New England Whalers replace FURIA in IEM Beijing-Haidian

26-10-2020 20:47

The Brazilian squad has decided to skip ESL's event in favor of staying in Europe, with the team ranked #27 in the world taking their spot.

New England Whalers have been added to the IEM Beijing-Haidian 2020 North America team list after FURIA decided to not participate in the tournament.

In the official announcement, it is explained that "due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions" FURIA decided against returning from their European bootcamp to compete in the online tournament scheduled for November 6-22.

VINI's team has decided to extend their stay in Europe

After winning IEM New York North America and qualifying for the IEM Global Challenge LAN in December, the Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan-led lineup arrived in Serbia for a bootcamp on Monday and will be taking part in BLAST Premier Fall, where they are placed in Group C.

Another North America-based team competing in BLAST currently is Evil Geniuses. Unlike FURIA, Peter "⁠stanislaw⁠" Jarguz and co. are seemingly set to return home to compete in IEM Beijing-Haidian, where they could earn their IEM Global Challenge spot.

FURIA pulling out of IEM Beijing-Haidian opened a slot in the event for New England Whalers, who have recently impressed in IEM New York by finishing sixth, and are sitting on a flawless 13-0 record in ESEA MDL Season 35.

The team list for IEM Beijing-Haidian North America is now as follows:

Qualifier

Qualifier

Better team anyway xaxaxaxa

2020-10-26 20:47

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2020-10-26 20:50

4 replies

Furia scared of NA

2020-10-26 21:03

3 replies

EU > NA They want to compete with the best

2020-10-26 23:42

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This is so mutch true. Kkkkk

2020-10-27 01:35

NA cs is just a stinking corpse, wdym lol

2020-10-27 00:34

4/8

2020-10-26 21:06

Good move for Furia. Hopefully, this will develop some NA talent

2020-10-26 20:48

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br*

2020-10-26 21:59

2020-10-27 20:48

OK!

who

who?

LETS GO BETTER THAN FURIA

0/8

They did beat Furia tho

2020-10-26 21:58

In a no value game, so that game have no use to any analysis

2020-10-26 22:24

in a tournament that furia have won kekw

2020-10-26 22:44

deserved

wtf

2020-10-26 20:49

HAHA FURIA GOT NO TIME FOR THAT

Na scene is such a joke...

Excellent choice

New england gods replace BOTuria ez win

GREAT!!! now New England Whiners can get to top20 by winning tier5 teams like TeamOne and Triumph

2020-10-26 20:52

BOOBIE was the problem KEKW

Russian Canadians would be better

2020-10-26 20:53

Honestly they should just stay in EU permanently

2020-10-26 21:53

2020-10-27 02:26

NEW is pretty good, it will be interesting to see them, but I would still prefer FURIA.

2020-10-26 20:54

2020-10-26 20:55

doesnt matter, since the reward for this tournament is a spot in a big LAN where furia have already qualified

2020-10-26 20:56

Let’s fucking go woooo

COOL

2020-10-26 20:57

Hahahhahahaha fuck this event

2020-10-26 20:58

nice for the throwers

liquid win xd

2020-10-26 20:59

ez 4 Old England Whalers

WHALERS BEST NA TEAM

Interesting

2020-10-26 21:00

seems like Furia prefers to play in Europe with the big boys instead of smurfing in NA respect

2020-10-26 21:01

2020-10-26 21:04

+1 they realized that they need to go to europe to become n1

2020-10-26 21:17

They were humiliated by Whalers in the last game so they had to relinquish their spot to them.

2020-10-26 21:34

It was a 200 iq move, that way Liquid got placed in quarters and they eliminated them thus Liquid got less RMR points

2020-10-27 00:06

They got their spot at the big event already so no reason to go back

2020-10-26 21:54

I know and I hope they stay in eu for longer

2020-10-26 22:01

Wow removing 1/3 of the relevant teams really makes this event look sad.

2020-10-26 21:07

Nice

2020-10-26 21:08

Good move by Furia.

2020-10-26 21:12

t3 tournament, nice move from FURIA

ok who cars? na cs is dead

2020-10-26 21:20

LET'S GO NEW ENGLAND WHALERS but it's that boobie is gone((

Furia officially realizing how dead the NA scene is lol

2020-10-26 21:22

Iem Beijing-Haidian Nort America. Cool name i guess.

2020-10-26 21:29

Nice. Good luck NEW!

2020-10-26 21:55

furia ain't got no time to play against those terrible NA teams

2020-10-26 21:56

2020-10-26 22:03

Tier 72439 Turnament now

2020-10-26 22:28

This will be a great event because we will get an idea of how these 7 maybe 6 (if Yeah qualifies) non-Brazilian North American teams play together, which gives us a good picture of this so called "dead scene" We get to see the real rosters of Chaos, New England Whalers and Triumph, which had to use stand-ins at IEM New York, which will play officials against top dogs Evil Geniuses and Liquid, with both having played these lesser teams at New York and scrims which means whoever wins will truly be the victor as lame excuses such as muh never played em' before are irrelevant which you see a lot of proven teams say in upsets Plus we could see Rugratz, a team with potential with their newest IGL Infinite make it through qualifiers as well as Yeah with their two newest Americans Swisher and bew!

2020-10-26 22:34