RAGE to use manne at DH Winter

22-11-2010 20:24

RAGE-Gaming have announced that they have enrolled Manne "manne" Nordqvist as a stand-in for DreamHack Winter 2010.

The Swedish player has been without a home since Playzone announced the decision to end all links with their Counter-Strike team earlier this month.

The Dutch-based organization had the same day announced Dennis "dennis" Edman as a substitute to Samuel "Zyppe" Martinsson, who had opted to go inactive in order to focus on his studies.

Edman assisted the team in winning the second PlayDH qualifier, and earning them a wildcard for DreamHack Winter 2010, in which they managed to overcome Playzone with a scoreline of 2-0.

manne to don RAGE's colors at DH Winter

However, a fresh press release from the organization reads that due to real life and time issues, Edman will not be able to make the trip to Jönköping later this week, and that the Swede has decided to put professional gaming on hold.

"Dennis had some troubles in his real life, so he couldnt focus on CS. That was a shame for us since we brought him in. However we need to look to the future, and with manne as standin I think we can achieve some good things on Dreamhack", Faruk "pita" Pita is quoted on the team's website.

In order to have a team capable of competing at DreamHack Winter, RAGE have called upon Edman's teammate from Playzone, Manne "manne" Nordqvist.

RAGE will boast the following at DH Winter:

Faruk "pita" Pita
Jonathan "lidde" Lidgren
Markus "pronax" Wallsten
Danny "pop" Oldenburg
Manne "manne" Nordqvist

DreamHack Winter 2010 will take place at Elmia, in Jönköping, from 25-28 November, with 24 teams involved in the Counter-Strike competition and hand out $34,500.

HLTV.org will furthermore be on-site in order to provide you with full coverage of the tournament. Make sure to have cleared your calendars!

gl on DH

2010-11-22 20:25

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RAGE has financial problems.. you heard it first from me! Private investor draws back!

2010-11-24 16:05

gl :)

NAJS :)

2010-11-22 20:26

Could cause some problems for Lions with this line-up :)

manne = superawesome! now RAge just need -pop +keiz and beat SK&fnatic&Lions

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Why u said that? Pop - very useful player for RAGE, if you watched the game more seriously you would have seen it.

2010-11-22 20:31

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keiz is better,useful,talent,toi,have

2010-11-22 20:40

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skill isn't everything, you know.

2010-11-22 20:50

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skill is everything,if you skilles you're noob kk.

2010-11-22 20:52

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you're the biggest noob i've ever seen, if you think that skill is everything.

2010-11-22 21:18

LOL @ skill is everything. LOL.

2010-11-22 21:22

2010-11-23 17:24

I'd rather see keiz take liddes spot, but I havent seen much matches lately so havent seen lidde play since at least a month ago

2010-11-23 18:58

-pop you must me living in a cave last few months... -pronax -lidde (altough he's doing pretty ok lately) +keiz +manne if you ask meh!! then u have pita dennis keiz manne pop

2010-11-22 20:36

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without IGL, i like the way you think,mofo

2010-11-22 20:39

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you think the other players on that team couldn't lead a team? that's just fucking stupid if that's your thought, pronax is the weakest link on the team like alot of professional IGL's..i would definitely drop him before anyone else gl manne and pita, manne he has a sick fucking awp too

2010-11-22 22:23

there's a reason all those IGL's are "the weak link" but only someone who never did ingame lead comments like you do ^^

2010-11-23 18:59

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL You are havent brain,pronax is in game leader,you how to - him? :D:D:D:D:D:D:D::Dd also keiz much better than pop

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the fuck?

2010-11-22 21:25

haters gonna hate~

2010-11-22 21:26

I'm really starting to like this guy

2010-11-22 21:44

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2010-11-23 16:00

you know who called in playzone? ;) nuff said here

2010-11-22 22:18

pronax is IGL mieldalicioussss replacing him with keiz or manne would mean pita would take over IGL, and would perform way less good than usual. + keeping dennis doesnt seem to be an option if I understand this newspost properly

2010-11-23 19:00

you guys are so stupid, u think that u could put all great players in a team and it will work... manne,dennis,keiz is all known for not staying in a team more than a couple of months

2010-11-25 16:14

nice GL MANNE and pita!

2010-11-22 20:27

very good choice. manne 'big' player :)

gl guys go pita

gl manne

oh god sick line up

2010-11-22 20:28

more trouble for Lions and Rage plz! Then maybe Puta can take a slightly advantage of that :D

gooood choice

2010-11-22 20:29

Good call, manne is a great player!

2010-11-22 20:30

go manne & pita , make some damage :D

-manne +dennis

where is dennis ?

2010-11-22 20:32

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Read the goddamn post

Don't make Pus angry or else he'll eat you up :D

2010-11-22 20:34

dukio.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/ban.. !

2010-11-22 20:38

Win!

2010-11-22 22:25

lol

2010-11-22 20:43

why do you reply to me ? I only read subtitle

2010-11-22 20:45

thats why i lol'd

2010-11-22 20:55

you are awesome

2010-11-22 20:58

2010-11-22 22:41

manne sickplayer, gl on dh

2010-11-22 20:33

how many good dutch organisations are there? fnatic h2k RAGE anymore? :P

lions* sk

LIONS and SK aren't DUTCH!

fnatic is australian org. not dutch.

how the hell would I know what dutch is?

2010-11-22 21:28

SK = German Lions = Norwegian

yes, ty but i didnt know what a dutch was. just asumed something.

2010-11-22 21:29

fnatic is an australian organisation.

2010-11-22 20:41

Fnatic(australia) H2k(Dead) RAGE(Dutch)

2010-11-23 00:59

H2k rocks, I think they will be back soon. H2k is one of the most respected teams out there. But I am curious about why they are not checking out any teams. perhaps they could pick up the rage team or forze ^^ even better!

2010-11-24 16:14

LowLandLions Serious Gaming

2010-11-23 13:28

who are they? never hear about them :)

2010-11-24 16:15

pronax pita manne dennis keiz

this is uber sick !!!!!!!!!!!!! now +keiz :D

2010-11-22 20:35

good.

strong team

So I get no credit for the orginal post nor the link :( Btw 'Pus' the Dreamhack tournament only constist of 24 teams not 32.

manne > dennis :)

go manne!

2010-11-22 20:48

so, i'm guessing delpan refused? big wonder, since pita and delpan are good friends...

I think Delpan refused since dennis joined rage..

2010-11-22 23:57

gl, nice to see manne :D

2010-11-22 20:57

i dont understand why dennis agreed to join in the first place if he's putting gaming on hold just some week afterwards.

As you can read some In Real Life problems came up making him quit. That's not something he can help or predict.

2010-11-22 21:00

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yeah but i doubt that's the real reason. i think he just got the wrong attitude to play in a serious team. i've heard a couple of things about just that and it makes sense. moreover, if he has all these IRL problems, why is he playing gather atm? shouldnt he make sure to fix those problems instead of sitting in front of the computer? and i mean, IRL problems dont just pop up unexpectedly, unless it's something very serious like a family member in hospital or w/e and that doesnt seem to be the case here..

2010-11-22 21:04

Are you actually serious when you're putting a COMPUTER GAME ahead of your REAL LIFE? Nice.

2010-11-22 21:51

excuse me? where did i say that?

2010-11-23 04:18

I think you are polarising the situation here by saying that playing a gather is the same as practising with a team like RAGE for a big lan.

2010-11-22 23:46

well, it depends really. if you play like 1 gather here n there then i can understand it. but when you play gather at an amount of time equivalent to the time you need to put in whilst playing in a team like RAGE the whole IRL-excuse just doesn't make sense.

2010-11-23 04:21

what have you heard about dennis?

2010-11-23 10:32

different stuff. most relevantly to the discussed topic is that he dislikes praccing and basically just dont care about it. if it's true it's a real shame, cause personally i think dennis is a great player with immense potential, but it appears to me that his attitude contributes to another case where a lot of talent seemingly goes to waste.

2010-11-23 15:20

My opinion after few trainings he just dont trust RAGE to be able to win huge LANs. If the IRL problem is real then tell us its normal gamer helps gamer no matter of level but behavior thats making represent us. (Sorry for bad English skills but my teacher doesnt teaching very well :D)

2010-11-23 17:46

i would like manne to step up big on DH, he could be an option for SK if he finds his form from early this year :-)

forest behind watcher kinda holy fucking pression to play

2010-11-22 21:11

doubt he was paying any attention

GTR did it!

2010-11-22 23:27

niceeeeeeeeeeee GL manne top 5 swe

2010-11-22 21:15

UHUL MANNE MANNE MANNE MANNE, I LOVE U MANNE, U SICK, U FUCKING AIMER.

2010-11-22 21:16

great lineup! will be there :)

2010-11-22 21:17

- pronax + keiz

2010-11-22 21:23

pronax is in game leader for God's sake

2010-11-22 21:45

Why remove pronax? He's the igl and a good fragger.

2010-11-23 19:17

pitaSHO faRReSHO pitaYAO! the best ! :P

2010-11-22 21:27

manne <3 sad for dennis :((

2010-11-22 21:31

manne :D

2010-11-22 21:43

awesome

2010-11-22 21:49

manne top player swe? O_O

2010-11-22 22:03

Check out the statistics section - hltv.org/?pageid=181

2010-11-22 22:49

just to mention..that you know he hasn´t been playing a lot vs top teams. That´s why i call him overrated player. Still a good stand-in for RAGE though.

2010-11-23 00:22

I know he hasnt played the same amount of matches like f.e. GeT_RiGhT. Still, the matches I have watched, I must say hes quite good.

2010-11-23 00:25

He´s good no doubt about it. Just i´ve seen some users call him the best player from sweden ever..is kind of..well rubbish.

2010-11-23 00:28

ty )))

2010-11-23 21:21

Pus, you covering DH like last year, or?

2010-11-22 22:10

Pus will be at DH and so will I. So yes, expect full coverage!

I have question for you: Is moddii still a stand-in or he is official now in SK? Because i haven´t seen a statement from SK.

2010-11-23 01:06

Hes still, as far as I know, listed as stand-in.

2010-11-23 02:09

Damn straight! Me and Danish backup!

tag along baby! :P

2010-11-23 10:33

keiz, manne , dennis, pita & zet

nice gl ;)

goodie pick.. can everyone stop saying that keiz should join... have you ever watch hole game when he is playing he do a loooooooots of misstakes even not rage does=pPpppPpP give him 2-3 years maybe he will be in a great team!

2010-11-22 23:14

hey! what about Delpan? Why he isn't playing?

2010-11-23 00:00

manne is a good awper :) He has only 19, but play very good.

2010-11-22 23:26

Insane :) Why not keiz and dennis ? - pop - lidde + keiz + dennis

2010-11-22 23:36

you obviously never watched them play, pop is one of the most talented Swedish players that aren't on SK/fnatic/LIONS....

2010-11-23 02:41

Good chocie GL manne

2010-11-22 23:38

[off topic] Today i have seen lot of nerds,trolls.... HLTV.org do something...

2010-11-22 23:52

You could always help us by using the report button.

2010-11-23 09:57

good choise but people do overrate manne..

2010-11-23 00:20

zyppe confirmt retirement ? :) or :)

2010-11-23 01:25

yeaah now its over!

2010-11-23 12:55

2010-11-23 13:00

zyppe then good luck in the rest of your life without cs :PPP

2010-11-23 14:44

Great news! :D

2010-11-23 01:31

good choise

2010-11-23 01:54

Decent choice I guess, the triple 'P' threat of pop/pita/pronax is really nasty, however manne and lidde wont be able to hold their own against the top teams IMO, should have picked up either keiz, olofm, givar, marvel, ezki etc...

2010-11-23 02:39

what? marvel, ezki? manne and lidde are at least as good if not better than your other names

2010-11-23 11:41

Stop saying -pop he is very good and deserves every bit to be on this team. Sad for dennis..dunno what problems he has..but a good chance for manne to show his skills :)

2010-11-23 10:34