Power Gaming deny DH attendance

23-11-2010 00:18

Power Gaming have declared to HLTV.org they will not attend DreamHack Winter this week.

The Finnish team had been announced as one of the invited teams for the event, which will take place at the weekend, having even been drawn in Group C, where they would meet x6tence and puta.

Contacted by HLTV.org, the Finnish team have revealed they will not participate in the tournament, though they did not wish to further comment on the issue.

Power Gaming were last seen at the World e-Sports Masters, where they finished in a disappointing 7-8 place, wrapping up just $4,000.

They are currently in third place in their IEM5 European Championship group, with six points from four matches, and a win against n!faculty in their last match will assure them of a place in the relegation stage.

This leaves Group C at DreamHack Winter with just two teams, with the tournament organisation yet to reveal whether a replacement will be found.

2010-11-23 00:20

3 replies

EG should be invited =D

2010-11-24 09:20

2 replies

No, damn cheaters -.-

2010-11-24 15:44

-1

2010-11-25 09:42

owow

2010-11-23 00:20

sad

2010-11-23 00:20

interesting...

2010-11-23 00:21

disappointing

2010-11-23 00:21

bad move d=

2010-11-23 00:21

9 replies

why? they wouldn't do much they aren't playing at a level to compete at a event such DH.

2010-11-23 00:23

8 replies

2010-11-23 00:27

2 replies

2010-11-23 00:29

1 reply

2010-11-23 08:07

true..

2010-11-23 01:05

2010-11-23 08:32

yeah , but ... they have/had enough time to train

2010-11-23 14:24

1 reply

dude same for the others team xd

2010-11-23 18:50

2010-11-23 19:56

This is just horseshit, DreamTeam ruined before it started :D

2010-11-23 00:26

2 replies

Your roster isn't locked...?

2010-11-23 00:30

2010-11-23 18:15

Power gaming will disband in the next weeks

2010-11-23 00:29

2 replies

If they would be quitting playing those IEM-matches would not make lots of sense. Still I guess one or two players are leaving.

2010-11-23 00:32

nope :p

2010-11-23 18:47

omg dream team nasu .l.

2010-11-23 00:29

2 replies

hahahaha

2010-11-23 00:36

what a comment.

2010-11-23 00:53

please start a new finnish team with dedicated players, i know you guys in finland got lots of talents!

2010-11-23 00:32

Noone is leaving nor are we disbanding. One of our guys just recently lost a close family member and opted against traveling to Sweden at a sad time like this. The team didn´t want to go with a stand-in so we have decided not to attend. Sorry for all those who were looking forward to see us play but with unforseeable circumstanses like this there is not much that can be done :/

2010-11-23 00:39

9 replies

That is a good reason. Sad someone close of one of you guys died. Not attending with stand in is also some respectable for you mate.

2010-11-23 00:46

:( offcourse we understand. life > cs

2010-11-23 01:25

2 replies

I hope everyone here read that.

2010-11-23 21:37

1 reply

im reporting you cs always beats life

2010-11-29 16:56

Real life it is more important that counter-strike so it is a good and a valid reason not to attend DH. We understand, my condolences to the teammate who close family passed away and i hope that you guy's can be right back to play when you guys are ready :)

2010-11-23 02:05

is the life ;/

2010-11-23 02:58

1 reply

my condolences to the teammate who close family passed away and i hope that you guy's can be right back to play when you guys are ready :) [2]

2010-11-23 03:24

how sad men :S!

2010-11-23 10:40

condolences, if you could pass them on (if it's not one of your relatives) Sad I won't be able to see you guys play :< still one of my favs despite not being as dominant as before the military service kicked in :]

2010-11-23 18:50

Sad to hear that (about what natu wrote) and understandable. Looking forward to the next LAN tournament where it's possible to follow the PG players once again. Always entertaining playstyle, fun to watch and cool guys :)

2010-11-23 00:44

Wow, i just bought 4 of them in dreamteam, cos they had the easy group stage... :/

2010-11-23 00:46

4 replies

You can still change players in your DT without it costing you anything.. :)

2010-11-23 00:49

2 replies

Oh i know but i had my "muhahaha, ill play smart now and win those damn prizes"-face on when i picked them. Well, i got the power to go throw rocks at teams who i dont pick in dreamteam anyways.. So doesnt matter!

2010-11-23 00:51

oh yeah, by the way good prizes on DH dreamteam xd

2010-11-23 00:52

That is way u most wait until teams confirm on site their players. Cost of players on dreamteam dont change until they play a game if not wrong or until that opens after closing for the first round of games or groupstage.

2010-11-23 00:51

no money no party

2010-11-23 00:47

to bad to hear guys, hope it wasnt to hard and that you can recover! :)

2010-11-23 01:02

GoGo Artyk

2010-11-23 01:11

1 reply

What does this has to do with Artyk :P...?

2010-11-23 02:16

move .no to that group :D

2010-11-23 01:13

4 replies

No its easier this way for x6tence :D

2010-11-23 02:17

It wasn't funny at all.

2010-11-23 02:39

"It would be good?"

2010-11-23 02:53

no worry U'll beat fnatic and advance from first place!

2010-11-23 18:00

what what

2010-11-23 01:13

nice.

2010-11-23 01:17

Finland and "dedicated players" do not belong in the same sentence. Finnish teams do not last long for some reason. It looks to me like every tournament they enter, they start out really good, but end up bored and just burn out half-way through. So much raw talent in those Finnish teams, yet they don't seem to have the drive or dedication to give it 100% all the time.

2010-11-23 01:42

11 replies

I get your point but did you even read natu's comment? #18

2010-11-23 02:09

10 replies

He did not.

2010-11-23 02:40

i did just now. :( i still stand by my statement, even though it may not apply to this particular moment.

2010-11-23 02:41

8 replies

And you're right too -- generally speaking. I never understood it myself. There's money up for grabs, yet the guys who already have the experience and the support choose to go in with half-assed preparations, finish without gaining a dime and then disband a week later, only to form a NEW team a week from that with at best one different player. You'd think these guys knew who they want to form a team with, seeing how they've been pretty much playing with/against each other for YEARS in scrims/CB ladder matches before tournaments and such, but apparently not. Might just be the "winning's not important, FAIR PLAY is important" mentality, taught to us since junior leagues, through which Finnish athletes managed to become absolutely mediocre in every sport on the planet. Shit's sad son. (Not talking about this particular case)

2010-11-23 10:55

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"through which Finnish athletes managed to become absolutely mediocre in every sport on the planet" there's an exception, Jari Litmanen was an exceptional player at some point in his career, years in a row he was playing with the best, against the best, and dominating :D <3 Ajax | Litmanen

2010-11-23 18:52

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Yeah, like Teemu Selänne, Saku Koivu, Jari Kurri, Matti Nykänen, Janne Ahonen, Mika Häkkinen, Tero Pitkämäki, Marcus Grönholm, Tommi Mäkinen, Jani Sievinen, Paavo Nurmi, Seppo Räty and others. All USED to be good, or great even. Those days are long gone, and now we're just average in everything. I honestly can't name a single active Finnish athlete who you could call exceptional with a straight face. Well, excluding maybe Hirvonen & M. Koivu, but even they are not as good as, say, Nurmi or Nykänen. Which is freaking sad, even though I usually root for Sweden or Russia just to annoy fellow Finns (national pride is pathetic).

2010-11-24 01:24

5 replies

arto saari is pretty good

2010-11-24 09:13

1 reply

Indeed, but he, too, is way past his prime.

2010-11-24 12:51

I must be honest I do not know halve the guys you mention, but I can't believe I forgot Mika Häkkinen xD ah well I like to see dutch teams do well in sports I like (national pride? :P)

2010-11-24 10:36

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Probably because the other guys take part in icehockey, ski jumping, rally, or track & field (throwing a javelin, rofl), which hardly can be regarded as big sports in the Netherlands, or even worldwide.. Well, traditional athletics are of course done around the globe but eventhough Finland used to have some good long distance runners like he mentioned, nowadays pretty much the only decent ones throw a javelin where there are pretty much the same 10 people competing in every international competition

2010-11-24 20:01

1 reply

ah yeah that explains :P

2010-11-25 10:43

badddd :(

2010-11-23 02:19

go x6tence jJAJAJ

2010-11-23 03:04

1 reply

x6tence>Power Gaming :)

2010-11-23 06:30

sad ): i love this team

2010-11-23 04:14

Boo!

2010-11-23 07:12

Sad..They are good team !

2010-11-23 07:35

damn....very bad hope your team mate gets better...and i want to see you guys playing again......... fastt

2010-11-23 08:37

very sad !

2010-11-23 09:47

sad to hear what happened...

2010-11-23 10:57

That's just sad :/

2010-11-23 11:05

Sad

2010-11-23 12:16

loool!

2010-11-23 13:16

1 reply

2010-11-24 13:01

sadface ..!

2010-11-23 13:51

invite TeG :>

2010-11-23 13:59

:()

2010-11-23 14:00

sad news and a very sad reason :'(

2010-11-23 14:01

+ LDLC

2010-11-23 14:22

i loled at everyone who says life>cs. you gotta understand that in this level cs = life, they play cs and earn money by playing it, not like they are playing CS just for fun !

2010-11-23 14:49

8 replies

i agree with u to a certain limit .. but u gotta understand that if there isnt a family or friend to share this life with .... what the point ???

2010-11-23 15:00

well i bet they're playing and most pros all playing cs more for "fun time" than earn money..

2010-11-23 16:49

5 replies

sad but true

2010-11-23 17:01

4 replies

nothing sad about that. in fact that's the only healthy way to do it, play for fun.

2010-11-23 17:20

3 replies

yeah of course it's good to not only focus on cs but also other things, but it's kinda sad to watch teams like fnatic, sk nowadays. feels like some of the players in those teams (and of course other teams as well) just don't care so much when they play. I want them to be hungry all the time and be emotional when they play, something we don't see very often and this is related to them not taking cs as serious as i would want them to

2010-11-23 17:25

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you have to see it from a professional player's perspective when it comes to drive and desire. playing the same maps, the same players, the same teams, over and over again, there's little to be desired anymore. 99% of the top 10 teams have already won a tournament in one way or another, and they see that as having proven themselves. that's where the drive to win and compete at such a dedicated level is withered away. and when you keep getting beaten by the same teams and same players over and over again, that just further takes away that drive to be better ("the game is way past it's prime, what's the point anymore?"). that's just my two cents, though.

2010-11-23 18:13

1 reply

yeah I agree

2010-11-23 18:18

Dummy, if my dad passes away my boss says take a few days off, in fact it is a legal obligation to give an employee time off after a direct familymember passed away, sorry for flaming I dont usually do that but this time I think it's warranted :P

2010-11-23 18:54

where they finished in a disappointing 7-8 place, Who did expect more :S

2010-11-23 15:31

3 replies

2010-11-23 15:58

Themselves maybe? ::)

2010-11-23 18:07

1 reply

Makes sense if we look it that way, well thought =]

2010-11-23 20:16

move NoProblem to that group :) cuz LIONS RAGE & NP in the same groupe isn't fair

2010-11-23 19:36

bad((

2010-11-23 21:22

No more teams from Finland ?

2010-11-24 09:14

4 replies

There's still Playzone :-)

2010-11-24 15:46

3 replies

lol, I forgot them :D

2010-11-24 17:05

Munkka, not playzone.

2010-11-24 17:19

1 reply

Yeah, I know that. But when he said "No more teams from Finland?" I understood it in another way. But yeah, you're right. There's only munkka which is Finnish playing in this tournament. Thank you.

2010-11-24 18:00