UKCT - UKCounterTerrorist

Today, two of the United States most successful CS teams of late announce changes. The changes involve EG.usa and MoB gaming.

Shaun "Hostile" Catron, a veteran of the scene makes the transition from MoB Gaming, his home for most of 2008 to EG.usa. This meant that one from EG.usa had to be dropped, and this came in the form of Ryan "Ninespot" Bell, after team leader Nazar "steno" Vynnytsky decided that he should be dropped.

Evil Geniuses organizational head Alex Garfield commented:

Steno is the leader of our team, both inside and outside of the game, and this is a decision he wanted to make. He has an extremely calculated approach to the teams he builds, and he wanted five players all capable of playing at an extremely fast pace while making quick decisions. Ryan is a fantastic player. He played extremely well for us on LAN and was also a very consistent presence overall, but Steno simply felt that in order to get to the play style he wanted, this change was necessary. The decision with Shaun didn't really happen before or after the decision with Ryan; as is always the case with roster changes in Counter-Strike, the two were essentially interconnected".

In exchange for Catron, MoB Gaming picked up Scott "Evolution" Cavallero. MoB has moved Matt "Lim" Beahan up to the starting five to fill a spot formally occupied by Thomas "thoMz" Garcia who is inactive.

This leaves EG.usa as:

Michael "chE" Guevara
Shaun "Hostile" Catron
Fadil "Nepo" Canovic
Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert
Nazar "steno" Vynnytsky

and MoB Gaming as:

Scott "evolution" Cavallero
Matt "Lim" Beahan
Joe "perez" Perez
Ryan "Pham" Pham
Noah "Striker" Alvarado

Good Luck to both teams!

The inevitable has come, Abdisamad "SpawN" Mohamed retires from gaming to take on a different role within the organisation and the much anticipated return of Markus "Zet" Sundström has followed suit.

"Zet" was previously attached to the LA compLexity CS Source team and since leaving he has returned to play with some fimilar faces in Dennis "walle" Wallenberg and Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström. Zet has not played in high profile CS 1.6 competitions for almost two years and rejoins with the ambition to take the team higher.

zet commented:

Ever since I stopped playing for compLexity I've only had one thought in my mind, playing with my old team mates from NiP. They have all been playing for SK for a long time now, so for me it was obvious which team I really wanted to join. It is s a great honour to play under SK Gaming, probably the world's most successful multigaming organisation.

SK owner Andreas "bds" Thorstensson added:

SK Gaming wants to begin with thanking Abdi for everything he has done for us. Known to many as one of the best players in the history of Counter-Strike, with gold medals in most major tournaments. With this winner instinct and dedication we know that he will succeed what ever he decides to do next.

We are also very happy to welcome the prodigy Zet. One of the best players who took a break from 1.6 at his peak to focus on Source in CGS. Now back more hungry than ever, and back with his former team mates robban and walle.

SK is now:

Dennis "walle" Wallenberg
Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström
Kristoffer "Tentpole" Nordlund
Jimmy "allen" Allen
Markus "Zet" Sundström

GL for the future.

Alternate, one of the best German teams out there have today confirmed the addition of Martin "fleks" Wehrmann to their squad.

fleks was a free agent after the disband of hoorai earlier this year, and had a 6 month stint at powerhouse's mousesports. According to the statement, CHEF-KOCH is stepping down to focus on his studies.

Andreas "Chicken" Voss, former CEO of Alternate commented:

This was a decision made by the team, at the moment there are not many free players in Germany, Fleks already proved that he is among the best players in Germany, he had been on our list for several times and we have now finally completed the deal.It really depends on him - he has all the support he wants from our organisation, but if he wants to do something different we will also support him in that way. He was nearly two and a half years with attax and was always one of our key players - both inside and outside the game. He is a very charismatic person and we would love to see him staying with attax one way or the other.

Alternate is:

Benjamin "pan" von Mulert
Jan "mooN" Stolle
Manuel "approx" Zeitz
Roman "Roman R." Reinhardt
Martin "fleks" Wehrmann

Alternate are currently competing in the German EPS. Good Luck to them!

Modified by 8Ball^- on September 6, 2008, 11:12 am.

French team aAa today announced a complete overhaul of their 1.6 squad. Their previous team consisted of players such as Nicolas "Dr.Crow" Vaissaud and David "Xp3" Garrido, but they failed to qualify for ESWC and were swiftly cut.

Heading up the new lineup are a few familar faces, including Guillaume "Geno" Ntep and Tristan "TDSI" Jouann, both of whom have been aAa members in the past.

aAa is now:

Guillaume "Geno" Ntep
Guillaume "MarM" Vanhems
Kyle "noth1ng" Saadi
Gaëtan "SHq" Varlotta
Tristan "TDSI" Jouanne

The teams first event will be a WCG prequalifier.

Top Chinese team wNv.cn have lost of the most famous and sucessful Chinese CS players from their roster. Wei "alex" Bian has suddenly left the team and retired from professional CS.

wNv.cn struggled at the ESWC finals and failed to reach the second group stage and although a replacement has not been announced, Xiaoyu "xpy" Zhao who stepped up at the last minute to replace Wu "Sakula" Runbo at the finals could be an option.

wNv.cn is left with:

Hou "bigun" Hao
Luo "K|ng'Z" Likan
Liu "Savage" Bin
Xiaoyu "xpy" Zhao

Good luck.