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Serious Gaming
Founder Bas Peeperkorn
Founded December, 2004
Headquarters Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Website www.serious-gaming.com

Serious Gaming is a semi-professional Dutch-based electronic sports organisation founded in December 2004. Currently having teams in Call of Duty 4, Defense of the Ancients, Warcraft 3 and Quake 4, it holds a rich history in games like Counter-Strike, Call of Duty 2, Painkiller and Need for Speed.

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History

2004

The team was founded in December 2004 by it’s general manager, Bas Peeperkorn. After he gained the team it’s first sponsor, Serious Gaming was able to acquire it’s first player, Niels "Zhrance" van Tilborg, at the same time. Niels played Painkiller and was talented to be one of the world’s top 16 players. With this start, Serious Gaming was able to perform at the Cyberathlete Professional League event in Dallas.

2005

Since the announcement of the CPL World Tour, Serious Gaming was able to sign new duelers to compete on this stage. Besides the experience Fredrik "aim" Edesater and Stefan "maddog" Timmermans, Markus "sadface" Andersen and Polish toptalent Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski gave their world to Serious Gaming.

This year was also the year Serious Gaming became a multigaming organisation. With the acquiring of the Finnish Counter-Strike team of Wings, Serious Gaming now compete at the most prestigious professional gaming event of that year the World Cyber Games hosted in Seoul, South Korea.

2006

Serious Gaming recruited the Check Six 'mixteam' that won ClanBase EuroCup XIII LAN Finals[1]. After some inactivity some players dropped out and the team decided to become a full Swedish team. The results weren't as good as thought and another lineup change determined for both parties it was better to let eachother go[2].

2007

Serious Gaming wanted to spread their horizon again and Call of Duty 2 gave them the right opportunity. The newly recruited Call of Duty 2 team was a mixture of some of the most talented players around in the Netherlands. Already proved themself on the highest stage of their scene, they easily continued their winning streak. With the start of all major Warcraft 3 competitions, a lot of teams split up and forms. This also included Serious. After losing some players, the team gained some remarkable talents like Nikolaus "SonKiE" Cassidy, Hjalmar "DoWaQ" Högborg[3] and Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi[4] to mention some.

2008

2009

Staff

Current Staff

Image:Holland.gif Bas "Bas" Peeperkorn (General Manager)
Image:Holland.gif Jos "Zerter" Buyvoets (Warcraft 3 Team Manager)
Image:Greece.gif Aschwinn "rekke" Mavrogenidis (Call of Duty 4 Team Manager)
Image:France.gif Maxime "skaM" Palmisano (Warcraft 3: DotA Team Manager)

Former Staff

Image:Germany.gif Sebastian "rax" Serafin (retired Warcraft 3 Team Manager)
Image:Sweden.gif Patrick "Spittie" Bordier (retired Warcraft 3 Team Manager)

Current Roster

Call of Duty 4

History

Formerly ranked as Europe's Number 1[5] team by GotFrag, this team joined Serious' ranks March 2007[6] as the Call of Duty 2 team. They had a legendary win streak playing Call of Duty 2 in 2007, in the year they won three major events in a row.

2008

The year of the transition from CoD2 to CoD4, the team couldn't perform the way they did before. After some poor results and several player changes, Niels 'zemme' van Steenbergen and Rick 'r1kz Smit decided to join up with ButtonBashers. With only two players left in the lineup the inactivity started.

2009

After six months of inactivity, things started to itch again. Bob 'supreme' Janssen and Siebe 'nutec' Huisman being a part of the 2008 lineup, decided to build a new solid team. Former LowLandLions-player Thomas 'Restyle' Billen and KomaCrew-talent Nick 'toxjee' Hol joined the ranks together with old Serious-member Kaj 'kajsk1ng' van Staalduinen leaving Counter-Strike: Source behind[7][8].

Achievements

Current Roster

Image:Holland.gif Siebe "nutec" Huisman
Image:Holland.gif Bob "supreme" Janssen
Image:Holland.gif Kaj "kajsk1ng" van Staalduinen
Image:Holland.gif Nick "toxjee" Hol
Image:Belgium.gif Thomas "restyle" Billen

Former Players

Image:Holland.gif Michiel "rapz" Kappen (retired)[16]
Image:Holland.gif Youri "kasparov" Mohrs (released)
Image:Holland.gif Roy "r0y" Zantinge (retired)
Image:Holland.gif Nick "solz" Schurink (retired)
Image:Russia.gif Roman "roman" Semjonov
Image:Holland.gif Niels "zemme" vam Steenbergen (moved to ButtonBashers)
Image:Holland.gif Rick "r1kz" Smit (moved to ButtonBashers)

Defense of the Ancients

History

As a French-based team, they started to play under the tag of Dimension4. Due to their unexistant interest about the players and the game, the team continued leagues under the redBear name and two other players joined to complete the team. With Serious wanted to take a change in DotA and redBear searching a new home, the two eventually found eachother easy[17].

Achievements

Current Roster

Image:France.gif Olvier "i)arkarax4" Barièrre
Image:France.gif Geoffroy "fatalerroR" Zienkiewicz
Image:France.gif Julien "Krabe" De Lopez
Image:France.gif Adriano "JorgE" Lioret
Image:Serbia.gif Marko "SilentCat" Kovacevic
Image:France.gif Loic "kiraM" Renoullin

Former Players

Quake 4

History

The Quake 4 team consists of two young duelers, with the Polish one known as being the biggest talent in First Person Shooter games. Since the CPL World Tour, Serious Gaming expanded their 'duel' division in order to compete with the best. Both active players joined up by then and showed age doesn't limit yourself in winning tournaments. Due the age restrictions, Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski couldn't fight the best and had to wait untill the World Series of Video Games removed the rule. He has won six of the ten international tournaments he entered, with a second, two fourth and one fifth place in the remaining four.

Achievements

Current Roster

Image:Poland.gif Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski
Image:Belarussia.gif Alexey "Cypher" Yanushevsky

Former Players

Image:Holland.gif Niels "zhrance" van Tilborg (retired)
Image:Holland.gif Stefan "maddog" Timmermans (retired)
Image:Sweden.gif Fredrik "aim" Edesater (retired)
Image:Norway.gif Markus "sadface" Andersen (retired)

Warcraft 3

History

Serious Gaming's Warcraft III division currently participates in the three most prestigious Warcraft III team leagues: the Warcraft 3 Champions League, the NGL One Professional league and the Warcraft III Premier League.

Achievements

Current Roster

Image:Usa.gif Nikolaus "SonKiE" Cassidy
Image:Sweden.gif Hjalmar "DowaQ" Högberg
Image:Holland.gif Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi

Honorary members

Image:Russia.gif Igor "Caravaggio" Lyalin (retired)[19]
Image:Sweden.gif Oskar "Zubie" Rudberg (retired)

Former Players

Image:Ukraine.gif Valentine "FiX" Krulikovksy (moved to New Generation Team)[20]
Image:Uk.gif Bejamin "DeMuslim" Baker (moved to Four Kings)[21][22]
Image:Germany.gif Daniel "XlorD" Spenst (moved to SK-Gaming)[23]
Image:Denmark.gif Rho "Rholle" Loving (moved to Team-FatCap)[24]
Image:Belarus.gif Yaroslav "NIghtWOlf" Kavetsky (moved to Mortal Team Work[25]
Image:Russia.gif Maxim "Swift" Kholomiev (released)[26]
Image:Uk.gif Kyan "Shad" Shirazi-Kia (released)
Image:Russia.gif Nikita "NapS" Shatokhin (released)
Image:Russia.gif Yury "Neytpoh" Karev (released)
Image:Lithuania.gif Romanas "Lose" Rimkus (released)
Image:Russia.gif Pavel "DoLLaR" Kondrashov (released)
Image:Russia.gif Arslan "Tama" Dagirov (released)
Image:Bulgaria.gif Angel "Bianconero" Ganchev (released)

Notes

  1. ↑ Clanbase: Check6 takes the trophy
  2. ↑ GotFrag: Serious CoD2 squad move to Teamoxid
  3. ↑ GotFrag: Serious Gaming picks up SonKiE, DowaQ
  4. ↑ GotFrag: RotterdaM joins serious
  5. ↑ GotFrag: Gotfrag European Call of Duty 2 Top 10
  6. ↑ GotFrag: Ixus join Serious-Gaming
  7. ↑ Serious Gaming: Serious.Razer complets Call of Duty 4 lineup
  8. ↑ Tek-9.rg: Serious Gaming return with renewed line-up
  9. ↑ GotFrag: digitalMind are the champions of shgOpen 2007
  10. ↑ Clanbase: Dignitas wins the Eurocup XIV!
  11. ↑ GotFrag: Serious take on Dignitas in ESL IPS Qualifiers
  12. ↑ GotFrag: Serious defeat emuLate in CoDQCup final
  13. ↑ GotFrag: Serious take first place at CPC2
  14. ↑ GotFrag: Logitech take down Serious in CodQcup final
  15. ↑ GotFrag: TGL European Playoffs Scoreboard
  16. ↑ GotFrag: Changes in Serious-Gaming, rapz out
  17. ↑ Serious Gaming: Serious Gaming welcomes DotA squad
  18. ↑ GotFrag: av3k defeats socrates to win Ponzan Quake 4
  19. ↑ MeetYourMakers: Changes in srs.wc3
  20. ↑ GosuGamers: New Generation Team adds FiX
  21. ↑ GosuGamers: DeMuslim is crowned King
  22. ↑ GosuGamers: DeMusliM added to 4 Kings for real
  23. ↑ SK Gaming: XlorD rejoins SK Germany
  24. ↑ MeetYourMakers: Team FatCap to Rise
  25. ↑ MeetYourMakers: mTw with international Squad
  26. ↑ GosuGamers: Swift from the Serious Gaming squad

External Links

Official Serious Gaming website

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