Fnatic bench Xizt and twist after missing CS:GO Berlin Major StarLadderFnatic\u2019s legendary Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster has benched two of its underperforming players after failing to qualify for a major for the first time ever. All magical runs must come to an end at some point. The organization has been a participant in every single CS:GO major since winning the very first one at DreamHack Winter 2013. After DreamHack, they would string together appearances at 14 straight majors, winning three of the first six. While still considered CS:GO royalty, the crown has most certainly slipped off their head and been snatched by another. Their fall culminated at the European Minor this past July, being the first team eliminated from playoffs, and ending their path to the Berlin major (and thus their major streak). In falling short of the Berlin Major, we lost the moniker as the only team to have attended every single CS:GO Major. We set goals and we failed. Today, we announce initial changes to our CS:GO setup as @twist and @Xizt move to our bench. STATEMENT :newspaper: https:\/\/t.co\/HT8VvYaVGm pic.twitter.com\/coi114TxBm \u2014 FNATIC (@FNATIC) August 21, 2019 Now a month after that elimination, the team is making changes. They have benched Richard \u2018Xizt\u2019 Landstr\u00f6m and Simon \u2018twist\u2019 Eliasson. The choice of players benched is little to no surprise. Jesper \u2018JW\u2019 Wecksell and Freddy \u2018KRIMZ\u2019 Johansson recently signed multi-year deals and are synonymous with the organization. KRIMZ has also consistently been the team\u2019s best player these past months. Ludvig \u2018Brollan\u2019 Brolin is only 17, and they aren\u2019t going to let someone with that much potential sit on the bench. Xizt has struggled since he was picked up, and twist has been unable to stay consistent. Throughout 2019, Xizt never achieved a positive HLTV rating average (over 1) in any of the events he played on the roster. He only achieved a positive K\/D differential at one event, the closed qualifier for the EU Minor, and it was only a +1 differential. To sum up, he was a net negative at almost every event. twist did noticeably better, and was even the standout player for the team at the EU minor, but just couldn\u2019t maintain any consistency between maps or between events. Xizt himself acknowledged his poor performances in the team\u2019s announcement on Wednesday: \u201cDuring my time at Fnatic, there have been many ups but mostly downs\u2026I know I haven\u2019t been playing well lately and certainly far from the level where I want to be myself\u2026I have no excuses for my bad performances and I only see this as a time for me to work even harder\u2026\u201d In the team\u2019s announcement, the organization said that DreamHack Masters Malmo in October will be their next event, and ensured their fans that they will be \u201csecuring further support from new talent\u201d before then. Two potential additions exist in former players Robin \u2018flusha\u2019 R\u00f6nnquist and Markus \u2018pronax\u2019 Wallsten. If pronax wishes to stay retired, they could also seek out Aleksi \u2018Aleksib\u2019 Virolainen, who is reported to be on his way out of ENCE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fnatic bench Xizt and twist after missing CS:GO Berlin Major StarLadderFnatic\u2019s legendary Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster has benched two of its underperforming players after failing to qualify for a major for the first time ever. All magical runs must come to an end at some point. The organization has been a participant in every single […]<\/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-38287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38287","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=38287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}