Former WinFakt CS 1.6 and for a brief period Curse.EU CS:GO member Timi "aslak" Verkkoperä has decided to hang up his mouse for good.

Verkkoperä broke through as an upcoming star in the summer of 2011 after he joined paistit, which later on became WinFakt after a 5-6th place finish at e-Stars where his side beat project_kr and fnatic.

WinFakt finished the year with top three finishes at IEM VI Global Challenge Guangzhou, SEC 2011 and IEM VI Global Challenge New York, where they lost versus SK Gaming in the grand final.

The AWPer of the team was able to lead the Finns to a top three finish at Copenhagen Games 2012 as well, racking up a K-D difference of +97, a KPR of 0.89 and an impressive rating of 1.34.

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aslak retires from Counter-Strike

The team died soon after and Verkkoperä started his military service, while also attending ASUS Final Battle of the Year with paistit, finishing second behind KerchNET.

He made a return to Counter-Strike in early 2013 as he joined Curse and instantly found success within Finland together with old teammate Aleksi "allu" Jalli by winning LanTrek 2013 in his Global Offensive debut.

Verkkoperä also represented ENCE eSports, placing 5-6th at ESPC #2, and most recently solemn, with whom he was able to top Solid Gaming 2 in Helsinki. Last night he lost against 4w in what turned out to be his final CS:GO match.

"I've decided to retire. In the end it was an easy decision because I realized I don't really have any reason to play CS:GO competitively anymore", Verkkoperä told HLTV.org. "I want to apologize to my teammates for doing this again. I also want to thank everyone who ever supported me, (fans, family, friends, teammates, sponsors) it was an epic ride especially in 2011 October with WinFakt! "Everything comes to an end at some point and let this be mine :p Sure I'll play some gathers and all from time to time but that's only when I really want to play, because CS will always be an awesome part of my life. Hopefully someday allu and co. will raise Finland to the top again! "Thanks!"

It is so far unknown what solemn decides to do following Verkkoperä's departure and last night's Mad Catz qualifier loss, as the team tagging under Invaders are yet to publish a statement.

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