OK bow out of ICSC 8, paistit replace

14-6-2011 17:08

Online Kingdom will not continue their campaign in the Intel Challenge Super Cup 8, bowing out of the league and have given their spot to another Finnish team.

It's the second team of the day who inform about their withdrawal from ICSC 8. Russian team USSR earlier today announced they had withdrawn from the league and news has just ticked in, that Finnish team Online Kingdom has also quit the league.

Reports suggest that Online Kingdom has come to an end, but Joni "Freon" Huumo has informed HLTV.org that Jirka "jigetus" Ryhti is still in civilian service camp, making the team unable to practice.

"There's no point playing ICSC if we can't pracc" Huumo added.

Being unable to participate, Online Kingdom decided to pass their ICSC spot to another Finnish team, going by the name paistit. The team contains Kimmo "BASiC" Fagerholm, who supposedly is no longer a member of Online Kingdom.

The team also includes the Kovanen brothers – Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen and Niko "naSu" Kovanen – as well as Samu "plastE" Aalto. The last member is Timi "aslak" Verkkoperä, who has left Excello to give it a go with paistit.

paistit consist of:

Timi "aslak" Verkkoperä
Kimmo "BASiC" Fagerholm
Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen
Niko "naSu" Kovanen
Samu "plastE" Aalto

HLTV.org tried to reach paistit for a comment, but the members were not reachable.

With Online Kingdom out and paistit in, Group D consist of Frag eXecutors, DTS, Moscow Five and paistit. The Finn's are expected to play their first match against Frag eXecutors on Sunday.

:/ saddd Lurppis go back to USA and find a good team there bro D:

2011-06-14 17:09

wtf icsc seems to be a fail.

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how a tournament can seem to be a fail, if teams can't just practise?

2011-06-14 17:32

icsc is no fail, its not coz of the tournament they leave

2011-06-14 18:04

comment after you read.

2011-06-14 18:05

How is that their fault? They invited teams to play at their tournament, to compete, get a slot at the LAN finals and win cash prizes. It's not their fault, that the german teams couldn't play, because they had exams or OK has problems with players, who can't practice. Every team always have problems etc, but the thing is, if the team really wants to play somewhere or do something, they will find a way. My guess, Freon was sick of the line-up changes and like he said, his team couldn't practice. As chrisJ mentioned, ICSC should ban the teams, who drop out of the tournament, because of reasons like that. And I'm sure, some teams and players had exams and practice issues too etc, but they didn't drop out. Props to them!

2011-06-14 18:19

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Yeah ofc jigetus could just leave his civilian service but that would mean that he would have to start it again or go to jail

2011-06-14 21:57

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No, he can't leave the civilian service as you said, would go to jail or start over again. :P

2011-06-14 22:04

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Actually he can leave... But that would mean starting the whole shit over or going to jail

2011-06-15 19:55

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Well, he can't leave, but he can leave, but he would need to start over again or go to jail.

2011-06-15 20:39

actually ICSC is a great tournament ....its just a coincidence that so many teams are leaving. ......

2011-06-14 19:33

you seem to be a fail.

2011-06-15 12:40

sad

2011-06-14 17:08

-.-

2011-06-14 17:42

Nice

i would say that its not a team but a mix for fun... most likely.

2011-06-14 17:10

maybe but then basic and aslak is without team after this.

2011-06-14 17:12

right, aslak went wrong

aslak gl

lurppis and naSu brothers?

yep

2011-06-14 17:13

lol newcomers

2011-06-15 06:50

Right MegatoN wannabe, I know the players, I don't care about their personal names. loool

2011-06-15 15:22

suck champ. all the teams are leaving!

two semi pro teams, who gives a shit?

2011-06-14 17:26

na´vi, ok, urss =S

2011-06-14 17:41

aslak & basic so good

bad for OK , but good too see lurpis nasu plaste & basic in same "team" :D

aslak player of munkka ?

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yeah , could say he is the best young player in finland with basic.

yea you dont remember sToVvE b0nes

2011-06-14 17:45

but now what happend whit munkka ?

2011-06-14 17:58

guess they'll just add some other guy in , will see.

2011-06-14 18:06

sad for munkka, nice line up whi aslak

2011-06-14 18:10

WTF BASiC is no longer member of OK?? SHIT

2011-06-14 17:14

Roasts haha funny name.

hahahahahahahahaahhaahah what

2011-06-14 17:16

sad :( i really liked ok :@

nicee gl guys !

2011-06-14 17:17

glgl lurpp1s

2011-06-14 17:19

aslak basic jigetus allu +1

2011-06-14 17:21

gl!

2011-06-14 17:24

its just ussr and OK, they wouldnt even get into the final x)

2011-06-14 17:25

wtf

"It's the second team of the team who inform" ? wtf? =))))

u can pass ur spot to another team? wtf..

-NaSu +jigetus please

2011-06-14 17:29

can you read? jigetus is not done with the civilian service..

2011-06-14 17:31

This is sad, fucking army, civilian camps and all that youtube.com/watch?v=gCySTWFcnlM&feature=.. tearing apart finnish cs.

2011-06-14 17:33

gl PAISTIT

-plastE +Freon =D

2011-06-14 17:35

- magger + igl ? ok

2011-06-14 17:38

you are the wise man!!! not

2011-06-14 17:43

nice, gl !

2011-06-14 17:36

Gl.

When I read the tittle I though it was the tournament's problem. But oh well. GL lurppis & co.

2011-06-14 17:40

paisti :D

HOLY ****. ASLAK<333

oh I understand better what lurppis said in his recent interview to SK gaming

jigetuss best of finland

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fail ruuit is best of finland 4ever :D

2011-06-14 17:47

tihOp is Finland's best so far ;)

2011-06-14 18:21

_in my humble opinion_ best in past: awp: tihop igl: lurppis mfragger: plastE all-round: ruuit best now: awp: h^n igl: freon mfragger: jigetus all-round: basic

2011-06-15 23:22

you'd think they would have beaten us at digifest given their infinitely better prepared team if they were/are so much better than us!

2011-06-18 21:44

Yeah well, after that OK have beaten mTw on lan, which is a sign of improvement. Of course it's just one random match, but they also have played much much more lately than you. I haven't see any stuff from you guys for 3 months so thats my point of view at the moment. Also its useless to talk about OK or PwR right now since another is dead and another incomplete(or dead). Correct me if im wrong...

2011-06-18 22:42

seeing as we beat them without any practice 3 months ago simply by individual play, i have a hard time seeing them improve enough in 3 months to be better than us individually. if they were on our level, considering they had been a team that practices etc for a while, they should beat five inactive players easily. ok did beat mtw, but it was the last match of the group with barely any meaning to mtw, kind of like mtw's loss against col at iem wc; just an almost meaningless match to them so knowing mtw obviously they're not really into it. i talked about pwr/ok 3 months ago with an obvious relation to today as pointed out in the first paragraph, not about either team today

2011-06-18 23:41

sAd

2011-06-14 17:46

have any paistit players participated in the first group stage? And if not, why should they be given a free pass to the second stage over others teams who have? lol

2011-06-14 17:48

All of them except for lurppis.

2011-06-14 18:00

Kimmo "BASiC" Fagerholm Fagerholm.. lol

2011-06-14 17:52

Nice discovery, high5! Anyways, bad decision by aslak

2011-06-14 17:53

sad excello with fonex, i think

2011-06-14 17:57

I really hope that this team is temporary because OK got lots of potential.

hmmm aslak an BASiC are really good, and lurppis is the ethernal igl from Finland, but plastE and naSu, don't know if they still in shape for this game.. :/

2011-06-14 18:01

the only way not to expect too much from this team is by not expecting anything at all. these guys have a history to overestimate themselves and underestimating the essence of practice. I don't expect this team to practice as much as other teams and with the most washed up player of all time (lurppis) I think they will not do much damage despite actually having some decent players.

2011-06-14 18:02

-aslak +jigetus in the future and that's team with a good future... if the things doesn't result just remove lurppis and put Freon :)

2011-06-14 18:08

much better than OK

2011-06-14 18:18

jigetus basic freon h^n lurppis

2 igls

2011-06-14 19:41

good replacement

2011-06-14 18:31

they seems like decent replace for OK

2011-06-14 18:32

lurppis @ SK-Gaming.com "i haven't played a single round of cs since... a finland vs sweden match in march :P" so i think it's probably only a mix, to finish this tournament.

2011-06-14 18:43

Why would aslak leave excello if this is just a mix? I also sure that players like lurppis, nasu and plaste have enough knowledge to know that without any practice they would just get raped @ groupstage2 and Im sure they dont think that losing is fun.

2011-06-14 19:20

no need for nasu ffs, -nasu +jigetus after he comes from the camp.

2011-06-14 18:46

lol, this finnish dudes are always changing orgs or lineups.

2011-06-14 18:56

What the hell's up with all the Finnish teams? Finnish CS = dead?

2011-06-14 19:01

As of this day, I consider finnish cs dead. OK was our last hope, so to speak.

2011-06-14 20:36

That's sad.....

2011-06-14 20:54

Paistit have a nice lineup, they can go trough 2nd group stage 4sure ;) GL to them !

2011-06-14 19:14

naSu sux

why sux ?

2011-06-14 19:23

naSu sex*

2011-06-14 19:25

pawhat?

2011-06-14 19:22

vittu mitä paskaa

2011-06-14 19:28

no more <3 powergaming behind your name??? :( lurppis is not your god no more?

2011-06-14 23:43

I've never said he's not good anymore. Lurppis is still the best Finnish player ever for me. The thing is, he's in the wrong team. ^^

2011-06-14 23:50

New team, or just mix?

2011-06-14 19:29

-1 from EG + lurppis its the only logical thing lurppis could do now ...during his time EG was a top5 team ...now its... not so good.

2011-06-14 19:34

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lurppis isnt intrested in playing cs anymore

please NO!!!! I was SO happy when EG finally gave lurppis the boot. He was "NOT" the answer EG was looking for in a igl as he couldn't frag for shit. I remember when lurppis was kicked from EG, all the finland guys were saying "lurppis is going to back finland to rebuild powergaming then rape EG ass" I LOL @ THAT. what happen now? i guess lurppis wasn't that great of an igl, and everybody stop kissing his ass after he couldn't win shit or even place top5 without EG. irukandji >>>>>>>>>>>>> lurppis

2011-06-14 23:41

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say what? lurppis played like 10 matches with pwr so...

2011-06-15 00:17

there a reason why they played only 10 matches........maybe because it wasn't working like everybody thought it would. -_- maybe lurppis found out the talent in finland wasn't as great as he thought it was. maybe he realized now, that his best chance for winning a big international event, was when he was in EG and that's all gone now. he had his chance, now it's all over for lurppis as his chance for winning something big with finland is 0%.

2011-06-15 00:35

i said i was done playing but natu & co really wanted to play with me so we attended one event with little practice (asus winter) and got raped, then won digifest with the old roccat team (without practice). i haven't played cs since march until earlier today and i think my total hours since last esea finals (november 2010) are like 100h. ps. feel free to look at frag averages in eg, pretty sure i was among the top3 at most tournies eg on the other hand makes a living off of cs, bootcamped before iem and placed 9-10th, which i might add was significantly worse than what we placed the previous year. i actually still talk to majority of the eg players (including drew) so that isn't meant towards them, shit happens in cs and everyone involved knows that, unlike you :) //thread

2011-06-15 02:21

"maybe he realized now, that his best chance for winning a big international event, was when he was in EG and that's all gone now." T_T I didn't really watch many games when lurpporsh played in EG, but atleast before that they sucked major a$$. Some of their players just weren't the same invidiually after all that source bullshit. : ) On the other hand, the guys in roccat/N69-E28 were invidually just damn crazy back in '06 and '07, and still are pretty good. They just didn't have enough discipline to win or something. : ) T_T

2011-06-15 03:22

Man EG didnt kicked him out. THEY RELEASED HIM. Lurppis have played this game much more than you have... Everybody just aren't nerd like you. lurppis haven't played CS for long time. EG sucks now.

2011-06-16 23:32

EG > any finland team :O

2011-06-17 02:27

2011-06-17 14:40

sick lineup

2011-06-14 19:48

shocking news!!!!

2011-06-14 20:03

woah thats a really nice lineup though.... gl!

2011-06-14 20:49

aslak ! this guy is osom fo me,good future to him

2011-06-14 22:11

maybe the best line-up finland can come up atm

2011-06-14 23:13

not best -aslak+jigetus - this is best!

2011-06-15 09:35

jigetus is still in civilian service camp, so yes its most likely the best line-up they can come up with atm...

2011-06-15 09:49

exactly my point :D

2011-06-15 10:49

....Army.... We miss you H^N.

2011-06-15 00:45

gl sulaneet paistit

2011-06-15 01:23

;//

2011-06-15 01:31

Players in Power-Gayming now???

2011-06-15 04:43

the teams placing 3rd in the first groupstage should get the places when teams drop out, imo..

2011-06-15 04:57

I dont get the point of this team.

2011-06-15 06:57

2011-06-15 08:15

where jigetuss? O_O

2011-06-15 09:34

"Reports suggest that Online Kingdom has come to an end, but Joni "Freon" Huumo has informed HLTV.org that Jirka "jigetus" Ryhti is still in civilian service camp, making the team unable to practice." why dont you read the article and not just the line-up...

2011-06-15 09:47