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Janne "Kuppi" Kuparinen had been in the team for the past 18 months and decided to be inactive because of his military service, which will last for a period no less than six months.

"We knew for over a year that Kuppi would go inactive because of his upcoming military service, it's always a loss for your team when a player of his caliber leaves/goes inactive," said Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen, Serious Gaming's player.

In order to replace Kuparinen, Serious Gaming decided to move Ilkka "barrack" M�kinen, who had been inactive for almost half a year due to World of Warcraft, to the active roster once again.

"Luckily for us, barrack wanted to start playing again so we didn't need to recruit a new player. However, because barrack had a break from competition, it's probably going to take a while until we get our chemistry and teamplay together. Although Kuppi's inactivity is a great loss for Serious Gaming, I really look forward to play with barrack again because playing with him is a lot of fun," Kovanen said.

With this being said, Serious Gaming's roster is as follows:

Finland

Ilkka "barrack" M�kinen
Finland

Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen
Finland

Niko "naSu" Kovanen
Finland

Antti "Shiri" M�kinen
Finland

Toni "toNppa" Luhtapuro

You will have the chance to see this new lineup in the remaining NGL one's matches, which will put Serious Gaming against mouz, fnatic and x6tence.

Source: Serious Gaming

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Good luck to them

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GL :)

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Roster changes in SG? no way!

Good luck.

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military services nice :)
gl to all of em

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Far too many roster changes this year.

The end is nigh...

cOoL

#sniper-division

Thank god barrack is back

if this team would stick to their line-up lurrpis,shiri,nasu,barrack,kuppi they could be a top5 team in the world sadly they never do......

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kuppi is hard to replace
but barrack is a good try

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barrack owns, gl to serious hopefully they can get that "it" again.

thank god barrack returns!

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2 bad serious can't attend ESWC

gl to them, barrack is a great asset (if he can get back to his level at weg 5 )

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gl to them

This comment was edited at 06/25/2006 3:58 PM

kuppi > barrack, though they're both good. I still don't think they're a really TOP international team, though they're capable.

If quizzes are quizzical, then what are tests?

gl to them but i like kuppi better :/

most unstable roster in all of europe. they have a different roster at every event. stick with a 5 serious :/

This comment was edited at 06/25/2006 7:19 PM

if they kept nasu they are still a good team

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barrack is good

well, they are the worlds most overrated team...
Lurrpis, go wright some news on gotfrag!!

most unstable roster ? lol, they just attended events with STAND INS, as for the main roster the only change is toNppa in the place of Kuppi since like.. 2 years ago? :$

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good luck

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#25 Yeh we've had some standins but only change in roster we've had in last 18 months is barrack going inactive and toNppa joining in January 2006 - Before this one that is.

Nice pickup and goodluck!!

#27 every event after weg3 you've had a different line-up :)

he'll be back, just like shiri/barrack came back

ayb

#30 Well... CPL Winter was almost a joke on our side in terms of line-up - Shiri "quit" CS for few weeks before it and barrack couldn't skip more school to go right after WEG Season 3 (which he found out about few weeks before the event).

After that we attended shgOpen 2006, and then NetGamez 2006A (with same line-up: Kuppi myself naSu Shiri toNppa), then we had a ringer for toNppa at ESWC Qualifier because toNppa had already planned his 3 week vacation months before even joining our team - Can't really do anything about it, just bad luck with timing.

Next was WSVG Sweden... This time Kuppi was on vacation and Shiri didn't want to go with two new players (at the time we had no idea naSu would be allowed to play), and it took well over a month for the organisation to answer whether or not naSu was allowed to play, and they replied _3_ days before the event.

The difference between us and other teams is simply that when other teams can't fill their regular five, they stay home, while we usually still go with a stand-in. Also, most of the reasons aren't something our players can control, such as Kuppi going inactive now because of military service.

#31 Probably and hopefully, but he's going to have to serve his time first :p

This comment was edited at 06/26/2006 7:48 PM

#32 When are u going to "serve" ? :)

gl to them all >_<

barrack is the best player in the world

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Good luck with the military!

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serious gaming has done near to nothing on the international scene in quite awhile.

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that blows.

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GL to them :)

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