Biography

Robin Rönnquist (born August 12, 1993), better known as flusha, is a Swedish professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player. He previously played for teams such as fnatic and Cloud9. flusha has won 3 CS:GO majors: Dreamhack Winter 2013, ESL One Katowice 2015 and ESL One Cologne 2015.

2013 with fnatic
flusha’s teammates in the first iteration of fnatic included Jesper “JW” Wecksell, Jonatan “devilwalk” Lundberg, Andreas “MODDII” Fridh, and Andreas “schneider” Lindberg

DreamHack Winter 2013
flusha was briefly forced to take on the role of In-Game Leading, but the team soon signed a new IGL in the form of Markus “pronax” Wallsten in November 2013. fnatic consistently reached the playoffs, but they didn’t win any tournaments until the first CS:GO major, Dreamhack Winter 2013. In the finals, fnatic beat the favourites, Nip in a 3 map series. On the first map Dust II, fnatic were down 12–3 at the end of the first half, but managed to make a comeback and win the map 16–14. On this map, flusha had 25 kills, and a 1.31 HLTV rating, the highest on the server. Despite the Ninjas winning the second map, Inferno, fnatic beat Nip 16–2 on the last map Train, winning them the major. flusha’s teammate JW was awarded the MVP for this event; flusha was the 6th best rated at the event, and the 3rd best on his team.

2014
fnatic were not able to repeat the same form they had against Nip in the start of 2014, and at the first major of the year, EMS One Katowice, fnatic went out in the quarterfinals. fnatic would go out in groups at Dreamhack Summer 2014, and replaced schneider (also known as znajder) and Devilwalk with ex-LGB esports players Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer and Freddy “KRIMZ” Johnasson. After a 3rd-place finish at Gfinity 3, fnatic came into the second major of the year, ESL One Cologne 2014 as one of the underdogs. fnatic topped their group, and faced Natus Vincere in the quarterfinals. flusha posted 30 kills on the third map, Nuke, and fnatic managed to win 16–14

Dreamhack Winter 2014
After winning the 3 previous LANs, fnatic came into DreamHack Winter 2014 as the favourites, with Team LDLC.com being considered the 2nd best team. fnatic came out of the groups 2–1, and faced LDLC in the quarterfinals. The series was tied 1-1, and on the 3rd map, Overpass, LDLC were up 13–3. fnatic then utilised a “boost,” where players stand on top of other players’ heads to gain height, and this allowed them to see over a wall. Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer was boosted up, and fnatic utilised this advantage to win the game 16–13

2015
fnatic won ESL One Katowice 2015 at the start of the year. fnatic would continue to win tournaments in 2015, including Dreamhack Open Tours 2015, Dreamhack Open Summer 2015, and ESL Pro League – Season 1 Finals. fnatic also won ESL One Cologne 2015. flusha had a 1.38 HLTV rating at the event, and won the MVP (most valuable player) medal.At the time, fnatic were the only CS:GO lineup to win 2 majors in a row, 2 majors in total. Following this, fnatic would struggle to win tournaments and placed 5th-8th at the third major of the year, Dreamhack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015.[29] Following internal divisions within the team, fnatic replaced IGL Markus “pronax” Wallsten with G2 Esports player Dennis “dennis” Edman, forcing flusha to once again take on In-Game Leading duties. flusha’s personal form dropped off, but fnatic would win 3 tournaments in a row, FACEIT 2015 Stage 3 Finals, Fragbite Masters – Season 5, and ESL Pro League – Season 2 Finals.

2016/2017
At the start of 2016 with dennis, fnatic would win another 3 LANs, StarSeries – Season XIV, ESL Barcelona, and IEM Katowice 2016. bringing their total streak up to 6. fnatic’s string of results in late 2014 and early 2016/late 2015 has led to people calling this time period “the fnatic era” (sometimes only 2015). fnatic’s dominance had ended after MLG Columbus 2016, where olofmeister suffered a hand injury. After not fnatic didn’t find much success, flusha, along with teammates JW and KRIMZ decided to join pronax’s team, GODSENT. GODSENT would struggle to place throughout the rest of 2016, with their best result being a semifinals finish at DreamHack Winter 2016. GODSENT went on to place 9th-11th at ELEAGUE Major: Atlanta 2017; flusha and JW subsequently returned to fnatic. Despite these changes, fnatic would continue their slump, and did not have any major results during 2017. In August 2017, fnatic’s star player, olofmeister, departed fnatic for FaZe Clan.

2018–present
After struggling for results for the past two years, fnatic had an upset victory at IEM Katowice 2018. flusha would be awarded the MVP after two aces against FaZe in the final map of the finals. fnatic followed this up by winning World Electronic Sports Games 2018, taking the largest prize in the game at the time, $800,000. Even with these results, fnatic would soon make more roster changes after a few po

CS:GO

CS:GO Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO for short) is a computer game from the genre of online tactical shooters. It was developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment and is the fourth part of the Counter-Strike series. The game was released on August 21, 2012 for Windows, Linux, macOS, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. A release for the PlayStation 3 in Europe failed to materialize for unknown reasons. Global Offensive achieved a Metascore of 83 points. Since September 14, 2017, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has also been available in China via the Perfect World client. In December 2018, the game was switched to a free-to-play model, which drew criticism.