Former tao members, LeX to ICSC 8

7-7-2011 14:35

Former members of the tao squad will make it to Intel Challenge Super Cup 8 after all, with financial support from Virtus.pro.

Following yesterday's report concerning tao canceling their participation in Intel Challenge Super Cup 8, it has now come to light that Virtus.pro has stepped in with financial support to aid some of the members in order to take part.

Yesterday's event also resulted in the disbandment of tao, with three of the team's members – Nikolay "MNR" Kirpichev, Sergey "hally" Shavaev and Denis "seized" Kostin – moving on to create a new team, under the name fbgaming.

LeX to ICSC 8

Currently, the team only boasts four members, with the newest addition being the former need2lead player Kirill "delm1k" Balachevcev. He will travel together with the squad to Kiev, as Nikolay "MNR" Kirpichev will be unavailable.

According to the official announcement made by Virtus.pro, the Russian-based organization will cover the expenses involved with travel and accommodation for three of the former tao members, while also bringing along two Virtus.pro representatives.

From Virtus.pro, the two representatives are Anton "Sneg" Cherepennikov and Alexey "LeX" Kolesnikov, with the former being the project's manager. Together with the players from fbgaming, they will compete in Group A.

fbgaming will display the following:

Sergey "hally" Shavaev
Denis "seized" Kostin
Kirill "delm1k" Balachevcev
Anton "Sneg" Cherepennikov
Alexey "LeX" Kolesnikov

gr8

2011-07-07 14:36

nice

2011-07-07 14:37

the name tao sounds so asian, wish they changed it so something more suitable :/

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"fbgaming will display the following"

2011-07-07 14:40

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yes, i get that but it doesn't change the fact that they were once in a team called tao before they joined fbgaming.

2011-07-07 14:43

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so what if its called tao. makes no difference what the teams name is. as long as they keep on playing the beautiful game!

2011-07-07 14:51

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*face palm*

2011-07-07 15:15

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troll detected. facepalm* actually. You're kinda of a newbie troll.

2011-07-07 15:36

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deadbeat detected. off me spastic ta.

2011-07-07 15:43

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just don't...

2011-07-07 22:15

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just do it

2011-07-08 03:30

only asian can be together as one? :)

Tao means "path" in Chinese and is commonly referred to as taoism which is an ancient Chinese philosophy basically explaining how people should righteously live their life. Much less vague than Christianity or Islam. Tao is also a common Chinese name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism

2011-07-07 17:55

cs doesn't need some kinda TAOISM which i have no idea of what's that shit is, so tao maybe just an abbr. or sth. of russia, btw you quote: Tao is also a common Chinese name. common ?? u must be fcking kidding me, i've not met anyone uses that as their 1st name

2011-07-07 19:03

I know at least 10 people with this name but if you live somewhere in the desert in inner mongolia then I can imagine.

2011-07-07 20:03

2011-07-07 21:35

HAHAHA MADE MY DAY +1

2011-07-08 09:54

tao - together as one :)

2011-07-07 14:48

i think tao means in chinese or some of that languages tao = way

2011-07-07 14:57

tao Frod, the art of Frod :D

2011-07-07 15:01

dao=way

2011-07-07 15:44

they should call themselves Redux

2011-07-07 15:17

tao = together as one

2011-07-07 16:57

tao = together as one or something like that.

2011-07-07 18:51

finaly i see a fan of peri, he is Glorious!

2011-07-07 19:24

Still better than Mao, ain't that right?

2011-07-08 14:25

Sad for MNR! :s

2011-07-07 14:38

yeap hehe Lex will make some deadly damage to the opponnents good luck to them!

Good for them, but i highly doubt that they will even get 16 rounds in total in 3 matches. Edit : Or wait, are they playing 6 matches?

2011-07-07 14:39

yep. bo2

2011-07-07 14:44

not really bo2, that is not possible because best-of- should always be an odd number besides even though the matches will be played after each other each map counts individually so if you win 1 map you get 3 points if you win both 6.

2011-07-07 18:14

they will. Russian mixes are so unpredictable.

2011-07-07 15:37

Then you can't predict that they'll get more than 16 rounds either :o

2011-07-07 23:26

hehe, they got 20 rounds in 6 matches, out of which 9 were in 1 map against SK. 11 rounds in 5 maps otherwise :P

2011-07-09 15:21

thats good , Gl Lex MNR :(((((

gl :)

nice, GL!

2011-07-07 14:41

wow, gl

fbgaming in group A yes?

Together with the players from fbgaming, they will compete in Group A.

2011-07-07 14:45

Yes, with KerchNet , Frag eXecutors and SK Gaming.

MNR onliner.

2011-07-07 14:46

nah man he is good, he is damnly good

2011-07-07 14:47

fuuuuuuuck. sorry for my rude lang. MNR come on man :(

SNEG? rofl

2011-07-07 14:52

facebook gaming haha

2011-07-07 14:54

Great, gl taking at least 4 rounds vs FX

2011-07-07 14:58

they have to practice together for 3 days and only 2 players can do some damage, what do you want from them? :)

2011-07-07 15:00

nice,very nice

the fuck

to the picture? then I agree

2011-07-07 15:12

i guess we disagree then XD

2011-07-07 18:25

Their team isnt very good, but comeon, we get to see LeX! Who cares? :D

2011-07-07 15:07

hoho, gl

2011-07-07 15:19

btw, extremely cool to see Virtus pro paying off a young team's expenses.Too bad they dont have Arbalet's money :(

2011-07-07 15:28

Fck me, If I understood any word of this article. P.S: And my english in on a high level!

2011-07-07 15:29

2011-07-07 15:49

its obvious how high is it :)

2011-07-07 17:27

Gj from Virtus. Becuase people like that CS is still alive. Btw. hally + MNR are really great, they can do some dmg!

2011-07-07 15:31

gl LeX

What's the motivation for Virtus.pro to do this?

Virtus very generous.

2011-07-07 15:51

Why they cut Kioken? He was good... Btw too bad that MNR can`t play.. :(

2011-07-07 15:52

damn Lex+MNR would be quite interesting to watch

2011-07-07 15:54

Finally some good news...

2011-07-07 16:06

MNR > delm1k ;[

2011-07-07 16:08

sad

2011-07-07 16:09

sneg, delmik are FKIN NOOBS, where is kio?

2011-07-07 16:36

WHERE IS MNR:(

2011-07-07 18:57

Who leads in Moscow Five ?

2011-07-08 03:16

ed1k i think:)

2011-07-08 13:07

oke :) ty

2011-07-08 14:40

new dreamteam on ICSC8?

2011-07-07 16:43

MNR >>>>>>>>>>>> delm1k

2011-07-07 16:48

legend <3

2011-07-07 17:01

ydachi hally!

2011-07-07 17:04

shame on .. virtys.pro had to pay others stuff :x

2011-07-07 17:07

i believe that seized will create a new team with his old teammate nrkkk and it is going to be seized nrkkk MNR hally m1hka You'll see it will be great line-up ,I'm looking forward to see nrkkk top awp of Russia ,he's really got very huge potential

2011-07-07 17:18

Surprising to see seized and delm1k play whereas MNR and kioken would probably have been much better options. Sneg is not surprising because someone has to pay the tickets I personally expected OverDrive to do this who is also a much better player. LeX is not surprising because he can get along well with both Sneg and OverDrive. Overall somewhat disappointing where this lineup would have been possible: OverDrive LeX hally MNR kioken

2011-07-07 18:05

whahahahaha +_+ Biggest fail dude 1. Lex will NEVER NEVER NEVER play with such retarded like OverDrive ,believe me 2. There are other players who perform much better than hally and kioken perhaps names told you more about 'em than teamplay ...

2011-07-08 11:44

LeX played with OverDrive in tp.uSports and OverDrive >>>>> Sneg. Sneg is just a manager so you are the one who fails. The reason why people play with OverDrive/Sneg is because they pay for the accommodation and travel costs.

2011-07-08 11:57