Nachdem vor einer Woche Kevin ‚RotterdaM‘ van der Kooi dem schwedischen Clan fnatic wieder beigetreten war, machte das Gerücht eines Heroes of Newerth-Teams in der Szene die Runde. Dieses Gerücht wurde heute von der Organisation bestätigt und man begrüßt das neue fünfköpfige Team. fnatic sehe in dem Spiel viel Potenzial für die Zukunft.
In dem neuen Team befinden sich neben dem Holländer RotterdaM die vier finnischen Spieler Antti ‚Rexi‘ Saarenpaa, Aku ducktR‘ Hyttinen, Kalle ‚Trixi‘ Saarinen und Lari ‚Steelrasp‘ Sihvo. Alle vier seien Neulinge im eSport, würden sich aber darauf freuen, in einer so großen Organisation wie fnatic mitwirken zu dürfen, so Rexi in seinem Statement.
Elroy ‚Noname‘ Pinto erklärt diesen gewagten Schritt damit, dass bereits einige hochkarätige Turniere, wie die DreamHack, Heroes of Newerth in ihr Repertoire aufgenommen haben. Somit habe das Spiel, das bisher lediglich in der Beta-Version vorhanden ist, viel Potenzial im eSport.
Lineup fnatic.HoN
Kevin ‚RotterdaM‚ van der Kooi
Antti ‚Rexi‚ Saarenpaa
Aku ‚ducktR‚ Hyttinen
Kalle ‚Trixi‚ Saarinen
Lari ‚Steelrasp‚ Sihvo
Statement Elroy ‚Noname‘ Pinto (General Manager von fnatic):
„A week back we announced RotterdaM’s arrival back at FnaticMSI, this time we’re back in the news as we are pleased to support a newish game going by the name of Heroes of Newerth. We have decided to get into the game at a phase when perhaps many people might think it’s too early. We have thus decided that in 2010 we shall look at giving a chance to a new title which seems to have a decent start so far with iSeries and DreamHack announcing tournaments when the game is still in closed beta phase. It seems promising and once in a while everyone has to take the ‚leap of faith‘. Here’s ours! Welcome guys!“
Statement Antti ‚Rexi‘ Saarenpaa:
„I have to say that joining FnaticMSI was a total surprise for our whole team (not for RotterdaM obviously) but now that we’re here it feels awesome! I’m looking forward to see how this works out since I haven’t ever been a part of something this big within esports. I’m really happy with the roster at the moment, all of the players are talented and fun to play with, management also seems really awesome and they are packed up with a super sense of humour.
It’s too bad that the European HoN scene is quite tiny at the moment, yet I think that with FnaticMSI taking the initiative, other organisations will follow. Even though the scene is small at the moment we are training hard to climb our way up to the top.
There are many great teams in the scene at the moment, but they are just normal obstacles for us. I really hope everything works out well and in the end we will hopefully get to play a lot of competitive HoN! Last but not least a big thanks goes out to our title sponsor MSI, SteelSeries, Bigfoot Networks, UGAME and SLAPPA, all of which have made this collaborations possible. With love Rexi!“
Kevin ‚RotterdaM‚ van der Kooi
Antti ‚Rexi‚ Saarenpaa