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PANTERS drop out of APM finals

8/2/2016 - 15:52

TaKeTV has announced that PANTERS will miss the upcoming offline finals of Acer Predator Masters Season 2.

The Norwegian team, who recently parted ways with London Conspiracy, have been forced to cancel their attendance after failing to raise the necessary funds to be able to compete in the tournament, which kicks off on Thursday.

Replacing them at the event will be French side LDLC White, who caught the headlines at the weekend as they won Assembly Winter over hometown favorites ENCE.

to1nou & co to attend Acer Predator Masters Finals

Eight teams from all over Europe will compete for their part of a $40,000 prize pool at the offline finals of Acer Predator Masters Season 2, taking place inside TaKeTV's studios, in Krefeld, from February 11-14.

With PANTERS' withdrawal, the quarter-final matchups are now the following:

mousesports	vs.	LDLC White
ALTERNATE aTTaX	vs.	E-frag.net
HellRaisers	vs.	Vexed Gaming
CSGL	vs.	FlipSid3 Tactics

Tickets for the event can still be purchased over at Eventbrite.de, with prices ranging from €5 to €180.

oh no ez mouz

2016-02-08 15:53

omg

2016-02-08 15:52

ez HR

2016-02-08 15:54

sad

That's not good

second

rip

Not nice

gl LDLC

no one cars

expected

ez mouz

PANTERS will rice soon ;-)

4 replies

yes rice

2016-02-08 16:08

basmati

2016-02-08 16:13

Chinese org incoming? :P

2016-02-08 16:30

ehome inc

2016-02-08 17:33

too poor

Still salty about losing super bowl

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what i was going to write as well :D

2016-02-08 17:28

RIP CAM NEWTON

How did they try to raise funds? Or would they only go if they find a sponsor? Back then teams went on their own just to be able to play on lans. yawn

mouz + HellRaisers + 6 random pugs to make it to 8 teams = APM. easy mousesports win

2016-02-08 15:57

6 replies

Do you remember previous year's APM finals? HR won in the grand final against Mouz.

2016-02-08 16:01

2 replies

Yeah, but this year hellraisers have almost a completely new lineup...

2016-02-08 16:12

Yes but this year HR only have Oskar. No chance against Niko and LANJ

2016-02-08 19:35

So 8 random pugs?

2016-02-08 19:09

I'd say that aTTax can actually win against most of them even mouz.

2016-02-08 20:22

aTTax is unpredictable. with a lot of effort they avoided a 0:16 against Astralis and made it just 1:16. the next map they somehow won. no idea what to think.

2016-02-08 20:34

inb4 every tier 2 team drops out and we get UK teams coming

2016-02-08 15:58

lol funding failure

2016-02-08 16:00

thought XANTARES

2016-02-08 16:02

Normal Norwegian scene never had support

2016-02-08 16:06

i blame the low oil prices for panthers not getting any funding. sweden give us volvo so we can afford to send our players to lan!

2016-02-08 16:09

Volvo chinese nowadays bruh

2016-02-08 19:49

1st worlders too poor xD jk thats sad actually

What has the economical standing of a country to do with fundings of an organization which is part of the private industry ? xD

2016-02-08 16:21

just kidding

HLTV must have used that to1nou at least 10 times and every time I think it's Tom Dwan.

2016-02-08 16:24

Like they can't afford going there with their own money.

2016-02-08 16:31

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some can't

2016-02-08 16:53

They're all grown up, it doesn't take much at all from a normal salary, it's all about prioritizing.

2016-02-08 16:59

2016-02-08 17:09

This is now of never LDLC.

2016-02-08 16:38

So, never

2016-02-08 19:37

We'll see. Nobody knows.

2016-02-08 19:52

of course thy did, broncos reckd them

2016-02-08 16:40

hmpf

2016-02-08 16:43

Panther lose the super bowl now the panter drop out? Coincidence I think not.

2016-02-08 16:56

2016-02-08 17:12

lol

2016-02-08 17:29

Are u fucking kidding me? Sorry but that's weak. Not a single org wanted to sponsor a trip to germany? I feel like they didn't try enough to get the funds.

2016-02-08 17:39

mouz and E-Frag on the finals ! :P

2016-02-08 17:48

Cuz they lost the super bowl ;)

2016-02-08 17:55

Strange replacement, PENTA, SK and DenDD have more of a claim to the spot than LDLC does.

2016-02-08 18:30