Counter-Strike: PGS Exponor: Exotic replaces kerchNET

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By - 'anGeRrR' -

Sep 22, 2012 10:03

The Ukrainian team kerchNET announced that they will not be attending the ProGamerSeries Exponor event that will be held the next month. The organization behind the tournament picked up Exotic as replacement.

One of the first teams that confirmed their presentation at the ProGamerSeries Exponor Counter-strike 1.6 event,

KerchNET has now announced that they will not travel to the Portuguese capital city to attend the tournament. The last official presentation of the Ukrainian troop was three weeks ago when they managed to come on top at the ASUS Summer Cup.

KerchNET in-game leader

Andrew 'B1ad3' Gordenskiy stated:

"We want to announce that our team will not attend PGS event due to some financial issues.

It is a big blow for our team, since we had huge expectations for this tournament."

With the confirmation of kerchNET dropping their attendance, the organization behind the tournament quickly announced that the replacement to fill the free slot will be taken for a local team, [TEAM:]. The Portuguese squadron managed to reach the quarter-finals stage in the HLTV.org's qualifier #1 for the Dreamhack Bucharest.

Exotic has the following lineup:

Tiago "dzt" Gonçalves

Diogo "Ririo" Aguiar

João "ehz" Monteiro

João "KillDream" Ferreira

Rui "SHOUW" Reis

PGS attendants team's list so far:
GamerHouse

exotic

WebOne

Karont3

USSR

Virtus.pro

fnatic

Anexis

Na'Vi

The Pro Gamer Series Exponor will take place between October 11th and 14th, in the Portuguese capital city, Porto and will feature a $11.162 prize money for the champion team.

Source: HLTV.org