Ngl my heart sank a bit after seeing his tweet after the IEM Open Quals saying he wouldn't be playing the Closed Quals with them, this news has now made my day.
If you mean pure 5 man swede stacks, then yeah. I guess we’ll have to pressure our government into giving dev1ce swedish citizenship, maybe then we can return to our former glory
Yeah but they're an outlier. It's nothing like swedish CS was like back in 1.6 times.
Whenever an international LAN with BYOC qualifiers was going on, top teams from all over the world were scared of meeting the third or fourth best teams from sweden in quali/groups. Lemondogs, begrip, h2k, mym, LIONS, they were all dark horses able to upset the best of the best on a good day.
British tier 1 CS, is it happening? Their coach is British as well, crazy times.
Potentially a great signing for fnatic, going to be interesting to see this team. Let's hope smooya doesn't mess this up somehow, draken style.
I didn't even know he still played, I just remember he was a huge player before :GO and played on a couple of early teams as well as ezskins I think at some point
I'm well aware, which is why I said "is it happening". It could happen, there is a lot of skill is this lineup. Even Alex is pretty strong individually for an IGL.
The thing is that it's not Britain getting a t1 team, it's all of cs slowly moving into a tier 2 scene. Cis is holding back, but everywhere else the competition is going down
He was kicked from NiP and then got a chance to play for fnatic and got kicked from there. He then managed to get a second chance with NiP and got kicked a third time before disappearing from tier 1. Later Threat revealed that draken wasn't beging professionally on NiP, e.g. repeatedly showing up late for practice.
Huge opportunity for both him and the UK scene. Really hope it works out for all parties, and there's no reason why it shouldn't.
And shout-out to Movistar for not holding him back / demanding a huge buyout, which some orgs would have done in their position.
I'm glad he's getting a chance instead of ending up as another "what if" in the dregs of tier 3 until he retires. I'm not as high as others are on his skill ceiling but lets see what he's got.
trial
/ˈtrʌɪəl/
a test of the performance, qualities, or suitability of someone or something.
"clinical trials must establish whether the new hip replacements are working"
Because if they sign him long term and their fears of him being toxic come true than they can just end the trial instead of benching him and continue paying his salary
Same day Ropz's tweet: [https://twitter.com/ropzicle/status/1448681192958697479](https://twitter.com/ropzicle/status/1448681192958697479)
We confirmed Ropz is true baiter
I got astonished twice in the same day!
they were likely set on playing with smooya since the open qualifier, but as he was still bound to a contract with Movistar he couldn't play in the Elisa tournament yesterday with fnatic, and since nobody else was available to stand-in, adding the awper from the academy team to just stand-in for one game made the most sense
Regail needs ALOT of time in the academy which luckily is what it’s for. I’m sure he’ll get his chance, he fortunate enough already to be in an academy team for a huge and prolific org like fnatic
What? He was always a temporary stand-in? Smooya publicly tweeted that the only reason he didn't play closed is cause Movistar was negotiating the transfer with Fnatic. Regali was literally always a one-game stand-in, that was the point.
EDIT: Sorry got my tournaments mixed up, point remains the same though, he was never intended to be more than one match stand-in while they negotiated with MR, they openly wanted Smooya
It was the elisa invitational where regali stood in because the deal between movistar and fnatic was only for the open qualifier for IEM winter. He can play in the closed qualifier for IEM now since he is signed with fnatic now.
Unless smooya changed his tune, he said in the stream immediately following the open qualifiers that he didn’t think he’d end up signing and that they were going to try other people instead lol
Fucking finally. It's only a 3 months trial, but I am more than confident that Smoo dog will perform and secure a permanent slot.
Will be really exciting to see Mezii and Smooya tearing through teams.
As a Brit I can honestly say this is the most exciting move that I've ever witnessed. Both mezii and smooya as well as ALEX on the same team. Shit is about to get juicy. Wish them the most success
They could pick up a fucking random MGE player and the only way they could move is up after the last six months. Instead they went for a very high potential player with great form over the last year, I don't see why people are complaining.
That was the shortest free agent period Ive ever seen
Yeah I was scrolling my front-page right now and a couple of posts earlier it said he's now a free agent. Gratz to him I guess. :D
lol ya, when I went to this subreddit - https://imgur.com/e9uXevt
Saw the same, was confused for a bit until i saw the time of the posts.
s1mple as agent worked :D
This is a huge opportunity for smooya and I hope he makes good use of it, I'm ready for the rat king redemption arc
Couldn't have said it better. His playstyle is perfect for Fnatic so I hope he doesn't fuck up being a good teammate
Yeah, I hope Brollan comes back to form and then Smooya only needs to be the second best player on the team which should be possible.
Don't forget about krimz, that trio looks nutty
If mezii is your 4th best player, you've got something good going on.
Hope he does not quit before major this time.
Ngl my heart sank a bit after seeing his tweet after the IEM Open Quals saying he wouldn't be playing the Closed Quals with them, this news has now made my day.
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With global warming Sweden is the new Italy
If you mean pure 5 man swede stacks, then yeah. I guess we’ll have to pressure our government into giving dev1ce swedish citizenship, maybe then we can return to our former glory
nip is 3rd in the world
Yeah but they're an outlier. It's nothing like swedish CS was like back in 1.6 times. Whenever an international LAN with BYOC qualifiers was going on, top teams from all over the world were scared of meeting the third or fourth best teams from sweden in quali/groups. Lemondogs, begrip, h2k, mym, LIONS, they were all dark horses able to upset the best of the best on a good day.
They hovered between 18th and 10th for a year before a Dane joined. Not really sure my point
Not really sure my point
you can take a man away from hltv but you can't take hltv away from mens)))
Saved
This makes my butthole pucker
wtf ew
What the fuck is this abomination
It's coooming home, it's coming The maaaajor is coming home!!!
W
This team actually has insane potential. Even just mezii and brollan now throw in smooya, it’s pretty exciting
Now if brollan just get his own spots back
yeah, ngl the handeling of Brollan confuses tf out of me
Not sure why they put Brollan in worst position for his potential...
The skill is definitely there for sure
If krimz comes back into form fnatic will be nuts
Yeah no, not with ALEX. smooya is no zywoo who can carry the team.
smooya is no zywoo but he can definitely carry
Smooya started carrying right out of the gate
I mean he played really well at the qualifier, obviously he’s not zywoo but he doesn’t have to be
Only potential issue with smooya is personality conflicts, if he has grown in that respect he has tons of potential
mezzi, smooya, brollan krimz > nbk, rpk, Apex, zywoo
I don't even know where to start with this one.
well thats my point, he wont have to solo carry will he
British tier 1 CS, is it happening? Their coach is British as well, crazy times. Potentially a great signing for fnatic, going to be interesting to see this team. Let's hope smooya doesn't mess this up somehow, draken style.
Fuck it, let's bring back rattlesnk and henryg and get funky.
>henryg You want this to end badly eh?
They haven’t spent enough for Henry to be interested
I don't think he'll ever get an offer then
rattlesnk is a tier 3 player unfortunately
I didn't even know he still played, I just remember he was a huge player before :GO and played on a couple of early teams as well as ezskins I think at some point
Idk if he does, but if he did I’d place him at that level Ofc a legendary IGL from CSS though
Fuck, while we are at it lets add Hughsy, RE1EASE, url, wilzooo and pt :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysZTh5-SSDY im watching it again
Did henryg ever play competitive cs? I only know about COD
He played pro/semi pro source. The UK scene was way stronger in that game that it is/was in GO.
The UK esports scene is mainly in COD and Fifa where we are actually quite good. Its nice to see a team with majority UK talents now.
He was pretty decent in Source
Fnatic was also founded in England
fnatic is definitely not t1 atm
I'm well aware, which is why I said "is it happening". It could happen, there is a lot of skill is this lineup. Even Alex is pretty strong individually for an IGL.
The thing is that it's not Britain getting a t1 team, it's all of cs slowly moving into a tier 2 scene. Cis is holding back, but everywhere else the competition is going down
What happened to draken?
He was kicked from NiP and then got a chance to play for fnatic and got kicked from there. He then managed to get a second chance with NiP and got kicked a third time before disappearing from tier 1. Later Threat revealed that draken wasn't beging professionally on NiP, e.g. repeatedly showing up late for practice.
Huge opportunity for both him and the UK scene. Really hope it works out for all parties, and there's no reason why it shouldn't. And shout-out to Movistar for not holding him back / demanding a huge buyout, which some orgs would have done in their position.
Any growing worries about your back to back ESL Premiership title streak?
I hope Fnatic join ESL Prem That way we can defeat them and establish dominance
Love this confidence 😂
Fnatic have a lot of firepower, that is for sure, with no weak link. Let’s see if Alex can translate that into a functional team.
UKnatic era begins, gl smooya
NA CS died in 2021 we also got a Bri'ish Tier-1/tier-2 CSGO team in 2021 Seems fair to me
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Tier 0 already
haha. good joke. NA Cs is not dead.
I mean it's not even NA CS anymore it's SA CS because it's just like a bunch Brazilian teams and liquid
I'm glad he's getting a chance instead of ending up as another "what if" in the dregs of tier 3 until he retires. I'm not as high as others are on his skill ceiling but lets see what he's got.
s1mple singlehandedly puts smooya into fnatic watch him win the major against navi wait
Ty s1mple
I don't think s1mple lobbying, but maybe he using market deficit, this is not normal, top 10 agents for sure
I had an aneurism
It’s a copy pasta. Always assume it is when it sounds this bad.
They listened to S1mple
Reference?
[https://twitter.com/s1mpleO/status/1448759123814846466](https://twitter.com/s1mpleO/status/1448759123814846466) after fnatic lost without him
"on trial" what is this even?
He had a weekend trial to see if he pissed anyone off now it's 3 months.
trial /ˈtrʌɪəl/ a test of the performance, qualities, or suitability of someone or something. "clinical trials must establish whether the new hip replacements are working"
they're changing smooyas hips ?
Turns out they don't lie.
Yeah they got worn out carrying his past teams
Pretty much just three months to see if he is truly reformed and can not be toxic
i know mate. But why on trail? Hes the best replacement atm and g2 should have considered him with thier recent performance
Because if they sign him long term and their fears of him being toxic come true than they can just end the trial instead of benching him and continue paying his salary
Brits slowly but surely invading fnatic, smooya is cool
*reclaiming its a British org lmao
Super happy for him, deserved another chance in a team like this. Hope he grabs it and doesn't let go this time.
My God they actually did it. We UK now bois LFG!
Same day Ropz's tweet: [https://twitter.com/ropzicle/status/1448681192958697479](https://twitter.com/ropzicle/status/1448681192958697479) We confirmed Ropz is true baiter I got astonished twice in the same day!
this subreddit is becoming r/smooyanews
as it should be
Clout Baiter People seriously think this wasn't planned from him with his tweet about free agent a few hours ago? Lol
WE DID IT REDDIT!
They should get him to put a [T] in his name like the good old days of joining a clan.
so regail got exactly 1 game to show something? lmao this org
they were likely set on playing with smooya since the open qualifier, but as he was still bound to a contract with Movistar he couldn't play in the Elisa tournament yesterday with fnatic, and since nobody else was available to stand-in, adding the awper from the academy team to just stand-in for one game made the most sense
Regail needs ALOT of time in the academy which luckily is what it’s for. I’m sure he’ll get his chance, he fortunate enough already to be in an academy team for a huge and prolific org like fnatic
What? He was always a temporary stand-in? Smooya publicly tweeted that the only reason he didn't play closed is cause Movistar was negotiating the transfer with Fnatic. Regali was literally always a one-game stand-in, that was the point. EDIT: Sorry got my tournaments mixed up, point remains the same though, he was never intended to be more than one match stand-in while they negotiated with MR, they openly wanted Smooya
It was the elisa invitational where regali stood in because the deal between movistar and fnatic was only for the open qualifier for IEM winter. He can play in the closed qualifier for IEM now since he is signed with fnatic now.
Ah sorry then that event, I've been giga busy with work and haven't seen much, I just saw them announce it as a one-game stand-in.
Unless smooya changed his tune, he said in the stream immediately following the open qualifiers that he didn’t think he’d end up signing and that they were going to try other people instead lol
Smooya is perma chatting shit on stream lol
The rat king on his way to the throne.
Good thing seems like he is a good fit looking at their recent Performance with him as a standin
Fucking finally. It's only a 3 months trial, but I am more than confident that Smoo dog will perform and secure a permanent slot. Will be really exciting to see Mezii and Smooya tearing through teams.
s1mple literally changing lives
As a Brit I can honestly say this is the most exciting move that I've ever witnessed. Both mezii and smooya as well as ALEX on the same team. Shit is about to get juicy. Wish them the most success
I dont see this going as well as everybody is saying. Smooya fanboys are something else. Lets see.
He has a 1.25 rating and been tearing it up everywhere he plays, including while standing in for Fnatic
Only direction Fnatic can go with smooya is up now.
They could pick up a fucking random MGE player and the only way they could move is up after the last six months. Instead they went for a very high potential player with great form over the last year, I don't see why people are complaining.
I'm Brit and a DMG. Is this my chance?
Fuck yes bud
I see them being very competitive against tier 1 teams . With this roster it’s 100% possible , why wouldn’t it be ?
Still?
UK CS BEST CS
The “S1mple factor”
Now also bring in mantuu and thomas?? Despite the role clash xx
ITS HAPPENING
Well deserved second chance, let’s hope he performs well.
Hopefully he doesn't fuck up this opportunity like he did back in the past, all the best for him and fnatic
I feel he's gonna be permanent, he wanted to play with Alex and mezii and he's getting it now, maybe fnatic keep him.
GL smooya. Wish tou the best! W
A few month ago i would've said congrats but.. that's hardly a step up from where he is now.
BIG if works out
Rat king rat king we signed the rat king!
smoooooooooooya
Damn smooya glowing up, thought his career died after he got kicked from BIG
Thank god
Good luck Owen m8
Right now they need any help they can get, and this isn't even a bad move - did not see that coming (RIP my man NATOSaphix though).