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SK Gaming (formerly Schroet Kommando), is a professional German based eSports organisation. The team is widely regarded as the most successful eSports team ever, with highly competitive and successful squads especially in the team based first person shooter, Counter Strike 1.6.

The team is also one of the founding members of the g7 organisation, alongside 4Kings, Fnatic, Team 3D, Mousesports, Made in Brazil and Ninjas in Pyjamas.

SK Gaming
Year founded: 1997
image:Sklogo.jpg

Contents

Current Roster

Staff

image:sweden.gif Andreas "bds" Thorstensson
image:germany.gif Alexander 'TheSlash' Müller-Rodic

Counter-Strike

image:sweden.gif Jimmy 'allen' Allenv
image:sweden.gif Robert 'RobbaN' Dahlström
image:sweden.gif Dennis "walle" Wallenberg
image:sweden.gif Abdisamad "SpawN" Mohamed
image:sweden.gif Kristoffer "Tentpole" Nordlund

Warcraft III

image:ukraine.gif Mykhaylo "HoT" Novopashyn
image:bulgaria.gif Zdravko "Insomnia" Georgiev
image:germany.gif Daniel "miou" Holthuis
image:germany.gif Daniel "XlorD" Spenst
image:korea.gif Kim "ReMinD" Sung Sik
image:korea.gif June "Lyn" Park
image:korea.gif "SoJu"

Warcraft III(DotA)

image:sweden.gif Jonathan "Loda" Berg (Team Captain)
image:sweden.gif Erik "Renji" Olsson
image:sweden.gif Gustav "Drayich" Bergström
image:sweden.gif Joakim "Akke" Akterhall
image:sweden.gif Edvin "KwoM" Börjesson
image:sweden.gif Erik "Bogdan" Olsson

World of Warcraft

image:sweden.gif Stefan 'zeksy' Baudin (Team Captain)
image:sweden.gif Michael 'Dosferra' Tofer
image:sweden.gif Thomas 'Lomas' Lindmark
image:sweden.gif Jonas 'Tarde' Jakobsson
image:sweden.gif Erik 'daimx' Olofsson
image:sweden.gif Mattias 'Oteus' Franck

Quake 4

image:sweden.gif Fredrik "gopher" Quick
image:sweden.gif Karl "fooKi" Johansson
image:sweden.gif Pelle "fazz" Söderman

FIFA

image:germany.gif Daniel "hero" Schellhase
image:germany.gif Dennis "styla" Schellhase
image:germany.gif Marc "WurST" Knieb
image:germany.gif Andreas "Kaddy" Varlemann
image:germany.gif Florian "Flo" Brellochs
image:austria.gif Mario "mario" Viska
image:lebanon.gif Mohamed "TornAdo" El-eter
image:germany.gif Daniel "eNnu" Ennulat
image:germany.gif Nils "niLssoN" Nolting

Notable Former Players

image: sweden.gif Emil "HeatoN" Christensen (transferred to Ninjas in Pyjamas 2005-01-01)
image: sweden.gif Tommy "Potti" Ingemarsson (transferred to Ninjas in Pyjamas 2005-01-01)
image: sweden.gif Michael "ahl" Korduner
image: norway.gif Ola "elemeNt" Moum (transferred to Team NoA 2004-05-18)
image: sweden.gif Daniel "Hyper" Kuusisto
image: sweden.gif Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johanson (Retired twice, He is now under Just Team)
image: sweden.gif Johan "Toxic" Quick (released 2007-01-01)
image: sweden.gif Christian "vilden" Lidström
image: sweden.gif Mattias "Snajdan" Andersen

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. Template:Fact 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. Template:Fact

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 managementTemplate:Fact. 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.

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.

Notable Achievements

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

Counter-Strike

  • 1st KODE 5 Holland
  • 2nd ESL Extreme Masters Los Angeles
  • 2nd NGL One 2007 Finals
  • 2nd WSVG Louisville 2007
  • 1st WCG SEC 2007
  • 1st CPL: Winter Championships 2005
  • 1st CPL: Summer Championships 2005
  • 2nd Electronic Sports World Cup 2005
  • 2nd CPL: Summer Championships 2004
  • 1st CPL: Winter Championships 2003
  • 1st CPL: Copenhagen 2003
  • 1st CPL: Summer Championships 2003
  • 1st CPL: Cannes 2003
  • 1st World Cyber Games 2003
  • 3rd Electronic Sports World Cup 2003
  • 1st CPL: Summer Championships 2002
  • 3rd CPL: Winter Championships 2002

World Championships

Zonerank Rankings

  • Top Ranking: 3rd (07-2007)[1]
  • Current Ranking: 5th[2]

Deathmatch

World Championships

Warcraft III

World Championships

Trivia

  • Benjamin Reichert, aka Kane, 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.

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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