Rekkles

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Rekkles
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Rekkles in 2020
Current team
TeamKarmine Corp
GamesLeague of Legends
RoleAD Carry
Personal information
NameMartin Larsson
Born (1996-09-20) 20 September 1996 (age 25)
Älvängen, Sweden[1]
NationalitySwedish
Career information
Playing career2012–present
Team history
2012Playing Duck
2012Fnatic
2012–2013Fnatic.Beta
2013–2014Fnatic
2014–2015Alliance
2015Elements
2015–2020Fnatic
2020–2021G2 Esports
2021–presentKarmine Corp
Career highlights and awards
  • 4× EU LCS champion (4× MVP)
  • Rift Rivals champion (2018, 2019)
  • EU All-Pro 1st Team x4 (Summer 2015, Summer 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020)
  • EU All-Pro 2nd Team x1 (Spring 2017)
  • EU All-Pro 3rd Team x4 (Summer 2016, Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Summer 2020)
Honors
Esports
League of Legends
World Championship
Runner-up 2018 South Korea

Carl Martin Erik Larsson (born 20 September 1996),[1] better known as Rekkles (pronounced "reckless"), is a Swedish professional League of Legends player for Karmine Corp. He has played for Fnatic, Alliance,[2][3] Elements,[4] and G2 Esports.

Rekkles returned to Fnatic for the 2015 Summer EU LCS.[5][6][7] They went undefeated all summer[8] and won the playoffs in August, qualifying for the 2015 League of Legends World Championship.[9] In the 2016 Spring EU LCS, they made it to the semifinals.[10]

Originally from Älvängen, near Gothenburg,[11] Rekkles lives in Berlin during the LEC season.[12] Rekkles lived in the Fnatic gaming house in 2013.[13] He became interested in video games after he injured his cruciate ligament playing football.[11][14]

Biography[]

2012 season[]

Rekkles started playing competitive League of Legends in 2012, playing for Playing Ducks and PAH, whilst also subbing for both Team BLACK and SK Gaming, During this time, even at such a young age Rekkles had the chance to play against teams of an especially high standard, In November 2012, he joined Fnatic as their starting AD Carry.

2013 season[]

Rekkles' young age had limited him, however, preventing him from being able to play in the EU LCS for Fnatic.

As he was unable to play in the LCS, Fnatic.Beta was created around him. The team was disbanded after few months. Together, he and Fnatic decided that it would be best for him to rejoin the roster in the 2014 Season, as he was not eligible to play until after the group stage.

On 22 November 2013, Rekkles officially retook the AD Carry position.

2018 season[]

During the 2018 EU LCS Season, Rekkles and Fnatic managed to win both the Spring and Summer Split. In both splits, he secured a spot on the 1st All-Pro Team.[15]

At the 2018 World Championship, Fnatic was seeded into Group D alongside 100 Thieves, Invictus Gaming, and G-Rex. They picked up five wins in the group, allowing them to advance into the knockout stage of the tournament. In the quarterfinals, defeated EDward Gaming by 3–1. They swept, with a convincing 3–0, the semifinals against Cloud9.After that win FNC are the first team to make it to the final at Worlds.[16] After this they lost 3–0 in the Worlds 2018 finals to their group rival Invictus Gaming.

2019 season[]

At the 2019 spring split started horribly for Rekkles and Fnatic but they managed to come back later and make it to LEC playoffs. There they lost to Origen 3-1 after 2 wins against Team Vitality and Splyce. Rekkles missed the Mid-Season Invitational. At the summer split they won second place, almost beating G2 in an intense Bo5 series. At 2019 World Championship, Rekkles with is team will make a great run at groups to eliminate Royal Never Give Up in a "group of death" making it to the quarterfinals where they were defeated by the future world champions FunPlus Phoenix.

2020 season[]

In the Spring Season, Rekkles placed 2nd in the LEC with Fnatic, losing 0–3 in the finals against long term rivals G2 Esports. This repeated in the Summer Season, where Fnatic was once more defeated by G2, again by 0–3. The 2nd place in summer qualified the team to the 2020 World Championship. In November 2020, Rekkles' contract in Fnatic had expired. He saw this as a chance to leave his historic team, after two years of being the runners-up in the LEC, and, just like Caps had done in 2018, he decided to move on from Fnatic to another team: the departure of Perkz from G2 Esports created the best possible spot for Rekkles to secure. Thus, on 20 November 2020, Rekkles joined G2 Esports taking over the AD carry role and replacing as mentioned earlier, Perkz, the most decorated player in Europe.

2021 season[]

At the beginning of the Spring Season of the League of Legends European Championship, a song dedicated to Rekkles titled Reckless with my heart was released by the LEC casters. The single is about Rekkles abandoning Fnatic, where he was a long time veteran, to join G2 Esports. After joining G2 to form a "superteam" bringing together the players that were widely regarded as the best in Europe at their positions, G2 Esports and Rekkles came first in the Spring Season of the LEC and received an MVP award. After winning 3-2 against Schalke 04 Esports in a best-of-5 series, MAD Lions stood in the way of a European final. In a disappointing and unprecedented result, G2 Esports dropped out 3-1 falling to the losers bracket. There they faced Rogue - this match was widely predicted to be the final. G2 lost 3-1 and disappointingly claimed 3rd in the Spring Playoffs of the league.

In the first weeks of the Summer Season of the European competition G2 looked dominant, but in later weeks the team's performance slumped. At the end, they managed to come back and claim 2nd place in a tiebreaker with MAD Lions and Misfits Gaming in the regular season, qualifying for playoffs. In playoffs, G2 was drawn against MAD Lions. As favourites, G2 played a dominant 1st game but MAD managed to win 3 games in a row, resulting in G2's 3-1 loss, falling to the lower bracket. They were matched up against long-time rivals and Rekkles' former team Fnatic for a spot at the 2021 World Championship. The series went to 5 games, with G2 falling in the final moments. For the first time since 2016, Rekkles would miss out on Worlds.

After being favoured to dominate the domestic league and contend for the World Championship title, G2 Esports didn't attend Worlds. After this series of events, G2 Esports' CEO Carlos "ocelote" Rodríguez placed Rekkles on the buyout market. His buyout price was listed at 1.5 million euro.[17] After fans hoped he might join the North American League Championship Series or the Chinese League of Legends Pro League, Rekkles settled in the European regional league with team Karmine Corp, unable to make it to the World Championship.

Tournament results[]

Fnatic[]

G2 Esports[]

  • 1st - LEC 2021 Spring Regular Season
  • 3rd - LEC 2021 Spring Playoffs
  • 2nd - LEC 2021 Summer Regular Season
  • 4th - LEC 2021 Summer Playoffs

References[]

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  2. ^ Ehrnberg, Björn (24 October 2014). "Superryktet: Rekkles på väg till Alliance". Aftonbladet (in Swedish).
  3. ^ Lewis, Richard (22 November 2014). "Rekkles is in North America with Alliance". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  4. ^ "Rekkles to part ways with Elements, paving the way for Tabzz's return". The Daily Dot. 6 April 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  5. ^ Herman, Linda (28 May 2015). "Rekkles about the comeback: 'It feels like I am already part of the team'". Expressen.
  6. ^ Raven, Josh (30 April 2015). "Rekkles will return to Fnatic". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  7. ^ Moser, Kelsey (14 May 2015). "Rekkles and a better Fnatic". The Score eSports.com.
  8. ^ Engstrand, Simon (19 June 2016). "Rekkles on YellOwStaR: 'We are closer than we've ever been before, and I feel that influences our game'". Aftonbladet.
  9. ^ Lundgren, Tobias (24 August 2015). "Rekkles: 'I was really unsure about myself entering the finals'". Aftonbladet.
  10. ^ Gnyp, Marco (3 May 2016). "Fnatic gelingt Halbfinaleinzug in Polen". Sport1 (in German).
  11. ^ a b Lindhe, Alexander; Burén, Jonna (27 November 2012). "Martin 'Rekkles' Larsson - proffset från Älvängen" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio.
  12. ^ Costello, Patrick (26 March 2016). "eSports athletes cash in big on fast-growing gamer interest". USA Today.
  13. ^ Kostov, Nick (30 September 2013). "Videogame Champ, Past His Prime At 28, Grooms Next Screen Jocks: Mr. Sättermon's Teenage Charges 'Train' 12 Hours a Day; Winning Over the Parents". Wall Street Journal.
  14. ^ "Video: Rekkles 'Så blev jag bäst i världen'" (in Swedish). Nyheter24. 24 January 2014.
  15. ^ https://dotesports.com/league-of-legends/news/eu-lcs-2018-spring-split-all-pro-team-announced-22162[bare URL]
  16. ^ "fnatic trounces cloud9 3-0". espn.com.
  17. ^ "https://twitter.com/carlosr/status/1456676589803085830". Twitter. Retrieved 16 November 2021. External link in |title= (help)
  18. ^ "Fnatic unstoppable in EU LCS grand finals match against G2". ESPN. 8 April 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2019.

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