Papendrecht, 24 February 2010 

On February 1st 2010 the Dutch business-to-business Internet Service Provider proserve has taken a majority stake in Clanhost; one of the top three Game Server Providers in the Benelux. Thanks to this partnership Clanhost has significantly strengthened its market position in the world of online gaming and e-sports. 

There will be a lot of changes this year for the customers and partners of Clanhost. The product range with regard to dedicated servers and colocation will be expanded significantly and the usability for managing game and voice servers products will be greatly improved. In addition to the improvements mentioned above Clanhost has purchased an entire new hardware platform – comprised out of the latest generation Dell servers – for hosting game servers. 

A new website for Clanhost is currently under development. On the new website it will be significantly easier to order services of Clanhost and direct activation after payment will be made possible. Extensive management of rented services will be possible in the new control panel which is being developed together with the new website. Common tasks that are currently done by the support department can be handled by the customer themselves in the new control panel. 

Clanhost has relocated to the office of proserve in Papendrecht, near Rotterdam, and two new employees will join the Clanhost team within the next two weeks. Later this year Clanhost will also offer its services from the new data centre of proserve which if currently under construction. 

 Hans Vos, Managing Director Clanhost: 

“Clanhost and proserve have an excellent business relationship for years now and this partnership will enable us to expand our company and eventually become one of the largest Game Server Providers in Europe. The construction of dataplace – the new data centre of proserve – will also play a major role in facilitation the growth of Clanhost. What is also important is the relationship we have with our partners. Our marketing budget has grown significantly this will enable us to increase our support for current partners and hopefully attract new partners in the future.” 

Gerben van der Veen, Managing Director proserve:

“Clanhost has been a valued customer of proserve for years. It is our opinion that the online gaming and e-sports market has a lot of potential for growth in the future and proserve would like to make that possible by developing new and innovative products. We now have a solid partner to make to make sure that we achieve this goal.” 

About Clanhost: 

Clanhost is one of the top three Game Server Providers (GSP) in the Benelux. We specialize in delivering high quality internet services related to online gaming and e-sports. The product range consist of: game servers, voice servers, dedicated servers and colocation. Clanhost was founded in 2004 and in located in Papendrecht, near Rotterdam. Over the years Clanhost has acquired an excellent reputation as a provider of high availability services with great customer support.

 About proserve: 

Proserve is a business-to-business Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Application Service Provider (ASP). We focus on delivering high quality internet services with a personal approach. Proserve delivers internet services from the euNetworks data centre in Amsterdam, where we have our own server suite and a 10 Gbit network. Proserve was founded in 2000 and is located in Papendrecht, near Rotterdam. With 20 employees and 24×7 service we make sure that your website, server or application is always online.

Just-Eat was founded in 2000 and the first launch was in 2001 in Denmark where it rapidlybecame the undisputed market leader. Profitability came in 2004 and the Danish business has grown rapidly also winning several Danish e-commerce awards. In the autumn of 2007 Just-Eat partnered with the Dutch company Hapgids to form Just-Eat.nl.

Arno Gerritsen, Founder of MCA
We are proud to see Just-Eat as one of our new partners. Just-Eat provides our players with great meals during national events.

Maurice  Bokma, Online Marketing Coordinator at Just-Eat
MCA.Tweak is already a strong competitor in Europe and is motivated to becoming the best in online gaming. Just-Eat is the European leader when it comes to online diner orders. Now these two strong players are forming a perfect partnership. Just-Eat will support our gaming team with square meals, so they will be ready to fight to the top!

MCA.Tweak is looking forward to a long and successful cooperation.

www.just-eat.nl

Source: Official pressrelease PDF

MCA.Tweak proudly announces a partnership with GamersUniform. GamersUniform is known for their great products which they provide to the best gaming organizations out there.

Arno Gerritsen, Founder of MCA
We are very happy with our new partner GamersUniform. MCA.Tweak is gaining professionalism and this should be reflected in our clothing. GamersUniform is known for their great products and
therefore we decided to partner up.

Steven Griek, CEO at GamersUniform
We are delighted to begin a long and successful partnership with this new but very motivated organization Mesmerize Cybersports Association. We think this organization can compete on the highest level of professional gaming and that’s the reason why we start a partnership.

MCA.Tweak is looking forward to a long and successful cooperation.

www.gamersuniform.com

Source: Official pressrelease PDF

Almere, 17th of January 2009 – MCA.Tweak adds CoD4 stars

MCA.Tweak is honored to announce the addition of six Call of Duty stars. The former world champions from ButtonBashers will now play in our shirts.

This new partnership will allow the team the ability to travel to several European events, as well as bring up their abilities as a team.

Kevin ‘svotoe‘ de Groot
Niels ‘zemme‘ van Steenbergen
Pieter ‘pietje‘ Bijl
Youri ‘kasparov‘ Mohrs
Dominique ‘yallie‘ Schurink
Alex ‘mofje‘ Kuiper

Statement from both parties

Arno Gerritsen, founder of MCA.Tweak
With this new team we have enough potential to challenge the European class Call of Duty 4 teams. With several great achievements in 2007, 2008 and 2009 we believe that we found a perfect match.

Kevin de Groot, Call of Duty captain
After a break we are back to fight again! When I saw there was a crossfire event coming up I talked to my old buddies. We had such a great time with each other and competing in call of duty 4 that we agreed to give it another try. I immediately came in touch with a friend of mine, Arno Gerritsen. We felt it would be a good move for both parties to join up and we are very glad Arno gave us this chance.

The first team event will be the Crossfire Intel Challenge 7 (CIC7) WZZRD in Enschede, the Netherlands.

Source: Official pressrelease PDF (Dutch)

Almere, 6th of January 2009 – From of today we crown Tweak as title sponsor of MCA.

Tweak is known as a faithful service in the internet and telephony branche. They also launched an international newsserver.

Tweak plays an important role in MCA. As lead investor they ensure that MCA can appear on different events in Europe.

Arno Gerritsen, oprichter van MCA.Tweak
Met de toevoeging van Tweak gaan er twee hele grote deuren voor ons open. Dankzij Tweak kunnen wij zowel op Nederlandse als op andere Europese evenementen verschijnen. Hiermee zetten wij een grote stap vooruit voor zowel MCA.Tweak als voor Cybersports in Nederland.

Martin van Dijk, accountmanager Cambrium
Tweak is verheugd om zich Title Sponsor van MCA te mogen noemen. MCA staat bekend om zijn uitstekende prestaties, nu al(!), binnen de internationale cybersport. De samenwerking met MCA maakt voor ons een ingang in een belangrijke doelgroep van diehard internetters en computeraars.

We kijken erg uit naar de vele interessante en spectaculaire matches welke MCA gaat neerzetten binnen Europa. Door de samenwerking met MCA aan te gaan zien we de mogelijkheid om gamers kennis te laten maken met internet zonder limieten en restricties; razendsnel internet voor gamers.

With the addition of Tweak we will continue as MCA.Tweak.

We will be looking forward to a successful and longtime cooperation with Tweak.
www.tweak.nl

Source: Official pressrelease PDF (Dutch)

Tonight the ESL Pro Series continue, with MCA facing fnaticMSI. Both teams didn’t loss any match yet and surely want to get another three points today.

Both teams already qualified for the EPS finals during the HME2009 this weekend so this match will be a good practice. They will play tonight at 22:00PM on de_nuke. We will keep you up-to-date about the score.

MCA [15:15] FnaticMSI

From of today the MCA partner up with ZOWIE GEAR to represent the ZOWIE GEAR brand and the product line in the Benelux.

Arno Gerritsen, Founder of MCA
We are very grateful for the opportunity to represent ZOWIE GEAR in the Benelux. We have been watching ZOWIE for the past few months and have been very excited about the possibility to work together with a company as dedicated to eSports as ZOWIE is.

This deal not only allows our players to use the best equipment around, it also allows us to raffle away products for our users and fans.

Danny Ramkvist, Global Marketing Manager of ZOWIE GEAR
ZOWIE GEAR has experienced rapid growth over the past 6 months. We are looking for strategic partners that can assist in furthering our progress through activities and competitions.

One of these strategic partners is MCA, a Dutch gaming organisation, known for its stability and competent management. We are very pleased to announce MCA as a partner as it allows us to run activities in the Netherlands that we have not had the pleasure of doing up until now.

The MCA players will be equipped with the full ZOWIE GEAR product line of headsets, mice and mouse pads and more for both practice and tournament competitions. Don’t hesitate, and visit www.zowiegear.com to find your closest retailer/webshop in the where2buy section.

We will be looking forward to a successful and longtime cooperation with ZOWIE GEAR.
www.zowiegear.com – info@zowiegear.com

Source: Official pressrelease PDF

After a period of preparations we are happy to announce a team that fits perfectly into the concept of MCA. With several great results in the last couple of months this team has proven that they are able to become one of the best teams in the European Counter-Strike: Source scene.

Rutger Smeding, team leader of MCA
We are very pleased to present this team within our organisation. We will try to bring more competition to the Benelux, fnatic in particular. We will also represent ourselves at as many LAN’s throughout Europe as possible and we hope to get some good results in between other European topteams.

Robin Snip, in-game captain
It feels really good to finally have a new home! We have had numerous offers but we felt MCA was the best choice for us. We have been preparing for about a month to go live and that moment has finally come!

However due to brains his decision to quit gaming the moment he will start at his new school, early January, we will be looking to rebuild our team after the EPS finals. The core will still be the same ofcourse. More news on that after the EPS!

From of today we proudly present our Counter-Strike: Source division formerly known as Can’t Be Arsed (CBA)

Thomas ‘barchetta’ van Buuren
Richard ‘brains’ de Kievit
Robin ‘caveman’ Snip
Niels ‘foodas’ Rutten
Karsten ‘NaD1x’ de Ruiter

The team will have their big debut during the Home Multimedia Entertainment fair (HME2009) on the 29th of November where they will play the EPS finals led by their team leader Rutger ‘ylSs’ Smeding.

Source: Official pressrelease PDF

The MCA no longer has to worry about downtime, lag or other unfavourable events. Because from now on we will receive the latest and greatest services Clanhost has to offer.

Arno Gerritsen, founder of MCA
Hostingservices are a vital part of a gaming organisation. The site has to be available 24/7 and our gaming team needs a perfect server to perform at their best. Clanhost has proven to be the best in the last few years and therefore we are very pleased to welcome Clanhost as our new partner!

Hans Vos, founder of Clanhost
MCA approached us with will a well thought out plan for potential sponsorship partners. Although we usually dismiss such requests, we were persuaded to take a good look at it and found that this team had potential for the future. This is the second clan for which we have a sponsorship agreement this year. We hope to see good results from them in the (near) future.

In the last five years Clanhost has become a professional supplier of different internet services like game servers, voice servers, dedicated servers and colocations.

We will be looking forward to a successful and longtime cooperation with Clanhost.
www.clanhost.nl – info@clanhost.nl

Source: Official pressrelease PDF

The Mesmerize Cybersports Association is honored to announce the addition of one of the most famous Dutch Counter-Strike: Source player Rutger ‘ylSs’ Smeding to its roster. Rutger will become a part of the CS: Source team which will be announced this week.

Rutger Smeding had the following to say:
I have been out of the gaming scene for a while but it is time for my return. Though, this time as a team captain for MCA and not as a gamer. MCA is an organization I personally believe in and with my experience I can mean something for the organization to make the best of it.

I am proud to be a team captain and with the gamers whom we will announce shortly we will definitely take a seat in the top-10 of Europe. Personally, I will put my best effort in to this team to make sure they receive what they require to become the best. Do not be surprised when my name appears within the line-up of a match, when duty calls I will be ready.

Rutger “ylSs’ Smeding

From now on ylSs will lead the Counter-Strike: Source division.