Archive for July, 2008

Enjoy your holidays!

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

It’s summer and many of you leave for holidays in this period. Maybe you are worried about leaving your team alone; somebody could steal your players! Now you can swim and be totally relaxed, because you can use the new “Holidays mode”. If you select this mode in your profile, your players’ contracts won’t decrease everyday, so you won’t have to be there to renew them. Also it would be annoying if somebody had stolen your players while you were lying on the beach, so if you set the holidays mode, other users won’t be able to buy your players.

So if you decide to use the holidays mode, you won’t be able to sell or buy players, but you won’t be able to change your line up either, because if you are on holidays, you won’t do it anyway, and we don’t want that regular users who are not on holidays set this option.

In the right bar you can now find a “Polls” section where you can vote different questions. I would like to know all your opinions so lets vote about different topics there. You are free to discuss about those questions in our forum or our IRC channel on Qnet; #wc3manager .

For this season, I have changed the sign up process a little bit. So now, if you sign up while the season is running and there are banned teams in your country, you won’t wait until the end of the season to start playing like it was before. You will just start playing replacing that team, so the action will start on first day.
And last but not least, the new Pro Player for this season will be Korea Soccer! The new Korean sensation. who just signed with MYM, is getting great results lately, and now you can get him for your team! You can find him on the auction list right now.

Regroup Esports renamed ESNation.com

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Regroup Esports, Europe’s leading electronic sports and online gaming company, has rebranded to become Esport Nation A/S while its new corporate site is now known as ESNation.com as of today. Regroup’s digital portfolio includes popular gaming community sites such as the Dotaportal.com, myMYM.com, XboxUsersGroup.com and many more.

ESNation is a new online gaming destination that informs, engages and entertains global gamers with eSports news, browser-based games and social networking features. It is designed to provide gamers with easy access to their favorite teams and players as well as promoting online gaming to a broader audience. “We are excited about the new platform that ESNation offer our users”, says Ari Wegter, CEO of Regroup Esports. “We see tremendous potential in the synergies between our gaming networks and want to open old walled gardens to allow users free access between the communities.” Founder and COO Mark Peter Fries adds: “Our new vertical social networking apps are build to stimulate user generated content and audience interaction – to create a nation of gamers worldwide. That is why we choose the new name. From now on, both the company and our main website will be known under the ESport Nation brand.” The company is preparing to open the site for public use this month with full launch following in August 2008.
Regroup Events, the event, league and tournament division of former Regroup Esports, which is known for handling brands and events as ESL, WCG, ESWC etc., will continue with its original name and as a separate company.