Trademark eSports was the first team in HoNTour to secure their participation for the HoNTour Grand Finals in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their record setting performance of four Diamond Division Championships set a comfortable lead early on, but unfortunately for them, the time they felt at ease did not really work to their benefit as they entered a slippery slope with worse than expected results in the latest HoN Tour Cycles. Can the Europeans regain their strength in the desert and conquer the ultimate prize in HoN?
A Rocky Road to the Top
The success story that is Trademark eSports began in the Summer of 2025 with established and acclaimed captain and drafter Mynuts deciding to form a new team. The NASL Champion took three fellow countrymen into the roster with PabloMcDad, fajN` and Limmp and completed the team with the Danish carry noobG. Not long after, that roster started to create some buzz in the DreamHoN Online Summer Championship as the only team that could take a map off compLexity Gaming and they landed a strong second place finish..
Still, the team was hungry for more and saw the opportunity to upgrade their roster with former Blackfade.org and Its Gosu members iNsania and zai` to form an even stronger force to counter the dominating compLexity squad at that time. PabloMcDad and fajN` had to leave for that, but both acquisitions panned out perfectly with iNsania playing a great support, especially in partnership with Limmp in the middle lane. The youngster zai` basically rocked every opponent in the suicide lane, often times even winning unfavorable match ups. The team made it all the way to the DreamHoN Winter 2025 Championship - overcoming their arch-nemesis compLexity Gaming for the very first time on the biggest stage HoN has to offer.
The Strapping Young Lads of Trademark eSports
Source: Mischa Tan
From left to right: noobG, Fittske, Mynuts, zai`, and Limmp
Mynuts
Johan Andersson, 23 years old, Uppsala, Sweden
Mynuts is one of the most established and experienced players and drafters in the game today. He showcased his leading ability in the Lions eSports team that won the NASL Championship back in 2025 and he formed a fearsome and competitve team with Trademark eSports. He himself is a pivotal part of the well-oiled machine that is Trademark eSports as the drafter, in-game commander and jungler.
Limmp
Linus Blomdin, 17 years old, Stockholm, Sweden
The younger brother of Chessie was one of the greatest things to happen to Newerth’s mid-lane in a long time. His Pollywog Priest was feared, his Moraxus in combination with iNsania as his laning partner was off the chart, and lately he’s also assumed the farming role in the protected short lane. Regardless of what position Limmp plays, he excels at it. Lately he has been seen with the more bursty heroes that the meta brought to us like Pebbles and Deadwood, but a mean Pyromancer is also in his repertoire.
zai`
Ludwig Wahlberg, 15 years old, Skare, Sweden
The youngster in Trademark eSports, Zai comes from a number of successful stints in Blackfade.org and Its Gosu, but his most accomplished time as a player is without a doubt in tdM. In the DreamHoN victory he was the MVP -- his Wildsoul on the suicide lane achieved legendary status and he even proved former HoNcast co-caster Tralfamadore wrong on many occasions by making a suicide Wretched Hag work to perfection.
Fittske
Love Brändström, 21 years old, Stockholm, Sweden
Fittske does not necessarily have a long history with the team, as he replaced iNsania after Cycle 3, but he has a vast history with Mynuts. Both of them fought side by side in Lions eSports, both of them were part of Monomaniac eSports, and both share a strong friendship. Fittske plays one of the best hard supports in Newerth, and is widely recognized as a standout player in that position.
noobG
Lasse Jacobsen, 19 years old, Copenhagen, Denmark
This Danish carry sensation bursted into the bright spotlight as an elite player with Trademark eSports, and has outshone every other carry out there since then. Early on his trademarks were Corrupted Disciple and his frequent pickup of Ghost Marchers even on a carry(for boxing out or attemping to kill the suicide hero). His hero pickups have adjusted to the metagame with Torturer, Pebbles, Hammerstorm, and Wretched Hag being his most frequent drafts as of late, but the occasional hard carry Silhouette or Draconis pick is still on his radar - just the Ghost Marchers won’t change.
From Olympus to Reality
The HoN Tour Season started out very good for the boys of Trademark eSports with their victory in the qualifiers, as well as undefeated records in Cycle 1 and 2. The first hiccup in their otherwise perfectly functioning team occurred in Cycle 3 with an early departure out of the Upper Bracket against Tt eSports, and the elimination out of the Cycle against the streaking QsQ. Consequences followed with iNsania getting replaced by Fittske, leading Trademark eSports back on the winning path for the next two Cycles, until their recent slump started.
Cycle 1: 1st
Cycle 2: 1st
Cycle 3: 4th
Cycle 4: 1st
Cycle 5: 1st
Cycle 6: 3rd
Cycle 7: 7th/8th
Cycle 8: 5th/6th
The thing about Trademark eSports in their current form is not so much the most recent HoNTour placements, but more the entire state of affairs within the team. Recently tdM has been performing below their standard, and they’ve tasted defeated when matched against their top rivals in Stay Green and compLexity Gaming. For more than two months the team couldn’t capture a major tournament victory in HoN, and had to suffer potential moral crushing defeats at the hands of their opponents.
The perception of the team is that they might have problems dealing with adversity, and the term “tilted” has been attached to them at one point or another. The most recent incident of two separate blows to the psyche of the team is the Garena Star League 2025 event in Bangkok, Thailand. While tdM could prevail with ease and without major problems against competitors from Asia or the CIS region, the stain of two 2-0 sweeps against Stay Green is tough to overlook -- especially with captain Mynuts being on the receiving end of some jokes following the event.
Before the matches against the Miami powerhouse, Trademark still had confidence with Limmp making comments along the lines of: “We can defeat Stay Green easily.”. It turned out differently in the end, but the confidence is still there. Fittske made it clear in talk before the finals, that Stay Green is by no means out of reach for Trademark eSports, they just need to bring their A-Game - something that they couldn’t pull off in Thailand.
Last Chapter: Vegas
Now we enter the final chapter of our first HoN Tour Season, with Trademark eSports going to the Hardwood Suite with mixed emotions. Fittske reports that the team is not in awe or fear of their competition -- but at the same time a confident statement of, “We will be the Kings of Las Vegas” was also not given.
The bottom line is that Trademark eSports is still a force to be reckoned with. According to the buzz, Mynuts and zai` have prepared special tactics to be practiced and evaluated in games and scrims in the days leading up to the battle at the casino capital. We have seen unorthodox pickups and hero combinations doing work against established teams before, so it would not be out of the question to see tdM make magic happen during the Grand Finals.
As mentioned prior, Fittske can see Trademark eSports beating every single opponent with ease on their good days, but still questions remain. compLexity has had their number lately, Stay Green dismantled them in front of thousands of people at GSL, and Lions eSportsKlubb is a wildcard in the field -- can they prevail against these obstacles?
Trademark needs to bring their focus, their confidence and their A-Game all the way from Scandinavia in order to make their dream reality and finish the Season like they started it - as the Kings of HoN.
- Sören "Fantasy"
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