Heroic to replace forZe at IEM Chicago

11-7-2019 16:08

ESL has announced HEROIC will be replacing FORZE at IEM Chicago after the Russian squad withdrew from the competition.

The vacant tournament spot will be taken by HEROIC after FORZE were forced to withdraw from the event due to visa issues. The Danish team had finished in second place in the European qualifier after losing to the Russian side in the final.

HEROIC recently competed at ESL One Cologne and at the ESL Pro League Season 9 Finals, falling short just before the playoffs in 7-8th place at both events.

blameF and his squad will replace forZe at IEM Chicago

The Danes will be joining seven other teams at the $250,000 tournament, which will be held in Chicago, from July 18-21, including the current No.1 and No.2 teams in the world, Liquid and Vitality.

The complete team list for IEM Chicago now looks as follows:

2019-07-11 16:09

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HMmmmm

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Actually, even more interesting than Forze

2019-07-11 16:19

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actually no. forze looks more like a strange underdogs than heroic and its always intrigue

2019-07-11 16:41

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Yeah but BlameF is really fun to watch

2019-07-11 17:31

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blameF is the king

2019-07-11 19:19

Expected

2019-07-11 16:10

totally not expected

2019-07-11 16:20

Undeserved. ESL might wait 2 days

2019-07-11 16:36

epctime

lets go blameF!

2019-07-11 16:12

LUL EXPECTED

gay

Nice

why not optic :( guys

Cuz optic is bad

2019-07-11 16:13

hltv.org/events/4633/ggbet-chicago-invit..

2019-07-11 16:34

undeserved

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still underserved they can't even beat Forze

2019-07-11 16:47

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So should they just throw someone in because they are better?

2019-07-11 16:59

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idk just give Forze another chance , they ask ESL for 2 extra days to get their visa ready

2019-07-11 17:00

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Yea lets postpone all plans and reservations made for the venue etc etc etc etc etc cause a team cant fix their visas good logic

2019-07-11 18:51

How will that affect anything?

2019-07-11 19:04

explain how forze ask for extra 2 days affect the reservation and the venue ? ESL already book everything including all hotel rooms and venues , waiting for another 2 days won't change anything

2019-07-11 20:03

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The event is in days not next year. Do you really think that hotel rooms and the venue has not been booked for months? Not to mention how about the people that have bought tickets to see the event, the other teams that have booked travel tickets...

2019-07-12 17:00

lets just say they already booked the hotel rooms and forze can't go 5 days before the tournament , can't ESL just give Forze hotel rooms to Heroic ? i'm pretty sure 5 days is more than enough for Heroic to pack in and arrive at Chicago.

2019-07-12 19:55

Something seems to be lost in translation. Are you now arguing that of course Heroric can replace Forze? I am confused, because your post to which I commented before seems like you were arguing the event should just be postponed to allow Forze to get visas sorted (to which I posted arguments to why that can't be done).

2019-07-12 20:00

Forze ask for extra 2 days ( which is 5 days before tournament) lets just say Forze didn't get their visas on that extra 2 days , then they can give their hotel rooms to Heroic , since ESL already booked it

2019-07-12 20:36

Agree. Only I do not understand why you wrote "ESL already book everything including all hotel rooms and venues , waiting for another 2 days won't change anything". Surely those "waiting another 2 days" suggested ESL should wait for Forze, since bringing in Heroric means no waiting.

2019-07-12 21:02

?!?!??!?!XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2019-07-11 22:26

just like dog ENCE invite

2019-07-11 17:29

ence would have put up a fight against liquid atleast @ cologne

2019-07-11 17:50

jeij :)

Forze beat Heroic and Heroic go to Chicago axaxax nice try Sam

2019-07-11 16:11

ez banana king

At least there is a decent team that is going to replace forze

you ok?

2019-07-11 16:26

I agree!

2019-07-11 19:50

Funny with these visa-issues. Only russian/middeleastearn things.

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Lol they ain't the only ones suffering remember gratisfaction earlier in the year, I reckon any other nz player would have had visa issues as well if they played over there.

2019-07-11 16:21

Ah yes, gratisfaction had trouble aswell. But with that mustache he had it coming. EU countries barely have these issues. White-EU-male priviledge

2019-07-11 16:25

rather stronger passports and trying to get visa earlier than winning the qualifier 1/8

2019-07-11 16:27

Not sure what you point is. So i give u 2/8

2019-07-11 16:28

Im not sure if you got me or not. Youre danish=smart, so I give you 8/8

2019-07-11 21:34

Didn’t really get u. Where did u hear danish=smart? That’s not true, but we do have a government that is not corrupt (so u trust the institutions), free education for all, and a security net that catches the ones who fall (so kids of stupid parents don’t suffer from their mistakes). The country is in a rather good state, which makes the people living there able to focus on other stuff (education, language, ect.) If the country is in bad shape, the people is in bad shape, because they have to fight just to survive. If u have to fight for surviviving, u don’t have sufficient mental resources to exceed in other aspects of life.

2019-07-11 22:51

They dont have issues with Visa just in Russian you need like 15-30( approximately)days to get Visa and they had 10 days nice quals

2019-07-11 16:42

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Nice planning then. Expected from third worlders

2019-07-11 16:44

fully agree with you mate, imagine playing on your first decent team, just got picked out of fpl, never been to a tier1 lan before, you perform above expectations, and win the qualifier. but its already too late to apply for a visa, you cant do anything to get it in time. holy fuck they are retarded, should have done the visa after they installed CS, and they better be working on those canadian/chinese/australian ones right now

2019-07-11 17:23

U might have point that they exceeded further than expected. Never thought visas would be relevant. Well, stupid ruskies. Good day sir, from ex-sovjet.

2019-07-11 17:39

So apply before then

Idk but they applied for Visa straight after winning final mb they didn't want to apply for Visa before bcs they could just lose this quals

2019-07-11 22:45

So they expected to lose? Not a good mental preparation. It must be the organisation at fault: Org: “Sorry boys... We didnt expect you to win. We thought applying for visa’s was a waste of our limited resources. But we got this good minor for U, right around the corner”

2019-07-11 23:55

Excellent attitude to the CIS composition, if it was a EU team, would give time for visas

nice

told u guys :)

Sweet

Feel bad for Forze but glad to see Heroic get more big lan experience

2019-07-11 16:14

rip ence again

2019-07-11 16:16

cool!

2019-07-11 16:17

wasted spot like mibr

Vitality G2 Ence Heroic.. Omg

expected from rigged tournament

Boooooooo. Nothing against Heroic but ForZe deserve the spot, finally they qualified to a big lan. Bullshit that ESL didn't give them 2 more days, it's ESL's fault that the qualifier was so close to the event date in the first place...

Another wasted spot

2019-07-11 16:22

flag checks out lmfao, heroic will fuck ence again

2019-07-11 17:30

The forze is not strong with them.

2019-07-11 16:23

Why they didnt write about 2 days they didnt give to forze to be on tourney ? ''Unfortunately, visa complications will prevent @forzegg from travelling to #IEM Chicago'', 2faced esl

Mibr on last spot again Only sad reaction

2019-07-11 16:24

This sucks

forZe shameful cheaters, keep dodging lans clown clips.twitch.tv/ExpensiveAbrasiveHedgeho.. clips.twitch.tv/ProductiveHelplessVeloci..

Keep wasting time on this comments ? LuL

forsaken pt 2 canceled

2019-07-11 16:43

hltv.org/results?team=8135&matchType=Lan nt retard

2019-07-11 16:56

Is that a Silver II I hear talking?

2019-07-11 17:57

Expected over 9000

expected for 2faced fuckingesl

2019-07-11 16:31

Cheaters!

2019-07-11 16:33

Forze wrecked out this trash in closed qualification. Iem could invite Navi, at least....

Nice. Heroic looked good in Cologne.

2019-07-11 16:35

envy ? what are you doing there xD

Nice. Come on, boys

Nice for SwoleF and co.

2019-07-11 16:39

ye ye sure thats the reason 4 sure :)))

Undeserved and overrated

esl didint give forze 2 more days cuz they want heroic undeserved. heroic LOSERS

Lan dodge

2019-07-11 16:52

xD -tier1.75 team +tier3 team

2019-07-11 16:57

If your gonna give Heroic the spot then take the 5000 away from them and give it to Forze. It’s unbelievable that Heroic deserve both the cash and spot and Forze gets nothing.

its very fair, and a good leason for the org

Good lesson? Cuz usa is a shit place for tournaments? Or you are racist and think it is their fault they are Russian. Btw the same could easily happen to Navi. And I don't want imagen what a shitstorm esl would get.

2019-07-11 18:08

They needed 3days ? Witch means they started preparing for this 3days to late

2019-07-12 07:16

ah no. Visas have no save schedule.

2019-07-12 13:05

So it's as likely Russia's hockey team won't make it to wc in USA? It's the org who failed to do what they needed to do

2019-07-12 13:44

There are two sides. When they make as they said directly after qualifier takes to care for the visa. Then it isn't their fault when they also delivered everything that they needed on the first day. Then it is the fault of administration. Ordinary sport gets visas faster..... Cuz they have an athlete status. Before you start talking about visa issues learn at least some general basics.

2019-07-12 14:59

LEFT GO FRIBERG!

2019-07-11 16:58

mibr invited is a joke, what the fuck

awsome

if heroic and ence is facing, heroic will give that good to ence

2019-07-11 17:01

Ahahaha NA shits scared of sexpower.I don't even care about Forze but its clearly ESL doesn't want them to come.Such a trash tournament Forze can actually beat shit overrated teams like Ence and they'll for sure beat MIBR,Renegays,Envy and with G2 is 50/50 nice ESL fucktards so sad for them they have done everything they could #FUCKESL

2019-07-11 17:14