Der nun rein deutsche Clan hoorai wird von seiner internationalen Vergangenheit eingeholt. Wie heute GotFrag berichtet, befindet man sich im Streit mit dem früheren finnischen Counter-Strike Team, das nun bei 69°N-28°E unter Vertrag steht. Die deutsche Organisation fordert die Aufteilung des gewonnenen WCG-Preisgeldes, was die Finnen jedoch verweigern. Als Grund geben sie noch ausstehende Gelder seitens hoorai, welche die Summe des bei der WCG erspielten Geldes sogar übertreffen würden, an. Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen erklärt, dass er nur zwei von fünf Monatsgehältern erhalten habe und sämtliche Essenskosten von Events nicht bezahlt wurden. hoorai-Manager Larion "D.Devil" Syrota sagt gegenüber GotFrag, dass er immer noch hofft, dass die Dinge normal erledigt werden können. Gleichzeitig erwägt man aber auch weitere Schritte gegen sein Ex-Squad einzuleiten, falls dieses weiterhin nicht bereit ist, den geforderten Teil des Preisgeldes auszuzahlen. Alle Details findet ihr hier. *UPDATE* : Wir haben einen offizielles Statement von Jerome "je" Evans, Geschäftsführer von hoorai, bekommen, wo er auf das Thema ausführlich eingeht.Statement von Jerome "je" Evans:

The team got basically nothing? This sounds as a bad joke to me as, during four months, a five-digit amount of money was invested only into the Counter-Strike team. However, 69°N-28°E refuses to give us our share of the World Cyber Games prize-money ($15,000). The accusations of our former Counter-Strike team that we haven't payed them everything we promised are just not true, we have payed out all our debts and don't have any contractual duties to be fulfilled. We have always supported the team as good as possible and gave them everything they needed in order to become successful - in fact, it was us who made the team become what it is today without taking the credit for it. It might be true that the team partly has not been threated in a perfect way (like the lack of food money for Beijing and Monza), however everything written down in the contract has been fulfilled and the team has no right to claim that it has been supported too badly. We do not and never did deny that our Warcraft III team wasn't supported as good as it should have been, but we never tried to assert claims on anything the team won during its time in hoorai - that's a totally different story, actually, in the end, you could say that we let the WC3 team suffer because of the CS team... and this is the result. Due to the minor flaws mentioned above, we even did not insist on 100% of our share, but only on 50%, which would mean that we turn down an even higher amount of money than the food-money costs for the two events would have been, as a sign of our goodwill as we never intended to harm our players but wanted a solution which suits both. However, we are not a non-profit-organization, and we are not going to back down. We can not accept that our Counter-Strike team is refusing to pay out our share of the World Cyber Games prize-money after everything we have done for them. Obviously, the amount of money spent on the team was much higher than our WCG share would be, and I personally have really tried to solve this in a reasonable way, but obviously this isn't possible as the team just ignores our efforts. We already have established contact to a lawyer in Helsinki who is checking the situation and will give us advice on how to handle this case; if Tomi Kovanen and his team will not transfer our share to us, we are going to go to court as there are no reasonable reasons for him to break the contract.