OpTic to Northern Arena with desi

24-8-2016 04:23

OpTic will attend the $100,000 Northern Arena event with Derek 'desi' Branchen as a stand-in, as Tarik 'tarik' Celik will be attending his brother's engagement dinner during that time.

OpTic were one of the fourteen teams directly invited to the $100,000 Northern Arena event, which will take place from September 1-4 at the Metro Toronto Convention in Toronto, Canada and feature North American, South American, and European competition.

With the group draw for the event having been announced earlier in the day, OpTic were drawn in Group B alongside TSM, Echo Fox, and Luminosity.

desi will stand-in for tarik at Northern Arena

However, the Canadian-American-Spanish team will be fighting on the back foot as their new signee Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik (previously of CLG fame) took to Twitter to announce that he will miss the event due to his brother's engagement dinner and that Derek "⁠desi⁠" Branchen will play in his stead for OpTic.

My brother's engagement dinner is during the Northern Arena LAN, therefore @desi_csgo will be ringing for the guys in my place. GLLL!!!
— tarik.... (@noshirt_tv) August 23, 2016

desi most recently played for Winterfox, beginning with his addition to the team in November of 2015 and culminating with his removal in April 2016. The 23-year-old American player also recently finished in 5-6th place at the HTC 1vs1 Invitational.

Out of pure coincidence, tarik is the second player to recently miss attending an event due to a brother's marriage plans, as Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt of Envy will be unable to attend the SL i-League StarSeries Season 2 Finals from September 7-11 due to his own brother's wedding.

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

Good luck optic with desi, hope he will shine there.

2016-08-24 04:23

7 replies

wtf how fast do you type

2016-08-24 04:28

4 replies

copy and paste obviously

2016-08-24 04:47

3 replies

How can he write it before he knows what the thread will be lol

2016-08-24 04:49

2 replies

he rite ther thred :o

2016-08-24 04:58

tarik posted it on twitter so he guessed that its gonna be on hltv?

2016-08-24 06:21

realy fastest guy)

2016-08-24 05:46

hax

2016-08-24 14:17

Desi ma boy

wow, very interesting, i wonder if desi will perform

wyt

recently kappa

2016-08-24 04:24

#notfirst

Expected

2016-08-24 04:25

Good work stich

RIP OpTic, desi will carrry Kappa

2016-08-24 04:32

Sad day

2016-08-24 04:34

poor optic :( "engagement dinner" wtf...I would understand it if it was a wedding...but this...

2016-08-24 04:40

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Was thinking the same... this is ridiculous.

2016-08-24 06:17

An American wedding is not the same as one of a gipsy mate so dont even try to compare the 2.

2016-08-24 08:16

Its family indeed and if ur brother is having his engagement dinner u will be there!

2016-08-24 08:44

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WTF is an "engagement dinner"? seriusly wtf...

2016-08-25 19:42

You can see real dedication from Tarik

2016-08-24 06:54

True professional right? LOL

2016-08-24 08:22

its family bro....

2016-08-24 08:28

I agree. Rofl.

2016-08-24 14:24

shitty reason to miss a the first lan with a new lineup. thought this was supposed to be a professional game.

2016-08-24 05:16

WTF is an engagement dinner? Must be some Kebab thing. This is supposed to be a professional game. If I told the company that is paying me that I am taking time off to go to an engagement dinner and can't make an important conference, guess what would happen? Get a fucking clue Tarik and the rest of the gamers that think they are "pro."

2016-08-24 06:27

at the end of the day its just a game. sure hes getting paid for it but family>>>>>>>>a video game. I dont see why all u kids are complaining about it. its his fucking life lmfao

2016-08-24 08:30

because most of the kids in here have no life

2016-08-24 08:56

burn

2016-08-24 11:55

It's their job.

2016-08-24 14:25

Desi has good potential. Deserves to be in a good team. Hope he performs well.

2016-08-24 06:38

its funny how much money these kids make and can do whatever the fuck they want...ur srsly missing the tournament for an engagement dinner?

2016-08-24 07:51

So many people here butthurt about tarik taking time to celebrate with his family. Yeah it's a pretty big tournament but at some point you have to draw the line and spend time with your family. There will be many tournaments to come but his brother may only be married once.

2016-08-24 09:38