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Winning the ESWC 2010[edit]
After a bad performance at the Arbalet Cup CIS 2010 (4th place), the team decided to skip the next big tournament ASUS Winter 2010, so they could prepare for the Arbalet Cup and Ukrainian qualifications for the ESWC.[1][2] In the middle of May 2010, Na`Vi took 2nd place in the prestigious Arbalet Cup Europe 2010 in Stockholm, losing to Fnatic in the finals and earning $10,000 in prize money.[3] Na`Vi finally gained victory at ESWC Ukraine.[4]
In the final part of the ESWC, the team hit the highest seeding, along with SK Gaming, Fnatic and mTw.dk.[5] On July 4, 2010, Natus Vincere achieved the highest accolade in the history of Ukrainian e-Sports, winning the ESWC (which previously couldn't be reached by any CIS team), defeating SK Gaming in the finals: 16:5 (de_train) and 16:4 (de_inferno).[6] During the tournament Na`Vi passed through the group stage thanks to fortune, but outplayed Fnatic and mTw.dk in the play-offs.[7]
After being victorious in the world championship, Natus Vincere announced their participation in 2 more tournaments – Arbalet Cup Dallas and GameGune 2010 (Bilbao).[8] On July 18, 2010, Na`Vi won Arbalet Cup Dallas beating Mousesports in the final match: 19:15 (de_dust2), 16:12 (de_inferno). After receiving $25,000, Na`Vi took the first place in quantity of prize money earned by European teams that year.[9] Na`Vi took 3rd place in GameGune 2010 and Extreme Masters Shanghai.[10][11]
Victory at the World Cyber Games 2010[edit]
On August 15, Na`Vi won the Ukrainian qualifications for the World Cyber Games and got a paid voucher to the finals in Los Angeles from September 30 to October 3, 2010.[12]
The next tournament for Na`Vi was ASUS Summer 2010, to which the team received a direct invitation. This tournament became first in the ASUS Open series, which was held in the Kiev gaming center “Kiev CyberSport Arena”. In the semi-finals Na`Vi lost to Kazakh team k23 and as a result took the 3rd place.
On October 4, 2010 Natus Vincere became the World Cyber Games world champions by defeating Danish team mTw.dk in the finals.[13] This victory made Na`Vi the first team in the world which had managed to hold the three most prestigious championship titles at once (IEM, ESWC, WCG). At the end of October 2010, ESL TV commentator Bakr “KinGSaicx” Fadl proclaimed that SK Gaming was going to invite the Ukrainian team to take place of its Swedish squad, but the manager of Natus Vincere declined this information.[14]
In early November 2010 Natus Vincere took part in the World e-Sports Masters tournament (WEM 2010), which annually gathers the best teams from all over the world in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. Among eight participants of the tournament, Na’Vi took 4th place as well as $7,500.[15]
Victory at DreamHack Winter 2010[edit]
From the 25th to the 27 November 2010 in the Swedish city of Jönköping the largest LAN party in the world took place – DreamHack Winter 2010. To go to this tournament, Natus Vincere had to skip a major Russian tournament, ASUS Autumn 2010, since it was coinciding with DreamHack’s dates. After finishing the group stage Na`Vi consistently outplayed teams puta, fnatic, Frag Executors and then mTw.dk in the finals, winning the tournament.[16] During the four play-off matches the Ukrainians lost only one time to fnatic on the new map – de_mirage.[17][18] Sergey ”Starix” Ischuk received the tournament’s MVP award.
After winning DreamHack Winter 2010, the team established a new record: winning $220,000 in one year.[19] The previous record belonged to Swedish team fnatic, who earned $189,000 in 2009 (before that, the record was held by Swedish team SK Gaming with earnings of $183,000 in 2003).[20]
Winning the Intel Extreme Masters 5[edit]
On March 5, 2011 FamousFive defended their position in Hannover as the champions of the Intel Extreme Masters and earned $35,000. They defeated Polish team Frag Executorsin the finals: 16:12 (de_train) and 16:10 (de_dust2).[21] $4,550 of the prize money was deducted (13% of the total) as a penalty for breaking the rules.[22]
Winning The International 2011[edit]
In August 2011, DOTA2 was showed to the public at Gamescon in Cologne, Germany. Valve had announced a major tournament, with the biggest prize pool of the time, $1,600,000 given to the best 8 teams. A total of 16 teams was invited to the tournament.[23] Natus Vincere won the tournament without dropping a single series throughout the whole tournament, although they lost one game in the Grand Finals versus the Chinese team EHOME. Na'Vi claimed the 1st Prize of $1,000,000. A week later the player Artstyle left the team.
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Fnatic is a professional electronic sports organization based in Australia, UK and South Korea. Fnatic was founded in July 23, 2004.[2]Fnatic is particularly well known for its highly successful Counter-Strike team, which is the single most financially successful Counter-Strike team in electronic sports history.[3] Fnatic is one of the founding members of the G7 Teams.[4] Fnatic began the year 2012 with a new title Sponsor, and is now known as FnaticRaidCall. MSI still remains as a main sponsor, as they support the team with their latest laptop, motherboard, and graphics card. However with the new support of RaidCall, Fnatic was able to become the first Foreign E-Sports Organization to have their own house in Seoul, South Korea .
History[edit]
2004–2005[edit]
The Fnatic organization opened its doors for E-Sports on July 23, 2004. A young entrepreneur named Sam Mathews found the organization with the help of Anne Mathews; with three separate squads, consisting of Unreal Tournament, Call of Duty and Counter Strike Female. On the opening week Fnatic welcomed the PainKiller player Sander “Vo0” Kaasjager. Sander dominated the PainKiller scene in 2004 and 2005 around the globe, racking up a lot of titles for Fnatic. Sander was joined by Andrew “Gellehsak” Ryder, Johan “Toxic” Quick, and Alexander "Ztrider" Ingarv to help expand Fnatic’s name in the PainKiller scene. The Unreal Tournament division with Laurens "Lauke" Pluijmaekers, Frank “R0X” Aartman, and Martijn “roach” Nuijens made their marks in the competitive gaming scene by winning major titles including WCG 2004. In mid-2005, the organization took their first step in Counter Strike competitive scene by picking up their first Counter Strike male squad. The Counter Strike team will later become world’s most financially successful team.[citation needed] Fnatic acquired sponsors including Everglide, Intel, NVIDIA and Sennheiser.[6]
2005–2006[edit]
Starting a fresh Counter Strike division was the first big step into the new chapter of Fnatic. Parting ways with the former Counter Strike squad from Spain, Fnatic introduced a new Swedish CS team including Oscar "Archi" Torgersen, Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg, Harley "dsn" Örwall, Patrik "cArn" Sättermon, and Kristoffer "Tentpole" Nordlund. The team added Oskar “ins” Holm in 2007, and Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund and Rasmus "GuX" Ståhl in 2009. Along with the new Counter Strike squad, Fnatic ventured into Quake 4 scene with players including James “TooGood” Harding, Stephan “Stelam” Lammert, and Mikael 'PURRI' Tarvainen. During 2005-2006, Fnatic won ESPORTS Team of The Year and placed top 3 in major tournaments such as ESWC and CPL.[7][8]
2006–2007[edit]
During 2006-2007 two of Fanatic’s veterans, Sander “Vo0” Kaasjager, and Laurens "Lauke" Pluijmaekers leave Fnatic as they retire from E-Sports. After ESWC 2006, Fnatic introduced their new addition Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky, whom the organization picked up to represent them in the Dueling scene alongside James “TooGood” Harding and Alexander "Ztrider" Ingarv. Yanushevsky went on to place in the top 3 in Quake III and Quake 4 at WSVG and QuakeCon. Also during this time, the Fnatic.CS division won events such as WEM, GG, NGL. The newest addition to the organization was the World of Warcraft division, Fnatic.WoW. Returning to represent Fnatic in the World of Warcraft 3v3 community was Fnatic’s very own TooGood, Vo0, and Ztrider. The squad full of FPS players took 2nd in WSVG China. In 2007 the team was again nominated for ESPORTS-Team of the year.[9][10]
2007–2008[edit]
2007-08 saw the addition of two new divisions, one for Call of Duty, Fnatic.COD represented by, Daniel "tidde" Asp, Johan "LINQAN" Lindqvist, Marcus "odyxz" Nilsson, Robin "rivve" Holmen and Mikael "zsilts" Smedberg; and one for Defense of the Ancients, Fnatic.DotA represented by Ritter "Ritter" Rusli, Romi "melen" Gunawan, Ariyanto "Lakuci" Sony, Sugiarto "BaHaMuT" Cahyadi, Jeffry "Neo" Lu.[11] The Fnatic.WoW division won top finishes in events including BlizzCon, IEM and MLG. During this time Fnatic welcomed Neil Kirk (co-founder TCM Gaming).
2008–2009[edit]
During 2008-09, Fnatic acquired sponsors MSI and SteelSeries, two supporters of E-Sports. At that point Fnatic became known as FnaticMSI.[12] Also during this time, Fnatic picks up Counter Strike players Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund and Rasmus "GuX" Ståhl as well as a new DotA team including Edvin "Kwom" Börjesson, Jonathan "Loda" Berg, Rasmus "Misery-" Berth, Rene "Kebap-" Werner, and Aringazin "Aidar" Aidar.[13] In 2009 the team also added Stevy "stevy" Verheyen to the FnaticMSI.CoD squad.[14] During 2008-09, FnaticMSI placed top three in events including ESWC, IEM, KODE5, CGS.
2009–2010[edit]
FnaticMSI.CS became the number one Counter Strike team of 2009.[citation needed] FnaticMSI.CoD also had a successful year. After being away from the Quake Series for a while, the organization finally announced a five man roster to represent them in global Quake events. The roster consist of David "deus" Kinnaird, Pierre-Emeric "l1nkje" Portier, Sebastian "Spart1e" Siira, Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone, and Kevin "strenx" Baeza.[15] They earned top 3 titles for FnaticMSI in events such as QuakeCon, and IEM. Also during this time, the organization parted ways with their DotA squad and Counter Strike player Rasmus "GuX" Ståhl, and welcomed Björn "threat" Pers. The team won E-Sports Team of Year again in 2009.[16]
2010–2011[edit]
During 2010-11, the team welcomed back Rasmus "GuX" Ståhl, hoping to relive their success of 2009. Although the team was able to win a few events, they still fell short to competitor Na`Vi event after event, causing FnaticMSI to reform their Counter Strike team. This would be the biggest change FnaticMSI.CS saw since 2005, as the organization parted with Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg, Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund and Rasmus "GuX" Ståhl. The team welcomed three new players: Richard "Xizt" Landström, Faruk "Pita" Pita, and Marcus "Delpan" Larsson.[17] The new line up managed to win their first major event together, but soon thereafter fell apart. During this time, the team also retires from the Quake scene and part ways with its Quake players. FnaticMSI.HoN was restructured with players like Johan "N0tail" Sundstein, Kalle "Trixi" Saarinen, Henrik "Freshpro" Hansen, Jascha "Nova_" Markuse, and Tal "Fly" Aizik.[18] In 2010, FnaticMSI created a League of Legends division FnaticMSI.LoL with including Enrique Javier "xPeke" Martinez, Maciej "Shushei" Ratuszniak, Manuel "LamiaZeaLoT" Mildenberger, Lauri "CyanideFI" Happonen, Max "MagicFingers" Dreysse, and Peter "Mellisan" Meisrimel.[19] The team was able to win every major title in Heroes of Newerth and League of Legends this year.[citation needed] In addition, FnaticMSI added of a console (Xbox) division, and a fresh Starcraft II division including Yang "Sen" Chia Cheng and GSL runner up Seo-Yong "Rain" Park.[20]
2011–2012[edit]
From the mid-2011 to late 2011, Fnatic’s counter strike team was able to climb their way back to one of the top team in the world, by placing top three in many events with their new acquired Danish AWP player, Michael “Friis” Jorgensen.[21] On January 2012, Fnatic started the New Year with a brand new title sponsor, naming them FnaticRaidCall.[22]However this didn’t mean the end of partnership with MSI, as they continue to provide the organization with high quality laptops, graphics cards, and motherboards. With the new title Sponsor, FnaticRaidCall was able to expend their territory into the Korean gaming scene, as they became the first foreign e-sports team to acquire a Professional Gaming house in Seoul, South Korea.[23] FnaticRaidCall also welcomed a new Editor-In-Chief, Alexander Zavoloka, a common face in the Russian e-sports scene.[24] Fnatic also released most of the previous StarCraft II player and Staff, as they rebuild the StarCraft II squad. The first player to join the existing squad would be the WarCraft III legend, Jang “Moon” Jae Ho .[25] Shortly after Moon, the team would be able to add one of the best StarCraft II Terran players in the world to the roster, Lee “aLive” SeoK Han, the roster continues to grow in 2012 as the team adds players like Oz, ByuL, SoN, Depurture, and many other Korean players. Also with aLive the team welcomed Sung Hwan "Hwanni" Kim, a very well known public figure in the e-sports scene in Korea.[26] StarCraft II wasn’t the only scene where Fnatic was seeing change in. As Pita decided to step back from gaming, Fnatic welcomed Andreas “MODDII” Fridh as the next rifle man.[27] Also probably a big surprise to all, when arguably the best in game leader in counter strike, Patrik “cArn” Sattermon announced his retirement before the IEM World Finals. However carn was not ready to call quit on his passion, as he directed his passion more towards the management side of the scene. He became the first CGO (Chief Gaming Officer) of fnatic.[28] Xizt took on the role of the in game leader, as the team welcomes Finn “Karrigan” Andersen, another Danish player to fill the void left by the departure of cArn. The new squad was surprising able to win their first major LAN event at Copenhagen Games 2012. The same weekend FnaticRC.aLive was able to win his first ever major tournament at IPL4 Las Vegas.[29] Also fnatic’s well achieved Heroes of Newearth team decided to move to Dota 2 as their primary game, as they welcome H4nn1, and Era to squad. They became the new Dota 2 squad for fnatic.[30] Also In the mid-2012, the League of Legends team moved to Korea to join the StarCraft II boys in the Fnatic International Gaming House, to take part in the OGN Champions League. After fnatic CS won DreamHack Summer and Swedish Championship, Rasmus "Gux" Stahl decided to retire from Counter Strike and left an open spot in Fnatic. On 26 June Fnatic announced that Martin "trace" Heldt will be the 5th in the team. After this transfer fnatic.CS changes the flag to the Danish one after a dominance of Swedes in the lineup. In August Richard "Xizt" Landstorm left the team to play CS:GO in Team NiP; Emil "FYRR73" Karlsson was announced as his replacement.
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