Counter-Strike: fnatic suffers SEC penalty

According to the official statement released by the World Cyber Games committee, all players were informed that, during the prize cerimony, they would have to wear the official SEC 2008 Event Shirt.However, the Swedish players, after receiving their medals, left the podium and took their shirts off, without knowing that they would once again be called for a final group picture.When fnatic returned to the prize cerimony stage, they did not have the event shirts on, which breaks the tournament's rules. "We had some discussion, what to do," the WCG said. "The possibilities would have been deducting of the prize money or a ban of the players for the next SEC."However, the WCG ended up not going that far, and the Swedish team has only seen its auto-birth for the 2008 national final denied, which means that fnatic will have to go through the normal qualification system just like any other local team."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," said Samuel Mathews, Managing Director of Fnatic."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!"