no where Jonas "bsl" Alsaker Vikan announced that he was quitting the team to focus on his psychology studies.
The newspost read (translated from Norwegian):
After two lineup changes in Catch-Gamer, it is time for a new change. First, André "Slick Silver" Baumann pulled out, then our dear Jonas "Luke" Bro sweet music with his darling. Now I, Jonas "bsl" A. Vikan" pull out to focus on psychology studies. After a long discussion here in Sheffield, we will use both zenix (former SoA) and Anders "ledelsen aka Stifler" Meli as our talented manager. With stifler up front we will have time to concentrate on our game. zenix takes over the role as tactical leader, he has experience from Rendezvous, Rixhack, Oslolan and more.
We promise more goodies during the week.
Yours,
Jonas A. Vikan.
Thanks for the time I had in Catch-Gamer. A really professional team is behind the organisation. Good luck. I'm out!
Several people replied to the newspost before it was removed, and in the team's IRC channel, a lot of people wondered if it was true. A fake bsl actually came in the channel where worried fans gathered to find out more news. Several expressed that they were scared by the announcement, and one of them even claimed that if it was true, he would have "snivelled 2k" if it was true.
Catch-Gamer admins have however assured that this was a fake, and that someone got hold of bsl's login and also his Quakenet auth. The team spent one day bootcamping at the Directbuy net cafe, and while there, bsl obviously logged onto his CatchGamer.no account and authed on IRC. Possibly, he might have forgotten to log out, or someone might have found his info in the logs on the computer.
The Norwegian team is currently in Sheffield where they participate in the CPL World Tour event. Catch-Gamer is third seed in the tournament after SK and NiP, and the team won their first match against Engines on Mute 16-1 - WITH bsl on the team.