tao cancel ICSC 8 participation

6-7-2011 12:08

tao have canceled their Intel Challenge Super Cup 8 participation as a vital sponsor disconintues his support.

The Russian side made it through the tournament's two group stages and were seemingly ready for the finals this weekend.

However, after learning that the team's sponsor had decided to discontinue his support yesterday, the squad has now canceled their involvement in the tournament.

"During the tournament, we had a sponsor that promised us that we would go to ICSC 8 finals. Also, he supported tao during this tournament and some previous Russian tourneys," Boris "watti" Litvyakov said.

"After the 2nd group stage, he confirmed our journey, so everybody was sure that we would go to Kiev. But suddenly, Tuesday night, he told us that he won't help us. We regret it has to be like this, and we wish to apologize to the ICSC 8 organizers."

They were originally drawn into Group A along with SK Gaming, Frag eXecutors and KerchNET, but now join the massive list of teams who have dropped out of the tournament.

Contacted by HLTV.org, Intel Challenge Super Cup 8 organizers stated they will evaluate the situation with tao's exit sometime during the day.

sad :(

2011-07-06 12:08

1 reply

I doubt ICSC would be held again after this :D

2011-07-06 18:01

hah :)

2011-07-06 12:08

2011-07-06 12:09

Last one to not pull out wins. xD

2011-07-06 12:09

3 replies

haha

2011-07-06 16:14

Closer to see the champion without doubt and without matches :)

2011-07-06 16:44

exactly =)

2011-07-06 18:27

HAHAHAHHA

2011-07-06 12:10

lol

2011-07-06 12:10

hahahahahahha + DTS

2011-07-06 12:10

2 replies

HELLO ^^ hltv.org/news/7087-dts-abandon-icsc-8

2011-07-06 12:29

1 reply

will see)

2011-07-06 13:46

masqerade, comedy

2011-07-06 12:10

e-sports is dieing

2011-07-06 12:11

5 replies

tao is mix, no money, no sponsors

2011-07-06 12:17

half of the teams dropped out cos of bad timing...and the other half xcept tao cos thy hav to prac for tournaments wich r better than this

2011-07-06 12:28

yeah..., 1 "bad" tournament and you can say it, agree with you.....and you could say cs is dieing, not e-sports

2011-07-06 12:37

Manager bailed cause he realized its waste of money when he saw the opponents in the group

2011-07-06 13:07

E-sports is not dying, esports is bigger than ever, maybe CS isnt, but esports is, CS isnt everything in esports. Still, cs is alive and kicking as Nix would say :D

2011-07-06 14:27

xD fail tourney

2011-07-06 12:13

2 replies

explain why it's "fail"

2011-07-06 13:47

1 reply

they dont encourage the teams to compete, poor prizes or bad selection of teams to compete

2011-07-07 06:08

+NAVI!!!!!!!!!

2011-07-06 12:15

7 replies

+Navi? That's unfair

2011-07-06 12:35

6 replies

but it would be cool, as the winner of ICSC7

2011-07-06 12:38

5 replies

yeah but not in a group where are sk and fx

2011-07-06 12:45

4 replies

why not?

2011-07-06 17:42

3 replies

balance, isn't that obvious?

2011-07-06 18:43

2 replies

more drama

2011-07-07 00:20

1 reply

not everyone likes drama someone prefer fable with happy ending :]

2011-07-07 13:08

omg not again....

2011-07-06 12:15

oh those russians :(

2011-07-06 12:15

wondering who they'll gonna bring in, since all the teams from group-stage 2 have already got a spot in tournament

2011-07-06 12:16

2 replies

EG FTW!

2011-07-06 12:18

probably OverDrive will pay to get there and participate.

2011-07-06 13:00

Well why even this tournament is needed? Teams drops likes ther is no day tommorow... not intresting..

2011-07-06 12:17

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maybe not for you, but i think it's interesting to watch SK, FX, ESC, M5, ROCCAT etc. most of the teams who've dropped out are shit anyway.

2011-07-06 20:44

add Ukrainian team

2011-07-06 12:18

1 reply

+TMS

2011-07-06 12:38

AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA bUAHAHHAHAHA Face palm

2011-07-06 12:18

cmon... I can give you money to travel there, but please beat SK Gaming....

2011-07-06 12:20

ICSC 8 total defeat...

2011-07-06 12:20

._.

2011-07-06 12:20

shit :/

2011-07-06 12:20

who's he? you can see ICSC is shit organisition even tao had drop :D

2011-07-06 12:21

1 reply

this has nothing to do with ICSC organization are u fucking retarded?

2011-07-06 12:22

russian cs is too russian :\

2011-07-06 12:28

ICSC was one of the most prestigious tournaments, I do not know why this year was "not firing" ;c

2011-07-06 12:29

no professionalism from sponsors and teams, and after that we ask our selves "Why CS1.6 is not what it was.."

2011-07-06 12:32

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That depends on the sponsor deals they get, if they get shitty sponsors without contract, then, yeah, obviously they are shitty ones...

2011-07-06 14:28

hahahhahaahaahhahaahaaaahhaha

2011-07-06 12:34

add mouz or millenium/Esahara

2011-07-06 12:39

next step: -fx :D

2011-07-06 12:39

1 reply

It's not going to happend for sure.

2011-07-06 12:57

TCM would be also equal choice for tao

2011-07-06 12:44

1 reply

tcm is on holiday as well as much as I know!

2011-07-06 13:53

SAW 8 ?!

2011-07-06 12:50

Now Kerch.NET could be sure they are going to the next round! :)

2011-07-06 13:00

looool it's the good time 2 fuck ur ex-sponser guyz

2011-07-06 13:00

Before people freak out about all the drops, they should consider that the prizemoney isn't really that huge, also it's in the middle of july, where most people tend to book a vacation. If the date were given before playing the qualifiers, we probally would't see so many teams drop out. It's really hard gamers to have a normal life, if we should just cancel everything we got going.

2011-07-06 13:05

5 replies

True, but surely if you want time off in July, you don't sign up to a tournament that runs in July?

2011-07-06 13:08

3 replies

the date of the lan finals was changed so surely some people had booked a vacation for that weekend as they thought it was free. then add some sponsors bailing and some teams going emo over ping and voilá.

2011-07-06 13:43

How should all the teams know the date, when it wasn't given? Should we just put our lifes on hold, and await the organizers to give us the exact date? If we knew it would be ran this weekend 1 month ago, i would't have booked a flight to Spain.

2011-07-06 14:08

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Oh i didn't realize they didn't release the date, my bad.

2011-07-06 15:07

They thought that gamers don't have a life

2011-07-06 14:23

shame, but it's not their fault, the sponsor is to blame. Imho the sponsor should be named and shamed for this, maybe stop other sponsors from thinking they can just pull out when they want.

2011-07-06 13:06

omfg ICSC epic tourney )))))) russia = fail tourneys, ukrain = russia sooooo ukrain = fail tourneys xD))

2011-07-06 13:17

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it is fail, but not by org. of IC cup. Irresponsibility teams, let ban all leavers

2011-07-06 13:31

Lions!?

2011-07-06 13:30

teams still cancel parcitipation in lan LOL i would not surprised if there will be team who will come to kiev and say we will not parcitipate.

2011-07-06 13:36

I think they Canceled becouse they are in Group with SK GAMMING ANG FX So they cant be 1 or 2 place ;)

2011-07-06 13:38

wtf ? :(

2011-07-06 13:48

sad :s I hope they will keep line up, even without sponsor

2011-07-06 13:52

money problem too bad

2011-07-06 13:54

I think DTS should not be so stubborn and just attend the lan finals and the ICSC organization should give the this chance because now all teams from group A will go to the next round

2011-07-06 13:58

bring the next one :]

2011-07-06 14:15

another looser

2011-07-06 14:31

Who next?

2011-07-06 14:32

this is gettin ridiculous

2011-07-06 14:35

sadface:( tao is pretty good team

2011-07-06 14:38

2 replies

tao is mix

2011-07-06 14:42

1 reply

okay captain obvious

2011-07-06 14:46

fail

2011-07-06 15:06

all cancel :( fail event :p !!!

2011-07-06 15:34

can smb tell me who are droped teams...i just know fnatic and dts...

2011-07-06 15:36

WHERE is TCM??

2011-07-06 15:38

1 reply

Holidays.

2011-07-06 17:08

LOL!

2011-07-06 15:43

it's show time f0r rich guy OverDrive~

2011-07-06 16:15

3 replies

Haha my thought exactly, in these moments OverDrive often steps in because he likes playing on the big stage. Actually OverDrive really isn't that bad. If OverDrive will make a team then it will probably contain some of the following players: OverDrive (100%) MNR hally kioken LeX lmbt ANGE1 kucher craft1k vad1k aMi

2011-07-06 16:55

OverDrive take me to Kiev please!!!!

2011-07-06 17:59

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2011-07-06 20:44

whatever, anyway , we have FX and SK in the list . FX vs SK <3

2011-07-06 16:21

the champion will be for W.O

2011-07-06 16:47

so ul for those guys :x

2011-07-06 16:56

I'm expecting ICSC to find a replacement on very short notice since this shouldn't be too hard and it will make the tournament more interesting. It will probably be one of the following teams: selectah (aMi, vad1k, strike, barracuda, lmbt) DTS (ANGE1, craft1k, kucher, xaoc, pops) tao.OverDrive (OverDrive, LeX, MNR, hally, kioken, redman, ANGE1, craft1k, kucher, xaoc, lmbt, strike, aMi) TMS (valentiniCh, Share, Pr1znak, fox, ...) OverDrive.dk (OverDrive, trace, zonic, ArcadioN, friis)

2011-07-06 17:04

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ahahahahahahaha OverDrive.dk

2011-07-06 18:59

2 replies

or maybe OverDrive.UADK (OverDrive, trace, zonic, markeloff, edward)

2011-07-06 20:07

1 reply

uhahah)

2011-07-07 12:05

+OK

2011-07-06 17:00

3 replies

OK = ROCCAT

2011-07-06 17:16

2 replies

Not really. paistit = ROCCAT

2011-07-06 17:39

haha tried to own me.. but eventually he owned him self.

2011-07-07 20:20

gonna be a fail competition on this tournament...

2011-07-06 17:34

this tournament is a complete fail

2011-07-06 17:39

Just invite navi. I want to see them against my SK.

2011-07-06 18:45

2 replies

your SK ? :D

2011-07-06 23:45

plz not. any big tournament without navi is like a breath of fresh air for me. i'm sick and tired of them

2011-07-07 09:47

Yeah, invite navi please!! ISCS 7 winners to get a direct invite to the 8th one, sounds more than fair to me

2011-07-06 19:01

They won't invite navi because they cancel invite before tournament starts. jeez

2011-07-06 19:37

its BAD!!

2011-07-06 19:45

host a one day online tourney so the winner can go to LAN finals. would be fair and interesting!

2011-07-06 19:59

lol

2011-07-06 20:54

guys, tao will probably visit this event, couse virtus.pro will pay money for the tickets :) for those who know russian - coverage.gamesworld.ru/news/virtus-pro-p.. line-up: mNR or delm1k Seized Hally Lex Sneg

2011-07-06 21:39