Hawks call it quits

15-5-2013 01:09

Hawks have announced via Facebook that the team's players have decided to go their separate ways.

The decision comes as a huge surprise as the Finnish side had a busy months coming up, having retained their place in ESEA Invite while qualifying for the new SLTV StarSeries season through the last-chance qualifier.

Joona "natu" Leppänen's troops endured a slow start to life in CS:GO, but still landed a sponsorship deal with Curse back in December.

Under the wings of the North American organisation, the team finished runners-up to Ninjas in Pyjamas at THOR Open, and it looked like they would continue to improve from there.

Finns were second at THOR Open

But in the first months of 2013, successive roster changes and an evident lack of activity raised doubts about the future of the team, who finished 17th-24th at Copenhagen Games.

At the end of April, Curse let go of the Finnish players, who still decided to stick together and play again under the name Hawks until a new home was found.

After almost three weeks without any news, it has now been confirmed that the team have disbanded after two of their players had launched procedures with a view to starting a new project.

"We regret to inform you that Hawks CS:GO team has split up," a team statement read.

"Things fell apart quickly today as Timo "reflex" Rintala and Jesse "KHRN" Grandell had initiated plans earlier to leave the team together to make another lineup that would play the amount they were pleased with.

"We've had many issues throughout this past spring that has hindered our performance and this would be the ultimate conclusion of those issues."

HLTV.org knows that ESEA and SLTV have not yet decided which team will replace Hawks in their respective leagues.

The Finnish team had the following lineup:

Aleksi "allu" Jalli
Jesse "KHRN" Grandell
Joona "natu" Leppänen
Timo "reflex" Rintala
Jonas "ScurK" Finnilä

wtf why

2013-05-15 01:10

Omg please ESEA invite CPH Wolves to replace them

2013-05-15 01:11

3 replies

This

2013-05-15 01:15

+1 Would be nice

2013-05-15 01:17

2013-05-15 09:35

never the same after naSu left naSu is really underrated

2013-05-15 01:16

4 replies

this

2013-05-15 01:39

2013-05-15 09:44

+1, I actually think it's currently impossible to have TOP10 finnish team without naSu in it!

2013-05-15 16:08

i wanna have the 1.6 WinFakt team back :( naSu natu allu aslak jigetus 6. BASiC

2013-05-15 22:37

1 reply

nasu sick . 1.6 and csgo

2013-05-15 01:38

them fuckin hawks are playin well aint they

2013-05-15 01:20

Not they not. Not in last 4-5 months at least.

2013-05-15 01:24

youtube.com/watch?v=sAhEFuq62-I 10 seconds

2013-05-15 01:25

2 replies

l@ul.

2013-05-15 11:25

xD!

2013-05-15 14:14

Great pick whoever felt they deserved that ESEA invite spot... no idea who that could have been.

haha indeed.

2013-05-15 07:47

what the f.... really bad news for finnish cs:go scene, loosing it's best team. I hope at least allu finds home he deserves... gl guys

2013-05-15 01:32

New beginning :)

2013-05-15 08:01

Curse should pick up an up-and-rising team

2013-05-15 01:36

Sad

2013-05-15 02:04

you didn't lie timo ^^

2013-05-15 03:30

natu is a disaster to every team he joins in.

2013-05-15 03:39

needs more nasu ruiit conte plaste

2013-05-15 03:45

Still no lurppis post about how they sucked without naSu. Strange

2013-05-15 05:36

but its true.. there hasnt been many good finnish teams without naSu in the lineup.

2013-05-15 11:56

everything begins when they kicked nasu for jigetus ... :(((

2013-05-15 06:09

i said this a few days ago.

2013-05-15 06:12

Finnish cs scene is dead

2013-05-15 08:05

Gl to scurk and natu!!

2013-05-15 08:06

no naSu no win.

2013-05-15 09:14

sad to hear, gl IRL guys

2013-05-15 09:15

8 replies

at least allu, reflex and KHRN have already new clans. I dunno about scurk and natu

2013-05-15 11:26

7 replies

where will allu play ?

6 replies

in myDGB. allu&jOELZ will propably replace kelli&MDL. not 100% sure but its very probable. There was news in finnish site sett.fi :) i think they will have good lineup if thats true

2013-05-15 12:05

5 replies

yeah & these are the rumors(not meant for u but everyone else who hasnt checked sett.fi): myDGB.net Harri "reVicer" Kukkonen Mikko "fAlsu" Fallström Aleksi "allu" Jalli Joel "jOELZ" Aalto Mikko "xartE" Välimaa Eternity Gaming Slaava "Twista" Räsänen Christer "Nashje" Loukas Jesse "KHRN" Grandell Timo "reflex" Rintala Taneli "disturbed" Veikkola

2013-05-15 13:05

Hmm Eternity should keep zwhR. He's a beast.

2013-05-15 13:17

It's true that MDL left team due lack of motivation. However official statement will be announced 2morrow probably on mydgb :))

2013-05-15 14:52

2013-05-15 14:59

I wouldn't sign that statement myself.. and #52 might imply that too :P

2013-05-15 17:55

CPH Wolves for ESEA invite

cock.

2013-05-15 10:19

They were bad anyway.

2013-05-15 10:51

they suck anyway

2013-05-15 10:59

I can't understand people like you. You never saw any LAN tournament and you can tell they suck? Isn't it a bit immature?

2013-05-15 12:00

h8ters will h8.. With that lineup, MyDGB will be one of the topteams in the world imo... joelz and allu just 2stronk

2013-05-15 13:13

this +1, and three others are constantly good players/revicer often sick so imo this is atm top1 in Finland

2013-05-15 13:41

one of the topteams in the world oh wow

2013-05-15 20:30

natu was the only one who had motivation thats why this team is down.

2013-05-15 12:17

according to to natu's statement on Hawks CS:GO twitter/fb it was KHRN & reflex who were displeased with the time & effort they were givin' and wanted a change: "Things fell a part quickly today as Timo "reflex" Rintala and Jesse "KHRN" Grandell had initiated plans earlier to leave the team together to make another lineup that would play the amount they were pleased with. "

2013-05-15 13:08