Mindfreak capture Vulcan300 squad

31-3-2011 16:52

Australian e-sports organisation Mindfreak have bolstered their ranks by adding the former Vulcan300 squad and announcing two new sponsors in AMD and Razer.

Vulcan300 have been a top three squad in Australia for many years, but the players have always lacked a major sponsor regardless of their achievements.

The squad will now team up with Mindfreak who have managed to snare AMD and Razer both in the past week, and become one of Australia's premier organisations over many gaming platforms.

Team captain Peter "oxey" Lo had this to say:

"We are glad to have finally found a sponsor whom is willing to support us in many ways for our future nationals as there are very few organizations in Australia whom are able to offer anything to the CS scene. This will allow us to attend all interstate competitions which was highly unlikely before Mindfreak offered their services with the help from their sponsors AMD and Razer."

Mindfreak's new CS 1.6 division is:

Mark "kram" Pearce
Jess "ssar" Somsiri
Peter "oxey" Lo
Matt "mafu" Chan
Michael "c0ke" Truong
Andrew "nameci" Luong

Mindfreak are competing in the Western Digital Cyber Gamer invite league where they are currently undefeated.

well pleased thanks mindfreak

2011-03-31 16:52

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GJ GoMeZ :DDD

2011-03-31 20:40

:^)

2011-04-03 17:11

oh nice! :)

2011-03-31 16:53

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U know them ?

2011-03-31 18:59

who ?

2011-03-31 16:56

Nice job GoMeZ, nice job...

Won't do any damage, but nice for them!

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they can ;) kram and coke both used to be in Immunity, and ssar is a beast aimer :) assmuming you mean damage as in "play at a international event and get a few wins" and not "win an international event"

2011-03-31 17:08

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nah mate theyre dog

2011-03-31 17:10

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harsh fexy

2011-03-31 17:12

They'd beat any UK team ;)

2011-04-02 01:30

doubtful and also shares zero relevance with what i said but cool story anyway, bro.

2011-04-02 01:45

Well I still doesn't think that they can do any serious damage, maybe 10 rounds against a semi-good European team, but I hope they can attend at some big events and prove that I'm wrong :-)

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Well I still doesn't think

2011-03-31 17:37

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Never wrote to you.

2011-03-31 17:44

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This is a wish of mine also, we hope to attend international events and show the world what AUS can do.

2011-03-31 19:15

MY MATES GAZRRRR APOC AND BENOR ALREADY DID ! :P but glad to see some more sponsorships for you guys, good luck and have fun traveling :] hope this will boost your motivation/experience! plenty greatly talented players in aus for sure, just not the best conditions

2011-03-31 20:04

This is so true, GazR and apoc are mates of mine also :)

2011-04-01 16:14

2011-04-07 19:09

I just pointed out your spelling mistake.

2011-04-01 14:39

Go out and read in your dictionary, people know what I mean, so screw you.

2011-04-03 12:51

2011-04-04 00:44

referring to beast aimer? whats up with benor? or ferg? those were sick beasts

2011-03-31 17:18

benor has been inactive for almost a year now, not coming back aswell. ferg was still active as far as I know Immunity is still dominating aus events, we just hear much about it in europe unless you follow the australian fora/E-sport sites

2011-03-31 20:05

ferg was a beast back in hostile-records, when he was living in France (playin with Geno, TDSI, Xp3 & Rara), but he has been forgotten since then :)

2011-03-31 20:27

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that is not the same ferg. there are 2 different fergs ( FR, AUS)

2011-03-31 22:16

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actually it's the same, he moved to australia in 2007 and he was playing with the australian flag even when he was living in France (i mean websites were refering to him with the australian flag) !

2011-03-31 22:26

really :P so nice i overslept this one pretty cool :P

2011-04-01 16:32

ya, its the same one.

2011-04-01 04:30

Same ferg.

2011-04-01 13:22

nice

2011-03-31 16:57

2011-03-31 17:00

We are very happy to have V300 as members of our team and we are keen for any event in 2011, GL HF to all teams.

2011-03-31 16:58

Nice, GL!

gl, hope to see them competing in europe

2011-03-31 16:59

Yea dude we hope 2011 will be a good year for us and if all goes well we plan in getting to all events and if that includes overseas events.

2011-03-31 17:01

good luck

2011-03-31 17:06

does someone knows what is going on with immunity, they are still playing ?

2011-03-31 17:07

yeah, they will announce their lineup when a tournament is announced.

Yes Team Immunity still is playing cs 1.6 they came in 1st at the last NATS, beating us 16 - 13 16 - 13, close games hope to see more games like this in AUS cs.

Very good for australian guys! GLGLGLGLGLGL

good choice for both of them

grats Reagan ~:)

2011-03-31 17:15

gl aussies!

2011-03-31 17:19

We need more posts like this well done man, thank you for backing your aussies :)

2011-03-31 17:26

Mail me one of your tazmanian devils and we'll see!

2011-03-31 17:28

LOL, I like wombats more but :P sure ill send you one out today.

2011-03-31 17:29

My aussies? :s Anyways np, Australia is wonderful.

2011-03-31 17:35

oi m8 that's just lovely what a beaaaauuuty. i miss Steve Irwin aka "The Crocodile Hunter" :( gl Mindfreak

2011-03-31 17:48

2011-03-31 17:45

random.

2011-03-31 17:54

2011-03-31 17:55

4 or maybe 5 of them are asian :) GL

2011-03-31 19:00

5 of the 6 are (the strat caller is not asian)

2011-03-31 19:03

I know just when I read their name. Maybe 2 or 3 of them have Vietnamese blood in their vein haha :D

2011-03-31 19:06

maybe because australia is located in asia? xD

2011-03-31 20:11

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent

2011-03-31 21:01

HAHAHAHA, EPIC! :)

2011-03-31 21:43

LOL, no. just no.

2011-04-01 17:12

Wow...

2011-04-03 17:08

aussies needs to be brought on the scene, there could be huge potential for further tournaments thinking about their excellent economy! :)

2011-03-31 19:07

This would be very good for the Australian eSports scene, having a international event come to our home with some of the best teams in the world playing is a dream of mine for AUS eSports.

2011-03-31 19:17

and to mention the weather :D

2011-03-31 21:16

an international event*

2011-03-31 23:15

Wont happen, games almost dead in aus there are literally like only 150 active players left and no new players are coming in. Esports is also virtually non existant in aus. mix in our crappy internet compared to other countries like swe, korea etc and you just have an un-winable recipe.

2011-04-01 17:15

Travel expenses would be massive :\

2011-04-03 17:09

Is that c0ke from aug legacy ?

2011-03-31 20:39

sure is ;)

2011-04-01 10:46

I want c0ke rook trav alistair wiseguy

2011-04-01 13:11

all of those have retired except c0ke

2011-04-01 18:19

HAHAHAHAHAHA ALiSTAR

2011-04-02 08:42

whoooooo?

2011-03-31 20:56

nice)))) goog luck))))

2011-03-31 21:19

mindfreak = Criss Angel!

2011-03-31 23:25

How come that everywhere in the WORLD exists at least 1 ORGANISATION, but in BiH NONE! Shit! Gl Guys!

2011-03-31 23:46

That sucks man every area should have a team.

2011-04-01 02:14

get cris angel and go pro australia

2011-04-01 03:32

c0ke is big.

2011-04-01 04:05

lol why the fk make a thread on HLTV? look at how bad iM did last year at WCG, this team would do 10x as bad

2011-04-01 07:17

please don't talk, you play counter-strike source

2011-04-01 07:43

lmao!!!!!!

2011-04-01 07:44

seriously infrequent you're the biggest dud ever. you talk so much smack for someone who is a pathetic 12 year old. 3/5 of them (their core 5) have played internationally on more then one occasion. c0ke and kram more recently then oxey. they're a more stable team to represent australia then immunity is (nothing against the immunity guys but the team just constantly changes too much).

2011-04-01 10:49

LLOLOL

2011-04-01 08:33

my point still stands what ever way you look at it, gomez just because you're an admin doesn't mean you should be making threads about shit teams on HLTV front page

2011-04-01 11:02

are you fucking retarded ? it's news worthy, its a top3 team in a country with decent sponsors. If you look like 10 stories down, you will see a story about a Brazilian team who is ranked like 5th in their country and 3 or 4 polish teams who is probably top 7 as well. Because i'm from Australia i'm not allowed to write about it ? why even bring Immunity into this ? There is no rule saying 1 team per country in order for it to be news.

2011-04-01 18:16

he's just a dumb kid Gomez, he's a fuckwit who plays source and believes he's amazing because his ipgn-comp points are above 90 and has an average baiting DPR of 75. don't even bother listening to the shit he dribbles man

2011-04-02 08:43

2011-04-07 04:57

i believe that is exactly what being admin entitles him to do...?

2011-04-01 11:07

Congratulations guys. Always good to see the e-sports scene getting more support in the Pacific.

2011-04-01 11:25

One problem for aus Esports is younger minds talking about stuff they have no back up on its good to see the international community + the Australian community get behind us and we thank you all even the people who hate just make us want to prove them wrong.

2011-04-01 12:15

I hope this team starts attending comps consistantly, they definately have the skill to be competitive with the best teams in the world lets just hope they can get support that they need need to get to these comps, gl mindfreak :)

2011-04-01 13:01

And infrequent, you sir are an idiot, if half the australian teams lived in europe and were able to have the practise both online and in major lan tournaments i wouldnt be suprised to see them in the top 10 teams in the world. The best team Aus has ever produced was the iM team in 2008 (ferg, yaman, deStiny kram and benoR) and they went overseas without any practice and still managed to play in the top 10 at WCG. So i think if one of thier top tier teams got multiple chances to compete against the best teams in the world we could see some top 10 finishes on a regular basis.

2011-04-01 13:05

pretty sure it was gazR instead of Yam.. but yes if they had that chance to be over there then yeah they could do damage but as it is over here they have no chance to beat any of the top 5 teams in the world.

2011-04-01 17:21