fnatic land MODDII, stingeR

27-2-2013 18:52

fnatic have announced via their official website that they have bolstered their squad with the additions of Andreas "MODDII" Fridh and Lasse "stingeR" Midtstue from Torqued.

fnatic ventured into CS:GO in November with their highly-successful 1.6 squad, but good results have been very hard to come by, resulting in a series of roster changes for the team.

More recently, fnatic signed Andreas "Xyp9x" Hojsleth and Magnus "JOKERN" Barthel, but almost no improvements were made as the team finished fourth at HKLAN and sixth in the Gaming.dk League.

fnatic have now decided to reshuffle their squad once again by parting company with Dennis "Rytter" Rytter, who was the team's ingame leader, and Magnus "JOKERN" Barthel.

MODDII makes fnatic return

To complete their squad, fnatic decided to re-sign Andreas "MODDII" Fridh, who left the team in December after almost one year in the organisation, along with his Torqued team-mate Lasse "stingeR" Midtstue, who was part of the former mousesports.uk team who finished third-fourth at DreamHack Winter.

fnatic's Chief Gaming Officer Patrik "cArn" Sättermon issued the following statement for fnatic.com:

"After reviewing our development in Counter-Strike GO, we have come to the conclusion that new blood is needed in order for us to reignite our motivation and optimism. This is what we feel, we so urgently need to get back on the field as a contender for the medals.

It is always painful to go through player changes, and today's are not any different. We are respectfully bidding farewell to Dennis "Rytter" Christensen and Magnus "JOKERN" Barthel, who both joined our ranks officially in early January 2013.

Even when we have seen moments of brilliance from the current constellation, the team feel that they do not see any progress in reaching consistency and confidence as a team. Both of these characteristics have always been the main traits of our Counter-Strike division. We believe our two new additions, Moddii and stringeR, will be the vitamin injection we need to get back our former glory.

I'm personally very excited to welcome Andreas back to our ranks – you have surely been missed! At the same time, I'm confident that Lasse "stingeR" Midtstue will be a deadly asset for our squad. Finally I would like to thank Rytter and JOKERN for their time in Fnatic, and wish them the best in the future.

Game on!"

Returning member Fridh also made a statement expressing his joy about reuniting with fnatic:

As you all can see I'm back in the black and orange again. I couldn’t be any happier, my goal has always been to play on the top level and compete with the top teams. Now that I’ve joined Fnatic again, I have the possibility to do just that and it feels really good. Our goals are of course to bring ourselves to the very top of the CS:GO scene and with hard work and a lot of fun, I know we will make it. I brought stingeR with me from Torqued, who I have been playing for since I departed Fnatic and he is just an awesome player and a great guy that will fit into this organisation just perfectly. I'm really confident in this team and I do believe we are going to a top contender against NiP.

And last but not least I want to thank Fnatic for giving me the opportunity to again play for the best organization out there and play among my good friends Michael (Friis), Martin (Trace) and of course Xyp9x and stingeR.

fnatic's first event with the new lineup will be Copenhagen Games in late March, where they will playing with: