NIP to replace Liquid at CAC 2023

21-9-2023 04:44

The Swedish-majority side will travel to Shanghai in November.

The ninjas will replace Liquid in Shanghai

Perfect World, the CS:GO Asia Championships 2023 event organizer, has announced that Liquid are dropping out of their event in Shanghai, China, on November 8-12.

The European-American team has fallen out of the roster due to visa issues and it will be Ninjas in Pyjamas who will fill their spot in the eight-team tournament.

The tournament, although named CS:GO Asia Championships, could be played on CS2 if the game is ready in time, as the event may act as a dry run for the second Major of 2024.

Sources: Valve targets Shanghai for second 2024 Major

Ninjas in Pyjamas will join several top 10 teams in China, namely ENCE, G2, Astralis, FaZe and MOUZ, as well as two local sides, 5yclone and Lynn Vision.

Ninjas fans will have something to look forward to after their team's poor showing at ESL Pro League, where they went 1-3 in the triple-elimination bracket and thus did not earn a playoff berth.

The CAC 2023 teams are:

2023-09-21 04:45

3 replies

Catfish festival

2023-09-21 05:17

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Vitality where?

2023-09-21 07:07

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zZz Vitality zZz

2023-09-21 09:26

Downfall of eu team

2023-09-21 04:50

2023-09-21 04:51

2023-09-21 04:57

Ah fuck me

2023-09-21 04:59

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Liquid fans just stay losing I guess

2023-09-21 05:31

more like they lost us when they made the roster around yekindar.

2023-09-21 08:27

2023-09-21 11:27

Whats the problem with liquid and visas? Patsi have almost 3 months to make one for Malta, no idea how Malta work but he is from EU anyway

2023-09-21 15:23

ruski

2023-09-22 00:59

C9? VP?

2023-09-24 10:40

I thought Russia and China were friends

2023-09-21 05:20

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Who said it was Patsi and not NAF or oSee for example?

2023-09-21 05:29

Can't believe cloud9/vp wasn't even considered

2023-09-21 06:19

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Yea wonderin why nip..

2023-09-21 07:39

Wonder why nip :D

2023-09-21 08:02

VP,MRs and Fnatic would play a Spanish counterpart.

2023-09-21 08:44

Virtus.pro are invited to the FireLeague tournament on those exact same dates.

2023-09-21 15:09

Ah got it thx

2023-09-21 18:20

Liquid russian team confirmed

2023-09-21 08:50

I would not consider China and Russia "friends" more like mutuals or something like that

2023-09-21 09:21

+1 china just uses russia for own goods and doesnt care rest of things

2023-09-21 09:59

Kekw

2023-09-21 09:54

murica teams & visa issues name a better combo

2023-09-21 05:37

why another eu team at asian tournament ? shouldnt we support asian scene ? come on u should have invited mongolz and compete as 3 asian top team

2023-09-21 05:39

2023-09-21 08:09

not even cloud9 or vp??? Wtf

2023-09-21 06:18

LOL why nip???? burning question

2023-09-21 18:21

because nip has been sold to china earlier and ofc they want their own team to china

2023-09-21 18:36

Invite vitality for a Hu Xi vs Xi Wu grand final

You would get 1000 Social Credit points if that would happen.

2023-09-21 06:21

2023-09-21 06:40

Good

2023-09-21 06:50

waste of spot either way

2023-09-21 06:51

poor liquid fans

2023-09-21 06:59

ofc NIP goes to china lmao

WHERE IS XI WU

2023-09-21 07:11

or a xi le?

2023-09-21 07:15

Well, there goes any reason for me to watch this

2023-09-21 07:43

always pain always shit roster changes since 2022

2023-09-21 07:51

Wasted spot

meh, could’ve been for coL

2023-09-21 08:19

Visa issue might be that patsi had to apply America visa to compete in BLAST American showdown. What a shit. And NiP is owned by Chinese businessman.

2023-09-21 08:24

People also speculated that NaVi turned down invitation of CAC as jL's home country had fell hostility against China since 2021.

2023-09-21 08:35

Hmm, I wonder if It is related to a certain merger

2023-09-21 08:28

What are you referring to?

2023-09-21 09:19

Ninjas in Pyjamas X digital group ESV5 which formed NIP Group

2023-09-21 09:38

"Due to some of Liquid's players didn't have enough time to apply for VISAs" - how much time they need to apply for that really? I see this excuse too often

2023-09-21 09:34

If they cannot do the simple task of obtaining a visa for future tornys they certainly do not have what it takes to be a top 5 team in the world.

2023-09-21 12:42

I would say "they certainly do not have what it takes to get huge salary for doing nothing". I mean, cmon, the announcement was 1 month ago and it was already confirmed by half of the teams, so they knew even earlier, right? The championship starts on goddamn Nov 8th. I don't even know.

2023-09-21 13:13

would've been better to see mongolz tbh

2023-09-21 10:02

Basically makes zero sense, as NIP also have to apply for visas and were invited just now, so even less time to apply. Has nothing to do with time then but merely the fact that some players of Liquid seem to be unacceptable visa wise to China. Other issues not “time”. Try to make sense at least

2023-09-21 10:22

Swedish passport flex

2023-09-21 15:21

Guess you have a point, but not all of them are swedes

2023-09-21 15:54

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closing inbox again you insecure fuck!! hahaha you are comical. Please I want to talk to you more, you keep me entertained!

2023-10-15 00:21

did as i told you? bro I am reading 10% of what you type. Stay insecure. (You deserve the bullying in school btw, it will make you more tough one day)

2023-10-15 00:24

easy to manipulate? bro i literally want to talk to you. All of this is so comical to me, otherwise I'd stop talking since your first message. I assume you still want to talk to me aswell...? 🤭😳 You initiated contact after all. Reminder that not a single of your insults are hurting me in the slightest and you're just keeping me entertained.

2023-10-15 01:56

That's quite ironic since you're the one with possible autism. Yes be a good dog and get out of my DMs. Not that I want you to, but this seems to take quite a toll on you... Reminding for the millionth time that nothing what you said never hurt me in the slightest and you spewing out insults has just been a waste of time. Reconsider how to spend your energy. Maybe on things that actually matters in life? Anyways, feel free to shoot me more DMs if you need to let your anger out on someone.

2023-10-16 05:58