The Black & Orange have made a coaching change on the back of some disappointing results on the CS2 circuit.
Fnatic bench Counter-Strike 2 coach casle
Fnatic have announced that their Counter-Strike 2 coach, Peter “casle” Ardenskjold, has been moved to the bench and replaced by Miks “Independent” Siliņš.
Casle joined Fnatic in January 2025 as the final piece of the team’s new CS2 project.
At the time, Fnatic were reshuffling their lineup and not long before added Ukrainian duo Rodyon “fear” Smyk and Denis “Burmylov” Buraga.
Casle has previously coached MASONIC, Astralis Talent, the main Astralis lineup, Gaimin Gladiators, and ECSTATIC, with whom he reached the Legends Stage of PGL Major Copenhagen 2024.
Despite his accomplishments at ECSTATIC, success was hard to come by for casle while leading the Black & Orange, as he has failed to take them to a single tournament trophy over the past four months.
Casle’s most notable achievement with Fnatic was a runner-up finish at CCT Season 2 European Series #19 in March.
That was also the only tournament in that time where Fnatic placed higher than top-eight.
Replacing casle is Independent, who joined the team in May 2024 as an assistant coach.
The 26-year-old started his coaching career in May 2020 with Team Medieval and has since coached Wolsung, The Prodigies, and the female Guild Esports roster.
Independent debuted as Fnatic’s interim coach on Thursday in the Conquest of Prague 2025 online stage playoffs against Dynamo Eclot.
Fnatic won the series 2-0 and qualified for the LAN event, set to kick off on May 30, with a €30,000 (≃US$34,012) prize pool.
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