When you begin as a gamer, you wouldn’t know how famous that game is and where you stand. As days go by, you will soon realize there are professional teams in your own backyard as well as around the world. And even before you know, you will be part of this religion called “Counter-Strike”. I do consider gaming as a religion because a dedicated gamer does everything which a religion demands from him. Everyday prayers are like daily practice. Weekly café visits are like you are entering the temple of God. :P And you admire those “Gods” from Sweden or other parts of Europe.  

It was a “spiritual” experience when the Gods of CS- Team Fnatic had come down to India on Jan 25th to 30th 2007 on promotional tour at the GameBox National Championship Finals in New Delhi. They visited Mumbai and Bangalore too. The finalists of the tournament had an opportunity to speak to and have a game against them. The winners ATE had an exhibition match in which ATE managed to pull in 9 rounds against Fnatic. In Bangalore, few gamers caught hold of the airport itself and managed to have a game at the Reliance web world outlet at the airport.

The main agenda was to answer few questions asked by the local teams and Dsn was thoroughly impressed by those questions as he says in his blog – “We got super good questions about different scenarios in the game and our training regime, but even though we tried to answer the questions as good as we could, we would’ve probably done a better job with some whiteboard or something to illustrate what we were trying to say. I hope that the teams were happy with our answers anyway”.

Invictus (Hyderabad) with Fnatic 

 Agents(Chennai) with Fnatic

When there is a dry phase or a bad news it feels that your sentiments are being hurt. The latest one being “ESNation stopping all operation due to which there will be no more MYM teams, men and women as couple of MYM players from the Counter-Strike and Warcraft 3 teams didn't receive their monthly salaries lately”. This is definitely a bad news to the gaming community. But there have been rumors that Steel Series will be getting down SK Gaming as a part of their promotional tour to India. Let’s hope it is a pleasant surprise soon  

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..., wher r mtw sk mym pics ?? y inv and agents pic ?

March 19, 2009     

wher r mtw sk mym pics ?? y inv and agents pic ?
kundya | 123.50.181.147 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., just 2 teams played fnatic ?? wat abou others ? wol

March 19, 2009     

just 2 teams played fnatic ?? wat abou others ? wolf ate 3gp 4m mumbai played wit fnatic ther pic not included :/
kundya | 123.50.181.147 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., urr..its Make Way team not agents

March 19, 2009     

urr..its Make Way team not agents
srikky | 122.164.242.12 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., I could gather only two pics amongst all others!! K

March 19, 2009     

I could gather only two pics amongst all others!! Kundya plz provide me the rest , ill definately upload it!!
ac!d | 122.167.143.250 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., Crap! I knew i'd be wrong sRikky!! Was wondering if

March 19, 2009     

Crap! I knew i'd be wrong sRikky!! Was wondering if it was MW or Agents!! I am sorry to get it wrong!
ac!d | 122.167.143.250 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., hmm..... i don't know about SK Coming down.... but

March 22, 2009     

hmm..... i don't know about SK Coming down.... but ESnation hasn't stopped paying players.... it's franchised out the team to some1 else... the players are still getting the salaries... only new contracts are being made....
ShamRock | 122.169.84.102 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., That is why i said "couple" of players havent recei

March 22, 2009     

That is why i said "couple" of players havent received their salaries!!! Not all... and ESNation is broke and bankrupt as they mentioned in their press release! I just hope the teams dont get affeceted !!
ac!d | 122.167.143.250 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., Lets hope so... their bankruptcy is more to do with

March 22, 2009     

Lets hope so... their bankruptcy is more to do with no money from sponsors... cause ESNation has mostly spent money on the studio and other fields in gaming...
ShamRock | 122.169.84.102 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., lol why are u guys so bothered abt MYM?...its just

March 23, 2009     

lol why are u guys so bothered abt MYM?...its just a name nothing else, even if MYM is gone forever they will continue to play as old team , regardless of the name of the clan which is least important, we will see the comeback of PGS GAMING , the money they have earned from tourneys during last 2 years is more than enough for them to travel around the world for next 5 years Pointless article btw , information regarding a 2year old event ( fnatic visiting india, information taken from already available sources since long time )

showstopper | 59.93.42.29 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., and work around with levels on picture , looks ugly

March 23, 2009     

and work around with levels on picture , looks ugly with the current levels / contrast in the white background
showstopper | 59.93.42.29 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., I am not an editor here to change the contrasts!! I

March 23, 2009     

I am not an editor here to change the contrasts!! If u find this article pointless, please don't read. This site provides opportunity for everyone to write an article! I write articles cause i like to and I am not getting paid or anything out of it. A criticism is accepted positively until a certain period, but just criticizing 24/7 and doing nothing constructive is worthless!!
ac!d | 122.167.137.34 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., Thanks a lot for the reply ,you posted this is news

March 23, 2009     

Thanks a lot for the reply ,you posted this is news section..and put the name Meet thy Gods...and hence i said it was pointless and i never said the post was bad did i...there is difference between the words used and their meaning ..please try 2 understand or atleast others would expect u to understand ..Posting in news section meet thy gods..abt a 2year old event ..can u please tell me what point does it make... and along with that abt MYM's salary issue...you could have posted it as a different topic all together , but i doubt what point MYM's sponsorship issues make to the cs world, were they "WORSE" as PGS gaming before??..there are far better sponsors waiting to get them if MYM is going to dump them. And can you also please mention the sources of the rumour that Steelseries will be getting SK to do a trip to india...coz it will remain just as rumour unless backed by proper sources of the news ... even unconfirmed news should have some sources thats why im asking , what was the initial source of this news

showstopper | 59.93.26.173 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., @ac!d : You are repeating the same mistake again an

March 24, 2009     

@ac!d : You are repeating the same mistake again and again. You and Your grammar skills . That is what showstopper is pointing. And u call that 24/7 criticism. And what does this has to do in the news section, You have not even changed it even after reading the replies. Now we all know that u don't take criticism positively, especially after reading your nice replies. I actually go by this rule "Dont try Dont fail " , So if u cant write dont write and if u do write and ask for criticism then take em positively even if it comes 24/7 and work on it not just ignore it

Live2Own fan | 59.92.242.175 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., @showstopper- I always have asked your opinion abou

March 24, 2009     

@showstopper- I always have asked your opinion about certain things, havent I. And about posting in the news section, I just posted that. But you need to realise, its moderated and changes are done by editor. Btw not all my article titles r chosen by me. @Live2oWn fan - What grammar mistakes you talking about? I cant do changes cause I havent received any admin rights for my id. IF u go by your stupid rule, you follow and you are no one to tell me if i should write and what to write. Once an article is published you need to know i cant do any changes. My 1st comment on this article is a mistake on my own and i accepted it. I do accept criticism. I think i am a fool now trying to justify this to you.

ac!d | 122.167.137.34 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., I am not interested to carry this forward. Justify

March 24, 2009     

I am not interested to carry this forward. Justify something if you are right. Not if you are Wrong.
Live2oWn fan | 59.92.242.225 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: -1

..., hmm... 1st thing - Anyone can write articles on his

March 24, 2009     

hmm... 1st thing - Anyone can write articles on his site. There are no specific authors. If, you think you can write as good enough article, please contribute. We have made the content in l2o open to all. This is done so that we can have articles pertaining to news,coverage from all across India without sending l2o reporters whenever there is a need. We need to the general public to own up and write articles. 2nd Thing - The article written by author is his general views regarding the content. His article does not reflect the view of l2o on a topic. The l2o content ways have changed. earlier, it used to admin generated content and now its user generated. If you donot like the content, you are free to give your opinions below and also rate the article. 3rd Thing - The current team at live2won has come to believe that we need to increase the write content ion gaming than the read content. So the more you encourage the author/user, the better he is going to get at writing articles. Flaming, Criticizing will only lead to discouragement with authors on not writing articles. To increase the quality of content on this e-sports portal, we need to encourage people to write the content in a better way. One thing - The current popular authors are ac!d, nonename, provakis,val, riz . These guys are providing content so that good content is generated and people have something to read about in the community and they also provide the latest news. Last thing - If YOU cannot contribute content in the e-sports community, please dont discourage the current ones who are contributing. Instead help them write better content.

Neo | 59.164.33.245 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0

..., fnatic seems to be feeling awkward while talkin to

March 25, 2009     

fnatic seems to be feeling awkward while talkin to them..
Shade.[tw] | 117.199.98.180 report abuse vote down vote up Votes: +0