The world famous and award winning online role-playing game World of Warcraft is from today on entering the Meet Your Makers team and community.  
 
In July 2007 the number of players of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft (WoW) reached 9.0 million people worldwide. In addition, 250,000 new computer gamers join the ever so popular universe of World of Warcraft every month. This same universe, with its millions and millions of dedicated fans, has via the Curse guild joined forces with one of the world´s leading e-sports organizations, Meet Your Makers (MYM).

 Mark Peter Fries, CEO at Regroup Esports A/S, had the following to say upon the opening of a MYM.WoW team: ”Should we or should we not open up a WoW Guild and Arena team?, that question has echoed in the Regroup office’s for quite a while now and then a few months back we decided to go onward with the idea and see what options we had in terms of guilds and teams. After many talks with various guilds and teams the choice fell on the Curse Guild, with their almost 50 man strong PVE team and their 5v5 and 3v3 Arena team known as Log, they are known to be top notch on both the PVE and PVP part. The World of Warcraft game has so much to offer in Esports, sure it needs further development, but so did Counter-Strike when it came out and Blizzard is really working on developing the game for Esports in all, so hopes are high for yet another great Esports game.

MYM.WoW part 1: Player versus player

The new addition to the MYM organization, MYM.WoW, consists of MYM.PvP (the player versus player part of WoW) as well as MYM.PvE (the player versus environment part).

The PvP part of MYM.WoW originally formed at the start of The Burning Crusade, the first expansion pack of WoW. Today the 5v5 and 3v3 Arena team is known as “Log” which has kept the same players and setup that they started with, that is  Prophet (Warrior),  Peech (Shaman),  Mackelina (Paladin),  Sundo (Priest) and  Akina (Warlock). The team achieved a high rating at a very quick pace and recently placed 2nd at the Blizzard WoW European Regional Finals in Hamburg, Germany and are by that qualified to the World Finals at Blizzcon in the USA, which will be held in the beginning of August 2007.

“After our strong performance in Hamburg, we were glad to hear that a professional organization such as Meet Your Makers was interested in adding our team as their World of Warcraft squad. Of course we accepted their offer and will now proudly be playing as MYM.WoW,” says one of the new MYM.WoW players,  Johannes “Prophet” Korhonen.

Read the full statement from the PVP part here.

MYM.WoW part 2: Player versus environment

The PvE part of MYM.WoW, formerly known as “Curse Guild”, has existed since the beginning of World of Warcraft and also long before that in previous games like Dark Age of Camelot. Some of the original members are still playing and some have quit. MYM.PvE is a multi national guild with the largest amount of members from Scandinavia.
 
“As leaders of Curse Guild we are proud to announce a new partnership with the major e-sports organization Meet Your Makers. They will offer us the support and backing that we need to bring the team to its full potential. We have existed as Curse for several years now but the time for us to move on to something new and exciting has come. Since the release of World of Warcraft we have been one of the top guilds competing for PvE progress and with the MYM partnership we believe that this will only improve in the future,” say Curse leaders Phil “Mek” Curry and Markus “Mackelina” Dahlgren.

Read the full statement from the PVE part here.

For further information on the above, please contact:

Mark Peter Fries
Regroup Esports A/S, Chief Executive Officer
m.fries (@) regroup-esport.com
Phone: +45 70 27 08 58