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Original news can be found ( in Dutch ) + Show Spoiler +http://www.mouse-control.nl/index.php?site=news_comments&newsID=667
Statement General manager Elroy "noname" Pinto of Fnatic:
+ Show Spoiler +“Today we bring in a youngster from Netherlands who surprised everyone with a good performance at DreamHack last month into our Academy. We feel he has great potential for the future and we want to give him that chance needed to take his game to the next level. With his high school now over he can focus on his StarCraft 2 career. We are extremely excited to add him to our roster and can't wait to see him in the upcoming Summer LANs in Europe. We would also like to thank team Mouse Control for being supportive of the transfer, being one of the leading organisations in eSports we respect every team and we made sure both parties reached a mutual agreement on a fee. A big thanks to our sponsors RaidCall, MSI, SteelSeries & EIZO.”
Statement Kevin “Harstem” de Koning:
+ Show Spoiler +“For the last 2.5 years I have played for Mouse Control and I have enjoyed every second of it.Today however I will leave Mouse Control and join Fnatic. The opportunity Fnatic gave me is one I can’t refuse. Fnatic will be able to support me in a way, which Mouse Control wasn’t able to. This doesn’t mean that I will forget about Mouse Control and everything they have done for me the past years. I would like to thank the management, the players and the sponsors (E-sports clothing, Spam energy drink and Clanhost) for supporting me in all possible ways. I would also like to thank some people individually; Ruben “CompleX” Been, Martin “0wnz0r” Ekel and Niek “NEEK” Baltussen because they were always supportive in any way they could.
Harstem signing out…”
Im really excited about this news, he had an amazing run at the latest Dreamhack+ Show Spoiler +Including wins vs Thorzain, Lalush, Naugrim and barely losing vs roxkis.Fraer in the round of 16 1-2
Best of luck to bothHarstem and Fnatic ! ! !
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Not sure if hes good enough, but gl anyways
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wow wat, sick pickup for Fnatic and GL to Harstem.
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Wow, cool. He is still young so I think he can improve a lot.
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Congratz dude! your performance recently where pretty outstanding in my oppinion you made a name of your self good luck at Fnatic!! 
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Cool. Definitely one of the top foreigners, and very underrated.
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I figured Fnatic was only looking for new Korean players
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Awesome, Really talented protoss player
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Sick sick sick harstem, wishing my buddy the best of luck in fnatic!!
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Fuck yeah! Man, this is a great oppurtunity for harstem, hope fnatic will bring him far! :D
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Wow that's awesome. Such a promising Dutch player, if you doubt me look at the results of the latest DH.
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On July 02 2012 03:34 Nawe wrote:
Not sure if hes good enough, but gl anyways
Well it's into their academy so it's not like it's their main team but there he'll be able to improve immensely on his game an become a play there can hopefully rely on in the future to win games vs now where it's not that so much.
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Lots of new players coming on to the scene recently: Protosser, Harestem, JohnnyRecco, etc
Im enjoying the fresh faces. Makes things seem less stagnant
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You very much deserved this Kevin! Best of luck in Fnatic! Maybe I can join you some day :D
HARSTEM FIGHTING!
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I'm so happy about this! :D
Is he going to Korea? :D
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So you told me there would be big news coming. After your run at dreamhack I expected you to change teams, but more to something a bit less known. Maybe something like Mouz or Acer, but Fnatic? No didn't think of that. Well, I guess it is only a matter of time than before we see you win something big :D
Congrats and good luck!
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Really great.
Cant wait to hear more and more about you
Veel geluk + Show Spoiler +
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Good to see another Dutchie rising!
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Wow, had no idea, big congratulations. Good luck to both parties, this should definitely help his play!
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Oh yeah Kevin, this is huge news! Great pickup by fnatic Will he be able to go to Korea?
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It's in these moments that we should be able to post an impressed Obama meme picture.
Good Luck to you Harstem, you finally got known.
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Congrats Harstem! I wonder if that means he will be going out and living in the Fnatic house in Korea now
Edit: Post 777 :D
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Who the fuck is this guy?
© InControl.
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This is quite a step. Good luck and hopefully you do well 
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Yeah!! kevin good luck in your new team!
HARSTEM FIGHTING!!
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Haven't heard of Harstem, but <3 Fnatic! so gl to him!
I'm guessing fnatic recruited him because he's willing to goto Korea?
Fnatic prohouse doing it right. Take note EG.
edit: oooh the guy that played vs Fraer. I was impressed with his PvP, Fraer is really good.
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gd opportunity for him, good luck!
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Congratz u have improved a lot since i met u in wc3 keep it up .
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YESSSS DUTCHIES!@!@@!@!@ Gogogogogo Harstem!
VERDI is also on Fnatic now..
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Really been impressed with with I have seen from Harstem lately, so best of luck to him and congrats on signing with Fnatic.
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nice pickup for fnatic. im sure he will post nice results in the future.
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Congrats! :D
Hope to see more from Harstem soon! <3
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Sickest pick-up! Probably one of the most talented players in the world, and maybe even in the Netherlands. So impressed! Sick! I hope he accomplishes great things, like Spiderman in the movie "The Amazing Spiderman"(TM), but remember, with great pylon power come few supply blocks, that might be the only advice I can give him at this point. He has already plenty of those (supply blocks, not pylons) in his play, so I'm not too worried. I'll be sure to follow him at the sick fnatic team house, where he can learn from the team's top Korean Protosses.
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Good news for dutch e-sports!! I'll be definitely keeping an eye on him, noticed his performance in various tournaments already (most notably last dreamhack obviously)
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I wish mouz would pick up such talents. Anyway, good luck to Harstem, I hope it works out well for him.
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OMG Fuck yeah, I noticed that more people saw how good Harstem was doing.
Great to see that besides Grubby, Ret and Rotterdam we got another Dutchie out there now!
Well deserved and I will definitely be following Harstem !!!
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wow gl Harstem! hope you'll have a good time in fnatic
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fnatic ? really ? man damn dude i call you later skype and congratz you myself again !
GZ !
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Congrats to Harstem and Fnatic. :D
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Grats to Harstem and Fnatic, seems like a good fit, GL to both parties
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The managers last name is Fnatic?
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On July 02 2012 05:46 McFeser wrote:
The managers last name is Fnatic?
No, I believe "Van" means "Of" in dutch, the OP forgot to change that part as he took from a dutch source so it says "Elroy Pinto Of Fnatic". T_T
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On July 02 2012 05:49 Eee wrote:No, I believe "Van" means "Of" in dutch, the OP forgot to change that part as he took from a dutch source so it says "Elroy Pinto Of Fnatic". T_T
This is correct
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He surely got some potential. Goodluck! \o/
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No, I believe "Van" means "Of" in dutch, the OP forgot to change that part as he took from a dutch source so it says "Elroy Pinto Of Fnatic". T_T
Done
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Any foreigner wanting to join Fnatic better be protoss or no go apparently hope he comes up big and not another signing of potential who leaves after 6 months having done nothing.
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The guy is nice and might be good too. Nice pick up. GL !
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I feel like Fnatic is caught in this weird position in which they keep picking up many relatively unknown, untested players, and then they have really big names like Oz and aLive.
So many players there just aren't coming though for them, like ToD. I hope they can start to pick up more.
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Great pickup by Fnatic - they won't regret this choice! Harstem is a great player with lots of potential, and I hope to see him do well in SC2.
GL and HF Kevin!
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On July 02 2012 06:11 Nuclease wrote:
I feel like Fnatic is caught in this weird position in which they keep picking up many relatively unknown, untested players, and then they have really big names like Oz and aLive.
So many players there just aren't coming though for them, like ToD. I hope they can start to pick up more.
i don't see the problem with that. it's good to see that they are willing to invest in strong players like aLive, Oz, and Moon, while also working with up and coming talent. it's a good thing.
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damn that's huge news for you Harstem, congrats and good luck for sure
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On July 02 2012 04:52 Serinox wrote:
I wish mouz would pick up such talents. Anyway, good luck to Harstem, I hope it works out well for him.
mouz just signed Protosser. They are picking up such talents.
GL to Harstem. Nice to see new players in the scene.
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Off to Korea? They already have a house over there
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Hurray for Kevin - Harstem fighting!
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GG GL Harstem. Very Impressive at DH.
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Nice!
Finally Fantic picks up another foreign player...oh, and another foreign Protoss, the third already.
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Dafaq, didn't see this coming. After just one good result in Dreamhack he joins Fnatic, this guy man.... GL!
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Cool of Fnatic to support upcoming talent.
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nice bump..
I kinda laughed though..
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EPT
