The ink was barely dry on Blight Gaming's announced and confirmed pickup of the former Pandemic.TF2 squad, but James "blackfoger" Larsen, founder & CEO of Blight Gaming, was not done there. Word has come out (and IRC tags) that new ESEA-Invite squad Our World Now - whom ESEAnews spoke with Sam "oPlaiD" Lingle about just recently - have also come aboard the good ship Blight, and will represent the organization in both ESEA-Invite Season 6 and CEVO-P Season 5.
They join the former Pandemic squad as well as an ESEA-Open squad, Blight coolstory (who've got more than a few recognizable faces), all under one happy roof. Yet, the fun still isn't over - rumours exist of the recent iDemise-remake, Mindbomb, also tagging up Blight in the not-too-distant future, which fits with the fact that their current team name on ESEA is "TBA". But the latter pickup has yet to be confirmed, so at the moment Blight Gaming officially has only 3 teams competing in both ESEA Season 6 divisions.
Stay tuned for more updates as we patiently await Blight|blackfoger to return his PMs :)
UPDATE: Official word has come in via James "blackfoger" Larsen that plans for Mindbomb to join Blight's happy family are indeed in motion, along with a few other tasty tidbits.
"Yep, just need to get a hold of [Ryan 'paladin' Foley] and work a few things out," he said. "After, we're gonna hold off a couple weeks and then drop another bombshell." When pursued, James rather coyly avoided the issue. "We had a meeting with our sponsors and kinda realized that not only is TF2 the strongest pub game, but it still has developer support from Valve and is greatly enjoyed by a folks guys in the industry. There's nowhere for this game to go but up, and we want to help!"
With that, Blight Gaming will have three teams competing in ESEA-Invite Season 6, and two in CEVO-P Season 5.
NOTE: For convenience sake here at ESEAnews, until the teams properly distinguish themselves we'll be referring to each roster in the following manner.
Blight.pand (former Pandemic)
Nick "TheFragile" Leon
Eric "Orzo" Wheeler
B "fanom" L
Justin "justin" White
Tyler "TLR" Morgan
R "wonderwall" C
Sven "Ruwin" Z
Blight.own (former Our World Now)
Randy "BLACKYMONSTER" Besserman
Chaz "boogie" Anthony
Jason "Phaser" Haddox
Mike "Platinum" Miles
Joe "sequel" Levash
Sam "oPlaiD" Lingle
Dustin "smakers" W
Blight.iq (former iQ squad)
John "punisher" Ecks
Tim "BOODAH519" Yates
Tim "dummy" Olson
Luc "Luciious" Pearson
Ryan "paladin" Foley
Hong "hong" Cheung
Ryan "sycknesS" Mitchell
Blight.cool (new ESEA-Open squad)
James "blackfoger" Larsen
Bryan "bLackstar" Johnson
Davis "davis" Ford
R "rayy" L
Ryan "rline" Proulx
Jaime "warped" Li
Gaven "whaz" Sorensen
Originally published on ESEA on 4/15/2010, 8:28 AM by 1rK-.
Archived from Blight Invades, Picks Up 3 Teams as part of tf2esports.com's preservation of ESEA's TF2 coverage. All rights remain with the original author and ESEA; reposted for historical reference.