fnatic in the official Samsung European Championship shirts.

We had some discussion, what to do. The possibilities would have been deducting of the prize money or a ban of the players for the next SEC. because the Event is already gone, this would have been the only Options for us. After a meeting with the Nordic WCG organizer which supports us completely, we came to the decision, that the Auto birth for fnatic for the national Final 2008 will be denied. That means, they have to fight through the normal qualification like any other team.

We want to make clear, that this won’t be the standard penalty for harming the rules. Because it was the first time that happened, and there has been no other company Logo in front of the shirts, we decided to go for this penalty this time. Next time, doesn’t matter who it will be, we will be talking about deduction of Prize money or banning the players again.

fnatic was informed that we had to wear our Samsung SEC jerseys on the prize ceremony when we were given our medals, which we did as obliged. After coming off the stage we were asked for an interview and as customary we took off our shirts to wear our fnatic jerseys. We were then all invited onto the stage in a rush for a group photo and so the guys straight out of their interview ran on the stage for the photo in their fnatic shirts. It was a mistake and we are sorry. However it was a very harmless one!