Isurus to miss WESG

28-2-2019 15:06

Isurus published an official statement announcing their team will be unable to attend the WESG 2018 World Finals.

Isurus earned their spot at the WESG 2018 World Finals through the South America qualifier when the team had a full Argentine lineup with Matias "⁠tutehen⁠" Canale and Nabil "⁠nbl⁠" Aleua.

In their statement, Isurus mentioned visa issues as well as not being able to use their current roster, as they signed 19-year-old Maximiliano "⁠max⁠" Gonzalez, from Uruguay, who is ineligible to play with the Argentine team due to the tournament's roster restrictions based on nationality.

Noktse & co. will miss the WESG 2018 World Finals

Luckily for Argentine fans, Guillermo "⁠guishorro⁠" Areco's Furious, who won the other South American qualifier, are still slated to participate at the event in Chongqing.

The silver lining for Isurus will be that they can now participate in DreamHack Rio's Brazil/South Latin America qualifier, which is slated to take place on March 9-10, while WESG's World Finals are going on.

With Isurus pulling out, the tournament's Group C will only have the following three teams:

MIBR
AGO
K23

;( damn

2019-02-28 15:07

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new name still looking good mens 😎😎😎👍

2019-02-28 15:08

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hey mens whats up do you know me still 😎😎😎😎😎😎 (((((

2019-03-01 15:46

Nice, polish guys have chance

sad 4 isurus :(

Nooo😥

who>

11 replies

Professional team with paid players who travel the world fulfilling their dreams. Who are you?

2019-02-28 15:35

10 replies

guy with a job and a stable income who doesn't waste his life trying to make a living by playing video games but does it matter?

2019-02-28 15:39

9 replies

They do what they like and pay them. Do you care?

2019-02-28 15:41

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I don't that's why I don't know who they are

7 replies

And they don't know who you are!

2019-02-28 15:54

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so?

2019-02-28 15:55

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#9 who> You don't know them. So?

2019-02-28 16:05

there is no logic in your statement, did I ever say they know me?

2019-02-28 16:07

There was no logic in your "who" statement either. Just bad karma you know?

2019-02-28 18:08

so your comment is irrelevant ya did that to get attention so handle it now cunt

2019-02-28 16:08

???? I asked who they are, does it matter if they know me? 80 iq fakeflaggers

2019-02-28 16:09

Who?

hit a nerve lul?

who

yes but who ?

2019-02-28 15:58

travel the world xddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

2019-02-28 16:47

0/8

2019-02-28 21:15

ez for astralis ?

Literally who? Invite me instead lol

You have to earn a spot but first u need to have some teammates then an org and then so much good luck to feature even in hltv...

2019-02-28 15:18

LUL why so mad bro

2019-02-28 17:38

butthurt Isurus fan

2019-03-01 07:06

R u actually a GM?

2019-02-28 15:15

Literally who?

2019-03-01 17:01

That's awful

unluko

Draw real groups with seeding WESG clowns lul

Lucky MiBR

Maybe announce it before doing groups??? SA brain

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Why? WESG are clearly not seeding so might as well see what they get first. A lot of people sleeping even on Kazakhstan mix. I don't think they realistically can even get top 3 in this group.

2019-02-28 15:11

I can't understand your point. I only want to say that maybe if they had announced it before, the 2nd placed team from SA qualifier or another team could have filled the spot. Now instead we have a weird situation with a group of 3 teams that fuck up all the bracket.

They probably waited till the end to secure visas and groups+getting a player from other country is just not worth it. It's not unusual for teams to skip WESG as it's not really a prestigious event. Last time there were 2 groups with 2 teams.

2019-02-28 15:19

Agreed, WESG is a joke

FalleN etc have said that WESG is more important than a major, also small teams can earn nice money and grow when they participate in this kind of events.

2019-03-01 17:03

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for smaller teams that have no chance to qualify for major sure. but in major teams also get sticker money, far bigger audience meaning potential for growing fanbase & being noticed by teams, more quality opponents and HLTV ranks major far more highly than WESG and a lot of events look at rankings+fanbase for invites.

2019-03-01 17:07

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The invite is a different thing in my opinion in this regard. When people like FalleN, s1mple etc, play in WESG it gains attention, pros most likely don't care as much about points as fans do. This event is great in my opinion, teams with less experience and potential huge stars face teams with experienced players, but with mixed teams.

2019-03-01 17:11

problem is WESG's nationality rule, very wierd spots for the event even if you have different regions represented (serbia having its own qualifier) and lack of seeding removes a lot of prestige imo. it feels like they rig it for chinese teams to go as far as possible and good teams face each other anyway.

2019-03-01 17:14

I think the nationality rule is good brings excitement because best teams in the world won't fulfill it totally, ruining every single chance for these small teams who don't have any big sponsors behind them. I think there were so many teams applying from Serbia that they wanted to host own qualifier for them.

2019-03-01 17:24

they didn't pull out because of the group they had, but because WESG requires all players from same country, and MAX is Uruguayan

2019-02-28 15:42

Yes I know, but maybe announce the retire before the groups are made if you know you won't be able to partecipate... why wait for so long

2019-02-28 15:48

they might have been trying to find a stand-in for it, you don't really know

2019-02-28 16:44

I think that pulling off is the right decission. I mean you're missing the qualifier to a dreamhack to play a tournament that you don't have a chance to get out of groups because that joke of seeding (and also you can't bring your real roster)

2019-02-28 16:17

This still remains the Group of Death

invite ex-ss :D

Lmao who?

2019-02-28 15:09

Sad :(

Why even participate in qualifications if u cant buy visas?

that's not the problem, the problem is that one of the players is from Uruguay so the team isn't full Argentinian (one-nationality team)

2019-02-28 15:36

They can go with roster that was used at qualifiers...

the real problem is that in the same date that wesg is the SA qualy to DH Rio. Isurus rather to play DH instead of wesg (tier 3 tournament in which the winners are not paid)

2019-02-28 15:44

mibr can upset now

jesus what thw fu k

2019-02-28 15:10

Fells bad, I like isuros, hermanos team

With paid actors to throw games Who?

2019-02-28 18:19

They would not make it out of groups, so yeah, right decision.

2019-02-28 15:12

They could be the winners.... Im crying

2019-02-28 15:14

nt isurus

Always something wrong with visa

Bad news! But expected... Time to time , Isurus will show wordwide a good cs..

2019-02-28 15:16

Now invite ex ss cuz they were last year's finalist.

put vp

2019-02-28 15:17

Add astralis :))))

Good decision. A tournament in the ass of the world, two days of travel, jetlag, fatigue and other issues that affect the time of the game. It is understandable, I repeat, a good decision to focus on the DH. Good luck to Furious.

"in the ass of the world" this sounds wrong in English, as if you were insulting China.

2019-03-01 04:36

it's a joke, because China is in the other side of the world (looking it from Argentina)

2019-03-01 08:46

It is normal to say it in Argentina. We refer to this when it is something very distant, they are approximately 10 thousand nautical miles. Imagine the wear... Sorry if you took the wrong phrase and sorry for the bad english.

2019-03-01 11:05

I'm Argentinian, I know what it means, it's too difficult to translate Argentine idioms into English.

Wouldve been waste of money anyway

Guess they look towards their opponents in group C, and told themselves that this trip doesn't make sense anyway. Good choice! GL in Rio qualifiers

2019-02-28 15:24

wtf?

2019-02-28 15:31

F LULSURUS

INVITE GIANTS PORTUGAL DESERVE SPOT ON WESG

2019-02-28 15:34

who to do what

2019-02-28 15:37

expected Is not worth to play an irrelevant tier 3 tournament instead of play a DH qualy.

who?

And the WESG dodging begins

PepeHands

what a big loss how can they ever recover

2019-02-28 15:45

Well .. I don't think they should've skipped this tournament but in the other hand they would have lost in group stage anyway, imho ..

2019-02-28 15:51

Rigged tournament

2019-02-28 15:52

That's pretty sad, would've been interesting watching playing them vs. top teams, even though they had no chance on qualifying, would have been a nice test for them. At least Furious is there

2019-02-28 16:11