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Fnatic bring in $7 million in investment from major sporting names

Fnatic has just completed a new financing round that has seen them raise more than $7 million. The investment round saw multiple parties throw some cash Fnatic’s way, with some big names involved. Jim Pallotta’s Raptor Group, Owners of AS Roma and the Boston Celtics; Joi Ito, Director of the …

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Fnatic announce new Dota 2 roster

After a long period of instability in the Fnatic Dota 2 camp, the organisation has finally announced its new roster, and on paper it looks incredibly strong.  With long time member of the team Chai "Mushi" Yee Fung leaving to join Mineski a few months back Fnatic was left without …

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Fnatic announce partnership with Chinese eSports agency B.O.O.T

Fnatic has announced it will be partnering with the Chinese eSports agency B.O.O.T in order to tap into the growing eSports market in the country and promote better engagement between Eastern and Western eSports companies. The deal has come to fruition through the relationship between Fnatic’s Chief Gaming Officer, Patrik …

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Fnatic Overwatch team to get an LA team house

Fnatic will start up a new gaming house in Los Angeles for its Overwatch team when they return from Korea.  In an interview with Yahoo eSports Fnatic founder Sam Mathews revealed the news.  “It’s unannounced, but our Overwatch team is American and currently they’re in Korea,” said Mathews. “Esports is …

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AS Roma partners with Fnatic to launch FIFA division

Italian football club AS Roma have announced a partnership with Fnatic, that will see the two launch a FIFA division.  The new partnership sees Roma sign FIFA players Sam “Poacher” Carmody, Aman “Aman” Seddiqi, and Nicoló “Insa” Mirra, who will represent the club going forward.  While Roma’s name will be …

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Fnatic, Echo Fox, NRG, Rogue and Immortals all sign Vainglory teams

Fnatic, Echo Fox, NRG, Rogue and Immortals have all signed Vainglory teams and will debut in the new spring season.  To celebrate the arrival of these new professional organizations, Super Evil Megacorp will be hosting all five teams at the company’s Super Evil Lair in San Mateo for a Run …

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Former Fnatic CS:GO roster reunites after player swap with GODSENT

Fnatic has announced that it has traded Joakim “disco doplan” Gidetun and Simon “twist” Eliasson to GODSENT and will get Jesper “JW” Wecksell, Robin “flusha” Rönnquist in return.  This means that the Major winning team from late 2015 and early 2016 is now back on Fnatic. For a long time …

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Fnatic signs top European Call of Duty team

Fnatic has returned to the world of Call of Duty by signing Tom ‘Tommey’ Trewren and the rest of his team.  The new Fnatic roster includes Tommey, Matthew ‘Skrapz’ Marshall, Gurdip ‘SunnyB’ Bains and Bradley ‘wuskin’ Marshall.  This is the first time Fnatic has had a Call of Duty team …

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Former Fnatic CS:GO roster set to reunite after ELEAGUE Major says report

Both Robin “flusha” Rönnquist and Jesper “JW” Wecksell are set to reunite with their former Fnatic teammates to recreate the roster that dominated CS:GO for months.  A report from Slingshot eSports states that flusha and JW will join forces with Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer, Freddy “KRiMZ” Johansson and Dennis “Dennis” Edman …

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Casting studio Room on Fire releases first CS:GO documentary

Room on Fire, the casting studio best known for its work in CS:GO, has released its first documentary titled #CSGreatestGames Episode 1: "Boostgate".  The 37 minute film, which can be seen at the bottom of this page, takes a look at the infamous match back in 2014 between Fnatic and …

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