After a disappointing 5-6th placing at MaxLAN in France at the start of this month, Crack Clan decided immediately to pick up fomer H2k player Damien "Malek" Marcel.

Malek was the only member of the old H2k team who came 2nd at Lan79 earlier this year still to be playing for the H2k organisation, and he will replace Vincent "EMSTQD" Cervoni in Crack Clan, who does not currently have enough time to keep competing at this level.

Marc "Virp" Corban, Team Manager, said:

After two long and great years of co-operation with Vincent “EMSTQD” Cervoni we have decided to stop our adventure with him because of his schedule which could no longer work with the team. Our disappointing result at MaxLAN was a collective failure and the reason for his departure has no link to our result there. We wish him good luck for his eSport career.

Malek is an idiomatic player in the French CSS scene, and was instrumental in H2k’s amazing season where they placed 1st in EMS I and 2nd at Lan79. His experience and his talent will be beneficial for us. We now have a few months in order to prepare ourselves for the 2009 LAN season.

The new Crack Clan roster is:

Floran "crZ" Thoumelin
Kevin "Ex6TenZ" Droolans
Ludovic "Shokkk" Martin
Thibaud "tac" Laganne
Damien "Malek" Marcel