Unfortunately, Fnatic couldn't replicate their game 2 success and were sent to the third-place match. Fnatic continued to train and attend events. Campus Gaming Party: Berlin was their next stop, spanning August 21 through 25th.
With no big teams on the tournament, Fnatic went overall in their group by defeating Eclypsia. Luna , SK Gaming who were attending with some subs , and Tt Dragons , taking all matches with scores. In the semi-finals, they played against mousesports , winning Meet Your Makers was no match for Fnatic in the finals, as they took the BO5 with a score and achieved 1st place.
One of the requirements to participate was to have 3 French players. Fnatic went in the group stages, losing to Eclypsia by forfeit for arriving late.
However, they went undefeated by beating GSU Gaming in the winner's bracket semi-final, against Eclypsia in the winner bracket's final, and against GSU Gaming in the tournament's grand final. Despite dropping the first game, the team was able to pull out the match two games to one and take home first place. This would ensure that they advanced to the winners bracket, where they would face Season 2 World Champions Taipei Assassins and emerge victorious with a victory. Fnatic went on to face CLG Prime in the winner bracket semifinals in a comeback series.
They then lost to Team WE , dropping them into the loser bracket finals against their previous opponents, the Taipei Assassins. History would repeat itself as Fnatic beat the Taipei Assassins to advance to the Grand Finals one game down, coming from the losers bracket.
They lost the best of five series to Team WE , taking home second place. A single group with 5 teams was formed given that 3 teams cancelled their participation and Fnatic would sweep the group stage 4 - 0. Going to the semi-finals, they would prevail over mousesports 2 - 0.
Moving on to the final, they would go against Copenhagen Wolves and take 1st place, going completely undefeated. They faced CJ Entus in the semi-finals, losing the first game but winning the next two to move on. Their series would be decided by a third match after both teams took a win. However, on December 24 it was announced that he would not be able to play with Fnatic during Riot's Season 3 Qualifiers and Championship Series due to being underage. Fnatic stated that he would start a second Fnatic team, Fnatic Academy.
Fnatic advanced through the group, going with victories over both SK Gaming and Absolute Legends , but losing their match against Azubu Frost. In the semifinals Fnatic took on the other Korean team in attendance, Azubu Blaze.
Although Blaze won the first game, Fnatic was able to take the best of three series to a third game, with a win in game two.
Despite their best efforts though, Fnatic was unable to win the third game and finished in a shared 3rd-4th place for the event. Fnatic took a victory over the Polish team and qualified for the Season 3 Championship Series. Fnatic won both of their day one matches, putting them in first place with a record. Fnatic would be a dominant team throughout the rest of the season, eventually taking first place in the Spring Split of the European LCS, with a record of The team retained their spot into the summer split of the LCS season.
The team qualified to play in the IEM Season VII - World Championship , however did not make it past the group stage, winning only one game going and placing ninth in the tournament.
Despite good early gameplay from Europe, the Korean team overtook them in a set. They would lose their first game against Vulcun but would bounce back in a strong way, with that being the only game they would lose, coming out on top of their group with a record of and advancing to the quarterfinals.
In quarters, they would face the much hyped top NA team Cloud 9 and despite some close back and forth games, Fnatic would eliminate the last NA team in a set to reach the semifinals.
The match proved to be an exciting best of 5, showcasing intense team-fighting, however, in the end Fnatic would be the last European team eliminated from the tournament, losing and taking home a respectable 3rd place.
The Spring Split went relatively well for the team. The whole team raised their game for the playoffs, which saw them emerge victorious after a win against Alliance in their semifinal match-up, and another against SK Gaming in the Grand Final. Due to Fnatic's performance in the Spring Playoffs, they had qualified to compete at All-Star Paris , along with other regional winners from around the world. The team made it to the semifinals of the tournament, only losing to the world champions at the time, SK Telecom T1 K.
The start of the Summer Split was shaky for the team. Fnatic could not break in to the top 2 until Week 7 of the split, at which point their main rivals Alliance were already a considerable distance ahead of them in the race for 1st place. The team aimed to put the split behind them and focus on the Summer Playoffs. The match ended in defeat for Fnatic, but the playoffs saw the team seal their qualification for the Season World Championship. The team were only able to win two of six matches in their group, meaning that they would go no further in the tournament.
Fnatic's new roster, including Korean imports Huni and Reignover alongside Steeelback , Febiven , and YellOwStaR , had a successful Spring Split , finishing 2nd in the regular season with a record.
This secured them a bye to the semifinals of the Spring Playoffs. Fnatic beat H2k-Gaming in their semifinal matchup, and went on to secure 1st place after taking a win over Unicorns Of Love in the playoff final. This meant that the team would pick up 90 Championship Points towards qualification for the Season World Championship. The team had a relatively successful tournament, which they opened with a decisive win over Team SoloMid.
They also had a notably close group stage game with SK Telecom T1 , but went on to lose the game. Fnatic finished the group stage in 4th place, meaning they would advance to the bracket stage. They faced SK Telecom T1 in the semifinals, this time playing out a close series, but ultimately losing Now with Rekkles on the roster instead of Steeelback, the team went into the Summer Season with confidence running high after their performance on the international stage.
Fnatic managed to finish the regular season with a perfect, unbeaten record - and became the first team to achieve this in League Championship Series history.
This meant a 1st place regular season finish for the team and a bye to the semifinals of the Summer Playoffs. Fnatic went on to win the playoffs, beating Origen in a tight final. This qualified the team for the World Championship , where they would compete as Europe's 1 seed. They picked up four wins in the group, going unbeaten in the second week of group stage games, meaning they would advance to the knockout stage of the tournament.
There, they had a surprisingly strong run, finishing in second place behind SK Telecom T1 after finding success with Rekkles on Jhin. In the playoffs, Fnatic upset Team Vitality before losing to eventual champions G2 Esports in the semifinals. They rebounded to finish on a high note after defeating H2k Gaming in the third place match With the veteran YellOwStaR back at the helm, Fnatic improved marginally upon their previous split's regular season success. In the EU LCS's revamped best-of-two format, Fnatic began the season admirably, going in four weeks and holding sole possession of first place.
After struggling to repeat this success, and with inconsistent top lane play, Fnatic replaced Gamsu with former G2 Esports top laner Kikis , bringing in Giants Gaming top laner Werlyb as a substitute. Defaulting to Kikis in the top lane for the playoffs , Fnatic faced H2k in the quarterfinals, but lost to the eventual World Championship semifinalists.
Fnatic next competed in the Regional Finals , where they were dispatched by a red-hot Unicorns of Love. In an offseason vividly reminiscent of , Fnatic again suffered roster losses to four fifths of its positions. During the split Amazing left and Broxah took his place as starting jungler. Their performances were mediocre with both jungler though and they placed 3rd in Group A with a record of 6 won series and 7 lost ones.
There they put up a good fight but lost the series before stomping Misfits in third-place match to qualify for Rift Rivals. With the help of the new coach Dylan Falco Summer Split started great and they went into Rift Rivals as first place in their group with a record. Their domestic opponents could not exploit this weakness though and Fnatic held on to first place in their group.
Despite the dominant regular season they got clearly beaten in semifinals by 3rd seed from their group Misfits and only managed to get 3rd place by beating H2k-Gaming in a snowbally series Fnatic went into Regional Finals as first seed and faced again H2k in the finals where they clean swept them this time to qualify for the World Championship as Europe's third seed.
After week 1 Fnatic was last in group B losing all 3 games. After losing their opening game of the group deciding day against LZ all hope seemed lost but they managed to win their rematches against IMT and GAM and got lucky that the other games played out for a 3-way-tie for 2nd place of the group.
They won both tiebreaker games to reach quarterfinals as the first team to get out of groups despite starting In quarterfinals they were beaten by Royal Never Give Up after 4 slow games During preseason Hylissang replaced Jesiz as support.
Bwipo joined too as sub-toplaner. After a mediocre start to Spring Split Fnatic won 11 of their remaining 12 series including two in which they gave Bwipo a chance and found themselves in first place after regular season.
Bwipo as well as the rest of the team showed good performances in a decisive semifinal series against Vitality as well as a clean sweep in the final against G2 to reclaimed the EU LCS title after a 2 year and 4 LCS Splits drought.
Due to losing their remaining 3 group stage games they dropped down to a tiebreaker against TL which they convincingly won. In semifinals they put up a decent fight against RNG but were clean swept. With sOAZ regaining his form Fnatic intended to share game time between their toplaners. Summer Split came with patch 8. Due to that Rekkles benched himself after week 1 and Bwipo moved to starting bot-laner. After 3 patches and 6 weeks of inactivity Fnatic slowly began to reintegrate Rekkles into the starting roster.
Overall the team had a good split and ended up in first place after regular season with a record. They went into playoffs as slight favorite and proved these expectation to be right as they won semifinals against Misfits and finals against FC Schalke 04 with decisive 's for their 7th EU LCS title and qualifying as first seed for Europe at the World Championship.
They got first place in the group, with a record of due to beating iG in a tiebreaker match. They advanced to the quarterfinals where they faced EDward Gaming , and while dropping the first game, they managed to come back and win the series In the semifinals they faced Cloud9 where Fnatic showed great strength, ultimately sweeping the last remaining NA representative Despite justified hopes to beat iG again, they ultimately failed to do so, falling to China's second seed.
After struggling during the first half of Spring Split the roster came back from a record 5 weeks into the split and went on a 8 game winstreak to go into playoffs as 3rd seed. In playoffs they chose Vitality as Round 1 opponents and clean swept them before beating Splyce in Round 2 in convincing fashion. In semifinals they faced Origen and partially due to a poor read of the new development in the botlane meta they clearly lost Fnatic went into Summer Split with the determination to challenge G2 and started off really well.
They went into Rift Rivals as 1st with a record including a dominant victory over G2. After Rift Rivals the team lost to Splyce and had another three weeks right after whilst experimenting with drafts and roster including upsets by Rogue and Misfits. Under pressure by Splyce they regained their composure before the end of the split and got 2nd seed which meant a direct ticket to Athens by winning their last 4 matches including the rematch against Splyce.
Despite G2 adapting their draft Fnatic also found themselves in the lead in game 3 but after some questionable baron calls G2 managed to turn the game and series around. Games 4 and 5 went heavily in G2 favour as well with the last game being pretty much decided within the first 5 minutes by coming out ahead of every gank and skirmish and Fnatic barely avoided conceding the fastest loss in EU history.
Opposed to Spring Split they came into the semifinal as clear favorite and despite a few hiccups they outclassed Schalke 04 in a sweep to qualify for Worlds and seeked revenge against G2 in the finals on Sunday.
The finals started off absolutely crazy with 7 kills within the first 3. This trend continued throughout the series as the team that held an gold lead after the early game would extend it slowly further and close it out pretty cleanly. In the deciding game 5 Fnatic had a horrible start and found themselves down 2k gold before even 6 minutes were played. By punishing a few overreaches from G2 they managed to stay in the game though and managed to show the concept of their teamfight composition a few times in the mid game.
After a fumbled baron attempt and a few players getting picked off they could not stop G2 from destroying their base anymore and lost once again After a rough first week where they got clearly beaten by SKT and RNG they reconsidered their drafts for the deciding day of groups going back to marksmen in bot lane.
After a nailbiter win against Clutch they found themselves once again down 2k gold early vs SKT but managed to turn the game around by outplaying a SKT towerdive to snowball the game to a clean victory. Advancement of the group still came down to the rematch against their nemesis RNG in the last game of the day. This time however they managed to overcome RNG in a clear victory increasing their deciding group day record to In quarterfinals they were drawn against LPL 1st seed FunPlus Phoenix where they were shown their limits and lost in a dominant For the season Fnatic had to replace Youngbuck and chose to put their trust into former Origen support mithy.
They also replaced Broxah with SK jungler Selfmade while keeping the rest of the roster together. After losing their opening match of Spring Split they picked up 4 must-win-games before being destroyed by G2. Unfazed by this they only allowed a single upset to happen until last week of Regular Season and ended up in second place with a record. Wiki Esports Teams. Fnatic Fnatic was founded in July by Sam and Anne Mathews, with them both based in London at the time, and where Fnatic still holds its headquarters.
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