Vexed drop out from Assembly Winter

2-2-2016 18:28

Vexed Gaming have withdrawn from attending Assembly's Winter tournament and the Finnish team RCTIC eSports have replaced them in their stead.

The Polish team Vexed Gaming, who we have currently ranked as 20th best in the world in our latest monthly Global Ranking and who are perhaps best known for their consecutive Major attendances as 'Challengers' in 2015, were part of the four invited teams to the €15,000 Assembly Winter event.

The event itself is taking place from February 5-6 this coming weekend at the Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre and will see the four invited teams joined by four teams that advanced from two online qualifiers.

These eight will then spar in a a double elimination, best-of-one group stage (decider matches will be best-of-three) followed by a single elimination, best-of-three playoffs.

Hyper and Vexed have withdrawn from Assembly Winter

However, the tournament organisers have now revealed that Vexed Gaming cannot make the Assembly Winter event for unknown reasons (the team did recently release Piotr "⁠peet⁠" Ćwikliński but at the same time did manage to qualify for the $81,000 ESL Expo Barecelona event) and they have thus invited Finnish team RCTIC eSports in their place.

The updated teams list for Assembly Winter 2016 is therefore:

ENCE	PixelFire
RCTIC	LDLC White
Millenium	CPH Wolves
Epiphany Bolt	LDLC Blue

The Assembly Winter event will go live on February 5th and will also have its grand final broadcast on YLE TV2, one of Finland's main TV channels. HLTV.org will also prepare a light preview to go over the eight attending teams in the coming days.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

sucks

2016-02-02 18:29

riåp

Not gonna lie these notifications are dope

2016-02-02 18:30

3 replies

just turn it off

2016-02-02 18:44

2 replies

how¿

2016-02-02 21:24

1 reply

notification settings

2016-02-03 01:25

nice

aick

incredible

lol

wow

rip

yes

shieeeeet

can't wait to see how Epiphany Bolt will manage without their hacks :D

yle tv2 ftw

RCTIC > VEXED

You mean these guys who lost to random mix 2 days ago ? n1

2016-02-02 18:42

Rest

ez ence

hunden should take this

who cares

Wtf why?! probably scared bcs vexed may rekt them

11 replies

Vexed left by themselves polak pls 3rd world education

2016-02-02 18:33

now i read and knew everything :D but ty

stupid 3rd worlder, come and clean my toilet

2016-02-02 18:43

polak nub

vexed is scared because they could rekt their selves?

all games 16-0 ez katka no chance my friend thats why they dont go

Rallen said on Janowicz's stream that they will not go there so they can prepare better for other upcoming tournaments.

2016-02-02 18:47

IMO bad decision. From their closest LAN's they had biggest chance to win LAN.

2016-02-02 18:54

Who cares? Even if they finish last in Barcelona they are going to win more money than winning this one.

2016-02-02 20:16

10/10 brain functioning

2016-02-02 19:25

2016-02-02 19:26

ez win for enceboys

good not a lot of people will miss them

nobody

2016-02-02 18:36

Alright this is so shady

2016-02-02 18:31

Most annoying team, why is hyper still allowed to play?

1st

well that turned out better... rctic > throwxed

2016-02-02 18:34

bb fucking matchfixerbois

lmao rctic put that gaming house to work now

2016-02-02 18:37

i think cph wolves will win

2016-02-02 18:39

But why?

2016-02-02 18:46

vitu hyvä

2016-02-02 18:51

ez for RCTIC

2016-02-02 18:52

Arent dinker dat

2016-02-03 09:45

thnik

Finns should do better than this event

2016-02-02 18:53

unfortunate

2016-02-02 19:01

Its quite surprising, especially seen as though they were one of the favourites in my opinion, but never the less I'm sure that the replacement RCTIC will do just as well and may even surprise a few of us. The thing about Peet struggling a bit doesn't make me think they are going to kick him, more just practice a lot and skip this LAN to focus on upcoming events instead of embarrassing themselves here perhaps?

2016-02-02 19:05

> The thing about Peet struggling a bit doesn't make me think they are going to kick him, more just practice a lot and skip this LAN to focus on upcoming events instead of embarrassing themselves here perhaps? WTF?

2016-02-02 20:17