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Counter-Strike: emuLate says no to EM LA

By: Luis Mira - Published September 30, 2008 at 5:03 PM EDT - Writer Archive
2007 WCG champion emuLate has decided to cancel its participation in the upcoming Extreme Masters LA Global Challenge
This decision comes in the wake of emuLate's embarrassing WCG qualifier campaign, where it crashed out of the tournament at the group stage after losing to aAa and Ubiteam.

Contacted by GotFrag.com, Mathieu "R!Go-" Bridet stressed that this decision was not caused by the early WCG qualifier exit.

"We made this decision before the WCG qualifier, this was not caused by the results, the admin was contacted by e-mail before," Bridet told GotFrag.com.

"This decision was made because of ioRek's school commitments and because I will be moving to another house."

Bridet also noted that emuLate will still attend the Global Challenges taking place in Montreal and Dubai, two events the French team has already signed up for.

Meanwhile, the ESL has confirmed that emuLate's replacement will be unveiled on Wednesday.

A provisional list of teams for Extreme Masters LA looks as follows:

Finland Team Roccat
Poland Meet Your Makers
Sweden fnatic
Sweden SK Gaming
Denmark mTw
Brazil Made in Brazil
United States Evil Geniuses
United States Paragon of Virtue
United States x3o
United States 50 Calibre Gaming
United States Frag Dominant
United States team j1n
United States MugNmouse
United States Team Guardians
United States MoB Gaming

Stay tuned to GotFrag.com as we will update you on the Los Angeles Global Challenge event.

User Comments

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continent challenge
Spiral out, keep going. Spiral out, keep going. Spiral out, keep going.
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LMAO who cares
nerdcraft @ Gul'Dan US
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#2 emuLate would probably beat every US team there... They would of made an impact at this event.

I would like to see eSTRO and mouz their for sure.
#zone6 (. .*)ittst
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#3 This late notice i doubt those teams can make travel and visa arrangements.
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coL , should be interesting
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add complexity please
Kobe Bryant for President
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alright 7th place for USA!!
now go home and get your fucking shinebox!
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If any American team is going to upset a European team it'll be either MoB, x3o, or EG.
#kentucky

#8

Guardians has potential to upset a euro team but they gotta practice in order to do it
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#7 lol
"fRoD doesnt cheat" "#7 online/north america, you do the math" -qu4kE_
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good choice of words there #8, IF
EMD]Alspex
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#8 If any American team is going to upset a European team it'll be either MoB, x3o, or EG


well u can take off MoB and add Complexity
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#7 .. ROFL hahaahaa
Check it out now
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for american teams I think next will happen:

EG fail
POV will go through 1 stage
x3o will go through 2 or 3 stages
50 cal will go through 1 stage
FD fail
j1n fail
MnM will go through 1 stage
Guardians will go through 2 or 3 stages
MoB will go through 1 stage

Note: just an opinion
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The U.S. teams I see making a statement at this event would be EG, MoB, x3o, POV, Guardians and maybe 50|cal with an upset in there somewhere. The others, I don't see them doing anything.
~^.^~
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is tough for the americans to do something in this tournament. The weakest team on that list is roccat, and they are pretty good and the other 5 teams are the top5 of the world lol

1-pgs/fnatic/mtw
2-pgs/fnatic/mtw
3-pgs/fnatic/mtw
4-sk
5-mibr
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I'd say SK first
"fRoD doesnt cheat" "#7 online/north america, you do the math" -qu4kE_
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rSports will be replacing emulate
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#18 i hope they get another European team
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rSports is already confirmed. there is no other european team.

Lineup is: cuz, lover, spectro, xan, broodex.

gl to them

This comment was edited at 09/30/2008 9:55 PM
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rsports is probably going to get raped on lan
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emuLate is a joke.

They're not showing up because they don't want to embarrass themselves.

Their WCG win was a fluke and they know it.
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can u stfu? u dont know anything about emulate
adfddd `~~~

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