Cracked Gaming Gets Hitched

After a disappointing performance at Grunex Winter 2011 where the team placed third behind TCM and eSuba changes were due to be made, seeing Martin "Hitch" Srp  stepping in to replace Petr "cDe" Dumek.

The team made a promising start to their eSports career during early 2011, racking up numerous results in both online competitions and local LAN events. Their reputation became tarnished however soon after when former team mate Josef "jANY" Janoušek was found using external programs to boost his performance, quickly leading to a quick dismissal from the scene. It was here that the team started to re-build; trying to show the community that they did indeed have what it took to become a top European team.

They set out with their new roster at the Italian Autumn LAN with limited success, but finally proved their skill at the previous winter edition of the Czech event Grunex during late 2011, placing in a respectable third place position behind TCM and eSuba. This was however a crushing blow for the side, losing out at the last few stages of the event and led the team to investigate what exactly went wrong. After many pain staking weeks of investigation Petr "cDe" Dumek was finally asked to leave as the team believed that despite his impressive skill level, he lacked the discipline required to allow them to reach the top.

After an extensive search delving deep into the Czech Republican scene only one player stood out, none other than ex-empathy star Martin "Hitch" Srp. Although his name is not an epic of the genre, he has a heap of experience ranging from participation in the ESL Major Series all the way to a multitude of high profile LAN attendances.

The previous line-up managed to achieve their past success through stability, so it will be interesting to see how this alteration affects their performances at the next two LAN events on the CRACKED Gaming calendar, Grunex Spring 2012 and Dockyard later this August.

Tomas "GLady" Cechacek gave the following statement:
"We kicked cDe after the Grunex LAN final where we only managed to get the 3rd place (1st TCM 2nd esuba 3rd cracked), we decided to kick him because he was too young, he got really nice personal skill but when he should cover some place etc it always failed. When cde played with us we always finished in the Top3 positions at every lan (ICL10 1st place, Autumn lan 2nd place, Grunex MSi 1st) we were with this line up for around half a year with little break."

Tomas "GLady" Cechacek
Josef "jANY" Janoušek
Vladimír "blade" Lisický
Jirí "neitheR" Lerný
Martin "Hitch" Srp