ENCE to replace Liquid at IEM Beijing

22/10/2019 - 12:25

ESL has announced that ENCE will be replacing Liquid at IEM Beijing as the North American team pulled out citing a dense schedule.

The 8-team $250,000 IEM Beijing is slated to take place on November 7-10 at the Beijing University Students' Stadium, with four of the to top five teams in the world invited to attend before Liquid announced their withdrawal.

ENCE will take Liquid's place at IEM Beijing

In a video on Twitter Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski talked about the toll traveling has taken on the team, the reason they cite for their withdrawal from the event in China. Having qualified for the ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals and the BLAST Pro Series Global Finals, Liquid will have a full schedule as they are also slated to play BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen and are in contention to make the ECS Season 8 Finals.

Taking their place will be the Finnish side ENCE, who have played BLAST Pro Series Moscow, ESL One New York, and DreamHack Masters Malmö since the end of the Major. Currently on their calendar is the CS:GO Asia Championship which is slated to take place in Shanghai, China, 10 days after IEM Beijing, making their invitation to the tournament a natural choice.

With ENCE substituting Liquid in Beijing, the team list is:

but the ads said that team liquid said they are the best :( "i dont care if its the best player in the world or the worst player in the world" ~ Stewie sad day mens(((

2019-10-22 12:27

25 replies

Liquid doing a blastralis

2019-10-22 12:29

10 replies

Theh had their run, now time for break

2019-10-22 15:19

3 replies

> astralis playing in the event > liquid: ight imma head out

2019-10-22 15:45

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#Godstralis Btw nice flair. BlameF absolutely demolished riot squad yesterday , damn , he was epic.

2019-10-22 15:52

liquid trying to get their shit together

2019-10-22 21:18

Nah , just dodging Astralis cuz too stronk.

2019-10-22 15:53

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So strong that they did not win the last two events. TL really need a timeout. I think its the right thing to do now. Get your shit together and return with confidence.

2019-10-22 21:29

Or disband.

2019-10-22 23:32

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Lol disband

2019-10-22 23:36

What are u talkin bout? They're dodging TYLOO <3

2019-10-23 01:23

Yes. I want to see the worlds best on the circuits. Play the seasons. Qual for finals and then let these “biggish” events feature more t2/t3 teams. Expand the scene

2019-10-22 18:05

Ads were made back when liquid was dominating for a little bit. Tbh they were pretty shit ads.

2019-10-22 12:42

12 replies

i agree but tis a shitpost m8

2019-10-22 12:43

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Don’t trust China, China arsehole

2019-10-22 13:05

6 replies

China was gonna take stewie back so liquid cancelled

2019-10-22 14:41

+1 XAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXA

2019-10-22 14:52

2019-10-22 15:04

lmao +1

2019-10-22 19:08

i hate china : )

2019-10-22 16:18

There shouldnt be esports events in china just bcs if ur saying truth publically u cant go there and thats basically against rules of anything competition-related, besides they want to annex stewie so it might cause military conflict and liquid would choke against mm randoms so tyloo would destroy them

2019-10-22 17:36

Spider-man on t-shirt was cringe af

2019-10-22 19:42

What does that have to do with the conversation

2019-10-22 22:33

ads and spidermen are cringe af

2019-10-23 01:47

ok buddy

2019-10-23 08:02

this ad is so funny

2019-10-22 13:26

nice

2019-10-22 12:26

liquid afraid obviously

2019-10-22 14:49

Aaaaaay they gonna kick Arrogant2k! Nice! Fuck that guy

2019-10-22 19:48

bad

Oof

Lulll flukence

flair checks out

2019-10-22 20:57

-stewieee

Can’t choke if you don’t participate 300IQ move by liquid

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like astralis before right?

2019-10-22 12:40

Oof. Dissing on Astralis, yet they be #1 rn bc Liquid can't figure their shit out.

2019-10-22 13:03

That's giving Liquid too much credit.

wrong, astralis skipped events and then became shit.. liquid is skipping because they are shit now. and dont want to be jetlagged and lose to tier 3 teams again like grayhound in malmö lol its ok to skip events, but you shouldnt accept an invite and then realize you have no time for that

2019-10-22 13:22

Dis man has de brains

2019-10-22 16:59

HARD 4 ENCE.

wasted slot

I can see Ence losing against these chinese tier 100 teams :D

2019-10-24 19:18

yeah, looking forward to that tbh

2019-10-24 22:17

Lmao glhf

wasted

2019-10-22 12:28

liquid dodging astralis? Expected for 2nd best US team.

Finally we get to laugh at how shit they are again

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+1 ahaha

2019-10-22 12:53

No mens ence win iem Beijing

Bombing out last place

2019-10-22 13:23

No they bombing first place trust I have inside knowledge, the event is scripted ence vs astralis final 2-1 to ence

2019-10-22 14:28

Nice try medkit

2019-10-22 15:27

Since it is scripted by china it will probably be Vici vs. Tyloo final ^^

2019-10-24 19:19

You shit on them either way so whats the difference lmao

2019-10-22 18:51

I love to see them lose

2019-10-22 19:39

truu, you really are a great person.

2019-10-22 20:05

Thank u mens))

2019-10-22 20:43

PepeLaugh LULquid

Liquid would be a wasted spot anyway

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The same for ence

2019-10-22 12:34

True

2019-10-22 12:45

2019-10-22 15:01

Lmao mouz Enough said.

2019-10-22 13:09

Lmao Liquid Enough said and enough of that flukequid team. The most trashest team to be ranked 1 in the history of counter stroke. Choose a new team mr.streetstealer

2019-10-22 16:40

yeah fluke winning 6 events xd stay mad mouz fan your team never won anything relevant and never won against this liquid lineup lmaoo

2019-10-23 13:14

+1 this jew speaks the truth

2019-10-22 14:07

Reported for the J word, cya in gulag))

2019-10-22 16:38

Should have invited M1X instead

M1X would be fun to watch but worthy of the spot i don't think so.

agree they would need some lan results first. Im not buying their online results just yet but if they can qualify for some lans and actually play well on lan then I'd be interested

2019-10-22 14:56

WASTED SPOT

ahahahahaha

Flukuid replaced by flukence

-xseveN +zehN -Cheaterial +AleksiB back -allu +ZOREE/ottoNd

I don't think Aleksib deserves such a punishment.

2019-10-22 12:31

When do average silver hltv users understand how good x7 actually is... Also AleksiBob wont go back to Ence. Also replacing allu would be retarded. With Aerial i agree, also ZehN is quite underrated

2019-10-22 12:44

yeah agree aleksib wont go back and I think allu is underrated as an awper. He is not known for making flashy plays but he does put up some good results. Im not so sure about that -aerial but it might work out. I just wish ence never changer their roster

2019-10-22 14:57

liquid taking notes from blastralis

EZ FOR ENCE ENCE ENCE ENCE

2019-10-22 12:30

scared of EG and Astralis LULquid

Scared of chokers?

2019-10-22 13:56

chokers scared of chokers?

2019-10-22 13:58

Nowadays its about who chokes the hardest

2019-10-22 13:59

AHAHAHHAHAHAHA, TALK ABOUT DOWNGRADE XAXXAAXAXAXAXA. Might have as well had VIRIMA play :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD btw VIRIMA>ENCE

NoChance for Ence

EBCE still a relevant team ? Lmao

LAN dodging LUL afraid of china, typical americans

+1 this is the obvious reason

2019-10-22 14:33

Doesnt matter EG wins this event

why ence, couldve had fnatic, renegades, navi

All tier 3 teams, so doesn't matter

2019-10-22 16:26

Now -Vici +Movistar Riders and we are good

What events is liquid participating in

2019-10-22 12:35

I’m starting to dislike ence

2019-10-22 12:39

Go back to aleksib's stream kid

2019-10-22 15:25

How does that have anything to do with aleksib?

2019-10-22 16:07

because u dislike ence because of him and u care about aleksib because u watch his streams. Its that simple

2019-10-23 02:52

Thats not what I said, thats all in your little head and I think you have a mental problem, just read again what I said and what you said, fucking clown

2019-10-23 06:23

Sure buddy

2019-10-23 11:14

Ence wins this one

they already confirmed in blast final but still choose blast Madrid over iem Beijing????? blastquid

BLAST Copenhagen*

They can't skip blast, it is contacted thing :).

2019-10-22 12:49

Bye bye in groups again

BOOOOOOOOOOO

2019-10-22 12:46

Ez4Ence once again. They will win both asian events in row and back2top3

Stfu

They're scared of going out in groups again - But now Ence will do it instead

Jetlagquid axaxaxaxaxa

2019-10-22 12:47

wasted spot :(

2019-10-22 12:48

ty, will be more easier

2019-10-22 12:50

wtf meme team

2019-10-22 12:51

hahahah liquid run away

Blastquid

Avangar and Fnatic ? ? ?

easy for blastralis

2019-10-22 12:55

Lets see how Katto works this time

2019-10-22 12:57

Bullshit. Astralis is also going to all the tournaments that apparently make Liquid “too busy”. Go EG! They don’t skip events at least...

Its tougher for Liquid though as many events are in eu, so they have more travel than blastralis actually

2019-10-22 12:59

Oh you’re right I forget BLAST is literally in Copenhagen. Yeah that makes a lot more sense. I would’ve just skipped ECS tbh cuz there’s no guarantee they qualify, but if they wanna give a free Grand Slam to EG then that’s fine.

2019-10-22 13:01

ECS is the one event that is in states though. Also I would think Liquid as organisation feels it is important for them to take part events in usa, seems actually way less likely they would skip such event.

I just remember them almost skipping Cologne for the last ECS and then failing to qualify.

2019-10-22 13:13

yeah, would be embarrassing if it happens again not gonna lie, seems unlikely though at least.

2019-10-22 13:17

Dodging events XAXAXAXA

What tf

2019-10-22 13:08

ENCE HAHAHHAAHAAAA

Ez 4

WTF

2019-10-22 13:10

Liquid and astralis competing at the same events until the end of year was too good to be true

2019-10-22 13:11

ez4_ _ _ _? :0

2019-10-22 13:16

:snake:

2019-10-22 13:18

mee töihi

2019-10-22 16:57

khuy sosi daun ebany

why.....I was thought to get stewie's sign.....

2019-10-22 13:25

rip

2019-10-22 14:05

Astralis 2-1 Vitality final EZZZZZ

2019-10-22 13:27

xaxaxaxaxa

2019-10-22 13:32

Liquid scared

2019-10-22 13:34

Understandable decision from liquid

Wasted spot...

2019-10-22 13:37

EZ4ENCE

2019-10-22 13:40

Ohhh dog...

wasted spot

2019-10-22 13:46

Aerial MVP ez

2019-10-22 13:47

but this is a fucking major right?

2019-10-22 13:51

0/8 nt tho

2019-10-22 14:04

okok

2019-10-23 04:56

Their chance to show what they can do. No excuses this time

2019-10-22 13:55

They suck lmao, bombing out last place in groups surely

Wouldnt be suprised

2019-10-22 15:14

WASTED SPOT wtf

respectful LIQUID letting ence stay in top 15 a little bit longer

It's like MÁLAGA FC to replace Barcelona

2019-10-22 14:01

why not invite some random hongkong team and let tyloo kill them all in the game china crowd would love that

there was once a decent HK team but they got banned because of matchfixing :)

2019-10-22 14:47

Wtf stewie doesn't want to visit his family Lost all respect I had for him

2019-10-22 14:02

His family is from Vietnam.

2019-10-22 14:10

+1 Dont get the "Stewie is chinese" comments lol

2019-10-22 14:15

Chinese, Vietkong, who can see the difference? Same with black people.

2019-10-22 19:10

ence last place once again zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

expected saw ig stories where ENCE was bootcamping . EZ4ENCE

Nobody gives a shit, they suck

Sudden Aleksib fan appears

2019-10-22 14:53

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

2019-10-22 14:06

stewie is afraid of his bag being stolen again

2019-10-22 14:12

coldzera will beat 2evice

2019-10-22 14:16

That sucks

2019-10-22 14:26

Do teams even have their own scheduling team? Or the events are just too slow in informing the teams?

sad

2019-10-22 14:30

cuz they making roster changes ez

-stewie hopefully

2019-10-22 14:36

ez grand slam prize for astralis

2019-10-22 14:42

Huge downgrade But I hope these fools get their shit together

2019-10-22 14:45

Wtf????? WASTED SPOT

2019-10-22 14:46

EZ for EG.

2019-10-22 14:59

GG How did ENCe get the spot tho... should’ve been a better team wtf Also Gg to the ads lul!

2019-10-22 15:05

Slated.

2019-10-22 15:06

Ence > liquid

Blastralis at it again... oh wait...

2019-10-22 15:08

Free hong kong

2019-10-22 15:09

Astralis is going to attend both BLAST Pro Series Copenhagem and IEM Beijing. Wtf Liquid, the following tournament is going to be later on november 28th. How do you want to be the #1 of the world again skiping important tournaments like that?!

2019-10-22 15:16

You realise astralis doesnt have to travel to go to copenhagen? Its like a 15 minutes drive as for liquid its a 10 hours flight with jetlag.

2019-10-22 16:19

If they travel right after the ECS S8 NA Qualifier they'll have more than 1 week to adapt. Also, they could bootcamp in Europe. They just don't want to lose to Astralis in both tournaments.

2019-10-22 16:44

Ez4Faze

2019-10-22 15:50

nooooo

2019-10-22 16:01

stewie is afraid of being punched by chinese fans

2019-10-22 16:23

Chinese fans are like 150cm tall and their eyesight is really limited due to their weird small eyes, doubt theyll punch him

2019-10-22 16:45

no they wont actually punch him or they will be condemned by world animal protection

2019-10-22 17:25

I am already missing -> stewie trash talk lol

2019-10-22 16:37

EZ4ENCE? #LETSNOTGOLIQUID

Liquid pulling a Blastralis?

2019-10-22 18:00

Wasted spot sry

2019-10-22 18:02

Fine , liquid has quit three times for Chinese organization inviting. Zotac Cup in HK , StarSeries i-League S7 Shanghai and IEM Beijing. I will never want to see Liquid in China , is no credit.

2019-10-22 18:09