EG at WDC
Following the disbandment of Nirvana.cn, yet another team has been replaced in The Premier League; this time it is the Euro-American team Evil Geniuses.
In an official statement by The Premier League admins, some reasons behind this drastic decision was cited:
- EG was late by 45 minutes, two times in a row.
- EG forfeited their second game after giving away a lead of 1 to 0. It happened against Fnatic and Mineski. They wasted the times of their opponents, the PL staff and you, the spectators.
- EG didn't say a word or manifest any kind of excuse. They let us stand here with thousands of viewers, without a tiny bit of information.
- EG forfeited their second game after giving away a lead of 1 to 0. It happened against Fnatic and Mineski. They wasted the times of their opponents, the PL staff and you, the spectators.
- EG didn't say a word or manifest any kind of excuse. They let us stand here with thousands of viewers, without a tiny bit of information.
There was some confusion with regards EG's original participation in The Premier League as Jacob 'Maelk' Toft-Andersen, one of EG's members issued a statement after the ban was announced saying that they (EG) had already decided to withdraw from the competition:
"They (the Premier League) didn't know that we had pulled out of the tournament. We discussed it last weekend when we had to forfeit the game against Fnatic, and later this week, Fear, MiSeRy and I decided it would be for the best to forfeit it because its timeschedule was a pain in the ass for us and we didn't want to play numerous BO2 matches on US West hosts."
In line to replace EG are up and coming American team Fire, who have shown some remarkable results in recent weeks beating the likes of Dignitas, AbsoluteLegends and other top Dota 2 teams.
Statement from Fire manager Brian 'Chappy' Chapman:
"Fire is very excited about being asked to join The Premier League as latecomers. We're honored to be given the opportunity to compete with such high-caliber teams and tourny staff. We want to thank the admins of TPL for displaying flexibility, fitting us North American's into their tight schedule. We hope to repay them with entertaining matches and top level play every Saturday. Once again, thanks to the admins and gl teams."
"Fire is very excited about being asked to join The Premier League as latecomers. We're honored to be given the opportunity to compete with such high-caliber teams and tourny staff. We want to thank the admins of TPL for displaying flexibility, fitting us North American's into their tight schedule. We hope to repay them with entertaining matches and top level play every Saturday. Once again, thanks to the admins and gl teams."
This means that all of EG's results will be nullified and all their games will have to be played again. In light of this The Premier League have decided to increase the number of matches each playday from 5 to 7. The full schedule can be found in the link below.
UPDATE:
Maelk has posted his thoughts on this controversy.
We were set to play fnatic on Saturday the 31st of January, and throughout the week leading up to the match, there were several conversations between the EG-leader, FearDarkness, and the director of The Premier League, Ange, in which it was demanded of us to pull out of the Infused Cup the same way he had made fnatic quit the cup. We had no intentions of doing so, as Infused Cup had some qualities we appreciate and the prestige from playing it it by far superseded that of TPL regardless of the prizepool.
Read his full post as it sheds a lot of light on this issue.
Links
The Premier League- Facebook - Source
The Premier League- Facebook - Schedule
TeamLiquid - Maelk's statement