Blight Gaming sign dateam

8-1-2011 06:13

Blight Gaming have reopened their Counter-Strike division with the acquisition of da_team.

The Swedish team have finally found an organisation after announcing late last month the start of their operations with a roster composed of former members of ICSU and Begrip Gaming.

"After hours of talking we are glad to say that we have finally found ourselves a home. Of all the offers we got, we got one offer that we really couldnt resist from the Multi-Gaming organisation Blight-Gaming," Joel "emilio" Mako told Blight's website.

"We get along really well, and this is a big boost for me and my teammates that we can from now on, only focus on our practice and let the management take care of the rest, and that it is a big relief for us."

Blight had been without a CS team since the end of the last ESEA season, in which they finished in 5-6 place with an American roster.

The new Blight team had their first public match on Wednesday against Georgia, picking up a relaxed 2-0 victory.

Blight owner James "blackfoger" Larsen said he hopes the new team will bring much success to the organisation and revealed a huge effort will be put into the Swedish squad, which includes having the players live together.

"We have debated about taking an already established team and see how that worked out," Larsen said.

"After talking with emilio and the team for the past week I can tell we are on the same wave length.

"That being said, the team is going to be moving into a house together, courtesy of our sponsors, practicing hard and attending many events."

Their official LAN debut is expected to be at the World Gaming Festival in Montenegro in February, after which the team plan on attending the 4Kings LAN 2011 and ASUS Winter.

Blight Gaming now have the following team:

Joel "emilio" Mako
Danniél "dalito" Morales
Daniel "rape" Börzsönyi
Christian "floreNz" Shahan
Givar "givar" Shabani

Another team is falling for the false advertising?

2011-01-08 06:14

2011-01-08 06:15

good luck

2011-01-08 06:20

solid team

2011-01-08 06:21

Don't know why people keep joining up with Blight...

2011-01-08 06:22

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How come?:P

2011-01-08 06:34

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The blight gaming organization is a organization which is notorious for not paying travel expenses, or properly sponsoring players, or saying they are going to do something but not. This has happened(and been reported on) to like 10 teams, but people keep falling for it.

2011-01-08 07:06

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i assume da_team picked blight because of the oppurtunity to lan in a house instead of staying on net cafés

2011-01-08 09:40

That's all true, but blight has been doing pretty well with their source team, recently sent them to Europe afaik. I guess we'll see. 99% sure this will be over within a month, but there is always that 1%.

2011-01-08 14:59

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They sent them to Europe though the team still had to ask for money to get covered by community volunteering, which is somewhat...ridiculous. The ONLY REASON the head honcho did that was to gain back some trust, but in general most people question his capacity to actually deliver. A single tournament is one thing, multiples is probably a very resounding "NO" unless the players front for themselves.

2011-01-09 06:09

this makes me laugh and makes me want to quit esports

2011-01-08 06:24

Well, I hope this team is ready to go to a tournament and figure out they aren't getting any money. Very bad idea for this team. It most likely wont last more than a week anyways.

2011-01-08 06:29

wow lol, goodluck with that

"That being said, the team is going to be moving into a house together, courtesy of our sponsors, practicing hard and attending many events." hahahahahahaha

2011-01-08 06:53

LMAO i know that was hilarious

2011-01-08 07:14

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laughed my a** off. :DD

2011-01-08 08:04

It was hilarious because you are a male :D a female could never see the connection.

2011-01-12 11:24

blight trolling swedes now eh? rOFL

2011-01-08 06:55

they have been trolling swedes before, the SCC team promise keepers. old vitriolic/stockholm magnetic

2011-01-08 13:17

LMAO BLIGHT GAMING They're literally the biggest joke organization in the history of eSports. I know this sounds unbelievable, but Blight is actually run by a 15 year old kid named "Blackfoger." If you don't believe me then look it up.

2011-01-08 07:05

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esea.net/users/329057

2011-01-08 14:04

HUAHAUHAUHUAHHUAHAUAHUAHAU..... huehauhae

2011-01-08 15:28

Uh... but I thought the Blight website said it was founded in 2003 or whatever. Does that mean he started a "professional esports organization" when he was 7?

2011-01-08 22:21

Exactly, lol

2011-01-09 21:01

CEO of Blight LLC. Our sponsors -Maxfrag -Globalfrag -American Guru With those sponsors im sure they are getting a deluxe suite from Hilton for couple of years to practise together.

2011-01-08 17:18

LOL

2011-01-08 19:11

2011-01-08 07:09

Good luck... but Blackfoger is like a kid, things will turn sketchy sooner or later...

He is not like a kid he actually IS a kid :D

2011-01-08 15:30

i feel bad for them funny vid youtube.com/watch?v=UUTs66EoMSE original vid youtube.com/watch?v=3l7eR2ViyYM also damn... it took hours? how many lies did they come up with? ^^

2011-01-08 07:21

lmao is that real?

2011-01-08 13:33

Glad you enjoyed my video.

2011-01-08 14:54

Blight rofl what a horrible organization...stick to the US god knows where they are going to come up with money to support a Swedish team when they don't do anything for their US teams....this whole org is sketchy as hell

2011-01-08 07:20

recognise the name from a world of warcraft arena team, huge flop there too.

2011-01-08 07:25

interesting, good luck guys =)

2011-01-08 07:26

LOL, who wais that they must have an organization after win against Georgia? =:D

2011-01-08 07:29

Going to go down the List here. Had to make an account for the misinformed. I am not 15 years old. Two we have sent three teams to DSrack #3, One of them from United states all the way to copenhagen to bootcamp for 8 days. Sent two teams to the last ESEA LAN and have sent a team every ESEA LAN. Currently have 14 teams. Our current teams are fine and haven't said anything our EU teams are quite happy. A few teams are currently salaried. We will be attending 4kings Land and maybe WGF with this team.

2011-01-08 07:30

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Uhhh i'm pretty sure you have never paid for ANYONE to go to esea lan.. everything you've said just now is a lie.

2011-01-08 07:33

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pretty sure you just lied so please don't patronize me with your crap. s19.photobucket.com/albums/b156/blackfog.. s19.photobucket.com/albums/b156/blackfog.. s19.photobucket.com/albums/b156/blackfog.. s19.photobucket.com/albums/b156/blackfog.. Took these just to show how juvenile some people can be.

2011-01-08 07:57

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Yeah, tell me about juvenile behavior. netcodeilluminati.com/forums/general-css.. gotfrag.com/tf2/forums/thread/431179/ miserytheslayer.blogspot.com/2010/06/bli.. eseanews.com/css/index.php?s=news&d=comm.. sk-gaming.com/content/28364-BlightInt_Be..

2011-01-08 10:14

There are always 2 sides of every story, we just choose not to talk bad about these players. Any past debts have been paid off. We currently have 15 teams and all of them have received the support they want. Don't hear our teams complaining that went to DSrack or our TF2 teams or our CSS teams. If you want to be a negative nancy please go elsewhere. Also some of those teams still owe me money.

2011-01-08 10:50

There actually isn't because in every story covering your side you always claim that the company credit card was over the limit or that you no longer have the support of a certain sponsor. I actually know a few players that were once sponsored by you and I've known them long enough that they wouldn't lie to me and from what I hear you're a pretty shitty person. You make promises you can't keep to create publicity for your company knowing that you won't/can't fulfill these promises. You've also promised to reimburse players for paying out of their own pockets and you've never paid them back at all. Most of these players make up the top echelon of North American CS/CSS so I highly doubt they would start shit with you for no god given reason. Regarding DSRACK and those other "sponsored" trips. Most of them were either team funded i.e 0 dollars came from the organization or money raised from sponsorships that you've been hoarding for a while. Blight is only sponsored by Everki ( if you have more please enlighten me because what's the point of sponsoring you if you don't at least advertise them...it's not like your team has TMZ media converge) at the moment from the looks of your website so I highly doubt you're able to provide salaries and those lavish trips. Pfft get real. People have seen you online. You're not even "of age" yet. How the fuck are you running an accredited business? Simple you're not. You're a shady piece of shit who probably stole most of their sponsorship money seeing as though most teams you sponsored weren't good enough to win top cash prizes anyway.

2011-01-08 11:35

Ouch.

2011-01-08 14:02

by: blackfoger #22 the last ESEA LAN and have sent a team every ESEA LAN. Currently have 14 teams. by: blackfoger #39 Any past debts have been paid off. We currently have 15 teams and all of them have received the support they want. WHAT?

2011-01-08 14:21

You're saying ALL these teams and players screwed you over? Well, I must say, must be a very noble person to consort with all these shady characters, all out to rob you.

2011-01-10 23:15

Blacked out payments does not mean you've paid out your players. It could be porn/escort services for all I know.

2011-01-08 11:19

Also I wouldn't hold my breath on those large payments. There are numerous players on ESEA who are willing to showing your "e-checks" bouncing. That's right these aren't paypal funds. They're e-checks. It's just for show. And your contract clauses make me laugh.I'm pretty sure copied a wall of text and then made it relevant to gaming. 33. Non trolling clause (A) The Employee is to NOT in-gauge in any behavior characterized as a troll, whom is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, commences an argument or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion as well as performs wise-crackery, posting incorrect information, asking blatantly stupid questions, or other foolishness. In addition to the offending poster, the noun “troll” can also refer to the provocative message itself, While the term troll and its associated action, trolling, are primarily associated with Internet discourse, also includes media attention, with 'trolling' being used to describe many intentionally provocative actions outside of an online context.Trolling is the act of purposefully antagonizing other people on the internet, generally on message boards. (F) Non-Compete. In consideration of the Company’s agreements herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Employee agrees, in addition to any other obligation imposed by this Section 6, that he will not, during the period beginning on the Date of Termination and ending on the second anniversary thereof (B) Intellectual Property. During the Term, the Employee will disclose to the Company all ideas, proposals, plans, scripts, treatments, and formats invented or developed by the Employee which relate directly or indirectly to the business of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates including, without limitation, any ideas, proposals and plans which may be copyrightable, trademark able, patentable or otherwise exploitable. I) Any part of this is broken at any time it is a fee of $100 payable to blight LLC. (B) The Employee is required to complete on written article each week of employment unless on vacation or approved by Blight LLC. Each article must have a minimum length based upon Basic paragraph structure. All article topics must be approved by Blight LLC. (E) Each article that is not produced on time shall incur a Fee of Twenty dollars

2011-01-08 11:48

Don't know who you are exactly, the statements you have made could not be farther from the truth. DSrack was fully funded by us and all other trips. Don't get where you get this hoarding idea either. Done trying to talk to stubborn kids we will just keeping doing what we are doing supporting our current teams whom have been with us awhile.

2011-01-08 12:13

I believe in you, due to the fact that you're innocent until proven guilty.

2011-01-08 12:43

He is guilty. He once told his team he bought them tickets and then made up retarded excuses when the team asked him to confirm. Then on the day of the lan he told them he lied. If that's bad management I don't know what is. Ask anyone in the American scene and they'll tell you you've a greater chance of being paid by some pub clan than by Blackfoger. Which is why ESEA NEWS refuses to report anything that has anything to do with Blight Gaming.

2011-01-09 04:36

1. "stubborn kids" I'm probably older than you 2. 99% of competitive gamers in the US would not deal with you 3. Your funded trips include giving "gas money" to teams. 4. Your current CSS team was going to raise the money themselves through ESEA before your "sponsors" gave you the money. 5. Your past CSS team refused to wear BLIGHT t-shirts on lan because you failed on all of your promises. Caseyfoster ended up wearing a Netcode tshirt. If you did fulfil your promises I highly doubt you would have this reputation. Oh wait your 7. Most of your "funds"/salaries were either given late or they bounced 8. Past teams that defended you or players that were known to be respectable within the community have spoken out against you. 9. You copied Pandemic Gaming's about information because you were too stupid to change it up 10. Need I go on?

2011-01-09 04:29

Also <a href="eseanews.com/index.php?s=news&d=comments..">eseanews.com/index.php?s=news&d=comments..</a> testimonial from past teams, sponsors (of whom I know) and your Co-CEO. Your Co-CEO, TheWhiz, was the main reason your organization was still credible among the few players that would sport your name. Your past CS 1.6 teams won't talk to you ever again which btw you currently don't have contrary to what your website states. You on the other hand fail and Blight Gaming along with it.

2011-01-09 14:00

Dude all those transactions are such low amounts and certainly dont cover your alleged sponsors to your teams , you dont have any serious money yourself.....you front a joke team and put up all your own money you get from your job or parents. All you care about is your name and getting the next big thing, you will drop any one of your teams if you could for a second pick up a better one, you showed zero loyalty and everyone knows this, why you continue to do this is beyond me but in 2 years from now you will probably kill yourself from all the horrible mistakes you make in eSports.

2011-01-09 06:12

i'm hoping you're true to your word of moving them into together, just given your track record skeptics will be everywhere.

2011-01-08 07:36

2011-01-08 07:55

nice gl

2011-01-08 08:09

nice to hear that. GOOD LUCKKKKKKK!!!

2011-01-08 08:21

nice :)

2011-01-08 09:32

gl boys :)

2011-01-08 10:00

Blight Gaming, probably the worst organisation they could choose. Maybe on short term it may turn out to be a good choice for them, maybe. Goodluck da_team.

2011-01-08 10:01

they will rock within a year like lions, if they will not crash

2011-01-08 10:16

It's a shame to see people give Blight Gaming opportunity after opportunity to frame them.

2011-01-08 10:30

There have been million threads about blackfoger promising to pay off, but in the end he didn't do that. I really hope this wont happen again so that dateam can really attend events.

2011-01-08 10:53

gl gl gl

2011-01-08 11:11

I don't know blackfoger personally, but i do that you and your 'organization' have the worst rep in the NA cs community. I'm not bashing or anything like that I'mjust saying an opinion, i hope that you f!@# these guys over like i have seen/heard you do before.

2011-01-08 12:20

They are harmless,and floreNz is low man :/

2011-01-08 12:26

How do they even want you to speak out their name Blegh Gaming or so? Sounds pretty low to me

2011-01-08 12:28

i guess your english sounds pretty low at all

2011-01-08 13:05

as long as Givar is in the house, everything will work out !

2011-01-08 13:00

i dont know the org well but i give them 2 months :D i just saw the blight source squad on the dsrack lan wich means they got paid :D

2011-01-08 13:07

which source squad =P

2011-01-08 13:45

oh right there were 2 i guess :D i just saw the swedish one screaming :D

2011-01-08 13:46

hahaha they were so loud it was pretty funny I got a video of it if you want.

2011-01-08 15:35

helblinde and cem =D

2011-01-09 01:56

Helblinde were loud, but not loud as SAMITSKY against Blight. =D FAN VA BRA!

2011-01-26 03:36

RAPE RAPEEEEEES! :)

2011-01-08 13:11

Watch out for rape in the house.

2011-01-08 13:24

nice , gl boys.

2011-01-08 13:50

This team won't last...like always...

2011-01-08 13:52

McGivar go go :D

2011-01-08 13:54

gl.

2011-01-08 14:37

blackfoger told me to say stuff to his face at ESEA LAN.. to bad he never showed up :(

2011-01-08 14:48

i guess there will be som rape in the house...

2011-01-08 14:51

Blight have good Team Fortress 2 Team

2011-01-08 14:58

which one hahah.

if Blight don't screw up, this can be really good for the swedes, but in the other hand, they may be wasting prescious time with this organization.

2011-01-08 15:05

GOOD LUCK Blight, dalito <333

2011-01-08 15:07

gl with the new home ;)

2011-01-08 15:47

The future seems blight.

2011-01-08 16:15

2011-01-08 16:51

cool, i wish all the best for them

2011-01-08 17:42

GL!

2011-01-08 18:49

mixing, mixing..

2011-01-08 20:33

I've dealt with blight gaming before with my team. Blackfoger promised us a bunch of stuff, including sending us to ESWC last summer and never did it. For 2 months, he gave us excuses for not paying us when he could have told us the truth, that his organisation is a scam! When I hear about blight, it's always bad news. It's always a question of money not being reimboursed, "the guy" that is supposed to pay is not answering his phone, credit card over the limit, and a bunch of false promises. Anyways i wish the best of luck to da_team and if I were you guys I would be careful with them and not trust them 100%.

2011-01-08 21:51

Seems that according to some of the comments this will be intersting to follow not only because of the team but also the organization housing them ::)

2011-01-08 22:00

this guys a fraud and a doucebag, go ask tuBBy from when he was in blight

2011-01-08 22:46

Tubby requested we help his team to LAN 2 weeks before it and we did he has said nothing bad about us nor has his team.

2011-01-11 20:58

eseanews.com/index.php?s=news&d=comments..

2011-01-08 22:50

HELLO

2011-01-09 04:56

you will regret this

2011-01-09 01:20

hahahaha joke players deserves a joke organisation and vice versa. they will never get a good organisation these guys :P

2011-01-09 17:35

My team held the Blight tag for about a month they promised us small things like free vent and servers among other things and nothing ever said was actually put into action. The format of their organization was a mess every single "employee" of blight acted as if they were above the other and could make all these decisions. I was told 3 or 4 different things from each individual person and once I found out the flaws in their business practices it was apparent that this organization was being run out of a basement. This was about 3 or 4 years ago and it seems nothing has changed.

2011-01-09 21:36

we didn't have professional gaming teams 3 years ago. Please don't make up lies.

2011-01-11 20:54

i dont get it why everyone is writing crap about you guys. maybe you guys betrayed one or two teams wich sucked. but when i read these comments from these persons. you guys would had like 200 squads in your history. :D like the whole gaming scene of america was already in your clan :D

2011-01-11 21:12