Druidz disband; ALTERNATE lose two

26-11-2013 22:53

Druidz have announced that their female CS:GO division has called it quits, with ALTERNATE losing two of their players at the same time.

The news comes as a huge surprise as only earlier in the month Druidz had been crowned world champions after winning the ESWC finals over ALTERNATE.

In a stunning move, Julia "juliano" Kiran, Therese "lillsan" Petersson and Sonia "Sonia" Garcia have decided to create a new team from scratch and parted company with French duo Mathilde "Sephi" Koenig and Laure "CeleN" Denivelle.

Druidz are no more

Replacing these two players are Zainab "zAAz" Turkie and Irene "iRene" Sánchez, both from ALTERNATE. This is without a doubt a heavy blow for the Copenhagen Games champions, who have lost their two most experienced players.

"The reason that iRene and I left ALTERNATE is because of a lot of stuff that happened in the team," Turkie told HLTV.org.

"I do not want to mention exactly what, but the only thing I can say is that, in my opinion, if you are in a team you have to respect everyone and make some room to practice during your spare time.

"I don't like to hear that you want to do something else than practie when you have an event to look forward to, I know everyone has a life outside the game but if you decide to play in a team it means you have to practice and lose some of your free time.

"I am that kind of person who would rather spend that time practicing and some of the members of my ex-team did not share that same point of view.

"Since we had been playing together for such a long time, I felt the only thing that could make me keep playing was to make a new team with the best female players. That was the only way for me to get my motivation back, I had to play with people who have the same point of view as me.

"We are searching for a good and serious organisation who is willing to have a great female team to represent them. If there is someone out there who is interested, you can contact me @ https://www.facebook.com/OfficialzAAz.

"We have also created this lineup with a view to taking on male teams, we will try to attend as many "male" tournament as possible. Female teams have to start somewhere, right?

"I would also want to thank ALTERNATE's organisation for everything they have done, I can't say anything more than it's a great organisation! Thank you.

This new female team, who will temporarily go by the name RiP, have the following roster:

Julia "juliano" Kiran
Therese "lillsan" Petersson
Zainab "zAAz" Turkie
Irene "iRene" Sánchez
Sonia "Sonia" Garcia

ALTERNATE have now been reduced to the following three-woman lineup:

Melanie "beyoNd" Gutsche
Kathleen "kathi" Letsch
Lena "shushu" Babic

NiP vs RiP can't wait!

2013-11-26 22:55

3 replies

watch stream on tube8 ;)

2013-11-27 10:29

2 replies

hahahaahhahaahahahahahahahah rofl

2013-11-27 12:53

haah

2013-11-28 02:19

aurora best

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2013-11-26 23:11

GO girlzzz

2013-11-26 22:57

*NOTE* We also created this line-up with goals to reach into the male scene, and we will participate as much as possible there aswell, someone gotta start somewhere right?

2013-11-26 23:02

17 replies

Suerte!

2013-11-26 23:03

i think it should be three-women roster, not three-woman roster

2013-11-27 03:32

This is great.

2013-11-26 23:04

Thank God someone is finally doing this! Been waiting for a female to to reach into the male scene!

2013-11-26 23:07

Now this is good, I hope you get trough the BYOC then.

2013-11-26 23:14

this is good

2013-11-26 23:20

GL with that... most of you are on the same level as top mal players!

2013-11-26 23:38

2/10

2013-11-27 00:34

not really true, men just put way more hours into it

2013-11-27 03:34

Good luck!

2013-11-26 23:42

Good to hear. Only took counterstrike how many years?

Finally it took like 15 years to some girl step in the male scene. Good luck by the way

2013-11-27 01:50

Hopes and dreams. Would never happen but GL

2013-11-27 03:35

+1 for this statement from her. I can't understand why are they seperated in a GAME where your gender doesn't matter... It's not football or any other sport where separation is ok. Girls are always crying for equality. Thank god this girl is on the right way. 1-2 years and girl gamers will be on the mans level.

2013-11-27 08:42

lol interesting gl zAAz >>> get_right

2013-11-27 09:26

better question is how deep the male scene will reach into your team.

2013-11-27 14:23

then you should get some experience in the male scenes by startin with small leagues.. like go4csgo or something like that..

2013-11-27 15:04

zAAz <3

girl in the middle is cute

the right from mistral :D:D

2013-11-26 23:09

ATN + CeleN + sephi and bye bye RiP :)

"I do not want to mention what happened in the team" but heres what happened in the team blah blah blah blah....

I do not want to mention what happened in the team but heres what happened in the team GIRLS LOGIC

2013-11-26 23:06

haha exactly, she couldnt stop herself from gossiping.

2013-11-26 23:12

hahahaha, made my day

2013-11-27 02:37

julie is so cute

2013-11-26 23:13

Good line up girls but don't have so high expectations for the male scene. The best female team = avarage male team, hope you prove me I'm wrong tho! Good luck at DHW if you are going to attend it, also hope you get a stable orga. :>

2013-11-26 23:22

4 replies

are u being nice to someone :o

2013-11-27 04:17

No.

2013-11-27 09:46

it seemed weird nvm

2013-11-27 19:42

+1 I also think a female team doesn't really stand a chance against the male teams but maybe you can show us something new :) That is if the team doesn't disband after the first few months... GL anyway!

2013-11-27 10:32

gl with the new team

2013-11-26 23:32

It would be really interesting watching female teams playing on male tournaments. because whatever team they beat, it will disband the next day. :D

2013-11-27 00:05

"Team Wipers"

2013-11-27 00:08

zaaz leave for the money ?

2013-11-27 00:11

they didn't get picked by any organisation yet, so no probably internal problems, people with low will/motivation in the old team etc.

2013-11-27 01:02

main reason : beyoNd, at least the obvious one :)

2013-11-27 04:18

in my opinion if female teams want to have female tournaments, that's fine. But it's great to see that there are female teams that want to compete against male teams. gl!

2013-11-27 01:41

i dont understand why they would let Celen go as she was druidz best player at ESWC (along with Julia).

2013-11-27 01:42

gl girls!!

2013-11-27 02:25

Wow, this looks like a killer line-up. Wonder if they'll be attending the DH BYOC? In any case, best of luck! You've got a roster more than capable of doing some serious damage!

2013-11-27 03:31

fnatic.FE or NiP.FE?

2013-11-27 05:38

NiP.Fe :X

2013-11-27 06:23

love that they're going to play in the male comp's if you want to improve your game you have 2 play against better people

2013-11-27 07:37

Although I freely admit these girls are a lot better than me, I cannot see a top womens team doing very well vs a top mens team. It will be interesting to see how far they can go in a BYOC event.

2013-11-27 09:43

Be very interesting to see how they measure up to the mens teams!

2013-11-27 11:28

SAD

2013-11-27 12:22

It would be awesome watching girls kicking some asses in other competitions besides "female-only" ones :D

2013-11-27 12:35

To the 3 remaining druidz : you re just garbage why kicking the 2 girls with who you won eswc

2013-11-27 14:02

i dont know are u stupid or something but the 2 girls LEFT druidz not kicked ...

2013-11-27 14:29

they got kicked man a french friend translated to me a news on team-aaa. and the 2 french girls ( who talks in the news )were abandoned by their team. don't believe the official version

2013-11-27 15:26

Yes, they got kicked :)

2013-11-27 22:44

Celen and Sephi didn't leave, it was the other 3 who did to create a new team..

2013-11-28 02:16

good luck girls! :D

2013-11-27 14:31

I don't get why people say the female teams have no chance in the male tournaments? I'm pretty sure their new lineup would have a good chance. Just because they are female doesn't mean they are incapable of playing a game to a high standard and are incapable of using effective strats. I would love to see more female teams like this one competing in all events maybe someday the big events will be mixed sex and all these idiots claiming the female gamers wouldn't stand a chance will get 16-0. Besides Druidz showed how good their players actually are at ESWC, I would quite happily say a few if the females at that event would easily fit into any of the top male teams at the moment.

2013-11-27 14:40

I would feel AWESOME to see a female team even qualify to one of the big tournaments, let alone win some matches in the group stage and get to the brackets! But I don't think it's possible. The tournaments have ALWAYS been open to females, there are no rules forbidding female teams/players to attend and some have even tried. They just can't get through the qualifiers. It's just that, as HellRose said, the best female teams are about as good as an average or a little above average male team... I just saw others try and fail, that's it. They're not the first to try it, believe me. And although everyone's talking about equality because the game doesn't require physical strength, yes - it doesn't require brute force but it does require a fast reaction and that's a difference between males and females that I don't think can be overcome. Let's just wait and see, hope they prove me wrong. I'd love to watch their matches against male teams and see some victories :)

2013-11-27 15:34

It is the truth. Female can't compete even with sub-par male teams and they've never been able to compete against decent male teams in the history of Counter Strike. Do they have potential? Yes. There is no disadvantages for women compared to men because eSports is not physical but in the history of Counter Strike there's been zero female teams that could've been even close to to the top male teams.

2013-11-28 14:27

I foresee many (figurative) rapes of this new line-up against male sub-top teams, at first the "we learned a lot" mindset... then when it keeps happening : frustration and tensions.. then arguing, and finally split of line-up and a lot of dissappointment and regrets. Remember Icarus, know your limits, you should have tried to keep your Womens World Champions title.

2013-11-28 04:39

Only seen Epsilon send the CSGO Ladies to international Male tournaments. You will see now and again a local ladies team but thats about it. Epsilon Ladies at Dreamhack Winter

2013-11-28 14:15