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By: Jack Westerman - Published February 11, 2008 at 8:08 AM EST - Writer Archive
Rutger “ylSs” Smeding has rejoined Fnatic in order to replace the now inactive Quint "Blaze" Spierenburg.
Spierenburg has cited his demanding job as the main reason for his inactivity, stating that it doesn’t give him much time to practise. Despite being marked inactive, Blaze will remain on the roster as a 6th player.

To replace Spierenburg, Fnatic announced the return of Rutger “ylSs” Smeding, who played with the team during the CGS Qualifier. During the Qualifier and Combine, he took the place of Sandor "proph" de Munck, who was unable to participate due to CGS age restrictions.

In a statement on Fnatic’s website, Rutger “ylSs” Smeding discussed his return to the team:

"I am glad to be back with the guys because I was missing them after just one month. I hope to have some fun again and dominate Europe again. I don’t doubt that we will work it out together in order to become the team to beat. It’s great to have become a Fnatic member again!"


Team leader of Fnatic.css, Luuk "darky" Verink, made the following comments on the changes:

"It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to Quint, for now. He has been an incredible player and incredible friend to us in the past year he's been playing with us.

We have all known Rutger ever since we started the game; he's always been the 'leader' of our rival team EDiT. He's already played with us at CGS so he knows a lot about the team. He should be fitting in just fine."


The line-up of Fnatic.css is now as follows:

Netherlands Sandor "proph" de Munck
Netherlands Milan "xertion" Veeger
Netherlands Luuk "darky" Verink
Netherlands Mark "AirRaid" Koks
Netherlands Rutger "ylSs" Smeding

Netherlands Quint "Blaze" Spierenburg (inactive)


Source: Fnatic.com

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go ylSs
Fucked up, got ambushed, zipped in.
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yLSs > blaze ???
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sad, imo Blaze was the strongest player. But in ylSs fnatic found a good replacement.. Hope he can replace mister Spierenburg.
wNv Teamwork
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ahh gay Blaze was so good
I live in england
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good luck fnatic
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Hope that blaze can be back soon (:
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Blaze is an amazing player, this will have an impact on there results, although ylss is good too hes just not as good as blaze
Allah can kiss my ass
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would be good to see a strong showing from them at the next CGS qualifiers/combine that they are able to play in, seems like they're still the most convincing team that has a shot of keeping up with the US teams.
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:o didn't see that comin but gl to fnatic
Who is pete???
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gl blaze~
GUNIT~
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#8 birmingham salvo? the css unbeaten at the cgs world finals. CS: Source:
Chimera (6) < Salvo (12)
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ALRIGHT MATE DONT BRAG
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ylSs has machine aim swear to god that guy never dies

just needs to get back into it if hes gonna fill blaze's aimboots
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sad day
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yeah #11 and that was the only css game the us lost

gl fnatic.
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ylss is one of thé best dutch players when it comes to css and is more then capable to fill in the shoes with blaze stepping down, he has superb rifle controle and one the smartest players to have played the game :-) not too mention he's a smeding, his kid brother is only second to his older aniki! :D

smeding-san!
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gl :)
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hopefully fnatic gets drafted so they can get curb stomped by complexity and the euro trash can SHuT their mouths.
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great pickup, fnatic seems to be the only team that will have a chance to beat some US CGS teams, maybe even compLexity
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Well, they are better than furia for sure ^^
The meaning of life isn't very meaningful to most because they don't realize it's simplicity.
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gl to blaze he is good.

This comment was edited at 02/11/2008 10:38 PM
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#8 'would be good to see a strong showing from them at the next CGS qualifiers/combine that they are able to play in'

They finished second with a late line up change, how is that not a good showing?
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