Sources: FaZe\u2019s request to field k0nfig at BLAST Premier Spring Groups rejected Adela Sznajder\/ESL Gaming via ESPATFaZe\u2019s request to play with Kristian \u2018k0nfig\u2019 Wienecke in the BLAST Premier Spring Groups has been denied by the tournament organizer, Dexerto has confirmed. FaZe turned to k0nfig as a potential last-minute stand-in after learning that H\u00e5vard \u2018rain\u2019 Nygaard is unable to compete at the event due to the birth of his child. This request was met with strong opposition from some of the other BLAST Premier teams, as first reported by Dust2.us and confirmed by Dexerto. k0nfig was registered as a substitute by Heroic \u2013 the team he played for at the BLAST Premier World Final in December -, while FaZe have a registered substitute in Olof \u2018olofmeister\u2019 Kajbjer, who hasn\u2019t competed since late 2021. After much deliberation, BLAST informed the partner teams on the morning of January 19 that FaZe\u2019s request had been denied as k0nfig is registered on another team\u2019s roster for this event. The tournament organizer has decided to allow FaZe to register a different substitute for the event as the team currently has only four players in Denmark. olofmeister is currently playing Valorant from home on his stream. \u201cI guess FaZe are going full tilt right now,\u201d olofmeister told his viewers. \u201cI would.\u201d On Twitter, FaZe player Russel \u2018Twistzz\u2019 Van Dulken said that BLAST had previously informed the team that k0nfig would be allowed to play. \u201cEverything changed overnight,\u201d he added. According to the Canadian star, olofmeister informed the team that he \u201cdidn\u2019t have time to play\u201d, forcing the players to find an alternative. FaZe will take on Complexity on January 20 in their first match in the BLAST Premier Spring Groups. The North American organization has said that more information about rain\u2019s replacement for the event will be announced prior to that match. Contacted by Dexerto, BLAST confirmed that FaZe\u2019s request to field k0nfig had been denied and that the team would be granted an emergency substitute. \u201cAn update on the substitute will be made as soon as we have it,\u201d BLAST said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sources: FaZe\u2019s request to field k0nfig at BLAST Premier Spring Groups rejected Adela Sznajder\/ESL Gaming via ESPATFaZe\u2019s request to play with Kristian \u2018k0nfig\u2019 Wienecke in the BLAST Premier Spring Groups has been denied by the tournament organizer, Dexerto has confirmed. FaZe turned to k0nfig as a potential last-minute stand-in after learning that H\u00e5vard \u2018rain\u2019 Nygaard […]<\/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-38977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38977","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=38977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}