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Use code THORIN at http://gamersupps.gg/?afmc=THORIN for 10% off an order of GamerSupps' delicious energy formula. ► Join the Scrilluminati to get exclusive perks and support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/Thooorin ► Check out a previous CS Reflections here: https://youtu.be/X4jLotoJOgc Ludvig "Brollan" Brolin, former FNATIC star and now of MOUZ, is the star of the 443rd Episode of 'Reflections'. This is episode one of two about Brollan's career. Brollan came onto the scene in Swedish CS as a mere teenager and began playing with established names immediately. After meeting hampus the two would play together in the coming years in GODSENT/Red Reserve line-ups. They managed to make top eight at WESG in 2018 and win Qi Invitational but aside from that struggled to get good placings at LAN events. Brollan would join FNATIC for IEM Chicago in the latter part of 2018 and immediately the team made the semi-finals, famously losing to prime Astralis there. FNATIC ended 2018 winnig the PLG Grand Slam tournament. In 2019 the squad floundered at the Katowice major but then made two international finals at Starseries S7 and IEM Sydney, losing to Na'Vi and Team Liquid respectively. The summer was rough for Brollan and FNATIC, as they even missed making the major, but then flusha and Golden returned and the team became one of the best of the latter portion of 2019. They won Dreamhack Masters Malmo, finished runners-up at StarSeries S9, made the final of ESL ProLeague S10 and cracked top four at IEM Katowice 2020. After that run of results the world went online and despite winning the initial EPL season, FNATIC famously fell off and despite Brollan keeping up his form for a while eventually his numbers went down too. Brollan played for FNATIC even when they went international, bringing on ALEX and smooya, but would eventually transfer to NiP in 2022. Initially results were great, as NiP made top eight at the PGL Antwerp major and won Global Esports Tour Dubai 2022 over MOUZ. There were some rough events as the year went on, though, and his numbers showed there were issues for Brollan. With the Aleksib era he made top four at BLAST Fall Finals and made it to the BLAST Paris Major but the team couldn't break into the play-offs there. Brollan played on into the summer before he was benched and his real return wouldn't come until the end of the year when he stood in for MOUZ. As they made semis of BLAST World Final MOUZ had seen enough and eventually brought him in full-time. Since then MOUZ has been one of the top teams in world Counter-Strike and Brollan won EPL S19 and Betboom Dacha Belgrade 1. In part one, Brollan talks about his entry into the scene as a mere teenager, early good LAN performances, ups and downs climbing the competitive ladder, experienced names he teamed up with, joining FNATIC, losing to prime Astralis and Team Liquid, what peak s1mple was like to face and what KRiMZ is like as a team-mate. This interview was recorded on the 19th of August, 2024. ► Time-line of topics discussed: 00:00 Early days 01:38 Playing with pronax and Devilwalk 03:54 Was he confident? 05:09 GODSENT/Red Reserve 07:23 WESG 2017 09:15 Family response 10:46 Reality series 12:32 StarSeries S5 13:48 Facing Team Liquid 14:38 Getting humbled on LAN 15:51 Bad LAN results 17:13 How did he handle bad results? 18:26 Top fragging 19:36 North 21:19 Mindset facing top players 22:10 hampus 23:42 disco doplan 24:42 twist 26:44 Pressure of being the chosen one of Swedish CS? 28:10 FNATIC offer 29:35 How FNATIC integrated him 32:05 Xizt 33:21 IEM Chicago 36:54 IEM Katowice 2019 38:31 Aug and Krieg abuser 39:31 FNATIC results 42:00 StarSeries S7 43:40 Playing finals 45:39 Prime s1mple and electronic 46:31 IEM Sydney 48:52 Beating NiP legends on stage 51:57 Facing Team Liquid in the final 53:24 Tough summer period 54:32 Not making the major 56:06 KRiMZ Subscribe this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfeeUuW7edMxF3M_cyxGT8Q/join ► Check out bite-sized Thorin on my new clips channel: https://www.youtube.com/thorinclips ► Follow me on social media: https://twitter.com/Thorin https://facebook.com/Thooorin https://www.instagram.com/thooorinofficial/ ► My written content: https://iamesports.substack.com/ ► My stream: https://www.twitch.tv/Thorin ► You can discuss this content at my Discord server: https://discord.gg/rDKxKfM ► This video was kindly supported by: Ahmed Hadjou Matt, Pugnatio, Rajcula Adam Tomlin Animosity Jensen Goh Tosh touken_ Special thanks go out to JerCkysMiNi0n. #Brollan #FNATIC #Thorin