PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Opening Stage

Official: GamerLegion replace 9 Pandas at Copenhagen Major

16-3-2024 11:04

Snax's troops have been called in at the last minute to replace the Russian team.

GamerLegion will play at the Copenhagen Major

9 Pandas have been ruled out of PGL Major Copenhagen due to travel issues, PGL has confirmed. Replacing the Russian side at the event will be GamerLegion, the second-placed team in the European last-chance qualifier.

On Friday, PGL began to make arrangements for GamerLegion to travel to Copenhagen after learning that 9 Pandas might not be able to field a full roster. GamerLegion's players will land in the Danish capital today, just 24 hours before they are slated to face AMKAL in the first round.

The change will have no impact on the seeding for the Opening Stage: GamerLegion are the sixth-highest-ranked European team in the first stage, according to Valve's regional standings, as were 9 Pandas.

Date	Matches
PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Opening Stage
17/03/2024	GamerLegion 16:05 AMKAL	Match

The news comes as a huge blow for 9 Pandas, particularly for Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin, who was set to return to Majors six years on from his last appearance, and Aleksandr "⁠glowiing⁠" Matsievich, who would make his Major debut at 30.

GamerLegion dropped down to the Europe RMR's last-chance qualifier after losing to Vitality, ENCE and HEROIC. They beat fnatic and Guild Eagles in the first two rounds but then lost to 9 Pandas in a close three-map series.

Since the RMR, GamerLegion have played only one official match, a 1-2 loss to BIG in the first round of the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown.

This will be the third Major appearance for GamerLegion, who crashed out of IEM Rio in the Challengers Stage with a 2-3 record and then managed to reach the final of the BLAST Paris Major, where they lost to Vitality.

Free major

2024-03-16 11:04

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This is such a BS, this money from stickers is literally life changing for those rookies especially from country like Russia, where average salary isn’t much. This is really heart breaking.

2024-03-16 14:32

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Wtf u want them to do then

2024-03-17 16:23

Hardly, they did a lot to qualify for it, have a little more respect and use your brain the next time.

2024-03-16 16:42

not enough apparently, but luckily they just got free major tickets, undeserved

2024-03-17 11:54

There is still the issue that Gamerlegion did not have enough time to train for the major and study its opponent. F to both teams.

2024-03-17 01:36

2 replies

What about opponents of gl? Same thing. Amkal prepared for 9p, not gl.

2024-03-17 07:48

You say truth!

2024-03-18 19:33

Rip seized

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Very sad for legend seized very happy for legend snax

2024-03-16 11:12

2024-03-16 11:20

I’m feeling thank you

2024-03-16 14:51

Lets go Snax !

sad

gg rip

2024-03-16 11:05

keoz juicin feels bad for 30yo talent glowiing he was kinda the player i was looking forward to watching the most

2024-03-16 11:06

2024-03-16 11:44

ehhh bro was mid throughout the RMRs and just had one overperformance in the LCQ finals

2024-03-16 14:38

But you cant deny that its was a first chapter for a fairtytale story. Glowiing is the only reason why i feel bad for them. Regards, +30yo

2024-03-16 15:27

Absolutely stupid

38 replies

Not at all stupid. Of course you have to arrive there to play the tournament?!!?? Or you want them to play 3v5??!

2024-03-16 11:07

37 replies

Situation is stupid. Winning the likes of Astralis and GL and losing out on the slot because of visa. Nothing about this is fair

2024-03-16 11:13

31 replies

It is as fair as life gets. They could've prepared better. I.e. working for the visa before the qualifiers even began, get a just-in-case ticket to CPH

2024-03-16 11:15

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PGL could have helped. PGL could have made a better calendar. They could have won 3-2. Does it really matter right now? Life is unfair in general and this situation is particularly stupid. My point stands

2024-03-16 11:21

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They did help by postponing every deadline for 2 days. Must be incredibly inconvenient for all the other players

2024-03-16 11:24

As if 2 days are going to help with most visa problems Must have been inconvenient for Pandas to win LCQ and not go to Major. Maybe that's just me

2024-03-16 11:33

Ah, so 2 days is not enough. should they postpone the entire major a week, so the last team can make sure all 5 players filled out their applications fully and correctly, to the same visa standard as anyone else? It's unfortunate and unlucky. but as I was once told as a trainee, when I arrived late after a leave. "Maybe you can't predict the train gets 6 hours delayed. But no one stopped you from taking an earlier train or start your journey the day before".

2024-03-16 14:52

Not PGLs fault at all.

2024-03-16 11:37

Bro other teams got visas, even other Russians, it's not PGL fault lmao

2024-03-16 11:52

It's kinda their fault, 18 other russians somehow got their visa in time.

2024-03-16 12:03

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They already had them except donk and Amkal. They played in Blast groups in the same city and were in Katowice not long ago. Here some players probably either applied for visa for the first time or didn't have one for years now.

2024-03-16 12:23

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What about AMKAL?

2024-03-16 12:27

"Except donk and Amkal" is right there, m8. They also had like an additional week or so, and core of Entropiq and 1win who were playing international tournaments.

2024-03-16 12:30

Not sure how it works exactly but I think they just need visa to get out of russia to any europe country and then they can travel freely. And all russians (including 9pandas) played lan in bucharest which was the last event played.

2024-03-16 12:50

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Last time I checked, Romania is not in Schengen zone yet. Funny part is that it will be in the end of march. Just really unfortunate, that's all.

2024-03-16 12:53

So, if get all the sources right, they were issued visas, but consulate didn't return their passport in time, so they couldn't go. So this is a fault of a consulate of whatever country they were applying to get schengen visa basically.

2024-03-16 13:03

Or maybe it's their fault they didn't apply for visa earlier?

2024-03-16 13:06

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They couldn't. Well, unless your plan is to apply in like november for both Romania + Schengen to get them both before RMR. But you also need to enlist a reason for entering, and "We hope we qualify for tournament" is unlikely to cut it.

2024-03-16 13:16

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They could've apply much earlier and lose few hundreds euro in worst case (fee costs 80 euro but 1 website says its 40 for russian citiziens) which is nothing compared to money they could've earn from major.

2024-03-16 13:19

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And the reason? Again, I doubt "We hope to qualify" will cut it. I also listed november not randomly, but because there's 2 sets of long holidays: Christmas in December (consulate of EU country likely doesn't work) and New Year in January, which is basically the same celebration, but later and in Russia (so if they need any documents from Russia, tough luck until like middle of January). And in February they need to be there for RMR (if they make it through open qualiies as well, so again reason issue)

2024-03-16 13:33

Nvm, seized posted on telegram they just didn't pick up their visas even tho they were ready at 14th of march XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2024-03-16 14:04

And after that iDisbalance posted that they were the whole day in the consulate yesterday and didn't receive their passports back, despite visas being issued at 14th, yes. And today and tommorow it is the weekend, so no one will be there working to give it to them, only on Monday.

2024-03-16 14:53

omg, this cant be real lol

2024-03-16 20:56

People will stop at nothing to blame PGL huh

2024-03-16 17:57

Getting visas isn’t that easy… most countries need a concrete reason for u to be there and potentially qualifying isn’t a guarantee

2024-03-16 13:47

Interesting that every other team including the Russian players were able to do it.

2024-03-16 20:13

they had 4 weeks to get their stuff cleared, how did they slip that up?

2024-03-16 11:17

Less than 3 weeks including travel time, preparing documents and getting appointment. Visa processing times are not what they used to be too.

2024-03-16 11:42

i understand that, but thats part of being a professional. org & player. if that happened in 2004 where players played for $500 i understand, but they go for close to millions as a team, so this should be doable. everyone else got it, including other russian teams like amkal, c9 and spirit.

2024-03-16 12:34

and? Should they postpone the tournament because the team cannot get their visas on time???They could have started thinking about it right away - It's been over 2 weeks since RMR

2024-03-16 11:18

I am not saying something should be done now. Don't put words in my mouth. I am saying the situation is stupid. That's it

2024-03-16 11:26

In another comment you said PGL could've helped. No, this is entirely on 9pandas for not showing up on time.

2024-03-16 20:12

They could have come to Denmark a week earlier like most of the other teams. They maybe could have sort of the problems. Many of the other Russians came early for the exact reason. I think it’s their own fault.

It would be better for pandas to play 3v5 or even get 3 technical defeats

2024-03-16 11:34

Yep get a free 0-3 spot for your pickems

I couldn't give a f about pickems

2024-03-16 23:58

PGL should put the visa requirements as a must in order to start the qualifier! You should not be able to compete for something you cant be the part of. Before you go and try to win the 100m free style, make sure you know how to swim. It might be a dumb example, but you need to check lots of requirements in order to be a part of the competition. Now sucks for Pandas, they have a legit reason to apply for visa, they wont get it because they are from Russia, and GL goes as a looser team. PGL should be accountable for this and give Pandas invite for the next major they hold. If I qualify for your event and I win, you need to give me that prize. This political bs is not my concern. Once again, PGL should have checked the players eligibility to play if they happen to qualify (already have EU visa) and make it mandatory.

2024-03-16 23:02

even ufc staff and other big companys have problems with visa

2024-03-17 20:17

RIP

lets go!!!!

Incoming Gamerlegion miracle run :)

0-3 incoming

2024-03-16 11:09

damn

Not like this.... As much as i like Snax, not like this. It was 9 Pandas Major

2024-03-17 14:25

Which team get the stickers money?

the one participating sadly. 9pandas earned the spot but because of visa, they get no money nor the pleasure from playing a major...i actually feel bad for them

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Source?

for what? sticker money? they release the stickers when the teams are ready so unless we see 9pandas stickers, they won't get any money from the stickers alone IF gamerlegion don't make an agreement to transfer some money to them

They won't. Will look bad to transfer money to russian org "in solidarity" in current climate. Not even touching on the subject how pretty sizable part of fans would react, and I mean Snax fans here of specific nationality. I should probably add that I'm speculating here, of course, could be a simple "don't wanna, don't have to", but it adds the reasons.

2024-03-16 12:28

I know it won't happen. I am just explaining it to a guy who wants a source for that. There is no source but pure logic and look at the previous majors where this occured

2024-03-16 12:58

The was a precedent during Boston Major when Flash Gaming replaced Tyloo and Tyloo stickers were removed and replaced by Flash's

2024-03-16 11:47

Do u really need source for that? Isn't that logical? >9pandas can't get to cph to play major >gets replaced by GL >obviously GL will have stickers, not 9pandas and obviously GL will get all money

2024-03-16 12:04

No, it's not logical. If anything they should both get stickers like situation for Boston 2018

2024-03-16 12:33

In boston 2018, capsules were released early before bntet’s visa got rejected (the reason was that bntet is Muslim and looked mean). Tyloo stickers were immediately removed from the capsule and replaced with flash gaming instead after the failed application. Unfortunately for this major, the capsule release was postponed due to Wicadia not uploading an accepted autograph in time. Therefore, it has come to an unfortunate conclusion that 9pandas will probably not receive their stickers in this major

2024-03-16 13:31

feels bad man

Tragedy..

I feel so sad for seized.

I always trusted the plan

unlucko

so sad for seized and glowiing

RIP 9 Pandas and feelsbadman for seized and glowiing.

Fuck man, tbh they should still get the stickers

True.

2024-03-16 11:27

2024-03-16 12:02

They shouldn't, 18 other russians got their visa but 9pandas didn't manage to do that, it's their fault and even PGL postponed deadlines and gave them more time.

2024-03-16 12:05

You cant know if its the org's fault until more details are out. You seem to forget that majority of those players are not based in Russia. For example whole team Spirit is based in Serbia with a residence permit which automatically makes it easier to get a Visa.

AMKAL?

2024-03-16 12:29

We all know it's not PGL's fault but either org or players so it's irrelevant.

2024-03-16 12:46

It can be nobodys fault too. Statement from Pandas is out, they did apply and all, they just did not get them in time for 2 players

2024-03-16 12:52

"did not get them in time" Idk, it sounds to me like their fault if they didn't apply in time.

2024-03-16 13:05

leave panda stickers, they earned it

I wanted snax to qualify, but not like this. Its so sad for 9pandas :/

Yep

2024-03-16 11:11

Same :(

2024-03-16 16:31

Keoz replacing 30 y o talent Glowing oh hell nah

Shame

sad af for 9goats

2024-03-16 11:08

undeserved, but will they have stickers?

I want the panda logo sticker :( hopefully it’s still included, ot should be.

Flash Gaming once replaced TYLOO at major and both team had got stickers.But, I mean, it still depends on how will valve deal with this.

2024-03-16 11:32

If both teams got stickers, why there are no flash stickers on the market?

2024-03-16 12:10

No idea on what you are talking about. BTW, their lineup is attacker,summer,kaze,karsa,loveyy. Links below steamcommunity.com/market/search?appid=7.. steamcommunity.com/market/search?appid=7..

2024-03-16 12:22

hm? steamcommunity.com/market/listings/730/S..

Because you're blind: steamcommunity.com/market/listings/730/S..

Different situation, the stickers were out before bntet couldnt attend, this time they are not so they have time to not introduce them if they dont want to

2024-03-16 14:49

lame af

glowiing and seized :(

nooooooooooooooooooo

2024-03-16 11:10

What a shame this is, losing because your nationality and not your skill, hopefully they still get sticker money.

Why? what happened to 9pandas? Why can't they field their full roster?

3 out of 5 players couldn’t get their visas

2024-03-16 11:58

That's sad, Hope they recover from this.

2024-03-16 14:40

Rip glowiing and seized :(

seized... glowiing... F.

Happy for snax, but sad because it was supposed to be the biggest adventure of their lifes

Just pain

rip

Let's f*cking GOOOOOO!

nice

ez major final... volt will be sond to navi for 1.2m after like im and snax will join mouz as igl after the major and gl will get another cheap romanian lurker /polish igl and to cook then and sell the after major xD

twitter.com/cios_snax/status/17689433521..

Best comment by far !! Players spreading love when their fan are trying to trash talking people one against the other.

but valve keeped their stickers so at least they have reached their biggest goal of playing rmr.

F go home GL

rip seized, i thought it will be nice walk through

2024-03-16 11:14

what are travel issues?

they could play with 2 stand ins right?

No, maximum 1 pre registered stand in

2024-03-16 11:16

That's really sad. They deserved it, they earned it. Silly international laws, wasn't it enough of a reason that they're competing at the championship of a big franchise to let them in. Sucks a lot

F to seized full tilt...

an glowiing

2024-03-16 16:50

We want justice. 9Pandas must be in sticker capsules at very least.

Sucks for 9 Pandas. Good for GL though I guess.

rough, but 9Pandas were only through bc of glowing's life game (85-48 in final game vs GL). GL overall better team and has had to play against stronger opposition, in rmr and generally speaking.

id at least give them the stickers, they deserve it and they are already on the game, cmon valve

thats crazy, good luck!!!!!!!!

Snax first CS2 major champion confirmed. Thanks God

Pickems more unpredictable now dang it

poor pandas, they deserved so much. i hope they get some kind of reward at least, like auto qualifying for next major, that would be perfect.

where are gamerlegion in pickems in cs2? ther is still 9pandas, insta lose? gl 0-3 so how to set it in cs major hub?

2024-03-16 11:19

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WAY

According to a report from Telegram, they had visas but couldn't pick up their passports from the embassy in time. The cost of the mistake is $1 million dollars. lol

clown show.

2024-03-16 11:22

Why 1 mln? Baiter

2024-03-16 11:57

That part I couldn't understand. Were passports ready but no one notified them? Couldn't they call or visit embassy themselves to check given deadline?

2024-03-16 12:25

does this change the matchups because of valve rankings or no?

Hmm have to rethink the Pick'em as GL is way better than 9P (LCQ was a rare bad game from GL) and it can possibly 3-2 the opening stage. But they didn't practice enough so maybe not...

xaxaxaxa GL is trash

I hope you are joking

How? In the last three months 9 pandas lost to: Amkal, Koi, Ikla, B8, Preasy, GuildEagles < not top teams and won against: astral (let's forget this one), GL, 3dmax, Rebels, Estatic, Nexus <- not top teams Gl lost against: 9P, Heroic, Ence, Vitality, Mouz <- all top teams and won against: GE, fntc, OG, Monte, VP, Faze <- mostly top teams Also in LCQ GL had to play three games, whereas 9P only two, so more time to prepare and less burnout. So how exactly is 9P better than GL?

2024-03-16 11:45

I'm not saying about 9P > GL I'm saying about your thoughts what GL will get through Opening stage

2024-03-16 11:53

GL is eventually the better team than 9Pandas if they play 10 maps instead of 3.

2024-03-16 16:17

#215

2024-03-16 19:48

so sad

imagine how astralis feels right now

Nooooooooooooooo

total joke.Hopefully GL will do 0-3

How more luck GL have The luckiest team that exists Complete bots get away with everything Fluke wins fluke major what else Go win major with keoz isak acor volt 0.8 rating prodigies

GL is not gamerlegion but good f luck

2024-03-16 12:00

+1 bots

2024-03-16 20:44

Rip my craft

+1 Wanted to put one on my tec9 bamboo

I’m really sad, cause i already by it And of course sad for boys

2024-03-16 20:51

lol u had same idea? Yeah it would’ve been W, outline is green too it’s too perfect

2024-03-16 20:53

Yes, I see some craft in discord Ohnepixel and it’s was fucking awesome

2024-03-16 20:57

Sad

2024-03-16 11:25

And the only good stickers will be removed xD

oops GG

heheheh

How much do you think the players lost in sticker money?

~50-150k $

2024-03-16 11:31

At least 150k

Rip

how to pick gl as 0-3 in pickems? i cant, theres error, maybe cuz its not updated in cs? or will 9p count as gl in cs?

2024-03-16 11:30

They'll initialize it, don't worry

2024-03-16 11:35

Sad On the other hand, Pick'ems got significantly easier, free 1-3 pick

You think GL will make it to next stage?

2024-03-16 20:45

No 1-3 for GL

2024-03-16 20:46

sad for 9pandas at least they will got money from stickers

valve won't replace stickers?

2024-03-16 11:36

They wont

probably not, which has to hurt a lot because it is a lot of money

2024-03-16 12:26

Cool cause snax sticker incoming. Sad cause 9pandas deserved it more. It is what it is.

who were the two 9pandas players who didn't make it to Copenhagen and cost their team I wonder ???

Its usually not the players that take care of legal stuff but the org

2024-03-16 14:57

yeah I just read it... twitter.com/italianslick/status/17689996..

2024-03-16 15:06

loooool

2024-03-16 11:39

Well I have my new 0-3 pick

2024-03-16 11:41

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They easily beat Asian/Brazillian teams and have a decent chances on BO1's against others

They don't have the aim to beat mongolz, otherwise +1

2024-03-16 11:54

They dont have mongolian top200 chess elo master igl goat blitz, otherwise +1

2024-03-16 16:53

2024-03-16 20:52

You're delusional if you think they can beat Mongolz.

2024-03-16 12:41

50/50 Mongolz have better AIM but GL is much more experienced

2024-03-16 12:43

Flag checks out

Flair checks out and what? Im not Snax's fan if that's what you are saying

2024-03-16 12:45

Going 2-3 in EU RMR and losing major spot by 2 rounds in LCQ is more of a achievement than going 3-1 in stupid fluke format of Americas RMR where tier 5 brazilian teams had go play each other. I am not saying they will get to next stage, but putting them 0-3 is silly. There is no way GL lose to Pain, Legacy or Imperial

2024-03-16 14:23

ok lol

2024-03-16 14:29

Facts, finally. Thank you.

2024-03-16 16:57

Give Snax a decent team, not these newbz...

Happy for snax but 1st cs2 major is already off to a bad start

When -9pandas sticker and +gamer legion stickers?

2024-03-16 11:48

Now its time for gamerlegion to make another miracle run, except this time they will win it all

2024-03-16 11:49

Oh fuck off...

2024-03-16 11:51

rip pandas stickers unlucky for seized and co... fck they only needed one more player then the coach could fill in

2024-03-16 11:55

let 9pandas still get stickers tho

BIG APPLE SNAX Polish goat gonna show how you play cs, unfortunately he have to carry some bots in his team

Glowiing :(

NOOO WAYY DUDE , SO SAD

People pretty upset saying undeserved etc. which I understand, but someone has to play. Unfortunate circumstances but I am also glad to see GL get the spot. The game between GL and 9P was a really close one. It would look a lot shittier if 9P absolutely stomped them and then lost their spot to them

Fuck

2024-03-16 12:01

Gamerlegion can play but 9pandas sticker should stay

2024-03-16 12:13

For how long these situations keeps happening??? Can fucking Valve, PGL solve the problem with Visa??? So fucking dumb and lame that major participates just can't go to play their deserved spot... Shame on Valve, PGL and Danish fucking government

I think you overestimate PGL's influences on European embassies

2024-03-16 12:16

Dude, every other russian players had their visa ready for major, only 9pandas has problem with it. Its probably on players or org itself.

Think twice: maybe it's because other Russian teams has more time to get Visa, but 9pandas played last chance qualifiers and had less time? Who's that problem? Still blaming Valve for that (such situations happens almost every tournament)

twitter.com/itsdistortion/status/1768944.. 9P players or org are to blame, as they didn't pick the passports themselves...

2024-03-16 12:51

You cant go for visa like couple weeks before destined time. That's first. Second why 9pandas didint try to get it when everybody else does? Its still on them.

2024-03-16 15:28

Yeah people are raving over this being something being PGL or Valve's fault. When it solely comes down to the responsibility of the players and organisation. I can also pinpoint it to the country for giving the visa problems, however the other Russian players and orgs clearly didn't have problems. So yeah, it's really just an unfortunate thing that happened

2024-03-16 12:32

hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahah

2024-03-16 13:30

glowiing <3 :(

2024-03-16 12:11

damn unlucky :(

2024-03-16 12:14

Not cool

a victim of buchholz pardonned at least

sad to hear

WTF??????????????????

0-3 incoming.

2024-03-16 12:24

What the fuck is travel issues..you mean visa issues? Then write it

troll unfortunate for young talent glowing replaced with screamer_keoz

New 0:3 pick

I recommend legacy and lynn vision as 0:3 way worse than GL

2024-03-16 15:35

i have legacy and and pain

2024-03-16 17:26

So u said new 0:3 pick just to hate on GL?

2024-03-16 17:33

yes i hate 5 out 5 players on their line up

2024-03-16 20:35

Why?

2024-03-16 20:36

keoz and isak are maximum tier 3 players volt and acor are just unlikable and snax should have finished his career long time ago

2024-03-16 20:48

Fair enough I guess

2024-03-16 20:49

hope gl 0:3 <3

Why they can't use the coach as stand-in and other ramdom dude?

so fucking sad for seized

2024-03-16 12:35

glowiing and seized :/ gl 9pandas in future, hopefully you qualify next major again

2024-03-16 12:36

Let's go snax!

2024-03-16 12:37

Nice to see snax competing at the major again...but seized and glowiing man. 9pandas really deserved to be at the major just because if their miracle run

2024-03-16 12:38

for shame. rip

2024-03-16 12:40

Gratz 🤗

deserved

Fuck, really bad way to go out

Remember Asstralis was destroyed for this xddd

2024-03-16 12:57

Whole 9pandas squad right now youtu.be/86P8SnEnF0g

2024-03-16 13:02

lol

2024-03-16 13:10

NOOOOO WAY

sad for glowing :c

surely atleast they get sticker money right ;.........................(

2024-03-16 13:08

Bye bye to the Panda sticker!

2024-03-16 13:15

I'm so sick of these visa issues, I've never known any other competition to have such problems. Hard luck 9 Pandas, it was a well earned spot in the tournament.

Wouldn't be poetic if they ending up winning the major?

if keoz win the major i bj myself

I think albania (during the 90s) qualified for either world soccer cup or europe soccer cup by the same way GL qualified. Albania won that cup later on!

2024-03-16 13:39

Albania never won either of those. I'm not sure they even played it

2024-03-16 13:44

Mb it was danmark. They got the spot instead of albania.

They got spot instead of yugoslavia I think but ye, it was Denmark :D

2024-03-16 13:46

As a Swede you confuse Denmark and Albania? xD

I think ive heard about that story in araound 2014-2015. Obv didnt remeber it correctly. To my defense, its easy to mix up Jugoslavia and Albania cuz Jugoslavia contained many balkan countries. (:

2024-03-16 15:49

F for Pandas

2024-03-16 13:28

Unfair. At least give them money stickers

valve give 50-50 sticker money between pandas and gl

Unfair, GL don't deserve that spot. Give 9Pandas the stickers.

2024-03-16 13:38

that's sad, hope they get rewarded with the sticker money al least

Feel bad for 9pandas. they fought so hard for that spot. must be heartbroken.

2024-03-16 13:40

2024-03-16 13:41

unluko

2024-03-16 13:42

No way

This is unacceptable They should only do majors at countries with facilitated VISA to avoid this bullshit

2024-03-16 13:50

But what to avoid? After all, 9pandas had visas they just didn't pick them up from the consulate.The visas were ready as of March 14.

2024-03-16 14:03

GamerLegion will have the same #14 seeding or it shakes everything up?

2024-03-16 13:57

i feel for the 2 team member who already arrived in Copenhagen just to get fucked over by the other members who never had their visas in order to travel. Not like the EU RMR was the first over and they had much longer to sort it out then the other regions... o wait, they did. I tell you what, if GL fucks over any of my pickems, ill be furious. I still have them as going 1-3 or 2-3

2024-03-16 13:59

That's truly a shame indeed. Best of luck to GL, of course.

9pandas had their visas ready as of March 14 but didn't pick them up from the consulate what is this HAHA

Source? Why don't they get it from the consulate? that is no way

2024-03-16 14:11

twitter.com/itsdistortion/status/1768944..

When you don't apply for a visa early enough because clearly you'll lose

2024-03-16 14:13

this whole situation reminds me of my uncle, he woke up so early one day, packed all his shit for a business trip, scrambled to the airport only to realize his passport was left behind. you guys are adults now, if this whole visa thing was due to negligence then thats a bit apalling

2024-03-16 14:15

"Long story short: 9Pandas are not going to the Major simply because they didn’t take away their visas from the consulate, even though those visas were ready and delivered on the 14th of March…" twitter.com/itsdistortion/status/1768944..

2024-03-16 14:35

from what i read from more posts, its just an error in translation. they tried and tried and tried, but just couldn't get accepted by the visa office in time

2024-03-16 14:37

Yes, I saw that as well now

Atleast give 9pandas the stickers #PKMKB

2024-03-16 14:17

let's go snaaaax

2024-03-16 14:21

Honestly deserved, 9Pandas only got their because had easier group (RMR A) and somehow were lucky enough to get the highest seed and skip one game while GL had to play back to back series.

2024-03-16 14:36

2024-03-16 14:54

I like how everyone is acting smart by saying they should have applied earlier rofl. Applying for Schengen visa takes time, and if your application gets rejected for whatever reason, your passport doesn't get returned back instantly. There is alot of delays when your application is unsuccessful. You can either appeal the rejection or get your passport back which might take more than 2 weeks. Other russian players probably travelled around with Schengen visa previously which makes their re-application easier. There are many factors that made their visa's delayed, you all just talking shit when you dont know shit.

2024-03-16 14:47

I mean all of them were in Romania a month ago. edit: ah, they'll join Schengen at the end of this month, I thought they already joined.

2024-03-16 15:07

Speaking out of ignorance here, but couldn't they have apply for the visas when they joined the RMR just in case? If they qualify, visas are ready! If they didn't qualify, it is what it is. Of course, I don't know all the details of requiring a Visa for Schengen coming from Russia, but VP and Team Spirit managed all right, correct?

2024-03-17 16:50

They were just being cheap and wanted to save 100 bucks.

2024-03-17 20:33

Sad situation, valve sucks, but don't spread hate towards GL for this turn of events.

how is that Valve's fault? They have no control over providing visa. Maybe if they didn't vote for that mf, they could attend the major without any issues.

2024-03-16 15:05

I just think all major qualifiers should end 2-3 months before the major. The way it is now with the Blast spring final held in june but all teams already determined. Also teams would have more time to send signatures.

2024-03-16 15:16

At least leave the stickers in game…

2024-03-16 14:50

I think it’s fair to leave 9pandas stickers in game. Guys grinded for this stuff and they’ve deserve this at least. We already have FlashGaming and 100Thieves stickers in game, even though they haven’t attended major aswell

2024-03-16 14:58

Feel bad for all of the 9pandas guys & coach. They actually earned their spot. I hope their stickers still get released, and GamerLegions is just an extra one, rather than replacing 9pandas, they fought hard for it man

2024-03-16 15:00

#free9pandas

2024-03-16 15:13

Removing mongolz and putting GL in

2024-03-16 15:14

2024-03-16 15:15

The visas were only issued on the 14th, But they didn't deliver them to the consulate so even yesterday the players couldn't pick them up even though they were at the consulate. They were told to come on Monday. When the documents were submitted initially is still a question though...

2024-03-16 16:43

Interesting situation, very unfortunate (

2024-03-16 22:23

seized :(

2024-03-16 15:18

Snax on a major again! But with this team, man...

2024-03-16 15:25

Gamerlegion deserved to be next in line, sad for 9pandas

2024-03-16 15:31

No way I have to see keoz in the major after that performance… So sorry 9pandas and god glowiing

2024-03-16 15:51

NOOOOOOO! 9Pandas deserve to have stickers over these frauds! It's not fair to them to not at least get stickers!

2024-03-16 15:52

Well thats brutal but obviously 9pandas dont deserve any sticker money there is few conditions you have to meet as a team to be eligible for stickers getting past closed quals rmrs etc but one of the last conditions is to attend at the major and if you fail the skill check on that one then you missed out attending is more important than getting past quali because if teams dont attend then there is no event at all GL is next in line so they are the ones that deserve the stickers and all that if they show up to the event.

2024-03-16 15:54

Snax's time to shine

Traveling issues? Wtf is this? Why doesn't it say more about how the traveling issue happened? And imagine qualifying for a major just to be replaced for "traveling issues" like wtf? It's hard as hell and a dream come true to go to major, and just like that they are out??? Wtf do they even get anything for their hard work???

2024-03-16 15:58

Well, this is a quite a simple deduction. If you consider the current world stance of Russia, you would come to a quick realisation that there is no certainty of being granted a visa to enter a country in the EU. And even if a visa was granted last minute, the only way to travel to Copenhagen would be through a multi flight route, which is often at a day in duration.

2024-03-16 16:28

maybe it isn't their fault.

2024-03-16 18:41

snax deserved that spot.

2024-03-16 16:18

Oh man if I were seized i'd legit cry... It's a tragedy, honestly. They did so well, glowiing was super interesting, seized had a redemption ark, they dismantled Astralis in the process... All this and in the end it's all went to shit because of some real world events and bureaucracy. This news will ruin this team, mark my words, which is a shame... Man I never thought I'd sympathize with someone as lame as seized but here I am...

2024-03-16 16:21

Very sad for seized and 9Pandas

2024-03-16 16:30

2024-03-16 16:51

rip 9panduns but deserved for gl, they had to play 2 long matches in a day only to not qualify. let's get it

2024-03-16 17:09

so someone wrote an article with no new information just to confirm that an previous article was right. esports journalism is just amazing....

2024-03-16 17:12

so dramatic :| sad for them...

2024-03-16 17:19

another CLUTCH FOR SNAX

2024-03-16 17:24

F 9pandas

2024-03-16 17:31

Sad, they were highly motivated despite poor firepower.

2024-03-16 17:44

yeah man, i kinda shit on seized because he is seized but my heart goes to him. if i was him, i'd be devastated

2024-03-16 18:47

This is sad

2024-03-16 17:54

2024-03-16 17:59

Yo so we get Snax sticker!

2024-03-16 18:26

Since GL is much better team, I'm glad

2024-03-16 18:28

are we talking about the same GL that finished RMR with 2-3 and then lost to pandas at LCQ?

2024-03-16 18:46

Yea, we're talking about bigger picture, not just an rmr

Who ever wins is the better team, GL was destroyed by them, not a single positve on the GL side

2024-03-17 07:07

woow, so sad for 9pandas

2024-03-16 18:38

GL winning major now would be the most CS thing to happen

2024-03-16 19:02

I don't understand how this still happens

2024-03-16 19:08

HAHAHA KARMA

2024-03-16 19:39

It’s just not fair….

2024-03-16 19:40

Its really sad for them. Even though they likely wouldnt go far anyway and possibly get knocked out early they still deserved a shot beating both gamerlegion and astralis and i dont remember if anyone else, but its still their spot, so if they dont get the money for stickers and if gamerligion will be gifted the stickers isntead then I dont even know.... I dont know what the sticker situation is at this time… oh well... x.com/seizedwf/status/176897428041329893..

2024-03-16 19:56