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Starcraft: ClouD to ToT; HayprO and Selector released

By: Lucas Bigham - Published December 22, 2007 at 5:26 PM EST - Writer Archive
The Templars of Twilight have just announced the acquisition of Carlo “ClouD” Giannacco and immediate release of Hayder "HayprO" Hussein and Florian "Selector" Rappl.
The Templars of Twilight have recently been experiencing a very hectic month of roster changes. The organization felt a need to continue their campaign of actively recruiting after several of their player's fell into inactivity. One of their most recent additions, Hayder "HayprO" Hussein, was viewed as a very positive move for the team especially after his 1st place finish at DreamHack Summer 2007. However, only weeks after being added to the roster, he was caught using an illegal third party program known as the Oblivion Hack.

After carefully examining several of his replays, he was caught using this program in only one of his games, which he admitted. This one game was enough to be banned from the two well-known ladders WGTour and ICCup. The leader of ToT, Christoph "Mondragon" Semke reluctantly followed suit with the decision to remove him from the team as well.

Still not convinced that the Swede actively cheated, Mondragon states, "Although I am 100% convinced he only used it accidentally that one game vs Strelok and I totally believe in his explanations, but still there is no way ToT can let him stay anymore. It was a huge mistake, which he knows himself, and he is really really sorry about it, and so am I. I feel very sorry for what has happened since I know it was a fucking unlucky mistake, but in the end you used automatically mining and that's what you have to pay for in the end. Sorry Hayder, I hope that you will stay around with us even tho you are not in ToT anymore. Take care and much luck for you in the future!"

Along with the release of HayprO, the Templars of Twilight have also made the decision to release Florian "Selector" Rappl from the organization. Recently, the German Protoss was caught smurfing and hacking under the name "TerranHero". According to Mondragon, Selector is not interested in explaining this matter and will most likely end his Starcraft career.

In hopes of strengthening their roster after these loses they have made the decision to add Carlo "ClouD" Giannacco who is undoubtedly the strongest player in Italy. He is the former member of many Italian based organizations including the Sons of Law, TeamPlay.it, and Inferno E-Sports. Back in September, he finished in the top 16 at the World Cyber Games Grand Finals in Seattle. Although, this was certainly not where he began to gain a lot of popularity. He has consistently been at the top of the standings in the ICCup ladder along with showing some fantastic play in Ascension Group 3.

ToT's roster is as follows:

Arew
Italy ClouD
Sweden DaZe
Poland Fabian
Poland GohaN
United States iNcontroL
Germany iNfeRnaL
China LJT
Germany Mondragon
Poland ParanOid
France SarenS
Spain SquaLL
China XiaoZi
Spain ZelotITO

Poland Hullah (inactive)
MidiaN (inactive)
Finland ovvi (inactive)
Sweden TreK (inactive)

SOURCE: tot-gaming.com

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