Chinese teams miss EM Asia Finals

29/1/2010 - 13:22

The Electronic Sports League has announced the participating teams at the Extreme Masters Asia Continental Finals.

The biggest surprise in the team roster comes in the form of Chinese teams missing out on the competition, which will take place in Taipei from February 5-9.

Last year, China produced the winning team in the Asian Continental Finals, as wNv.cn came from the Lower Bracket to defeat WeMade FOX on two maps and claim the top prize of $25,000.

HLTV.org understands that Chinese teams will not attend the tournament due to visa problems, as it takes some time for Chinese residents to get permission to enter into Taiwan.

The participants' list for the Asian Continental Finals, which will hand out two slots for the World Championship Finals, contains just five teams, each one from a different country.

Last year's runners-up, WeMade FOX, will be in attendance, just like Immunity, who have announced a new line-up, and three regulars in Asian competitions - Titans, Duskbin and UMX.

The participants' list looks as follows:

WeMade FOX
Immunity
TitaNs eSports
Duskbin
Team UMX

very bad :(((

2010-01-29 13:29

sad

But it will an nice event though :P

2010-01-29 13:30

wmf for sure. glow is really insane when he's having a good day

2010-01-29 13:32

:( tyloo

2010-01-29 13:34

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2010-01-29 13:45

2010-01-29 13:36

Sad for TyLoo (I mean a team with alex and co.). They would probably be top2 in EM Asian Finals and go to Global Finals. Really want to see them there :( My prediction: 1. WeMade FOX 2. TitaNs eSports (not sure for second place, could be Immunity too)

2010-01-29 13:38

WeMade FOX is probably gonna win it. Hopefully Immunity will take it.

2010-01-29 13:42

maybe 1 team from Uzbekistan , and this is AHEAD (ex-Pincho WINGS) ?

2010-01-29 13:43

Damn, visa problems strikes again..

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Will I see you around here covering this tournament?

2010-01-29 14:38

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I dont think so,coz it's just EM Asia Finals!

2010-01-29 14:51

Sadly no.

2010-01-29 18:08

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I'm guessing there'll be only streams for this event? I'm hoping for some hltv action though.

2010-02-01 16:15

Not many matches will have HLTV.

2010-02-01 16:33

well ESL's mistake..they should have thought about this..

2010-01-29 13:44

Still great teams attending... sad for tyloo & others but i will cheer for titans & iM.

2010-01-29 13:53

damn I love chinese game style :(

2010-01-29 14:05

DuskBin TitaNs WeMade FOX Immunity XcN Team UMX TBA TBA

2010-01-29 14:13

Sad :(

2010-01-29 14:26

ESL mistake AGAIN

2010-01-29 14:29

what a waste of world final slots lol

Does that means tyloo doesn't have any chance for EM Global Finals ? or they can be invited?

2010-01-29 14:48

They have same chances as Again, H2k and few others. Hope for some mini tournament :D Or just 4 slots more in GF :D

2010-01-29 18:40

Again played versus Alternate for 9th place, not for fun, they are first team to replace others, but looks like from europe only.

2010-01-29 23:25

that sux lol

2010-01-29 14:53

Call up A+e.India !!!!They deserve to be in this group !! :(

2010-01-29 15:00

go immunity

2010-01-29 15:12

again the issue of visas

2010-01-29 15:19

I thought we dont need visas 2 travel around asia. taiwan's fukd up, ive been to many asian countries w/o a visa.

2010-01-29 15:20

OH No ! 2bad tbh :(

2010-01-29 15:38

WMF easy

2010-01-29 16:12

GL iM!

2010-01-29 16:16

Sad

2010-01-29 16:21

what now???? Will they bring 2 teams?

2010-01-29 16:35

both good and bad for a team like titans its both i know they really wanted revange on tyloo after wem but at the same time it makes it easyer to make it to the finals for them so well goodluck TitaNs

2010-01-29 17:05

Very sad news. Too bad the Chinese relations between mainland China and Taiwan has to be so harsh, if they were different it would probably be easier for the Chinese teams to go there. Oh well, easy win for Wemade FOX!

2010-01-29 17:31

immunity and wmf gonna take the spots

2010-01-29 18:18

Suxxx. No kazach team ? No more koreans ? Pretty bad lineup tbh. Definately less interesting than Arbalet cup asia. Hope this guy can bring CS tournaments to a new level.

2010-01-29 18:42

Go WMF gL bail

2010-01-29 19:39

i think south china and north china still has so bad relationship that its hard to get approval between each country.

2010-01-29 20:11

lol what a fool. U mean north korea % south korea ?

2010-01-30 01:45

lol!!!

2010-01-30 05:35

damn fucking gay it's a fucking game not some political bullshit.

2010-01-29 21:56

yep; and it's always easier for TaiWaner to get in china while harder for chinese to go everywhere! what the fxxking funny political!

2010-01-30 05:34

iM or WMF to win. We (parallax from nz) didnt even get a reply from our application -_-

2010-01-29 22:43

lol thats gay nick. I was just gonna say its sad not to see px repping nz here. Would've had a chance to make the finals without the chinese teams in attendance titans usually put up decent numbers (often double figures) against the top 10 teams in the world so it'll be interesting to see which team gets the second spot between them and iM bl china :(

2010-01-30 06:03