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Excello says goodbye to Twista, welcomes Kuppi
Excello said goodbye to its Finnish squad's former player, Slaava "Twista" Räsänen, and at the same time welcomed Janne "Kuppi" Kuparinen.
By Antti 'drinn' Paasivaara
Mar 20, 2008 23:23
Excello said goodbye to its Finnish squad's former player, Slaava "Twista" Räsänen, and at the same time welcomed Janne "Kuppi" Kuparinen.Finnish team experienced its downs, which forced them to make minimal changes again for their roster. Surprisingly Slaava "Twista" Räsänen left the team for its own shape. Räsänen was however replaced by an experienced world class player, Janne "Kuppi" Kuparinen. Change was in place, when they felt the bad results at the last tournaments shaped their know-how. Kuparinen fits fine as he already knows rest of the players well.
"After the past not so good results, we felt like we needed some roster change in the team. Therefore we have released Slaava 'Twista' Räsänen from our line-up and the one who's replacing him is our old
New Excello
Tino "tihOp" Puumala
Antti "Shiri" Mäkinen
Konsta "kookas" Kaisla
Matti "SpikeOne" Järvinen
Janne "Kuppi" Kuparinen
"A few days ago Shiri called me and asked if I want to play with the Excello guys again. I have played a few tournaments with natu and some Russian people but that didn't come out so well, that's why I’m more than happy getting this offer from a Finnish team," Kuparinen explained.
Excello will have its debut with the new roster at Assembly Winter 2008 event, which is taking place this weekend between 22nd - 24th in Tampere, Finland.
Photo: ESL
"After the past not so good results, we felt like we needed some roster change in the team. Therefore we have released Slaava 'Twista' Räsänen from our line-up and the one who's replacing him is our old
"After the past not so good results, we felt like we needed some roster change in the team."
fellow, Janne 'Kuppi' Kuparinen," says Tino "tihOp" Puumala at Excello's website.New Excello
Tino "tihOp" Puumala
Antti "Shiri" Mäkinen
Konsta "kookas" Kaisla
Matti "SpikeOne" Järvinen
Janne "Kuppi" Kuparinen
"A few days ago Shiri called me and asked if I want to play with the Excello guys again. I have played a few tournaments with natu and some Russian people but that didn't come out so well, that's why I’m more than happy getting this offer from a Finnish team," Kuparinen explained.
Excello will have its debut with the new roster at Assembly Winter 2008 event, which is taking place this weekend between 22nd - 24th in Tampere, Finland.
Photo: ESL
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I gotta say that I really loved watching Kuppi play with FINRUS at ASUS Cup, and he looks like a top class player. I think it's great for Excello to bring him back if it doesn't hurt the chemistry.
As they started off so promosing by winning ASUS Cup, you would think that they were on a good run, but in Extreme Masters they really produced some dissapointing results. I doubt one play-change such as this will be enough to get the team going alone, but they probably just need to gain form.
but twista is a nice player!
And no, my finnish isn't any better.
He is fucking good,bad decision excello...