Canada to replace USA at TWC

18-9-2016 22:25

E-frag announced that Team USA will not be attending The World Championships 2016 and will be replaced by Canada, who finished second in the North American qualifier.

The decision comes as a result of Team USA not submitting a lineup within the expected timeframe, the organizer states, and is the second announcement of this type after Singapore replaced China earlier this month.

As The United States of America will not have a team at the tournament, Team Canada, who finished second to them in the qualifier, will get USA's spot at the LAN that will take place in Belgrade, Serbia.

Semphis played for Canada at last year's edition of TWC

The roster of Team Canada is yet unknown, but last year's line-up featured players such as Kory "⁠SEMPHIS⁠" Friesen, Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele and Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic that ended up 5-8th after a 2-0 defeat to Sweden.

The World Championships 2016 will take place on October 5-9 and will feature a $100.000 prize pool. Five teams that will compete at the tournament have already been found, with the remaining three spots to be filled through the European Qualifier.

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

NA cs LUL PS: POLE

2016-09-18 22:25

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rip

RIP USA

ayyy

Why....?

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The decision comes as a result of Team USA not submitting a lineup within the expected timeframe

2016-09-18 22:43

Thank god. I've seen enough of clown 9 & co.

2016-09-19 18:09

Goddammit wtf

no!

2016-09-18 22:26

epic

ayyyy, Canada did well last year

2016-09-18 22:28

lul

2016-09-18 22:27

expected lul

Just as well we made it much further than the USA last year. EZ for Canada

ayy LUL

being a progamer is so exhausting and its so difficult to manage things like this

2016-09-18 22:29

we're like the luigi of NA CS LUL this is sick news though. get em canucks

Does anyone know who the captain for team Canada is?

Daps I believe

2016-09-18 23:29

Semphis is this year

2016-09-18 23:40

shroud, NAF-FLY, RUSH, SEMPHiS, Twistzz? Bring it, please! :D

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RUSH Canadian, topkek

2016-09-18 22:33

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... fak -RUSH +DAVEY/Stanislaw/Uber

2016-09-18 22:37

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Would definitely go with stan. He plays with NAF, so it would help. Then you have semphis/twistzz also from the same team.

2016-09-18 22:45

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Yeah, maybe. They don't play together anymore, and I don't know how well the terms of the release were.

2016-09-18 22:55

No, stanlisaw came back to OpTic. daps isn't on the active roster anymore.

2016-09-18 22:57

Wow, that's awkward to say the least. What were they thinking? I always wondered why daps wasn't the one to go. I figured he brought something tactically or mentally to the game, because he certainly made less impact directly in-game.

2016-09-18 23:01

ez for shroud

After seeing that prize pool, not surprised teams aren't bothering too much with it.

2016-09-18 22:34

100k is not that bad playing for your own country..

2016-09-18 22:38

Its not worth it for some players to take time off from there team duties to partake in this. Last TWC, a lot of countries didn't even bring their best rosters. Having a higher prize pool might make them prioritize this event a bit more.

100k no wonder why noone cares, sorry to hear that but seems like all players play only for money which is understandable //during the offline finals in Serbia there is also WESG 2016 European Finals so probably eu teams will focus on that instead of world championship

''announcment'' fix plz

2016-09-18 22:44

soo like the only other country outside of USA that plays CS in NA? Means last NA national team makes it to the world championship...

2016-09-18 22:53

Mexico, hondorus, el salvador and panama played in the na qual

2016-09-18 23:51

name one player from each of these teams that you've heard of before

2016-09-19 01:59

there was this one player from salvador that was insane. forgot his name

2016-09-19 02:11

"forgot his name" - exactly my point. They're absolute no-namers to an average CSGO viewer. Their scenes are almost non-existant when it comes to semi-pro cs

2016-09-19 02:17