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Counter-Strike: PGS plays down MYM talk

By: Luis Mira - Published September 15, 2007 at 8:44 AM EDT - Writer Archive
PGSPokerStrategy insists the Counter-Strike team will not be signed by Meet Your Makers.


The Polish squad has been strongly linked with a move away from PGSPokerStrategy, with Meet Your Makers being rumoured to hold an interest.

The Danish organisation had engaged in talks with the Polish players with an offer that seemed to interest them, as it was "a lot better" than PGS' current one.

According to Lukasz “LUq” Wnek, the players would receive a considerable salary boost, as well as the opportunity to attend more events, if they chose to represent Meet Your Makers.

However, PGS confirmed that it has offered the players better conditions, with hopes of securing the team.

The offer of attending more events seemed to have played a major role in the negotiations between the PGS organization and the Counter-Strike.

“We will for sure attend the World Cyber Games, trying as well to qualify for the Kode5 finals," Wnek said.

"There is another event coming up I can’t describe closer at the moment. "Next would be CPL Dallas and some bootcamps at our second home – Inferno Online in Stockholm."

This said, PGSPokerStrategy will keep the Counter-Strike team, at least until the players' contracts expire. After this, the team is free to renew with PGS or open negotiations with another organisation.

"We will stay at PGS at least until the end of the contracts," Wnek stated. "We are willing to win everything there is. Afterwards we will see what will happen.

"I know there are going to be some 1.6 tournaments next year, thus we won’t be switching to Source yet, though it might happen.”

Meanwhile, Wnek confirmed to be unhappy with the latest talks regarding the possibility of a move to a non-Polish organisation.

"I have to admit, I was really surprised reading some comments, where we were told to sell our souls or to cheat on Poland," he said.

"We don’t look at the matter through that viewpoint. We have arrived at a level, at which we needed better conditions to secure our further development. It feels sad watching the opinion of some people.

"We won’t be playing Counter-Strike forever, being at the top now, we strive for the best possible conditions naturally."

Contacted by GotFrag.com, Meet Your Makers was unavailable to comment on this matter.

The official press statement can be found here.

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Too bad! MYM tag is too ugly! Keep it on PGS !
H$MASTOR
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So it was true! >:P
let me bob ross the track
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good decision :)
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so mym would have two CS teams?
"fRoD doesnt cheat" "#7 online/north america, you do the math" -qu4kE_
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#1 Yeah PGSPokerStrategy.cc is such a good tag..
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#1 Rofl, do you really care about the tag?? Thats stupid as hell.
eMg & PGS fan
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lol #1 im sure the main reason for them switching teams or not would be which tag looks better
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Interesting...very interesting.
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lmao MYM just got pwnd :O
<@kusH> need 2 cent * @harpooooN^ gives him .02$
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now im pretty sure that PGS will become MYM.pl in 2008
w a f f l e s.
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I looked on that page about the time when PokerStrategy became the sponsor of PGS.
It's not like mTw's PokerRoom - "just a sponsor". They seem to really target eSports players on PokerStrategy - best page afaik for starting to play poker.

some danish inet guru just invested 2 million dollars in mym :p they got the cash
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thank MYM for offering you such a good deal to Wake up PGS.

gl
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"I know there are going to be some 1.6 tournaments next year, thus we won’t be switching to Source yet, though it might happen.”
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PGS elemeNt xDD
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#17 :DD
"fRoD doesnt cheat" "#7 online/north america, you do the math" -qu4kE_
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i thought pgs had good conditions

I want it to be SK.poland, though. SK looks much better than pgs.
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#19 it's Poland so... :/
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#21 but sponsors are not polish.
w a f f l e s.
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god, drama queens all over the place :)
Can you kill them all?
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#16 yeah, boost your ego with an "it may happen".
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Maybe www.pokerstrategy.com increased their sponsorship to keep them going?
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off!
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dont go to MYM, plz.
pr0net
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affs .
lixoo .
a
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i thnk its a great chance for the team, mym's offer looks pretty good, and i would love to see them at more events
d(^.^)b HardStyle; inventor of ☺
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Maybe PGS;ll be tag change to MYM...
PGS = MYM.. two tag is so good^^
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MYM offered better conditions than current PGS` sponsors but we can see that it`s not the most important thing for Polish guys :)
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Pentagram G-Shock sounds SO much better :P
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if MYM wins, what happens with the current team?

polish loyalty > all others

most loyal people on the planet

more or less, i dont think id see the day where pentagram gs went to a organization like mym, sk, or even begrip..
neo is the best cs player ever, if you disagree, you are a scrub.
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lol #34, they blatently got offered a better deal to stay with PGS otherwise they would have left.. and if the Polish people were the most loyal on the planet then why do most Polish football players play outside Poland?

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