Welcome to the GotFrag eSports Wiki BETA!
SK Gaming
From GotFrag eSports Wiki
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.
| Year founded: 1997 | ||
|
|
||
Contents |
Current Roster
Managing Directors
Andreas "bds" Thorstensson
Alexander "TheSlash" Müller-Rodic
Middle Management
Tim "Merusame" Ellersiek
Dominic "Immo" Koller
Robert "JFK" Lacroix
Robert "CIKO" Bandl
Tobias "Tobi" Dorner
Bernhard "killabee" Schindlbeck
Jens "Lenni" Wundenberg
Min Sik "Reis" Ko
Peter "Taylor" Krawietz
Anita "StellaZara" Muller
Editors
Duncan "Thorin" Shields
Elke "binteh" Mahy
Michael "Zechs" Radford
Lawrence "Malystryx" Phillips
Samuel "DarthBotto" Horton
Henrik "Zappater" Johansson
Yacine "NeKsoN" Mahir
Counter-Strike
Jimmy "allen" Allen
Johan "face" Klasson
Frej "kHRYSTAL" Sjöström
Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström
Dennis "walle" Wallenberg
Warcraft III
Hyeong Ju "Check" Lee
June "Lyn" Park
Du Seop "WhO" Chang
FIFA
Daniel "hero" Schellhase
Joshua "Kr0ne" Begehr
Dennis "styla" Schellhase
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft EU
Valent "another" Sebastijan
Alexis "Enigmz" Martin
Patrick "Inflame" Costales
World of Warcraft US
Joe "Enforcer" Morrone
Mark "Pookz" Rendon
Ryan "Realz" Masterson
World of Warcraft Asia
Hyuk Joon "Hyoga" Jang
Eun "Jaywalker" Chan
Kwang Rock "Kwana" Park
World of Warcraft Sansibar
Niklas "Cajo" Seckler
Marvin "Fraki" Moschner
Philipp "Moldran" Karbun
Kai "Noonia" Gade
Siegfried "Vascro" Althaus
Patrick "Xight" Weh
Counter-Strike Female
Alce "ali" Lew
Benita "bENITA" Novshadian
Jennifer "jso" So
Stephanie "missharvey" Harvey
Christine "potter" Chi
Quake III
Racing
Hendrik "b0nd" von Eye
Christoph "DreaF" Hörenbaum
Danny "HuskY" Engels
Carsten "KiLl3r" Hörenbaum
Marc "Toretto" Schreiber
Sebastian "ClioRacer" Seybold
Pascal "gaLLo" Jäger
Marco "Jay" Schade
Niklas "Sliver" Timmermann
Robin "Xanatos" Lagler
Xbox 360
Halo 3
Conor "CoNz" Lewis
Daniel "ZicKneX" Rosenberg
Rasmus Andersson "FragTaLe" Roberg
Stefan "zMVP" Djordjevic
Call of Duty
Samuel "BisseLL" Christopher
Daniel "GodLike" Beames
Tobi "Tobi" Foster
Liam "CazuaLL" Biggs
Scott "iMak" Brass
Pro Evolution Soccer
Daniel "Bragiera" Bragiel
Marcel "doKtor" Grzywocz
Schems "DiAbLoRoJo" Achnit
Robert "Scandales" Jäger
Guitar Hero
Sports
Daniel "Alcoholic" Lück
Sören "SeptSeverus" Schöll
Andre "PhoenixXX" Tenne
Sven "SGRUNDI" Grundmann
Racing
Tobias "b0mbAY" Hoffmann
Stefan "Kenny" Jahr
Niklas "Johnson" Krellenberg
Patrick "Patohm" Weking
Notable Alumni
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 (Retired twice, He is now under Just Team)
Johan "Toxic" Quick (released 2007-01-01)
Christian "vilden" Lidström
Mattias "Snajdan" Andersen
Abdisamad "SpawN" Mohamed
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 for major eSports achievments:
Counter-Strike
SEL Season 3 - 5on5
WCG Swedish Qualifier
CPL Copenhagen 2003
SEL Season 4
CXG Swedish Qualifier
Norrhack 2003 - 5on5
ESWC - 5on5 female
World Cyber Games 2003
Clikarena - 5on5 female
CPL Winter 2003
CPL Summer 2003- 5on5
CPL Cannes 2003 - 5on5
Leap of the year 2003
Player of the year 2003
SK Sweden Ranked #1 in the World
VSports AllStar 2006
VSports AllStar 2006
KODE5 Holland
ESWC 2007
WCG SEC 2007
ESWC 2007 Grand Final
IOL Season 1 Final
DreamHack Winter 2008
WCG 2008 Sweden Finals
EM III Global Challenge LA
ESWC 2008 Grand Final
DreamHack 2009 Göteborg
NT-Cup
Player of the year 2002
Player of the year 2003
WSVG Louisville
WonderBase 2007
Extreme Masters L.A.
NGL One Finals 2007
Extreme Masters L.A.
World Cyber Games 2008
DreamHack Skellefteå
EM III Global Challenge Montreal
ESWC Masters Paris
KODE5 Global Final 2009
ESWC Masters Cheonan
Player of the Year, 2002
Clikarena - 5on5
ESWC - 5on5
Player of the year 2003
ESWC 2006
Extreme Masters Season 1
NGL ONE Season 2
KODE5 Global Final
World Championships
- Cyberathlete Professional League (2002, 2003, 2005)
- World Cyber Games (2003)
Zonerank Rankings
Quake
QDay III - 1on1
GXP2 - 2on2
Swisscon - 1on1
Fusion - 2on2
GXP - FFA
Fusion - 1on1
Darkbreed - 1on1
Frag 3 - 1on1
GXP - 1on1
GXP2 - 1on1
Rapture 99 - 1on1
pre Battletop Qualifier
Fragfest
World CyberGames Qualifier
QDay III - 1on1
Darkbreed - 1on1
TGI - 1on1
Swisscon - 1on1
GXP2 - 2on2
GXP2 - 1on1
Rapture 99 - 1on1
Lan Arena 4
World CyberGames Qualifier - 1on
Frag 3 - 1on1
Frag 3 - 1on1
Darkbreed - 1on1
Darkbreed - 1on1
Razor CPL
CPL Europe Mplayer Cologne
XS Reality Invitational
World CyberGames
pre Battletop Qualifier
Fragfest
Fragattack
pre Battletop Qualifier
Pentium 4® CPL Holland
Lan Arena 5
World CyberGames - 1on1
World CyberGames - 2on2
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)
Warcraft III
Gladiator Tour Lan
GameOnLine Tournament #2
Call to arms
63rd GO4WC3 tournament
Wipe-Out Lan
WCG Grand Final
AMD PGChallenge 2K3 - 1on1
GameOnLine Tournament #3
Fatal Error #4 - 2on2
ESWC - 1on1
WC3L - team
WCG Bulgaria Qualifications
29th go4wc3 tourney
Arbalet Tournament
Northcon LAN
Euro Cyber Games
WC3L - team
2vs.2 Bulgarian Tournament
GameOnLine Tournament #4
WCG France Qualifications
GameOnLine Tournament #3
Blizzard Worldwide Invitational
NGL Finals (1vs1)
Nollelva Masters 04
ESL Pro Series VI
ESL Pro Series VII
GigaGames 2006
EPS Season 8
CiS OpenCup
KODE5 Global Final
Russian Cup 2006
ASUS Spring Cup
GosuGamers
WSVG China
WWCL Finals
ESWC Germany 2006
WSVG Sweden
Fuergamer WC3 1on1
StarComa Wc3 Tourney
Open PlayGround
ESL Pro Series Finals IX
BTC Spring Challenge
KODE5 Italy
ESWC Russia Qualifier
Extreme Masters L.A.
e-Stars Seoul 2007
ASUS Spring Cup 2007
WCG Ukraine
GameGune
WCG SEC 2007
GSL Finals 2007
WWCL Finals 2007
WC3L Season XII Finals
Make Games Colorful 2007
Extreme Masters L.A.
ZOTAC WarCraft III Cup #65
Afreeca Warcraft III League Season 3
IeSF Invitational 2008
Afreeca Warcraft III League Season 2
ESWC Masters Athens
BlizzCon 2008
Extreme Masters Season 2 Finals
ZOTAC WarCraft III Cup #64
ZOTAC WarCraft III Cup #58
EOG 2009 South Korea Preliminary
ZOTAC WarCraft III Cup #74
ZOTAC WarCraft III Cup #67
ZOTAC WarCraft III Cup #75
WCG France BW
CPL Europe Oslo
Call to arms
CPL Cannes 2003 - 1on1
WCG Russia Qualifications
Fatal Error #4 - 2on2
WC3L 3rd season
30th go4wc3 tourney
WCG Bulgaria Qualifications
INTEL Korea TFT Cup
Slaughterhouse #11 (1vs1)
Arbalet Tournament
MFO Online tournament
Euro Cyber Games
ESWC - 1on1
65th GO4WC3 tournament
GameOnLine Tournament #4
Clanbase WC III Eurocup 6
WWCL Finals #4
Russian TFT Invite Tournament
GameOnLine Tournament #3
CPL Copenhagen 2003
CXG Greece Qualifier
ESWC 2004 - 1on1
WCG 2004 Grand Finals
ESWC 2005
WEG Season 1 2005
WSVG Grand Finals
Battle.net Season 4 European Finals
GigaGames 2006
CiS Opencup
IEF 2007
Extreme Masters Season 1
Battle.net Season V
ASUS Spring Cup 2007
ESL Pro Series Season X
GameGune
NGL One Season 1 Finals
IEF 2007
WWW 2007 Summer Grand Prix
WWW 2007 Season III
China versus Korea Series Season III
ZOTAC WarCraft III Cup #34
NGL One Season 4 Finals
EM III Global Challenge Seoul
World e-Sports Masters
BlizzCon 2008 Asian qualifier
NGL One Season 5 Finals
ZOTAC WarCraft III Cup #35
ESL Pro Series Season X Finals
Road of the King
Blizzard Worldwide Invitational 2008
AWL Masters
ESWC Masters Cheonan
WC3L Season XIV Finals
Avalon Online Warcraft III Masters
CPL Europe Oslo
GameOnLine Tournament #2
GameOnLine Tournament #2
CPL Europe Oslo
GameOnLine Tournament #1
CPL Europe Oslo
CPL Europe Oslo
GameOnLine Tournament #1
ESWC - 1on1
CPL Copenhagen 2003
CPL Copenhagen 2003
GameOnLine Tournament #4
WWCL Finals #4
GameOnLine Tournament #3
WCG Germany Qualifications
WCG Grand Final
Slaughterhouse #11 (2vs2)
KBK Jeju
Clikarena - 1on1
ESWC 2004 - 1on1
ESWC 2004 - 1on1
WCG 2004 Grand Finals
ESWC 2004 - 1on1
WCG 2004 Grand Finals
ESWC 2004 - 1on1
WCG 2004 Grand Finals
ESWC 2004 - 1on1
WCG 2004 Grand Finals
Cyber X Gaming
ESWC 2004 - 1on1
NGL Finals (2vs2)
ESWC 2004 - 1on1
NGL Finals (1vs1)
Cyber X Gaming
ESWC 2005
WCG Singapore
WEG Season 2 2005
WCG SEC 2005
WEG Season 2 2005
CPL Summer 2005
ESWC 2006
IEST 2006
SEC 2006
ESWC 2006
WCG 2006
InCup Fall Season
ESL Pro Series Finals IX
WCG 2007
WCG 2007
DigitalLife Chengdu
Extreme Masters Season 1
ESWC 2007
WCG 2007
WCG SEC 2007
NGL One Finals 2007
Extreme Masters Season 1
DigitalLife Chengdu
ESWC Germany Qualifier
Digital Life 2007 Am
NiceGameTV League Season 2
WC3L Season XIII Finals
Neo Star League Season 2 Finals
CEG Shaoxing Tour
World Championships
- KODE5 (2006)
- Blizzard Worldwide Invitational (2004)
- World Cyber Games (2003)
- Electronic Sports World Cup (2003)
Unreal Tournament
Gamesports.de tourney - 1on1
ESWC - 1on1
Clikarena - 4on4
Player of the year 2002 - UT/UT2
NGL season #2 UT2K4 - 1on1
inUnreal UT2004 Cup #6 - 2on2
inUnreal UT2004 Cup #5 - 1on1
Oberpfalz LAN - 1on1
LAN66 - 1on1
Northcon - 1on1
Dreamhack
ISC 2006
WCG 2006
AllStars Quake 4 Competition
KODE5 Finals
VSports AllStar 2006
Covlan 3
PCA Quake IV
Krangparty
WSVG Grand Finals
Gamesports.de tourney - 1on1
Swiss ESWC qualifier - 1on1
Oberpfalz LAN Phase 3 - 1on1
Unreal Masters - 1on1
ESL UT2004 SotB Cup - 1on1
Oberpfalz LAN - 1on1
Northcon - 2on2
Player of the year 2003 - UT
ESWC 2004 - 1on1
CPL winter 2005
Quake 4 1on1 OpenCup
WSVG Sweden
ESWC - 1on1
Arene ESWC Online qualifier - 1o
Player of the year 2002 - UT/UT2
Oberpfalz LAN Phase 3 - 1on1
The Summit - UT2K4 1on1
The Summit - UT2K4 1on1
NGL season #2 UT2K4 - 1on1
The Summit - UT2K4 1on1
ESL UT2004 SotB Cup - 1on1
WCG 2004 Grand Finals
The Summit - UT2K4 1on1
The Summit - UT2K4 1on1
inUnreal UT2004 Cup #4 - 1on1
CTL 2004 - 1on1
Online-Cup - 1on1
CPL Winter 2005
ESWC 2005
WSVG Sweden
FIFA
Circus-Maxximus
Northern Lan Convention
Lanarena
Lan Inferno
WCG Singapore
e-Masters
ESL Pro Series Finals IX
EPS Alpen
WCG 2006
SEC 2006
Champions League
EPS Season 8
ESL Pro Series Finals IX
ESL FIFA Spring Cup
WWCL Finals 2007
ESL Pro Series Season X
ESL Pro Series Season X
Lara Awards 2007
WCG 2007
ESL Pro Series Season XII Finals
ESL Pro Series Season XIII Finals
ESL Pro Series Season XII Finals
ESL Sports Fußball Meisterschaft Pre-Season Finals
ESL Pro Series Alps Season VII Finals
Virtual Football Bundesliga Season 1
e-Masters
ESL Pro Series Finals IX
ESL Pro Series Season X
Virtual Football Bundesliga Season 1
ESL Sports Fußball Meisterschaft Pre-Season Finals
WCG Qualification Germany
Campus Party
WCG SEC 2007
WCG 2007
WCG 2007
WWCL Finals 2007
WCG SEC 2007
ESL Sports Fußball Meisterschaft Pre-Season Finals
Racing
Intel Racing Tour - Kiel
LFS Dutch Championship
ESL Pro Series Finals X
Intel Racing Tour Final
LFS Dutch Championship - Team
Intel Racing Tour 2007
Shell V-Power Cup 2008
Maxlan 15 - Sympathy for the devil
VR Le Mans 1977 Easter-Special
ESL Pro Series Finals X
Intel Racing Tour Final
Intel Racing Tour 2007
Formula Kinderlachen Charity Event
ESL LFS Wintercup 2008/09
Maxlan 15 - Sympathy for the devil
VR Le Mans 1977 Easter-Special
LFS Dutch Championship
LFS Dutch Championship
Shell V-Power Cup 2008
Formula Kinderlachen Charity Event
World of Warcraft
Arena Season 1 European Finals
World 1st kill of Felmyst
World 1st kill of M'uru
World 1st kill of Kil'jaeden
EM III Global Challenge Montreal
ESL Invitational
MLG Columbus 2009
EM III Global Challenge Leipzig
World 2nd kill of Eredar Twins
Dreamhack Summer 2009
Arena Season 1 World Finals
EM III Continental Finals Europe
DotA Allstars
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.

