Hawks call it quits

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:

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

#1
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Estonia syccc
wtf why
2013-05-15 01:10
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Omg please ESEA invite CPH Wolves to replace them
2013-05-15 01:11
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United States Brock Lesnar
This
2013-05-15 01:15
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#6
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Reunion TheLastDream
+1 Would be nice
2013-05-15 01:17
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#31
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Slovakia Strenki
+1
2013-05-15 09:35
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#4
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Russia koarce
never the same after naSu left naSu is really underrated
2013-05-15 01:16
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RE1EASE | 
Russia d3f /A/
this
2013-05-15 01:39
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#33
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Russia windfolla
+1
2013-05-15 09:44
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#55
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Finland Bebbana
+1, I actually think it's currently impossible to have TOP10 finnish team without naSu in it!
2013-05-15 16:08
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#59
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Germany emma watsoN
i wanna have the 1.6 WinFakt team back :( naSu natu allu aslak jigetus 6. BASiC
2013-05-15 22:37
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Morocco hqhq17
:/
2013-05-15 01:17
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#13
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Denmark carr~
nasu sick . 1.6 and csgo
2013-05-15 01:38
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#7
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ritch | 
United Kingdom ritchiedrama
them fuckin hawks are playin well aint they
2013-05-15 01:20
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#8
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Iceland TechnoKitten
Not they not. Not in last 4-5 months at least.
2013-05-15 01:24
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ritch | 
United Kingdom ritchiedrama
2013-05-15 01:25
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2 replies
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Gux | 
Iceland TechnoKitten
l@ul.
2013-05-15 11:25
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#50
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ritch | 
United Kingdom ritchiedrama
xD!
2013-05-15 14:14
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#9
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United Kingdom refn_
Great pick whoever felt they deserved that ESEA invite spot... no idea who that could have been.
2013-05-15 01:25
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World dakdak
haha indeed.
2013-05-15 07:47
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xseveN | 
Finland NUCL3AR
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
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Finland rad1um
New beginning :)
2013-05-15 08:01
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Sweden Lidda
Curse should pick up an up-and-rising team
2013-05-15 01:36
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Germany synnnn
Sad
2013-05-15 02:04
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#17
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Finland perunamuusi
you didn't lie timo ^^
2013-05-15 03:30
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natu is a disaster to every team he joins in.
2013-05-15 03:39
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Portugal landelrey
needs more nasu ruiit conte plaste
2013-05-15 03:45
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Still no lurppis post about how they sucked without naSu. Strange
2013-05-15 05:36
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#39
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Europe hest1
but its true.. there hasnt been many good finnish teams without naSu in the lineup.
2013-05-15 11:56
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Poland Marvolo
everything begins when they kicked nasu for jigetus ... :(((
2013-05-15 06:09
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Brazil gus p.
i said this a few days ago.
2013-05-15 06:12
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#26
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World bellah
Finnish cs scene is dead
2013-05-15 08:05
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#27
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United States Bibby
Gl to scurk and natu!!
2013-05-15 08:06
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#28
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Belgium Yoshk
no naSu no win.
2013-05-15 09:14
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#30
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Slovakia kubiaxk
sad to hear, gl IRL guys
2013-05-15 09:15
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#38
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xseveN | 
Finland NUCL3AR
at least allu, reflex and KHRN have already new clans. I dunno about scurk and natu
2013-05-15 11:26
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Europe hest1
where will allu play ?
2013-05-15 11:56
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xseveN | 
Finland NUCL3AR
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
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Finland FRGVN
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
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#48
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Finland KRNG-
Hmm Eternity should keep zwhR. He's a beast.
2013-05-15 13:17
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#51
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Serbia User_00000044
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
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Finland fAlsu
:D
2013-05-15 14:59
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#57
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Finland FRGVN
I wouldn't sign that statement myself.. and #52 might imply that too :P
2013-05-15 17:55
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#32
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Slovakia Strenki
CPH Wolves for ESEA invite
2013-05-15 09:35
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#34
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Finland Näätä
cock.
2013-05-15 10:19
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#35
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w1cked | 
United Kingdom w1cked
They were bad anyway.
2013-05-15 10:51
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they suck anyway
2013-05-15 10:59
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#41
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Serbia User_00000044
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
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#47
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sdy | 
Finland JoondEE
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
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#49
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xseveN | 
Finland NUCL3AR
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
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#58
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United Kingdom dints_dints
one of the topteams in the world oh wow
2013-05-15 20:30
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#43
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Finland pulu
natu was the only one who had motivation thats why this team is down.
2013-05-15 12:17
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#45
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Finland FRGVN
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
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#53
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World uZME
about
2013-05-15 15:05
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#54
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Estonia 2026
Agreed this was needed, they didn't do shit after THOR open. Needed lineup changes or yeah.. split.
2013-05-15 15:45
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#56
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Portugal zepicolho
cph or k1ck
2013-05-15 16:46
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#60
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World Cursesmokie
gl natu :(
2013-05-16 00:04
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#61
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GuardiaN | 
Serbia NESi [w]
sad....
2013-05-16 13:12
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