{"id":27606,"date":"2023-01-18T21:26:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T02:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=27606"},"modified":"2023-01-18T22:36:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T03:36:08","slug":"rain-to-miss-blast-premier-spring-groups-for-faze-clan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/rain-to-miss-blast-premier-spring-groups-for-faze-clan\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain to miss BLAST Premier Spring Groups for FaZe Clan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FaZe Clan have announced that Havard \u201crain\u201d Nygaard will miss the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/blast-premier-spring-groups\/\" title=\"BLAST Premier Spring Groups betting guide\">BLAST Premier Spring Groups<\/a> as he and his partner await the birth of their first child.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time the veteran rifler has skipped an S-Tier <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"CS:GO betting guide\">CS:GO<\/a> tournament since <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/iem-katowice\/csgo\/\" title=\"CS:GO IEM Katowice betting guide\">IEM Katowice<\/a> 2022 in February of last year. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FAZE CLAN CS:GO UPDATE<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaZe_rainCS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FaZe_rainCS<\/a> is expecting the birth of his child and will not be participating in BLAST Premier Spring Groups. We look forward to him returning to the team as soon as possible!<\/p>\n<p>We will provide further roster news ahead of our opening match on Friday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wLPenkj9B7\">pic.twitter.com\/wLPenkj9B7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FaZe Clan (@FaZeClan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaZeClan\/status\/1615757287074967552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On that occasion, the team won the $500,000 event with the help of stand-in Justin \u201cjks\u201d Savage.<\/p>\n<p>After a strong 2022 season, the Norwegian was named the 13th-best player of 2022 at the HLTV awards last weekend, so his absence leaves a massive hole in the line-up.<\/p>\n<p>To further compound their roster issues, FaZe will also be without their coach, Robert \u201cRobbaN\u201d Dahlstrom, with his return expected to be the next couple of weeks ahead of IEM Katowice in late January. <\/p>\n<p>FaZe have not announced who will replace rain for the BLAST Premier Spring Groups, but there are reports that Kristian \u201ck0nfig\u201d Wienecke or Olof \u201colofmeister\u201d Kajbjer could be added to the roster.<\/p>\n<p>However, with k0nfig still being apart of the active roster for Heroic as a stand-in, the move to make him a stand-in for rain has been met with some resistance from other teams involved in the tournament. <\/p>\n<p>At the moment it is unknown whether BLAST will allow k0nfig to play with FaZe, with the rulebook saying that an emergency replacement cannot be \u201ca participant who is active on another roster participating in the tournament\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if k0nfig would be considered \u201cactive\u201d as a substitute for Heroic, making this an interesting situation for the events organisers.<\/p>\n<p>BLAST decides whether to allow or deny such a move on a case-by-case basis, and with under 48 hours before FaZe Clan\u2019s first series against Complexity, we expect a decision to made in the next 24 hours.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Havard &#8220;rain&#8221; Nygaard will not play for FaZe Clan at the BLAST Premier Spring Groups, missing his first event since IEM Katowice 2022 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2196,2918,508,11,127,2989,661,1246],"class_list":["post-27606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-blast","tag-blast-premier-spring-groups","tag-counter-strike","tag-csgo","tag-faze-clan","tag-havard-rain-nygaard","tag-kristian-k0nfig-wienecke","tag-olof-olofmeister-kajbjer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27621,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27606\/revisions\/27621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}