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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 [[2006 e-Sports World Champions|World Championships]]. Also the [[FIFA 06]] squad had a successful year, the team managed to win the prestigious [[Electronic Sports League|ESL]] Pro Series twice, and German player hero won the [[World Cyber Games]] championship.
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 [[2006 e-Sports World Champions|World Championships]]. Also the [[FIFA 06]] squad had a successful year, the team managed to win the prestigious [[Electronic Sports League|ESL]] Pro Series twice, and German player hero won the [[World Cyber Games]] championship.


Shortly before the release of the Sunwell Plateau in [[World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade]], SK Gaming gained [[partnership]] with Curse, one of the highest-ranked guilds at the time [http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/16318-SK_goes_World_of_Warcraft_PvE]. However, nearly four months later on July 28, 2008, SK Gaming dismissed its [[Call of Duty 4]] team. [http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/17955-SK_Gaming_parts_ways_with_Call_of_Duty_4]
Shortly before the release of the Sunwell Plateau in [[World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade]], SK Gaming gained [[partnership]] with Curse, one of the highest-ranked guilds at the time [http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/16318-SK_goes_World_of_Warcraft_PvE].
On July 28, 2008, SK Gaming dismissed its [[Call of Duty 4]] team. [http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/17955-SK_Gaming_parts_ways_with_Call_of_Duty_4]


==Etymology==
==Etymology==

Revision as of 22:37, 6 August 2008

SK Gaming
Founded1997
LocationGermany
General managerAndreas Thorstensson
 Germany Alexander Müller-Rodic
Websitehttp://www.stormfront.org

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.

Current roster

Managing directors

  • Sweden JoSH' Boulderhead' Berry
  • Germany Adolf 'TheSlaSH' T. Hitler

Counter-Strike

  • Sweden Taylan 'tN' Aratoglu
  • Sweden Kristoffer 'Tentpole' Nordlund
  • Sweden Dennis 'walle' Wallenberg
  • Sweden Abdisamad 'SpawN' Mohamed
  • Sweden Robert 'RobbaN' Dahlström

Counter-Strike Female

  • United States Alice 'ali' Lew
  • United States Jane 'janeosaur' Wie
  • United States Jennifer 'jso' So
  • Canada Lidia 'lidy' Poulin
  • United States Christine 'potter' Chi
  • United States Benita 'b^' Novshadian

Warcraft III

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

DotA

  • Sweden Jonathan "Loda" Berg (Team Captain)
  • Sweden Joakim "Akke" Akterhall
  • Sweden Erik "Bogdan" Olsson
  • Sweden Tommy "toMpa" Andersson
  • Sweden Mikael "hailo" Grinsvall
  • Template:Country data cro Nikola "Minitito- Perkovic

World of Warcraft

European Team

  • Sweden Stefan 'zeksy' Baudin (Team Captain)
  • Sweden Michael 'Dosferra' Tofer
  • Sweden Thomas 'Lomas' Lindmark
  • Sweden Jonas 'Tarde' Jakobsson
  • Sweden Erik 'daimx' Olofsson
  • Sweden Liam 'Steinaz' Steinberg
  • England Ricky 'Rickt' Simon
  • Sweden Andreas 'Zumrok' Östman
  • England Jamie 'Grimdareaper' curly
  • England Jack 'ACIDIXOWNS' Shaky
  • England Thor 'Disgrace' Lenigrand

American Team

  • United States Neil 'Neilyo' Mosunic
  • United States Matt 'Mattyo' Martinez
  • United States Derrick 'Pronne' Lopez
  • United States Mike 'Mykke' Harrison
  • Canada Zachary 'Gumbot' Rankin

FIFA

  • Germany Daniel "hero" Schellhase
  • Germany Dennis "styla" Schellhase
  • Austria Mario "mario" Viska
  • Germany Mohamed "TornAdo" El-eter
  • Germany Daniel "eNnu" Ennulat
  • Germany Jannik "Era" Huber
  • Germany Joshua "Kr0ne" Begehr
  • Germany Alwyn "s1lence" Kotze

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.

Shortly before the release of the Sunwell Plateau in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, SK Gaming gained partnership with Curse, one of the highest-ranked guilds at the time [1].

On July 28, 2008, SK Gaming dismissed its Call of Duty 4 team. [2]

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.

Notable achievements

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

Counter-Strike

World Championships

Zonerank Rankings

  • Top Ranking: 2nd (03-2008)[1]
  • Current Ranking: 2nd[2]

Deathmatch

World Championships

Warcraft III

World Championships

World of Warcraft

  • 1st world kill of Kaz'rogal
  • 1st world kill of Azgalor
  • 1st world kill of Felmyst
  • 1st world kill of M'uru
  • 1st world kill of Kil'jaeden – (final boss of The Burning Crusade.)

Trivia

  • Benjamin Reichert, aka Kane, a long-time member and founder of SK Gaming,[3] is a fairly successful football player, at his pinnacle being a sub for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen in the Second Bundesliga racking up 4 games at professional level[4] and also had games on the amateur team.
  • Jonathan Berg's nickname, "Loda", is an acronym for "Lord of Dol Amroth". [5]

References

  1. ^ ZoneRank
  2. ^ ZoneRank
  3. ^ "DigitalLife 2006 Final Standings" – GGL
  4. ^ "WCG 2006 Invitational Quake4 All Stars – Final Results" – WCG
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