He was a superstar by now. For the second time he left the second best team in the world to join eoLithic. The bad times were left behind and they would go on to beat SK six times out of seven attempts. The team won zero titles but their dominance over the Swedish rivals is revered by the Norwegian community to this day. Most onlookers admitted that the Norwegians were “the best team in the world.” Despite their abundance of talent they could not get along.

The tempestuous relationship between the young “Element”, now an astute tactical leader, and the more experienced hard-liner “XeqtR” could not be salvaged.

Moum jumped ship again. He had become good friends with Michael “ahl” Korduner and when the offer to join SK came in June 2003, he did not hesitate. The rest of that year, as they say, is history. From an esport perspective, they could shower in prize money. They won everything there was from CPL Summer through WCG to CPL Winter where they ran over NoA and former teammates from Meredia and eoLithic.

He had long since earned the dubious honour of being a “clan hopper” in the eyes of the community but Moum did not care. He was at the pinnacle of his competitive career, leading the most celebrated team in history from victory to victory. To his credit, labels never fazed him. He “was just doing his thing” as he said, and it didn’t matter to him if people were eager to judge.

While this period in his competitive career was extremely successful, it might have hurt the rest of his years in professional gaming. He overcame obstacles in “Gameonline” at 16, took hits to his name and came up on top, experienced idolization from a passionate world-wide gaming community at 17 and won more money than he could spend before turning 18. It might have been easy to feel untouchable.

Moum grew more and more into his role of the outsider that would defeat the world and the critics – all by himself. He even seemed to pride himself in doing so.

The glorious 2003 year came to an end for the SK team and before long, Moum left the team to join “knoxville” and “Naikon” in NoA. His transfer from team to team was an esport milestone as NoA compensated SK financially to secure his services. After all, Moum was the best player in the world at this point. Over the 2004 summer, his team experienced a string of failures though. He commented that he wasn’t that concerned with the defeats, and Moum always admitted to being a fun-loving individual. The summer in sunny LA had given him other, great experiences and distractions to take his mind away from CS. “Element” made friends easily and his first NoA months forged a relationship between him and manager Gary “Siege” Sanchez.

“Knoxville” was essentially cut, and stepped down as a player to once again make room for Jørgen “XeqtR” Johannessen. Both were a year older now and they claimed their infamous quarrels would cease in their pursuit of a world title. “Nollelva” in Sweden was not a confidence inspiring performance for NoA, and they traveled to Dallas once again unsure of where they stood; both in terms of preparation and opponents.

Moum and Johannessen together finally proved too much for everyone else to handle. They took an historic victory. Gary Sanchez shouted “lower bracket” from the ecstatic NoA huddle as CPL President Angel Munoz exclaimed that “Team NoA is the first team to win the title from the losers’ bracket.” They thought they took home 30 000 dollars for the effort but did not rest on the laurels as perhaps they felt they had the potential for a world domination equal to that of SK in the previous years.

In early 2005, it certainly looked that way when they won 50 000 more dollars at the first edition of the World Esport Games in South Korea.

They stayed in Asia for almost 9 weeks during which off-record reports said tempers flared with Moum and Johannessen yet again. The long days and weeks sitting idly by in what was described as cabins in the forest took its toll as the pressures grew. Moum was bored and was at times hard to handle for the WEG staff and his team. He left not long after the event was over to join MIBR.

At this point in his career, he was hard to criticize for his performance. Most onlookers disapproved of his countless hops between the top teams and the restlessness he displayed time after time. His social activities and life choices were also deviant from what was seen as “the way to go” for championship athletes. But those trophies and big checks kept piling up for the teams with his name on the roster and to him it was very much just a computer game to play for fun. He never seemed to consider it as much of a sport as we all would have wanted him to do.

Soon open season could be declared on his name.

“I want to try something different,” he said as he joins Brazilian team MIBR. Despite not having any ties to the South Americans and not knowing a word of Portuguese, Moum took it upon himself to provide them with the tactical guidance to match their individual skills. It was too big of a task. After an adequate performance at CPL Barcelona, Moum decided to prolong his vacation in Los Angeles with “Siege” instead of boot camping with the team in Rio de Janeiro for the upcoming CPL event there. This led to a discontinuation of their professional relationship and Moum was suddenly on his way to Korea again, this time with the Brits in 4 Kings.