FaZe pull out of GEC

24-1-2016 21:58

FaZe have announced that they have withdrawn from the Game Show Global eSports Cup with immediate effect.

The former G2 side had defeated ALTERNATE aTTaX 2-0 in their first match in the group stage and were due to meet Ninjas in Pyjamas next, in the winners' match.

No reason was given for FaZe's withdrawal in a statement from GameShow, but it is believed that Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard's side, who had recently quit Acer Predator Masters 2, have decided to focus on the ESL Pro League and the MLG Columbus major.

The European team were in attendance at DreamHack Open Leipzig this week, finishing 5th-6th following defeats against Natus Vincere and Luminosity Gaming.

FaZe leave the Global eSports Club after one match

After the German event, Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill issued a statement on Twitter in which he revealed that the team will change their daily routines in order to realise their true potential.

With FaZe's withdrawal, NiP and ALTERNATE aTTaX are both through to the playoffs of the European division of the Global eSports Cup, featuring a $200,000 prize pool and offline finals in Vilnius, Lithuania, from February 4-7.

The top four teams from the European division will secure spots at the season finals, where they will join North American representatives Cloud9 and CLG, and CIS duo Method and FlipSid3 Tactics.

WHU

2016-01-24 21:59

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expexted, new team kinguin no chance [*]

2016-01-24 22:12

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still better than VP [*]

2016-01-24 22:21

NOOO

3 replies

GECi

2016-01-24 22:56

GECI!!

2016-01-25 07:36

they taking a break so they can trickshot

2016-01-25 17:56

ashamed

disband finally thanks GOD

the decision was made before they were officially signed by faze

2016-01-24 22:00

chikken best

Why do they pull out of this. 200K prize pool and there one of the best teams there. Makes no sense. But it must be for the better.

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they're* one of the best teams

2016-01-24 22:08

new tournament in lithuania? no offence to lithuanians but im pretty sure g2 has played one gaming paradise too many

2016-01-24 22:11

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what? gaming paradise was not in lithuania.

2016-01-24 22:17

yes,the idea is that its probably a shit tournament aswell

2016-01-24 22:18

It's a metaphor.

2016-01-24 22:19

I read your sentence 3 times. Still cant understand, what you're saying

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im implying GEC will be just as shit as gaming paradise was

2016-01-24 22:20

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lol, what makes you think this way?

2016-01-24 22:22

because it wouldnt be the first time a new tournament organizer shits the bed it actually would be the 2nd time since these guys ran a dota2 tournament in DH moscow last year and it was a fucking disaster: esport.aftonbladet.se/dota2/game-show-le..

2016-01-24 22:25

Interesting

2016-01-24 22:33

Well gameshow has already hosted a csgo lan tournament before and it was fine.

2016-01-25 03:47

they will start practising as maikelele said :D probably not want to be trashed again

hahah, disband coming soon, trust me xD

2016-01-24 22:01

FaZe bought the players for 150k each off g2, i don't think they will disband

2016-01-24 22:13

You literally have no proof about your statement being a truth.

2016-01-24 22:39

Olofmeister once said that he doesnt believe maikelele getting bought by nip since its nearly impossible to buy people off g2 since their minimum buy is 150k. Go watch stream demos

2016-01-24 23:42

they just want to put practice into the real important matches. gj

RIP

thank mr fodder

2016-01-24 22:02

disband inc

expected

good job faze, we dont want to embarass NiP when they are going through a transitional period #respect #thankmrmaikelele #16-0wasgoingtohappen

2016-01-24 22:03

#thisisHLTVnottwittersowhyareweusinghashtags?

2016-01-24 23:46

>complaining about other sites >basically #whynot? SoBayed Kappa OSFrog MingLee What kind of cancer did I just made

2016-01-25 15:44

pull out of kek

rekt

good choice to focus on major tournaments and focus on practice with new coach

Quality bait. "FaZe pull out"

I wonder what do you expect to see on HLTV when you take this as a bait

genuinly excited to see if they can actually do something if they practice or if dh cluj was a fluke.

DH Cluj was a fluke... You are dumb if you thought they are actually that good.

lmao why

2016-01-24 22:05

Faze really thing will reach to playoffs esl pro league ? Ayy lmao

2016-01-24 22:07

"faze really thing" autistic monkey

2016-01-25 03:51

nice.

+luminosity

2016-01-24 22:09

Fail, rip team

Oh Lithuania, cool. Vilnius, bullshit

KEK

wise decision imo gl in future

is this happens because lan in LITHUANIA??

sure

2016-01-24 22:34

jiffoe said that i'm a bad person.

2016-01-24 23:30

its a joke dude

2016-01-24 23:27

let it be if it is dude, just saying that Lithuania is pretty op by hosting something like this , no such thing will ever happen in Latvia =D

2016-01-24 23:29

expected and well calculated

2016-01-24 22:23

team is hoax... they need jesus

2016-01-24 22:29

sad

disband inc?

2016-01-24 22:30

k den

2016-01-24 22:36

LOL THEY WERE SCARED OF NIP

2016-01-24 22:38

2016-01-24 22:46

EU CS

2016-01-24 22:49

2016-01-24 22:52

i didnt think i will ever see a thing more retarded than nip news when they presented the old rooster + 1 in 5 news/5days. But surprise now i read maikele tweet. and they withdraw from a 200k lan event to become better " athletes". and if you read all the tweet with Faze hype i just dont get it.

2016-01-24 23:03

rest in peace the dream to actually see the players irl . Why to play quals anyway if you know that you're going to pull out? Pull out game strong af for g2/faze this year. was hyped af and this is what i get , thanks

2016-01-24 23:10

ROFL

2016-01-24 23:12

Well, I guess its understandable

2016-01-24 23:14

2016-01-24 23:16

Again too easy for Alternate WINK

piece of shit event anyways, closed one lmao

2016-01-24 23:22

This was a tournament they actually had a good chance of winning. Wtf...

2016-01-24 23:24

they are more interested in loosing lower bracket decider.

2016-01-24 23:31

2016-01-24 23:32

winner mentality right durr

Makes sense to drop tier 2 events.

true dat,lol. Even tho the prize pool was on point,it's understandable that they decided to focus on ESL League,cuz i mean...they don't know how to play cobble and they have to do it throughout the season.

2016-01-25 00:04

Disband expected

2016-01-24 23:33

noobs

EZ when your salary is bigger than any prize pool.

2016-01-24 23:47

honestly it wouldve been funny to see mikalelele rekt nip lol

2016-01-24 23:51

faze on lan i aren't think that

2016-01-25 00:41

Pull out game 2 stronk

2016-01-25 00:43

pull out game strong.

2016-01-25 01:05

clg should give their spot to liquid it would bring NA together and finally break the curse

2016-01-25 07:53

Liquid didn't even participate in the group stage, why would CLG give them their spot?

2016-01-25 17:00

holy autism read into it a bit more it would bring NA together and finally break the curse it would bring NA together and finally break the curse it would bring NA together and finally break the curse

2016-01-25 21:45