The making of rain: why I\u2019ve stayed loyal to FaZe CS:GO veteran H\u00e5vard \u2018rain\u2019 Nygaard has had an extensive history within Counter-Strike, with a turbulent team history and over 20 different teammates, before finding his home at FaZe Clan. In this in-depth interview, Rain discusses his beginnings in Kinguin, his struggles with G2 and his own ability, as well as his bright future with FaZe Clan. Rain\u2019s short journey with G2 Joining G2 in late 2015 following the org\u2019s purchase of Kinguin, rain saw a hopeful future with the team and their roster. \u201cI think we had a bright future there, even though dennis left afterwards to join Fnatic, but I think we had a good future in G2 and I always liked G2 as an organization.\u201d G2 would later accept FaZe Clan\u2019s offer to purchase the roster. When discussing the move, rain commented: \u201cWe switched because of some other reasons, but back then, a couple months after, maybe a year after, we kinda regretted our decision a little bit. Now I don\u2019t regret it of course. I\u2019m in FaZe, I love it here.\u201d Rain\u2019s long journey with FaZe Clan Following the purchase, it wasn\u2019t always smooth-sailing for FaZe Clan\u2019s new roster. After the ELEAGUE Major: Boston in 2018, they faced their biggest obstacle yet, falling short to Cloud9 in the final and losing key members \u2018Olofmeister\u2019 and \u2018Karrigan\u2019. \u201cI think Boston created a lot of problems for our team and I don\u2019t think that line-up was ever able to shake it. We came in super confident to the final, and we fumbled a 15-11 lead. Olof had to go into his break, I think that was the downfall of FaZe as it was in 2017. I think it was just a downward spiral ever since we kicked Karrigan.\u201d Looking to the future, the roster introduced two new key members \u2018Twistzz\u2019, \u2018Ropz\u2019 as well as bringing back Karrigan, which kick-started their rise in the rankings. Following the star-studded additions, FaZe continued their path to victory, and were crowned champions of the PGL Antwerp Major 2022, with rain also winning the MVP award. They became the first international org to winner a major, and the first org to win IEM Katowice, IEM Cologne, and the Major in the same year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The making of rain: why I\u2019ve stayed loyal to FaZe CS:GO veteran H\u00e5vard \u2018rain\u2019 Nygaard has had an extensive history within Counter-Strike, with a turbulent team history and over 20 different teammates, before finding his home at FaZe Clan. In this in-depth interview, Rain discusses his beginnings in Kinguin, his struggles with G2 and his […]<\/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-39182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39182","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=39182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}