Counter-Strike: OK.fi change lineup, dispute over BASiC

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By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields

Jul 5, 2011 22:23

OK.fi has announced its newest lineup, with allu and dRiim replacing H^N and BASiC. The organisation claims BASiC is still contracted to them.

The new lineup of

Online Kingdom fi has been announced, with

Miikka 'dRiim' Toroi and

Aleski 'allu' Jalli joining to replace

Kimmo 'BASiC' Fagerholm and

Hannu 'H^N' Pohjalainen. H^N had to leave to undertake his military service, while BASiC left to play with

paistit .

Online Kingdom fi's new lineup:

Otto 'danzer' Dimitrow

Jirka 'JiGetus' Ryhti

Joni 'Freon' Huumo

Miikka 'dRiim' Toroi

Aleski 'allu' Jalli

Regarding the new players

freon told the team's website:

"Ever since our team suffered the loss of H^N and became unstable with players we've been trying to find the best possible replacements and today Im glad to inform that we've found our new replacements. We are very eager to prove that we can do good results as a team, and for our first test we will go to GameGune in bilbao later this month."

The new lineup is not without some controversy as the organisation claimed BASiC is still under contract with them:

"After seeing the last news regarding Kimmo "Basic" Fagerholm that he will be a permanent player for new Roccat team, we have to state that he is legally contracted with Online-Kingdom until January 2012. He is legally forbidden to sign any contract with other team/organization until that date."

BASiC responded by telling HLTV.org he considers the contract broken following the organisation apparently not keeping up their end:

"It seems to be lost on Online Kingdom that once they break multiple different parts of the contract, it becomes void. A contract only works if both parties hold up to their part of the agreement, but OK has broken the contract multiple times, so I no longer have any contractual obligations towards Online Kingdom."

OK.fi managed to cause some sparks at Xperia PLAY, where they defeated both

Lions.swe and

mTw but failed to make the playoffs due to a three-way tie being decided on round difference in favour of others. BASiC left the team to play with paistit, initially a mix team to play in ICSC8 but now a permanent team.

paistit will be attending the finals of the Ukrainian event under the Roccat name.

Source: Online Kingdom, HLTV.org 1 and 2