pro-gaming (clan)
| pro gaming | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | pG |
| operator | Ministry of Games GmbH |
| Headquarters |
 Viernheim
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| founding year | 1998 |
| resolution | 2005 |
| Main sponsor | Samsung , Fujitsu Siemens |
| Homepage | www.pro-gaming.de |
pro-gaming (short pG ) was a German e-sports - Clan , the 1998 under the name Dark Elite Forces as StarCraft was founded -Clan. For a long time, pro-Gaming was one of the most important players in German e-sports. The greatest successes include several gold medals at the World Cyber Games and three championships in the ESL Pro Series in the Jedi Knight II (2002), Warcraft III (2003) and FIFA (2004) categories .
At the beginning of 2005 the clan was disbanded after several scandals and failures. A short time later, a illegitimate successor was founded under new management in the form of pro-Gaming.live , which was also closed after a year.
history
pro gaming
Pro-Gaming, at that time still a pure StarCraft clan, was founded on December 6, 1998 under the name " Dark Elite Forces ", abbreviated as " [DEF] ". After a short time, the clan was seen as the best German StarCraft clan.
As a result of the success, the goals of the clan were set higher and so an attempt was made in 2000 to set up an international StarCraft portal with the abbreviation iDEF , on which the top players of the scene should unite. However, the project failed. Nevertheless, South Korea , which was already considered the most important StarCraft nation back then, was becoming more and more successful.
Two years after the founding, the name was finally changed to pro-Gaming. The clan is considered to be the first real multigaming clan, i.e. a clan that specializes in several games and combines several sections under one management.
The clan quickly succeeded in setting up additional teams for, for example, FIFA and Age of Empires , since pro-Gaming was the only German clan at the time that could offer a corresponding professional environment. This enabled the clan to attract some of the best players. For a short time, pro-Gaming also succeeded in integrating the successful German counter-strike club TAMM , but due to serious differences, they separated again a short time later.
In 2001 the clan was able to win several sponsors, which meant that private funding was no longer available. The Korean corporation Samsung and the Ministry of Games , at that time a partner in the Netzstatt Gaming League , took over the economic management of the pro-Gaming project. At trade fairs such as Ars Electronica or the world's largest games fair at that time, E3 in Los Angeles, pro-Gaming was also represented with a booth.
In his early e-sports years, the author Timo Schöber had a close relationship with the clan.
The year 2003 is generally considered to be the climax of the clan. For example, pro-gaming member Frederik "FiSheYe" Keitel won the silver medal in the StarCraft discipline at the World Cyber Games, Andrew "fire_de" Regendantz secured gold in Age of Mythology and the two were able to pro-gaming in the FIFA 1on1 category -Player Dennis "styla" and Daniel "hero" Schellhase both reach the final. In addition, the two FIFA Twins won the gold medal as a team in 2on2.
Over time, however, there were repeated allegations of fraud against the clan. The Counter-Strike team in particular was suspected of being cheating , but other players also had to deal with such allegations. In the run-up to the CPL Winter 2004 in Dallas , there were also disputes with management. It was said that there was a failure to purchase airline tickets in time. As a result, the team left the clan. Some time later, the FIFA team also broke up and more and more players turned away. The pro-gaming project was then closed.
pro-Gaming.live
A short time later it was reopened under new management. In order to avoid a legal dispute, the project was renamed proGaming.live after the separation from the administrative management, who still owned the trademark rights to pro-Gaming .
In 2005, before the seventh season of the ESL Pro Series, some players were harshly criticized by pro-Gaming.live, and renewed allegations of cheating emerged. The start of the season was actually successful, pG.live was able to defeat several high-class opponents.
At the end of September pG player Eduard "eddy" Schmidt was found guilty of fraud in consultation with the Electronic Sports League as part of the Logitech Online Cup organized by counterstrike.de . The investigation by a commission of experts is said to have shown that he used a so-called wallhack . However, there was no clear evidence. As a result, the player concerned was banned from the Electronic Sports League for two years for cheating in a foreign league and pro-Gaming.live was excluded from the current season. To this day, Schmidt denies having resorted to unauthorized aids and protests his innocence.
As a result of these events, the pro-Gaming.live project was finally closed.
Important players (excerpt)
Warcraft III
Starcraft
FIFA
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Daniel "hero" Bell Hare
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Dennis "styla" Bell Hare
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Alexander "gamerno1" mallet
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Oliver "camelus" Strauss
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ GIGA.de: “Pro-Gaming - Rise and Fall of an eSports Power!” ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 19, 2008.
- ↑ GIGA.de: "A clan at the end - Pro-Gaming.de before the end?" ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
