(Undisclosed Location) - April 5, 2006 - News of the Global Gaming Revolution has spread across the entire gaming community. The concept is simple: create a global gaming event where the rules and regulations are determined by gamers themselves. Today, KODE5 is proud to announce the very first members of the Revolutionary Council - a group of individuals that will help shape KODE5, and the very foundations of e-sports event management.

Kenny Fu graduated from Tsinghua University, and is now the External Cooperation Director and Vice-Managing Editor of China Electronic Athletics Magazine. Kenny has a good understanding of e-sports and always reports on all kinds of e-sports media in China. He also frequently consults with many e-sports tournaments, and hopes to help KODE5 in any way that he can.

Hui-Chul "Garfield" Jung was born in 1985 in Germany. Since 2005, Hui-Chul has been the Head Manager of Korean gaming team Lunatic-Hai. Since joining the e-sports community in 2001, Hui-Chul has witnessed e-sports become more professional, more interesting, and more prestigious. He sees the development of e-sports as a very positive and valuable experience. By joining the Revolutionary Council and helping to develop and improve the structures in e-sport, he hopes that everyone else is able to enjoy the same great experiences he did.

Hunter Luisi acts as both the Chief Operating Officer and head of technical development for the Team Sportscast Network. From providing key strategic vision, to spending countless hours refining TsN's website, servers and front end interfaces, Hunter has helped shape and define TsN into what it is today. Hunter's career started as a producer in the gaming industry. Hunter's broad and far-reaching experience in the video game industry gives TsN a level of knowledge and expertise unparalleled by most media organizations.

Sam Mathews, the founder and creator of Fnatic Pty Ltd, has been involved within the competitive gaming community since 1999. He first started as a gamer himself in Quake 3, but for the last few years he has been heavily involved with the management and business side of the scene. Creating Fnatic in July of 2004, he has been the primary driving force behind Fnatic's growth to a fully fledged Multi-gaming powerhouse. Sam is representing G7 within the Council and therefore will speak not only for Fnatic, but also NiP-Gaming, 4Kings, Made in Brasil, Team 3D and Mousesports.

Alexander T. Mueller-Rodic has been able to collect an immense range of expertise in the section of eSports due to his former position as Marketing and Sales Director with one of the most successful service providers in eSports, Turtle Entertainment GmbH. The company is provider of one of the biggest and most succesful computer gaming leagues in Europe. Furthermore, Alexander T. Muller-Rodic is the Managing Director with the most successful eSports clan worldwide, SK-Gaming. Alex is also representing G7 on the Council.

Michael "ODEE" O'Dell comes from England and has been gaming for 20+ years. After suffering a serious sporting injury in 1999, Michael started with PC Gaming, and was eventually selected for the UK National team. Currently Michael is the Managing Director of the Multi-gaming organisation, Team Dignitas which he helped to form in 2003. Team Dignitas has players in over 15 countries and they compete at the highest level attending gaming events around the world. Michael is delighted to be a part of the KODE5 Revolutionary Council.

Jordan "Blaze" Rodness hails from Toronto, Canada, and is the News and Coverage Director at the popular Warcraft III fansite WCReplays.com. Jordan is also a member of the WC3L administrator team, and has been for just over a year. Jordan looks forward to helping KODE5 become one of the best tournaments this year, and is very excited to be a member of the Revolutionary Council.

As one of the oldest members of the Counter-Strike community, Trevor "Midway" Schmidt has been a part of GotFrag.com since the beginning helping to build the sites content. From the creation of Midway's Melee to the Playbook series, Trevor has continued to push the horizon of eSports coverage. Like many others his first exposure to First-Person Shooters was the console game Goldeye, which led to the initial beta of Counter-Strike that he has been playing ever since. Trevor is now the Strategic Brand Director for GotFrag.com.


As the fearless leader of FiringSquad.com for the last 5 years, Dan Turner has lead the charge to continue the fine tradition of bringing the most important news and reviews to the hardcore gamer. As an early gamer, Dan started with the classics, like the FPS classics Doom and Quake. Dan has been intimately involved in organizing, promoting and running gaming tournaments for over 3 years, including International tournaments for Warcraft 3, Counterstrike, Medal of Honor and Battlefield 1942 to name a few.

Meng "RocketBoy" Yang was born in ChengDu, China, and is one of the top first-person shooter (FPS) gamers in China. In his 7-year professional gaming career, he has attended numerous international tournaments, and has taken no less than six 1st place finishes. One of his most notable accomplishments was defeating Fatal1ty on the Great Wall of China in 2004 and taking home RMB 1,000,000.

Over the next few weeks, the Council will meet through a series of both virtual and on-site meetings to ensure that KODE5 follows the standards set by the community. They will be tackling real-life issues with e-sports events, and ways to further push gaming to the mainstream. The Global Gaming Revolution is here, and these individuals are at the forefront.

"With their unwavering dedication to e-sports, these individuals have answered the call, and will lend their knowledge and experience to the betterment of KODE5," says Lester Lau, KODE5 Revolutionary-in-Command. "It is an honor to have each of them on the Council, and I look forward to working and interacting with them in the coming weeks. The fate of KODE5 is now in the hands of the Revolutionary Council."

For more on the Revolutionary Council members, visit the official KODE5 website: www.kode5.com