Fnatic picked up Clan Go in a move restoring their status in the Warcraft III world. Clan Go has had trouble finding a stable organization in the past, parting ways with NoA after their absence from the NGL-One Finals. Fnatic had to separate from its Warcraft III team not too long ago, creating a mutual interest for both teams.
Focus and Shy rejoin Clan Go after some time at MYM. Both players are top notch and produce great results, bolstering the team’s status even more. Unfortunately, Ohjie was pulled into the Korean military. Expect some good results now, with Clan Go backed by a great sponsor and with a great lineup.
Their current roster:
- fnatic.Shy
- fnatic.FoCuS
- fnatic.Space
- fnatic.MinHyuk
- fnatic.Kei
- fnatic.YanGe
The MoB TurtleForce team beat their from MoB TurtlePower in the upper bracket final of ESL’s WoW 3v3 Arena tournament at DreamHack. They are now waiting for whoever comes out of the lower bracket to fight them for $45,000 for first place.
The match attracted a full mini-stadium of people in Hall C of DreamHack and a packed stand near the ESL area. Apparently, World of Warcraft is not as bad a spectator game it is claimed. Perhaps more than in any other country, the title has got mainstream appeal. It is enough to say that the jaw of the waiter in a restaurant in the center of Jonkoping dropped to the very floor when he found out that he was serving food to Blizzard employees that made the game. Continued…
GGL’s Jason Lee filed this Warcraft III report.
This year’s Warcraft 3 Champions League Finals will feature Kevin “Rotterdam” van der Kooi shoutcasting matches in English. Rotterdam is currently a top Orc player hailing from the Netherlands, and said in a statement:
“When TaKe heard I would come to the WC3L Finals as an observer he asked if I was interested in doing something with coverage, which sounded perfect for me. I could cry about imbalance as a neutral shoutcaster; that’s just a dream that comes true. I’m looking forward to the finals and hope it will be a nice show with great games.”
Rotterdam recently joined up with Serious Gaming’s Warcraft III team after the breakup of fnatic’s WC3 squad. He also placed 4th at GGL’s DigitalLife Pro/Am Tournament.
Shoutcasts for the WC3L XII Finals will be provided in both English and German. Details for the full event can be found at the ESL WC3L Finals landing page.
Fnatic’s Warcraft 3 team was disbanded today after three of its key members have left for other teams.
Fnatic did not play their Warcraft 3 Champions League playoff to stay in the competition against Four Kings today. The match was a forfeit loss to 4K.
As it turned out, Fnatic’s Russian players Robert “Rob” Abdrakhmanov, Mikhail “XyLigan” Ryabkov and Finnish star Juha-Matti “Satiini” Bäckström received offers from other teams and decided to leave the organization.
This left Fnatic with Kevin “RotterdaM” van der Kooi and Radoslav “DieSeL” Kolev and the options to either try to rebuild the squad or give up. The management chose the latter and disbanded the team. Continued…
SK Gaming has won the Swedish Extreme Masters II qualifier for Counter-Strike 1.6 to regain supremacy at home for the first time in long months. They did this by demolishing Fnatic on de_nuke 16:5 (25:5). This result looks like it could be the beginning of a new, fascinating rivalry.
For a team only about a month old, the new SK Gaming lineup is doing very well. They finished second (behind Fnatic) at the Extreme Masters II invitational tournament in Los Angeles and won the Kode5 qualifier in Holland one week after that. This week, they won all their EM II qualifying games: against Playzone, Defining Stars and Fnatic. Continued…
Fnatic got back to their winning ways at the Extreme Masters invitational in Los Angeles. By beating SK, they put themselves right on the pedestal of competitive CS.
Fnatic looked like champions from the first match on. They moved from round to round without any problems. By doing so, they showed that they are most likely the best team on earth. Their final against SK Gaming was so one-sided that their celebration after the last round could hardly be called ecstatic.
With a new team, SK Gaming was not able to get a better result than second place. A mix of players from the early 2007 SK Gaming and Ninjas in Pyjamas did well to get to the final. Such a good start wins them the time to work on solidifying the good shape without the pressure of their fans’ expectations. Continued…
We just got done with a thrilling Counter-Strike 1.6 match between fnatic (Team Sweden) and g3nerationX/MiBR (Team Brazil) here at the World Cyber Games 2007 Grand Final. Join Smeagol and Vansilli as these two powerhouses battle it out. I won’t spoil it for you, but it’s definitely an enjoyable match. Watch below.
Check out all our World Cyber Games 2007 Grand Final video coverage at the WCG 2007 video page.
The news of the World Cyber Games group draw would not be as interesting as it is if it wasn’t for the playoffs key. PGS Gaming will play Meet Your Makers and Roccat will play Fnatic for the WCG grand final in Counter-Strike 1.6. That’s what the playoffs key tells us as early as one month away from the event.
Of course, if we could really tell the future, we would keep it to ourselves and go to the bookies instead. We sure as hell would not tell you. Continued…
Last weekend had a bountiful amount of esports action with ESL’s European Nations Cup and NGL One finals at Games Convention in Leipzig and the World Series of Video Games in Toronto. Well over $150,000 was given out in cash prizes.
NGL ONE
NGL One has had two LAN finals for their Counter-Strike 1.6 and Warcraft 3 leagues with four teams in a double elimination bracket in each of those. For CS 1.6, the Swedish team Fnatic won in a competition with Team NoA, Mousesports and SK Gaming.
Fnatic went through the bracket beating SK in the semi final (2-0) and Mousesports in the UB final (2-1). SK Gaming came back to the grand final from the lower bracket after beating NoA and Mouz, 2-1 each. Fnatic was the best lineup of the tournament and solidified their position as one of the most consistent teams this year, next to Made in Brazil and PGS Gaming. Continued…
The list of top names qualified for the World Cyber Games has grown longer this weekend. The top favorites to have qualified for the finals are Fnatic (CS 1.6) and Kim “SaSe” Hammar (WC3) from Sweden and Mykhaylo “HoT” Novopashyn (WC3) from Ukraine. The big surprise of the weekend is that g3nerationX and not Made in Brazil will represent Brazil at the finals for Counter-Strike. Continued…
This weekend we have two twin tournaments in South Korea - the International E-Sports Festival 2007 (formerly called the China Korea Cyber Games) in Gangneung and the World E-Sports Games e-Stars 2007 event in Seoul. Both had StarCraft, Warcraft 3 and Counter-Strike 1.6 competitions with a combined total of $194,000 in prize money. Continued…
The big news in competitive World of Warcraft lately has been the “purchase” of the American Insurrection team by the major European team Fnatic.
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