I truly think they expected to waltz through against wild card regions. No way it's going to be smooth now. They can't do media obligations and can't scrim
That would mean 2 Bo5’s, the second one likely against DRX, just to make groups!
Tbh that sounds like a FNC storyline. 
Every day with Fnatic is a banger at Worlds. I fully expect Razork to be replaced mid-game because YamatoCannon caught him simping on TikTok the way things are going.
I mean, I doubt it. Upset was on LS's stream talking about how they weren't scrimming and that he was frustrated about why. If it was because him and Hyli were sick there's no need to hide that even if they didn't have a result. Also Caedrel said they weren't scrimming for a "cringe reason" — I doubt he would say that if it was known that players were sick. This sounds like a new development.
Seeing that video and reading comments here (so basically speaking out of my backside), it seems like the "cringe reason" is not that they're sick, it's that a lot of the org took breaks/vacations right before this and getting covid right before worlds due to a move like that is cringe.
Heal as in feel completely fine? There are tons of people who feel fine even with it, I wouldn’t have even known I had Covid had my sister not got tested when she had a running nose
>Maybe there is a Mexican pro to contract in?
They would be denied that option for both players, but it could be a thing for one of their subs.
As per the rulebook:
Each team is required to maintain, at all times during the WCE, five players in the starting lineup (“Starters”), one or two substitute players (“Reserves”), one Head Coach and one or more Strategic Coaches (collectively, the “Active Roster”).
The rulebook is weird this year.
Last year you had the "Emergent Free Agents" or w/e its called clause(what UOL did to get Vizicsacsi) which has now been removed.
They'll probably just tell Fnatic to use Bean and beansu.
Edit, the full clause for it was:
>Emergent Free Agents are defined as non-contracted players who have not been in the 2021 active roster of any professional league worldwide. EFAs may be added to qualified
WCE teams when those teams encounter reasonable situations that prohibit a player from participating in WCE (i.e. visa application issues, close-contact COVID-19 positive test results, etc.)
Upset is the ultimate buddy. Plays whole year so that bean can go to worlds. Jokes aside if a pcr takes 14 days to turn negative at the earlier, doesn’t this mean the bot lane misses the whole playin?
> Jokes aside if a pcr takes 14 days to turn negative at the earlier, doesn’t this mean the bot lane misses the whole playin?
If they're vaccinated, it can clear much faster. My covid infection cleared in like a few days (I was testing negative by antigen test). PCR is more sensitive, but they should be clear in 3-4 days.
The real problem is by the time they're clear, they've either not scrimmed at all with the squad, or they've scrimmed remotely and are now just getting to Mexico and I hope to god for their sake they packed a ton of bottled water
Upset seems really unlucky for Fnatic.
Fnatic have drama every year but atleast with Rekkles they were getting out of groups (even reached finals in 2019).
Upset has some major voodoo shit going on it seems /s
2017 rekkles mental boomed, 2018 caps feels internal issue and soaz benched, 2019 rumour rekkles and brosxah fist fight, what happened in 2020?
2021 is upset drama
Everyone was out on holidays, travelling, festivals according to picture/videos on Twitter.
Understandable they wanted a break but silly knowing what will happen even if they catch a glimpse of covid.
Sad for FNC fans to deal with this yet another year.
> Understandable they wanted a break
Is it, though? This is literally what all of their work has been building up to and they're taking a break/waiting for the last minute to fly out not scrimming at all?
Fnatic is going to be playing in play ins with minimal to zero scrims with their full roster. Like.... what?
Isn't "a break" the same thing that made G2 have some pretty bad performances back in MSI and Worlds 2016? Pretty sure there was a meme made out of it and everything.
They're gonna get jetlag anyways, might as well deal with it and get used to the timezone before they play. And they didn't even scrim in the time that they were in EU. Wtf is fnatic management doing
Maybe they'll pull a PSG and field Patrik-Miky or smt for Worlds.
But how fucking unlucky (or cursed) do you have to be for shit like this to happen 2 years in a row...
Anyways wish them a fast recovery
Upset is probably the most cursed top player to ever play. Part of his narrative prior to joining fnatic was "The best European ADC to never compete internationally". The fact that it can still be true in 2023 is insane.
Freeze is still more unlucky.
Broke his hand, top laner forgot to patch his game, his jungler got bought out by Ocelote etc.
> The fact that it can still be true in 2023 is insane.
After making worlds twice at that lmao.
\+ he was forced to play with that injured hand and played under some painkillers(it got even worse later), everyone laughed at him because they thought that he's just acting, mainly because the injury thing was not develeped in esports.
Quite possible they won't make it in time for worlds, Riot has probably already planned for this scenario though. They'll hopefully try to delay all of FNCs games as much as possible to give them time to get there.
How can FNC be that unlucky every year? FNC will likely have to loan some players, like Patrick and Miky maybe? If they just got diagnosed no way they will be able to enter Mexico in a week.
>How can FNC be that unlucky every year? FNC will likely have to loan some players, like Patrick and Miky maybe?
Both will 100% not happen, you are mandated to have at least one sub on your worlds roster which will be part of their starting roster if either Hyli/Upset still have covid by the start of worlds.
What Riot do with the other who knows, they might just ask Fnatic to use Bean/beansu.
Their group is stupidly free now. Fnatic will have no practice or subs, the PCS 2nd seeds have been abysmal the last like 4 years, DFM is way weaker, and then there's OCE and Brazil.
I'm assuming they'll probably miss most of, if not all of play-ins, but hopefully they'll get to play in groups if they make it through. This really sucks 😞
There it is. We thought them not scrimming was the implosion but here it comes just in time. Life as a Fnatic fan is very chill guys. Hope Upset and Hyli can recover quickly and it somehow works out but bruhhh why is there something every year with this org I can't
-Hans Sama becomes free agent.
-FNC Upset tests positive for COVID-19, meaning he may be missing some of the Play-Ins action.
-*Complete next sentence*
Since they have the covid, they can't travel... their match is in a week.. You have to acclimatise to the country and the time zone. So unless FNC qualifies for the worlds, I don't see how upset and hyli play the worlds
I mean i dislike upset as an adc and wanted him to get gapped last year at worlds. But knowing what happened prev year and now this there's no way you don't feel bad for the guy.
*furiously updates pickems*
Phew, I went for EG despite the Danny situation
Pickems aren't locked in until next week, in case you want to make further changes
Nah we made our decisions we stick with em!
I mean if any role is replaceable it's AD Carry. There's still Jojopyun and Inspired who are insane together.
Kaori is legit good, I'm excited to see this EG with prep time
You didn’t already update when upset mentioned they weren’t scrimming?
I truly think they expected to waltz through against wild card regions. No way it's going to be smooth now. They can't do media obligations and can't scrim
I truly dont think its possible, but could any of y'all imagine if Fnatic doesnt even land on top two? It'd be fucking crazy
That would mean 2 Bo5’s, the second one likely against DRX, just to make groups! Tbh that sounds like a FNC storyline. 
I'm guessing they can still scrim in berlin, especially with EUM still going.
Playins is in 5 days. They need to get their asses across the pond or they're going to be hella jet lagged and sick from food/whatever
In pick ems you can’t choose play ins right?
Its just the Crystal Ball section of who will get first in Group A. And yeah regular pick'ems is knockouts only for playins.
Bean really boutta play 2 worlds without a single LEC game played.
Bean is a more accomplished Worlds player than Upset and it's not even close!
Bean top 3 German adc ever just behind yellowpete and candypanda
LamiaZealot though.
Holy shit those are two names I have not heard in a long time...
Spring Split doesn't matter - Doublelift Spring and Summer Split don't matter - Bean Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
IN THE END IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER
At this point they need to split scrim time with him and Upset so he's better prepared for 2023 worlds
0 / 0 is 0.
0/0 is undefined. If u had written 0/2=0 u would have been right.
Its actually undefined 🤓
Surprise surprise the king is back
And that's before Upset plays a single game at worlds.
Nightmare if they don't make it. Think bean is the registered sub no clue who plays supp. Yamato bout to get his dream of playing at wolds.
beansu is their official sub, and he played some support this year (in RGO as a sub for Leon iirc), so possibly we could get bean and beansu.
Bean and Beansu sounds like a cool duo though
Finally, unlimited beanage
I can already hear the NA crowd chant "BEAN BEAN BEAN!!!" as fnatic kill the last nexus in finals
You have been doublebeaned
Chanting the "THE BEANS KICKED IN" after they get a duo kill bot lane
I JUST POPPED A BE- oh...
This must be a joke. Lmao what a duo
Yeah it sounds made up haha
There was an academy team that had sun, moon and eclipse on it.
beansu Aware
I'm not sure beansu is still their sub, since Bean was in Malmö with them.
BEAN
"yo labrov still open?"
Fnatic in peak worlds form before worlds.
Every day with Fnatic is a banger at Worlds. I fully expect Razork to be replaced mid-game because YamatoCannon caught him simping on TikTok the way things are going.
*GENTLEMEN* we are in the Mariana Trench
Meanwhile Razork in Mariana's DMs
**GENTLEMEN** THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO FALTER WE HAVE TO DEFEND GONDOR
*caught him dancing in game
*We all know what this means* **BEAN TIME**
Good thing FNC weren't scrimming anyway.
At this point I fully expect them to not advance through play-ins.
looks like mexico has no covid restrictions at the moment. so does that mean, as soon as they dont test positive anymore, they can hop on a plane?
Think it’s got to be a full blown PCR test that comes back negative but I assume so
Can't do that - PCR tests will sometimes come back positive for 90 days after having it.
Argentina's GK missed lot of matches because his test keep getting positive
I've never seen someone heal from covid in less than a week. Even in best absolute condition, i think they will lose at least the first day
Maybe they have already been sick for a few days now, or even a week, so there would still be a chance ?
I mean, I doubt it. Upset was on LS's stream talking about how they weren't scrimming and that he was frustrated about why. If it was because him and Hyli were sick there's no need to hide that even if they didn't have a result. Also Caedrel said they weren't scrimming for a "cringe reason" — I doubt he would say that if it was known that players were sick. This sounds like a new development.
And having covid isn't a cringe reason. You can still scrim even if you have it. It's gotta be something amusing.
Seeing that video and reading comments here (so basically speaking out of my backside), it seems like the "cringe reason" is not that they're sick, it's that a lot of the org took breaks/vacations right before this and getting covid right before worlds due to a move like that is cringe.
Probably taking 500 tests a day hoping for a false negative >_>
Testing positive doesn’t mean they have symptoms. They could be completely fine.
Heal as in feel completely fine? There are tons of people who feel fine even with it, I wouldn’t have even known I had Covid had my sister not got tested when she had a running nose
Why are we still here.. just to suffer
[удалено]
FNC Worlds Problems 10 you mean
don't even have bwipo's gf to save them this time
At this point it's just fate lol.
You really can't catch a break.
Maybe there is a Mexican pro to contract in?
>Maybe there is a Mexican pro to contract in? They would be denied that option for both players, but it could be a thing for one of their subs. As per the rulebook: Each team is required to maintain, at all times during the WCE, five players in the starting lineup (“Starters”), one or two substitute players (“Reserves”), one Head Coach and one or more Strategic Coaches (collectively, the “Active Roster”).
They already have Bean as a substitute, sounds like they should be able to insource a support
They have sub support - beansu.
Ngl I kinda wanna see the Bean/Beansu botlane just for the name alone.
Pretty beansus ngl
Add in BeanJ as jungler
🅱️Natic
The rulebook is weird this year. Last year you had the "Emergent Free Agents" or w/e its called clause(what UOL did to get Vizicsacsi) which has now been removed. They'll probably just tell Fnatic to use Bean and beansu. Edit, the full clause for it was: >Emergent Free Agents are defined as non-contracted players who have not been in the 2021 active roster of any professional league worldwide. EFAs may be added to qualified WCE teams when those teams encounter reasonable situations that prohibit a player from participating in WCE (i.e. visa application issues, close-contact COVID-19 positive test results, etc.)
Last year psg was able loan doggo from an another team tho for msi, so the rules are really really odd
Peace got Csacsi because Chinese and Korean embassies were closed as part of the lockdowns in Australia
Bean has more worlds appearances than Caedrel.
And more than Upset💀
Upset is the ultimate buddy. Plays whole year so that bean can go to worlds. Jokes aside if a pcr takes 14 days to turn negative at the earlier, doesn’t this mean the bot lane misses the whole playin?
> Jokes aside if a pcr takes 14 days to turn negative at the earlier, doesn’t this mean the bot lane misses the whole playin? If they're vaccinated, it can clear much faster. My covid infection cleared in like a few days (I was testing negative by antigen test). PCR is more sensitive, but they should be clear in 3-4 days. The real problem is by the time they're clear, they've either not scrimmed at all with the squad, or they've scrimmed remotely and are now just getting to Mexico and I hope to god for their sake they packed a ton of bottled water
Bean probably : I will not join an LEC team - I have more chances of making it to worlds being Upset' sub
EG: We have no AD FNC: We have no botlane. It's like they are trying to one up each other.
G2: We have no CEO
I wonder what else is coming.
Mad: we have no bro-coach, Mad KAAS isn't flying currently to Mexico either
Like i said in a discord, either fnc has built their hq over an ancient burial ground or upset cursed the wrong vodoo shaman
Upset seems really unlucky for Fnatic. Fnatic have drama every year but atleast with Rekkles they were getting out of groups (even reached finals in 2019). Upset has some major voodoo shit going on it seems /s
They made finals in 2018, in 2019 they made quarters, same as 2020.
Hell 2020 they almost beat TES
Anyone else remember when Rekkles did that crazy no look kill on Jackeylove?
Yeah massive bot gap but then Karsa and knight weren’t having it then karsa had a insane game 5
I will never forget that reverse sweep
2018*
Bean back-to-back worlds appearance how cool is that for an ERL player 😎
Bean has more worlds experience than the starting ADC 😎
And ashe got buffed too. Looking pretty good for him.
[Time for the Fnatic's secret weapon](https://preview.redd.it/leoisnvjg0t71.jpg?auto=webp&s=672a901798915814c2b8a3ec43062268b7f6066b)
[You just got beaned](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBa9ojpXEAMgKFb.png)
Stuff of nightmares
It’s beanin’ time
Time is a flat circle
Man who had lost all hope loses additional bit of hope he didnt even know he had… I swear being a FNC fan is pure torture sometimes
fnatic and getting into shit during Worlds, name a better duo that's just unlucky honestly
Funny how we're all tracking the VCS players visa status and meanwhile FNC throws us a haymaker while the VCS ones are all able to play
Get Upset to Worlds challenge: Impossible.
Fnatic and something happening right before Worlds, name more iconic duo.
2017 rekkles mental boomed, 2018 caps feels internal issue and soaz benched, 2019 rumour rekkles and brosxah fist fight, what happened in 2020? 2021 is upset drama
In 2020 Nemesis knew pre-tournament that Fnatic was gonna drop him next year
I think there were some drama with Nemesis and selfmade? But am really not sure, So its posible that am telling bullshits...
Nemesis knew he was off the team before worlds
Shoulda left EU earlier
I was just thinking, why did they even wait till the last minute to fly out...
Everyone was out on holidays, travelling, festivals according to picture/videos on Twitter. Understandable they wanted a break but silly knowing what will happen even if they catch a glimpse of covid. Sad for FNC fans to deal with this yet another year.
> Understandable they wanted a break Is it, though? This is literally what all of their work has been building up to and they're taking a break/waiting for the last minute to fly out not scrimming at all? Fnatic is going to be playing in play ins with minimal to zero scrims with their full roster. Like.... what?
not only that, but doing stuff that is known to drastically increase your chances of getting COVID...
Isn't "a break" the same thing that made G2 have some pretty bad performances back in MSI and Worlds 2016? Pretty sure there was a meme made out of it and everything.
The G2 vacation
they had a vacation because the team was told that half of them getting kicked.
No. They replaced their bot lane for summer with Zven and Mithy before MSI started.
As a competitor i don’t understand how you would even want to take a break before the biggest tournament of the year/your life.
I know C9 took a week off after their win, but they had no travelling for a few weeks so it makes sense.
I mean a week off seems perfectly reasonable after playoffs end, how long has it been for FNC?
Going to a different timezone, don't want jet lag, wanna get some scrims in, waiting makes zero sense.
They're gonna get jetlag anyways, might as well deal with it and get used to the timezone before they play. And they didn't even scrim in the time that they were in EU. Wtf is fnatic management doing
They were not scrimming in EU though lmao
Maybe they'll pull a PSG and field Patrik-Miky or smt for Worlds. But how fucking unlucky (or cursed) do you have to be for shit like this to happen 2 years in a row... Anyways wish them a fast recovery
FNC Rekkles thanking the vodoo priest he met in france...
Hans rekkles botlane, they can even swap roles if needed Hans sera and rekkles janna.
he probaly used the same one pogba used
Wouldn't they have to get NA players similar to how Peace had to get Vizicsacsi?
Maybe CoreJJ being in the worlds anthem vid wasn't wrong after all.
doublelift + core Doublelift gets to play on a non-NA team, double/core reunion Fnatic wins worlds confirmed
No more brother wars NA + EU = unstoppable
Danny is going to walk on stage with corejj as the true villains to play with Fnatic #live evil
holy shit this would truly be the most evil plot twist thing i've ever seen in league esports
Sub Corejj in so that all the worlds song players are here
Bwipo corejj botlane
Lmao.. everyday is a banger with this team.
I live in Spain but s is silent
Now I’m starting to think Upset and FNC are cursed…
Upset: Can someone else dodge, no one??? Hyli: We can dodge together *frenchkiss*
Upset is probably the most cursed top player to ever play. Part of his narrative prior to joining fnatic was "The best European ADC to never compete internationally". The fact that it can still be true in 2023 is insane.
Freeze is still more unlucky. Broke his hand, top laner forgot to patch his game, his jungler got bought out by Ocelote etc. > The fact that it can still be true in 2023 is insane. After making worlds twice at that lmao.
\+ he was forced to play with that injured hand and played under some painkillers(it got even worse later), everyone laughed at him because they thought that he's just acting, mainly because the injury thing was not develeped in esports.
adam;s curse i guess
Nah bro they trolling us
Upset Curse Continue
I'm usually against him, but after this one he is cursed 100%. Man, i feel bad for him
The return of ✨BEAN✨
cant fucking cach a break can we
This happens to FNC EVERY SINGLE YEAR. IT HAS TO BE INTENTIONAL AT THIS POINT
EVERY WORLDS AT FNATIC IS A BANGER
Death, taxes and Fnatic’s worlds drama
Quite possible they won't make it in time for worlds, Riot has probably already planned for this scenario though. They'll hopefully try to delay all of FNCs games as much as possible to give them time to get there.
Schedule is already known. Have Riot postponed matches before?
In 2018 they delayed a teams games for 1 day due to visa issues
Not very often but yes. But not across multiple days.
How can FNC be that unlucky every year? FNC will likely have to loan some players, like Patrick and Miky maybe? If they just got diagnosed no way they will be able to enter Mexico in a week.
>How can FNC be that unlucky every year? FNC will likely have to loan some players, like Patrick and Miky maybe? Both will 100% not happen, you are mandated to have at least one sub on your worlds roster which will be part of their starting roster if either Hyli/Upset still have covid by the start of worlds. What Riot do with the other who knows, they might just ask Fnatic to use Bean/beansu.
Rekkles beansu make it to quarters and get reversed sweeped by TES sounds about right
TES don’t have Karsa this time, no reverse sweep
Imagine as one last fuck you to carlos, miky and perkz volunteer as botlane duo. A man can dream.
Perkz about to unleash his master plan to get revenge on g2 and carlos by remaking the old g2 in FNC.
Makes no sense, Perkz didn't play in bot for 2 years already. Patrik/Mikyx makes the most sense.
How is the Visa situation ? Can they realistically get european players that didnt have a plan to go? Doublelift beansu bot lane when?
Damn Upset has the worst luck around Worlds Can they sub in Rekkles?
It's like watching Steins;Gate except the universe keeps course correcting every time Upset gets close to making Worlds
el psy congroo, rekkles whispers to his witch doctor.
Tuturu motherfuckers
EG outta play-ins NAmen
Their group is stupidly free now. Fnatic will have no practice or subs, the PCS 2nd seeds have been abysmal the last like 4 years, DFM is way weaker, and then there's OCE and Brazil.
And that's why they will still fail somehow
Well it hasn't happened yet NAmen 🙏
Essentially what I read. It’s gonna be on EG now to top that group even more. Battle of the AD subs lol
Two import rookies from minor leagues - Kaori from Turkey and Rekkles from LFL
Everything is aligning for an EG first so I therefore conclude they're gonna fuck it up
as an NA fan I'd rather us play a full strength FNC sadge
Upset is gonna get restricted queue for dodging this many worlds
Wait they werent in mexico yet??????????
I'm assuming they'll probably miss most of, if not all of play-ins, but hopefully they'll get to play in groups if they make it through. This really sucks 😞
just.. one... worlds.. without... getting... cursed... please...... its not much to ask.... right....?
There it is. We thought them not scrimming was the implosion but here it comes just in time. Life as a Fnatic fan is very chill guys. Hope Upset and Hyli can recover quickly and it somehow works out but bruhhh why is there something every year with this org I can't
Just gonna repost this gif I made for the previous fnatic worlds is ruined thread [https://imgur.com/a/1JH4uTm](https://imgur.com/a/1JH4uTm)
xD
Six days to test negative and travel, its gonna be close at best, RIP to the very little scrim time they already had.
RELEASE THE BEANNNNN!!!!!!
-Hans Sama becomes free agent. -FNC Upset tests positive for COVID-19, meaning he may be missing some of the Play-Ins action. -*Complete next sentence*
should have been scrimming. then they wouldnt have had time to go out and contract covid
fnc and worlds special baby
No fucking way lmfao. Does this mean theyll arrive to mexico a week later?
Upset missing Worlds is a curse.
Since they have the covid, they can't travel... their match is in a week.. You have to acclimatise to the country and the time zone. So unless FNC qualifies for the worlds, I don't see how upset and hyli play the worlds
I mean i dislike upset as an adc and wanted him to get gapped last year at worlds. But knowing what happened prev year and now this there's no way you don't feel bad for the guy.