Short before the nearby end of the Samsung Euro Championship 2008, Fnatic broke a behavior rule.  Every player was informed, that at the prizing ceremony they have to wear the official SEC 2008 Event Shirt. While they did it at the moment, they grabbed the medals, unfortunately they ripped it off and showed their team shirts as they have been reinvited on stage for the Final group picture.

We had some discussion, what to do. The possibilities would have been deducting of the prize money or a ban of the players for the next SEC. because the Event is already gone, this would have been the only Options for us. After a meeting with the Nordic WCG organizer which supports us completely, we came to the decision, that the Auto birth for Fnatic for the national Final 2008 will be denied. That means, they have to fight through the normal qualification like any other team.

SAMUEL MATHEWS, Managing Director of Fnatic:

Fnatic was informed that we had to wear our Samsung SEC jerseys on the prize ceremony when we were given our medals, which we did as obliged. After coming off the stage we were asked for an interview and as customary we took off our shirts to wear our Fnatic jerseys. We were then all invited onto the stage in a rush for a group photo and so the guys straight out of their interview ran on the stage for the photo in their Fnatic shirts. It was a mistake and we are sorry. However it was a very harmless one!