NiP withdraw from Mad Catz

29-7-2013 15:29

Ninjas in Pyjamas have decided to withdraw from Mad Catz Invitational due to being in attendance at ESEA Invite Season 14 global finals days apart in Dallas, TX, USA.

NiP were one of the four top seeded teams for Mad Catz Invitational together with VeryGames, LDLC.com and Astana Dragons, but they have now decided to pull out of the tournament.

With NiP set to arrive back in Europe on the 20th of August, they would have had to travel directly to Cologne in case they made the finals of Mad Catz, and a flight delay could have ruined their plans altogether.

GeT_RiGhT & co pull out of Mad Catz Invitational

Instead of risking being unable to attend the grand final at GamesCom in case of making it that far, NiP have decided to play it safe and skip the tournament. That means Copenhagen Wolves will be moved up to fourth seed.

To determine NiP's replacement in the first round of the tournament, Finnish solemn will face 4w in a minitournament, where the winner play Danish Eternity Gaming for a shot in the tournament, as the trio were next in the fan vote.

Teams in the qualifier:

solemn

Eternity Gaming

Mad Catz Invitational is set to kick off tonight at 20:30 , although the time is still subject to change. The mini tournament is expected to take place tomorrow evening, according to Cadred.

Well, I would rather got to the US and win those dollars aswell ;)!

2013-07-29 15:30

17 replies

Theyre scared of astana fragons ;)

2013-07-29 19:54

16 replies

Perhaps! ;)

2013-07-29 20:32

Why would they be afraid of a team who didnt even played yet? Please.

2013-07-29 20:40

11 replies

somebody needs to start thinking harder here :-)

2013-07-29 22:35

9 replies

If your not new in this website, you would understand how hard it is to separate sarcarsm from the completely retardness of fanatism that exists.

2013-07-29 22:59

8 replies

Jesus they're kidding. Nothing more to it and everyone else can see it. Stop being so hostile for no reason. btw he made his account before you did.

2013-07-29 23:02

5 replies

Hm you missunderstood my post completely. I was everything but hostile to "The Edge", was just telling him the motive for my first post.

2013-07-29 23:19

4 replies

Well, if you're not new here, then you might probably know liQuidmoTion and if you do, you can separate sarcasm very easily. Another thing is that it may be hard to spot sarcasm, but it is very easy to spot a retard :-))... at least for me.

2013-07-30 11:30

3 replies

Ive seen some comments from here indeed and i consider him one of the few literated people in here, despite agreeing or not with everything he says. The thing is, i dont know about you but I personally consider 90% of this community nowadays being totally iliterated and biased, so when I come home from work and after being mindblowed by previous posts, im not always able to distinguish sarcasm from bloody idiots, glad you can tho sure keeps you from getting annoyed so easily like myself i guess.

2013-07-30 17:40

2 replies

If you see that somebody wrote something clearly "retarded" it is much better (in my opinion) to use sarcasm yourself :-) At least it is fun :-) Annoyed from comments on an online, mostly anonymous internet discussion ? No way. You need to take it easy man :-)

2013-07-30 22:15

1 reply

Heh indeed. No need to ever be so riled up. Not like they're threating your family and dog or cat.

2013-07-31 00:44

"retardness of fanatism" best quote 2013 for sure

2013-07-30 02:52

LOL

2013-07-31 08:05

Joke, hence wink smiley :d

2013-07-29 22:36

<3 the mistake in the team name that you made, they should keep it like that :D

2013-07-29 22:34

2 replies

Yeah that was intentional :D

2013-07-29 22:37

1 reply

haha

2013-07-29 22:55

who is playing for eternity?

2013-07-29 15:30

10 replies

LOMME, smF, socN, Snappi, coloN.

2013-07-29 15:34

9 replies

nice lu, gl

2013-07-29 15:34

I really dont know how steelshock win the vote.. THis lineup is so fucking awesome!

2013-07-29 15:45

7 replies

Indeed!

2013-07-29 15:46

agreed! would love to see Eternity in an international competition for the first time (last chance was the danish qualifier for DH, which they sadly didn't win)

2013-07-29 16:49

4 replies

Now they will win minitournment and replace NiP

2013-07-29 19:22

2 replies

Nah don't think so 4W seems very legit and solid team...

2013-07-29 21:14

1 reply

Eternity seems very good, we will see

2013-07-29 22:16

The team will be sent on events this year. You can except good things :)

2013-07-29 22:57

2013-07-29 17:12

2013-07-29 15:31

well, it's easier to take money from americans

2013-07-29 15:31

6 replies

thats funny coming from a brazilian, but its not like vg is gonna beat nip anytime soon, they choke more than a virgin

2013-07-29 17:19

5 replies

That last comment doesn't make sense bro

2013-07-29 18:18

3 replies

how?

2013-07-29 18:28

I guess he means.. whenever a virgin has a chance to get it in, he chokes and fucks it up for himself? Only way I can see it make sense xD

2013-07-29 18:49

1 reply

Same

2013-07-29 18:52

First of all VG may choke, but still harder than most American teams, 2nd don't forget astana nd ldlc (esp ad), 3rd him being brasilian has 0 to do.with that, a blind latvian could see Dallas is potentially easier for NiP than mss catz

2013-07-29 19:56

damn

2013-07-29 15:31

ofc scared of astana :D

2013-07-29 15:32

5 replies

want that easy NA money

2013-07-29 15:34

1 reply

true story :D

2013-07-29 15:36

Yes, astana have proved themselves by winning so many things so far. NiP is definitly afraid.

2013-07-29 20:51

2 replies

haha u so bilieve it? i dont have again nip nothing but u will see they start more and more every tournament

2013-07-29 22:06

1 reply

Ofc NiP arent afraid of Astana Dragons lol why would they? NiP arent as dominant as they were but they still are the best team in the world without any doubt.

2013-07-29 22:30

It's kind of last minute so the date of the mini-tournament is also subject to change, still need to speak with the teams involved to find out what day is best for all parties. Sucks that NiP can't play but it's understandable. Fuck jet lag.

2013-07-29 15:33

fear

2013-07-29 15:39

4w - solemn can go either way, both have great players. :s interesting match coming

2013-07-29 15:40

nice 4k1ckkk

2013-07-29 15:44

they're afraid of astana dragons

2013-07-29 15:45

1 reply

maybe, maybe

2013-07-29 16:33

NiP scared from AD

2013-07-29 15:46

1 reply

ofc, that must be the reason!

2013-07-29 18:56

It would be interesting if NiP win ESEA, and if they played the Mad Catz and go to the finnals directly and win everything.. sorry, my dreams

2013-07-29 15:47

4 replies

oh yes, that would be the first time NIP wins two tournaments in a row...oh wait.

2013-07-29 16:51

3 replies

ahahahah but its fucked, everyone expected nip in this tournment (for me, one of the best tournmts in csgo so far), only with top teams, new lineups, a lot of expectations, and they don't go :(

2013-07-29 19:27

2 replies

Well you can also sort out the new lineups better without the world #1 knocking potential winning teams in the group stages. More important for the scene to see if Americans can even stack up to NiP, and on the other side which euro lineups are on top after the reshuffle. AD haven't beaten any top 5 teams yet and have much to prove imo.

2013-07-30 04:57

1 reply

Well, i guess you have some reason in that.. Never saw a match of AD, they already played?

2013-07-30 13:00

AWESOME, Eternityyyyyyyyyyyy

2013-07-29 15:51

Eternity in! Easy money for ASTANA DRAGONS!

2013-07-29 15:51

SUcks with jet lag and time constraints :/ Gl in ESEA and all the teams in Mad Catz.

2013-07-29 16:02

It will be nice for some of the other teams to prove their worth without the eternal benchmark of NiP to compare themselves to. All in all, probably good for the game.

2013-07-29 16:06

VG will take this now.

2013-07-29 16:10

makes sense :)

2013-07-29 16:13

now even easier for AD

2013-07-29 16:14

was looking forward to see possible NiP vs Astana Dragons match up.

2013-07-29 16:19

1 reply

Astana Dragons will not even pass VG..

2013-07-29 17:59

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :D a good tournament after all :)

2013-07-29 16:20

Vg will be happy another win

2013-07-29 16:20

People saying that NiP are scared of Astana Dragons! Will be funny if Astana Dragons lose this tournament! :D

2013-07-29 16:20

9 replies

they can lose, like vp lost a tournament against vg, but 100% easy win against nip. VP was > NiP, so Astana >>>>>> nip.

2013-07-29 16:26

7 replies

"100% easy win against NIP" - wtf? did you not see those games? it was a close fight most of the time! and overall I think NIP still has at least a balanced win / loss ratio against VP even though they lost quite a few offline matches. Furthermore VG played excellent against VP and there is no reason to think AD will have it easy against teams such as WW, CW, LDLC or Epsilon...

2013-07-29 16:59

VP only focused on anti-strat NiP.

2013-07-29 17:09

100% easy win? maybe for NiP

2013-07-29 18:57

3 replies

nip vs vp 1-3 and 4-9 on maps against vp in last matches.

2013-07-29 19:16

2 replies

VP? No1 was talking about VP, l2read

2013-07-29 19:17

9-7 to NiP in maps bro.

2013-07-29 20:52

Bro, youre a Neanderthal.

2013-07-29 20:54

Be not afraid, because the composition of the experimental

2013-07-29 17:09

AD presence enough to scare pajamas aways

2013-07-29 16:21

4 replies

ESEA > Mad Catz ( money ) so

2013-07-29 16:29

2 replies

they would have made it to both.

2013-07-29 16:41

for NA teams mad catz have only 5 000 and organizers covering trip and othet things for two teams ( who will be in finals )

2013-07-29 18:13

VP are better than AD ;) and they never scared NiP so

2013-07-29 20:55

Ez money @ ESEA + too tight flight schedule to attend both = not very hard decision. AD vs VG prediction for the final now.

2013-07-29 16:39

makes more sense for nip to go dallas cos theyr probably more confident they can win there aswell.

2013-07-29 16:50

well only makes it more interesting. gl Eternity

2013-07-29 17:02

AD will take dis

2013-07-29 17:04

astana completely raped nip in practice (16-2 16-4) and now nip has decided to stay in the us longer so the return tickets are cheaper

2013-07-29 17:11

7 replies

Links?

2013-07-29 17:26

1 reply

They haven't, GTR said they have barely started to practice on twitter. :P

2013-07-29 18:00

sure

2013-07-29 17:38

omg this shit :D

2013-07-29 18:02

obvious troll is obvious xD But will be really fun to se how well AD will do :)

2013-07-29 18:08

good bait

2013-07-29 18:57

lel

2013-07-29 19:12

Generally flights are not delayed so that isn't really a valid reason. They might as well have tried and then, if they were delayed, just not show up.

2013-07-29 17:12

7 replies

It's a much better idea to pull out of the tournament now rather than to risk the grand final and only offline match being defaulted.

2013-07-29 17:21

1 not showing up would be worse 2 flights are usually delayed from my experience

2013-07-29 17:21

What? Flights are delayed all the time.

2013-07-29 17:22

you never traveled? fucking planes delay everytime at least 30 min up to 120 min or more, makes connections a nigthmare

2013-07-29 17:44

3 replies

I've travelled all over the world and more often than not they leave on time. Perhaps I've just been lucky.

2013-07-29 17:45

2 replies

I travel a shit ton too... like a good 5 times a year, sometimes even more and never had it delayed... I guess that's the perks of leaving from JFK? *not*.

2013-07-29 19:14

i mean, its not delayed every fligth, but alot of the time. i say youve been pretty lucky :p

2013-07-29 21:01

Gonna be an interesting final now. Looking forward to VG vs AD

2013-07-29 17:27

sad

2013-07-29 17:35

Sad, but understandable. Good for the Other teams will have a chance now!

2013-07-29 17:44

they know that they cant defeat astana dragons (c)

2013-07-29 17:49

5 replies

You know AD haven't even started to practice yet :P Just look at GTR's twitter. Silly ukrainian :D

2013-07-29 17:54

4 replies

Yegor Markelov @YegorMarkeloff 1 min Going to play with my mates for a first time! So excited! #practice #AstanaDragons #csgo :D

2013-07-29 18:06

3 replies

Well the statement was true, they havent started until now :)

2013-07-29 18:06

I bet AD cant even beat VG atm, cant understand all this "NiP afraid of AD", a team who didnt even started practicing and has players who havent won jack in this game.

2013-07-29 20:57

1 reply

google "sarcasm"

2013-07-29 21:31

scared of Astana Dragons? wow cmmon

2013-07-29 17:50

gL nip in usa! AD ftw in MC ;)

2013-07-29 18:24

smell fear

2013-07-29 18:34

NiP are afraid of k1ck 8---)

2013-07-29 18:37

3 replies

How did you know :(

2013-07-29 18:38

2 replies

because foxj>all

2013-07-29 18:42

1 reply

2013-07-29 18:47

so many fanboys saying they're scared of AD...so dumb.

2013-07-29 19:03

I heard that forest is losing interest in gaming and NiP will need a 5th player after ESEA, thats the truth behind it all.

2013-07-29 19:13

3 replies

Source?

2013-07-29 19:18

2 replies

CSGO

2013-07-29 19:35

1 reply

bad troll go play cs online

2013-07-29 20:28

What is lineup for 4w?

2013-07-29 20:06

AstanaDragons trashed nip in praccs ive heard, not bad idea to wait out this one in that case. its better for the swedes to collect easy money and preserve the reputation, dont blame tehm.

2013-07-29 20:14

3 replies

You heard it wrong since NiP barely started playing, same with AD. Take your head from your ass before posting such nonsense.

2013-07-29 20:58

2 replies

calm your tits bro, just heard it somewere thats all , even if its true its just a pracc it dont matter really.

2013-07-29 22:32

1 reply

Its ok was a really mad yesterday when i replied. Anyway it wouldnt matter thats true, but it didnt happened. Both teams havent started practicing that hard, at least NiP havent.

2013-07-30 22:59