{"id":8937,"date":"2023-05-18T06:57:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T06:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/virtuspro-withdraw-from-iem-dallas-2023"},"modified":"2023-05-18T06:57:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T06:57:36","slug":"virtuspro-withdraw-from-iem-dallas-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/virtuspro-withdraw-from-iem-dallas-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtus.pro withdraw from IEM Dallas 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia-based esports organization, Virtus.pro, announced their decision to withdraw their CS:GO roster from Intel Extreme Masters Dallas 2023 due to visa issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_3f4ivU+NDDYIgGWpcriHGw==\">&#8220;Unfortunately, some of our players were not able to obtain visas to the USA, despite the assistance from ESL. We consider participation in such a large-scale tournament with stand-ins to be inappropriate,&#8221; <em>noted the Virtus.pro statement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the second IEM tournament Virtus.pro will skip this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/vituspro-withdraw-from-iem-rio-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earlier they passed IEM Rio 2023<\/a> for other reasons. Just prior to that, Virtus.pro&#8217;s squad put on an extremely poor performance at the BLAST.tv Paris Major Europe RMR A.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virtus.pro CS:GO team is now:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aleksei &#8220;Qikert&#8221; Golubev<\/li>\n<li>Dzhami &#8220;Jame&#8221; Ali (IGL)<\/li>\n<li>Evgeniy &#8220;FL1T&#8221; Lebedev<\/li>\n<li>Petr &#8220;fame&#8221; Bolyshev<\/li>\n<li>Dastan &#8220;dastan&#8221; Aqbaev (coach) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"_1VPbNXp6UZ1K-ChQg-UhsA==\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia-based esports organization, Virtus.pro, announced their decision to withdraw their CS:GO roster from Intel Extreme Masters Dallas 2023 due to visa issues. &#8220;Unfortunately, some of our players were not able to obtain visas to the USA, despite the assistance from ESL. We consider participation in such a large-scale tournament with stand-ins to be inappropriate,&#8221; noted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":8938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[122],"class_list":{"0":"post-8937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-virtus-pro"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}