Midnight Evil, previously known as [mEm] was started back in January 2005 by its three founding members - Mark ‘Phunky’ Harwood, Nick ‘Rig’ Morrison and Danny ‘D’ Kenton - with the aim of being a local clan based apon close friends who enjoyed playing CS:Source together, but also lived in and around Bradford, West Yorkshire.

Between us all we have been playing CS in one of it’s many form since it first grace the HL mod world back in 1999, we have each played in many well know clans such as UNTO, British Born Killers, UKTerrorist.com, TvJ, Eye Effects, cs0, Hertz and Blacklight.

With the aim of being a all Bradford based clan we thought we would have the advantage of being able to bootcamp together almost every week and be able to take advantage of the lack of expeince within the CS:Source Scene at the time.

The first Midnight Evil Line up was Phunky, Rig, D, Sub-Sypher and Sifu and although we had some great first matches with this lineup the founding members could tell that due to there lack of experince and the fact that they didnt have the same hunger as us we would have to let Sub-Sypher and Sifu go.

This was when we knew we would have to take on some online hero’s under are wings and so the hunt started to find some experinced CS players who had moved over to CS:Source. We managed to get hold of Ins of Blacklight fame, who brought with him Skank and Philz and this is where the Midnight Evil was really born.

We exploded on to the scene taking out all the top teams at the time and along the way started to win over quite a following, not only for our skill within CS:Source but also due to the way we showed true sportmanship in games.

A few months past and we started to see a few cracks within the line-up, people where having real life issuse and could no-longer put in the same ammount of time in to the team as we once did, so we had to take on freash blood. This was when Rig brought onboard his good friend and old CS clan mate Travis ‘ubj’ Reed, at around the same time we also took on a reccomended play who was unknown to us. This player was none other that World Halo PC Champion Jon0o, with the new reworked lineup we was stronger then ever.

But sadly all good things must come to a end, with a few internal conflicts due to things outside of the game it was decided that the Midnight Evil would step aside from the CS:Source Scene and go inactive.

Three of us - Phunky,Rig,ubj - then moved on to the then unknown Reason-Gaming team and to put it sort gave them the exposure they wanted by winning the World Cyber Games UK Finals and earning a free trip to Singapore to represent the UK in CS:Source in the Grand Finals.

Although with such a great win under our belt, things never felt right with Reason and in December 2005 Phunky and ubj left and started to look at reviving Midnight Evil, by the middle of January 2006 we had almost everyone back - Rig, D, Phunky, ubj and Philz had all agreed they missed playing under the Midnight Evil name and wanted to do so again. This was also around the time we welcome a old rival into the side, Boffy was the leader of 7Samurai who where proberly are biggest rivals within the UK CS:Source Scene.

So this is where we are now, currently awaiting the start of the first ever CAL-Europe season to start - we feel sorry if your not evil…

Cos we are Midnight Evil!