Serious Gaming take in EuroCup Champs

It is just over a month since the EuroCup finals in Aarhus, Denmark and since the day Check Six lifted the cup speculation has been abound as to their future, if there was to be one. Today that has come to an end though, with the news that Check Six will be joining up with the top European organisation Serious-Gaming, the home of the Polish Quake 4 prodigy av3k and a successful Warcraft 3 team. They will provide the former Check Six side full support to attend LAN events around the world and after the trouble they had with former organisations the move should come as a relief to the players themselves. Their first event will be the WonderBase LAN in Boras, Sweden where they will take on their old rivals Dignitas as well as a host of new challengers such as Copenhagen-Esports, Logitech.fi and Cubic.

The lineup remains unchanged from the one that took the EuroCup crown except for one addition. Stim, formerly of Logitech.fi and Idle.ee will join the team as Plaekki travels to work in Germany for a few weeks. Stim was a star performer at both the Playz LAN and the original Call of Duty EuroCup X LAN finals so should slot nicely into the all-star Serious lineup. Plaekki was a big performer for the team at the recent EuroCup finals though and it will be interesting to see how the team reacts to his temporary departure. Ever since Stim left Logitech it was rumoured he was playing with the Check Six team and not for the first time, the rumours have been proved correct. He will be playing at WonderBase with the team and will be looking to impress on his first competitive outing.

The following players will be representing Serious.CoD2:

Liam 'Crow' Crowley
Martin 'mint' Röjder
Rickard 'zEm' Intveld
Sami 'Sacrim' Nieminen
Timo 'Stim' Arminen
Otto 'plaekki' Kuisma


Crow gave the following statement on the Serious homepage...

"We are very pleased to announce Serious as our new home. Since the EuroCup finals we have had a number of offers but as a team we believe Serious provides the best platform for support, stability and growth. We have been in contact with them for quite a while now, ironing out the details, and it is a big boost to our motivation to finally begin working with them.

Our first event will be WonderBase in Boras, Sweden where we will aim to show a repeat of our EuroCup form and take home the €3,700 first prize. I would also like to announce our newest member Stim, who will be playing for us at WonderBase because plaekki has had to go work in Germany for a few weeks. The whole team would like to express our thanks to Bas and Stefan from Serious who have been very welcoming and we hope we can do the team proud!"