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Fnatic confirmed the addition of a new mid-laner following a string of bad results stretching over 2 months.


Fnatic's poor results since the formation of the new roster post-TI7 have been well documented. They were unable to qualify for any event despite participating in five qualifiers. Fnatic were fortunate last month to get a last minute invite to the ESL One Hamburg Major as a replacement for ph HappyFeet, but did not manage to make anything of it and were sadly the first team to be knocked out.

Fnatic were likewise a last minute replacement for my Mineski at the DotaPit Minor last weekend but were eliminated by OG in the first round of the lower-bracket. They did however, take a game off ru Virtus.pro in their upper-bracket match.

Fnatic exited the ESL One Hamburg Major with no wins to their name


Change seemed almost inevitable and the team's new recruit is ph Abed 'Abed' Yusop, who left us Digital Chaos* last month. Abed had been living in NA since joining Team Onyx/DC at the start of the year but returns to SEA to play for his new team. The player stepping down to make room for Abed is se Steve 'Xcalibur' Ye.

"Despite my short stay in Fnatic’s active roster my experience in the team has been invaluable. I have learned so much from my teammates during our replay sessions. I will definitely try to find a new team to play with again and I want to thank everyone in Fnatic for the experience." - se Steve 'Xcalibur' Ye


The official Fnatic announcement decided to focus less on Abed, the first player to reach 10K MMR in the world, and more on Adam. Adam was a support player for Fnatic at TI6 and helped the team to finish top 4. As we reported earlier today my Adam Erwann 'Adam' Shah will also be joining Fnatic, and it has now been confirmed he will be the team's coach.

Fnatic roster:
ca Jacky 'EternaLEnVy' Mao
ph Abed 'Abed' Yusop (replaces se Steve 'Xcalibur' Ye)
my Chong Xin 'Ohaiyo' Khoo
ph Djardel 'DJ' Mampusti
se Johan 'pieliedie' Åström

Substitute: se Steve 'Xcalibur' Ye *NEW*
Coach: my Adam Erwann 'Adam' Shah *NEW*

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