ENCE replace Frost Gaming at ESWC

30-10-2013 06:38

Joona "natu" Leppänen has announced via his Twitter that ENCE eSports will be traveling to Paris, France today to replace Frost Gaming at ESWC 2013.

ENCE have been going through a rough patch that has seen them lose three straight matches in ESEA Invite since recruiting Niko "naSu" Kovanen and Jesse "KHRN" Grandell.

Prior to that they were noticed for taking down NiP in an RC EMS One Fall Cup with Joel "jOELZ" Aalto playing as a stand-in for Leppänen, and then playing a close series versus Astana Dragons.

natu's ENCE replace Frost Gaming at ESWC 2013

Now the squad have caught their first break in getting a last second invitationa to take part in this year's ESWC, where they will be replacing American Frost Gaming, whose inability to attend the event was announced Sunday.

ENCE will be placed in group A where they will compete against NiP Gaming, AGENT.no and fm.TOXiC for two spots in the single elimination best-of-three playoffs, where $25,000 will be given out.

ENCE eSports:

Aleksi "allu" Jalli
Jesse "KHRN" Grandell
Niko "naSu" Kovanen
Joona "natu" Leppänen
Miikka "suNny" Kemppi

ESWC 2013 will kick off tomorrow morning with ENCE's group A leading the way. You can expect our event preview and viewer's guide to pop up sometime later today.

Nice to see ence taking part in tournaments nowadays :) go boys

2013-10-30 06:46

OOH MY JESUS

2013-10-30 06:47

woop woop! GL guys!!

2013-10-30 06:59

2013-10-30 07:07

naSy, natu, allu.. where did those nicknames come from? 0o

2013-10-30 07:13

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nasu = en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piglet_(Winnie-the.. allu = most of "Aleksi" named nickname is allu natu = Natu is natural Trainer, that does not use "illegal" anabolic agents to increase muscle mass. Creatine, protein, and the like do not have any.

2013-10-30 16:37

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natu = the pokemon. natu said it himself that that's what he named himself after.

2013-10-31 06:02

yeah but I somehow remember reading somewhere wayyyyyyyyyyyy back like 10+ years ago that it was natural boy at first..

2013-10-31 13:37

Its hard not to like Finland. These guys will always be the underdogs but they still have great players and on any given map who knows what can happen.

2013-10-30 07:41

ANGELDUST >>>>

2013-10-30 07:54

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please comeback :D!

2013-10-30 08:54

Obviously 1. NiP 2. ENCE

2013-10-30 08:02

lol frost >>>>>> ENCE :| but easy 4 dreamteam :D

2013-10-30 08:25

NiP vs VERYGOOD again :)

2013-10-30 08:26

gl shaker

2013-10-30 08:41

lets see on lan if natu & co still amount to something

2013-10-30 08:46

AGENT will prevail in group A hopefully :D (After NiP)

2013-10-30 09:15

They can actually go on to the playoffs..

2013-10-30 09:21

+BASiC and aslak

2013-10-30 10:02

nice one! gl guys! :>

2013-10-30 10:08

gl guys

2013-10-30 10:27

allu <33

2013-10-30 11:00

- sunny + aslak - natu + lurpis - KHRN + jigetus/BASiC kkk

2013-10-30 11:37

-lurppis +jigetus/BASiC

2013-10-30 14:16

Really hope Finland can get back on the map again in regards to cs. If any, this team should be able to do it, hope they haven't left it too late though!

2013-10-30 11:51

They probably won't with this lineup, I stopped thinking they would when the dropped revicer. Solemn probably have a better chance international now.

2013-10-30 11:57

failed

allu & sunny dont let me down :)

2013-10-30 12:13

Correct me if I am wrong BUT, FG is USA spot right? Then why replace with other country instead of another USA team?

Because 2 days before playing probably no American team could afford flying to Europe.

2013-10-30 12:16

"probably". Meaning not sure? haha. Im hoping that HLTV's trying to verify WHY other country is playing for USA spot. BUT, maybe you're right. Because maybe only iBUYPOWER and CoL are USA team that can afford to travel international.

2013-10-30 12:22

Do you even realise how expensive it would be to book a ticket to Europe? They would already have had to left if they wanted to get any decent amount of sleep.

2013-10-30 13:56

same thing happend to eu teams for esea lan finals

2013-10-30 14:33

are u retard?

2013-10-30 14:19

UL fm!

2013-10-30 13:04

2013-10-30 14:30

They won't beat toxic or nip!

2013-10-30 14:55

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They will beat toxic AND nip, but no agent

2013-10-30 15:51

shut it

2013-10-30 16:05

barely made past agents, good call! (not a difficult 1 though)

2013-10-31 13:02

Thanks bro!

2013-10-31 13:36

WHY NOT SK?

2013-10-30 15:48

suNny <3

2013-10-30 16:52

SK, WGG, US, NaVi, Warmaker, n!faculty, mouz etc. > ENCE

2013-10-30 17:21

1. Ence 2. VG 3. NiP

2013-10-30 19:05

lol.. ENCE third on groupstage hf

2013-10-31 00:39

Lol its just about rushing b and getting some hs in the end

2013-10-31 00:44

heartbroken :(... gl ence gd team to replace mOE

2013-10-31 06:03

Im sure theres teams more worthy of invite to these events than ence! I'd rather see no finnish teams in em, than watch finns get raped over n over again!

2013-10-31 13:01