WinFakt drop CS team

15-5-2012 00:58

WinFakt have announced that they have decided to cut all bonds with their Finnish Counter-Strike 1.6 division.

The Finnish team, which attended 3rd Generation Intel Core Challenge by Inferno Online this past Saturday in Stockholm, is now without a home, as they have been dropped by the Belgian-based organization.

WinFakt signed the Finnish team in August last year, shortly before e-Stars Seoul. The deal was at first only for the South Korean event, but the two sides decided to continue the cooperation.

Since then the team went through several roster changes and after the IEM6 World Championship the team has been without captain Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen, who has stated he's inactive but has not retired. Since the event in March the team has used Miikka "dRiim" Toroi and Janne "Metaphor" Halinen to fill the fifth spot.

While representing WinFakt the Finnish team managed to win FireCore 3 and digifest Fall. The time in WinFakt also included podium finishes at IEM6 Global Challenge Guangzhou and New York, as well as Samsung Euro Championship and more recently a third place finish at Copenhagen Games.

The announcement on the WinFakt's website only states that the two sides are parting ways. Kimmo "BASiC" Fagerholm's statement on the team's website reads:

"It's been amazing time be part of WinFakt gaming team and organization. Their support for us has been easily the best I have ever had from organization and there have never been any problems to get some tournament if we wanted to attend and we have had possibility to compete against best teams in the world.

I dont want to comment what is gonna be our teams future and everything is quite open yet, but personally I'm gonna have a break from CS on pro level, even though I'm probably gonna play it again. Big thanks for WinFakt's management and players who have been playing with me during this time, it has been an awesome time."

As Fagerholm's comment states, the future for him and the team is still undecided, with Fagerholm stating he will take a break from the game.

WinFakt's lineup was:

Kimmo "BASiC" Fagerholm
Hannu "H^N" Pohjalainen
Aleksi "allu" Jalli
Timi "aslak" Verkkoperä
Janne "Metaphor" Halinen (stand-in)
Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen (inactive)

The Finns are currently participating in the fnatic RC PLAY Counter-Strike league, no comments have been made if they will continue or pull out of the league.

really sad, hope they found a new home soon.

2012-05-15 01:00

5 replies

Damit! too fast!

2012-05-15 00:59

4 replies

stop hatin:)

2012-05-15 01:01

Probably because of Diablo3 ;D

2012-05-16 01:53

2 replies

who plays diablo 3? only those unathletic nerds i heard.....

2012-05-16 03:59

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You say that like cs players are athletic/in shape lol...

2012-05-16 22:29

sad

omg, sad =[

good luck for them, bad news :/

Very sad!

sad :((

sad :(

2012-05-15 01:03

Sad...

2012-05-15 01:04

Wikipidiots

2012-05-15 01:05

sad :S

2012-05-15 01:06

sad, atm they were good, cph with driim they played good :(

2012-05-15 01:07

2012-05-15 01:08

wtf

But WinFakt are still supporting the team of Counter Strike 1.6?

2012-05-15 01:09

eh? I don't get it, the news reads winfakt drops cs team and u ask if they still support them :O I mean it's like we have a news about apple not being green anymore and u comment "but, are the apples still green??"

2012-05-15 03:04

You don't get it. I'm wondering If the organization (WinFakt) are still interested on CS to have another team in the future.

2012-05-15 03:33

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seem not:(

2012-05-15 04:29

Wasn't very clear in your first comment :)

2012-05-15 10:41

Nice english bro

2012-05-15 14:48

Practically 1 week for xfunction Fraglider cup in Portugal, winfakt drops CS division, GG

2012-05-15 01:10

+1 sad move

2012-05-15 01:14

winfucked =(((

2012-05-15 01:11

good luck on the walk

This team was a serious deal fuck sake. Sad..

2012-05-15 01:12

that's sad but not surprising imo

2012-05-15 01:15

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how its was expected? Im surprised :/ but i dont followes rumores closly

2012-05-15 01:26

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well, lurppis skipping tournaments without better explanations than "personal issues" and their failure at getting a stable line-up were little hints for me i'm not saying that i thought it would happen, tho, just that didn't surprise me

2012-05-15 01:35

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oh allrigth then i say it wasnt shock for me too, but I think its only 2 minor events without lurppis and then this happens? its from my POV a overreaction, but insiders must know all the story, allways there are xplanations.

2012-05-15 01:39

"2 minor events" well, parameters has changed. CPH and IO were important events, actually. also, like bRN said, 9 players in months, culminating on their captain's absence

2012-05-15 01:58

I guess both of you correct, i have no clue just kind of surprised after watching the good play and 2nd place finnish recently. but i absolutly understand smaller orgads demanding more stable results or more stable "atmosphere", only big teams can play around like this.

2012-05-15 02:02

lurppis stepping out was the biggest forward movement of winfakt 1.6 team EVER. winning 2 teams they have never won in a bo3 before is not a bad result imo. and dRiim wasnt sadly able to continue the journey with the rest of the team. I dont think your statement makes any sense at all.

2012-05-15 02:17

if you disagree, ok, if you don't think it even makes sense... well, bite me.

2012-05-15 02:39

it shows a little u know of cs, they did good on that tournament because of aslak and basic sick individual performances even allu did well. But drimm? lol he's show the impact he did on the games lol. Lurppis quiting them was like when lurppis was kicked out of EG they drop their consistency, that was the only thing that made EG being "called" a tp5/8 team of the world, and winfakt as well, i bet u that with lurppis they would not lose against teams like m5 eSreal and so on.

2012-05-15 03:01

How come you are surprised ? BASiC, fallu, H^N, aslak, dRiim, Metaphor, lurppis, naSu, JiGetus and plastE 9 players for less than 1 year, and the the team just got weaker and weaker.

2012-05-15 01:47

no,no,no i disagre on 1 point, "weakr and weaker" the event when they use stand in and beate both the navi and sk was it? only lost to fnatic in grand final? all bo3's, that impressed me so much i couldnt understand the release,that play was powerfull playing imo

2012-05-15 01:51

omg sad

2012-05-15 01:16

good teams with no orgas :/ fuck the lame eye-pretty games :/ GL guys, hope to see you back on track real soon

2012-05-15 01:17

Finland cs dead.

Step up then >D

2012-05-15 07:53

You can't really say that Finnish CS is dead since there is still hundreds of players and you can play with 5 finns against 5 finns everyday you want. Think about smaller countries where you dont even have players from your own country and think again... "Finnish CS" doesn't mean pro teams with organisations which competes against Worlds Top 5 teams.

2012-05-15 15:40

lol??

2012-05-15 01:19

Wow, that sucks. Hopefully the guys could find a new team soon.

wtf?

2012-05-15 01:20

WTF!!? T____T

2012-05-15 01:22

2012-05-15 01:24

SAD :/

cs dying ;/

too bad :/

Miikka "dRiim" Toroi Hannu "H^N" Pohjalainen Aleksi "allu" Jalli Timi "aslak" Verkkoperä Janne "Metaphor" Halinen

2012-05-15 01:28

rip

2012-05-15 15:09

one by one... slowly but surely

2012-05-16 17:59

2012-05-15 01:31

omfg..so sad :((

2012-05-15 01:33

hope that they find a good org

2012-05-15 01:34

Cmon CS 1.6, fight, do not give up!

aslak amazing, it will be very stupid if nobody will pick up him

Lurppis will back to USA.

2012-05-15 01:41

wtf, ;o

2012-05-15 01:42

omg, how the hell do these teams can become sucessful and consistent if they are changing all the damn times...

2012-05-15 01:43

2012-05-15 01:44

line em up. :\ best of luck gents.

2012-05-15 01:54

really sad, i really liked winfakt :(

Oh man WINfakt.... i liked this team really. Its so bad and sad. I dont understand why ...

TEAM Top 5 CS. No really I dont understand...

2012-05-15 02:03

sk fnatic esc navi esrael

2012-05-15 02:13

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sk fnatic esc navi (esral winfakt) there is not certain fifth spot on top5 atm.

2012-05-15 02:19

Doesnt matter they were i great team its so sad i hope they find a new organization

2012-05-15 02:22

or M5,they are in the same level

2012-05-15 02:24

Lemondogs ?

2012-05-15 09:37

too

2012-05-15 10:49

can we expect Power Gaming comeback ?

2012-05-15 11:12

Power Gaming is not an organization anymore ?

2012-05-15 20:56

no point to invest in CS anymore :) Sponsors are leaving

2012-05-15 11:48

sad but true

2012-05-16 02:05

sad about winfakt , but still good chance for aslak to join better team(only my opinion)

2012-05-15 02:05

aslak>friis

2012-05-15 14:40

2012-05-15 02:06

EG react fast and pick them up ;p

2012-05-15 02:12

lol lurppis

2012-05-15 02:15

It's probably the last one or two years of CS1.6, more and more teams will go to the end, sad but it's happening

sad they were quite great lately

No way man, is really sad read this news.

2012-05-15 02:29

Omg, NO! ):

2012-05-15 02:33

I hope aslak doesn't quit

2012-05-15 02:34

Fucking sad, hope to see you soon guys

2012-05-15 02:44

:(((

2012-05-15 02:49

Lurppis quiting them was like when lurppis was kicked out of EG they drop their consistency, that was the only thing that made EG being "called" a tp5/8 team of the world, and winfakt as well, i bet u that with lurppis they would not lose against teams like m5 eSreal and so on. 2bad, but i think most of those new lineups that you guys are seeing right now will move to cs:go in the end of the year, that is probably when the game gona be released, u will see this lineup or a similar one coming back and other teams move on to the new game.

2012-05-15 03:03

" i bet u that with lurppis they would not lose against teams like m5 eSreal and so on. " they did, several times.

2012-05-15 03:25

o.O vs eSrael? vs m5 i can bealive but i bet it was even, now against team like anexis wikipediots and other teams at their level and bellow was rair to see them lose but i can be wrong

2012-05-15 03:46

True. SK players already playing CS;GO everyday

2012-05-15 15:14

that's normal, that's only reason orgs are beting in new cs1.6 lineups, cause they want them to move on to cs:go imo

lurpis help him!! :(

2012-05-15 02:57

2012-05-15 02:58

Read this news reminds me, he is dying cs :///.

2012-05-15 03:02

v.sad :/

2012-05-15 03:05

plaste and lurppis will be back .. maybe :/ lets hope to see a new big finnish team :)

2012-05-15 03:10

Wasn't plaste and igl ? 2 igls in one team?

2012-05-15 03:12

Well, they were together in the old lineup and It was fine :)

2012-05-15 03:43

2012-05-15 09:15

plastE igl? hahah. You trolling here again.

2012-05-15 14:39

Who was igl in power gaming ? Im not trolling i seriously that that plaste was igl

2012-05-15 17:27

natu

2012-05-16 06:51

very sad :((( <3 winfakt

2012-05-15 03:18

No plaste was a fragger

2012-05-15 03:20

Lurppis aslak plaste nasu metaphor jige allu (basic) there still a chance :]

=OOOOOO

2012-05-15 03:42

bad, ex-WinFakt is a very very good.

2012-05-15 03:57

2012-05-15 04:03

i don't believe D: very very very sad :(

2012-05-15 04:26

very very sad;( i'm cry

2012-05-15 05:25

no way

2012-05-15 05:28

Fuck this bullshit, i love the team i love players who play in WF not WF organisation...i don't give a fuck about organisation i hope that will find a new org..but please guys don't quit!!! aslak,allu,baisic,han,metaphor!!! driim,jigetus,nasu,lurppis,plaste. Don't let bad time destroys you ... the last thing we wanna do is do not finished like wemadeFOX, good players who have withdrawn because they did not find org

2012-05-15 05:41

Weird things gonna throughout this year. Wish their best :(

2012-05-15 05:54

2012-05-15 05:58

2012-05-15 06:04

wpfinland

2012-05-15 06:10

very sad :(

2012-05-15 06:26

wtf:(

2012-05-15 06:45

Well thats a suprise.. NOT.

2012-05-15 06:56

- metaphor, and go !

2012-05-15 07:04

Hes better then lurppis

2012-05-15 14:56

The Powerpuff Girls lurppis plastE naSu aslak allu so sick?

2012-05-15 07:22

this is sad!

2012-05-15 07:24

ya sad

2012-05-15 19:44

+dRim

2012-05-15 07:35

sad but maybe they'll do like Lions or like eSrael ... important is not the team but the players

2012-05-15 07:41

2012-05-15 07:57

waiting for another "cs is dying" thread

2012-05-15 08:12

Finnish cs is dead for sure. No 1.6 on lans, no new players, no sponsors, no leagues, no teams.

Ehm I meant competitive cs but never mind. Of course you can play clanbase for fun but no ways to go competitive.

2012-05-15 16:15

mate, be happy for your country :)

2012-05-15 18:45

Wow sadd this is why i quitted CS, this game is dying fast. And finnish cs is dead, thats for sure. Never new people to play against. So after 7 years it rly was over for me and this new confirms that CS is gonna die no matter what..

2012-05-15 08:29

omg its not even 1st of April :o

2012-05-15 08:36

who next?

2012-05-15 08:48

Na`Vi :S

2012-05-16 22:24

Will WinFakt drop 1.6 for good or just says goodbye to the team?

2012-05-15 08:51

#22

2012-05-15 14:28

Not the same question... :-)

2012-05-15 14:29

Pretty much the same :))

2012-05-15 14:30

Nope. I'm asking if WinFakt stops for good to have anything to do with 1.6 in their future. :)

2012-05-15 14:31

Na you asked if WinFakt stops for good to have anything to do with 1.6 in their future. :)

2012-05-15 14:33

Nope. He asked if WinFakt stops for good to have anything to do with 1.6 in their future. :)

2012-05-15 17:40

Noone invited you in this conversation.

2012-05-15 18:00

CS DIES, -1 orga

2012-05-15 08:54

Sad sad.

2012-05-15 09:04

You go play LoL dumb noob :)

2012-05-15 14:27

Who are u ? real nick ?

Human being. Your father.

2012-05-15 17:17

wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut??? nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..... fuck this shit ss

2012-05-15 09:17

Aslak goes do a big carrer :)

2012-05-15 09:26

I am really getting sick of Lurrpises behaviour.

2012-05-15 09:31

bad

2012-05-15 09:33

welcome to MAD-Devils :D joke me team onli friends :P

2012-05-15 09:41

aslak where go?

2012-05-15 09:46

:^(

2012-05-15 09:47

well played , bb gl

2012-05-15 09:48

lurrpis fault.

2012-05-15 10:04

i think they will comeback when lurppis join team again:)

2012-05-15 10:08

Power Gaming i hope !

2012-05-15 10:22

Badd.Sadd..euFFFFFFFFFFF sad MomEnT buT I haVe a loT of tEAms To sUppoRT........

2012-05-15 10:18

expected

2012-05-15 10:32

sad winfakt was good team saaad :(

2012-05-15 10:33

lurppis aslak BASiC naSu JiGetus BEST FINNISH LINEUP IMO

2012-05-15 10:53

best lu with no allu? no way!!!!

2012-05-15 11:09

i think with allu is no way or you are just kidding?

2012-05-15 11:19

allu is sick

2012-05-15 11:34

i am not kidding, allu so great and underrated player:)

2012-05-15 14:38

SAD. hope they`ll find new org

2012-05-15 11:05

sad ... hope to see allu & aslak in a different team

2012-05-15 11:11

2012-05-15 11:15

Really sad I liked them :(

2012-05-15 11:30

sad :( create munnka team !

2012-05-15 11:51

+1 create munnka

2012-05-15 11:53

2012-05-15 11:56

2012-05-15 11:58

stay in the fnatic league please

2012-05-15 12:01

Sad news. Organizations and events are killing CS 1.6, why?

2012-05-15 12:14

OMG SAD:(

2012-05-15 12:20

Diablo III

2012-05-15 12:41

SADDD

2012-05-15 12:48

This is lurrpis folt, they cant play without igl lol, Holp the rest players will countinue without BASiC but i also i wanna se and BASiC, So gl guys in the future:)

2012-05-15 12:53

+1, i would also quit if u are getting better and better results everytime and then igl of your team decides to go offline from steam for like 2months..

2012-05-15 13:22

SAD ;_;

2012-05-15 13:04

Crap

2012-05-15 13:06

sad.. New Team aslak allu H^N dRiim lurppis

2012-05-15 13:30

unexpected

2012-05-15 13:39

2012-05-15 13:54

Sad :/ eestrails > Winfakt Imo

2012-05-15 14:02

back to roccat ! :D and if basic don't want to play they can bring back jigetus and lurrpis :P:P

2012-05-15 14:03

whatever.

2012-05-15 14:15

wow too sad

2012-05-15 14:17

np !

2012-05-15 14:22

nice

Cry!

I think it's just for now, I hope you will find stable organization. (Power Gaming) And also I think WinFakt organization will take some team, such as the current Lemondogs.

back with old line up :lurpis allu aslak jigetus basic.. :D

hope that some other organization will pick them up again

2012-05-15 14:45

NOOO

2012-05-15 14:46

hope that this guys will find good organization sad

2012-05-15 14:49

They will found new organization very fast i think. ;]

2012-05-15 14:53

OMG MY FAVORIT TEAM !!! SO SADDDDDD

2012-05-15 14:54

so fucking sad :( but i think they'll found another sponsor

hope power gaming will pick them up. they are way better now than the last PG lineup

2012-05-15 15:02

CS IS DEAD. OH HOW SAD IT IS... SAD( OMG Fuck yall cunts who post this kind of shit.

2012-05-15 15:12

i would like to see basic jigetus allu aslak and kalle( if he can understand finnish) or lurpis

2012-05-15 15:23

man , everyone writing sad sad like some player died :O

2012-05-15 15:26

:o :S

2012-05-15 15:27

sad...

2012-05-15 15:47

One more team...

2012-05-15 16:01

2012-05-15 16:09

If it was NaVi i'd would be glad but WinFakt damn ... hope the guys find a new team !

2012-05-15 16:17

:/ hope they continue in another org.

2012-05-15 16:54

good move they had no chance without jigetus...

2012-05-15 17:01

I think you have no clue what you're talking about :)

2012-05-15 18:49

no, only jigetus fanboy :) and i was angry if he was kicked from WF so i stopped cheering WF

2012-05-15 19:09

freon danzer jigetus plaste h^n gg

2012-05-15 17:10

Im gonna cut someones head if anybody will start with "cs is dead"

2012-05-15 17:15

cs is dead

2012-05-15 17:16

Well MedaY sayd that they picked up Lemondogs

true

2012-05-15 17:59

weird move kicking a team to pick up another thats not even better ?

2012-05-15 22:06

WUT?!

2012-05-15 17:20

finnish cs scene is dying :( spikeone kuvick tihop driim plaste <3

2012-05-15 17:38

69N-28E back plz tomi!!!

2012-05-15 17:39

bad dream :(

What a surprise. Really. Not a least bit sarcastic. I'm shocked. Flabbergasted. A Finnish CS-team that shows promise fails to stay together, and gets dropped from an organization. It's a first I'm sure.

2012-05-15 17:51

Really fast, Metaphor Noob.

2012-05-15 18:08

now they can call self LoseFakt :D

2012-05-15 18:13

dafuq o,_O nooo!

2012-05-15 18:18

Sad ;/

2012-05-15 18:50

sad , very sad =/

2012-05-15 19:18

WHAT THE F***

2012-05-15 19:39

sad, but cs is dying, what do u want :/

2012-05-15 19:40

2012-05-15 20:13

youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc so sad :S ...

2012-05-15 21:01

Sad news. The team was improving a lot lately, I hope they can find a nice orga.

2012-05-15 21:02

didnt see that one was coming

sad... they are a great team

2012-05-15 22:33

uh not good

2012-05-15 22:36

so sad! :(

2012-05-15 22:58

Rly rly rlyy saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadd!

2012-05-15 23:08

omg other top team T_T i miss the old cs 1.6 :(

2012-05-15 23:15

I am cry...

2012-05-16 00:10

I hope someone picks them up. Where are you, redCode?

2012-05-16 07:13

WinFakt were so much better with naSu and lurppis.

2012-05-16 10:41

oh on!! really it very fuck

2012-05-16 13:18

LEMONDOGS.cs (threat&co) joins to WinFakt.

2012-05-16 17:15

I bet BASiC is gonna play Diablo3 !!!

2012-05-16 18:23

2012-05-16 22:20

So much talented finish players but they always fail to make a stable team. If they play for 3/4 months without changing lineups they can easily become top5 but I guess the lack of motivation is too big.

2012-05-17 01:13