Fnatic has not been having a good month. After going out 1-3 in the RMR they barely made, they went out of the IEM Dallas Closed Qualifier 0-2 this week.
It wasn’t even that Fnatic lost, per se, that made their performance in the Closed Qualifier embarrassing. It was the way in which they lost; they went out 7th/8th out of 8 teams. EC Kyiv, ranked 49 spots lower in HLTV’s rankings, placed above them.
In their 0-2 loss to Entropiq, who eventually placed first and qualified, Fnatic was unable to have a single-player get over a .8 rating as they got just seven rounds on map one and six on map two.
But at least that loss was a team effort, and to a team who eventually qualified. The far, far more embarrassing defeat was suffered at the hands of EC Kyiv.
Against the ranked 67th in the world, Fnatic lost 2-1. It was a humiliating defeat that saw the team’s star player mezii put up a 1.80 ranking on the third map, Ancient, in what was his best performance in two months.
They lost 16-14.
It was a humiliating defeat for the squad. Every other player on Fnatic got between a .82 and .64 rating, ending the series with mezii as the only one in the positive with a 1.28 and the other four with ratings between .9 and .82.
There wasn’t anything more Fnatic could’ve asked mezii to do, and yet it didn’t matter. If they can’t win a map where mezii puts up that kind of rating or even a series where he puts up one as good as he did, then how are they ever supposed to win anything?
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