Dignitas (esports)
Team Dignitas is an International e-Sports team which is headquartered in Great Britain and which is among the best British gaming teams. It was founded on the 9th of September 2003 as a fusion of the Battlefield 1942 clans Legion Condor and Sweden Kompanix. Thus the clan was a pure Battlefield clan in the beginning. By and by, however, more teams were added to the organisation, in July 2004 Team Dignitas was registered as a company: Team Dignitas Ltd. Managing Director and thus man in charge of the clan is Michael 'ODEE' O'Dell.
In August 2006 the Call of Duty 2 team was elected the third best team in Europe by Cadred.org.[1] Also in 2006 the Battlefield 2 team was chosen as the Battlefield 2 Team of the Year by Geeksnet.org.[2] In May 2007 CSSNation.net ranked Dignitas's Counter-Strike: Source team second in Europe.[3] In the same month the British scene page UKCounterTerrorist.com put the Counter-Strike 1.6 team as number one in Britain.[4] By winning the first official international Enemy Territory: Quake Wars tournament at QuakeCon2007 the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars team gained the fame as the best team in the world. In August 2007 the French site Majestic 24/7 chose the World in Conflict team as number one in the European Summer Ranking.[5] The World in Conflict team of Team Dignitas was also nominated for the eSports Award 2007 as "eSport Team of the Year".[6] In 2007 Dignitas was able to announce its first ever World Champion with Freek "XeNoGeaR" winning the Trackmania Nations competition at the Electronic Sports World Cup. Also in 2007, Team Dignitas player Sean "Apollooo" Clark placed first in Command and Conquer Tiberium Wars at the World Cyber Games 2007.
Teams
Unlike other major gaming teams Dignitas is known to also be supporting the "smaller" games, i.e. eSports games that are less popular or smaller in community size. Currently the organisation has the following teams:
- Battlefield 2142
- Call of Duty 4
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- FIFA
- Quake
- Real Time Strategy (Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars / World in Conflict)
- Trackmania
- Unreal Tournament 3
Achievements (excerpt)
- Electronic Sports World Cup:
- ESWC Grand Finals 2005 - 6th
- ESWC Germany 2006 - 1st
- ESWC Germany 2007 - 1st, 2nd
- ESWC Holland 2007 - 1st
- ESWC UK 2007 - 1st
- ESWC Grand Finals 2007 - 1st
- Cyberathlete Professional League:
- Winter Extreme Championships - 2nd
- CPL World Tour:
- UK 2006 - 1st
- Italy 2007 - 1st
- Sweden 2007 - 1st
- Dallas 2007 - 2nd
- World Cyber Games:
- WCG UK 2007 - 1st
- WCG Latvia 2007 - 1st
- WCG Baltic 2007 - 1st
- WCG Sweden 2007 - 1st
- WCG Denmark 2007 - 1st
- WCG Grand Finals 2007 - 1st, 2nd
- Multiplay i-Series:
- i26 - 1st
- i27 - 1st
- i28 - 1st
- i29 - 1st
- i30 - 1st
- i31 - 1st
- i32 - 1st
- Electronic Sports League:
- FIFA Champions League 2005 - 1st
- Pro-Series:
- Season VIII - 2nd
- Season IX - 1st
- Season X - 1st
- Season XI - 1st
- Clanbase:
- EuroCup IX - 1st
- EuroCup X - 3rd
- EuroCup XII - 2nd
- EuroCup XIII - 1st
- EuroCup XIV - 1st
- EuroCup XV - 2nd
- Swedish Championships 2003 - 2nd
- The Zenith 2004 - 1st
- Optihack 2005 - 1st
- Dreamhack Summer 2006 - 1st
- Dimension 6 - 1st
- shgOpen 2007 - 1st
- SEC 2007 - 1st
- The Gathering 2007 - 1st
- The Summit 2007 - 1st
- QuakeCon 2007 - 1st
- Championship Gaming Series UK Combine - 1st
- Crossfire devotii Challenge 3 - 1st
External links
References
- ^ Cadred.org's August 2006 Call of Duty 2 Europe Rankings
- ^ Geeksnet.org's 2006 Battlefield 2 Worldrankings
- ^ CSSNation.net's May 2007 Counter-Strike: Source Europe Rankings
- ^ UKCounterTerrorist.com's May 2007 Counter-Strike 1.6 United Kingdom Rankings
- ^ Majestic 24/7's Summer 2007 World in Conflict Europe Rankings
- ^ The nominees for the eSports Awards 2007