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Citing travel safety concerns, Team EnVyUs announced today that they will be withdrawing from Intel Extreme Masters San Jose.
The announcement came this afternoon, following the terrorist attacks in central Paris this weekend, as well as more recent airline threats and raids carried out throughout the city. For the safety of the players, they will not attend the Intel Extreme Masters, hosted in San Jose, California.
IEM has chosen to replace EnVyUs with Counter Logic Gaming. The tournament will be held from November 21-22.
The full statement from Team EnVyus (released via Twitter):
“It is with great sadness that we must report our CS:GO team will not be attending @IEM in San Jose. As many of you know, our full team is French and the country is in a trying time. This morning as our players were beginning their travels, multiple airline threats and airplane diversions occurred. Simultaneously, additional threats and raids were carried out in Paris. At that time, we decided that the safety of our team members was at risk and to cancel the team's appearance in San Jose. This brings great disappointment to our organization as we were looking forward to visiting the American fans and defending our @IEM title. We'd like to thank @ESL, @IEM and our supporters for understanding. Our hearts and thoughts are with the people of France. May they be resilient in this trial they are faced with.”Our thoughts remain with both the players in Team EnVyUs, as well as with the people of France.
