fnatic bench smooya after IEM Katowice elimination DreamHackFnatic have confirmed that they have moved CS:GO AWPer Owen \u2018smooya\u2019 Butterfield to the bench following the team\u2019s elimination from IEM Katowice. The news, first reported by Dexerto, comes just days after fnatic were sent packing at IEM Katowice in 9th-12th place following defeats to FaZe and Astralis in the group stage of the tournament. Smooya has been in fnatic\u2019s ranks since October, when he joined the team as a replacement for Jack \u2018Jackinho\u2019 Str\u00f6m Mattsson, initially on a three-month trial. He made an impressive start to life with Fnatic, averaging a 1.22 HLTV rating in his first two months on the team. Since the turn of the year, however, that has dipped to 1.01, with his Impact also dropping from 1.20 to a staggering 0.92. In an interview with HLTV.org prior to the group stage of IEM Katowice, smooya admitted that he was going through a slump in form and that his confidence had taken a hit. In a statement, team director Andreas Samuelsson explained that smooya is \u201cnot the right fit for our main CS:GO roster\u201d and that the British AWPer can now \u201cexplore his options within the game\u201d. CS:GO Roster Update: With qualification for the Major starting this week and in order to move our CS:GO roster on to better results, we have made the decision to move @smooyacs to the inactive roster. Read about the change: \u2014 FNATIC (@FNATIC) February 21, 2022 According to sources, the decision to replace smooya was made even before the team\u2019s elimination from IEM Katowice. Fnatic have reached out to prospective new AWPers, though they stated that academy member Lulian \u2018regali\u2019 Harj\u0103u will be playing for the main team. It\u2019s unclear if this is a permanent solution or a band-aid until a new player is signed. Fnatic will have to take part in the open qualifiers to qualify for one of the two PGL Major Antwerp European RMRs. The qualifying process will run between February 22 and March 6, with 19 spots on the line (nine in Europe RMR A, ten in Europe RMR B). Next month, Fnatic are also slated to compete in ESL Pro League Season 15, which will be held in Malta. Fnatic CS:GO roster: Freddy \u2018KRIMZ\u2019 Johansson – Ludvig \u2018Brollan\u2019 Brolin – Alex \u2018ALEX\u2019 McMeekin – William \u2018mezii\u2019 Merriman – Iulian \u2018regali\u2019 Harj\u0103u – Jamie \u2018keita\u2019 Hall (coach) – Owen \u2018smooya\u2019 Butterfield (benched) –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
fnatic bench smooya after IEM Katowice elimination DreamHackFnatic have confirmed that they have moved CS:GO AWPer Owen \u2018smooya\u2019 Butterfield to the bench following the team\u2019s elimination from IEM Katowice. The news, first reported by Dexerto, comes just days after fnatic were sent packing at IEM Katowice in 9th-12th place following defeats to FaZe and Astralis […]<\/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-38978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38978","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=38978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}