain	Park Seo Yong	Retirement
fr	P	ToD	Yoan Merlo	ROOT Gaming
es	T	LucifroN	Pedro Moreno Duran	Aprender
us	T	Gretorp	Andre Hengchua	It's Gosu eSports
tw	Z	Sen	Chia Cheng Yang	Gama Bears
pe	T	Fenix	Jian Carlo Morayra Alejo	Incredible Miracle
ca	P	TT1	Payam Toghyan	mTw
us	T	KawaiiRice	Lok-Yin Kwong	LighT eSports
ca	P	IefNaij	Jian Fei Wang	LighT eSports

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

Former

Nickname	Name	Position	New Team
y Hwanni	Kim Sung Hwan	General Korean Manager	Evil Geniuses
y DoubleD	Brian Hyun Choi	Korean Manager
y Xeris	Duran Parsi	Manager	LighT eSports

Team Achievements

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

2013

Date	Event	Result
2013-02-23	2013 IPTL Season 1 Amateur Division Group 4	/ Fnatic  5 : 3  My Intent

2012

Date	Event	Result
2012-07-01	EG MCSL Season VII	Fnatic  2 : 3  compLexity Gaming

2011

Date	Event	Result
2011-10-30	EG MCSL Season VI	Fnatic  0 : 3  Team Empire

Highlight Videos

• Fnatic : What is eSports ?

External links

• FNATIC's official YouTube channel [1]