No, the annual New Years speech hasn’t been forgotten, but like everyone else we are running in “low mode” between Christmas and New Year, so here it is.

2006 – The year that went

Looking back at 2006 we had a fantastic year, both in terms of growth in our community and success-wise for all our teams. But we had ups and downs like all other sports-related teams. Most noticeable “down” was surely our Korean star player Jang 'Moon' JaeHo who had several months with under performance, we can though surely say that he is back as the best WC3 player in the world. Best from the “ups” we most say is our Norwegian Counter-Strike team finally placing MYM on the world map of CS with their outstanding 2nd place at the CPL Championship Finals 2006 in Dallas, USA. A moment to remember was surely also when our other Korean Warcraft 3 star player JaeWook 'Lucifer' Noh won the ESWC 2006.

Also 2006 clearly shows that Esport, which has been seen as a youth phenomenon and as a sub-culture for almost a decade, is here to stay as a serious sport and it is the fastest growing industry in the world. A lot of new private investors, venture capital funds and other economical based companies and organisations have discovered Esport and its potential and have found it worth investing billions of US$ in and it seems like this is still only the tip of the iceberg and that it will continue 2007, to the great pleasure for all of the teams in the industry.

Back to MYM, below are the top 3 placements from our LAN events from 2006,

1. places Warcraft III:
 (Lucifer) ESWC Finals 2006
 (WC3 team) WC3L Season #9 Finals
 (Moon and Lucifer) GGL & EC Trans-Atlantic Finals
 (Moon) IEST 2006
 (WC3 team) NGL One - Season 1 Finals
 (Moon) GGL Digitallife 2006
 (Moon) Superfight #2 2006
 (Moon) Warcraft 3 World War 2006 season #1
 (Moon) Warcraft 3 World War 2006 season #2

1. places Starcraft:
 (Draco) Dreamhack Summer 2006
 (Advokate) ASUS Open Autumn 2006
 (Raven) Poznan Game Arena 2006

1. places DotA:
 (Dota team) Dreamhack Winter 2006


2. places Warcraft III:
 (Lucifer) MBCgame's International League (MIL)

2. places Counter-Strike:
 (CS team) CPL Championship Finals 2006
 (CS team) GameGune 2006

2. places Starcraft:
 (SC team) SCCL – Season 1


3. places Warcraft III
 (Showtime) Blizzard Worldwide Invitational 2006
 (Susiria) Dreamhack Summer 2006
 (Lucifer) IEST 2006
 (Moon) V-Sports All-Stars 2006

3. places Starcraft
 (Draco) GGL Americup

Besides the mentioned our teams managed around 60 other award placements in 2006, among them a lot of 2nd and 3rd places in regional WCG, ESWC, CPL, WEG, CPL qualifiers.

We asked a few guys from the MYM staff about how they think 2006 went overall and there answers were:

 Daniel Thornell, MYM Content Manager:

 Jesper Nordahl, MYM international WC3 Manager:

 Maik Brodowski, Sales & Media Manager:

 Henrik Kepler Andersen, Chief Financial Officer:

| Markus Stefanko, Chief Technical Officer:

2007 – The year ahead

The year 2007 will bring a lot of new things for MYM, the MYM community and for Regroup Esports A/S. We will continue our quest to position us as the No. 1 Esports Community in the world, the No. 1 Esports team in the world and the No. 1 Esports Media Company in the world, very modest don’t you think? But without goals, ambitions and a bit of insanity you aren’t going to achieve what you have in mind, which is why we will still be “Esports out of the ordinary” in 2007. And if you think we have had an aggressive strategy in 2006, then 2007 will surely go into history.

We will soon announce a new and improved next level community platform for MYM and its communities and we are working dedicated towards making the community pages easier to use and navigate on. We are aware of that the sites are pretty colorful, packed with content and they seem a bit to hard to find their way through, but it will change very soon, so we can have even more content and at the same time make it easier to find and use exactly what you are looking for.

When it comes to the MYM teams there will be made changes, both player, team and game-wise, some will come and some will go, which, who and when will be announced when the time comes, but there are games out there we aren't paying the attention to that they deserve and there are also games that we might want to have less, if any focus on at all.

Currently we are 4-5 fulltime employees in MYM / Regroup Esports A/S and we are planning on employing additional manpower to position ourselves during 2007. Also new representative and official offices will be set up around the globe to help us be better locally represented and help us achieve our goals.

When it comes to partners and sponsors we have a lot of new announcements for 2007, some already for Week 1 in 2007. Some have thought it was a bit quiet with these sort of announcements in the end of 2006, but when you are working with big international companies and cooperation’s it is better to let things take their time and announce them when fully ready.

Closing

It is now around 6 years ago the MYM ideology was founded and brought into the world of professional gaming and it has cost a lot of work and time go get where we are now, but it was worth it and that thanks to all of you. Without the huge backup from all our fans and community users from around the world, who believe, adore and push us to perform the best, we wouldn’t be what we are today. Some might say we say that every year, but the truth can never be spoken out loud to many times and that is what we think and how we feel.

The MYM Staff would like to wish all of you and your families A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Yours Sincerely
f. MYM & Regroup Esports A/S

 Mark Peter 'Mercy' Fries
CEO