fnatic sign Academy team

23-8-2016 17:41

fnatic have just announced the signing of an Academy team, consisting of up-and-coming Swedish players, including Niclas "PlesseN" Plessen and Aleksandar "jayzaR" Zarkovic.

The team have been put together by coach Andreas "Samuelsson" Samuelsson, who hand-picked the five players after an immense scouting period with the aim of compiling a dedicated roster with potential to make it to the next level.

One of the more known names of the new squad is Niclas "⁠PlesseN⁠" Plessen, who made headlines in April by standing in for fnatic during Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer's leave, although he was later on replaced by John "⁠wenton⁠" Eriksson due to inexperience.

The AWPing role will be fulfilled by Aleksandar "⁠jayzaR⁠" Zarkovic who made his name in INFINITY and Iwku and played at Copenhagen Games 2016 with the latter.

Two former visomvet players have been brought in as well, in-game leader Maikil "⁠Golden⁠" Selim and Linus "⁠Bååten⁠" Andersson, while the lineup is completed by Alex "⁠Karus⁠" Saglamoglu, who is participating in FACEIT's Pro League (FPL) and reached 7th place in April.

"Today we are pleased to announce our latest CS venture: Fnatic Academy CS:GO." fnatic's Chief Gaming Officer, Patrik "cArn" Sättermon, said in a statement.

"We have identified what we believe is some of the most talented and hard working players in Europe, and from today onwards these individuals will form one of the strongest semi-professional teams, which we as an organisation will support in their journey towards becoming the eSports stars of tomorrow."

Coach Samuelsson also shared a few words in the announcement:

"The Academy Team is an exciting project which includes five of the best young talents in Europe. All five players have the potential to become great pro players with the right dedication and motivation."

"Our goal is to gain as much experience as possible this year, both online and offline and finally qualify for a Major in late 2017. I'm confident that we can achieve that goal together. I also want to give a big shout out to Patrik "cArn" Sättermon and Fnatic for their full support."

fnatic Academy are:

Niclas "⁠PlesseN⁠" Plessen
Aleksandar "⁠jayzaR⁠" Zarkovic
Alex "⁠Karus⁠" Saglamoglu
Maikil "⁠Golden⁠" Selim
Linus "⁠Bååten⁠" Andersson

Andreas "Samuelsson" Samuelsson (coach)

The team will make their debut in the last ECS Season 2 Development league qualifier on Saturday.

NICE (ez 4 ence)

2016-08-23 17:41

14 replies

lul

Fnatic became tier 420

2016-08-23 17:43

2 replies

+1 can confirm they will take a big blunt hit

2016-08-23 17:57

Actually fnatic know, people gonna bid for dennis and olofmeister *cough* (NiP, FaZe, mouz and NA teams).

2016-08-23 17:58

Ence the bestest team ever

2016-08-23 17:44

Sorry for stealing this spot. Fnatic learnt from SK and Games Academy lol. IMHO this is an extremely smart move. They will sure feed from academy pretty soon. AWESOME long term investment.

2016-08-23 17:54

4 replies

If u think that SK & GA invented that, you're wrong, this exists since long time in LoL.

2016-08-25 01:13

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Ofc not. They invented it in CS:GO

2016-08-25 14:48

Then invent isn't the good term for it :D

2016-08-25 23:55

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Agree on this one

2016-08-26 00:23

karus what an imigrant ....

2016-08-23 18:16

Aleksandar Zarkovic and Alex Saglamoglu are both born in Sweden

2016-08-23 18:23

care its a turkish fag still

2016-08-23 18:34

Nice

good move fnatic

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2016-08-23 18:20

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2016-08-23 18:25

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2016-08-23 18:26

2016-08-23 18:28

2016-08-23 18:30

nice englando. You speak only one language and you're still shit at it. :( #NAeducation

2016-08-23 18:45

plessen to kid team

because ...he is a kiddo ? LOL

a skilled kiddo atleast :3 youtube.com/watch?v=sRbA_l0hIPI

2016-08-23 17:52

Yeah +1

2016-08-23 18:01

yeah .76 rating kid is a BEAST

2016-08-23 18:31

a tier 3 unexperienced player pulling of a clutch in a high tier game shows how much potential he has!

he's a bum

2016-08-23 19:02

1np

its swedish scene so theyll probably be good once they get the cheats installed

2016-08-23 17:42

Karus actually cheated before so it wouldn't suprise me.

Kappa

2016-08-23 17:47

Lmao

nice

trying to be godsent LUL

godsent is trying to be fnatic

2016-08-23 20:39

wow

lel

ez 4 fnatic

Actually there are 2 Turkish players in fnatic academy

lol they are from Sweden, it is obvious, they are not swedes

LUL nice job swedistan

2016-08-23 18:03

And Zarković is probably from Serbia lel

plessen is also more turkish than swedish so its 3 Turks

2016-08-23 18:13

swedish = turkish so 2 dubbleturks and 3 regular swedistani turks

Not sure about Golden but Karus probably has Turkish origins

2016-08-23 21:11

what

ezz

dwd

predicted

wtf

lol

WHAT?

123

EXPECTED

ezfnaticlol

expected

Lol

goodluck

Nice gl Karus

inb4 this team is better than their actual team

Dratuti))) 00

karuuus

fnatic pulling the games academy XD

Karus and Plessen, very nice i like 3 immigrants and one skåning xaxaxaxaxaxa, not very Swedish

What the hell is wrong with u

2016-08-24 08:20

good luck Plessen

inb4 primary fnatic left

"Our goal is to find the best player that sub wenton as fast as possible"

farm team for fnatic LUL

That's what it is basically.

Topfragger replaces Wenton contest pretty much.

2016-08-23 18:33

Great move. Hope others do the same.

First non-retarded comment! Congratz

stay golden pony boy

seems like a lot of org will sign a second cs team now just like dota

lmao

Saglamoglu n1

Coach Samuelsson that sounds like from a murica football movie

This is how you know godsent and fnatic have strong ties

Bååt

so how are they supported?

flusha giving some money..

2016-08-23 17:50

Godsent is better anyways

are you stupid?

2016-08-24 00:10

"<3 dennis", not even worth to talk with ya, cya

2016-08-24 00:20

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2016-08-24 00:21

loool...

lol at the HLTV admin that has to delete all the "who?" comments

Actually there have been none so far :P

Why that new rule? :( I remember spamming "who?" back in middle school. It's part of HLTV culture.

Where's Lolzie?

who?

wot

XDDDDDDDDDDDD nice

nice now fix the main team :D

Karus Turkish flag pls hltv

nice sign a css cheater, jayzar cheated at css

2016-08-23 17:46

lol better than main team

2016-08-23 17:45

Where is pasha daughter ?

GL jayzaR

Gl karus and golden

-Karus +pauf -Golden +zende -Baaten +quix and decent tier3 team

ACADEMY TEAM

2016-08-23 17:53

its academy team you df

SO WHAT? They can create new team with better players

2016-08-23 17:55

its ACADEMY TEAM with potential young talents you df.

2016-08-23 17:56

SO WHAT? They can create new team with better players. Poorlak stfu.

that´s not the point... Pauf has already been hitting his max level, Plessen for example is an talented player from FPL that has not much team experience, same with the others..

2016-08-23 18:06

bååten <3

Aleksandar Zarkovic nt sweden :D just kidding..

2016-08-23 17:48

Cok saglamsin oglum ;p

lol fnatic destroy maikelele plan to pick 4 swedish talents on his new team

WTF

Pictures please

should sign Fallen's Games Academy !!!

Maikil "Golden" Selim Maikelele's cousin from israel?

Karus GOD boys

So this means that if fnatic were to ever meet Academy in a major qualifier, or in any other official match, one of the teams would have to forfeit because the teams are owned by the same people... right? riiiight?

No, they will have 2 orgs. But same owner, like nip, dignitas,cph...

niceeeeeeeee

WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTT

hahahahahhahhaahhahahah trash

2016-08-23 17:59

Samuelsson best coach <3

YES Finally Karus get signed by a team! best of luck to the boys

Karus FPL God.

Newbee NewbeeYung CDEC CDEC Youth Vici Gaming VG.Potential Fnatic Fnatic.A

Sweden yes! So tolerant picking 3 inmigrants.

wheres yzn

wp Karus

Wtf is this lineup?

golden is 22 years old in a "youngster" team LUL I feel bad for him

2016-08-23 18:05

its like father playing with sons

2016-08-23 18:14

wtf? olof personally said i join? wtf

Aleksandar "jayzaR" Zarkovic Alex "Karus" Saglamoglu Maikil "Golden" Selim Zarkovic, Saglamoglu, Selim. Swedish as fuck if you ask me :P

Aleksandar Zarkovic is 100% Serbian name. Maikil Selim is probably Turkish. Im not sure about Alex Saglamoglu.

2016-08-23 18:17

Saglamoglu is classic Turk surname as well

2016-08-23 18:22

Karus is Turkish, he's even playing in TWC for Turkey lol

well, good luck

2016-08-23 18:08

from what I've seen, karus deserves real chance =)

the competition between the two teams thier org might be exactly what they need. n1ce

WOW WAT? WAT IS THAT? humm wait WTF? hummmmm RIP

Karus <3

2016-08-23 18:09

GL karus and plessen top20 inc

Aleksandar "jayzaR" Zarkovic - yeah he is totally Swedish 4Head

I can't describe how happy I'm that PlesseN found a decent team, he really deserves it. I wish him and his team all the best in the future.

copying Fallen, speak more about Favelas, HAHAHAHA

surname* sorry :p

2016-08-23 18:18

Ez 4 aco delija

2016-08-23 18:19

"some of the most talented and hard working players in Europe" - Which happen'd to be Swedish :)))

Ez for Alex Saglamoglu

Fanatic army inc Still can't believe my boy Lekr0 already joined fnatic. Its a crazy jump from semi pro to the top echelon of pro

godsent hit it first

2016-08-23 18:24

ez 4 Plessen

Karus swedish born-Turkish player gl

2016-08-23 18:27

They did it from Fallen's Games Academy that graduated good players and today are Immortals. GL for fnatic's new base team !

-Academy team -22 yo player

2016-08-23 18:32

Why was I not invited??? Vuggo told me I get a safe spot in that roster!!!

2016-08-23 18:35

yeah, me too man

2016-08-23 19:01

Godsent Academy > Fnatic Academy!!!

2016-08-23 18:37

godsent academy are random legendary eagles from mm

ROFL?? Are you trolling or really retarded?

2016-08-24 00:08

NO!

2016-09-11 20:17

should have signed epsilon, at least they wont lose to some tier3 teams which this type of team will do.

2016-08-23 18:44

ROFL they can't even have a good primary line-up imagine a academy line-up with trash players hahahaha

2016-08-23 18:48

these are 5 good players, unlike godsent's team.

ez plessen

2016-08-23 18:49

tier5

2016-08-23 18:51

WOT Karus wasnt turkish?!? och w8... sWEEDenstan

2016-08-23 19:03

I knew this wud happen

2016-08-23 19:05

ez 4 karus

The lack of Swedish names is rather disturbing

2016-08-23 19:10

not exactly europe but good luck

2016-08-23 19:24

This Academy team thing never worked out for anyone, neither it wont work out for Fnatic.

2016-08-23 19:29

ayy, fnatic gonna shut down

Its Academy team . Its a good addition

2016-08-23 21:14

olof's career is over

2016-08-23 19:32

Are u retarded ? Fnatic has its own lineup this is fnatic academy. Stupud finns lol

2016-08-24 08:26

no rly olof's career is over. it was from when fnatico and godsent did their thing. I just came a bit late to say anything in that post so this felt like a good place to say something when something is related to fnatic. also olof's career is over

2016-08-24 23:20

fnatic > godsent, fnatic still the n1 swedish team, making tons of money, soon f0rest or gtr will join them, tell me how is his career over :F clueless finn :X

2016-08-25 08:36

why hate so much :(

2016-08-25 14:44

2016-08-23 19:34

new swedistani team

2016-08-23 20:14

Y no REASTEN?!?

2016-08-23 20:24

cuz ReasteN sucks big time!! :D

2016-08-24 00:28

Dude is topfragging in FPL about half the games, and that's while spending half his concentration on his stream chat!

2016-08-24 01:03

i LUL'D

2016-08-24 14:46

faceit.com/en/csgo/league/EU/5v5PRO?edit.. ??? He's better than any of the players in this academy team

2016-08-24 15:56

lol topfragging in FPL. who gives a flying shit? No one takes that serious :D Fnatic academy team aint good either, so nothing to brag about.

2016-08-26 16:13

2016-08-23 20:38

Karus not sweden idiots

2016-08-23 21:00

+1 /discuss

2016-08-23 21:01

and where the fuck are dennis and olof going to play?

2016-08-25 15:00

2016-08-25 23:09

from tier 1 to tier 101 Kappa

2016-08-23 21:05

GL Fnatic Academy

2016-08-23 21:16

Actually quite smart in long term for them (if a player gets really good he can enter the first fnatic line-up or get his contract bought-out) and also does good for the swedish scene(gives more exposure to potential good players )

2016-08-23 21:37

they could pick better players

2016-08-23 21:46

pro fpl team

2016-08-23 21:57

olof should coach academy team

2016-08-23 22:44

They will change a player every month but some talents will get out. Maybe not to fanatic but some other team

2016-08-23 23:30

Karus är inte det Yzns polare?

2016-08-24 00:05

people saying GODSENT > fnatic loool how stupid are you? Godsent picks up LE's in MM and fnatic pick up 5 guys who have been competing in someway a little bit semi-professionally. Question: How many godsent names did you recognize compared with fnatics? fnatic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > GODSENT

2016-08-24 00:14