fnatic confirm MODDII departure

2-7-2013 17:00

fnatic have announced on their official website that Andreas "MODDII" Fridh has left their CS:GO squad.

HLTV.org had already reported last week that changes were likely to happen in fnatic after the Danish team surprisingly decided to pull out of the SLTV StarSeries finals in Kiev.

Henrik "FeTiSh" Christensen revealed at the weekend that Andreas "MODDII" Fridh was on the brink of joining Epsilon, despite fnatic reaching the semi-finals of the RaidCall EMS One Finals following a 2-0 victory over LDLC.com.

MODDII officially departs fnatic

fnatic have now confirmed that they have parted company with the Swedish player, stressing that the move happened "on good terms" and that there is no bad blood between the two.

"As in all fairy tales, there is always an end, is that I will leave the Fnatic family to try my luck elsewhere, the decision is and will always be my own when I felt I needed a change, and really missed playing with Swedes then in recent years played with the Danes," Fridh told fnatic's website.

"I have always been very happy at Fnatic and have always gotten the respect that I deserve. I would really like to wish Fnatic the best in the future and hope they can find a replacement soon so we can all see "the black and orange" on races again soon."

fnatic's Chief Gaming Officer, Patrik "cArn" Sättermon, also commented on the news, saying:

"Today we are officially releasing one of our longest serving and iconic members, Andreas ”Moddii” Fridh from his contract. This comes from a time of struggle from the team to reach consistency, and even more importantly: a united mindset on how to develop harmoniously as a team.

"It's always sad to bid farewell to fellow Fnatics, and this departure is certainly no exception. Andreas has shown exceptional performance and dedication ever since he joined our ranks in 2012. Moddii was one of the reasons our CS1.6 division managed to reclaim the throne after an incredible run winning multiple tournaments of international magnitude.

"We are currently considering our next step and strategy going forward in CS:GO, so expect more updates from us at Fnatic in the coming weeks."

Fridh joined fnatic in January 2012 following the departure of Faruk "pita" Pita, and helped the team through a very dominant period in the last months of 1.6, with titles at Copenhagen Games, DreamHack Summer and GameGune.

He made the move to CS:GO with the rest of the team towards the end of the year, but stepped down in December, only to return three months later.

fnatic now have the following lineup:

Michael "Friis" Jørgensen
Martin "trace" Heldt
Andreas "Xyp9x" Hojsleth
Finn "karrigan" Andersen

n11

2013-07-02 18:00

D: PLS NO EPSILON

EPSILONnn

2013-07-02 18:01

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LEENANn1

2013-07-02 18:37

gl MODDII

Let's hope he finds a good Swedish team! Epsilon/Lemondogs incoming! :)

and arrives at epsilon.. :D

2 replies

;( he will ruin the team...centryz is more friendly

2013-07-02 18:39

lets hope not...they got great potential, and now with moddii they will b better. I think moddii will fit in easily with them as he too wants to play with swedes now.

2013-07-02 18:43

epsilon 2 stronk

2013-07-02 18:02

fuck gl Andreas!

i can bet that new player will be ex -1-6

If he joins epsilon then he's stupid.

2013-07-02 18:03

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he says that he want to play with swedes

2013-07-02 18:04

total agree fnatic seems strong at the last games if they practise more they can be very strong

2013-07-02 18:21

Epsilon>fnatic, so why would it be stupid?

2013-07-02 18:27

10 replies

why do you think that epsilon better? they do not play against each other

2013-07-02 18:44

Epsilon have better results overall.

2013-07-02 18:55

achievements

2013-07-02 18:59

ahhahahahh...nice joke

2013-07-02 18:56

3 replies

"fan of Friis", ofc you don't think so. The truth hurts doesn't it?

2013-07-02 19:00

not a joke

2013-07-02 19:04

according to recent results he is right... how is this a joke? Fnatic = crashing out in groups at DH, Epsilon = 2nd at DH.

2013-07-02 19:10

i don't think so

2013-07-02 19:19

Nobody cares

2013-07-02 19:25

don't be rude boy

2013-07-02 19:30

Why? Epsilion just finished 2nd at dreamhack

2013-07-02 18:51

i.imgur.com/4WA6Fc5.jpg Moddi + epsilan = true <3

12 replies

get_right so bad xDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2013-07-02 18:13

Rumors say that he is going to change name to Noob_Right.

2013-07-02 18:14

Check out the time he had been on the server before posting stupid comments.

2013-07-02 19:27

Do you realize he had entered the server only minutes before?

how did you take that image? Is a Devilwak view so how the hell did you do?

2013-07-02 18:35

7 replies

Maybe stream? Or he is Devilwak :D

Devilwak don't stream :/

2013-07-02 18:40

HE MUST BE DEVILWALK?:O

2013-07-02 21:55

he simply clicked view game info on devilwalk lololol, dont overthink it that much

2013-07-02 19:05

He has devilwalk on his friends? Or whoever took the screenshot has.

2013-07-02 19:06

He has devilwalk on steam friends and looked at the server he was in.

got him on friends y0.

2013-07-02 19:17

can't imagine any good pickup to complete the roster right now gl moddii

2013-07-02 18:05

Me too, but what about cajunb?

2013-07-02 18:06

he quite from cs it would be suprise if he will back to cs

2013-07-02 18:11

want to see device in this LU but it will be snappi or lomme

2013-07-02 18:09

4 replies

hope for inzta

2013-07-02 18:18

xyp9x inzta device trace karrigan w00w

2013-07-02 18:34

sounds good, time to drop Friis

2013-07-02 19:31

friis is still a good awper. he may not be making all the shots online but at EMS he was on form, against VG crucial rounds were won due to his awp skills, just a shame they couldn't turn it into a win.

2013-07-03 03:13

Epsilon incoming!

Nice! ;)

2013-07-02 18:07

good luck MODDII ... sure he will finds a good home. But what will fnatic do ? Drop the team or try to get a new player ?

We will continue to work hard to reach our goal of becoming best CS:GO team in the scene.

2013-07-02 18:10

INZTA!

2013-07-02 18:08

95% it will be 1-6 player

= trash

2013-07-02 18:12

modi + delpan? :)

Delpan - Lemondogs MODDI - Epsilon OCB?

2013-07-04 23:10

socN joins fnatic.

He is playing for Eternity, and the chances for leaving the team are slim.

if fnatic offer him a place on the roster, he will thank yes, I think :) Fnatic is a legendary team, and way bigger - and better - than Eternity. :)

And? Does bigger and better always mean good? Did you ever hear about the codex of brothers? Anyway, I would love to see one of my players going to play for Fnatic. It's a honor. Peace!

2013-07-02 19:29

if you have good salary per month, i guess yes

2013-07-03 03:29

inzta or cajunb

Carn join fnatic XDDD

XDDDD

good idea

2013-07-02 19:21

zonic inc

n1111111111

time to return of the pingu !

lol, i don't think so, but i would be nice

2013-07-02 18:15

nope just fucking nope. If it was 1.6 maybe he would've returned, but since it's CS:GO(new game) he won't.

2013-07-02 19:45

now karrigan and friis need step up

2013-07-02 19:07

2013-07-02 19:16

2013-07-03 20:20

well there goes 1 off fnatic star player.

gl :) go join delpan :D

2013-07-02 18:16

damn... now stable line up please.. too many changes.

ADD Carn fnatic :D

fifflaren out moddi in

2013-07-02 18:17

good for moddii fnatic.csgo RIP

i.imgur.com/AGHqcmn.png?1 he's playing today in facit i guess

how the fuck do u know that?

2013-07-02 18:54

steamcommunity.com/profiles/765611979611..

2013-07-02 18:19

fifflaren out, f0rest awper and moddii in NIP !!

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look at previous post.

2013-07-02 18:29

Fifflaren is a pretty good riffler, better than friberg imo :)

2013-07-02 18:41

looool, better than friberg? xD

He just proved that at ems finals :)

and never again

2013-07-02 20:38

Lets see :). You have to keep in mind that he has always been rifler, and started as sniper in NiP.

2013-07-02 21:38

Again? Make up your mind for once?

2013-07-02 18:20

+ Snappi

2013-07-02 18:23

+device

2013-07-02 18:26

good option.

the only acceptable choice imo

2013-07-02 19:22

onliner, offliner, 1.6er, saucer, playing csgo, disaster-area, good guy modi

fnatic :(

2013-07-02 18:28

EPSILON MODDII <3 Tina * Iskold

OH, WAIT! You know how he's communicating and you know everything about him including his psychological characteristics, in-game chemistry & you know him like a person, player, friend etc it's hilarious, dude

welcome to epsilon

Fnatic is nothing now. ggwp 1.6 timez bestz.

2013-07-02 18:32

if they pick inzta + device i think they can be better than with moddii Inzta device xyp9x trace friis ( igl, he was fnatic igl some weeks when they played the blast )

2013-07-02 18:36

no FFS. the best thing fnatic can do with this opportunity is FIND a dedicated IGL one who has done it in the past and has a depth of experience.

2013-07-03 03:17

nice newZZZZZZZZZ =D

sad... I hope fnatic are on top again <3 cArn

2013-07-02 18:38

zonic, your time to shine :D

and that's how fnatic lost their last Swedish flag. sad story .. fnatic used to have better days carrying the Swedish flag.

danish 1.6 squad won pretty much everything even tho I agree in CS:GO they had a very bad run right from the start :(

2013-07-02 21:40

Unless Friis, trace and karrigan becomes more consistent and keep a high level, it will not matter who joins. Currently each player can make incredible plays, but it happens too rarely, which is why they constantly fall behind the best.

true but on EMS One trace was really good, but karrigan and friis was not so good mby need more time..

trace was not really good, only okay, which just emphasizes my point.

2013-07-02 18:45

what what?not good hltv.org/?pageid=173&playerid=58&eventid.. he played on ems much better than always

2013-07-02 18:47

hltv.org/?pageid=246&playerid=58&eventid.. Look at that and you will see you are wrong. He might have played better, but still nowhere near top level.

I hope xyp9x will join cph wolves, would be awesome!

2013-07-02 18:42

not gonna happen

Maybe it will, but as you say, it is very unlikely that he will drop his salary to play with wolves, i just think they got bigger potential :)

He's going to nip, fifflarens contract expired two weeks ago

+Delpan ..

gl to both

+ cajunb

new fnatic will be fetish device dupreeh xyp9x trace/karrigan (depending on who is more motivated)

karrigan>fetish so far

2013-07-02 18:48

fnatic are clearly desperate for an IGL, and seeing as theyve been constantly changing who fills that role, im guessing karrigan is not comfortable doing it. fetish has always been an IGL, and a very good one at that. wolves need +2, but unless they go with socn and smf, there isnt a great deal of other talent, unless they take some fnatic players. obviously it would make more sense to move to fnatic instead of staying in wolves. if fnatic are interested in fetish (they should be) im sure he would want to still play with device and dupreeh, meaning only 2 of the current fnatic players would stay. xyp9x would be an obvious choice to stay, friis would be an obvious choice to leave (hes way too inconsistant, and device is a very solid awper) sorry for essay, im bored and speculating :D

2013-07-02 18:58

pretty sure fnatic will not kick karrigan/friis/trace just add one player

youre probably right, but it wont make them any better.

2013-07-02 19:18

atm the is playing with EPSILON faceit cup

Keep changing players, this is great.

gl moddii :)

3 April zonic: For the first time in a long time, I am seriously thinking about making a comeback! Because tomorrow I will go to SharkGaming's HQ where I will pick up a brand new hardcore gaming PC Say hello to 1000fps! still waiting :)

2013-07-02 19:03

trace should retire... he was awesome in 1.6 but isnt the same force in csgo. Best to let some younger talent step in

If friis i agree, but after seeing traces play im not saying hes amazing but hes at least improving. EMS showed that. But lets be real there is not many danish options as most are on sponsored teams as it is. Dont know how much salary fnatic is offering if any with the way theyve been playing.. but if moddii left someone obviously made him a decent offer. At least enough to leave.

2013-07-02 19:14

cajunb join 100%

ne pizdi eblan

tixo syuca, a to yeby ahahah stupid ukraine guy

2013-07-02 19:08

naxyi xyinu pisat esli eto ne pravda yebok change flag fake flagger

2013-07-02 19:09

you idiot? I`m from Copenhagen. just I know a little bit of russian lang. .

2013-07-02 19:12

clY welcome

i have heard zonic cs go comeback: ironic

2013-07-02 19:11

Stefanex will not shut the fuck up...hes a bigger retard

as i already said, epsilon sponsor is razer so moddii have to use razer gear and razer sucks result: bad player he should replace maybe one css player in lemondogs

I was a little worried before, but this change seems not that bad. MODDII can finally play under Sweden flag, which means he can win Swedish Championship again. fnatic still keep 4 players, only need one to complete their lineup. So, good luck to MODDII and fnatic :D