Riot Squad part ways with FNS

23-1-2020 23:51

Riot Squad have announced the release of in-game leader Pujan "⁠FNS⁠" Mehta.

FNS spent just over six months as the captain of Riot Squad, initially joining the roster alongside Jonathan "⁠Jonji⁠" Carey in August 2019. The team found quick success as they earned a spot at the MSI MGA Finals, while simultaneously solidifying themselves as a top-three team in the North American division of ESEA MDL Season 32.

A pair of narrow 14-16 losses to ex-Epsilon and ViCi at Riot Squad's MSI MGA Finals appearance left the team battling through a plethora of online qualifiers and events, most notably the online component of ECS Season 8 and ESEA MDL.

FNS leaves Riot Squad after a six-month tenure on the team

While Riot Squad failed to find success in any of their ECS Season 8 week appearances, a flawless run through the playoff bracket of ESEA MDL S32 gave the team a shot at securing a spot in ESL Pro League Season 11. Ultimately, they fell short to INTZ in the offline MDL grand finals to miss out on direct promotion, and ended as the runner-up to FORZE at ESEA MDL S32 Global Challenge.

Additional lackluster appearances in qualifiers for IEM Katowice 2020 and DreamHack Open events left the team with few other notable results to their name, seemingly leading to the change at hand.

"As of now, i'll be playing FPL and looking at my options as they come," said FNS when contacted by HLTV.org. "No need to rush into anything."

Riot Squad are now:

Peter "⁠ptr⁠" Gurney
Austin "⁠crashies⁠" Roberts
Mitch "⁠mitch⁠" Semago
Jonathan "⁠Jonji⁠" Carey

Brandon "⁠weber⁠" Weber (coach)

Riot Squad are set to face INTZ in the semi-finals of WINNERS League Season 3 Invite in short order. HLTV.org knows that the team plan to utilize Erick "⁠Xeppaa⁠" Bach as a stand-in for FNS, with no replacement for the in-game leader finalized as of yet.

Rip

2020-01-23 23:51

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It's all part of the master plan, somehow he will end up on Liquid or EG and win a major just luke that

2020-01-24 04:28

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And kids, that an example of dumb actions a crack user make...

2020-01-24 13:30

RIP

rip

2020-01-23 23:52

wait how did riot squad steal their way into the top 30? Irrelevant team

2020-01-23 23:53

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How are they above Sprout wtf

2020-01-24 00:00

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Mostly because they topped MDL NA S32 and were 2nd at Global Challenge: hltv.org/events/5023/esea-mdl-season-32-..

2020-01-24 00:01

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thank mr admin

2020-01-24 00:04

This global challenge is such a joking event Remember vitality? They trolled on their matches playing with bizon and zeus didn't even car about the tournament This event shouldn't have a big weight, change the formula

2020-01-24 00:19

They have modified the event as of this year: hltv.org/news/28760/esl-updates-pro-leag..

2020-01-24 00:20

Gooood I wasn't know this details thanks

2020-01-24 00:26

Riot squad won online matches against terrible NA teams (hltv #88, #91, #241) How do you even get points for that lmao

2020-01-24 00:02

because if u havent noticed all the low tier teams played the entire 2 months, while big tier 1-2 teams havent played yet. look at skade for example they got 2 matches per day, they just climb up increasing stats against tier 10 teams

2020-01-24 00:14

🐍Riot Squad🐍

lul noob fns here we go again

2020-01-23 23:54

sad :(

2020-01-23 23:55

Gets top 30 and then kicks leader 10/10

2020-01-23 23:56

Getting kicked from tier 5 team ouch

2020-01-23 23:57

Why no Canadian flag??? FNS is Canadian after all. Please fix Nohte

Mind broke, fixed ty

tsm?

When was Weber a coach???

2020-01-24 00:05

dust2.us/News/3449-riot-squad-enlist-web..

Weird. So who will be the new IGL?

2020-01-24 00:07

Could be vanity

2020-01-24 07:32

This is ridiculous. What a low-level, completely uncompromised team: kicking a player minutes before an official match

From cloud9 to benched Riot Squad

2020-01-24 00:39

and then back to new cloud9

2020-01-24 01:21

FNS IS SO SHIT HE GETS BENCHED SO QUICK RETIRE HAHA

2020-01-24 00:53

inb4 eUnited FNS

2020-01-24 00:57

Press F for NS RIP

2020-01-24 00:58

Looking for FNS.

2020-01-24 00:59

Sadly the issue isn't FNS, but players like Jonji who are absolute trash on LAN. And I dislike FNS so that tells you something.

2020-01-24 01:27

if you want the whole story on how he wanted to kick other players read here:dust2.us/News/3895-riot-squad-part-ways-.. have ass reporting by hltv...

2020-01-24 01:26

It's funny because, given his history with ptr, and Jonji being garbage if he's not at home, I'm not shocked he wanted to remove them. It was still a dumb decision, but FNS is kind of an idiot for trying to push that through.

2020-01-24 01:30

They just got into the top 30... and now they are going straight out of it again.

2020-01-24 01:57

why is weber a coach when hes probably better then all of them?

2020-01-24 02:03

Rip again

2020-01-24 02:21

overated igl, so expected

2020-01-24 03:16

top3 igl usa?

2020-01-24 03:58

expected after they lost against GenG whose only play full team like what 2 -3 days lol

2020-01-24 04:01

Good choice.

2020-01-24 04:57

Rip fns’s career

2020-01-24 05:56

Hopefully he retires or starts coaching

2020-01-24 06:15

Doubt that shit hard LULW

2020-01-24 06:19

Wtf why?

2020-01-24 07:15

+vanity ?

2020-01-24 07:31

seriously, how was this roster #29?

2020-01-24 10:32

Whole roster of players who already peaked

2020-01-24 10:37

lol

2020-01-24 23:14

so many mad brazilians and dumb takes here, FNS and KNG respectively were both good players then it went downhill, FNS's career peak was with CLG and lost many narrow games and KNG now is honestly worse than FNS after the ban which BTW happened because FNS jokingly said we lost to players that were partying or something according to those lines (thoorin, as much as i feel like he is clueless on many other topics, did a good video on this topic) and the 10 iq KNG said he would kill FNS??? HOW IS THAT SNITCHING LMAO. Also bad org for kicking FNS, he was a good player and good igl and brought you this far... good luck FNS, ignore many of these mindless haters lol

2020-01-30 17:50