OSLF.dk to miss KODE5 finals?

17-11-2010 23:13

OSLF.dk player Tomas "xlo" Falden has told HLTV.org that his team will most likely miss out on the KODE5 Global Finals due to lack of support.

The Danish team secured a spot at the event in Peru after winning the German regional qualifier, beating Alternate 2-0 in the final.

According to Falden, his team had been assured by the tournament organizers that KODE5 would pay for their trip to Peru, but he and his team-mates have now been told a different story.

"After the tournament. we told the admins: 'we will talk about you paying the tickets and hotel later, since there is still quite a while to the finals', and they said yes," Falden told HLTV.org.

"[Last week], I contacted the German KODE5 admins asking how it would work out with them paying for our trip, and they told us they had not said they would pay and that KODE5 has not been helping with the teams' expenses for many years.

"The reason we did not contact them until now was that we were certain they would pay, we would have looked for support a long time ago, had we known they would not pay. It makes no sense to try to find support two weeks before the actual LAN."

It is still unknown whether this situation will force more teams to cancel their participation at the event, which will take place from 3-5 December.

The Danish team can be contacted at [email protected] or on their official website.

OSLF.dk consist of the following:

Danny "BERRY" Krüger
Jesper "luffeB" Andersen
Marco "Snappi" Pfeiffer
Michael "Friis" Jørgensen
Tomas "xlo" Falden

hmm sad though.

2010-11-17 23:15

sad :(

2010-11-17 23:16

sad, nice roster :(.

2010-11-17 23:17

sad

2010-11-17 23:20

sad, nice lineup :/

2010-11-17 23:21

friss.

Reaching the Finals will end up like a quest for finding El Dorado for some teams, apparently.

2010-11-17 23:25

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I miss playing that game in PS1 like 10 years ago :P, but yeah I agree lol

2010-11-17 23:39

why arent you admin anymore?

2010-11-18 15:16

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I am still but the Fan Center 'nuked' my clan ;)

2010-11-18 23:05

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oh ok :D thought that the most active[imo]mod got erased :D

2010-11-19 17:49

KODE5 is doing so shitty, hope they at the end make a good tournament....

2010-11-17 23:30

sad :/

2010-11-17 23:33

2010-11-17 23:44

German qualifier...

2010-11-18 00:05

doesn't matter that it is the german qualifier bcs it is the same in other qualifiers!

2010-11-18 19:08

hahaha, sucha fail event. kode5.clowns

2010-11-18 00:07

So lets see how many European teams can field what will likely be 5000-7000€ to attend an event which isn't the best at paying out their prize money as far as I have heard.. Like I said, a joke.

2010-11-18 00:28

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dude, teams like mTw could assist.. They have a lotta chances to win the event so, I think the money in that case would be not problem. If they use approx 5k€ to travel/stay and win 25kusd its superavit

2010-11-18 02:45

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Assuming they get the prize money..

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I'm talking about that.. Why are comments for that already? I mean, KODE5 organisation did not pay the prizes to the past winner teams? Or is just a rumour? Sry for bad english.

2010-11-18 03:11

fnatic havent recieved their winnings from last year and i've heard the 2008 winners haven't recieved their prize money either. this are not rumours, it's facts.

2010-11-18 11:26

Sorry Nomad, no idea where to write this, but just wanted to give you the info: hltv.org/?pageid=28&comments=1&demoid=94..

2010-11-18 12:18

What are you talking about?

2010-11-18 13:55

Nothing, was my mistake.

2010-11-18 15:47

could u contact kode5 germany and ask them for a statement ?? since what they did is quite noobish

2010-11-18 14:57

Didn't qualys pays the travel and hotel? Sadly we will never have a good event with pro european teams here in S.America... ON : Bad for the danish guys i was hopping to see them after what someone of them wrote here that they were coming. :( Sry my bad english u.u

2010-11-18 01:15

xfedeargx, im sure you´re very 'premature' at the argentinean counter-strike scene.. In 2006, the CPL organisation decide to ejecute two (2) World Tour Stop in Brazil & Chile.. In Chile, the only know team was Catch-Gamer (bsl, naikon, day, and 2 more i don't remember atm) and was defeated by argentinean team FA. By the otherside, in Brazil we had a three professional teams.. SSV Lehnitz: MegatoN, Magix`, solido, zet y diGital united5: cuz, batman, keen, and 2 more mibr: pava cogu kiko pred ¿eduzin? And the prizes was kinda 5kUSD

2010-11-18 02:49

yes and no.. i just meaning in the last couple of years. (I know your point and you are right i make a mistake.) Hope more teams cames and makes this event more interesting :P

2010-11-18 04:11

Its okay buddy, don't make such a problem. Now, i'm agree with ur point, but we have this kode5 global finals event like a magnet to european teams.. As we can see, the magnet has lost magneticism huehue

2010-11-18 04:14

FUCKING

2010-11-18 06:30

KODE5 sucks this year, really.

2010-11-18 06:35

WTF, KODE5 admins hosted global finals in Peru, where many teams can't go by their own. Very smart decision.

2010-11-18 07:31

It's just been a joke from the start. In PERU?!?! stupid stupid location.

2010-11-18 08:52

Ok, lets do it on China again... Its the same dude, for you came to Peru must be negative, well, for us going to China too.

2010-11-18 11:12

2010-11-18 09:50

KODE5 world finals in Peru, with qualifyers that doesn't cover the travel and living expenses. LOL no offence to the South Americans or their cs-scene, but this is as Nomad already stated A F****** JOKE! If you're having a competition that is supposed to get the top layer of teams around the world there are a few things you've got to do. 1. Get a big prize purse. 2. Get a good organization around the tournament (admins, network techies etc., good pcs, good gaming areas, strategical seating of the teams etc. etc.) 3. Make the event easy to access (place it close to the teams you want to attract or pay the expenses for the qualified and invited teams) If you fail at one of there three you're failing the event in the end.

2010-11-18 10:52

alright, that's wrong.. wild ineters, the argentinean team won the kode5 latin american draft to qualify global finals. before that they played the kode5 argentina qualifier.. well, both competitions give them a travel/stay for qualified competences.

2010-11-18 11:10

So? This is supposed to be a S.A. event then, good to know, I won't watch then..

2010-11-18 12:28

fail sadface ;)

2010-11-18 12:05

Why travel so far anyway when they don't even pay the prize money :/

2010-11-18 12:09

2bad :( my fav team not coming

2010-11-18 13:36

bad news.

2010-11-18 13:39

haha looking forward to this event

It doesnt make any sense having a qualifier in Germany for an event which will be held in Peru and not pay the trips for the winners. If they dont pay their trips, i really hope people will just forget KODE5 and let them die alone.

2010-11-18 19:23

And the German even said directly to us that we would talk about payment and stuff later, because there was a long time to the event.

2010-11-19 10:13

well, im not defending the kode5 organization, in fact i dont give a shit them and his events.. But remember this: The CPL didn't payed prize money atm..

2010-11-18 23:38