Wie myMYM vor einigen Stunden berichtete verließen die Spieler Rob, XyLigan und Satiini das Team fnatic. Während Rob und XyLigan zu NWRS wechseln steht das Team von Satiini noch nicht fest.

Nun wurde mit einer News auf www.fnatic.com Angekündigt das das komplette Warcraft 3 Team geschlossen wird. Als Grund gab Team-Manager Elroy 'NoName' Pinto an, das seine Spieler durch die eher schwachen Ergebnisse in letzter Zeit eine schwere Zeit durchleben musste.

Das Team was 2005 von dem jetzigen 4K Manager triMble gegründet wurde und zahlreiche Top-Spieler hervorbrachte wie SaSe, Creolophus, Satiini, XyLigan wird nach mehreren NGL-ONE und WC3L-Finals teilnahmen nun ein Ende finden.

Auf fnatic.com wurden Statements von fast allen Spielern verfasst die ihr nochmal teils hier nachlesen könn. Die Statements von NoName, Rob und XyLigan könnt ihr auf fnatic.com nachlesen.

Mati 'Satiini' Bäckström:

I still remember the day when I joined fnatic, it was a glorious day and I was really excited about it, eventually it proved to be exactly everything I hoped for, really good team spirit and overall a really great organisation which I enjoyed playing for. I would like to thank fnatic for the good times and for their endurance in my case, even though I wasn't the easiest player to have with my problems. I wish all the best for everyone.

Kevin 'RotterdaM' van der Kooi

Cliche Title, yet pretty true. Today is the day there will no longer be a Warcraft III team of fnatic, which means my exit of a organisation I was in for over 2 years. It all started in the summer of 2005, my old team disbanded and I was asked to join fnatic, never knowing I would be in the team so long and have so many nice memories 2 years later. For me fnatic has always been the perfect team, even though there were major changes a couple of times and a lot of faces left and joined, I never felt I was at the wrong place and enjoyed nearly every day I was in this team. I'm far from a very accomplished player, yet I've had some small successes ( I.E Winning Eurocup 13, Qualifing for BWWI2 in South-Korea ) which are mainly cause of fnatic and I wanna thank everybody in the organsation who allowed me to travel and compete in so many tournaments. Even though there were quite some roster changes over the years I've always had a nice team with every player in the team so I wanna thank them all, even when fnatic.wc3 has Had some rough times, we had good times also. If I look back and have to pick the best time It was prolly early 2007 when we qualified for the NGL One finals, where Duck and Myself played a super season and showed some green power. So one more time a final shootout to Sam, Anne, Tuxie, Elroy, Jay and the cs 1.6 guys ( keep on rocking ;p ) and all the new divisions as CSS who are doing awesome, Take care guys and best of Luck :). FNATIC FIGHTING!!

Sam Matthews founder of fnatic:

When forming fnatic, it was always my intention,that Warcraft 3 would play an integral role in the future of our organisation, and it did. It has been a tough ride for all of our players aswell as the organisation and it has had its ups and downs with the biggest ups being the qualification for the NGL One finals, Rotterdam Winning Eurocup, Xyligans 4th place in two World Cyber Games and finally Satiini with his ever dominance in online matches and incups. I would very much like to thank Freddy Trimble who was responsible for getting warcraft 3 into Fnatic, and for being a great manager for years. I would also like to thank Rotterdam enormously for being the pinnacle of our team for so long, one of the most loyal and friendly players you would ever want in your organisation. And lastly Elroy Noname for being responsible for the team and being a great manager who adequately filled the big shoes left by trimble, I hope you will have a long future in Fnatic to come. For all those that wonder why we decided to close the team, the reasons come down to a few things. Firstly, we have had such good team chemistry and gathered some extremely talented players but we were never able to make it click in game. This left us with the choice of either forming a new squad with different players (and upsetting the current players) or disbanding WC3 altogether. Secondly, we are looking to the future, and are excited about the possibility of picking up players for Call of Duty 4, UT 3 and Starcraft 2. Finally, this decision was not reached because of financial pressures but was down to the fact that we want to maintain the level of excellence that we are achieving with our other squads. I won't say if Warcraft 3 will never reappear in Fnatic, that all depends on the situation and who knows if the right situation arises. If it does then of course we will be back!