Sangal player Soulfly sidelined by visa issues ahead of RMR

20-4-2022 21:09

Coach Tugay "⁠TuGuX⁠" Keskin will play instead of the Turkish youngster in at least the first match of the tournament.

Sangal will play the opening stages of the second European Regional Major Ranking tournament without Caner "⁠soulfly⁠" Kesici due to the 17-year-old encountering issues with the visa application process, the organization has announced on the day before the beginning of the event.

The team has stressed that there is still a possibility for the Turkish player to join the rest of the roster during their campaign in Bucharest, where they will play for Major qualification over the course of the next four days, on April 21-24.

TuGuX will sub in for Soulfly in the opening match and possibly more

TuGuX will stand in for the squad in the meantime after the coach was submitted as Sangal's official substitute. If soulfly is able to get his visa in time to travel to Romania, he can be swapped back into the roster as per the official Major rulebook.

As the third-lowest-ranked team in attendance and now without one of their main players, Sangal are facing an uphill battle on their quest to qualify for PGL Major Antwerp.

The team around Robin "⁠ScrunK⁠" Röpke are set on a collision course with one of the heavy favorites, Players, in the first round of the Swiss stage in a match that will take place on Thursday at 13:30 .

Their roster in the opening match will be the following:

Robin "⁠ScrunK⁠" Röpke
Efekan "⁠S3NSEY⁠" Topaloglu
Kornél "⁠kory⁠" Szedlár
Can "⁠kyuubii⁠" Ali
Tugay "⁠TuGuX⁠" Keskin

they still qualify dw

2022-04-20 21:09

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Unluko

2022-04-20 21:12

Rip

2022-04-20 21:10

They won't get a win with him or without him

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True mens))

For the first match, yes. They need him to qualify. It's already a hard task for them, without Soulfly it's impossible.

2022-04-20 22:04

tugux god

This isn't 2014 anymore

Expected sadly

2022-04-20 21:11

who cares wont qualify anyway

It must be a sad to be 4th out of 1024 teams in the open qualifier and not be able to come to this tournament.

2022-04-20 21:42

dayı settt

Unlucky

Unlucky :( glad this didn't happen to EF though

2022-04-20 21:14

even if they play 6players they dont have chance to win games no one cares

It must be a sad to be 4th out of 1024 teams in the open qualifier and not be able to come to this tournament

Sad, they would've went 3-0, now they'll go 3-1

2022-04-20 21:15

+1 still ez for Sangal

2022-04-21 11:59

bruh

Sorry for the young talent

2022-04-20 21:20

0-3 :(

Rmr B just trash

2022-04-20 21:22

Begs the question of why they don’t get this stuff sorted out a lot earlier if they know they’re going to run into issues

2022-04-20 21:23

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Lan dodge)) This soulfly played some crazy games lately

2022-04-20 21:25

"just apply earlier bro lol" very good advice, im sure the org didnt think about that before :)

2022-04-20 21:29

Visa issues happened many times to other Turkish players before don't think the reason was the org being late

2022-04-20 22:02

Clearly has no Idea how visas are handled.

2022-04-21 03:21

Unlucko

2022-04-20 21:30

feelsbad, quick 0-3

Turkey does not provide convenience to e-sports players. we can see that. i am sad.

2022-04-20 21:32

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What kind of convenience? It’s up to the players/org to apply for a visa, and up to Romania to grant it. Not sure what kind of help Turkey could provide. Can’t expect them to send diplomats to try to fast-track a visa application from a random citizen.

2022-04-20 22:37

Turkish officials think like you. Why can obtaining a visa be so difficult? The person applying for the visa does not have a criminal record, he must have explained to the authorities why he wanted to get a visa and the importance of the situation. By a random citizen you mean "tourist". However, I do not think that the situation is a touristic trip. Our Vice President attended an e-sports event in Ankara where the Eternal fire team also took part and listened to the problems of e-sports players and mentioned that steps will be taken to solve the problems experienced by e-sports players. A close example is the opening of hltv in our country after the situation was reported to the vice president in this event after hltv was banned in Turkey. Even if we tried to convey soulfly's situation by tagging the vice president on Twitter, it seems that it didn't work. Anyway.

2022-04-20 23:32

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No, by random citizen I mean he is not going there on government business, nor is he famous or influential. I imagine the situation would be the same for a businessman on a business trip or an unknown athlete in a niche sport. It’s on Romanian authorities to grant the visa. Turkey or any other foreign government have very limited ability to influence that process. Maybe it could be done by throwing a lot of diplomatic clout around, but what do you expect, for Erdogan to personally phone the Romanian government and request a visa for a person he’s never heard of?

2022-04-21 02:04

I don't think Erdogan will care. I would expect the institutions of the states dealing with this business to communicate more closely with each other. Visa facilitation should be provided in serious subjects such as sports, science, academics and so on. These facilities are available in my country. however, there may not be a regulation regarding e-sports. I would expect the relevant institution of Romania to provide visa convenience for an organization organized in its country. maybe pgl officials could have shown some effort on the subject. (why are you awake at this hour) XD

2022-04-21 03:01

I had a business meeting in Bucharest, Romania 1 month ago. It was a bid urgent meeting and set up suddenly, only 20 days before I could apply. I apply for the business visa through Romanian Consulate located at Istanbul and they told me to come collect my passport after 10 days. 10 days later, visa was granted. If I can get a visa in 10 days, how e-sports professionals funded by its organisation having trouble? I don't understand at all.

2022-04-21 08:35

Clearly has no Idea how visas are handled

2022-04-21 03:22

even when we ask google we can figure out how to get a visa. What I want to say is different.

2022-04-21 03:31

SOOOO FUCKING FRUSTRATING

2022-04-20 21:38

sad

lets go tugux

DAYIIIIIIIIIII

2022-04-20 21:39

Amına koyayım dayı

2022-04-20 22:33

amına koyayım krös koyamıyorsun ya

2022-04-21 01:31

Sana sit diyorum, ben sıkınca çık diyorum. ya amk valla polis beni bağırdığım için beni alsın ya

2022-04-21 07:08

Unlucky for Turkish Harry Potter :(

2022-04-20 21:40

Feels bad

2022-04-20 21:45

Wtf dude why are the only 2 teams i care about in this RMR getting rosterfucked? :(

2022-04-20 21:50

Because you are the jinx

2022-04-21 03:28

Unluko kebabspinner

2022-04-20 21:57

2022-04-20 22:01

Good thing their coach is ex-pro

He didn't play as pro since 2016 tho, means 6 years.

2022-04-21 03:33

Visa issues in 2022, cmon, how can anything like this happen?

2022-04-20 22:06

It's very hard to take a visa from European countries for turkish people. Eternal Fire take it easly cause they talk to vice president

2022-04-21 01:40

Yeah, sadly I see it a lot, it's not easy being a pro in Turkey or the Middle East Btw. how do they know the vice president? That's kinda unfair for other Turkish players

2022-04-21 09:58

No man, i dont think thats the reason. İ think the reason is EF roster (individually) have lan experience before thats why they are granted easily.

2022-04-21 13:28

An event was held with a vice-president in Turkey. Eternal Fire was also invited, so he had the opportunity to speak with the Vice President. Eternal fire lifted the ban on HLTV in Turkey by talking to the vice president. yes it is not fair but everything is very difficult for our country anyway.

2022-04-21 15:08

noooo, he was the best part, i hate this gov

Yea everyone hates

2022-04-21 07:06

Not sure about old mf..

2022-04-21 09:48

fk the zombies

2022-04-21 13:24

rip 3-0

2022-04-20 22:07

sad. wouldve been a good experience for him. he is a really promising player and there isnt many of them in turkey

2022-04-20 22:09

damn

Their best player is out due to visa.. okey rip

2022-04-20 22:11

why not gambit player (

2022-04-20 22:14

His soul can’t fly

2022-04-20 22:22

I see what you did

2022-04-20 22:41

It's really very sad, you are planning to go to an international lan tournament for the first time on your own and your dreams are falling apart because you are not helped with visa procedures. I would not want to be in SOULFLY's place, I wish you were born in a country where e-sports is important, my friend ): Moreover, this situation has been going on for a week and no one helped this child, but if you ask these authorities, they say we support our youth, liars.

2022-04-20 22:32

Lmao Visa issues as turk for romania? These countries are almost neighbours

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Tayyip Erdog moment

2022-04-20 23:14

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but why best president in universe

2022-04-20 23:43

eu moment you mean

2022-04-21 01:59

Erdog moment

2022-04-21 08:44

Dude if you think EU will remove visa restrictions after Erdogan goes then i have bad news for you. They won't do any shit, lets be honest

2022-04-21 15:40

Im talking about turkey's passport power goes down all the way down with Erdog's period

2022-04-21 21:50

Best regards to our minister!

2022-04-20 23:18

Eu schengen visa… it takes ages to get it and they require invitation letter from organizations, in that case from pgl. Since they just recently qualified for it, there were probably no time to complete all the procedures.

2022-04-21 02:01