fnatic 's longest serving CS player, Harley 'dsn' Örwall, has announced his retirement from competitive gaming. The sniper who had stated in an interview in 2010 "I'm sure I will end my pro gaming run within [Fnatic]" has made good on his word by retiring in fnatic colours, following just under six years of play with the organisation.

fnatic 's lineup:
Patrik 'cArn' Sättermon
Rasmus 'GuX' Ståhl
Faruk 'pita' Pita
Richard 'Xizt' Landström
TBA

dsn explains his reasons for retiring and looks on his career in the following extracts of his lengthy quote on the fnatic website:



fnatic founder Sam Mathews explained the impact dsn has had on his organisation:



dsn's career resume is glittering and filled with top 3 placings now but his beginnings were as humble as they come. During his times in xPerience.se and Gamers.nu he frequently found himself forced to accept disappointing international placings and carry the stigma of being a player who had yet to legitimately succeed outside of Sweden. As a result he wasn't on the radar of the elite teams like SK.swe, 9.esu and EYE.

The turnaround for dsn came when he went to CPL Winter 2004 with a ragtag Begrip lineup of fellow unclanned players, including cArn, and, thanks in large part to his AWPing, finished 4th overall. A disappointing 2005, minus upsetting the All-Star NiP with the Skolpojarna mix, put him in position to join fnatic and in January of 2006 the f0rest, dsn and cArn core of fnatic was born. That trio would go on to dozens of top 3 placings from 2006 to 2010. The early highlight was being the most consistent team in 2007, despite not winning any of the majors. In 2009 the team, with GeT_RiGhT and Gux onboard, went on a now legendary run of domination which saw them break the single year record for prize money won.

2010 was a good year, with the team proving to be the second best overall and claim titles, but fnatic suffered from living in the shadow of Na`Vi's success. When GeT_RiGhT, f0rest and Gux departed from the organisation at the end of the year many assumed the fnatic era of winning titles had passed. In fact the new lineup, featuring Delpan, Xizt and pita, went on to win the IEM V European Championship.

Despite that improbable but stellar start to the year the team were unable to replicate or maintain that level of performance and their results for the rest of 2011 have been fairly humdrum. 5th-6th at the IEM V World Championship, 5th-8th at Xperia PLAY, 2nd at IOL FINAL4, 5th-6th at Dreamhack Summer, 2nd at Adepto BH, 4th at GameGune and 7th-8th at e-Stars Seoul saw dsn's final half a year of competition end less than spectacularly. The latter two events in particular saw fnatic losing out to teams they would, on paper, have been expected to beat: ESC at GameGune and WinFakt at e-Stars Seoul.



Source: fnatic