posted by Jaywalker,

In a shocking move, sg Zenith has decided to withdraw from BeyondTheSummit World Tour despite progressing past the group stages and into the playoffs. Their withdrawal will mean that my Orange moves to second place, while cn World Elite takes third in the group.
Citing their desire to train privately for The International 2012, the team will no longer be competing in the $1000 tournament.

Zenith has been engulfed in a few controversies lately, with a stand-in player of theirs using an offensive nickname, as well as dissatisfaction from the community after their controversial performance against se Counter Logic Gaming.

Zenith released the following statement regarding the standin:

During Thursday's match with Team Infused in the ProDOTA World League, xy- had an emergency just as the match was scheduled to begin. As such, Team Zenith had to hurriedly look for a replacement on short notice.

Regrettably, the nickname used by our stand-in was offensive and in poor taste. We offer no excuses for this oversight and would like to apologize to all who were offended. Zenith will make sure that there will be no repeat of this unfortunate episode. This individual's opinion does not reflect Zenith's and once again, the players and staff would like to extend our heartfelt apologies to all.


Zenith has yet to comment on their withdrawal from this tournament.

Edit: Zenith has also decided to forfeit their match against eu mousesports for ProDOTA2 League and thus will out of the tournament as they are currently in the loser's bracket.

A statement has been released by Zenith regarding the matter:

Dear all, Zenith has decided to withdraw from the Beyond The Summit World Tour tournament. After attempting to play on a US West server, the players have found it counterproductive to play regular games on a server with significant delay. We have decided to concentrate our efforts on training for The International, using the extra time to train with teams from the SEA region. We wish all the other
teams all the best in the remainder of the tournament.

Unfortunately, Zenith had to forfeit the match against mousesports in the ProDOTA World League earlier tonight. This was not a flippant act of disregard for the tournament as some have speculated. xy- had National Service duties (army) which he could not take leave from. We have tried to talk to admins earlier in the day to postpone the match to 11.30pm-12.00am so as to accomodate xy- as he rushes home to play the match, so that we did not need to employ any stand-in. Regrettably, mousesports were unwilling to play at any other time and hence we had no choice but to forfeit the match. We apologize to fans who were looking forward to the game.

Moving forward, Zenith will be 100% focused on training solely for The International. We will most likely not be participating in international online competitions but we will still be taking part in tournaments hosted on SEA servers, such as the Alienware Game Victorious tournament. We hope to have your support in this last crucial leg of preparations before the team flies off to Seattle.


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