{"id":8948,"date":"2016-07-30T08:32:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T15:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/fnatic-announces-their-own-overwatch-team\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T16:53:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:53:03","slug":"fnatic-announces-their-own-overwatch-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/fnatic-announces-their-own-overwatch-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Fnatic Announces Their Own Overwatch Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7171\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Fnatic Announces Their Own Overwatch Team wp-image-7171 size-large\" title=\"Fnatic Announces Their Own Overwatch Team\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/fnatic-announces-their-own-overwatch-team.png\" alt=\"Fnatic Announces Their Own Overwatch Team\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: chaise-gamer.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n<p>After months of speculation, Fnatic has finally announced that they had formed a multi-national Overwatch roster. According to Sven Van Herck of Fnatic, that they will be investing heavily in the US and promise to be one of the big players in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The full roster for Fnatic&#8217;s Overwatch squad are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:60px;text-align:justify;\">\n<p>\u25cf Coach: Robert Malecki aka \u201cRoflgator\u201d<br \/>\n\u25cf DPS: Andr\u00e9 Dahlstr\u00f6m aka \u201ciddqd\u201d<br \/>\n\u25cf Support: Scott Kennedy aka \u201ccusta\u201d<br \/>\n\u25cf Support: Oliver\u00a0 Lager aka \u201cVonethil\u201d<br \/>\n\u25cf DPS: Casey McIlwaine aka \u201cbuds\u201d<br \/>\n\u25cf Tank: Warsi Faraaz Waris aka \u201cStoop\u201d<br \/>\n\u25cf Flex: Matthew Iorio aka \u201ccoolmatt69\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7172\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Fnatic Overwatch Own Team wp-image-7172 size-large\" title=\"Fnatic Overwatch Own Team\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/fnatic-overwatch-own-team.png\" alt=\"Fnatic Overwatch Own Team\" width=\"700\" height=\"365\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source: icy-veins.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\nLeading the lineup is the Swedish players Andr\u00e9 \u201ciddqd\u201d Dahlstr\u00f6m and Oliver \u201cVonethil\u201d Lager. Vonethil has shown his strength as an in-game leader. While iddqd is known for his great aim and reflexes that often drives the team to victory. He has also shown great skills when using McCree and was ranked as the highest ranked player during Overwatch first week of Competitive Play.<\/p>\n<p>Adding spice to the core team is Canadian Scott \u201ccusta\u201d Kennedy, who plays as support, who has distinguished himself as a reliable and all around player perfect for the team. There\u2019s also ex EnVyUs players Warsi Faraaz \u201cStoop\u201d Waris, Matthew \u201ccoolmatt69\u201d Iorio, and Casey \u201cbuds\u201d McIlwaine. Three awesome players who had proven themselves as top players in the North American scene since the game&#8217;s early beta.<\/p>\n<p>The team will be coached by Robert \u201cRoflgator\u201d Malecki, who has already coached multiple teams in Overwatch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be able to work with such an amazing group of players under the most legendary org,\u201d Malecki said in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fnatic.com\/content\/96720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fnatic\u2019s announcement<\/a>. \u201cWe have the tools to become the best team in the world, and my goal is to help this team accomplish just that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team will be based in North America, and will start working out on their strategies for future competitions. As of now, Overwatch has accumulated more than 10 million players by Mid-June and is still growing. The game is available for XBox One, PS4 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowerpc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Windows gaming computers<\/a>. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/playoverwatch.com\/en-us\/buy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of speculation, Fnatic has finally announced that they had formed a multi-national Overwatch roster. According to Sven Van Herck of Fnatic, that they will be investing heavily in the US and promise to be one of the big players in the region. The full roster for Fnatic&#8217;s Overwatch squad are: \u25cf Coach: Robert&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/fnatic-announces-their-own-overwatch-team\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fnatic Announces Their Own Overwatch Team<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2747,2258,2724],"tags":[2845,1215,1216],"class_list":["post-8948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest","category-industry-interest","category-news","tag-cyber-power-pc","tag-gaming-computer","tag-gaming-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15806,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions\/15806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}