Fnatic made changes in roster

Fnatic announced their roster changes in the official Facebook group. It is known from the announcement that Anucha «Jabz» Jiravong, the support of the team, has left the roster, and Nico «Eyyou» Barcelon will replace him in the team.

The organization explained these changes by the fact that, according to the results of ESL One Thailand 2020, the team members came to the conclusion that the roster lacks a player of fifth position:

Looking back at our ESL Thailand run, we realized that there is a severe lack in commanding without Daryl «iceiceice» Koh who was on break during the tournament. After our loss to Motivade.Trust, we talked things over and deemed some changes are to be made. Initially assigned to Jabz, he thought it will be better to assign leadership to someone else. We chose DJ to assume leadership roles and he agrees under the condition that he plays position 5, hence we switched him with Jabz. This move gave us decent results, as we finished third at the tournament despite a poor start during the group stage. Post-tournament, we discussed how should we move forward. It became clear to us that both Jabz and DJ perform better as position 4. Jabz also mentioned that he prefers playing position 4, therefore what we lack in our team is a true position 5. After a thorough deliberation, Jabz and the management both decided that it is the best interest for us to mutually part ways and take this opportunity to work with a player that excels at position 5. Thus we came up with eyyou as vouched by DJ, Raven and our coach Lee «SunBhie» Jeong-jae.

Fnatic roster:

• Marc Polo Luis «Raven» Fausto;
• Kam «Moon» Boon Seng;
• Daryl «iceiceice» Koh;
• Djardel Jicko B. «DJ» Mampusti;
• Nico «Eyyou» Barcelon;
• Lee «SunBhie» Jeong-jae (coach).