It was announced earlier this week that the Danish company ESNation turned MYM into a franchise, with the franchisee being Frontspawn taking over all the squads and players of the club. The dedicated Warcraft 3 scene had brought forth great faith in managing director Ronnie 'TwaizZ' Jelsbak in returning the top RTS players to MYM. The community tried hard and expressed, in hundreds of comments across all the eSport pages, about wanting to cheer and support MYM players again.

Just yesterday, Frontspawn answered all of those requests and announced that the saga of MYM.WC3 will indeed continue, with the 'King Of Orcs' MYM]Grubby becoming the first official player and team captain, while MYM]Cassandra is slated to take over the team management.

Obviously, one player cannot really form a whole team, especially when the WC3L requests a minimum roster of three players. To that end, MYM.WC3 has now decided to add the young Undead player Dmitry 'Happy' Kostin to their lineup.

Recently, Happy has expressed in an interview that an excellent team atmosphere is more important for him than becoming rich from playing Warcraft 3. During the PGL Finals earlier this year in China, it became obvious that the Russian player and Grubby share a great mutual understanding.

Happy became popular when he joined the team of mousesports back in 2006. He was ranked first in the Battle.net ladder and performed exceptionally well in team leagues such as the WC3L. Last year, he won the Battle.net Season 6 Europe finals and knocked out players such as ToD, Lucifron and SaSe while placing third in the overall finals. 2008 was a fine year for the young Undead as he was able to place third in the WCG in Cologne behind Grubby and Moon.

Now, a new era begins for Happy - so let's give him a warm welcome to MYM!

Dmitry 'Happy' Kostin, MYM Warcraft 3 player:

"Today is a great day in my gaming career. For 6 months I was clanless, trying to achieve the best results I could on every tournament I have attended. I had no support, no bright future, it was a hard time for me but it passed on to a good note for me.
And today I am glad to be announced as a player of new MYM.wc3 team, I think it is one of the biggest steps in my gaming career I have ever made to establish my gaming activities. Therefore, I am looking forward to show the best results possible in all the tourneys/matches I will be playing in. I believe with MYM support I can reach any great results I always was aiming for. Also, apart from my own ambitions of being strong solo player, I am looking forward to make MYM the best team in all the team competitions we may attend."

Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen, MYM Warcraft 3 captain:

"Happy has shown to have all the makings of a star player. He's hard-working, motivated, stubborn (usually in a good way), shows no fear, knows what he wants and goes for what he wants. Happy is showing strong performances nearly every LAN he's attended: 4th Place Intel Extreme Masters II, 3rd Place WCG 2008, 1st Place Season 6 Europe Regionals, 3rd Place Blizzcon Season 6... only just the beginning. I believe both Happy and MYM can grow from this co-operation... and I’m looking forward to fighting side-by-side with him in the coming WC3L season!"

Cassandra NG, MYM Warcraft 3 manager:

"Happy takes his progaming job seriously and this is a very important consideration when it comes to choosing a second player for our team. If there are only two players in the WC3L line-up, then each player will influence the outcome by 60%. Happy has proven himself to be a strong player and I am sure he will work hard together with Grubby to bring our team to the play-offs. Happy is also with no doubt the best Russian player at the moment. I am looking forward to see more Russian fans cheering for MYM!"