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Fnatic says Goodbye to CS:Source

by Joe on June 25th, 2008 at 01:46 CEST

Over a month ago saw the 2nd European Championship Gaming Series combine and draft. The Fnatic Counter-Strike:Source team played in the combine and finished a great 2nd behind Birmingham Salvo.

However as I'm sure your all already aware, the draft saw all five of our players being taken into the CGS in some capacity. Milan "xertion" Veeger and Quint "Blaze" Spierenburg were both drafted into Berlin Allianz to compete in the 2008 season with Luuk "darky" Verink and Sandor "proph" de Munck brought in as taxi players for the Berlin franchise. Mark "AirRaid" Koks was also taken as a taxi player for the Stockholm Magnetik.

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It has taken a few weeks for us to come to this decision and through much discussion with the players, and since the team was split up by the CGS drafts we have decided to let the 3 remaining players go their seperate ways, and not try to reform the team. This decision is because of a number of factors, but mostly we feel that CSS cannot justify investment as game considering we will most likely lose any further team we build up again in the future to individual drafts of the CGS, and no major organisers have indicated they will pick up CSS in the face of the CGS.

It is with a VERY heavy heart that we wave goodbye to not only five amazing players, but five great friends.

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Click Full Story to see Fnatic CSS' achievements and statements from Luuk "darky" Verink and Sam "zr0" Mathews.
Fnatic CS:Source achievements:

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picture i31
picture ClanBase EuroCup XV
picture The eXperience.dk 2007
picture CGS Online Qualifier Europe
picture Lan79 2007
picture Netgamez 2007A
picture GrandMasters of CS;Source
picture i29
picture CGS Season 2 Combine
picture ESL Major Series Season 1
picture PB Euro Open
picture digitalsace 2007
picture CGS Season 1 Combine
picture i30
picture Slap #10
picture Lan79 Gold Edition 2008
picture i32
picture EuroCup XIV

Sam Mathews had this to say about the loss of the Fnatic CSS squad:

I have never been one to like goodbye's, and never more is it true now! These five guys have been the ultimate fnatic players, they have represented us with skill, focus, professionalsim, and were at one time indestructable as a team in CSS. They wore the orange and black shirts with pride, and most of all they were great guys to spend time with, good friends of mine. I will miss them at events, and in the office which we spent so much time, but I wish them ALL the best of luck.. Quint, Milan, go and conquer LA, Luuk, Sandor, Mark I hope to see you guys in successful teams soon and good luck in future!

Thank you for being great people, players and friends in Fnatic!




Luuk "darky" Verink had this to say about the CGS draft and the team :

We went to the CGS Combine, knowing that some of us had a good chance of getting drafted. We had a highly skilled squad with alot of ingame and social skills.

But we wanted to go anyway, because the CGS is just the biggest tournament that is around for CS:Source at the moment. We're (Mark, Sandor and myself) really happy for Quint and Milan that they got drafted and will be starting one of the greatest things in their eSports careers.

With that said, we're also disappointed and sad that this means that Fnatic.css will be no more. The team won't be the same without these two great players and personalities and therefor we decided not to continue under the Fnatic flag.

I had alot of fun in Fnatic.css and I want to thank Fnatic for that, but especially the guys for the awesome time that we played together and all the great achievements we accomplished.

Thanks to all the fans and all the friends for the great support and goodbye.
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Comment by se dsn - 3 mon

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gl with everything guys!

 

Comment by se CooKies - 3 mon

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Had the pleasure of seeing the fnatic.css team in the greenroom at i31. Back then i didnt really know who they were but they sure looked pro in their tshirts :P Sad that the first time i saw them was also my last
:(

Good luck to all in the future. <3

 

Comment by cz zouli - 3 mon

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:(

 

Comment by nz Roychez - 3 mon

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Good luck with crossed and Berlin guys. And you too Luuk with whatever you're going to do :(

 

Comment by eur after-all - 3 mon

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:((((((((((((

 

Comment by si puNNi - 3 mon

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Too bad :(

gl

 

Comment by nl aSpeN - 3 mon

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*cries*

 

Comment by sg locKMaster - 3 mon

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Legends come and go all the time, but what's important is that you guys are remembered <3 By the way, if anyone wants to do a zet, you guys are probably more than welcome =D

 

Comment by ro TROUBLE - 3 mon

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good luck in the future, i hope in 4 months a new cs:s fnatic team will reapear, like the wc3 did :D

 

Comment by pl samolot - 3 mon

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what does it mean "taxi player" ?

 

Comment by gb Prozone - 3 mon

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Players that can be used by thier respective teams at short notice to replace a player in the starting 5 lineup.

E.g. when one of them is playing like crap, or cannot play for some reason, they can be replaced by one of the teams taxi players and compete.

Bit like a sub's bench in football really

 

Comment by es Raxhe - 3 mon

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gl :/

 

Comment by fi Bruft - 3 mon

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GL to them but I really want that piece of crap game Source to DIE!

 

Comment by ro ErgOliciouz - 3 mon

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sad :/oh well...go go cs 1.6 team :D

 

Comment by gb Prozone - 3 mon

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Good luck guys

 

Comment by uk Joe - 3 mon

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GL Boys! You know youre always welcome to jump on a ferry and come for a few drinks! :D

 

Comment by se ins - 3 mon

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good luck with everything guys!

/dsn

 

Comment by gb zr0 - 3 mon

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I think your name is INS mate!

 

Comment by sk johaNka - 3 mon

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that is because he was quoting dsn! :-)

 

Comment by mk daHell- - 3 mon

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GG and GL

 

Comment by uk devine - 3 mon

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I'm going to miss you guys... ALOT. You deserve to be playing in the Championship Stealing Series but their system of being able to dismantle any team they like is just utter tripe and you should have been drafted as a unit, not individually. Hope we can still chat!

 

Comment by in Noname - 3 mon

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Good luck guys! Hope you ace it all~

 

Comment by nl 9mm_ - 3 mon

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gl.

 

Comment by eur eckomonster - 3 mon

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I love you so much. all the best to everyone of you. Take care babies

 

Comment by se cArn - 3 mon

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gl gl

 

Comment by sa moe - 3 mon

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i realy thougth u guys are going 2 stay on the Top.

but hey CGS. is realy BIG. so i hope u all have a Time or ur liFe GL. hope the Css team will come BacK.

 

Comment by fr klwN - 3 mon

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Because of this, CGS sucks hard.
But it's still an awesome opportunity for the players so...
I just hope such a thing will never happen to 1.6.

gl to all of you.


(ins you're crazy xD)

 

Comment by at e-spider - 3 mon

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as a rps guy i dont know that much about combine etc... but what i know is that it sucks ass if it makes a team like this split!
FUCK CGS!

 

Comment by us Fnatic Fan spiraL - 3 mon

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<3 CCS.Fnatic team iss you guys :'[

 

Comment by nl LionQ - 3 mon

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Good luck. ;(

 

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