MeetYourMakers opens up to StarCraft

The Past And PresentMeetYourMakers was originally created by two very eager Danes called

Mercy and

Paj it can be read over at MeetYourMakers.com. After quitting Rainbow Six, they both turned to the Counter-Strike scene instead, and and started a CS team, consisting of nine players. This happened in March 2001.

Took PeeKaBoo under their wings

They kept on going as a Counter-Strike team only until December 2001 (which has to be a wrong fact at MeetYourMakers.com ~ Blizzard did not send out the WarCraft III beta discs until February 2002), when MeetYourMakers was offered to take PeeKaBoo (PAB) - one of the best European clans at that time - under their wings as their official WarCraft 3 squad. With the members

Bjarke,

BladeDk and

QDK, they were set up to be one of the best in Europe.

In 2002, MeetYourMakers got incorporated, which according to their own site "entered a new era as a registered professional gaming company." The mYm management did also go back to their roots that year, as they started up a Raven-shield (Rainbow Six expansion) division. Here they fixed together a team of old friends along with some great players from the scene.

Announced first international section in February 2003 - Raven-shield

In February 2003, mYm announced their first international sections, which were the Raven-shield section, a section that was divided into a European and a German squad, includnig some of the best old school Raven-shield players from Europe. During this year, several sections such as Soldier of Fortune, Unreal Tournament 2003 was created but also shut down a couple of months after. Meanwhile, their WarCraft and Counter-Strike sections flourished, and grew stronger and stronger.

In October 2003, the administration (consisting of Peter "Mercy" Fries, sole owner of Regroup eSports I/S) decided to expand to a "wider board of owners". At a financial meeting, Henrik "Kepler" Andersen, Jacob "Nemesis" Teildorff, Bue "Slash" Lau and Christian "Skurk" Pilgaard bought shares in the company - Regroup eSports I/S - and thereby MeetYourMakers. After half a year though, all but two (Kepler and Mercy) left because of real-life and education issues, giving them the ownership of the team.

Shuts down all sections but Counter-Strike and WarCraft 3

After a couple of rebirths in several sections, they decided in August 2004 to close those sections once again, to keep focused on WarCraft 3 and Counter-Strike. "This due to the fact that we would rather support 2 teams 100%, then 9 teams with a little bit here and a little bit there." writes Peter "Mercy" Fries at MeetYourMakers.com. Shortly thereafter, in December 2004, Mercy and Kepler brings in their third partner -

Markus "Army" Stefanko, the same person who later also created the current website they now have. A community site, which is today one of the leading newspost sites in WarCraft 3. Their community users sums up to 9,138 users and 45 registered teams.

The Korean and Danish flag under the same roof

In March 2004, the WarCraft 3 squad of MeetYourMakers expands and gets a Korean division. Starting with the Korean progamer

Susiria and then later

GoStop and

Spirit_Moon, MeetYourMakers received three very powerful 1on1 and 2on2 additions to their team. Never before have Denmark and South Korea been seen so often together. The Danish/Korean WarCraft 3 team, lead under

Jesper "Nordahl Henriksen, has never won the most prestigious clanleague WC3L but have for the past three seasons ended Top 6 (#6 Season 5, #2 Season 6, #4 Season 7).

The Future

The year 2005 will be revolutionate Starcraft and professional gaming out of Korea

What began slightly in South Korea many years ago will be continued in the rest of the world too - Starcraft and professional gaming. Many online-games were used to professional gaming already such as the very famous Counter-Strike, Warcraft III and others. For a very long time Starcraft never took a deciding role in the business of professional gaming outside of Korea. Contracts with players were only given a very few, much money was never involved by playing this beloved game. A television show called Giga Games, part of the european NBC network, broadcasted Starcraft on the german television and on internet stream reported about Starcraft the first time and had several prizes for the winner such as money. Several ambitious clans were created or already successfull multi-gaming clans took Starcraft into their game roster like SSV Lehnitz, Trademark-Gamers, [eGe] and pro-gaming did. mYm will cover a Starcraft team from no on too. The aim is to compete and fight with the best clans in the world. An aim which isn't easy to reach, but they get full support by the following players :

yAn
A Protoss / Terran user from Russia with citizenship of both countries. Did great on WCG 2003 where he became #2 in Ukraine and became #1 on WCG 2004 Ukraine. During WCG finals in USA 2004 he lost to the korean progamer fOru in the grandfinals. Furthermore he was winner of ASUS, biggest russian LAN, beating Androide both times 2-0 in the final. Famous aka's are : yAn[S2], vWeb.yAn[S2] and SW)55.

Pj
A race picker from China. He usually plays Terran/Zerg vs. Protoss, Protoss vs. Terran and Terran vs. Zerg. He recently won WCG qualifications 2005 in China without losing a single game during the whole tournament. On WCG qualifications 2004 in China he became #1 too, but wasn't allowed to travel to USA due some visa problems. Next to his achievemens in WCG he was able to reach high ranks both in neogamei and PGT ladder such as other ladders.

Advokate
Just another player from Russia. This time Advokate, also known as A2[S2], SW)77 and A2kat. He was the winner of the russian WCG qualification in 2003 and runner-up in 2004. In USA he lost to Xellos[yG], the later winner of WCG 2004. He recently won Team Liquid Tour #2 with a total prize money of USD $1000 for the winner.

Raven
Next to Draco the second member coming from Poland. He is playing for the chinese team of =A.G= and played for [pG] before. He was able to qualify for all offline WCG qualifications in Poland so far - four years in a row. He is long time member of the polish nationalteam A, playing both 1on1 and 2on2 and he managed Poland-B as well. With his really good micro he was able to achieve very good results in the common ladders.

Draco
Another member who play for pro-gaming before same as Raven did. His Protoss is considered to be one of the best outside of Korea as he did truly great results in ladders such as neogamei and PGT. On west realm he usually uses his nick from Nal_ -guild : Nal_draco. He is long time member of the polish national team. Also, in 2004 he represented his home country of Poland in the World Cyber Games.

On their way to conquer the Battle.net

A line-up that looks very promising both to the clan itself as and as well as to the Starcraft community which will surely await the clanwars this team will attend in. As stated on their homepage the clan will participate in many of the competetive leagues and tournaments as well as in LAN's. A great support by the leadership of Meet Your Makers is given and GosuGamers whishes the players and the clan good luck for the future.

MeetYourMakers has announced this on their website ( http://www.meetyourmakers.com ) just now, and you can read the announcement by pressing » here.