AVANGAR to skip Games Clash Masters

15-9-2019 17:00

AVANGAR have announced that they have decided against attending the Games Clash Masters next week.

In a statement, the Kazakhstani side justified the decision with the physical and mental strain incurred on the players in the last weeks of competition.

AVANGAR came through all three stages of the StarLadder Major to the reach the grand final, in which they were defeated by Astralis in a one-sided affair. This week, the team overcame a poor start to win BLAST Pro Series Moscow after defeating fellow CIS side FORZE in the final.

AVANGAR's players will take a short break from LAN action

Having played 29 official maps in the last three weeks of competition alone, AVANGAR, who reached their highest-ever position of sixth in the latest world rankings, feel that it is time to take a short break to be able to face their upcoming challenges with renewed energy and freshness.

"The preparation and participation in the two big LAN tournaments were not easy for us, both physically and psychologically," AVANGAR said.

"The team needs a little rest from LAN tournaments to restore strength because, for us, their health is our top priority. We sincerely apologize to the fans, participating teams and the organizer for not being able to take part in the tournament and hope for your understanding."

AVANGAR's withdrawal leaves one spot open in Group A, which also features Aristocracy, Sprout and DreamEaters. The organisers of the Games Clash Masters have told HLTV.org that they are hoping to announce a replacement for the BLAST Pro Series Moscow champions on Monday.

The groups for the $100,000 Polish event, which will take place from September 20-22, currently look as follows:

Group A

Aristocracy

Sprout

DreamEaters

TBD

Group B

Jame to Navi perhaps?

2019-09-15 17:01

9 replies

yee then flamie is full time mp9 player and drops awp every 2nd round to Jame

2019-09-15 17:03

Youre reading into this too much i think

2019-09-15 17:12

AVANGAR>Navi LULW

2019-09-15 18:05

I like the idea, but two designated AWP’ers is to much imo :)

2019-09-15 19:15

jame to navi would be fucking rip, just get simple to avangar and disband navi ez

2019-09-15 19:20

4 replies

more like get electronic in avangar and send s1mple to an international team

2019-09-15 21:50

3 replies

and electronic would be replacing which player ?

2019-09-15 23:14

2 replies

idk, I actually don't care about Na'Vi, but if I were to give an answer I'd say SANJI. Electronic is without a doubt an upgrade although I do admit sanji sacrifices himself a lot for the team. Might as well put adren in a more supportive role as a result since his fragging is subpar and all he does to help them well allegedly is calling and out of game shit.

2019-09-16 00:04

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imo sanji has got to be one of the most underrated players right now. he actually frags pretty damn well for someone who gets i think 10-12% of his kills with an mp9/mac10. i think if he were to get kicked avangar would fall off severely similar to how hellraisers did when they booted deadfox, even tho deadfox's stats were actually a lot worse than sanji's. i dont think avangar would need any changes at all

2019-09-16 05:40

JAME TIME

2019-09-15 17:02

+vp keppo

15 replies

nope

2019-09-15 17:05

14 replies

i know, vp dont deserve any invitation they are bad af

2019-09-15 17:08

13 replies

Yeah but vp still attend ro V4 tournament in the same time so not possible to get invite

2019-09-15 17:16

hmm true

2019-09-15 17:21

??? Xkom ago? XD

2019-09-15 18:03

5 replies

old squad, im too lazy to change it atm i dont root for any polish team, moreover, i dont play or watch cs anymore, i just sometimes read hltv

2019-09-15 18:23

Weird

2019-09-15 19:02

why?

2019-09-15 19:19

If you dont follow pl scene how do you know that vp are bad

2019-09-15 19:37

i didnt say i dont follow scene, i just dont watch watch=/follow

2019-09-15 19:48

They are bad asf Ago Lul

2019-09-15 18:42

i see u are blind xd

2019-09-15 19:18

Better than being kurwa debil

2019-09-15 23:31

reported noob

2019-09-16 22:15

Ok, im waiting :((((((((

2019-09-17 22:17

New ence lol

bruh

They jamed

2019-09-16 01:47

S t a r P l a y a r s

Clash of trash

Good timing :)

2019-09-15 17:04

Wtf no jame time :(

7 replies

They jame their health.

2019-09-15 17:32

6 replies

Didn't do Astralis any good

2019-09-15 18:40

Yeah, they only won 3 majors in a row...

2019-09-15 19:03

When they took a break they fell down the rankings you know

2019-09-15 19:59

2019-09-15 20:14

But they came back and won a major u all got baited by mastermind glaive.

2019-09-15 20:18

They breaked just so long dude.

2019-09-16 00:10

Nice save from Kreigaria.

polish cs too good for them

2019-09-15 17:06

rip ! mental -1100 time 2 heal on the heads 4 ya Avg

No reason to play T3 event against upredictable teams with no prep time and jeopardize their spot in the rankings. Understandable have nice day

ranking does not work like that, it is about good results, having one bad result does not do anything much.

2019-09-15 17:14

its on both, their rankings would suffer if they got put out before playoffs

2019-09-15 17:24

HLTV rankings do not work like that...

2019-09-15 17:51

>not b8ing >rankings do not work like that..

2019-09-15 18:54

ez for smoooooooooooooya

pact

2019-09-15 17:07

No more tier 3 event

Astralis Syndrome?

Avangars tier 1 team now

bring Syman or VP

2019-09-15 17:09

VP cant because they have V4 on this days

2019-09-15 17:19

they had fan-meeting in almaty, kazakhstan today. its very hard to fly from moscow to almaty, and after 12 hours again fly to malta.

also this tourney looks like a waste of time for top5 team

MALTA LUL

+1. not malta, in poland.

2019-09-16 05:27

Then they shouldnt have agreed to participante in the event. Withdrawing with less than a week for the event is a douche move.

2019-09-15 21:53

it seems to me that they themselves did not expect that they would not have time for the tournament.

2019-09-16 05:29

nooooooooooooooooooooooo

good for them this event is for tier 3-5 teams avangar are tier 1 would be shame if they did attend

2019-09-15 17:10

They understand their status now its good

2019-09-15 17:13

Understandable, they are tired, TOP 2 at major, TOP 1 at blast.

2019-09-15 17:11

Then they shouldnt have agreed to participate 3 events in a row. Its not understandable. Its a disrespect with the organization of this event

2019-09-15 21:54

Tier4 event lol

not even one NA team so its t2 lan

2019-09-15 17:22

Tier4 , and with 3 Polish teams it's even tier5 lol. NRG and Liquid on top5 of the world, where's Poland ? oh wait....... zzzzz

2019-09-15 17:26

Used to be TOP 3 2014-2017.

2019-09-15 17:28

And NRG's best player is Cerq lmao cry is free nationalism in USA is too strong and you don't realize it haha who the fuck sings their national anthem everyday, worse than nazination haha

2019-09-15 17:55

bigheadedness

Don't want to be rude but "29 maps in last 3 weeks" ok srsly thats LITERALY 3 MAPS PER DAY... i mean if someone is a pro player that shouldn't be a "massive" number of maps played... imagine how much they are playing daily in a house xd just saying soo yea...

better to withdraw than play like shit you know, they are realizing they need to rest to show good CS

2019-09-15 17:25

Bruh there are 21 days in 3 weeks 29/21 isnt 3

Each map they play involves hours of prep at this level...

2019-09-15 19:05

Including traveling from Alma-ata > Kyiv > Berlin > Moscow > Alma-ata > Malta during that time, and it's a brutal schedule.

2019-09-15 20:19

expected lol, won more than 300K $ for one week who cars about this irrelevant event with delays and shit production

excuse me Mr.Avangar

too bad vp has same termin for v4.

ez4furia btw

2019-09-15 17:27

Understandable...

2019-09-15 17:38

They know the fluke is over

2019-09-15 17:29

you talking last major's olof performance?

2019-09-15 18:33

He means sweden cs scene

2019-09-16 07:17

expected, tournaments every week wtf mens

2019-09-15 17:35

Please put Ex-OpTic they need an easy lan winbefore ESL and Dream hack

2019-09-15 17:41

2gud for t3 tournies now :P

Games clash masters must have a good anti-cheat.

2019-09-15 17:44

BLASTVANGAR

expected

2019-09-15 17:45

GamerLegion

2019-09-15 17:46

Expected

2019-09-15 17:50

scared of dreameaters 😎

2019-09-15 17:53

but they play european champions cup tommorow? ok

2019-09-15 17:57

easy to log in and play online game vs travel and play tournament...

2019-09-15 18:02

and GCM was so hyped about them coming hahaha, good, that event is gonna be gaming paradise 2019 edition LUL

Ez windigo

2019-09-15 18:08

right decision

2019-09-15 18:13

scared of furia kkkkkkkkkkkkkk

2019-09-15 18:19

kkkkkkkk

2019-09-15 19:23

good call, smart team mens

2019-09-15 18:32

Thought they needed more Jamen Time

They in the big leagues now bois

2019-09-15 18:49

Running away from Furia, huh? Haha

2019-09-15 18:57

so they see Furia and run away? Hhahaha I'm kidding, but ez 4 Furia this championship

2019-09-15 19:01

FUCK SAKE I WANTED TO SEE THEM

2019-09-15 19:27

EZ 4 Havu then

2019-09-15 19:32

+CR4ZY

2019-09-15 19:43

+smash esports pls

2019-09-15 19:49

well deserved rest

2019-09-15 19:50

they scared of Aristocracy

2019-09-15 20:02

+5% chances to win for BIG

2019-09-15 20:04

They will probably show alot more consistency with attention to players mental health

2019-09-15 20:09

Furia already won this.

easy money for furia lmao

Invite x6tence!!! =D

2019-09-15 21:06

how about Youngsters? would like to see pasha

2019-09-15 21:32

of course they did. What they gonna do with these low tier teams. Waste of time

2019-09-15 23:06

Ez for FURIA

AVANGAR is like ENCE after getting to Major 2nd spot. They even won BLAST event just like ENCE did. Well this might seem to be like AVANGAR's era.

2019-09-15 23:44

Ez for cr4zy

2019-09-15 23:50

EZ4FVRIA

2019-09-16 00:25

ohh this fuckers cheatin

2019-09-16 01:09

gg furia

2019-09-16 08:40

"WE NEED A LOT OF GAME TIME IN ORDER TO CONTEND AGAINST TEAMS LIKE ASTRALIS" JAME - 2019

2019-09-16 09:52

They’ve shown us some great CS lately and I suppose it took them a lot of time and energy to be able to reach those results, so they deserve some time off. Hope they come back stronger and prove us there a not a fluke team, but a talented one. Wlady out.

2019-09-16 11:06