Hey guys,

 

It's been a little silent around me lately and for that to blame is Blizzard!, for releasing SC II-Beta. I'm playing it basicly as much as I can and whenever I am behind pc I'm pretty much either watching streams, or watching replays/observing games or playing myself. I'm finding a lot of joy in the game and its basicly the only game I'm interested in playing competitive wise, and probably the last ( unless Wc4 would come within 3/4 years :D ).

 

This means I got some good news and bad news ;(). The good news is that I'm gonna try to become good at SC II, gonna be very active and I'm excited to start playing clanwars & tournaments as soon as I get a little bit better :D. For the people who wonder why they barely saw anything of me so far its basicly that I don't see to much use playing the public tournaments while not being very good, there are better ways of practise right now so I stick to those :D, I did try a few times but nothing spectaculair, anyways that will change in the near feature ;).

 

The bad news in this is that I gotta leave fnatic :(. As everyone knows fnatic already has ( and support them! they deserve it! )a SC2 team and fnatic made a plan and a route to follow for the SC2 squad and unfortunately I don't really fit in those. As well, all these guys come from Broodwar of which I got little knowledge, and me coming from Wc3 makes it more normal to be surrounded by atleast a few ex Wc3 players. It's always nice to be in a team with people you know for years already, and having the same background makes me feel you'll be more of a help to eachother as well, atleast in the early stages :). To sum it up, I had a few offers for SC II teams and decided to gladly take one, which ofcourse means I gotta leave fnatic, just like I had to leave Serious.Wc3 to join fnatic.hon, I now gotta leave fnatic.hon to be part of xxx.ScII.

 

That being said and this stay in fnatic being much shorter than my previous one, ( where I joined as one of the founding 8 Wc3 players in 2005  and being the only one left when fnatic closed Wc3 forcing me to find a new home at the end of 2008) I still feel it was more than worth it. HoN still is a game I feel has huge potential ( and is definately showing that lately with these insanely big online tours coming up ) and the plan always was to give fnatic a good HoN team. With or without me was never that important, always said I wanted to be part of it in the start but if I felt I wasnt good enough or lost interest I would replace myself. There was only one goal in this project and that is giving fnatic an awesome HoN squad, and I feel that's pretty much a succes already. The team is without a doubt top 5 in the world and personally I see them as top 2, so all in all I see the project far from a failure and I can only hope the guys go on like their doing now and make a huge impact on the HoN scene for upcoming times, and make fnatic and me proud :D.

 

Thanks Rexi(even though f* for saying I was never good, cu at sc II :D ), Trixi (trixi so cute.), Ducktr ( no words for you. ;) ), Elroy as always! ( Elly is the best everyone should know ) and thanks to Anne and the rest of the management for giving the hon squad a chance to succeed! At last good luck to Henrik ( baby! <3 )  & Kay, show the world what you guys can do :D.

 

Cheers everyone & goodbye, and hopefully you'll see a lot of me in Starcraft II when the game is released. I'll be attending a local lan on 29 May in Amsterdam but I don't have huge hopes for that one yet, but will see. Will be nice to see some faces of this new dutch scene though, since Wc3 had same faces for the last 4/5 years in my country, so always good to be part of something new, which goes the same for my stay at fnatic.hon.