Explained: FaZe\u2019s situation at BLAST Premier Spring Groups as k0nfig is ruled out Stephanie Lindgren\/BLASTDexerto spoke with multiple sources about the situation involving FaZe Clan\u2019s CS:GO team and their attempt to use Kristian \u2018k0nfig\u2019 Wienecke at BLAST Premier Spring Groups, to explain everything that happened. FaZe were in a race against time to find an emergency substitute for the BLAST Premier Spring Groups after being informed that they would be unable to compete with k0nfig on the basis that he was already registered on Heroic\u2019s roster for the tournament. Their first match is against Complexity on Friday, January 20. The decision, which came after protests from other BLAST Premier teams, caught FaZe\u2019s players by surprise. k0nfig took part in media day on January 18 and was ready to practice with the team and play at the event. Sources told Dexerto that BLAST informed FaZe\u2019s team over a week ago that k0nfig would be added to the team\u2019s accreditation list and given access to their practice room. The Danish player, who is currently a free agent, would be allowed to play in the tournament instead of H\u00e5vard \u2018rain\u2019 Nygaard if necessary. On January 18, FaZe announced that the Norwegian player would have to sit out the event to be present for the birth of his child. FaZe were confident that they would be able to field k0nfig in the tournament. But everything suggests that the tournament organizer gave FaZe the green light without checking whether k0nfig was already registered by another team. In an initial communication to all 12 partner teams on December 18, BLAST gave a January 3 deadline to submit their rosters for the BLAST Premier Spring Groups without specifying an hour, Dexerto has learned. Heroic had no intention of registering k0nfig as a player for the event, but their submission of Niels Christian \u2018NaToSaphiX\u2019 Sillassen as a substitute on the evening of January 3 was rejected by BLAST, who claimed it was done past the deadline, sources said. Another source noted, however, that all teams were notified again on January 3 about the roster lock and sent a form to fill out if they wished to make any changes. The message stated that there was a deadline of 4PM CET. Because Heroic tried to change their lineup past this deadline, it remained the same from the previous event, the BLAST Premier World Final, where k0nfig stood in for Martin \u2018stavn\u2019 Lund. According to FaZe star Robin \u2018ropz\u2019 Kool, k0nfig \u201chad no idea\u201d he was on Heroic\u2019s roster for the tournament and is not supposed to be on it. On his stream, Olof \u2018olofmeister\u2019 Kajbjer said that he didn\u2019t know he was registered as a substitute for FaZe. He cannot attend the event as he will be traveling for his birthday. The 2022 version of the BLAST Premier rulebook states that teams can be granted an emergency substitute after the submission of the roster \u201cdue to issues such as illness, injury, and travel disruption\u201d. BLAST reserves the right to accept or deny any such requests on a case-by-case basis. The rulebook stresses that \u201creplacements cannot be a participant who is active on another pro roster which is participating in the tournament.\u201d FaZe have since announced that they will be playing with Patrick \u2018es3tag\u2019 Hansen as a stand-in at the event. The Danish player has been on NIP\u2019s bench since the end of December and is not registered on the team\u2019s roster for this event. BLAST responds to controversy BLAST has issued a statement to address what it described as \u201cthe confusion\u201d surrounding FaZe\u2019s registration of k0nfig as an emergency replacement. The tournament organizer said that \u201cat the beginning of the year\u201d, FaZe submitted a request to play with k0nfig and that such request \u201cwas denied as the player was registered on another team\u2019s roster for the event.\u201d This directly contradicts the players\u2019 account of the episode. BLAST does not explain why the team claimed it was told that it could play with k0nfig several days ago (Dexerto sources said the team was told over a week ago) or why the Danish player was allowed to take part in media day on January 18. It was only late that day, after a number of BLAST partner teams raised the issue, that the tournament organizer convened to make a ruling on this matter, which was announced this morning. \u201cAfter looking into the incident internally, we identified miscommunication and a lack of clarity from BLAST on the roster lock timings and k0nfig\u2019s eligibility to play in Spring Groups,\u201d BLAST stated. \u201cThis of course is not how we typically operate and we will be looking into strengthening processes and communication with teams, specifically around roster locks.\u201d BLAST also commented on the conflict of interest concerns surrounding FaZe\u2019s use of a player who is contracted to another team that is also attending the event, NIP. Should the two teams face each other in the gauntlet stage, es3tag will not be able to play, forcing FaZe to find an alternative. Substitute coach Edward \u2018Eddie\u2019 Han could play for the team, as could rain or Robert \u2018RobbaN\u2019 Dahlstr\u00f6m if either is back by then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Explained: FaZe\u2019s situation at BLAST Premier Spring Groups as k0nfig is ruled out Stephanie Lindgren\/BLASTDexerto spoke with multiple sources about the situation involving FaZe Clan\u2019s CS:GO team and their attempt to use Kristian \u2018k0nfig\u2019 Wienecke at BLAST Premier Spring Groups, to explain everything that happened. FaZe were in a race against time to find an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}