After the winter season of the LEC European Division, the entire division did not rest for too long. Just last week, their spring regular season officially started. The first week of the regular season schedule just ended early this morning, but from now on Judging from the results of the week, the traditional European giant FNC has encountered the biggest crisis in history.
There are currently two teams in the standings that have maintained a complete victory, one is SK and the other is VIT, while FNC and TH are currently at the bottom of the winning streak, both losing three games in a row. You know, Fnatic failed to advance in the winter competition just past, finishing in 9th place! The playoffs, and now the spring season has just started, are not satisfactory either.
Fnatic is Europe's most representative club. If G2, which has the most LEC championship titles, started in 2016, then Fnatic is the team that broke into the European League of Legends territory. Although the scale at that time was smaller than it is now, it had already shown the style of a strong team, and the S1 championship still has weight to this day.
However, in the 2023 season, FNC has become very unstable. After upset, who served as the team's AD last year, left the team, he did not join any club in the winter season. After the winter season, he directly landed in VIT and formed the current trident system of VIT with BO and perkz. The results achieved are obvious to all. .
After upset left, FNC also recalled the once legendary AD Rekkles. His return also aroused many people's expectations, but from the winter split to the spring split, it was obvious that the result was not ideal. Not only the returning 'Rekkles', but even the existing players were unable to show their strength. In the winter competition, 8 out of 10 teams advanced to the playoffs, and FNC was one of the eliminated teams.
In order to get rid of the sluggish performance, the current coach "Crusher" was fired before the spring game and "NightShare" was appointed as the new coach. In addition, existing main player "Wunder" and support "rhuckz" were replaced by "Oscarinin)" and "Advienne" respectively. Despite this, they were unable to bottom out and started the new season with three straight losses.
The only good thing is that among these 3 losses, 2 were lost to top-ranked SK and VIT respectively. This also means that in the second week, they will have a certain degree of success when they meet Team BDS, Team Heretics and Koi. Room for rebound. Even if there are no results, it is still a duel in which performance must be improved. (LEC Spring Split lasts only three weeks, BO1 single round-robin, eliminating two teams)
So far, Fnatic has appeared on the World Championship stage a total of 10 times. In addition, since 2017, they have successfully qualified for the World Championship six times in a row. However, if the current downturn continues, we may not see FNC in the World Championship this year.