FnaticRC down to four

posted by Blue_Knight, 329 days ago
de Jascha 'NoVa' Markuse, part of the eu FnaticRC team that transitioned to competitive Dota 2 from the competitive Heroes of Newerth circuit, unexpectedly and abruptly takes his leave from the European mix.

From left to right: H4nn1, Era, Fly, NoVa, N0tail


Despite a rocky start to the team's Dota 2 career, there have been signs of growth and promise, which makes NoVa's sudden departure all the more surprising. However, in this excerpt from his farewell blog post, NoVa outlines his reasons for leaving:

Over the past few months I had less and less time to devote to progaming due to other things that needed my attention, effort and time. I stopped streaming, coaching to an extent and had very little fan contact in general. Yet everyone else in Fnatic managed to train more than twice the amount of games I did.

This obviously hurt the team performance atleast within Dota2. And even though most 'other things' have been resolved and completed by now, it would be somewhat delusional to force my team to wait for me until I have caught up.

Combined with the fact that I still played a couple HoN games here and there it was time to go for a new chapter in my professional gaming career.


NoVa's withdrawal from the FnaticRC team leaves them with only four players for now. Nevertheless, they have stated that they will possibly compete in upcoming matches with stand-ins.

FnaticRC Dota 2

il Tal 'Fly' Aizik
dk Johan 'n0tail' Sundstein
se Adrian 'Era' Kryeziu
de Kai 'H4nn1' Hanbueckers

Sources: Fnatic, NoVa's blog

 
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#1
Softclocks wrote at 29.06.2012, 01:39 CEST:
First for the best support in HoN.

Sad to see him go.
#2
aut.taker wrote at 29.06.2012, 01:45 CEST:
Ryze coming?
#3
callizer wrote at 29.06.2012, 02:06 CEST:
When I read his blog, I got the impression that he use this exit from Fnatic as an excuse to go back to HoN.
#4
Nheidara wrote at 29.06.2012, 02:09 CEST:
thanks god..
#5
FightFate wrote at 29.06.2012, 02:20 CEST:
n00b down
#6
justeH wrote at 29.06.2012, 02:23 CEST:
1 DOWN 4 TO GO
#7
Haunting wrote at 29.06.2012, 02:27 CEST:
Now Trixi joins and Fnatic can really work towards being a strong contender.
#8
faerie wrote at 29.06.2012, 02:32 CEST:
HEHEHE , its all coz of my thread ! I KNEW THIS
#9
melvinwaaa wrote at 29.06.2012, 02:44 CEST:
I miss these kind of news. LOL!
#10
Onin wrote at 29.06.2012, 02:50 CEST:
FnaticRC.Ryze?
#11
GrinnValesti wrote at 29.06.2012, 02:56 CEST:
sad to see him go...
#12
BIRTYDASTARD wrote at 29.06.2012, 03:15 CEST:
Haunting schrieb:
Now Trixi joins and Fnatic can really work towards being a strong contender.

I don't think they want to go through all the hussle of swapping roles:P him and Era are both almost exclusively carry players ( from what I've seen at least. )
#13
Beelze wrote at 29.06.2012, 03:17 CEST:
This is really sad, I hope they get a good replacement and they practice more often. I want to see them on par with high-tier teams. Good luck on Nova_ anyways, good guy.
#14
Gadzy wrote at 29.06.2012, 03:19 CEST:
BIRTYDASTARD schrieb:
Haunting schrieb:
Now Trixi joins and Fnatic can really work towards being a strong contender.

I don't think they want to go through all the hussle of swapping roles:P him and Era are both almost exclusively carry players ( from what I've seen at least. )


Tri-carry meta? Tri-carry meta.
#15
Haunting wrote at 29.06.2012, 04:15 CEST:
When IXL joined up with Fnatic, Trixi was actually playing support regularly. I'm not saying he should join Fnatic and support now, but Trixi, Fly and H4nn1 have played support competitively in the past. Pretty sure these guys could fill any role, it's just the issue with finding the person who'd willingly and not begrudgingly play 'hard support'.
#16
fLuffy.- wrote at 29.06.2012, 06:00 CEST:
4 to go buddy just wait for the next news,
#17
Sun_Tzu wrote at 29.06.2012, 06:02 CEST:
BIRTYDASTARD schrieb:
Haunting schrieb:
Now Trixi joins and Fnatic can really work towards being a strong contender.

I don't think they want to go through all the hussle of swapping roles:P him and Era are both almost exclusively carry players ( from what I've seen at least. )

Trixi plays every role, and has been playing mostly offlane since he left Mouz. More than likely however would be that h4nn1 might support and trixi offlane.

And sorry to see Nova go, he's an exceptional player and would in time have had each and every one of his haters eating their words. Don't believe me? Ask Akke from CLG, back in HoN he stated he was honored to be compared to Nova.

edited by Sun_Tzu at 29.06.2012, 06:06 CEST
#18
myrp wrote at 29.06.2012, 07:28 CEST:
Sun_Tzu schrieb:
BIRTYDASTARD schrieb:
Haunting schrieb:
Now Trixi joins and Fnatic can really work towards being a strong contender.

I don't think they want to go through all the hussle of swapping roles:P him and Era are both almost exclusively carry players ( from what I've seen at least. )

Trixi plays every role, and has been playing mostly offlane since he left Mouz. More than likely however would be that h4nn1 might support and trixi offlane.
And sorry to see Nova go, he's an exceptional player and would in time have had each and every one of his haters eating their words. Don't believe me? Ask Akke from CLG, back in HoN he stated he was honored to be compared to Nova.
If he's such an exceptional player how come his performance in dota2 was so bad?

How come the chinese teams that weren't playing dota 2 at all were playing a lot better than fnatic?

Maybe it's time to realise that being good at hon doesn't necessarily make you good at dota 2 just like being good at sc2 doesn't necessarily make you good at wc3.

Or maybe you could take a look at that catz guy, quite good at sc2 from what i understand but his dota 2 performance is worse than mine and that says a lot.

#19
iDeFy wrote at 29.06.2012, 07:35 CEST:
good thing they are a dota2 team but play hon tournaments :/
#20
Xenaen wrote at 29.06.2012, 08:15 CEST:
Good thing that he left, there was no dedication at all for dota 2.... it might be a hard decision who to pick up but i guess that it'll be work out fine for them.
#21
Me4onyX wrote at 29.06.2012, 08:30 CEST:
cool ...let him go back to HoN ..he sucks at dota anyway #care
#22
Manimon wrote at 29.06.2012, 09:25 CEST:
myrp schrieb:
Sun_Tzu schrieb:
BIRTYDASTARD schrieb:
[quote=Haunting]Now Trixi joins and Fnatic can really work towards being a strong contender.

I don't think they want to go through all the hussle of swapping roles:P him and Era are both almost exclusively carry players ( from what I've seen at least. )

Trixi plays every role, and has been playing mostly offlane since he left Mouz. More than likely however would be that h4nn1 might support and trixi offlane.
And sorry to see Nova go, he's an exceptional player and would in time have had each and every one of his haters eating their words. Don't believe me? Ask Akke from CLG, back in HoN he stated he was honored to be compared to Nova.
If he's such an exceptional player how come his performance in dota2 was so bad?
How come the chinese teams that weren't playing dota 2 at all were playing a lot better than fnatic?
Maybe it's time to realise that being good at hon doesn't necessarily make you good at dota 2 just like being good at sc2 doesn't necessarily make you good at wc3.
Or maybe you could take a look at that catz guy, quite good at sc2 from what i understand but his dota 2 performance is worse than mine and that says a lot.[/quote]

I have a friend who is good at Sims 3, and he's better than me at Dota. Hmm, I see the connection.
#23
Nyvis wrote at 29.06.2012, 09:26 CEST:
Sad to see the original team loses a member. Good thing to see they won't stop here.

And saying that hon and DotA2 are as different as sc2 and wc3 is totally wrong. It's a lot closer, and if you're good in one, you CAN be good in the other ... With hard work to adapt.
#24
myrp wrote at 29.06.2012, 09:55 CEST:
Nyvis schrieb:
Sad to see the original team loses a member. Good thing to see they won't stop here.
And saying that hon and DotA2 are as different as sc2 and wc3 is totally wrong. It's a lot closer, and if you're good in one, you CAN be good in the other ... With hard work to adapt.
Don't see what your point is since what you just wrote is true for any game.

But being good at one game doesn't mean that you will be good at the other which these fnatic guys have already proven.
I guess these hon fanboys will pull the "but OMG Akke was also playing hon", yes that is true but what did Akke play before he started playing hon?


#25
fredchen777 wrote at 29.06.2012, 10:14 CEST:
Onin schrieb:
FnaticRC.Ryze?


nope, Ryze will be part of LinkLinks new team monkey business...

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monkey.Ryze
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