After a long streak of line-up problems and player switches, Team Rockit has decided to call it a day
Ranked ninth in the January's Cadred's top ten TF2 rankings, Rockit was a notable competitor in the high end of the scene. However, they had been haemorrhaging key players over the last few weeks. The problems first started when their long time demoman, Raivis "destructo" Lickrastins, decided to quit playing late December. Things didn’t get any better when Cristian "Dorkan" Nunez and David "Jan" Martinez left to reform a Spanish team Mister, and finally Mateusz "Nor" Osinski was strong-armed out of the team yesterday after disagreements with the remaining players.
This proved to be too much for the team, and they've decided to cut their losses and quit instead of continuing with almost completely new line-up. Team Rockit's former captain Harri "Depch" Nissinen was spotted today wearing Blight Gaming's avatar and tag on Steam. So we took the chance to have a quick chat with him.
Q&A with Harri "Depch" Nissinen
What are your feelings now and would you care to explain the reasons behind your folding in more detail?
Well... I don't have much to say about it right now. All in all, this left me with an empty and rather spent feeling. I feel bad doing this since Rockit's support as an organization has been fantastic. They really treat their teams professionally and I only have good things to say about the organization.
You have seemingly already moved on to Blight Gaming, which is another top TF2 team from Finland. Blight has been looking for a new medic after dajackal was kicked from their squad a few weeks ago. Was this move planned on ahead or just something you decided to do after it became clear that Rockit wouldn't last?
It wasn't planned, that's for sure. m0re already asked me to join them earlier, but until today we were supposed to continue trying with Rockit. I just ran out of energy to run the team myself, while in Blight I can just be one of the players.
Team Rockit was:
Harri "Depch" Nissinen
Mateusz "Nor" Osinski
Hidde "Amonsilas" van Manen
Henri "Hekka" Siik
Kerim "Adiemus" Çepni
Fedor "Rodef"
F "Dm00" G
Originally published on Cadred.org on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:00:13 +0000 by Juho Pättö.
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