GamePlay remove tihOp for lurppis

26-11-2008 21:16

GamePlay bring back one of their most well known players Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen and bid farewell to Tino "tihOp" Puumala.

Today GamePlays Finnish Counter-Strike squad changed their roster. A team who hasn’t undergone changes since May this year when they released Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen from their team for Samu “plastE” Aalto.

Today it the tables were turned and it was Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen who replaced Tino "tihOp" Puumala. This was not the only change for the team though. The old Finnish veteran from former teams such as hoorai and wings, will be joining the team as a mental coach.

A statement was made by the teams manager Shayan Taleb:

"It’s with a black rock in my chest i write this unfortunate letter. Cause all good things have an ending and during these last days/week we’ve had alot of discussion within the team, our latest performance hasn’t been at top neither has our motivation been close to what it use to be. From today Team GamePlay will let Tino ‘tihOp’Puumala go and we wish him good luck and with the addition of our former captain and team member Tomi ‘lurppis’ Kovanen and our former player Toni ‘tONppa’ Luhtapuro whom will join up as mental coach. With the passing of Dreamhack Winter we have time for the future events which will take place in December."

These changes making the current roster:

Oskari "ruuit" Aspe
Juuso "contE" Sajakoski
Niko "naSu" Kovanen
Samu "pLaStE" Aalto
Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen

We got a hold of the Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen and got a few words about being back in the team:

You have played for a long time with most of these players. Does it feel good to return? Was it on your or their initiative?
It feels good yeah, was missing the competition and travelling. They contacted me last week and we've been playing together for a few days already but didn't get around to announcing it before today.
Were then any hard feelings due to the fact you were previously removed? Did you hesitate over leaving your former team from 4kings and "haha!"?
Haha wasn't a team it was just a mixteam that managed to qualify for EPS. No hard feelings.

You will be participating in Russia on the 14th of December. How will the team be preparing? What will be happening after that?

We'll play 5 days a week till then and try to put in as much practice as possible, after that continue EPS & ESL EM online and then hopefully finals for both next year as well as LAN's.

These changes will first be noticed in the middle of next month when the team participates at the Russian event Rekrut.ru. For the time being Konsta "kookas" Kaisla will be playing with the team in EPS due to Lurppis being ineligible until this Christmas.

awesome =D

2008-11-26 21:17

LoL xD

2008-11-26 21:18

!nice hope theyll get nice spots this time -- and nice post valde111

2008-11-26 21:19

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Thanks man! =>

2008-11-26 21:50

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Keep the good news posts coming (:

2008-11-26 21:51

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I'll do my best, but things are hectic like **** before DreamHack tomorrow => More to come!

2008-11-26 21:55

AWESOME!!! i <3 LURPPIS!!!

2008-11-26 21:20

yes :)))))

2008-11-26 21:21

lol.

2008-11-26 21:25

Epic

2008-11-26 21:26

Nice! GL

2008-11-26 21:36

gl guys go lurppis

awh. <3 tihOp! best of luck lurppis and gp! and ofcourse tihOp!! <3! ^_^

2008-11-26 21:39

- naSu + tihOp i don't have nothing against naSu but i think tihOp can do a better job. it's only my opinion

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naSu has always been the weakest one... He plays sometimes REALLY great, but mainly weaker than others.

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nasu is atm the best player in gameplay. seriously

2008-11-26 22:43

Not in my opinion :) I like plastE! :D

2008-11-26 23:07

He is very unstable. He isn't the best.

2008-11-27 14:14

agreed, i dont think nasu has been a stable & crazy player since before they joined up with roccat which was a while ago, but i guess he got lazy by the years and dont play so much individually anymore as before.

2008-11-26 23:43

yeahhh

2008-11-26 21:40

THANK GOD...everybody miss lurppis... welcome back..

2008-11-26 21:48

I knew they shouldn't have removed lurppis. THIS IS AWESOME!

n1 lurpis is back this squad will do grate from now on :D:D:D

2008-11-26 21:53

NICE gl:D

2008-11-26 21:56

I've always liked tihOp much more than lurppis but we will see the results. Maybe the team improves.

2008-11-26 22:02

Keep in mind lurppis did lead them to a lot of victory's before they had plastE and tihOp!

2008-11-26 22:12

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lurppis >>> tihOp lurppis >>>> allll!!!!FTW

2008-11-26 22:05

good for GP nice =D

2008-11-26 22:07

still waiting 4 ~~~~ - nasu + SPIKEONE. ?

2008-11-26 22:28

wtf? yeah is more better :)

2008-11-26 22:32

english - 0 :)

2008-11-27 16:36

?? my english is 0? look yours -.-

2008-11-27 19:52

well, my english isn't that bad :)

2008-11-27 22:02

good but tihOp's awp saves them many times :( sad for tihOP

2008-11-26 22:30

better change could be if spikeone joins team

2008-11-26 22:44

Welcome to Santa Barbara lurppis =\

2008-11-26 22:46

n1, lurppis is a very awesome player

2008-11-26 22:48

pfff... tihOp one of the best finns players...

lolz tihop played more than good... but they are old frends with lurppis so thats why he is in. GL tihop :)

2008-11-26 23:00

Hope this will affect the team in a positive way. Good luck GP and good luck tihOp :D

2008-11-26 23:09

What about lurrpis' team?

2008-11-26 23:21

As lurppis said in the news, Haha wasn't a team it was just a mixteam that managed to qualify for EPS.

2008-11-27 15:11

dream team :D

2008-11-27 00:03

Agreed, GP needs spikeone But we'll see how they will do with this lineup

2008-11-27 00:09

Good news :) been waiting this for long.. =)

2008-11-27 00:59

I dont know. I mean with tihOp they improve a lot and play great matchs on important tornaments. Lurppis is a great player, we will see if this is good for the team. "hope so ^^" Good Luck GP

2008-11-27 01:04