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United Kingdom50293 Posts
Unable to resolve visa issues with Jake “Xmithie” Puchero for worlds Counter Logic Gaming's jungle role will be filled by their substitute Jae-Hyun “Huhi” Choi. Xmithie will be a part of the bootcamp but he will be unavailable for the actual tournament.
Due to unresolvable VISA issues, Jake “Xmithie” Puchero will not be able to join our LCS team for the Worlds 2015 LCS Championship. Xmithie will stay in Korea with the team to prepare himself for next Season.
We will be fielding Jae-Hyun “Huhi” Choi as our starting jungler for the World Championship tournament. Huhi has trained with our team extensively for the last 4 months. A vast network supports Huhi in his transition to jungle. This includes Xmithie himself, our coaching staff, a Korean support staff, and several professional junglers.
We’re training day and night in Korea to get the team ready for Worlds. Scrims are proceeding at an equal or greater level to our training at Madison Square Garden. The team improves daily and we’re looking forward to an even stronger performance than for NA LCS Finals.
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UPDATE:
Xmithie has acquired a schengen area visa and will be playing for the group stages. UK visa application is yet to be confirmed.
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Midlaner in the jungle? Easy worlds win for CLG.
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While I don't rate Xmithie very highly this still sucks really badly. I haven't heard of people from first world countries getting denied visa's to Europe in quite some time. Wonder what went wrong. Does he not have American citizenship by now?
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The land of freedom23126 Posts
On September 12 2015 03:17 krndandaman wrote:
holy shit I feel so bad for CLG fans
I mean who knows huhi might do well, but still. damn.
At least, fanbase will get cleansed again because CLG won't advance from groups and therefore, isn't worth cheering for. ^_^
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Australia18228 Posts
This is so bad. Xmithie is pretty crucial to CLG's playstyle
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he cant be worse than xmithie right? right??
Still sucks considering that Xmithie had synergy with Zion and Pobelter.
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More faith is going to be needed. A lot more faith.
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On September 12 2015 03:22 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2015 03:17 krndandaman wrote:
holy shit I feel so bad for CLG fans
I mean who knows huhi might do well, but still. damn. At least, fanbase will get cleansed again because CLG won't advance from groups and therefore, isn't worth cheering for. ^_^
CLG can still advance. But it will be very difficult and requires a good group.
Also keep in mind Huhi has like a month to prepare. Let's give him some credits. He just needs to not suck too much.
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I am very curious why his visa got denied. Didn't think it was possible for someone from america lol
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Bearded Elder29903 Posts
I have a strange feeling it might actually work.
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IIRC Xmithie is still a citizen of the Philippines, so maybe that has something to do with it.
Still pretty shitty that it was false hope all along. I thought maybe this time was different.
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On September 12 2015 03:36 nafta wrote:
I am very curious why his visa got denied. Didn't think it was possible for someone from america lol
He only moved to America when he was a kid so maybe he just hasn't gotten citizenship yet? Don't know why you wouldn't but that's the only way I can figure it out. Even then if he was carrying his Philippines passport he'd still have a record of living in the States for last 10/15 years?
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On September 12 2015 03:37 739 wrote:
I have a strange feeling it might actually work.
At least Huhi has been in the house and knows how the players work. Hopefully he's been acting the way we want subs to be like and not just "been there" and done nothing.
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This is at least a better excuse than being purple side.
Xmithie had visa issues for EU at IEM though, seems pretty absurd that nothing could resolve this in the 9 months they knew about it.
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Couldn't Riot do what Valve did and get some politician to help out? Idk how EU stuff works since I got EU passport.
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Esportspedia says he moved to the US when he was 16, and he's 24 now. So, 8 years.
However, naturalization isn't automatic. One still has to apply and go through the process. For example, my parents lived in the US for 30+ years before deciding to go through the process to become citizens.
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On September 12 2015 03:41 Numy wrote:Show nested quote +On September 12 2015 03:36 nafta wrote:
I am very curious why his visa got denied. Didn't think it was possible for someone from america lol He only moved to America when he was a kid so maybe he just hasn't gotten citizenship yet? Don't know why you wouldn't but that's the only way I can figure it out. Even then if he was carrying his Philippines passport he'd still have a record of living in the States for last 10/15 years?
I would not be surprised that there is something else.
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biggest letdown from the press release is where they say Xmithe will return as the spring split jungler.
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EPT
