{"id":8164,"date":"2019-09-16T23:51:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T23:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=8164"},"modified":"2020-10-05T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T02:04:08","slug":"fnatic-welcome-back-flusha-and-golden-to-csgo-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/fnatic-welcome-back-flusha-and-golden-to-csgo-ranks\/","title":{"rendered":"Fnatic welcome back Flusha and Golden to CS:GO ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fnatic announced the surprise return of ex-IGL Maikil \u201cGolden\u201d Selim and veteran Robin \u201cflusha\u201d R\u00f6nnquist to their <a href=\"\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"Counter-Strike esports betting\">CS:GO esports<\/a> roster on Monday, September 16, causing a huge celebration among the team&#8217;s fans.<\/p>\n<p>In late August, it was revealed Fnatic decided to bench Richard &#8220;Xizt&#8221; Landstr\u00f6m and Simon &#8220;twist&#8221; Eliasson following a series of disappointing results that culminated with the <a href=\"\/sweden\/\" title=\"Esports betting in Sweden\">Swedish esports<\/a> outfit failing to reach a CS:GO Major for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n<p>In the official announcement, Fnatic described their situation as &#8220;our lowest point in a long history of Counter-Strike&#8221; and added that some drastic changes were needed.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the two players that would reinforce Fnatic in their quest to reclaim their former glory remained a mystery up until this Monday, when the Swedes went on Twitter to reveal &#8220;a story of two men who return home&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A story of two men who return home.<\/p>\n<p>Robin &#39;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flusha?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@flusha<\/a>&#39; R\u00f6nnquist and Maikil &#39;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goldenmajk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@goldenmajk<\/a>&#39; Selim star in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Fnatic Story&quot;<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ywbl4Bk4Zd\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ywbl4Bk4Zd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HtbXFryDnM\">pic.twitter.com\/HtbXFryDnM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FNATIC (@FNATIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FNATIC\/status\/1173582090752921600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Both Golden and flusha left Fnatic in late 2018 to join Cloud 9, which unfortunately never amounted to anything and fell apart shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>Since their departure from C9, both remained mostly inactive in 2019. Flusha decided to take a break from the competitive scene, while Golden featured at the StarLadder Berlin Major as a stand-in for Ninjas in Pyjamas.<\/p>\n<p>As for Fnatic and their story, since Golden and flusha left, the Swedish team managed to win only one LAN tournament, the PLG Grand Slam in December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to say Fnatic have found themselves in a downward spiral since they parted ways with the Swedish duo and they hope bringing back the two veterans will help reverse the effect. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview for the Fnatic website, flusha stated he was happy to be back where most of his fondest CS:GO memories were created.<\/p>\n<p>He also addressed the questionable decision Fnatic made to in 2018, when they let go of him and Golden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe we have all matured and become more professional since both mine and Golden\u2019s departure from Fnatic last year,&#8221; said flusha.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During my break from the CS:GO scene, I reflected a lot upon the negative and positive things that I showed in my entire professional esports career and I have tried to now focus on what once made me one of the best players in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NewBackground?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NewBackground<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6VneZtcKOQ\">pic.twitter.com\/6VneZtcKOQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FNATIC (@FNATIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FNATIC\/status\/1173596228053012480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Fnatic will have a chance to showcase their new signings at ECS Season 8 Europe, where they will face AVANGAR in the semi-finals on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" title=\"Latest esports news\">MORE COUNTER-STRIKE NEWS<\/a><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fnatic announced the surprise return of ex-IGL Maikil \u201cGolden\u201d Selim and veteran Robin \u201cflusha\u201d R\u00f6nnquist to their CS:GO esports roster on Monday, September 16, causing a huge celebration among the team&#8217;s fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":8165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[508,626,4,109,83],"class_list":["post-8164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-counter-strike","tag-cs-go","tag-featured","tag-fnatic","tag-se"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14201,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions\/14201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}