The story of the week in Counter-Strike 1.6 was the transfer of PGS’s team into Meet Your Makers. The switch was surrounded with a lot of controversy - the champions of WCG 2006, Extreme Masters and ESWC 2007 were said to be unhappy with the organization, and PGS was said to have wanted to sell them.
The truth? Find out from the interview with the team’s player, Jakub “kuben” Gurczynski. Continued…
It was announced today that Meet Your Makers is the new home for the former Counter-Strike team of PGS Gaming.
MYM let go of their Norwegian team last week to free the space for Lukasz “LUq” Wnek, Filip “NEO” Kubski, Wiktor “TaZ” Wojtas, Mariusz “Loord” Cybulski and Kuba “kuben” Gurczynski. Those players have been one of most dominant forces in modern Counter-Strike, right next to Fnatic. Continued…
Meet Your Makers has said goodbye to its Norwegian Counter-Strike team. This re-opens the question of whether or not MYM is interested in PGS Gaming’s CS squad.
For months, MYM has tried to build a successful lineup with Norwegian players. Despite having some of the biggest Scandinavian names in the game, the team never brought the kind of success MYM was looking for. The team had it coming for a long time.
Will the PGS manager sit alone? Continued…
SK Gaming are the new champions of the Warcraft 3 Champions League after defeating Meet Your Makers in last weekend’s LAN finals in Cologne. SK have waited ten long seasons for this victory.
It is surprising that despite having had superstars like Fredrik “MaDFroG” Johansson or Yoan “ToD” Merlo on the roster, SK hadn’t won a WC3L LAN finals before. The team won the second season of the competition, but it took place online entirely.
History was against SK, along with the fact that the twelfth season of the WC3L was arguably the toughest so far. But it was also one of the strongest lineups SK has ever seen and clearly the strongest one this season. Continued…
The echoe of the World Cyber Games scandal with teams winning crucial matches due to calls made by referees are still resounding. Anton “Cyclone” Lapshenkov, a WCG finals referee has posted a blog where he talks about the insider’s perspective on the controversy in the WCG Counter-Strike competition.
Lapshenkov was one of the referees of the eSTRO vs. MYM match. In the blog, he claims that he was excluded from the discussion between the Koreans and the referees and clearly takes the side of the Norwegians. The result of the game was changed, even though the match documents were signed. Towards the end of the event, the Russian decided to resign as a WCG referee. Continued…
Beijing eSports Team earned the status of a Warcraft 3 Champions League finalist after today’s victory over We are Go. This season in the WC3L will be dominated Asian players.
Today’s game was an all-Korean affair. With star players like Dae Hui “FoV” Cho, Chun “Sweet” Jung Hee, Hyung Ju “Check” Lee or Jang “WhO” Du Sub, BeT were the favorites. With Park Chul “Shy” Woo being their only star player, We are Go are a team of “the best Korean unknowns.” Continued…
Counter-Strike 1.6 superstar Ola “elemeNt” Moum will no longer play for Meet Your Makers. The Danish organization released the player of his contractual duties today.
According to MYM, a new role in the organization that does not involve playing or coaching is being discussed with elemeNt. This could mean that the Norwegian legend would end his turbulent career as a player. Continued…
For the first time in history, the Four Kings WC3 team failed to qualify for the Warcraft 3 Champions Leauge LAN finals. The two teams have guaranteed themselves a spot inthe finals in Cologne in November are Meet Your Makers and World Elite.
This news is shocking, given the history of the Four Kings team in the WC3L. Up to this point point, 4K have won four titles, qualified for every LAN final and always ended first or second. The only on exception was one of the 2004 seasons, when the team was in Korea and did not attend the finals.
Now, not only do Four Kings not qualify, but they also have to play an additional game to avoid relegation and having to re-qualify to the league! 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…
The time has come for another weekend video interview with an eSports persona. In this week’s 1on1, Wire’s Michal “Carmac” Blicharz talks to the Meet Your Makers CTO, Markus “Army” Stefanko.
Among the subjects mentioned in the conversation are the big millions behind MYM, Jang “Spirit Moon” JaeHo’s reported monthly of $9,000, money in the eSports industry and the Championship Gaming Series’ influence on Counter-Strike 1.6.
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…
Emil “HeatoN” Christensen, one of the first worldwide videogame superstars, has stepped down from his position as a player in the Ninjas in Pyjamas Counter-Strike 1.6 team. In the meantime, NiP were disauqlified from NGL-One and their new team’s international debut will be postponed.
HeatoN will continue with the team as a manager and coach. Jonathan “miniw” Wallenberg will also not be playing for NiP. He was replaced by Christopher “GeT_RiGhT” Alesund (formerly Begrip) and Max “azl” Höög will be playing as a stand-in for HeatoN in the Swedish World Cyber Games qualifier. Continued…
