[ Archive ] 2003 — 2007

The originalTeam NoA

Founded in November 2003 with players from two continents. CPL champions in 2004, winners in Seoul in 2005, world finalists twice in 2007, and by Christmas the Counter-Strike team had moved to mTw. This is the club the archive remembers.

Original · 2007 wallpaper1440 × 900

Trophy cabinet · finals 2003–2007

1stCPL Winter 2004Dallas · 2004
1stEverLAN Summer 2004Colorado Springs · 2004
1stWEG 2005 Season 1Seoul · 2005
1stshgOpen 20062006
2ndCPL Winter 2003Dallas · 2003
2ndESWC 2007Paris · 2007
2ndWorld Cyber Games 2007Seattle · 2007

[ Explorer ] Year by year

Who played
when

Every bar is one player’s time at NoA. Slide through the years to see who arrived, who left, what the team won and how the prize money added up.

Counter-Strike

bsl
knoxville
Naikon
shaGuar
method
Destructo
elemeNt
XeqtR
fisker
DarK
Red
speedi
Kixer
zonic
hpx
prb
xione
Paddy
mJe
FaagaN
ave
Sunde

Warcraft III

FoCuS
Shy
Space
Ohjie
MinHyuk
Swain
Kei

Active in the selected yearDate approximateLeave date unknown

2004

Prize money 2004

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Total to date

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0304050607

Includes Dec 2003 · all events on Esports Earnings

Results

9th–16thESWC 2004 · ParisJul
1stEverLAN Summer 2004Summer$10,000
9th–12thCPL Summer 2004 · DallasSummer
1stCPL Winter 2004 · DallasDec$30,000

Counter-Strike

DestructoAprelemeNtAprXeqtRSeptbslMarknoxvilleOctDestructoSept

On 31 Dec · Naikon · shaGuar · method · elemeNt · XeqtR

All-time · CS $255,753 from 25 tournaments · Warcraft III ≈ $6,139

2003
One team, two continents
Team NoA was founded on 26 November 2003 by Jonas “bsl” Alsaker. From the start it put players from Europe and North America on the same roster, and within weeks it played the biggest final in Counter-Strike.
Archive plate · 26.11.2003
Archive plate · CPL Winter 2003
1. Nov 2003
  Founded
  bsl founds Team NoA with Naikon, knoxville, shaGuar and method.
2. Dec 2003
  CPL Winter 2003 · Dallas
  In its first month the new team reaches the grand final of the CPL Winter Championship and loses to Team SK.
  2nd
Watch the final
CPL Winter 2003 · Grand final · SK vs NoACommunity upload · YouTube ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Founding rosterSquad page →
2004
Champions in Dallas
An uneven year that ended in the right place. NoA added Norwegian talent, went out early at the two biggest summer events, won in Colorado Springs and came back to Dallas in December to win the CPL.
Archive plate · CPL Winter 2004
Archive plate · EverLAN Summer 2004
1. Spring 2004
  elemeNt joins
  Ola “elemeNt” Moum joins two months before the Electronic Sports World Cup.
2. Jul 2004
  ESWC 2004 · Paris
  NoA win their first group, then lose to Virtus.pro and TSG in the second group stage. Liquipedia’s history gives 9th–16th, its prize table 9th–12th.
  ≈ 9th–16th
3. Summer 2004
  EverLAN Summer 2004 · Colorado Springs
  Undefeated through the event, with a 13–3, 13–2 final against Team EG.
  1st
4. Summer 2004
  CPL Summer 2004 · Dallas
  A double-overtime loss sends the team home in the 9th–12th places.
  9th–12th
5. Sep 2004
  XeqtR joins
  Jørgen “XeqtR” Johannessen joins. He stays until July 2006.
6. 15–19 Dec 2004
  CPL Winter 2004 · Dallas
  Team NoA wins the CPL Winter Championship in Grapevine near Dallas, beating the Eyeballers in the grand final twelve months after losing the same final. Liquipedia gives the final as 2–1 in its timeline and 2–0 in its results table.
  ≈ 1st
Watch the finals
EverLAN Summer 2004 · Final · NoA vs Team EGCommunity upload · YouTube ↗ (opens in a new tab)
CPL Winter 2004 · Grand final · Eyeballers vs NoACommunity upload · YouTube ↗ (opens in a new tab)
2005
Seoul, then a rebuild
The biggest cheque in the club’s history came in March: the World e-Sports Games in Seoul, won against 4Kings. By summer the title team had broken up, BrandTheGame had taken over management, and a new Scandinavian line-up was built around XeqtR.
Archive plate · WEG 2005 Season 1
Archive plate · August 2005
1. 20 Mar 2005
  WEG 2005 Season 1 · Seoul
  elemeNt, Naikon, XeqtR, method and shaGuar win the World e-Sports Games. Down a map on Dust2 (9–13), they take Nuke 13–5 and Train 13–8 against 4Kings. Prize: $50,000.
  1st
2. Apr–Jul 2005
  The title team breaks up
  elemeNt leaves in April (fisker joins), Naikon in June as NoA pauses, and shaGuar and method move to Team 3D in July.
3. Jul 2005
  BrandTheGame
  BrandTheGame takes over the management of Team NoA.
4. Aug 2005
  New line-up
  A Scandinavian roster is announced: XeqtR with DarK, Red, speedi and Kixer, together with new sponsors and branding.
5. Sep 2005
  CPL UK · World Tour
  The new NoA plays its first tournament at the CPL World Tour stop in the UK.
Watch the final
WEG 2005 · Final · NoA vs 4KingsCommunity upload · YouTube ↗ (opens in a new tab)
August 2005Squad page →
2006
A new team, a first title
In January 2006 the Danes arrived. After a week of practice, the new roster won shgOpen against fnatic, then travelled to Seoul. By the end of the year the team, and its owner, were Danish.
Archive plate · shgOpen 2006
1. Jan 2006
  zonic and hpx join
  zonic and hpx join together with prb and xione. DarK leaves the team.
2. 17–19 Feb 2006
  shgOpen 2006
  After a week of preparation, the new roster wins the tournament, beating the Swedish favourites fnatic 16–12 in the grand final.
  1st
3. 2006
  WEG Season 4 · Seoul
  From shgOpen the team flies to Seoul for the World e-Sports Games, Season 4.
4. May–Aug 2006
  Roster changes
  Paddy joins in May, XeqtR leaves in July, and mJe and ave arrive in July and August.
5. 11 Nov 2006
  Warcraft III
  NoA signs the Korean Warcraft III team Clan Go: FoCuS, Shy, Space, Ohjie, MinHyuk and Swain. The Counter-Strike club becomes a multi-gaming organisation.
6. 2006
  Fully Danish
  Martin “guddo” Cording buys the organisation from BrandTheGame. Ownership and roster are now entirely Danish.
2007
Two world finals
The best year in the club’s history ended with its last match. NoA played the grand final of the Electronic Sports World Cup in Paris and of the World Cyber Games in Seattle and finished second at both.
Archive plate · ESWC 2007
Archive plate · WCG 2007
1. May 2007
  Sunde joins
  Sunde replaces Paddy and completes the final line-up.
2. 8 Jul 2007
  ESWC 2007 · Paris
  NoA reaches the grand final of the Electronic Sports World Cup and loses 1–2 to Pentagram: 5–16 on Train, 22–18 on Nuke after overtime, 9–16 on Inferno. Prize: $24,000.
  2nd
3. 3–7 Oct 2007
  World Cyber Games 2007 · Seattle
  A second world final in the same year, lost to the French team eMulate at the Qwest Field Event Center. Silver medal and $25,000.
  2nd
4. 16 Oct 2007
  Warcraft III squad disbands
  Eleven months after the Clan Go signing, the Korean Warcraft III squad is disbanded.
5. 2007
  A new website
  The club website is redesigned in Photoshop: chrome tabs, a sponsor bar and the crescent logo that is still on this page.
Watch the finals
ESWC 2007 · Grand final · Pentagram vs NoACommunity upload · HD remaster · YouTube ↗ (opens in a new tab)
WCG 2007 · Final · eMulate vs NoASwedish upload · YouTube ↗ (opens in a new tab)
The last line-upSquad page →
- zonic
- mJe
- hpx
- ave
- Sunde
2007
17 December
The CS team becomes mTw
On 17 December 2007 Team NoA merged with mortal Teamwork. zonic, mJe, hpx, ave and Sunde became mTw’s Danish Counter-Strike team, and guddo became its coach and manager.
Archive plate · 17.12.2007
1. 17 Dec 2007
  Merger
  The NoA Counter-Strike roster moves to mTw. The organisation itself carries on for a few more years in other games.

[ Wayback ] teamnoa.net · teamnoa.eu

The old
clan pages

Four captures from the Wayback Machine and the 2007 design file. Hover or focus a page to scroll it.

www.teamnoa.eu · design file
2007 · Photoshop
The design this site grew from
Made to the clan-page standards of the time: a login box, chrome tabs, a sponsor bar, a match ticker and three columns of news. The sharp wordmark with the crescent and the underwater blue are on every page here.
Rebuilding the 2007 site
www.teamnoa.net · May 2004
May 2004
The AMD years
Grey tabs, a login bar and AMD as lead sponsor. The lead story: knoxville’s interview with CGA in China.
Wayback Machine (opens in a new tab)
www.teamnoa.net · April 2006
April 2006
Going dark
The first underwater-blue layout, with SteelSeries as main sponsor and news from WEG in Shanghai.
Wayback Machine (opens in a new tab)
www.teamnoa.net · December 2006
December 2006
Eurocup champions
The same shell a winter later: NoA beat Speed-Link 2–0 to win ClanBase EuroCup XIII.
Wayback Machine (opens in a new tab)
www.teamnoa.eu · December 2007
December 2007
The 2007 design, live
The new Photoshop design, online: Shuttle, Sennheiser and Kappa, a news ticker and three columns of everything.
Wayback Machine (opens in a new tab)

[ After ] 2008 and beyond

What NoA
left behind

01
mTw.dk, 2008
The former NoA core dominated 2008, winning the KODE5 Global Finals, the Intel Extreme Masters Continental Finals and the World Cyber Games 2008.
02
Oldboys, 2020–24
Led by guddo, the Danish players of the NoA and mTw years came back as an oldboys team in the Danish OldBoys CS:GO league and won seasons 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8.
03
zonic
Danny “zonic” Sørensen went on to coach. With Astralis he won four Counter-Strike Majors between 2017 and 2019.
04
The name
NoA also fielded teams in other games, including Warcraft III. Wikipedia dates the end of the organisation to November 2011; in 2020 guddo bought the name back, and the oldboys played under it. The squads on this site are the real line-ups, one per era, from the same sources as this page.

Sources & accuracy

The squad pages follow the same sources, one squad per era. Dates, rosters and placements follow Liquipedia, Wikipedia and Esports Earnings. Where they disagree, this page uses the more cautious version and marks the entry with ≈. The images are archive plates made for this page, except the 2007 wallpaper and website design, which are originals, and the club pages, which are captures from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Corrections from people who were there are very welcome.

The originalTeam NoA

Trophy cabinet · finals 2003–2007

Who playedwhen

Results

Counter-Strike

Results

Counter-Strike

Results

Counter-Strike

Results

Counter-Strike

Warcraft III

Results

Counter-Strike

Warcraft III

One team, two continents

Founded

CPL Winter 2003 · Dallas

Champions in Dallas

elemeNt joins

ESWC 2004 · Paris

EverLAN Summer 2004 · Colorado Springs

CPL Summer 2004 · Dallas

XeqtR joins

CPL Winter 2004 · Dallas

Seoul, then a rebuild

WEG 2005 Season 1 · Seoul

The title team breaks up

BrandTheGame

New line-up

CPL UK · World Tour

A new team, a first title

zonic and hpx join

shgOpen 2006

WEG Season 4 · Seoul

Roster changes

Warcraft III

Fully Danish

Two world finals

Sunde joins

ESWC 2007 · Paris

World Cyber Games 2007 · Seattle

Warcraft III squad disbands

A new website

The CS team becomes mTw

Merger

The oldclan pages

The design this site grew from

The AMD years

Going dark

Eurocup champions

The 2007 design, live

What NoAleft behind

mTw.dk, 2008

Oldboys, 2020–24

zonic

The name

Sources & accuracy

Who played
when

The old
clan pages

What NoA
left behind