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When Fnatic picked up the SUMN FC roster<\/a> off the back of an impressive First Strike result, many felt they were picking up the best unsigned roster in Europe.<\/p>\n

While that may have been true in December, it proved not to be the case certainly by Stage 1 Challengers 3 when the roster failed in their last chance to qualify for the subsequent Masters.<\/p>\n

A failure to qualify for the Stage 2 Challenger 1’s main event was the final nail in the coffin for the SUMN FC roster and Kostas “tsack” Theodoropoulos<\/a> and Muhammad “Moe40” Hariff were dropped.<\/p>\n

Rumours of who they might signed to replace the two departing players entered slightly dubious territory with CS:GO legend Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer Gustafsson linked with a switch to Valorant and Fnatic.<\/p>\n

Whether there was any genesis to those rumours remains to be seen, and on 8th April we learned that Fnatic had played it much safer announcing that Finnish ex-CS:GO pro Nikita “Derke” Sirmitev, and a relative unknown, Martin “Magnum” Penkov, would be joining the team.<\/p>\n

FNATIC on Twitter<\/span>Announcing two changes to our VALORANT roster.Welcome to Fnatic @just_magnum and @derkeps 👊🖤🧡— FNATIC (@FNATIC) April 8, 2021<\/span>FNATIC<\/span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

Derke will be the teams AWPer and Jett main, a crucial piece in the meta, and one that Fnatic had lacked tending to run a five rifle setup.<\/p>\n

Magnum is regarded as one of the best sentinel players in the CIS region, and will primarily play as Killjoy or Cypher.<\/p>\n

The first team we will be able to see the new roster in action is during the open qualifiers for Challengers 2, scheduled for Saturday, 10th April.<\/p>\n

The Fnatic Valorant roster now consists of:<\/p>\n

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  • Jake “Boaster” Howlett<\/li>\n
  • Domagoj “Doma” Fancev<\/li>\n
  • James “Mistic” Orfila<\/li>\n
  • Nikita “Derke” Sirmitev<\/li>\n
  • Martin “Magnum” Peňkov<\/li>\n
  • Jacob “mini” Harris (Coach)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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