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Counter-Strike: Check Six now known as zEx

By: Trevor Schmidt - Published January 13, 2006 at 7:31 PM EST - Writer Archive
Another old name from the past has returned with zEx reappearing on the CAL Invite team list. zEx was formerly considered one of the top teams in North America. Their accomplishments include a second place finish at ESWC and numerous upsets wins over favored top European teams such as SK.swe and eoL.
The roster will be a bit different than the one of legend. Gone are shaGuar and sunman, and in their place is the former Check Six lineup of Andrew Rector, Aran “i0nz” Curbelo, Derek “Titus” Clark, Kevin “HolyMan” Lawler, Anthony “m4gic” Coriale, Sam “hiCKEEEY” Hickey and Charlie “cbz” Pyo. Their reason for returning to their former name is because they lost their former sponsor and organizer, Check Six.

Laurent Genin-Satoh, CAL Invite Head Admin, informed GotFrag that the leader of the new zEx and old Check Six team requested the name change but no information on why was given.

Still the new zEx players are uncertain about the entire situation. Rector explained that the team and organization have split ways.

“Good luck to M19 with the organization, hopefully they have more luck with them than we did,” said Rector.

Check Six claims not to have anything to do with the Russian M19 team currently signed up for CAL. Rich Howard, manager of Check Six, said that those reporters were “completely false” and wouldn’t comment further.

The new zEx team released a statement to GotFrag hoping to resolve any rumors. In the statement they claim that Check Six “betrayed and lied” to them.

”The reason for the de-tagging is because there has been some rumors flying around the check-six organization. Just for the fact my teammates and I feel that we have been betrayed and lied to our faces I will let the community in on a little secret. There has been a rumor that the x6 organization is going to bring the European team to the United States to compete in the US leagues and tournaments. So it might look like a step forward for the organization, but ha... Good luck to Rich and the nice people I have met, and GOODLUCK for the team that’s coming over.”

Check Six was willing to respond at length stating that no team would be coming over to the US from Europe for the organization.

“(The zEx statement) Completely false, no team is coming over to America,” said Rich Howard, manager of Check Six.

When Howard was asked for a reason why the new zEx lineup was released and if it had anything to do with performance at CPL or other LAN events, he stated that it wasn’t just one reason for the release.

“Was due to a number of factors but not just one and was a decision made by management,” said Howard.

All the strong words aside, Howard wished his former players the best of luck.

“We felt some changes were needed to be made for 2006 as everyone has done to properly compete in the upcoming World Tour,” said Howard, “I have no hard feelings for the guys and wish them the best of luck in the new team they will be joining which is already in the works and best of luck to them in 06.”

The new zEx team is currently expected to play in the upcoming season of CAL Invite. Currently the team is in the Omega division and will face Underestimated, DeadZone and Mug N Mouse inside their own division.

As for the Check Six organization, it currently runs Painkiller/Quake 4, Counter-Strike Source, Day of Defeat and Call of Duty 2 teams. A new Counter-Strike 1.6 team could be in the future and GotFrag will keep you posted on any changes for either of these two organizations, zEx and Check Six along with any news on the Russian M19 news as soon as it becomes official.

New zEx Lineup
United States Andrew Rector
United States Aran “i0nz” Curbelo
United States Derek “Titus” Clark
United States Anthony “m4gic” Coriale
United States Sam “hiCKEEEY” Hickey
United States Charlie “cbz” Pyo

Inactive
United States Kevin “HolyMan” Lawler

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Rawr, Zebra Extreme! :)
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The name was bad anyway, zex <3
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really interesting even though it's the same people. good luck to them though! go zEx
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m19 to North American... thats gonna be interesting when it happens.
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just give er hell under the new name :D
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NORTH AMERICAN FTW!
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Nice nice, work it zEx!
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nook in cal i <3

This comment was edited at 01/13/2006 7:50 PM
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I don't see the point in listing the accomplishments of an entirely different team in this article.

Anyway, good luck zex.

So it really IS m19! Wow, I'm gonna get rolled in cal o!
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nice
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w00t w00t
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YEA! zEx back in action
#kNoWs ~ #clubxx
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zEx. Hmm good luck in cal-i
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Maybe I'm lost but how is a Russian clan going to play in a North American league due to the ping differentials. Yea, they're obviously at least a CALinvite level team but wouldn't the pings playing from Russia fall into the 200+ range?

Have they come over to the U.S?
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they will come over lol
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jmc $ zEx
hi.
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who is better for esea FEL, i0nz or hickey?
I am an orgy of one.
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ionz
"BSL taking his shirt off. One of the best CS celebrations I have ever seen."
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16# Moving from Russia to USA, to play in cal? That sounds dumb.
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#20 theyre not just gonna move over to play in CAL :X they have bigger plans like LANS etc
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Good luck guys best of luck in 06 guys.
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they are moving here for the good television shows and the fast food restaraunts.

Oh, and cal.
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Good old team but new players.
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GL to zEx.

Heh so its the real m19. Just saw teh cal page. jeez, the pacific conference of CAL O is going to have a team of international calibre competing with them, siiick. lol
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m19 is going to get hacked in calo lol.
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yea baby zex is back! !! !
#pK
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hows that newegg money
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good. I think this name change will make them better tbh. Would have liked to see some pickups and cuts with the name change but this is good enough.
#hoes #reverence
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WEWT!! HELL YES!
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good idea, drag the zEx name back through some more mud... Don't be a dissapointment, please
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agreed #31, only downhill from here.
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YES my favorite team is back ! zEx = hawt !

This comment was edited at 01/13/2006 8:09 PM
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Sorry but they can't go anywhere titus rectoor and cbz arent great and hickeey is just not on their level.
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yo if u look at the cal site is has a team M19 and it says NEWS TO BE ANNOUCED SOON
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Imagine that, f0rrest thinks everyone on the team is bad EXCEPT magic and ionz...
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A much much better name.
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Play against hickeey and you'll have a different impression f0rrest.

As well "mats" my comment was based upon that exact logic. I was confused why you would want to play over here when you could simply compete in Europe where the competition is much better. Guess I'll wait and see =).
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zEx FTW!! w000tzor
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good to see zEx back in action :)
where's bogus?
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titus did well at cpl, cbz is kinda bad. really what needs to happen is for rector and titus to change their alias' to r3ctor and t1tus and they will dominate
yea
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anything can happen man its '06 CS game of the year. OLD GOOD TEAMS CAME BACK IN THE SUMMER OF 05 and even more. we just have to sit back and watch the games begin =D

this isn't the same m19 that dominated the 1.5 days is it? i mean diff. roster? i can't say i keep up with everyone moving around internationally and all.....ok i recognize rado and nook....but yeah..discuss

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i0nz and m4gic are good. the rest aren't too good.
now go home and get your fucking shinebox!
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Interesting update..
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gooooo zEx, i hope they start taking cs serious again so we can see them destroy some euros
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zebra extreme is bak in action go zex!
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Watch them beat JMC and coL 16-14 during CAL and then come ESWC qualifiers on LAN, lose 16-8 and 16-7.
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same team different name, i expect same results
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I liked both names but zEx is just so much more CAL-I like :)

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