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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/28I8ky4R3M4 Ludvig "Brollan" Brolin, former FNATIC star and now of MOUZ, is the star of the 444th Episode of 'Reflections'. This is episode two 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 two, Brollan talks about FNATIC's epic run of top four finishes prior to the online era, how FNATIC fell apart online, the international squad with smooya, joining NiP, es3tag's role, the great run at PGL Antwerp, being benched, standing in for MOUZ, winning titles with MOUZ and whether his team chokes or not. This interview was recorded on the 19th of August, 2024. ► Time-line of topics discussed: 00:00 flusha rejoining 02:47 Dreamhack Masters Malmo 07:48 StarSeries S8 09:48 ESL ProLeague S10 13:27 IEM Katowice 2020 14:38 What if there'd been a Spring major? 16:22 Online play 19:32 Trying to get into NiP 21:40 International FNATIC line-up 25:28 Not wanting to speak English? 27:32 PGL Antwerp major 30:21 es3tag 33:04 Stats dropping off and getting benched 37:20 Aleksib 39:29 Playing while benched 41:13 Community reaction 43:20 Standing in for MOUZ 45:42 IEM Katowice run 47:25 xertioN 49:19 Beating Spirit at the RMR 50:08 PGL Copenhagen major 52:45 FaZe Clan 54:38 ESL ProLeague S19 56:08 Betboom Dacha Belgrade 1 57:42 Choking 59:10 NAVI 1:00:56 Jimpphat 1:01:46 suihy 1:02:47 Skill level of MOUZ 1:04:12 Winning mentality 1:05:29 Play space creator again one day? 1:06:35 Final words 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 #xertioN #Thorin