SK Gaming

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SK Gaming

Year founded: 1997

SK Gaming is an professional electronic sports club based in Germany. SK Gaming fields teams in many different games and are particularly known for their success in Counter-Strike tournaments. SK is one of the founder members of the G7 Teams.

Contents 1 Current Roster 1.1 Counter-Strike 1.2 Warcraft III 1.3 Quake 4 1.4 FIFA 2 Notable Former Players 3 History 4 Etymology 5 Notable Achievements 5.1 Warcraft III 5.1.1 World Championships 5.2 Counter-Strike 5.2.1 World Championships 5.2.2 Zonerank Rankings 5.3 Deathmatch 5.3.1 World Championships 6 Trivia 7 External links 8 References

[edit] Current Roster

[edit] Counter-Strike

• Abdisamad "SpawN" Mohamed^[1]
• Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström
• Christian "vilden" Lidström
• Mattias "Snajdan" Andersen
• Jimmy "Allen" Allén
• Christer "fisker" Eriksson
• Andreas "bds" Thorstensson (manager)

[edit] Warcraft III

• Andrey "Deadman" Sobolev
• Andrew "Fire" Regendantz
• Julian "Fisch" Höbener
• Mykhaylo "HoT" Novopashyn
• Zdravko "Insomnia" Georgiev
• Daniel "miou" Holthuis
• Daniel "XlorD" Spenst

[edit] Quake 4

• Fredrik "gopher" Quick
• Karl "fooKi" Johansson
• Pelle "fazz" Söderman

[edit] FIFA

• Daniel "hero" Schellhase
• Dennis "styla" Schellhase
• Marc "WurST" Knieb
• Andreas "Kaddy" Varlemann
• Florian "Flo" Brellochs
• Mario "mario" Viska
• Mohamed "TornAdo" El-eter
• Daniel "eNnu" Ennulat
• Nils "niLssoN" Nolting

[edit] Notable Former Players

• Emil "HeatoN" Christensen (transferred to Ninjas in Pyjamas 2005-01-01)
• Tommy "Potti" Ingemarsson (transferred to Ninjas in Pyjamas 2005-01-01)
• Michael "ahl" Korduner
• Ola "elemeNt" Moum (transferred to Team NoA 2004-05-18)
• Daniel "Hyper" Kuusisto
• Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johanson
• Johan "Toxic" Quick (released 2007-01-01)

[edit] History

SK Gaming was formed in 1997 as a German Quake clan named Schroet Kommando by seven young people who all lived in the town of Oberhausen, among them three brothers, whose parents' house became the SK headquarters. Their major international successes came when they took the players of the successful Swedish Counter-Strike clan Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP for short) into their organization. The SK Counter-Strike team have won most of the major international tournaments at least once, and have been a dominant team in the Cyberathlete Professional League. Other SK Gaming teams are also notably successful in their respective games.

On February 1, 2003 SK Gaming became the first club in FPS gaming to contract their players when SK Sweden became contractually bound to the clan.^{[citation needed]} Having begun contracting their players, SK also set other precedents regarding contracts: on May 18, 2004 they were the first team to receive a fee for a player transfer after rivals Team NoA bought SK.swe player Ola "elemeNt" Moum out of his contract.^{[citation needed]}

At the beginning of the 2005 season, the Counter-Strike players decided not to renew their contracts and to re-form Ninjas in Pyjamas, because of the distribution of the prize money and disagreements with the management^{[citation needed]}. However, later some of the original players returned to the club in 2006.

The 2006 season brought no successes to the Counter-Strike team. Most notably, the team failed to qualify for the Electronic Sports World Cup, in which Sweden was represented by rivals fnatic and Ninjas in Pyjamas. The team did manage to qualify however for the KODE5 finals, now unsuccessful at beating their two rivals. At the KODE5 finals, they won two matches and lost to team MiBR in the group stages. They then lost to wNv in the single elimination round, placing 5th-8th overall.

Success did come for the Quake 4 squad, as Swedish star player Johan "Toxic" Quick managed to win eight out of the ten major tournaments this year, including four out of five World Championships. Also the FIFA 06 squad had a successful year, the team managed to win the prestigious ESL Pro Series twice, and German player hero won the World Cyber Games championship.

[edit] Etymology

When playing Quake deathmatch, one of the founding members used to shout "Schrööt!" (literally meaning "shrapnel") when he took the double-barreled shotgun; they decided to incorporate this into their name and named their clan "Schroet Kommando" which translates into English as "Shrapnel Commando". This has been changed and the clan now refers to itself as SK Gaming, stating that this is their name now, and not an abbreviation for the original name.

[edit] Notable Achievements

SK Gaming has placed in the top 3 at the following major international tournaments:

[edit] Warcraft III

• 2^nd ESL Extreme Masters 2007 - Mykhaylo "HoT" Novopashyn
• 1^st WCG SEC 2007 - Mykhaylo "HoT" Novopashyn
• 2^nd World Series of Videogames, Finals 2006 - Jung Hee "Sweet" Chun
• 3^rd World Cyber Games 2006 - Mykhaylo "HoT" Novopashyn
• 1^st KODE5 2006- Andrey "Deadman" Sobolev
• 1^st World Series of Videogames, China 2006 - Jung Hee "Sweet" Chun
• 1^st World Series of Videogames, Sweden 2006 - Andrey "Deadman" Sobolev
• 2^nd NGL One Season I 2006 - Team
• 3^rd Warcraft 3 Champions League V 2006 - Team
• 1^st EuroCup 2005 - Mykhaylo "HoT" Novopashyn
• 3^rd CPL Summer 2005 - Björn "ElakeDuck" ödman
• 2^nd Electronic Sports World Cup 2005 - Andrey "Deadman" Sobolev
• 3^rd ACON5 2005 - Andrey "Deadman" Sobolev
• 3^rd Warcraft 3 Champions League VII 2005 - Team
• 2^nd World E-Sport Games I 2005 - Tae min "Zacard" Hwang
• 3^rd Warcraft 3 Champions League VI 2004 - Team
• 2^nd World Cyber Games 2004 - Tae min "Zacard" Hwang
• 2^nd Electronic Sports World Cup 2004 - Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johansson
• 3^rd Electronic Sports World Cup 2004 - Alborz "HeMaN" Haidarian
• 3^rd ACON4 2004 - Jung Hee "Sweet" Chun
• 3^rd Warcraft 3 Champions League V 2004 - Team
• 1^st Blizzard Worldwide Invitational 2004 - Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johansson
• 3^rd Cyber X Gaming 2004 - Zdravko "Insomnia" Georgiev
• 1^st World Cyber Games 2003 - Zdravko "Insomnia" Georgiev
• 1^st Euro Cyber Games 2003 - Antoine "FaTC" Zadri
• 2^nd Euro Cyber Games 2003 - Georgi "Zeerax" Marinov
• 1^st Electronic Sports World Cup 2003 - Alborz "HeMaN" Haidarian
• 2^nd Electronic Sports World Cup 2003 - Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johansson
• 3^rd Clikarena 2003 - Zdravko "Insomnia" Georgiev
• 2^nd CPL Cannes 2003 - Zdravko "Insomnia" Georgiev
• 2^nd CPL Oslo 2002 - Sven "Kovax" Runing
• 3^rd CPL Oslo 2002 - Fahad "DsCo" Hamid

[edit] World Championships

• KODE5 (2006)
• Blizzard Worldwide Invitational (2004)
• World Cyber Games (2003)
• Electronic Sports World Cup (2003)

[edit] Counter-Strike

• 1^st WCG SEC 2007
• 1^st CPL: Winter Championships 2005
• 1^st CPL: Summer Championships 2005
• 2^nd Electronic Sports World Cup 2005
• 2^nd CPL: Summer Championships 2004
• 1^st CPL: Winter Championships 2003
• 1^st CPL: Copenhagen 2003
• 1^st CPL: Summer Championships 2003
• 1^st CPL: Cannes 2003
• 1^st World Cyber Games 2003
• 3^rd Electronic Sports World Cup 2003
• 1^st CPL: Summer Championships 2002
• 3^rd CPL: Winter Championships 2002

[edit] World Championships

• Cyberathlete Professional League (2002, 2003, 2005)
• World Cyber Games (2003)

[edit] Zonerank Rankings

• Top Ranking: 11th (12-2006)^[2]
• Current Ranking: 20th^[3]

[edit] Deathmatch

• 1^st KODE5 Finals 2006 - Johan "Toxic" Quick (Quake 4)
• 1^st Quakecon 2006 - Johan "Toxic" Quick (Quake 4)
• 1^st World Series of Video Games Intel Summer Championship 2006 - Johan "Toxic" Quick (Quake 4)
• 2^nd World Series of Video Games Sweden 2006 - Johan "Toxic" Quick (Quake 4)
• 1^st World Series of Video Games London 2006 - Johan "Toxic" Quick (Quake 4)
• 1^st DigitalLife 2006^[4] - Johan "Toxic" Quick (Quake 4)
• 1^st World Cyber Games 2006^[5] - Johan "Toxic" Quick (Quake 4)
• 1^st World Series of Video Games Finals 2006 - Johan "Toxic" Quick (Quake 4)
• 2^nd 2005 CPL World Tour: Istanbul - Benjamin "zyz" Bohrmann (Painkiller)
• 1^st 2005 CPL World Tour: Spain - Stephan "SteLam" Lammert (Painkiller)
• 3^rd 2005 CPL World Tour: Brazil - Benjamin "zyz" Bohrmann (Painkiller)
• 3^rd Electronic Sports World Cup 2005 - Fox (Quake 3)
• 3^rd 2005 CPL World Tour: Sweden - Benjamin "zyz" Bohrmann (Painkiller)
• 3^rd 2005 CPL World Tour: United Kingdom - Benjamin "zyz" Bohrmann (Painkiller
• 2^nd CPL 2005 Winter - Johan "Toxic" Quick (Quake 4)
• 3^rd Cyberathlete Professional League: Summer 2004 - Stephan "SteLam" Lammert (Painkiller)
• 1^st Cyberathlete Professional League: Summer 2004 - Team (Unreal Tournament)
• 2^nd Electronic Sports World Cup 2004 - GitzZz (Unreal Tournament)
• 1^st Electronic Sports World Cup 2003 - GitzZz (Unreal Tournament)
• 3^rd World Cyber Games 2001 - Stephan "SteLam" Lammert (Quake 3)

[edit] World Championships

• KODE5 (2006, Quake 4)
• World Cyber Games (2006, Quake 4)
• World Series of Video Games (2006, Quake 4)
• Electronic Sports World Cup (2003, Unreal Tournament)

[edit] Trivia

• Benjamin Reichert, aka Burke, a long-time member and founder of SK Gaming,[1] is a fairly successful football player, at his pinnacle being a sub for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen in the Second Bundesliga racking up 3 games at professional level[2] and also had games on the amateur team.

[edit] External links

• Official SK-Gaming Website
• SK endorses NVidia

[edit] References

1. ^ As of 09-01-2007 SK Gaming
2. ^ ZoneRank
3. ^ ZoneRank
4. ^ "DigitalLife 2006 Final Standings" - GGL
5. ^ "WCG 2006 Invitational Quake4 All Stars - Final Results" - WCG