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All Games: KALbI4 denies rumours about M19 return

By: Luis Mira - Published November 20, 2006 at 2:49 PM EST - Writer Archive
Former M19 player, Alexandre "KALbI4" Gribov, has denied all the recent reports regarding the comeback of the Russian team.
A project headed by a Russian gamer that goes by the name of di4m0nd was announced today as the comeback of the Russian team that had an impact in the Counter-Strike scene some years ago. Apparently, the name would still be M19 and the team would have already signed up for the CPL Dallas event and all of its players would move on a permanent basis to the United States in order to practice in a country that had more conditions to offer than Russia.

"Because USA has more to cs gaming in money which means you can EARN way more money in USA by competing in CS and at the same time its fun, sponsors way more in that field that you could never imagine, easier living style, and basically the only competitors in USA that stand a chance complexity & JMC," Di4m0nd told meetyourmakers.com.

However, Alexandre "KALbI4" Gribov, former member of M19 roster, denied all these reports and claimed that di4m0nd is just trying to profit from the M19 name and that the famous Russian Internet Cafe has no relation whatsoever with this new team.

"I am living like 10 mins from M19 Internet cafe, and I know all the people that work there. No one there gave him the M19 clan tag and yet he just wants to steal it. Yes, M19 clan tag isn't registered, but It is so bad when some is trying to get famous from it."

Although Alexey "Nook" Kozlovskiy is said to be part of this new M19 team, Gribov told MYM that he only wants to get a free trip to the USA and that he doesn't care much about this whole situation. According to him, di4m0nd has been inviting several Russian top players for the last two years in order to create new projects, which always ended up not becoming true.

Gribov doesn't believe that the M19 cafe will ever create a new team. To him, the organisation didn't give the players the necessary conditions to play at the highest level. The Internet cafe is currently closed for an undetermined period of time.

"I really don't think that they are going to make a new team. M19's organisation was really silly, the only thing that they gave us and all the former M19 players like Lexer was only a free computer and internet. What I do know is that the M19 cafe is closed for rebuilding or closed forever, I think they haven't got time for gaming now."

Gribov told Gotfrag.com that the M19 former captain, Madfan, and him just want to let the M19 name fade away and that neither of them are planning on creating a new team.

"Madfan quit gaming, he is like 25 years old and he won't start any gaming activity, like a leader or manager. I talked with him about that many times, we just want to see M19 die. Only Rado and I from M19 are still playing. Lexer quit gaming, just like the WC3 players and good Fifa gamers like Alex. This di4m0nd has been spamming people from all over the world for the past two years. I told him to do his own team like Di4m0nd team and stop trying to get fame from the M19 name."

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