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USA (GotFrag) - In an official announcement by way of an article titled "The Evolution of Complexity Gaming", Jason Lake and his organization have announced the switch to CS:Source for the CS 1.6 squad. This announcement confirms what most people in the community have known for several days, coL is going Source.

Complexity has been one of the best known, respected and even feared Counter Strike teams in North America and the world for quite some time now. Complexity is the #1 ranked team in the GotFrag North America Rankings and recently slipped to #3 from #1 in the GotFrag World Rankings. The team placed first at WSVG ISC this past summer but dissapointingly did not make it out of group play at the CPL Winter 2007 Championship.

Speculation about which teams would switch games has been high since the announcement by DirecTV and CGS that the game of choice for CGS would be Source. 3D announced the switch this week along with roster changes and were added to CEVO Pro Source Season III. Several other top CS 1.6 teams followed suit over the next couple of days with Complexity added to the list of teams by CEVO but without an official response from the Complexity organization.

Complexity did announce roster changes earlier in the week with the announcement that Corey �tr1p� Dodd and Justin �sunman� Summy had been released from the squad and a few days later naming Ronald �Rambo� Kim and Marcus "zet" Sundstr�m as the replacements for Dodd and Summy.

The following is an excerpt from the official Complexity announcement found at complexityclan.com:

Today, The Syndicate is officially confirming news that has been the subject of much speculation over the past few weeks. Today coL.cs is officially moving to Counter-Strike: Source.

...Our decision to switch our primary gaming squad to CS:Source is in no way suggesting we prefer the platform over 1.6. This move is about the future and what we believe needs to be done to take our organization and E-Sports in general to the next level.

More of the official announcement can be found here. Complexity takes on 1shot this Sunday, January 21st in CEVO Pro Source Season III. Stay tuned to GotFrag for full, comprehensive coverage of Complexity and all the teams and matches in this exciting season of CEVO Pro Source.

Source: complexityclan.com

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kewL

Should be good cant wait till sunday to see them play

awesome. Competetive 1.6 in America is officially dead

was good

#3
you is wrong

lets see how long it takes for them to go back to 1.6
i shall count the days

Have some fun and win.

i think this is a really good decision and will help eSports gl coL ill be rooting for you

sold out

#Devastation

nice one

suck on that 1.6 fanboys hahhahha

This comment was edited at 01/19/2007 6:52 PM

in yo face

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This is much like quake4 in 2006, people made the switch to earn the money that CPL offered, but as soon as the money was gone everyone left and went back to quake3 a 7 or 8 year old game if I am correct.

Erin Go Braugh

</3 cs:s

source sohuld be called sumthing else. and col got zet who is supposed to show his skills thru css?

source is so gay wow y would they go they better go backt to 1.6

haha

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"Our decision to switch our primary gaming squad to CS:Source is in no way suggesting we prefer the platform over 1.6. This move is about the future and what we believe needs to be done to take our organization and E-Sports in general to the next level"

it's sad that people are forced to play a game they don't like just for money. grats directv, grats.

#9

Our decision to switch our primary gaming squad to CS:Source is in no way suggesting we prefer the platform over 1.6.

suck on that

for the money not cause source is good

This comment was edited at 01/19/2007 6:59 PM

oh well.

quit sad...

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I Think when they launched cspromod it cause a revolution and bye bye cs source and 1.6 .

This comment was edited at 01/19/2007 7:03 PM

#3 yea because there isn't a gripe more other teams and a gripe more lan tournaments for 1.6 right?

teams switching to source only leaves room for other teams to get to the top to take their places... 1.6 isn't dead

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Honestly, who is going to watch this on tv, and who even has Direct Tv?

"The directions say 'Cook and Chill'. And that's what I do, I cook, and then I chill!"

rofl

all this means that zet will play css from now?

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

"You can either lead the way or play catch-up. You can either drive the bus or be chasing after it. We will miss playing 1.6 professionally very much, but choose to lead rather than follow. "

Yea they are so leading the way unlike all the other teams that switched to source a long time ago Even if you only consider the last few weeks only. They really look to be "following" more than "leading."

#23 100 million people in america has DirecTV - I believe, or that is what they said, unless that was in the world... I dunno lawl - I dont have direcTV, and yea I feel you, just saying my opinion ! :D

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No one is going to watch source on TV, and the people who have directTV, I seriously doubt they'll be watching CSS.

If ya flippin' coke or flippin' burgers, get that paper and provide the best service

coL is bad...

interesting as in freaking retarded? -jESUIT @ WEG

I would definitely watch if I had direct tv, css is bad tho

This comment was edited at 01/19/2007 7:33 PM

It's going to be a huge wakeup call when they find out the skill gap for the game is a lot smaller(bad for pro teams, especially one that just spent alot of $$ on high profile players like zet). That is honestly what I hate the most about CS:S. The game has less aspects for people to master, this in turns creates a very low skill cieling. It is hard to be motivated when you can't get much better than anyone else at the game. Although 1.6 was reaching that cieling, source already has it. There are less skills to master in source(if you argue differently you need to go jump off a cliff), which will make the game more boring to spectate, and ultimately teams will lose the will to practice. Honestly im also disappointed teams are going to let direcTV create a monopoly over the scene :/. I for one watched the first CGI at my teammates house and we were laughing our asses off about how cheesy it was(and did anyone see that promo?!). I really wouldn't have a problem with source if the skill gap was bigger, and wouldn't have a problem with direcTV if it wasn't presented 1) In an extremely corny and cheesy way 2) If they didn't own the players and make the sign exclusivity agreements and 3) If they didn't butcher the format that is best for the spectators and competitors.

This comment was edited at 01/19/2007 7:37 PM

#Premier! Texas LAN team competing in CAL-Ripken

america can't beat europe in cs 1.6 so they all goes source. now,then all americans play source, some america's teams will go to another game where they could win sth. Like chess. When all americans will play chess, some of them will go to another game. Like GTA. when all americans will play GTA, some of them will go roulette. etc etc etc

This comment was edited at 01/19/2007 7:16 PM

#3 haha. Not hardly and when CSP comes out I am sorry to say, Source will be the one who is dead.

#28, so what you are saying is that no matter what FPS games ppl plays, there's no future to it?.So if Direct TV host 1.6 , will you get Direct TV?

Good luck with Source.

CSP needs a lot of work before it can take over Source's spot, and that'll be awhile, but GL with that.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

badddd

#35
csp needs a lot of work?
how would you know that if you have only played the beta maps
which I am assuming you have played

sell outs.

coL. sold out, too bad cs:source is boring regardless. There is an estimated 57,240 current counter-strike: source players (btw 95,517 1.6 players). So out of 57,240 cs:s players, how many of those do NOT play competitively, how many of those do NOT have DirecTV, and how many of those do NOT enjoy spectating matches off anything. Do the math, the idea won't go far and the professional counter-strike players will return. When source was first released, every team switched back in under a month. gg.

This comment was edited at 01/19/2007 7:39 PM

never liked col i knew they would get gayer as time went, tr1p (and storm) was the only one i liked ironically he (tr1p) was removed from col.. thank god he would of had to join the source train

unless eg joins the source train too :[

This comment was edited at 01/19/2007 7:26 PM

eg is playing in cevo css

All games require the same amount of skill. The skill required to win in a game is only the amount of skill your opponents have. If source is "too easy" than your opponents are too easy.

In any case it's promod not source.

the end.... also why u 1.6ers in the source forums o_O make ur self comfy eh

If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.

terrible news.

very sad

crafted from the souls of gods.

Teams besides the top (CAL-Invite) are idiots for switching to Source if they do it for money. You won't win money. Sorry. "SOURCE IS WHERE DA MONEY AT YO"... yeah, for top teams, not 99% of the people who say this.

I enjoy Source, not as much as 1.6, but wouldn't mind quitting one. Whichever is more competitive.

#afterwind all day

#31...thats a very bold statement.

How does source take no skill? maybe in pubs it doesnt, but trying playing good teams and tell me its easy. The only other thing to master in 1.6 is wall spamming. I dont think the players care how bad or cheesy cgi looked because i can assure u a 50,000$ check looks a lot better.

#42 You clearly don't understand what a skill gap is. Although the game is "easier" for everyone the fact that there are not alot of skills to seperate you from the crowd is a bad thing. #47 I did not say it takes no skill, im just stating there are less actual talents or aspects of the game to master. This means that there is a lot less of a gap seperating those who practice a lot from those who don't practice at all etc.

This comment was edited at 01/19/2007 7:34 PM

This just means more opportunity for other 1.6 teams to move to the top..good for them.

Shag: When he teases me, it hurts.

kids stick to 1.6 if you're that obsessed with it

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