fnatic has revealed its new fnatic Rising roster built around the main team’s substitute player, Peppe “Peppzor” Borak, and former team analyst, Kevin “Kevve” Bohlin, who will serve the squad as in-game leader. The Swedish organization states that the academy team will serve as a dynamic roster that will rotate between players and young talent throughout the season.
The roster that consists of young players from Germany, Romania, and Portugal, was revealed just hours ahead of the start of WePlay League. fnatic Rising squad will compete against the secondary teams of several other elite organizations, such as NAVI Junior, Astralis Talent, and Young Ninjas. They will make their debut on Monday at 21:00 (CET).
“Our goal is to operate under one unified structure across the main roster and this new academy team, this will allow us to ensure there is a key transfer of knowledge and experience between the two.”
Team director, Andreas “Samuelsson” Samuelsson said in a statement.
fnatic Rising are:
Kevin “Kevve” Bohlin
Peppe “Peppzor” Borak
Francisco ”kst” Fragoso
Iulian “regali” Harjau
David “prosus” Hesse
As we build towards a new era of Fnatic CS:GO, we're excited to introduce our Season One Fnatic Rising roster:@KevveCS (IGL)
@PeppzorCSGO (Rifle)
@regalicsgo (AWP)@prosus_cs (Rifle)
@kstcsgo (Rifle)The team will debut today in the @WePlay_Esports Academy league – at 8PM BST! pic.twitter.com/rDUk4lA9IR
— FNATIC (@FNATIC) July 19, 2021
@SamuelssonCSGO moves to the role of team director and says: "Our goal is to operate under one unified structure across the main roster and this new academy team, this will allow us to ensure there is a key transfer of knowledge and experience between the two"
— FNATIC (@FNATIC) July 19, 2021
