ADIDAS, one of the biggest and strongest sports brands in the world have today signed with team Meet Your Makers.

The new merchandise deal with the sports brand ADIDAS is a welcome addition to the portfolio of team MYM’s sponsors. The teams, managers and staff of MYM will be equipped with a broad variety of ADIDAS clothes and goods and look more professional than ever. Also the fans of MYM will soon have a broader variety of merchandise to choose amongst and a lot of other great things coming their way.

The MYM players are thrilled about the new deal and had the following comments:

JaeWook Noh aka. MYM]Lucifer, Warcraft III player: I really want to thank adidas for going into this deal with MYM! I really like adidas and I am a big fan of the brand. Adidas supporting us! We in the Warcraft 3 team will make sure that ADIDAS will not be disappointed with us.

Jang JaeHo aka. MYM]Moon, Warcraft III player: I’m really happy to be able to get this great support and clothes from adidas. When I am playing it is important to have something that is comfortable I can play in, especially when it is in studios and hot arena’s and adidas provides me with exactly the clothing for that.

Victor Sanchez Muñoz aka. MYM|Delfin-1:, FIFA player: I'm very happy that we are going to have the pleasure of wearing ADIDAS clothing. ADIDAS is entering the eSports scene more and more, helping several events in which I've competed in and now they bring MYM the same opportunity. I would like to thank ADIDAS for their interest and we will be competing really hard and deliver good football results so we won’t disappoint them.

Jacob Toft Andersen aka. MYM]Maelk, DotA player: I am very excited the new deal with adidas. A deal of this name and size clearly displays appreciation of the work and results we have made so far and I think it is a sign of mutual quality that a company with the reputation that adidas has, a behemoth within the sports clothing industry, chooses to make a deal with us. At the same time I am confident that adidas has made the right decision in choosing us, Meet Your Makers, to brand their name within the gaming industry. A collaboration of the two best at what they do is destined to succeed. Sheer awesomeness!"

Filip Kubski aka. MYM.Neo, Counter-Strike player: Having someone like ADIDAS as a sponsor is something we have been eagerly waiting for a long time. It's a big step for e-Sport, when a company unrelated to gaming support teams and players. Thanks to that, we are getting closer to professionalism. After seeing how other teams were supported by ADIDAS, we are really waiting to see us at the side of that renowned sportswear company.

Thanks to ADIDAS for believing in MYM and adding even more focus on eSport, we look forward to a great partnership.

The first event you you will see the teams and players of MYM wearing the new ADIDAS uniforms will be at this weekends Dreamhack Summer 2008.

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About ADIDAS:

adidas – a name that stands for competence in all sectors of sport around the globe. The vision of company founder Adolf Dassler has long become reality and his corporate philosophy the guiding principle for successor generations.

The idea was as simple as it was brilliant. Adi Dassler’s aim was to provide every athlete with the best possible equipment. It all began in 1920, when Adi Dassler made his first shoes using the few materials available after the First World War.

Today, the adidas product range extends from shoes, apparel and accessories for basketball, soccer, fitness and training to adventure, trail and golf.

The adidas name dates back to 1948, deriving from the first two syllables of Adi Dassler’s first and last name. One year later, Adi Dassler registered the Three Stripes as a trademark. After a period spanning almost 70 years, the Dassler Family withdrew from the company in 1989, and the enterprise was transformed into a corporation (“Aktiengesellschaft”).

French-born Robert Louis-Dreyfus was Chairman of the Executive Board from April 1993 to March 2001. It was he who initiated adidas’ flotation on the stock market in November 1995. Since 2001, Herbert Hainer has been leading the Group. 

adidas Group – In 1997, adidas acquired the Salomon group, and the company’s name changed to adidas-Salomon AG. The Salomon group also included the TaylorMade golf brand.
In October 2005, the Salomon business segment, including the related subsidiaries and brands Salomon, Mavic, Bonfire, Arc’Teryx and Cliché, was sold to the Finnish Amer Sports Corporation. The company will change its legal name to “adidas AG” following shareholder approval at the Annual General Meeting in May 2006.

On January 31, 2006, adidas-Salomon AG acquired Reebok International Ltd. The closing of the Reebok transaction marks a new chapter in the history of the adidas Group. By combining two of the most respected and well-known brands in the worldwide sporting goods industry, the new Group will benefit from a more competitive worldwide platform, well-defined and complementary brand identities, a wider range of products, and a stronger presence across teams, athletes, events and leagues.

The new adidas Group has more than 25,000 employees worldwide, with more than 2,000 working at the company’s headquarters in Herzogenaurach. A team of designers, product developers and experts for biomechanics and material technology carries out research in Portland and at adidas’ second technology centre in Scheinfeld near Nuremberg.

In Scheinfeld models, prototypes and made-to-measure performance products are also manufactured and tested. It is here that adidas maintains the only sports shoe production facility still in existence in Germany.
More than 80 subsidiaries guarantee marketplace presence for adidas products around the world. Sales and distribution of adidas products is grouped in four regions worldwide: Europe/Emerging Markets, North America, Asia/Pacific and Latin America. Today, adidas is Europe’s biggest supplier of athletic footwear and sports apparel. Read more about ADIDAS at www.adidas.com

About Meet Your Makers (MYM):

Meet Your Makers, MYM, was established in Denmark in 2001 and is today one of the world's leading professional eSports teams, featuring some of the biggest stars within electronic sports, the best players in Warcraft III, DotA, Counter-Strike, Starcraft:Broodwar, FIFA and Call of Duty 4. MYM headquarters are located in wonderful Copenhagen, Denmark and the company is player and crew wise represented in 24 different countries, spread out all over the world. Furthermore it features one of the largest combined team/community sites in the world (www.mymym.com).

Meet Your Makers Press inquiries:

Mark Peter Fries
COO, MYM
mercy (@) meetyourmakers.com