Released on = January 17, 2006, 6:40 pm

Press Release Author = K1ck eSports Club

Industry = Entertainment

Press Release Summary = Porto, Portugal -The first Counter-Strike legal contracts in
Portugal between players and an eSports Association have been signed up.

Press Release Body = For the first time in Portugal, eSports legal contracts between
players and the Association they represent have been signed up on the 17th January.
Being the only active eSports Association in the country, K1ck eSports Club took yet
another step into a more professionalized online gaming community, achieving an easy
agreement with their Counter-Strike team concerning the contracts for the 2006
Season. Players from other K1ck Divisions will soon follow, in an effort to provide
better conditions to the Association members and improve the quality of Portuguese
online gamers.

Being the most popular eSports Game in the world, Counter-Strike was the first
division in the Club to benefit from this more professional approach to online
gaming. The sign up event with the players began at K1ck's Lan House in the city of
Seia, with the usual photos available at k1ck.com, and was concluded in the city of
Porto.

According to Pedro "Spirit" Fernandes, the chairman of the board, "writing down on
paper what was always a good understanding between the players that throughout the
ages represented the Clan/Association and the board of the Club, is of the utmost
importance to us. It means that not only we have faith in the players but they also
trust us to orient their careers. Being able to offer a sense of security and
stability to sponsors is also another great advantage of this historic step in the
Portuguese eSports."

K1ck eSports Club can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.k1ck.com

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Web Site = http://www.k1ck.com

Contact Details = spirit@k1ck.com