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Counter-Strike: Excello loses CS team

By: Luis Mira - Published July 11, 2008 at 3:26 PM EDT - Writer Archive

Team Excello and its Finnish Counter-Strike team have decided to part ways by mutual consent.

This decision comes in the wake of the squad's participation at ESWC Masters, where it crashed out of the tournament in the group stage, finishing in third place in its group, behind SK Gaming and emuLate.

The team was never able to make its mark at Excello, pulling disappointing campaigns in the international events attended, such as DTS-CUP or ASUS Winter 2008.

According to the official announcement, the team and the Excello organization had a meeting right after ESWC Masters in which "it became clear that that both sides didn't share the same vision for the future."

Excello plan on focusing on World of Warcraft, while the Counter-Strike team is expected to continue playing together in a new organization.

Excello had the following line-up:

Finland

Konsta "kookas" Kaisla
Finland

Matti "SPIKEONE" Jarvinen
Finland

Janne "Kuppi" Kuparinen
Finland

Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen
Finland

Joona "natu" Leppanen

User Comments

sucks, hopefully they all stay together because that lineup might be able to give roccat a run for the top Finnish team

good luck

2bad tbh

lurpis is retired, what do you expect

"fRoD doesnt cheat" "#7 online/north america, you do the math" -qu4kE_

Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen

what? i thought he was on roccat

saw this coming, they weren't performing good at all.

A finnish team has to change its organization at least once in six months. Laws of the nature man.

they were underperforming for a while, sort of expected

Gravitas Gaming??

GL to them, I like the lineup they have.

I Started the FURY craze!

yea.. not surprising really.. they haven't done anything for a while..

hai

Kind of unjustified comments considering we've only played 4 weeks together with these 5 but ok fair enough =D

#11 bring back D-SKY

#7 <3

What?

*DEAD* m Y m Neo : laugh now cry later cogut :D

I've been disappointed by their performances lately since I really hoped for them to establish themselves as the top Finnish team. I hope they'll stay together and make some damage soon.

2bad tbh

w a f f l e s.

wow:o i always thoght fragbite was late with news, but they posted this the day after ESWC masters.

icanhascheezburger?

lurppis said that he would be inactive in summer :? but it seems he will be playing cs :D

#FIFTAR @ quakenet

#17 It hadn't happened then, they posted a rumor about us being kicked which wasn't true, we ended up leaving late Thursday though.

edit: I said I'd play an event or two with Kuppi (as I have), and I said I don't see myself playing competitively once school resumes in late August but I never said I "retired" (retarded word to use with CS anyways)

This comment was edited at 07/11/2008 7:05 PM

ah okay #19

icanhascheezburger?

Not accusing anyone in any way, but #7 is right. There is something wrong in finnish pro-teams.

!! ! :D ! !!

fragbite already reported about this like a week ago

edit; oho, vois harrastaa lukemist ;D

This comment was edited at 07/12/2008 8:33 AM

Spiral out, keep going. Spiral out, keep going. Spiral out, keep going.

looks like a solid team on paper, bad luck with the organisation.

-ziggity-ziggity-

g00d 0nline

♥♥♥ [◣_◢] ♥♥♥

#22 �� - Li - �!

This comment was edited at 07/12/2008 3:08 PM

gl guys. good team!

jg4i - just go for it

#22 read #19

icanhascheezburger?

m feeeLing bad for SPIKEONE n lurrpis + natu tooo !
gl to them 4 future ! keep playing cs hf!

Yeah the lineup was brand new and imo it was foolish for them not to be kept. Spikeone and kookas are two huge skill players and placed with these vets they could do something really impressive.