Portugal drop out of TWC 2015

7-10-2015 17:51

Portugal will miss The World Championships 2015 due to travel issues.

After China announced they would not be able to make it to Serbia due to visa problems, Portugal were invited to take their place. However, Portugal and TWC organizers were not able to come to terms over travel arrangements, and the team has decided to withdraw.

An ex-k1ck reunion, minus fox, will finally not happen.

No other team has been announced, and with the abscence of Portugal Group B only consist of the following three teams:

Russia
Kyrgyzstan
Tunisia

According to E-Frag, the schedules are to remain unaltered.

LucasAM is a writer and photographer for HLTV.org and you can find him on twitter @LucasHLTV.

expected

2015-10-07 17:52

yes

2015-10-07 17:52

rip

2015-10-07 17:52

why foxj

2015-10-07 17:52

Kyrgyzstan ez quarter finals

2015-10-07 17:52

poor finland lmao.

2015-10-07 17:52

what a sick and close group

2015-10-07 17:52

Bring in Finland

2015-10-07 17:53

3 replies

''we're not gonna go'' - Juho in twitter

2015-10-07 19:21

2 replies

yeah no time and they don't like TWC organization at all anymore quite unfair :/

2015-10-07 19:51

1 reply

And jOELZ not playing on lan

2015-10-07 21:33

ban them forever. unacceptable behavior

2015-10-07 17:53

rip portugal fans

2015-10-07 17:53

3 replies

we still got godfox don't worry

2015-10-07 18:49

1 reply

I'm not worrying about fox's performance, just how portugal fans was 'excited' about this.

2015-10-07 18:54

whaat? Why would you say that?

2015-10-07 19:16

lol? best chance to get big money but dropping out wp poortugal

2015-10-07 17:53

Good event

2015-10-07 17:53

portugal drop, just like fox drops glocks

2015-10-07 17:54

2 replies

lol, good one

2015-10-07 18:25

I enjoyed this one sir.

2015-10-07 19:51

france lineup?

2015-10-07 17:54

1 reply

apex,nbk,shox,smiztz,happy

2015-10-07 21:15

sad and unprofessional ;/

2015-10-07 17:54

this event XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2015-10-07 17:54

rip fox

2015-10-07 17:55

ez russia

2015-10-07 17:55

LOL

2015-10-07 17:55

group b is a joke lol

2015-10-07 17:55

1 reply

The whole tournament is.

2015-10-07 19:11

take Finland? no one seems care about this event... FeelsBadMan

2015-10-07 17:57

2 replies

2015-10-07 18:11

2015-10-07 19:17

n23

2015-10-07 17:55

Get Spain instead! :P

2015-10-07 17:55

joke event anyways

2015-10-07 17:56

12 replies

-1 nt israel

2015-10-07 18:02

10 replies

ofc you say that because the event is in your country but look at whats going on 2 teams had to drop because of visa issues, and group b will start with 3 teams which is a joke (imagine this in a major). moreover, look at juho's tweets from finland and understand that the organizers are utter shit. and forgot to mention the online bo1 who lead to this lan, everyone just played it like a pug and forcing the players to play more online games like theres not enough games, right? oh shit and availar will cast the event, gg wp

2015-10-07 18:08

9 replies

why israel dont have better tournament then ?:) i/m not saying this is best event but at least is decent not joke and shit like you did say also very bad time for this tournament cuz teams must practice for major :/

2015-10-07 18:12

8 replies

because no one wants to come here for the obvious reasons? i promise you that you will change your mind if the delays will start kicking in tommorow for a couple of hours on shitbox

2015-10-07 18:14

5 replies

no excuses pls if you can do better than us :) "i promise you that you will change your mind if the delays will start kicking in tommorow for a couple of hours on shitbox" i will watch live everything we will se about that :D i hope so you are not right

2015-10-07 18:17

1 reply

i hope so too

2015-10-07 18:20

Is the obivous reason that you guys take practicing t-side waaaay too seriously over there ?

2015-10-08 17:52

2 replies

our ct side gets better nowadays tbh

2015-10-08 17:54

1 reply

Just hope dem terrorists don't find out there's such a thing as retake servers or you're fucked :$

2015-10-09 08:29

well I've gotta agree with him, this event is so pumped up, but nobody takes it serious, just look at the line ups <lol> (maybe only france for some reason) + replacing south american or asian teams with serbia and portugal... it was a big joke.

2015-10-07 19:33

1 reply

I think the German lineup actually is the best they could get. France still has the best lineup though.

2015-10-07 23:25

2015-10-07 20:45

lol this tournament a joke

2015-10-07 17:56

21 replies

more these players are a joke

2015-10-07 17:58

20 replies

"After China announced they would not be able to make it to Serbia due to visa problems" do you even learn english on spain man ?

2015-10-07 18:02

5 replies

ARE U RETARD? LOL After China announced they would not be able to make it to Serbia due to visa problems CHINA VISA PROBLEMS Portugal and TWC organizers were not able to come to terms over travel arrangements seems like their want a presidential suite

2015-10-07 18:04

4 replies

dont talk shit if you know 0 about the matter fucking jamon. read this -> fraglider.pt/9848-portugal-falha-campeon..

2015-10-07 18:06

1 reply

ok i was wrong them but i never claims about that it was my opinion before read that

2015-10-07 18:12

same for portugal moron , read all the other news maricon

2015-10-07 18:06

1 reply

cyka

2015-10-07 18:13

and why do they not play with their top players? becausw the tournament is a joke

2015-10-07 18:03

12 replies

Expected mad cuz germany suck :/

2015-10-07 18:04

6 replies

and serbia is great? serbia is the poorest country in europe lol you suck in everything!!!

2015-10-07 21:09

5 replies

wow somebody is really mad :D don't be pls i feel sorry for you :/ and serbia is great? we will see if they are better than germany :) you suck in everything!!!?top kek

2015-10-07 21:18

4 replies

you suck in esports you suck in football youre poor as fuck you only have djokovic

2015-10-07 21:23

3 replies

but we beat you in basket as well in germany hahaha shame kid shame also volleyball,water polo,athletics,handball etc.. still mad cuz rekt?

2015-10-07 23:20

2 replies

mentioning useless sports lmao 3rd worlders

2015-10-08 15:10

1 reply

hahaha are you serious??What Denmark have?? tenis 3rd worlders sport razrazr confirmed volleyball as well nt kid sry for rekt

2015-10-08 15:22

because a real top players are bussy like gtr twitter.com/GeT_RiGhTcs/status/651692677..

2015-10-07 18:06

4 replies

wait pronax and xizt are not real pro players ahahahaha wtf

2015-10-07 18:14

3 replies

ofc not everyone are bussy at the same time LOL

2015-10-07 18:23

2 replies

Mad cuz no spain ayyy

2015-10-07 18:32

1 reply

they suck and lose im not mad about that xdd

2015-10-07 18:34

+1 Finland was ready to go, and submitted players etc b4 Portugal and now this shit happens....

2015-10-07 18:49

compare B and C. this is a bad joke

2015-10-07 17:56

Make us proud Tunisia :) #GOTUNISIA

2015-10-07 17:56

GO FINLAND

2015-10-07 17:56

Bye bye, so ez for Team Russia

2015-10-07 17:58

put france in this group best decision

2015-10-07 17:58

just curious, portugal picks on lounge will be refunded?

2015-10-07 17:58

Rip

2015-10-07 17:59

no fox -> no Portugal

2015-10-07 18:00

Play after almost 48h without sleeping or sleeping on the floor of the airport for most of you must be possible, congratz for that. But we wont play in that conditions, it wont be fare to us or to portuguese fans if we cant play at our max.

2015-10-07 18:01

12 replies

ROFL

2015-10-07 18:04

Was that only option or was organizer being cheap?

2015-10-07 18:04

3 replies

organizer being cheap

2015-10-07 18:12

The organizer is really cheap. The dutch team could go there in 1 flight but because the organizers want to save a few euros they have to wait for hours inbetween 2 flights which is really inconvenient.

2015-10-07 18:16

1 reply

There are bunch of teams that need to fly in. Do you know how much it costs to bring a single team, let alone 10 of them?

2015-10-08 04:09

please tell us here how shitty are the organizers of this event from 1 to 10, would be much apperciated.

2015-10-07 18:11

Why would u travel 48h lol? And its just for day 1 , think of the price money and they pay for everything man up!

2015-10-07 18:15

3 replies

The organization wants cheapest flights and wont even pay for the hotel so they have to sleep on the airport

2015-10-07 18:54

2 replies

Do you even believe in that?

2015-10-07 20:17

1 reply

I dont need to belive,the manager of portugal team wrote about it in fraglider

2015-10-07 20:59

u suck so doesn't matter

2015-10-07 19:00

lmao ur just shit

2015-10-07 21:06

Hahahaha first portugal take spot of finland now they withdraw SRSLY? noooo.... SRSLY? This is soo funny.

2015-10-07 18:03

1 reply

TWC head admin is shit ayy

2015-10-07 18:06

finland incoming unless they're still mad

2015-10-07 18:03

inb4 Finland cries on HLTV again.

2015-10-07 18:06

Gamers Paradise 2: Worldwide Enjoyment Edition

2015-10-07 18:06

add maniac land

2015-10-07 18:06

1 reply

maniac, solek + hunden for other 3 players, he will play with switzerland flag:)

2015-10-07 18:15

Either kyrgyzstan or tunisia will qualify for quarter finals, but no poland/USA/netherlands, lmao Also why didnt they invite finland, this tournament is a joke

2015-10-07 18:07

fucking finland ffs

2015-10-07 18:07

everyone dropping out of this event lol

2015-10-07 18:08

Gaming paradise: the international

2015-10-07 18:10

gaming paradise inc

2015-10-07 18:12

you simply cannot take this tournament seriously anymore

2015-10-07 18:13

"O voo que nos foi apresentado seria sair de Lisboa por volta das 20h, chegar a Roma pelas 23h30, ficar a dormir em pleno aeroporto de Roma até por volta das 9h25 da manhã, altura da saída para Belgrado e chegar à Sérvia pelas 11h05, onde teoricamente teriamos que estar a jogar 1h depois." Translating to english, the team and organization talked about the flights and the org choose this one that was leave lisbon at 8pm arrive Rome at 11:30pm, sleep on the airport and catch the 9am flight from Rome to Belgrade arriving at 11am and Portugal would have to play 1 hour later. I dont see how unprofessional this can be categorized, seems like it was a short time decision, a bad one by the org and I understand the Portugal team decision. Source in PT: fraglider.pt/9848-portugal-falha-campeon..

2015-10-07 18:13

Bring Turkey pls.

2015-10-07 18:13

"An ex-k1ck reunion, without fox, will finally not happen." WTF? Did this make sense for you?

2015-10-07 18:14

Lmao bot fox

2015-10-07 18:14

H@H@@H@H@H@H@H@H@H@ RIP

2015-10-07 18:16

group was too hard for them. smart move

2015-10-07 18:18

Turkey pls.

2015-10-07 18:19

Turkey plss =DD

2015-10-07 18:20

Invite Turkey pls :D

2015-10-07 18:20

invite Turkey pls

2015-10-07 18:25

finland pls)

2015-10-07 18:26

Turkey

2015-10-07 18:27

By the way things are going, this could end up being a one day tournament xD

2015-10-07 18:27

turkey pls

2015-10-07 18:27

Gaming paradise without fancy stuff

2015-10-07 18:28

joke tournament

2015-10-07 18:29

+Finland. They deserve it

2015-10-07 18:30

Turkey.

2015-10-07 18:31

+TURKEY GO TURKEY

2015-10-07 18:31

add turkey

2015-10-07 18:32

who ?

2015-10-07 18:33

I only dont understand why are people blaming organisation when (example) China drops out due to visa problems. Or Dennmark decides to back out becouse of problems with team owners. Practicing for major isnt good enough exuce, becouse there are players from top teams playing this. I, personally cant figure out why top Swedish players doesnt want to attend this.. basicly, its easy cash. Even if they dont win anything, they will spend 4 days on vacation for free.

2015-10-07 18:33

1 reply

It's pretty shitty vacation. They already travel enough. Why travel with 3rd world conditions because of the org.

2015-10-07 20:48

finland>>turkey. hltv.org/match/2298240-turkey-finland-wo..

2015-10-07 18:35

turkey on lan make it happen plz

2015-10-07 18:36

why they would take finland? they'r acting like a fucking kids.

2015-10-07 18:36

pffff, cant be that hard to get the shit together serbia! gotta feel even better for teams of group c now :S

2015-10-07 18:37

"An ex-k1ck reunion, minus fox, will finally not happen. " minus fox?? -fox HLTV confirmed

2015-10-07 18:39

organization fault, not portugal fault.

2015-10-07 18:42

Portugal dropping harder than fox drops glocks

2015-10-07 18:42

go invite Spain

2015-10-07 18:43

invite turkey plz

2015-10-07 18:48

Now it means Russia automatically advances to Upper-Bracket Final of group? rofl. NiP magic at its best XD

2015-10-07 18:48

fox onliner

2015-10-07 18:52

gj putin

2015-10-07 18:54

First Brazil, then This. So Argentina can go :/

2015-10-07 18:57

Turkey Pls

2015-10-07 18:59

"An ex-k1ck reunion, minus fox, will finally not happen. " sounds so ironic :D

2015-10-07 18:59

why would you play the online matches if you are not prepared to play at LAN. There are plenty of other counter strike players that wouldve played in-place of those who played the online matches and shouldve. It isnt fair that so called "pros" were played when "joes" couldve and had a chance to ACTUALLY GO to the lan. such selfish fucks.

2015-10-07 19:00

2 replies

#44

2015-10-07 19:17

1 reply

Im sure there are people that have money to fund themselves to go..

2015-10-07 20:42

Xantares on lan pls

2015-10-07 19:01

LOL

2015-10-07 19:01

f0xJ > world KAPPA

2015-10-07 19:02

6 replies

nt 16-0...

2015-10-07 20:34

5 replies

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2015-10-07 20:41

4 replies

this is the best counter for 16-0 xd

2015-10-07 20:50

only 1 major hahahah.

2015-10-07 21:03

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAH 8th ESL One: Cologne 2014 $10,000

2015-10-08 15:16

1 reply

and? TSM 0 MAJORS , VP 1 H@h@h@h@h@h@.

2015-10-08 18:13

add Winland haha )

2015-10-07 19:02

That group is such a joke...

2015-10-07 19:08

this event will be worse than gaming paradise

2015-10-07 19:09

FINLAND HYPE?!?!?!

2015-10-07 19:10

Invite Winland plz!

2015-10-07 19:11

They better put Finland now

2015-10-07 19:22

Turkey please +++

2015-10-07 19:24

Invite Turkey

2015-10-07 19:33

Turkey will be the most suitable selection.

2015-10-07 19:38

INVITE TURKEY

2015-10-07 19:38

invite turkey.

2015-10-07 19:41

NEW GROUPS PLEASE

2015-10-07 19:45

Turkey pls.

2015-10-07 19:46

Overdrive bought Portugal

2015-10-07 19:55

lol 3ez5russia

2015-10-07 19:56

DONT INVITE TURKEY PLEASE DONT. THANKS

2015-10-07 20:00

2 replies

+1, Don't invite them, they don't deserve it.

2015-10-07 21:35

1 reply

2015-10-07 22:16

final will be USA vs CANADA ezpzlmnsqz

2015-10-07 20:00

2015-10-07 20:03

fox wussed out. expected

2015-10-07 20:13

RIP crazyguy

2015-10-07 20:14

lame tournament with tier2 players

2015-10-07 20:18

rip cristiano ez putin

2015-10-07 20:42

Portugal overrateddddd

2015-10-07 20:43

portugal hes sht at csgo lmao

2015-10-07 20:43

Because portual dropped out, they should do a bo1 match between 2nd place of their group and the 3rd place in all the other groups to get the 8th playoff spot

2015-10-07 21:05

y no finland?

2015-10-07 21:19

JUST SEND FINLAND! its not too late!

2015-10-07 21:27

put evil Norway in b0ss

2015-10-07 21:30

"An ex-k1ck reunion, minus fox, will finally not happen." Lol? Shouldn't it be along the lines of "will not happen afterall"?

2015-10-07 21:32

1 reply

I was wondering the same, strange sentence.

2015-10-07 21:55

go Turkey

2015-10-07 22:02

Worst than gaming paradise

2015-10-07 22:07

That group was pretty shit whether Portugal participated or not.

2015-10-07 22:14

nice fox is now onliner nice tattoo man

2015-10-07 22:21

1 reply

onliner? rofl

2015-10-08 00:48

invite Team Turkey

2015-10-07 22:25

That's why u should not do tournaments in 3rd world countries.

2015-10-07 22:34

+argentina please, they deserve a spot

2015-10-07 22:52

The world really needs to start acknowledging esports so issues like this don't happen. Ridiculous this keeps happening.

2015-10-07 23:07

SouthAmerica Should've had 2 spots, now its not even a "World" Championship, now everyone withdraw...

2015-10-07 23:34

Worst tournament ever

2015-10-07 23:43

invite Turkey

2015-10-08 00:07

1 reply

ww1 v2 inc

2015-10-08 01:31

Australia to take place

2015-10-08 00:39

3 replies

nt Kangaroo

2015-10-08 01:32

2 replies

nt koal.... nvm

2015-10-08 03:46

1 reply

2015-10-08 05:14

Invite Turkey already!!

2015-10-08 01:27

invite Albania since they are in border

2015-10-08 01:28

Invite the old vox team they should win :)

2015-10-08 01:31

Dont say shiit ! Read This ! - fraglider.pt/9848-portugal-falha-campeon.. If you not Portuguese ... - translate.google.pt/?hl=pt-PT

2015-10-08 01:44

Expected

2015-10-08 03:47

Waiting for the hltv post... TWC cancelled because no one gives a fuck.

2015-10-08 04:10

Xantares to twc, pls make it happen

2015-10-08 09:11

Finland go stand in

2015-10-08 11:50

Ohhhhh noooo!!! Se cant watch CR7! :(((

2015-10-08 12:18

1 reply

We*

2015-10-08 13:47

Maybe Turkish team can join the tournament

2015-10-08 12:41

TURKISH ! TURKEY !

2015-10-08 14:29

rip poortugal

2015-10-08 14:30

add Turkey, we have no problem about travel :)

2015-10-08 16:09

Invite turkey and xantares insane playz

2015-10-08 17:42

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