JW released from fnatic: "It is time for me to start writing the next chapter"

14-10-2021 18:14

One of the most iconic players to wear the black and orange jersey has departed the organization.

Jesper "⁠JW⁠" Wecksell has officially entered free agency, having been released from his contract with fnatic following three months on the bench. The three-time Major winner spent nearly eight years with the organization, practically his whole CS:GO career, but will now be looking for new opportunities.

"I will work hard on my game, try to stream some, and try to play in as many qualifiers as possible until I know what is next for me," JW wrote on Twitlonger, hinting at more Counter-Strike action, but leaving the doors open for a change of scenery.

"In the end, it's been one hell of a ride but nothing lasts forever - and it is time for me to start writing the next chapter."

JW is set to explore his options

During his tenure in fnatic which lasted from 2013 to 2021 — aside from a six-month stint in GODSENT —, JW won three Major tournaments, placed on the ranking of the top 20 players of the year three times, secured three MVPs, and claimed trophies at a total of 22 notable LAN events.

"A pretty emotional but also pretty exciting day," JW said on Thursday as he left fnatic in the past, thanking "everyone who has been a part of the journey". He gave special credit to current fnatic CGO Patrik "⁠cArn⁠" Sättermon, as well as the trio of his initial teammates Andreas "⁠znajder⁠" Lindberg, Jonatan "⁠Devilwalk⁠" Lundberg, and Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist: "That friendship is something I will always remember and I'm sad I didn't care about it more some times."

A chance to rekindle the friendship with flusha might be on the cards for JW, as the 26-year-old has been signed up for the IEM Winter Open Qualifier #2 with GORILLAZ who have seemingly concluded their cooperation with Kevin "⁠HS⁠" Tarn.

Meanwhile, fnatic are searching for an AWPer to take over the role in the team after the benchings of both JW and Jack "⁠Jackinho⁠" Ström Mattsson in the last three months. Following a short stint with Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield, the organization decided to give an opportunity to fnatic Rising sniper Iulian "⁠regali⁠" Harjău to play with the main team.

fnatic are now playing with the following lineup:

Freddy "⁠KRIMZ⁠" Johansson
Ludvig "⁠Brollan⁠" Brolin
Alex "⁠ALEX⁠" McMeekin
William "⁠mezii⁠" Merriman
Iulian "⁠regali⁠" Harjău (stand-in)

Jamie "⁠keita⁠" Hall (coach)

Maikil "⁠Golden⁠" Selim (benched)

GOAT

2021-10-14 18:14

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JW Finally VAC Banned 😔 👍

4 replies

Isnt JBOT retired since 2016?

2021-10-14 20:02

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you are so weird and not funny

2021-10-14 22:07

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you are so funny and not weird (and sexy!)

2021-10-15 00:23

Dreams come true VAC finally ban impactless 0.8 rating bots

2021-10-15 07:43

+1 GOAT -1 GRETA IS PUPPET

2021-10-15 02:55

GG JW

2021-10-15 05:42

valorant?

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Nah he said he likes csgo too much to seitch

2021-10-14 18:15

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that's nice, I bet a huge salary will change that opinion tho

2021-10-14 18:21

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valulrant prize pools be like

2021-10-14 18:52

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are valorant prize pools big? I was primarily considering the huge salaries that people are reportedly being offered to switch to valorant

2021-10-14 18:57

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highest valorant prizepool was $700k, and its all money from riot, so I think no if we compare to CSGO

2021-10-14 19:01

prize pools are smaller but the salery is way higher just like with LoL vs Dota

2021-10-16 00:24

in comparison to CS they're pretty small a lot of the bigger tournaments have similar 1st place prizes for spring sweet spring stuff in cs lmao

2021-10-14 19:15

lmao thats hilarious

2021-10-14 19:18

Nah... LoL for example is way bigger then Dota 2 but prize pool in Dota 2 is like 10-20x what LoL offers.

2021-10-14 20:18

lets be real though. League is only way bigger than Dota because of Korea. Korea alone carries that game and the e sport in general. They love their league and Overwatch. Valorant tends to not be the same over there.

2021-10-14 20:39

+1 Very true

2021-10-14 22:57

no they aren't big. wait till the valorant bubble bursts and see what happens with the game. especially in NA, it's just the latest fad/trendy game to play. all riot does anyway is just take popular games to begin with and make it dumbed down and easier and release them.

2021-10-14 20:38

he's playin tomorrow with gorillaz so imho it's gonna be that

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very interesting, however I don't think that team is gonna win anything

naah, i dont think so too. Sergej and JW might be good if only jw finds his form again. Flusha is decent as a igl but I dont think they are gonna be top team with sunny and supra. Too little fire power

2021-10-14 18:25

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sunny is firepower himself

2021-10-14 18:33

ahh, how could i forgot that ;/

2021-10-14 18:43

And its noce to see these guys keep on playing even if Gorillaz aint a top 10 team..

he isn't that washed yet

2021-10-14 20:44

He was averaging a rating of around 0.75 at one point this year. That's pretty washed lol.

2021-10-15 05:27

In t3

End of an era

glgl

JWonderchild, oh how I loved to hate you in 2014-2017.

The team you loved to hate!

2021-10-14 20:36

RIP best aggro awper in Europe

2021-10-14 23:34

Gorillaz flop incoming

Valorant

Jw bestest

+111111

2021-10-15 08:07

JW FNATIC BANNED CHECK HLTV

2021-10-14 18:16

PIG

2021-10-14 20:08

deserved

End of an Era

2021-10-14 18:17

legend

LETS GO CMON KING

JW to Astralis

2021-10-14 18:18

JW FOREVER BESTEST PLAYER IN OUR HEARTS <3

New chapter = JW Pregnant ?

2021-10-14 18:20

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JW PREGNANT CHECK HLTV

2021-10-14 20:12

HLTV CONFIRMED ?

2021-10-14 20:22

HTLV PREGNANT???

2021-10-14 20:58

NO HLTV FATHER

2021-10-15 04:34

HLTV PREGNANT CHECK JW

2021-10-15 08:04

Wait what ? :O

2021-10-15 13:51

gl wonderchild

GOAT of all GOATs

2021-10-14 18:22

gl legend

2021-10-14 18:23

Legend, an unique style

Weird that Fnatic didn't give Smooya more. Smooya played the official fine but who knows if Smooya is still toxic behind the scenes

smooya still in contract with moviestar rider. most likely moviestar is asking too much for smooya

2021-10-14 18:26

he has contract with MR

2021-10-14 18:28

2021-10-14 18:24

Fnatic should try with regali in my opinion this is the right decision

he'll find a new team, respect to GOAT

JW free agent, check HLTV

the end of an era

2021-10-14 18:27

Knock knock

who's there?

2021-10-14 18:29

2021-10-14 18:31

JW Who?

JW FAK YOU 🔪🔪🔪

2021-10-14 18:38

KennyS

KennyS good but not the best (JW best)

2021-10-14 19:26

lemondogs,galaxy racer,dignitas,etc.... the choice is yours!

2021-10-14 18:30

Hardly.. No way Dig would kick hallzerk for jw, wtf are you thinking? Same goes for gxr. Unless you refer to him as a rifler. A case could be made for him over dezon in that case. But unlikely.

Dignitas incoming

no chance in hell he will ever replace hallzerk

2021-10-14 18:35

Im just joking ahah

2021-10-14 23:13

He'll always be a legend

JW's book hitting the print soon. The placeholder title is: "How I lost all relevance after the AWP nerf made it harder to use as a shotgun"

2021-10-14 18:36

They already made a movie about him: Babe - Pig in the City

2021-10-15 07:11

incredible how much good makeup can help people look decent on screen.

2021-10-15 15:39

GL legend!

2021-10-14 18:39

flushie and wonderchild reunite poggers!

Yes poggers!!

2021-10-14 18:51

The weirdest part of this article was not realizing that Smooya already played his matches.

2021-10-14 18:42

excited for this move

2021-10-14 18:46

Was expecting him to join up with flusha again. Its gonna be interesting to se what happens. GL!

2021-10-14 18:47

ABSOLUTE LEGEND OF COUNTER-STRIEK

2021-10-14 18:48

The Swedish legend

2021-10-14 18:49

GL JW~! Welcome regali~!

Why are you talking about Delpan in a post about someone else?

2021-10-15 00:55

JW_3_MAJOR_S0MPLE_0_MAJOR

2021-10-14 18:54

JW RELEASED CHECK HLTV

2021-10-14 18:56

JW GORRILAZ incoming.

New chapter? Is he writing a book?

2021-10-14 19:02

REGALI POG

2021-10-14 19:04

Next chapter of retirment*

2021-10-14 19:05

+1111

2021-10-14 19:12

I'm sorry this guy is a legend of the game, but he looked awful once Fnatic came crashing down. His aggressive type of playstyle was just getting shut down, he looked like he couldn't adjust to new meta's. I really respect JW for his career and what he accomplished but I feel like this will be a Guardian situation where he was once a legend but nobody wants to take a chance on a has been if theirs fresh blood on the market. Not a lot of Swedish AWP's out there, but I would rather take Nawwk or honestly even Jackinho then JW.

2021-10-14 19:06

true

2021-10-14 20:23

Yes. And this Gorillaz project is doomed to fail, I just hope flusha realizes before it's too late

2021-10-15 07:14

All the best!

2021-10-14 19:07

plz not val

JW to Gorillaz. Reunite with Flusha. :O

RIP JESPER WONDERCHILD, ALWAYS LEGEND

2021-10-14 19:20

time to reunite: Senõr Vac Wonderchild and schneider to up Sweden again.. lets see `´

2021-10-14 19:21

he will have to do an Oskar and start from the bottom with a group of Swedish talent... no chance someone picks him up in Tier 1

2021-10-14 19:23

Name XD

gl in the future

leggoooo

2021-10-14 19:24

"i miss playing with flusha"

+gorilazz

2021-10-14 19:38

JW era is about to begin. The only question is, which players is he gonna carry?

2021-10-14 19:28

2021-10-14 22:38

coach maybe ?

2021-10-14 19:31

its sad to see

JW to be a stand-in for astralis at major

Finally, Fnatic fans can start dreaming about winning something. The guy has been dragging the entire squad down for the last 2-3 years. They could have become the old days' NIP (with GTR and Forest) but now there is a slight hope for them to become like the new NIP.

2021-10-14 19:41

JW Vac banned check hltv And btw would be the youngest major winner/mvp if it wasn't for kjaerbye

JW OLE! You the top, man! Don't post and won't post threads anymore until you find a team! Not big support, but as much as I can give!!!!

2021-10-14 19:44

Gl regali

JW was already THE JW when I got into cs:go in 2015 GL LEGEND!

2021-10-14 19:52

jw>kennys

working at warehouse or commentator?

*oink* *oink*

2021-10-14 19:54

so he will become a writer now?

2021-10-14 19:58

They guy that will always be in my mind from mostly his AWP battles with kennyS that were insane between 2014-2015

2021-10-14 20:00

SADGE!!!!

the legend actually 2015 we want that years back elts make jw back top

2021-10-14 20:07

I'm eagar to see where he lands. This guy is a legend for sure.

2021-10-14 20:10

Next Chapter: The Retirement Home

jw pregnant check hltv

2021-10-14 20:15

regali show your skillz

JW released check hltv!!!!

2021-10-14 20:24

Going to see what other team will pick him up so he can suck.

Lets fucking reunite with flusha! LETS GO!!!!!!

2021-10-14 20:27

breaks ma heart <\3

2021-10-14 20:45

2021-10-14 20:49

WonderChild <3

2021-10-14 21:00

TRUE GOAT, GL JESPER <3

2021-10-14 21:10

Defienietly the end of an era, really sad honestly, but yeah, like he said every chapter has it's end, I'm looking forward to seeing him coach or maybe even play still if he wants to, GL in whatever you choose next wonderchild :)

2021-10-14 21:29

No, it’s over. Anyone over 25 is worthless.

2021-10-15 00:36

Anyone over 25 is worthless? Hobbit is 27 and is one of the best players in CIS.

2021-10-15 16:19

legend ofc, but finally tbh

2021-10-14 21:36

yeah, retire

2021-10-14 21:50

we will miss you JW!

2021-10-14 21:59

JW out of fnatic, what a day((

2021-10-14 22:01

JW and Golden both to flusha's team?JW and Golden both to flusha's team?

flusha wants to igl... that was the problem in fnatic before that made flusha leave xd

2021-10-14 22:09

fnatic is better with UK lineup

2021-10-14 22:10

rn they are yeah but that wasnt your point)

2021-10-14 22:11

GORILLAZ

JW and Golden both to flusha's team?

The only reason Sergej stayed in Gorillaz was cos he had insider info that JW would come as main awp once his contract end/or gets released. This is clear now!

2021-10-14 22:45

its time for you to retire oink oink

2021-10-14 22:50

don't let the door hit you on the way out

2021-10-14 23:16

Jw not in fnatic anymore check hltv((((( gl in future bestest player)

JW I love you

2021-10-14 23:41

JW to gorillaz incoming!!

2021-10-15 00:03

GL in future !

2021-10-15 00:06

wtf are you talking about? You don’t need “luck” to be a cashier, janitor, or plumber and raise a family. This old man has literally zero marketable skills.

2021-10-15 00:44