Counter-Strike: fnatic withdraw from ICSC 8

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By Mark 'XOXOmark' Emmerson

Jul 2, 2011 01:13

fnatic have announced that they will be withdrawing from the ICSC8 due to being unable to attend the LAN finals.

With the dates of a summer holiday of one of the

fnatic 's players clashing with the Intel Challenge Super Cup 8 LAN finals, the Swedish team have decided to withdraw from the tournament, leaving Group C with just one team (

KerchNET ).

Patrik 'cArn' Sättermon gave HLTV.org the following statement:

"We are unable to fit the ICSC finals into our schedule, as one of our players will be on holiday during the finals. Unable to attend the finals, we will put all of our focus on GameGune."

This means that a total of eight teams have withdrawn from the ICSC8 second group-stage so far and as a result of this announcement, either

Moscow Five or

Virtus.Pro (who are currently sitting in third place in their groups) will be awarded fnatic's LAN finals slot.

Before their departure from the tournament, fnatic lost to KerchNET on de_train with a score of 16:13 in their first 'second group-stage' fixture of the tournament.

Source: HLTV.org