The company behind the two Omega Sektor venues in England has today gone into administration, and shut it's doors for good.

Two months ago cadred wrote how the Birmingham venue, home to events such as Kode5 UK, ESWC UK, and the CGS UK/EU events, was removing a large number of computers from it's venue. The piece, titled "OS: Beginning of the End?" suggested the Omega Sektor did not have a long life span ahead of it, a fact confirmed today.

Despite attempts we have been unable to get through to any of the centre management to get a statement about the situation, but we have uncovered the facts behind the closure.

It has long been believed that the Omega Sektor brand was, at least in the UK, failing to make a profit, and we can now reveal that the company behind the two venues, one in Birmingham and one in Harrow, London, Clearmist Consultants Limited, has built up around outstanding debts of £250,000 as well as £80,000 in administrative debt.

It was decided, therefore, by the backers of the company, Alexandr Poyarel and Alexey Kuzmin, to put the company into administration this morning, and the center manager was ordered to shut the doors of the venue, once and for all.

All staff have been made redundant, and as the company has been running less than two years, there will be no redundancy payments.

UPDATE: As the original company founded by Sujoy Roy and Dominic Mulroy, prior to them selling the company to Kazahkstan in Summer 07, was founded six years ago staff are entitled to redundancy pay.

While this is certainly a move in the wrong direction for UK esports, Cadred has also uncovered details that Gamerbase, a company now entirely owned by HMV (recently part-owned by Sujoy Roy) are about to start work on a second venue, in Manchester. We do not yet have any details about the scale of this venue, and as such it remains to be seen whether the gap in the market can be filled.

The question remains: Where will companies such as GameFrontier, Elysium Gaming, and the Championship Gaming Series host events in the future?