tck replaces PineKone in Area51
By: lurppis
Time: 2012-09-14 10:02
Game: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

North American ESWC qualifier winners Area51 have undergone a roster change which saw Josh "PineKone" Springer get removed with Trey "tck" Martin joining in his place.

Area51 proved the concept of mixing players from both Counter-Strike 1.6 and Source backgrounds by succeeding at PAX Prime two weeks ago in Seattle where they defeated Dynamic 2-0 in the grand final.

Shortly after becoming the number one team on the continent, they have chosen to remove Springer to make room for Martin, who joins from former CS:S team Murder Inc, who were also in attendance at ESWC North American qualification.


PineKone on the right playing for Area51 at ESWC NA (Photo: ESEA News) 

Asked about reasons for this change, Kory "semphis" Friesen said they didn't feel like Springer was meshing well with the team and as they are planning to make the squad work long term to be sure they could field the same roster at all of the upcoming events they plan on attending.

Martin has already debuted with the Area51 roster in ESEA Invite's current twelveth season, where the team is currently tied for first place with a 8-1 record, as he helped the team defeat Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert's Team4NOT GO 16-10 on de_nuke_ve.

Area51:

Sam "DaZeD" Marine
Spencer "hiko" Martin
Kory "semphis" Friesen
Sean "sgares" Gares
Trey "tck" Martin

Area51 will be in attendance at ESWC 2012 on November 1-4 in Paris, France. They are also hoping to attend DreamHack Winter 2012 later in the same month in Sweden, while continuing to participate in ESEA Invite and other possible North American events.

Tags: Area51, tck, PineKone

LETS GO DIZZAMAN
2012-09-14 10:05:38
LETS GO SEANGARES!
2012-09-14 10:14:28
by: eler
#3
Martin
Martin
2012-09-14 10:34:05
by: hiko
#13
Trey and myself are not related :)
2012-09-14 18:54:40
Shame for PineKone, seems that tck old team aren't happy about the move!
2012-09-14 10:34:12
was fun having pinekone back in the scene while it lasted.
2012-09-14 10:43:32
Pinekone played really well at the ESWC qualifier sad to see him replaced.
2012-09-14 10:54:06
by: ohai
#15
he had some awesome rounds with the deag, but other than that he didn't seem too impressive
2012-09-14 19:46:22
yeah he was pretty killer :/ not sure how I feel about this....
2012-09-14 10:59:12
Tck is a beast
2012-09-14 12:24:29
Tck strong rifler
2012-09-14 12:28:16
by: mah9
#14
awww thats fucking lame. i loved seeing pinekone on this team. i was really happy he got to go to eswc...

Post edited 2012-09-14 18:55:48
2012-09-14 18:55:35
by: ohai
#16
PineKone's pov is interesting:


"To put it simple Dazed and I didn't get along so well. His lack of communication skills became very apparent during my time with him. He doesn’t know how to give constructive criticism(he just rages)…whether it’s to me for his strats or others like the CS:GO dev at Valve HQ whom he proceeded to slam about CS:GO sucking and he knew best what needed to be done. In game he’s a very good player, but very stubborn and will bang his head on a wall doing the same strat 10 rounds in row if it doesn't work. Luckily sgares is getting better at controlling that, so they have a chance to do well if they continue to practice.

I tried to get him together with me multiple times so we could hash out our differences, but it’s always easier to ignore issues and just get a new player behind their back instead of being a man and trying to work it out(like you have to do in real life...). In my opinion this doesn’t usually work out in the long run, but I’m sure they’ll be fine. I’m just one player out of many, and I'm sure he'll need to find more because of his personality... just happens to be the first time I’ve been shaded. Thank you, Sam Marine, for that experience.

Anyways PineKone is looking for a new team."
2012-09-14 20:32:19
If I had a nickel for every time I met a player like Dazed...
2012-09-14 22:33:08
DaZeD hasn't the same problems with some ex-teams in Source? 2much ego?
2012-09-14 23:26:53
rofl that was a scorching interview by pinekone.

anyone who thinks there is any top teams without a smart player with a large ego and have internal strife are simply mistaken. Some just hide it better
2012-09-14 23:40:09
dont feed the troll
2012-09-15 07:25:02
my post got nuked but I was just kidding! Good luck to TCK and crew at A51, they are all my buddies and will be fun playing them at LAN!
2012-09-14 23:51:13
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