AGO replace ENCE in ECS Pinnacle Cup

5-3-2019 14:53

AGO will be taking ENCE's spot in the ECS Season 7 Pinnacle Cup, it has been announced.

In a Twitter post, the Finnish team cited "miscommunication on the scheduling" as the reason to withdraw from the tournament, and stressed the need to "give our players ample time to recover and refocus" after the incredible runner-up finish at the IEM Katowice Major.

The announcement came just hours after ENCE announced that they will also skip the upcoming WESG World Finals in China "due to family reasons, scheduling and inability to start our visa process earlier" due to their deep run in Katowice.

AGO will step in following ENCE's withdrawal

AGO, who are currently ranked 46th in the world, will be facing Nemiga in the first round of the Swiss stage, kicking off at 18:00 .

The ECS Pinnacle Cup will run from March 5-7 and feature 16 teams, eight invited plus eight qualified. It will be used to create a ranking that will be used to fill any potential vacant slots in the five regular season tournaments that FACEIT will be holding, each one with $25,000 on the line.

The winners of the first three tournaments will secure direct entry into the ECS Season 7 Finals, which will be held at the SSE Arena, Wembley, from June 6-9. The fourth regional spot will be filled by the team who earned the most prize money throughout the season.

Below you can find the match-ups for the first Swiss round:

18:00 AGO vs. Nemiga
18:00 AVANGAR vs. Epsilon
18:00 Spirit vs. Sprout
18:00 Winstrike vs. Movistar Riders
19:00 Vitality vs. Chaos
21:00 HEROIC vs. Windigo
21:00 FORZE vs. x6tence Galaxy
21:00 Valiance vs. x-kom

2019-03-05 14:53

NOTEZ4ENCE

2019-03-05 14:54

Nooooo

Neo in heroic

AGO > Ence

expected i'm excited to see if hltv gonna continue making standalone newsposts each time a team withdraws from upcoming shit tournaments. i really cant understand this.

2019-03-05 14:57

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ok? this is a newsite, this is why most users come here. to read news??

2019-03-05 15:00

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This, and site is purely dedicated to CS , what they stould be writing about? Lebron failing to making it into playoffs?

2019-03-05 15:05

they come here to read 2 different news about ence qutting tournaments within 3 or 4 hours? this is no dedication its bad journalism. there are like million of concepts, just update previous news obviously easiest, to avoid this spamming shit.

2019-03-05 15:17

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It’s an update of what’s going on with a top team, most of the stuff on hltv is informational but there are some interviews, articles about meta, roster reports and of course the top 20. I don’t see anything wrong with that, no one forces you to click every single article

2019-03-05 17:04

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maybe he one of them people who read the whole newpaper yellow pages included, cause he paid for it

2019-03-05 21:34

It's for fans of withdrawing and replacing team to know some schedule changes are inbound. If I had planned to watch ENCE game, now I would have known I should do other stuff. Instead I'd come home at 6 and wait for nothing. Arguably better notifications system would solve this but I also like knowing about teams I don't follow. For example I'm no fan of Heroic but with Neo playing I'll be watching them outm

2019-03-05 15:15

yea man, not comparable with neo news. you know what i mean.

2019-03-05 15:19

Ez For AGO

I thought they pulled out from WESG to partecipate to ECS

They probably need some rest, allu wants to be with his kid, many big tournaments in 2 weeks. Couple of reasons I could come up with right away.

2019-03-05 15:01

They pulled out of WESG because it's a joke - from this though, I would've liked to see them go for that ECS league :/ Also I understand that their schedule is (was) a nightmare for this month - back from Polan, then to China, then to Brazil, then to China again - so yeah I guess I see why they're skipping an online league while this is going on...

2019-03-05 15:02

Nice

Ence not playing another game ever again.

2019-03-05 15:37

True

2019-03-06 10:48

HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Hello ENCE?

2019-03-05 14:55

"In a Twitter post, the Finnish team cited "miscommunication on the scheduling" as the reason to withdraw from the tournament, and stressed the need to "give our players ample time to recover and refocus" after the incredible runner-up finish at the IEM Katowice Major." literally the first sentence

2019-03-05 14:56

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This is what they said for WESG too lolz

yes because they would have participated 3 bigger tournaments in march

prbly allu wants to be with his baby and give them time too

2019-03-05 14:59

thank god

Too EZ for ENCE they decided to give others a chance

I guess they didn't expect to go that far in the major.

essa

RIP ENCE

Allin epsilon boyz!!!

LOL scheduling issue here there, miscomunication, visa is slow, your mom didnt make meatloaf sanwich.

2019-03-05 14:58

Even more ez for NEO and friberg.

What?

neo is playing with friberg

2019-03-05 15:08

where ?

2019-03-05 17:37

woooooow wtf

AGOMEGALUL

wtf? didnt they say they dodged wesg just to play in this ecs pinnacle cup? like does it take to so much time to re update your cheats? damn

excited to see god neo play again

I guess they had an ego boost not gonna play any tier 2 events?

2019-03-05 15:06

Allu got his first baby week ago and their calendar is full give them a break

2019-03-05 15:07

Wasted spot.

nice

2019-03-05 15:09

WTF ago is a lucky today

2019-03-05 15:12

- Reach major grand finals - Skip all events following

ez ago

2019-03-05 15:16

For morons who can’t read between the lines ENCE pulled out of ECS to relax for a bit after Major and so allu can be with family They pulled out of WESG because its a shit tournament, they’re schedule is already filled considering they have BPS in a few weeks as well as MDL matches. Also they forgot to get their visas apparently

2019-03-05 15:18

2019-03-05 15:35

If they keep pullin' out like this they will never have little redbull children.

2019-03-05 15:28

AGO probably the worst team of the 16, lol

2019-03-05 15:31

2019-03-05 17:44

No good teams on there anyways

2019-03-05 15:38

Not expected

2019-03-05 15:39

disband INC LUL

2019-03-05 15:42

wasted spot

2019-03-05 15:46

vp not even invited LUL

2019-03-05 15:49

{edit} nvm vp is already in ecs because of last season

2019-03-05 15:53

Lol

2019-03-05 15:54

lol completely forgot they actually played in a tier 1 seasonal league.

2019-03-05 16:32

Is NEO playing for heroic now?

2019-03-05 15:58

thats smart from ENCE.

2019-03-05 16:02

Ence doesnt want to waste their time on tier 5 events xD

2019-03-05 16:27

If only allu had this pull out game before

2019-03-05 17:01

still ez for Sprout

2019-03-05 17:10

ence scared to lose vs tier5 teams and lose 4th in ranking haha

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fan of vp

2019-03-05 17:51

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and ? vp 1 major ence 0

2019-03-05 17:53

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vp major 2014 and we have 2k19 already. Nt fan of shit.pro

2019-03-05 17:55

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reported ps major is a major dont deny it lol

2019-03-05 17:56

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major is major when u have at least 3 core players who won it. Rn u have only 2 and nice superteam losing to tier 5 teams.

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at first you saying major 2014 and now you making excuses with 3 core players .. you have butthurt or what ? btw its not your bussines who i cheer for so gtfo

2019-03-05 17:58

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at least if you cheer for such a tier 5 team in 2k19 then at least shut your mouth about better teams who wants to take a break. At least they made finals of major so they can have a break.

2019-03-05 18:03

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another exuse , take a break haha take a break after what ? playing pc game? cs isnt work in the mine.. haha they dont attend to online tournament cuz they need brake haha i reminde you in 2017 when VP lose to Astralis in major final week later they won DH Las Vegas.. nt 2hard4ence fan what ence was won ? uuh nothing .. so sad you shout your mouth boi cuz you are funny

2019-03-05 20:07

still talking about past and 2017. Rn ence are 100x better than vp and will attend more lans in the future. You can watch your vp in tier 5 online tournaments and dream about past. EZ

2019-03-05 20:08

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well you can only bark like a good dog cuz i destroyed you with argument.. ''At least they made finals of major so they can have a break.'' ''i reminde you in 2017 when VP lose to Astralis in major final week later they won DH Las Vegas..'' bark dogie

2019-03-05 20:09

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the fact is that you think you are right and can argue about better teams and having vp as your favourite team is quite depressing. Players from ence have their life and can do whatever they want. They have proved that they are one of the best teams rn and will show in the future lans that they are capable of doing something great. You on the other side are mad.

2019-03-05 20:11

ok Sergej stop that /close

2019-03-05 20:12

lmfao you just got destroyed. Next time dont argue about better teams than vp. Even if they skipped one not important lans for them they will still attend 2-3 unlike your superteam LUL

2019-03-05 20:14

haha destroyed by what ? by writng some shit that you cant back with fact, i destoryed you with arguments .. i /close cuz i have better things to do than writing with some encece try hard lol , haha nt sergej

2019-03-05 20:24