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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.
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.
Click Full Story to see Fnatic CSS' achievements and statements from Luuk "darky" Verink and Sam "zr0" Mathews.
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.
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.
Click Full Story to see Fnatic CSS' achievements and statements from Luuk "darky" Verink and Sam "zr0" Mathews.
Fnatic CS:Source achievements:
Slap #13
i31
ClanBase EuroCup XV
The eXperience.dk 2007
CGS Online Qualifier Europe
Lan79 2007
Netgamez 2007A
GrandMasters of CS;Source
i29
CGS Season 2 Combine
ESL Major Series Season 1
PB Euro Open
digitalsace 2007
CGS Season 1 Combine
i30
Slap #10
Lan79 Gold Edition 2008
i32
EuroCup XIV
Sam Mathews had this to say about the loss of the Fnatic CSS squad:
Luuk "darky" Verink had this to say about the CGS draft and the team :
Slap #13 i31 ClanBase EuroCup XV The eXperience.dk 2007 CGS Online Qualifier Europe Lan79 2007 Netgamez 2007A GrandMasters of CS;Source i29 CGS Season 2 Combine ESL Major Series Season 1 PB Euro Open digitalsace 2007 CGS Season 1 Combine i30 Slap #10 Lan79 Gold Edition 2008 i32 EuroCup XIVSam 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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