http://fnatic.com/blogs/ The Fnatic Team is a professional video gaming team, consisting of players from across the globe who all make a living through competing in video game tournaments. en Copyright (c) FNATIC PTY LTD, 2004 - 2012 10 http://fnatic.com/blogs/NoVa_/3300/Sufficient-to-have-stood-though-free-to-fall.html Massive Attack - AngelYou may listen to this song while reading the blog.Fnatic.HoN:It is time again. THIS time.Fnatic.HoN seems on the edge of fading into nowhere, the situation is worse than it ever was.You read that before? Me too. Been there, done that.After all you can give us only time. The current backlash is bigger than ever but it's justified (minus the trolls and haters). Most... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:55:15 GMT http://fnatic.com/blogs/NoVa_/3300/Sufficient-to-have-stood-though-free-to-fall.html http://fnatic.com/blogs/YoanMerlo/3292/Happenings-in-January.html  I posted my last blog on December 13th, a lot of things have happened since then, during christmas/new year i went out a lot and didn't practice as much as usual, i took my own kind of vacation in those stressful times.  A photo from SEC in Poland i ran into on my camera : )  It was and still is kinda hard to live in the gomhouse. There was projects of a potential partnership with TSL... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:06:50 GMT http://fnatic.com/blogs/YoanMerlo/3292/Happenings-in-January.html http://fnatic.com/blogs/Spikemouth/3291/FnaticRaidCall-and-the-2011-MLG-National-Championship-Part-2-of-3.html   The 2011 MLG National Championship                      Alright everyone, it’s finally time for the 2011 MLG National Championship. In my previous blog, you read about our practice in Laguna Beach, California. Now it’s time to see if we were able to implement that practice into our tournament play and come out on top as National Champions. The entire year has been one... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:25:57 GMT http://fnatic.com/blogs/Spikemouth/3291/FnaticRaidCall-and-the-2011-MLG-National-Championship-Part-2-of-3.html http://fnatic.com/blogs/Spikemouth/3288/FnaticRaidCall-visits-Laguna-Beach-Part-1-of-a-3-part-blog.html                        Alright everyone, it’s finally time… Time for the 2011 Major League Gaming National Championship! With the entire 2011 season being one of the craziest eSports years I have ever been a part of, we look to finish the year off by winning the 2011 MLG National Championship and bring home the $100,000 grand prize. Were we able to win it all? Or would we... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:50:41 GMT http://fnatic.com/blogs/Spikemouth/3288/FnaticRaidCall-visits-Laguna-Beach-Part-1-of-a-3-part-blog.html http://fnatic.com/blogs/cArn/3280/Who-will-it-be.html Tomorrow at 8pm we will trace down the fifth FnaticRaidcall CS1.6 member. I´m khrystal clear that the player in question will fit the Fnatic design, and help us reach superzonic performance. This is not a threat and I´m sorry I´m forced to moddiify the next sentence, the player´s nikoname is of course "xxxxxxx" Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:56:57 GMT http://fnatic.com/blogs/cArn/3280/Who-will-it-be.html http://fnatic.com/blogs/MichaelF/3279/IEM-Kiev.html IEM Kiev. We started the tournament out of having to meet Winfakt from Finland. They had recently changed. But they themselves have said it was a reason that they could pracc more and everyone wanted to do it. We ended up playing inferno. I knew they were a good team. But still feel that we are a better team. We go to all our games as favorites upstairs victory to DreamHack. But it turns out that... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:18:29 GMT http://fnatic.com/blogs/MichaelF/3279/IEM-Kiev.html http://fnatic.com/blogs/Chig_/3269/GUNNAR-Optiks-give-away-is-now-over.html Hey Guys!  I am doing a give away with GUNNAR Optiks!  Over the course of about 10 days I'm going to be posting up 3 questions where you can win some sweet GUNNAR stuff! Prizes include GUNNAR t-shirt and lanyard, GUNNAR sweatshirt, and GUNNAR Optiks PPK Snow glasses (Like the ones you see me wearing in this picture) ALL you have to do is go to my Facebook page and either vote in the poll... Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:37:19 GMT http://fnatic.com/blogs/Chig_/3269/GUNNAR-Optiks-give-away-is-now-over.html http://fnatic.com/blogs/TriX/3268/Why-quot-Hype-quot-is-necessary-in-eSports.html Some fans have recently been questioning the amount of "Hype" teams have been building up about their announcements and players.  For instance, recently Fnatic has posted a thread with a teaser video announcing that they will soon release the identity of their latest player pickup.  In the past we saw eSports giants, Evil Geniuses and TeamLiquid.net do similar campaigns, advertising their... Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:06:01 GMT http://fnatic.com/blogs/TriX/3268/Why-quot-Hype-quot-is-necessary-in-eSports.html http://fnatic.com/blogs/MichaelF/3263/Football.html Football? More exact Brondby IF What it means to me.Football is almost everything for me. I love even to play, but I have a great passion to a special football club. Brondby IF from Denmark. But over the past 5 years has been solely down to pack. But this half season has been mildly terrifying. I still love my club and supports 100% up about them. But how has this club got himself to play this... Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:03:53 GMT http://fnatic.com/blogs/MichaelF/3263/Football.html http://fnatic.com/blogs/TriX/3254/What-eSports-means-to-me.html eSports is a lifetime gig, at least it always has been for me.  I grew up with eSports, it has been a huge part of my life since 2002 when I first clicked on that World Cyber Games ad on Battle.net when I was playing Warcraft 3.  In 2006, I began my "professional career" in eSports - that is to say, I began working in the industry at that time.  Like most people who continue to work in the... Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:51:44 GMT http://fnatic.com/blogs/TriX/3254/What-eSports-means-to-me.html