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(USA) - The Championship Gaming Series and the Dallas Venom franchise have announced the release of Kevin "aZn" Wang from the Dallas CS:Source roster to be replaced by Eric �Brawwr� Neer. The release of Wang stems from his appearance at the 2007 Dust-Off Championship where he played CS 1.6 on a pug team. The following is the official announcement on the Dallas Venom website:

Championship Gaming Series (CGS) is pleased to announce that the Dallas Venom team is adding Eric �Brawwr� Neer to the roster as a starter on its Counter-Strike squad. Neer will replace Venom CS specialist Kevin �aZn� Wang, who has been released as a result of a mutual decision by team and league management, effective immediately. Neer, a native of Orange County, CA, has been a pro gamer for three years and was previously the top performer on the Gravitas Gaming team, which placed fourth at the 2007 CGS North American Combine and placed second in the most recent CEVO season.

"I am very pleased to have Eric as a starter on Dallas Venom. He�s bringing a fresh attitude and great experience, having played Source for three years,� states Alex Conroy, Dallas Venom GM. �Eric is a great guy and an extremely skilled player, as shown by the fact that he has led x6/Gravitas to some great victories." - dallasvenom.thecgs.com/Welcome_Brawwr

This brings the CGS Dallas Venom roster to:
United States

Josh "Dominator" Sievers
United States

Derek "exodus" Heidinger
United States

David "zid" Chin
United States

Corey "kam" Hanes
United States

Eric �Brawwr� Neer

GotFrag spoke with Kevin "aZn" Wang about his release from the Venom, his fine for playing at the Dust Off tournament and his future without CGS. The interview can be found on the following page.

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never saw it coming

kevin its OK... we can do it like we did it 9 years ago well sleep at the lan centers play CS for a week straight and maybe youll get your passion back.... :P

You have to play on my team to believe it.

knew it was happening, and it tears me up inside that one of the 2 best teams in the world was broken up because of it.

How does it feel?

come back to 1.6!!!!!! north america needs you!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2B-0b5KkpA

good luck

#united5 #soLgaming

mehhhhhh

eMg | aZn[1g]

#7

you're an idiot.

aZn doesnt bait. hes an entry fraggerrrrrrrrrrr

gl kevin

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Kevin "aZn" Wang, The best Upper nuke player in history, or at least tied with tentpole

I Started the FURY craze!

wackkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

this was basically common hearsay for the past 3 months...

gl kwang

and welcome the big lebrawrrrski

GUNIT~

no worries, we can all have a really good laugh when CGS fails and flops just like WSVG did.

#zoi ----- est. June 2003.

Didn't you play in another 1.6 comp after you were fined Kevin?

Guy should have had a lawyer look at his contract to make sure he received a payoff if he was entitled to one.

Can I keep you?

As much as I enjoy watching CGS look stupid, they do have contracts for a reason. Nonetheless, aZn 1 cgs 0.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

CGS needs to let go of their players.. They are trying to control everything all of the top players do, which could be damaging the eSports rather then helping it :X

aZn is a lot better than brawwr

hahaha terrible league

#20 x2

Kevin "aZn" Wang - 1

CGS - 0

Keep the fail going CGS.

#13 or when azn wrote a post on gotfrag confirming all of this.

do drugs kids

lol they fine players for playing a different GAME, for god's sake. competition in video games are finally starting to expand and all CGS does is restrict it. lmao cgs its just a GAME after all. -.-

#22

azn 0 cgs 1

how could you ever get that mixed up? humm

gogo gl ericccooooooo

1.6 will welcome him with open arms, a lot of top teams will want him. What does that say about source? already the breach between two codes is growing again.

The worst thing IMO CGS can do is restrict azn and cut him so much hassle. eSports no matter what form and its high level competition should be encouraged. If azn was to dominate a small lan comp, everyone wld say "wow theres that guy who plays in CGS with that team" its only going to give CGS more credibility.

I really dont think CGS hit the right spot with this issue, which brings up questions about CGS's management decisions and professionalism.

You guys are all idiots, I swear to God.

hiya

aZn 1-0 CGS
cs1.6 10000000-0 CGS

See the similarities? aZn likes 1.6 more than source and also Jason Lake + some other pros said its a borken game thus cs1.6 10000000-0 CGS.

Counter-Strike Links Compilation in my profile.

boo! down with CGS

yea AZN really showed CGS who was boss.

oh wait no, he is an idiot for knowingly breaching his contract. yet you 1.6 fanbois will never see it.

This comment was edited at 12/20/2007 3:02 AM

Lake is an idiot...I like how he was basically behind the scenes creating all this stupid Source garbage, then says how its such a broken game...

cgs EPIC FAIL

it was more about the principal of the matter.

stopped reading there

C.C.C.P.

when a player in the nba,nfl etc etc violates his/her contract that arent kicked out of their league and depending on the violation that may not even be fined. like for instance sitting out games due to trade demands. a player isnt fined they just dont receive their money for that game(s). so at know way at all was cgs acting like any other professional league. once again they take it upon themselves to look even more foolish and absurd by doing what they did to aZn. i hope for the sake of professional e-sports and cs itself that players and managers wise up and reguardless of what cgs has to offer whether it be the money or sponsorships or whatever the better perks maybe, that we put an end to an organization that by all means is ruining the passion and desire to compete and play in games that we have all grown to love.

"if its 2 good to be true, it probably is."

azn-1
mlo-1
cgs-0

This comment was edited at 12/20/2007 3:22 AM

god cgs is awful as hell

no duh he was under contract, who cares bla bla bla

the point is cgs/source is god awful

If that fifa kid was allowed to go play quake, and there were many others allowed to play different tourneys that were "CGS related" Why weren't they fined. CGS is just dumb.

AZN - 1
MLG - 1
CGS -100

CGS keeps failing every single day.

aZn - 1, CGS - 0 on this one. what he says about the CGS letting other players from different games participate in LAN tourneys is ridiculous. sure, they're participating in a LAN playing a different game, but CS Source and CS 1.6 aren't the same games either. now they're implementing a CS 1.6 league after disallowing their CS players to play in any CS:Source LAN let alone CS 1.6. if they're letting the players of other games play in tournaments, why not allow the CS players to play too.

zuN

CGS - 0 aZn - 0

Reading a contract before you sign it - 1

pz logic prevails.

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aZn is the man cuz he is strong enough to tell the turth which is he dislikes CGS and SORUCE! I believe more than 50% of the source players dislike CGS and SOURCE, their mouth are shut by money

and #23, Birthday: January 1, 1933 ... seriously get a life you old clown, do you still have enough brain cells to "think"? $tfu and spend some time with ur grandchild

(.O-_-).O Q(-_-Q)

Venom might actually WIN now... brawwr is a FAR superior source player.

#11 and fnx :]
ul kevin, gl and comeback to 1.6!

www.kaos-eu.com www.liquid-motion.nl

Where's that idiot Kombat who claimed brawwr wasn't good enough for the cgs? CGS fined aZn because he breached his contract... The others asked permission if they could go to said lans or play other games. aZn has a big ego and thinks he can just do what he wants.

Glad this idiot is out.

This comment was edited at 12/20/2007 3:55 AM

oh btw, what #17 said, I just assumed you got a pay off amount? if not, get them to pay it, it's standard for terminating a contract, look at any other pro sports or regular job.

well cgs pretty much has been making ridiculous mistakes from day one starting when they tried to use source as a competitive game so it didnt surprise me that they keep this behavior up.

I agree with #27

CGS is trying to do great things with esports, i don't really see the need for them to limit some of the players chances to join events like that small 1.6 event or even the CPL. The team he was going with in 1.6 were just a bunch of friends that wanted to compete for fun. I doubt he was on practicing and taking the whole tournament all serious. He plays source with his real team and plays 1.6 on the side with friends (and yes i know he broke his contract, like i said i agree with #27).

This is how i see it, if CGS allowed their source teams to compete at the CPL, it would be beneficial. It would add much more exposure to what these CGS teams are about. People around the world are gonna wonder, who are the Chicago Chimera (just an example); they have teams that represent cities? The CPL may be called the Cyber Professional League but it's really not a league at all, it's a tournament. If these CGS teams place (which should be easy), they would actually take CPL's money and go back to their league that pays them $30,000. They would also get interviewed and they could talk about the CGS. People that still play 1.6 will want to see a lot of their idols like ksharp and Frod, it would promote them to buy source so that they can spectate them in sourcetv. There's just so many benefits and no down side :/

If people see aZn play 1.6 for fun, it's exposing himself to gamers in general; the people that actually care about esports. They're gonna know that he's playing for fun because he's actually a professional source player that plays for CGS.

I love CGS and I do watch it on directv, just want it to succeed. I think they picked the right people (torbull, lake, dkt, bsl, heaton) and have an allstar lineup from players to management. They shouldn't feel threatened if they are the premier league. Even the CPL caters to CGS by switching their rules for their CGS teams.

What u want foo!?

#11 actually best upper nuke players are fnx and ruiit,not azn and tentpole :))

eSports is getting too confusing, so many different tourny's and levels of competition is making my head sore. lol

shows how professional he is.

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