SK Gaming

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SK Gaming

Location:	Germany
Founded:	1997
Manager:	Andreas Thorstensson Alexander Müller-Rodic
Website:	http://www.sk-gaming.com/

SK Gaming is an e-Sports gaming team from 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 founding members of the G7 Teams.

[edit] Current Roster

[edit] Managing Directors

Andreas 'bds' Thorstensson
Alexander 'TheSlaSH' T. Müller-Rodic

[edit] Counter-Strike

Dennis 'walle' Wallenberg
Jimmy 'allen' Allén
GeT_RiGhT
Abdisamad "SpawN" Mohamed
Axinia "bert" Robert

[edit] Counter-Strike Female

Christine 'potter' Chi
Alice 'ali' Lew
Anne Marthe 'ringring' Ring
Na
Benita 'b^' Novshadian
Stephanie 'missharvey' Harvey (inactive due to studying in Europe)

[edit] Warcraft III

June 'Lyn' Park
Daniel 'Miou' Holthuis
Seo Woo 'ReiGn' Kang
Sung Sik 'ReMinD' Kim
Seong Deok 'SoJu' Lee

[edit] Warcraft III (DotA)

Jonathan "Loda" Berg (Team Captain)
Joakim "Akke" Akterhall
Erik "Bogdan" Olsson
Tommy "toMpa" Andersson
Mikael "hailo" Grinsvall
Sergio "Djan" Revin
Jamal "Rawr" El Akkad

[edit] World of Warcraft

European Team

Stefan 'zeksy' Baudin (Team Captain)
Michael 'Dosferra' Tofer
Thomas 'Lomas' Lindmark
Jonas 'Tarde' Jakobsson
Erik 'daimx' Olofsson
Liam 'Steinaz' Steinberg
Ricky 'Rickt' Simon

American Team

Neil 'Neilyo' Mosunic
Matt 'Mattyo' Martinez
Derrick 'Pronne' Lopez
Mike 'Mykke' Harrison
Zachary 'Gumbot' Rankin
Axinia "wick3d_sick" Robert

[edit] FIFA

Daniel "hero" Schellhase
Dennis "styla" Schellhase
Mario "mario" Viska
Mohamed "TornAdo" El-eter
Daniel "eNnu" Ennulat
Jannik "Era" Huber
Joshua "Kr0ne" Begehr

[edit] Call of Duty 4

Tony "Creepy" Löschner (Manager)
Andre "iFEARdilemma!" Merzinsky (Team Captain)
Andy "flie" Rhein
Volkan "thunder" Kocakahya
Turgut "Respawn" Yildiz
Burak "Mokai" Bolat
Tim "mazacRe" Rolappe

[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, founding member Musa Celik (sk.Kila) 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.