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Counter-Strike: 4Kings releases UK team

By: Luis Mira - Published September 10, 2008 at 5:16 PM EDT - Writer Archive
Four Kings has decided to release the UK-based Counter-strike squad.
The British team, currently playing sYnck for the Extreme Masters qualifier, started the game against the Estonian side under the name virtuoso, and speculation suggesting that 4Kings had parted ways with the team immediately surfaced.

4Kings has now confirmed the dismissal of the UK-based team following a series of disappointing results, thus deciding to focus on the Finnish team, who joined the organisation earlier this summer.

"After playing under the 4Kings name for a while now, we've chosen to release the team," 4Kings Manager Ian "Javax" Leckey told the team's official website. "Coming originally from virtuoso as being the UK's number one team, they failed make substantial leaps in the European scene and ultimately fell behind in the UK scene too, losing their throne to dignitas.

"After a number of lineup changes and player swaps, the team have been unable to rectify the situation. With jenuwin moving away soon, which would result in yet another roster change, we've decided to call it a day."

Leckey also noted that 4Kings won't be looking for a new British CS team to replace this one.

4Kings' team was the following:

United Kingdom Adam "JenuwiN" Griffiths
United Kingdom Sean "madSpunk" Loke
United Kingdom Phil "monkE" Dale
United Kingdom Andy "mh" Gray
United Kingdom Paul "ShaQ" Shackleton

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interesting fail
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JenuwiN was actually a really good player. Its not like this change means anything though, they never attended big events anyways.
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big fail
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good move by 4k
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Strange. If you're not the number one, you get fired. Esports has still a lot to go
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Finally...
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#5 Its like that for all big organizations in sports...
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give another uk team a chance you f*cks
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find a swedish team!
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/agreed Joe
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#8 Not sure that wearing the tag is enough to call a 'chance' :)
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JenuwiN needs to join a good cs team. he's consistent and can pull off big frags.
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#5 MYM is like that, look at what they did to their CoD 4 team.
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That sucks, hopefully this will put some fire into British CS players and they will start pulling off some good results.
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They should have kept JenuwiN, picked up dignitas and replaced somebody
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hey 4kings

what about Norwegian team? element, Xeqtr , real , prb etc.....

Bring them.
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SQL > 4Kings
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#15 "With jenuwin moving away soon, which would result in yet another roster change, we've decided to call it a day."

also dig are thebetter organisation anyway

This comment was edited at 09/11/2008 3:15 AM
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4kings > ur current encore lineup
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#5

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Strange. If you're not the number one, you get fired. Esports has still a lot to go


hardly.... this UK 4k team wasnt even close to being number 1, or number 20 or even 50 maybe. Look at the finnish 4k team... do u consider them to be top10 world? even top20? yet they're still giving them a chance as they show more potential. This UK squad has been consistently underperforming since they got them pretty much. Was perfectly justified in getting rid of them imho.
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atleast they still got there finnish lineup.

This comment was edited at 09/11/2008 4:49 AM
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#15, yea, which was never gonna happen anyway
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PLEASE, PLEASE JUST DON'T TRY TO PICK UP DIGNITAS. I know it says they don't plan on getting
another UK team, but JUST DON'T.

and Dignitas don't accept!

Virtuoso were good, then they joined 4Kings and never achieved anything.
It really is a cursed team for UK 1.6.

GL to the Finnish team though.

I think Dignitas should pick up XeqtR and Elements Norwegian team, although I don't think they
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#20 you moron, he's talking about being number 2 in the UK, not the world. use some common sense you spastic.
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#20 it's about the UK :) [[[use your brain before you say something stupid!]]]
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gl :)
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4k were so 2004/5
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