Swole Patrol invited to Flashpoint

26-3-2020 20:13

Swole Patrol will take the last spot in the second phase of Flashpoint 1, in which they will play under FunPlus Phoenix, the tournament organiser has announced.

The former eUnited squad have agreed to join FunPlus Phoenix for the remainder of the season, replacing the Danish roster that donned the Chinese organisation's colors in the opening phase of the league.

That team, led by Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller, were on the brink of signing for FunPlus Phoenix before Patrick "⁠es3tag⁠" Hansen agreed to join Astralis in the summer. It is believed that the last-minute twist saw the deal fall through, with the players now expected to return to HEROIC.

Swole Patrol will play as FPX in Flashpoint

Swole Patrol have been searching for a new organisation to represent since the start of the month, when the players were released by eUnited. They become the second team to compete in both the ESL Pro League and Flashpoint after Brazilian side MIBR.

In a Twitter post, Austin "⁠Cooper⁠" Abadir rejected a claim from Flashpoint that his team had signed with FunPlus Phoenix, which should not affect their participation in the league. The North American side face a tricky task to make the eight-team Flashpoint playoffs after their predecessor finished last of their group. They have been placed in Group B, alongside MAD Lions, Chaos and c0ntact, facing the ex-CR4ZY roster in their first match on Sunday.

The following players and coach will represent FunPlus Phoenix in Flashpoint 1 moving forward:

Austin "⁠Cooper⁠" Abadir
Edgar "⁠MarKE⁠" Maldonado
Victor "⁠food⁠" Wong
Ryan "⁠freakazoid⁠" Abadir
Jordan "⁠Zellsis⁠" Montemurro

Armeen "⁠a2z⁠" Toussi (coach)

Update: This article was updated after Cooper- rejected a claim from Flashpoint about his team having signed with FunPlus Phoenix.

lmaoooo

2020-03-26 20:13

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trashpoint

2020-03-26 20:14

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The teams are trash but I believe flashpoint are doing many things better than esl currently

2020-03-26 21:00

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ok thoorin, but cizng czong ping pong league is coming on top.

2020-03-26 21:16

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swole patrol omegalul this is the best option you can get??? lmao

2020-03-26 21:51

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this may be crucial tournament for freakazoid finally he can show his world class form and lead to next major

2020-03-27 09:00

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Kappa

2020-03-27 14:22

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told you

2020-03-28 09:47

Agreed, Flashpoint has been the better out of the two even with many blunders made by Flashpoint especially the audio early on.

2020-03-26 21:21

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There's always a lot of testing to do, and testing that will be literally the first matches that are streamed to see how it works.

2020-03-26 21:42

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Yes indeed but it was a bit too much testing if you would have* watched the first few matches you would* know what I mean.

2020-03-26 21:50

ok thoorin i hope you enjoy 10k viewers.

2020-03-26 23:26

Ok brainlet enjoy both of your braincells.

2020-03-27 00:01

wierd flex but ok

2020-03-27 00:38

^hes right you know

2020-03-27 04:36

Trashpoint

+1 facts

Faxxx

2020-03-26 20:51

lmao

Nice

luckiest team ever omfg

fr +1

2020-03-26 21:44

scumbags over at eunited must be crying lol. drop the team then they get invited to the 2 biggest NA leagues

2020-03-28 01:32

Reward after winning 1 map vs 100thieves

+1 LMAO

2020-03-26 20:28

and 100ts first online game in months lol

2020-03-26 21:47

hf xd

2020-03-27 20:58

hahahahaha

2020-03-27 00:00

lmao wtf

snatching esl teams lol

nooooo why not bad news bears

Who?

2020-03-26 20:18

Bad news bears

cause onliners who will never get out of mdl

2020-03-26 21:36

wait what the fuck i didnt even read the whole thing i thought swole patrol got invited to flashpoint and didnt have an org

2020-03-26 21:38

expected, but would prefer mythic if they wanted views LMAO

2020-03-26 20:15

ahahahhaha nice trash fnatic would be better

2020-03-26 20:17

Retard?

2020-03-27 20:45

2020-03-27 21:07

From MDL to EPL and FP. They gonna love Corona now. Also: Another T4 team for FP. Lul, this league is a dumpster fire.

lol not even signed they are playing as FPX ??? What a trash League and Event ...

What? Non signed playing for FPX? NO WAY

2020-03-27 13:09

Wtf So The danish squad is heroic again? And swole patrol is fpx now? But when it’s technically still fpx do they get the points from the danish fpx? And Are swole patrol now fully signed by fpx but only for flashpoint? Like do they play EPL as fpx or as swole patrol? What is this clusterfuck

they get the danish team's points, and I believe they will still play as Swole on EPL

I aren't think that fpx wants this roster

2020-03-26 20:19

They just needed a team to field for this event ig lol

2020-03-26 20:45

Why not just sign orgless

2020-03-26 22:29

These guys were prolly cheaper?

2020-03-27 01:19

More like it would probably violate tournament rules xd

2020-03-27 02:33

flashpoint is trash and FPX is a scummy organization, Swole shouldn't agree to this even if monetarily this seems like a good move, it really isn't

why scummy

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Instead of using swole patrol for season 1, they could easily use the heroic roster for season 1, as es3 is still with the team till june 30th

2020-03-26 20:26

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why would cadian want to play with him after feelin """Gutted""" they prob have beef now

2020-03-26 21:46

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Cadian said he had no beef with estag he felt gutted cuz he couldn't even play the match whether that was fpx or flashpoints doing idk.

2020-03-26 22:20

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it was estag doing lmao XD he left the team so they didnt have enough to play tf you mean

2020-03-27 13:38

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lol read the article he is still with heroic until July 1st plenty of time to play the season, either flashpoint or fpx got salty and completely abandoned the team. Also any person with a brain would say yes to astralis, the best Danish team by far with much higher pay.

2020-03-27 14:48

you have downs

2020-03-27 14:54

please that's mean, why do I have downs?

2020-03-27 15:03

why would fpx want them to play if its not going to be a full roster in 2 months they would need to find a perm 5th before they would play flashpoint matches soooooooooo with Estage leaving no one on herioc wants to play with him because they need to be playing with a new 5th so it makes no sense to be in fpx or flashpoint with a uncompleted team. this is why you have downs because its so easy to understand but youre downs and dont get that

2020-03-27 15:10

You claim that they aren't willing to play with estag, if you read cadians tweets you'd know that's a load of horseshit it's obvious they were willing to play the matches but fpx wanted nothing to do with them over one player leaving for a better team.

2020-03-27 15:39

their are 5 players cadian is 1 of 5 bud stav hates his guts

2020-03-27 15:54

Nice continue to pull lies out of your was.

2020-03-27 23:50

nothing about that is wrong FPX needed a team and probably paid a lot to get Swole Patrol now both are happy, what is the problem?

2020-03-26 21:02

GO MARKITO!!!!!!!!!!!!

A team that is coached by a2fuckingz is a shit show that will never go anywhere. Swole Patrol is ENCE times 500 thousand. When has a2z ever been known as a tactical mind or even a motivational person who will take players aside and help them with issues? Match that with kicking Relyks and FNS and leaving Freakazoid to IGL and this is an absolute waste of money for FlashPoint. FUCK NA CS

seriously a2z is legit meme what is he still doing in cs scene?

2020-03-26 20:46

lol joke of a league at this point, hope they can get better teams for future seasons cos the content is good, but the matches don't deliver

what content is good there ??? Bad production tech issues and constant delays ? On top you get bad Tier 3 CS and teams with stand-ins all over the place.

2020-03-26 20:27

I like the analyst line up, sean and potter are two of my favorites, I also quite enjoyed the banter from the teams, nice to see some personality from a few of the players, like Bubzkji.

2020-03-26 20:38

"fuck these kids" great banter 🥵

2020-03-26 20:56

Banter was nice the first few days, especially from smooya but other than that it left me pretty underwhelmed and it’s only going downhill ever since

2020-03-26 21:48

Zellsis must be the worst pro who plays for a big org now that HUNDEN retired.

2020-03-26 20:21

SWOLE PATROL IS dog Zellsis is the biggest dog of all time worst "pro" player ever trashpoint

2020-03-26 20:40

eUnited kicking themselves rn

SWOLE FUCKING PATROL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOO

2020-03-26 20:22

2020-03-26 20:23

Why? There are so many better options than them.

meme tournament XDDD

People calling Swole Patrol a meme even though they took a map off 100T

2020-03-26 20:29

Even though that was 100t's first online game in nearly/over a year?

2020-03-27 00:45

Group C will be good to watch

2020-03-26 20:30

Eunited on suicide watch.

2020-03-26 20:32

Cant wait for thorin to spin this

Thorin bruh..

2020-03-26 20:41

Swole from losing to Mythic to flashpoint eUnited malding rn

2020-03-26 20:42

Nice, good luck guys

2020-03-26 20:44

O.o I mean weird.. but good luck.

hahahahahah... lol/ RIP FPF

HAHAAHAHAHAHAhaahHAHAH

2020-03-26 20:47

most wasted spot ever seen

2020-03-26 20:48

LOOOOOOOOL

2020-03-26 20:50

drop heroic pick swole patrol STONKS

2020-03-26 20:52

Such a joke lmao

2020-03-26 20:57

tier 500 event

2020-03-26 20:58

Wtf why????

2020-03-26 20:59

what on earth

2020-03-26 21:04

What a mess

2020-03-26 21:07

LOL these guys are actually snake. I bet FPX made a deal with them to get bigger money than with Heroic's one.

2020-03-26 21:22

flashpoint is a pretty good league, since its just starting the teams are trash but they are better than esl league. Its just a matter of time.

2020-03-26 21:26

I mean nobody knows what the future holds but currently there is literally nothing better than in EPL. I’ve seen better storylines at DH opens and that is with less stand ins as well. Only interesting thing is that it gets worse every two days, exciting to follow the drama but the league itself is boring

heroic with 4 players > shit patrol

2020-03-26 21:29

People above didn't just watch 100T vs Swole. They lost by "a gnat's wing" to 100T who is a Tier 1 team in PRO LEAGUE, what makes you think they don't deserve this at the very least?