The end of an era is upon us, and it’s safe to say the writing has been on the wall for over a year. 4Kings, one of UK’s foremost superteams, has disbanded its Warcraft III division, leaving Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen and Daniel “LiiLD.C” Claesson clanless.
The official reason given for disbanding was “a lack of players and other things.” The squad has been steadily losing star players since Nov. 2006, when Dae “FoV” Hui Cho left the team.
FoV’s departure to Beijing E-ports Team signaled an inability for 4K to compete on the free market for its own players. According to Warcraft III superfan/expert and former GGL contributor Jos “Zerter” Buyvoets, this was the true beginning of the end for 4K’s WC3 squad.
Despite FoV’s absence, 4K still had a bevy of stars on its roster until Olav “Creolophus” Undheim decided to retire after winning WCG 2007. Undheim’s decision was right for him, but wrong for the team.
“Creo going inactive probably ‘did it’ as it put a lot of pressure on Yoan ‘ToD’ Merlo and Grubby who failed to qualify for the WC3L finals without him,” said Zerter. Continued…
The LAN finals of the ClanBase EuroCup XV tournament ended the way everyone expected - the winner in Warcraft 3 was Manuel “Grubby” Schenkuizen and the victors in CS 1.6 and CoD2 were Team NoA and Tek-9 respectively.
The finals of the ClanBase EuroCup XV are taking place in Enschede, the Netherlands, this weekend. The best Warcraft 3 players and the best Call of Duty 2 and Counter-Strike 1.6 teams of the competition have gathered in the WZRRD gaming center to duke it out for €20,000 in cash sponsored by PokerStrategy.cc and SteelSeries. 
