mousesports pull out of EPICENTER

14-10-2018 18:21

MOUZ have opted against attending EPICENTER, the German organisation have announced.

In a brief Twitter post, the ESL One New York champions explained that they will be skipping the event due to scheduling reasons and apologised to the fans who will be in Moscow for the competition.

The announcement comes at a time when MOUZ are linked with roster changes following an early exit at StarSeries i-League Season 6. According to a report from VPEsports.com, the team are considering benching Janusz "⁠Snax⁠" Pogorzelski and bringing Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk back into the line-up, just four months after signing the Polish star from Virtus.pro.

mousesports will skip EPICENTER due to scheduling reasons

MOUZ' next offline event is IEM Chicago, which will run from November 6-11. Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong's side are currently at the top of the table in ECS, with a 5-1 record, while they sit in fifth place in the ESL Pro League, with five victories in eight games.

EPICENTER organisers Epic Esports Events have not yet announced a replacement for MOUZ. There are now four tournament slots to be filled, three of which will go to the wildcard qualifier. The highest-ranked team of the qualifier on October 19 will secure direct entry into the tournament, while the remaining four teams will square off for two places in the $300,000 competition.

The team list for the event currently looks as follows:

Natus Vincere

FaZe

Invite

Wildcard Qualifier

Liquid

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Wildcard Ranking

Wildcard Qualifier

WTF this pretty much confirms -snax (thank mr MIBR_IS_OVERRATED5 for letting me get 1st)

2018-10-14 18:22

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yes

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+2?

2018-10-14 18:27

expected

such a nice guy

2018-10-14 18:28

" due to a very packed shedule " nt you are kicking someone

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poor bottom fragger

2018-10-14 18:25

-snax -botskar PLSS

2018-10-14 18:33

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probably one of them but not both i think

2018-10-14 18:35

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who could they get to replace them

2018-10-14 18:49

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erf i don't really know , Kio mby, Draken ? Scream ?

2018-10-14 20:03

kio would be alright dunno about Draken or scream though

2018-10-14 20:05

they should have gotten NBK

2018-10-15 09:55

LUL botskar, he's rising again and you would kick him, nt NA

2018-10-14 19:04

botskar

2018-10-14 19:11

-1 expected from NA citizen

2018-10-14 20:29

u r mad gj

keep trying, you won't get me that easily :) /closed

2018-10-14 20:33

/open He forgot something... flag cheks out /close

2018-10-15 06:52

Schedule probably busy with meetings on who to replace Snax with AHAHAHA

kidding or what

2018-10-14 18:21

WTF

lul

Nice take some rest for winning in future

-snax confirmed

stickos dumb prick haha

2018-10-14 20:39

XD bench snax after 4 months omegalul

cuz he is useless

2018-10-14 19:45

Good thing to acquire him then

2018-10-14 19:46

As good as bringing FNS to cloud9 for huge amount of money

2018-10-15 11:43

Lul

Cya snacks

Reinvite Astralis please, no breaks

no it would be boring to see astralis in every tier2 tournament

2018-10-14 18:23

It's as tier 1 as it gets if Ast is there

2018-10-14 18:36

2018-10-15 01:59

LUL

Tine to Change flair soon

ok mouz doesn't need any plastic fans

2018-10-14 18:34

Exactly then leave

2018-10-14 20:11

LOL this is cursed invite

teams should get fined for accepting invites and then pulling out unless there is agood reason

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yeah, i kinda agree

2018-10-14 18:24

True considering they are losing the event organizer money.

If they don't, then they should start doing so. At IEM Oakland if i recall correct, astralis was fined for skipping press stuff after they went out even though it was for medical reasons. Dupreeh was sick and device was hospitalized.

that's an example for a good reason

I agree.

There is always a good reason for pulling out

2018-10-14 21:01

I think the idea itself does not sound bad. But what is a good reason? Where are the frontiers? I think that may be very difficuilt to define. But the idea is not bad.

2018-10-14 23:03

rip snax

Scared of smoo???????

rip epicentre

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No, you british belland it's center; Epicenter.

You cant insult british guy with a spelling mistake like this.

2018-10-14 18:45

That's the point it's not a mistake in British

2018-10-14 22:45

My fault. sorry

2018-10-15 16:24

red coats always putting unnecessary E’s at the end of every word. Olde Towne Pube

2018-10-14 20:38

Keep calm billie

2018-10-15 11:45

so basically mouse cucked epicenter and snax is out

#VForVictory

RIP snax. He is now out.

Rip

WTF?!?!

invite ence

ENCE in wildcard they will qualify 100%

srsly

Rip snax

hehe no one wants to play EPICENTER

organizers are threatening them cuz they want navi win

Invite HellRaisers or North

Wasted spots

2018-10-14 20:06

Invite VP PLX

pullout game is strong for mouz

Invite Mibr now ffs

One more really? Lets play on blast with retarded format instead of going to fucking russia but nice tournament yeah ofc

many teams drawing out of epicenter .

2018-10-14 18:29

isnt it only astralis and mousesports ?

2018-10-14 18:38

Astralis and Mouz > all

2018-10-14 18:53

Not only epic center but remember last starladder? i think we are seeing the symptoms of a shrinking scene (obviously, CSGO peak'd economy/branding wise in late 2016)

2018-10-15 02:28

Shrinking? Stretching might be the word you were looking for.

2018-10-15 07:00

KICK EDWARD

Snax theory is confirmed

2018-10-14 18:30

+fnatic now

wtfff

Bye snax

Cyka they are idita tier 1-2 tournament and they are skipping it because of kicking snax, rly?

2018-10-14 18:32

+Hellraisers or Gambit

unexpected

EZ4ENCE, cuz straight invite

They're already going, they are currently the top seed in the wildcard which automatically go

2018-10-15 01:55

da I huj s nimi

2018-10-14 18:39

epicenter getting cucked hard. Feelsbad

2018-10-14 18:40

replacement is vp 100%

vp is in the wild card qualifier

2018-10-14 20:49

Slowly becoming a tier two event...

2018-10-14 18:44

Scared of ENCE

2018-10-14 18:46

oversaturation is an issue in csgo.. they need to get rid of this shit online cs, it is always garbage quality games. Make the top tier games rarer and actually worth something

inb4 VP invite :D

EZ4ENCE

2018-10-14 18:47

#MoskvaNotMoscow hahah

2018-10-14 18:48

,,we cant find yet new player and we dont want go to with this bot Snax to get humailated once again ,, XD

basically

2018-10-14 19:56

ropz and sunny need bigger goldchains, then ez major champions.

Inb4 cancelled event

2018-10-14 18:55

All of the other top tier teams are literally gifting Liquid LAN wins, and they're still going to find some way to lose :(

2018-10-14 18:59

nooooooooo

nice!rusia worst country for cs

-snax incoming

2018-10-14 19:15

"We‘ve decided to skip @epicentergg 2018 in Moscow, due to a very packed schedule ahead of us. Sorry to all fans in Moscow, we’ll see you another day! " The communication from most organizations is such cancer, only 2faced speeches, pure bullshit LUL

2018-10-14 19:22

ez 4 styko

They should have stuck with Styko in the first place (No pun intended).

2018-10-14 19:23

This is retarded Hopefully faze manages to do something this time...

2018-10-14 19:35

They should invite VP

2018-10-14 19:36

XDDDDD

2018-10-15 11:46

lan dodgers

2018-10-14 19:53

Rest in pizza Snax ;-;

2018-10-14 19:57

They reduced prizepool from 500k to 300k, expected nobody want to move in russland for less money

2018-10-14 20:08

wtf omg

2018-10-14 20:10

rip but invited nip over mibr? wtf

I thought Swole patrol was attending to this event.

2018-10-14 20:22

They are confirmed for the wildcard qualifier

2018-10-14 21:48

G2 or ENCE bouta get invited

2018-10-14 20:46

(Ence) They're already going, they are currently the top seed in the wildcard which automatically go

2018-10-15 01:54

Will they buy another player... juicy.

2018-10-14 21:22

Always pull out boys.

+1 No pun intended btw

2018-10-15 10:24

Call ENCE PLZ

2018-10-14 22:41

tier2 tournament

2018-10-14 23:16

Snaxerino no more? How can this be :'/...

2018-10-14 23:45

sad to hear

2018-10-15 01:21

polish star snax ahahahahaha

2018-10-15 01:31

invite ENCE

2018-10-15 01:38

NRG Will gladly take this spot.

Lol good, they should get rid of that polish bot asap. Hasn't been good or even decent since mid 2017.

2018-10-15 02:47

it really annoys me that astralis and mouse have both skipped epicentre, this event is the highest quality all year and the appeal of this event is only the best teams and two of them have pulled out, seriously weakens the field

2018-10-15 03:35

Expect VP invite xD

2018-10-15 03:43

Pressured by admins to pull out so they can invite VP OMEGALUL

2018-10-15 03:55

shitty coutry russia - expected.

2018-10-15 06:49

Bring scream or sergj

Ence can come and clean the table

2018-10-15 07:13

Pulling out is always the best solution

2018-10-15 10:28

tea

2018-10-15 10:59

Team @vitality please

2018-10-15 11:00

2018-10-15 12:20

Can anyone tell me why Epicenter official site says there will be 10 teams, but every other source is saying 8 teams?

2018-10-15 12:29

Their site also lists the teams participating in the LAN qualifier (you can read in detail how the LAN qualifier placements affect the group stage, though summing up it is 1 + 2). Therefore, for the actual event - the group stage - the participating teams are 8 (5 + 1+ 2).

2018-10-16 04:14