4Kings
| 4Kings | |
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| Abbreviation | 4K |
| Manager |
 Andreas "Fisk" Johansson
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| Place of foundation |
 United Kingdom
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| founding year | 1997 |
| resolution | 2013 |
| Homepage | four-kings.com |
| Former teams | |
The e-sports - Clan 4Kings (short 4K ) was founded in 1997 and was one of the oldest professional clans. For many years, 4Kings was considered to be the UK's showpiece. It was operated by 4K UK Ltd and Toby Aldridge was the manager.
4K is best known for its Warcraft III team, which has won the ESL WC3L Series four times . At the end of 2007 the section, in which players like Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen and Yoan "ToD" Merlo were under contract, was dissolved due to financial problems.
After 4Kings had been sponsored by processor manufacturer Intel for six years, a new main sponsor, Packard Bell , was presented in 2008 . Since then, the clan's focus has been even more on Britain. July 2008, the signing of a Finnish Counter-Strike team marked the beginning of the return to the global market. Later, a successful Dutch Counter-Strike: Source team also moved to 4Kings.
The further development was marked by repeated setbacks, Packard Bell jumped out as a donor. More and more teams disintegrated or left the clan. The management was then completely changed at the end of 2009, after which the Swede Andreas "Fisk" Johansson was responsible for the former traditional clan. He was planning a completely new beginning and would like to build on earlier successes.
The website four-kings.com has not been operated since the end of 2013. The clan has not shown any activity since then.
Important players (excerpt)
Warcraft III
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Dae Hui "FoV" Cho (2004-2006) -
Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen (2004–2007) -
Yoan "ToD" Merlo (2004-2007) -
Olav "Creolophus" Undheim (2006–2007)
Successes (excerpt)
Counter-Strike
- World e-Sports Games 2005 Season 1: 2nd place
- World e-Sports Games 2005 Season 2: 3rd place
- WSVG Intel Summer Championships 2006: 4th place
Warcraft III
- four-time WC3L champion (Seasons IV, VII, VIII, X)
- Electronic Sports World Cup 2004: 1st place - Dae Hui "FoV" Cho
- World Cyber Games 2004: 1st place - Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen
- Electronic Sports World Cup 2005: 1st place - Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen
- World Cyber Games 2005: 3rd place - Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen
- Electronic Sports World Cup 2006: 2nd place - Ivica "Zeus [19]" Markovic
- World Cyber Games 2006: 2nd place - Yoan "ToD" Merlo
- World Series of Video Games 2006: 1st place - Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen
- ESL Intel Extreme Masters I: 1st place - Yoan "ToD" Merlo
- Electronic Sports World Cup 2007: 2nd place - Olav "Creolophus" Undheim
- World Cyber Games 2007: 1st place - Olav "Creolophus" Undheim
Painkiller
- CPL World Tour Finals 2005: Top 24 - David "Zaccubus" Treacy
Web links
- Official homepage ( Memento of October 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.four-kings.com ( Memento from October 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 4Kings Warcraft III Team disbands ( Memento from July 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ bbc.co.uk: 2008 UK gamers shoot for a million
- ↑ packardbell.co.uk: Packard Bell becomes new title sponsor of Four Kings ( Memento of November 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ four-kings.com: 4Kings Announce New CounterStrike Team! ( Memento from October 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ readmore.de: 4Kings secures the services of De Eindbazen
- ↑ sk-gaming.com: 4Kings only temporarily no more