Aftermath was expected to join H2K Gaming on a permanent basis after the ESWC but a last minute offer from wNv was more than enough to change their plans. The Norwegian team was engaged in talks with the Asian organisation and the move has been just confirmed.

"We will, from now on, promote our big sponsors and partners, get salary and compete on world class tournaments," said Ghopi “executeR” Prabaharan, wNv's player. "This is basically a new step for us, a new development as a player/team, not to mention a better offer than we have ever imagined. All the time we've put to this game finally payed off."

Prabaharan stressed that H2K behaved professionaly during their relationship and that this decision was taken due to a better offer from a bigger organisation.

"[H2K] is really a professional organisation with everything you need. They have never fooled us in any way, but only helped us through our journey."

"An organisation where professionalism and dedication are two big keywords", said Jonas “Luke” Bro, wNv.eu's co-manager and coach.

Jack “Le_Freak” Benard, H2K's manager, revealed that, despite losing a great team, with a lot of potential, he undertands this move as the offer was amazing.

"This was definitely such a good offer almost no other team gets in their whole career, so of course the management from H2k-Gaming is sad that they left us but they were honest from the beginning about everything."

wNv plans on expanding to other games and recruit overseas players in Quake 4 and Warcraft III during the earlier months of 2007. Besides, the Chinese teams will now move to Europe to finish their studies, which will allow frequent bootcamps and a better communication between Asian and European teams.

"wNv will go to Europe to study, we'll enhance communication between wNv and european organisations as we will make bootcamps regularly or periodically. wNv do believe a double-win situation could be expected between Chinese and European e-sports through such these communications," wNv stated.

WNv's European team is composed by:

Bo “WANGZ” Wang (manager)
Jonas “Luke” Bro (coach)

Ghopi "executeR" Prabaharan
Thomas "r00fz" Sandvik
Martin "OmeN" Moskvil
Øyvind "KunFigur3" Magnestad
Eirik "draziw" Gulbrandsen

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