FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #1 crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Veqaj Sylvain Pattyn Alfajer Emir Ali Beder has brought on the well-traveled Casper "Desmo" Rasmussen as an assistant coach ahead of the 2026 season.

Desmo spent the 2025 season with LEVIATÁN LEVIATÁN North America Rank #9 spike Rodrigo Lombardi blowz Guilherme Oliviera Neon Bruno Rodríguez Sato Eduardo Kenzo Nagahama Sato kiNgg Francisco Aravena , starting the year as an assistant to head coach Itopata and before replacing him in the role after going 1-4 in Stage 1. This past season, he was credited with turning around LEVIATÁN's season, helping the squad go 3-2 in the group stage of Stage 2 and finish top-six in the region.

Before LEV, Desmo played a part in Apeks Apeks Inactive 's EMEA Ascension-winning run, first as an analyst and then as an assistant coach. His move to FNATIC marks his return to EMEA, a region he is extremely familiar with. Since wrapping up his playing career in 2021, Desmo has also coached at volvo peek volvo peek Inactive Phardon Brandon Perez Testa SH0UTyy Michal Glacner SouhcNi Ibrahim Sağır juseu Elric Belland Amilwa Amine Saidi al0rante Felix Brandl , Alliance Alliance Inactive , bonk bonk Inactive juseu Elric Belland , and Alliance Coven Alliance Coven Inactive fluxxy Lola Ainslie 6sonya Maria Istrate B3AUTIFUL Laureta Hajra Melzz Melinda BlomQvist .

FNATIC's 2025 season had its rough spots, but ended with the organization in familiar territory. After missing the first international LAN of the year, FNATIC reclaimed its spot atop the EMEA throne with a Stage 1 win. The team then parlayed that momentum into the grand final at Masters Toronto, where they narrowly lost to Paper Rex Paper Rex Asia-Pacific Rank #1 PatMen Patrick Mendoza Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov in an instant classic, five-map series. While FNATIC finished 5th-6th in Stage 2, it had enough championship points from the year to qualify for Champions Paris as EMEA's third seed. FNATIC picked up momentum on the international speed again on the international stage, but again fell just short in a five-map grand final, this time to NRG NRG North America Rank #2 keiko Georgio Sanassy brawk Brock Somerhalder mada Adam Pampuch skuba Logan Jenkins Ethan Ethan Arnold .

In the offseason, FNATIC has parted ways with Chronicle , who joined Team Vitality Team Vitality Europe Rank #28 Jamppi Elias Olkkonen PROFEK Dawid Święć Derke Nikita Sirmitev Chronicle Timofey Khromov Sayonara Ștefan Mîtcu , and parted ways with assistant coaches d00mbr0s and Scuttt , who have since joined 100 Thieves 100 Thieves North America Rank #6 Cryocells Matthew Panganiban Asuna Peter Mazuryk vora Jordan Pulwer Timotino Timothée Lavigne Dupont bang Sean Bezerra and Vitality, respectively. To replace Chronicle, FNATIC picked up former Gentle Mates Gentle Mates Europe Rank #134 starxo Patryk Kopczynski bipo Taranvir Singh marteen Martin Pátek GLYPH Conner Garcia Minny Patrik Hušek Duelist Veqaj in a move that may look to give the team more flexibility in its agent pools.

FNATIC FNATIC Europe Rank #1 crashies Austin Roberts Boaster Jake Howlett kaajak Kajetan Haremski Veqaj Sylvain Pattyn Alfajer Emir Ali Beder 's full roster is now:

  • Jake "Boaster" Howlett
  • Austin "crashies" Roberts
  • Kajetan "kaajak" Haremski
  • Sylvain "Veqaj" Pattyn
  • Emir "Alfajer" Ali Beder
  • Colin "CoJo" Johnson (Manager)
  • Milan "Milan" de Meij (Head coach)
  • Casper "Desmo" Rasmussen (Assistant coach)
  • Philipp "Szed" Schickor (Performance coach)