SK Gaming

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SK Gaming
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Abbreviation SK
operator SK Gaming GmbH & Co. KG
Manager GermanyGermany Alexander Muller
Headquarters GermanyGermany Cologne
Place of foundation GermanyGermany Oberhausen
founding year 1997
Main sponsor Deutsche Telekom
Mercedes-Benz
Razer
Sennheiser
Mountain Dew
Homepage www.sk-gaming.com
Teams

The e-sports - organization SK Gaming was founded in 1997 under the name Schröt Command (later Schroet command set) in Oberhausen from the Reichert-brothers. SK Gaming has teams in various computer games and is known for its success in Counter-Strike tournaments. SK Gaming currently has teams and players in the League of Legends , FIFA , Clash Royale , SMITE , Hearthstone and Brawl Stars computer games . Daimler AG and 1. FC Köln have held majority rights in SK Gaming GmbH & Co. KG since the beginning of 2019 . Deutsche Telekom has held a 25 percent stake in SK Gaming since December 17, 2019 .

SK Gaming has won over 60 championship titles in a wide variety of disciplines in its 20-year history - including Counter-Strike 1.6 , Counter-Strike: Global Offensive , Warcraft III , FIFA , Unreal Tournament , Quake , Starcraft II , World of Warcraft and League of Legends . The organization has received $ 5,699,267.53 in prize money across over 600 tournaments (as of May 23, 2019). SK Gaming (founded in 1997) has been the oldest large e-sports organization in Germany since Ocrana was dissolved (founded in 1996, dissolved in 2008).

history

1997 - 2005: beginnings

Schroet Kommando was founded in 1997 as a German Quake Clan by the siblings Ralf "Griff" Reichert, Tim "Burke" Reichert , Benjamin "Kane" Reichert and four friends in Oberhausen. The original line-up by Schroet Kommando consisted of Ralf “Griff” Reichert, Daniel “Godlike” Beames, Tim “Burke” Reichert, Benjamin “Kane” Reichert, Kristof “Speed” Salwiczek, Carsten “Storch” Kramer and Sven “Ramses” Tümmers. According to Ralf Reichert, the original name of the organization arose from the fact that one of the members kept shouting: "Schroet!", Which is generally a term for a player playing with a double shotgun . Since then, the team has been using the abbreviation SK more and more frequently; it eventually became SK Gaming . Even in the early days of the scene, SK was one of the first clans to sign a complete women's team, of which Annemarie "XS" Carpendale , who is now a presenter at ProSieben , is known. The organization grew in the Counter-Strike scene, in which it provided one of the most successful teams in Germany in its time. The team won two tournaments of the Cyberathlete Professional League in Brazil in 2001 .

In September 2001 Andreas "bds" Thorstensson formed an esports team at SK Gaming with his geekboys (team and news site) in order to build up an esports organization with a long-term perspective. Thorstensson also offered website services for SK, such as the “SK Insider”, a virtual marketplace where subscribers could download demo versions, mods and extensions and speak directly to SK players. In June 2002, SK signed the players of the Swedish Counter-Strike team Ninjas in pajamas . SK Gaming won the summer tournament in 2002, 2003 and 2005 and the winter tournament of the Cyberathlete Professional League in Counter-Strike in 2003 and 2005 . During this time, Emil “HeatoN” Christensen , Abdisamad “SpawN” Mohamed and Ola “elemeNt” Moum played for SK Gaming.

2006 - 2008: focus on new disciplines

In 2006 the Counter-Strike team failed to qualify for the Electronic Sports World Cup in Sweden . SK qualified for the KODE5 finals by winning two games in the group stage. In 2007 and 2008, SK Gaming came fourth at the final tournaments of the newly founded Intel Extreme Masters . Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund was used for the first time at the finals of the second season of the IEM . The Counter-Strike reached podium places in other tournaments of the World Cyber ​​Games , Intel Extreme Masters or DreamHack in 2007 and 2008.

In 2008, SK Gaming invested in a World of Warcraft guild for the first time . At the time of the Sun Well Plateau , the final instance of the expansion The Burning Crusade (2007), there was only one serious opponent besides SK.PvE in Germany who could keep up in the race for the "Firstkills" (first killing of a boss): Nihilum . The team had many first kills in the Sunwell Plateau, but was disbanded due to differences between the guild members. SK Gaming has concentrated on the PvP area (player versus player) since then . At the end of 2008, SK Gaming signed its first console team ( Xbox 360 ).

2009 - 2011: stability problems and restructuring

In autumn 2009 there were some stability problems within the Counter-Strike team, which led to Kristoffer “Tentpole” Nordlund and Marcus “zet” Sundström being removed from the team after misunderstandings and disagreements. The team then brought H2k gaming players Johan "face" Klasson and Frej "kHRYSTAL" Sjöström to join them, which led to a win against Fnatic at the beginning of October 2009 at the IEM IV - Chengdu .

At the end of 2009, Andreas "bds" Thorstensson decided to step down as managing director at SK Gaming. He was succeeded by Alexander Müller. In addition, the Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos division broke up.

In February 2010, Frej "kHRYSTAL" Sjöström was replaced in the Counter-Strike team by the former Fnatic player Rasmus "GuX" Ståhl. Fnatic brought Rasmus "GuX" Ståhl back into their team due to poor performance by their team. Ståhl did not sign a contract in his five months at SK, but received a salary. When the flights to the "Arbalet Dallas" tournament were booked, Ståhl was paid by Fnatic to never take this flight.

Apart from the closure of the RTS department and the departure of the Defense of the Ancients team in 2009, SK added a team from the rather unknown game Avalon Heroes , an American Heroes of Newerth and a European League of Legends team in 2010 . In August 2010, the former WarCraft 3 player Frederik “MaDFroG” Johansson was brought on board when the organization opened a “ StarCraft II ” department. 2010 also marked the year in which SK dissolved its longstanding collaboration with its three “ World of Warcraft ” guilds in Europe, America and Asia. On December 3rd of the same year, the FIFA players Daniel "hero" Schellhase and Dennis "styla" Schellhase announced their withdrawal from e-sports.

In a general overhaul in the Counter-Strike team on December 7th, 2010, the former Fnatic players Patrik “f0rest” Lindberg and Christopher “GeT_RiGhT” Alesund , as well as Dennis “walle” Wallenberg, were released from the team. Two weeks later, on December 21, 2010, it was also decided to disband the female Counter-Strike team and the Counter-Strike: Source team.

At the beginning of 2011, a Call of Duty: Black Ops team on the Xbox 360 and the StarCraft II newcomers Hun “inuh” Park and Jimmy “jimpo” Wölfinger were signed up for the first time. The previous StarCraft II from SK Gaming Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johansson did not receive a new contract. On January 16, 2011 it was announced that SK will also sign a North American Counter-Strike team in which the former “SK Gaming Female” player Alice “ali” Lew found a place. On March 12, 2011, SK decided to sign the highly regarded Danish StarCraft II talent Johannes Sabroe "Joe" Witt and a Bloodline Champions team. On April 4th, the Counter-Strike player Jimmy “allen” Allén had to announce his resignation due to health problems. His successor on probation, Dennis “dennis” Edman, was replaced by his predecessor on May 23, 2011, with that SK then also contested the Swedish WCG qualifier.

After a disappointing DreamHack Summer 2011, most of the League of Legends team was disbanded and replenished with recently vacant players. Shortly thereafter, on July 1, 2011, the Heroes of Newerth team was replaced by the former Evil Geniuses team. The 4th of July 2011 marked the end of the StarCraft II players players Hun “inuh” Park, Jimmy “jimpo” Wölfinger and Johannes Sabroe “Joe” Witt, who left SK after disappointing results. However, the team was rebuilt with Jang "MC" Min-chul and Lee "NaDa" Yoon-yeol from the South Korean pro-gamer house Old Generations . At Gamescom in August, the collaboration with the Heroes of Newerth team was terminated. SK Gaming wanted to invest resources in another RTS, namely Dota 2 . With the acquisition of the fully Danish and former “Next Evolution ESC” team in November 2011, SK Gaming entered the Dota 2 scene. However, the team disbanded after a short time, whereupon SK Gaming did not sign a new team.

2012 - 2015: SK Gaming in the European LCS

In 2012 the partnership between SK Gaming and the Old Generations was dissolved. Jang “MC” Min-chul ( StarCraft II ) stayed with SK Gaming and Leedie “NaDa” Yoon-Yoel ( StarCraft II ) left with the Old Generations . At the end of January 2012, SK Gaming announced that the Counter-Strike team had released the player with the shortest tenure, Marcus "Delpan" Larsson, from his contract and brought the Danish player Martin "trace" Bang Heldt from mTw into the team. In April of the same year, Larsson returned to the team and replaced Heldt. Two months later, on July 27, 2012, SK Gaming had to announce that their Counter-Strike team around the players Robert "RobbaN" Dahlstroem, Patrick "f0rest" Lindberg and Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund and team supervisor Anton Budak would not be under contract longer. This is due to SK Gamings' decision not to send the team to the GameGune 2012 tournament . On July 30, 2012, it was finally officially confirmed that the Counter-Strike division would be closed.

The ten-year partnership with the Danish peripheral manufacturer SteelSeries ended on January 15, 2013. In the annual review of SK's CEO Alexander T. Mueller-Rodic, he also announced that the League of Legends players Carlos “ocelote” Rodríguez Santiago , Patrick “Nyph” Funke , as well as StarCraft II player Jang “MC” Min Chhul and FIFA - Player Bruce "Spank" Grannec will leave the organization.

After qualifying for the new season of the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) in 2014, the new League of Legends team was presented, which was built up around the remaining player Adrian "CandyPanda" Wübbelmann. He was joined by Simon “fredy122” Payne, Dennis “Svenskeren” Johnsen, Jesse “Jesiz” Le and Christoph “nRated” Seitz. The spring season ended in second place. The new Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team was also presented on May 26, 2014 . For the first time since 2012 SK Gaming had thus again a Counter-Strike team, consisting of the former player Faruk "pita" Pita and Joel "emilio" Mako, Alexander "Skytten" Carlsson, Frederik "roque" Honak and Mikail "maikelele" Bill was . After the tournament at DreamHack Summer 2014, Pita left the team again because of a job offer. In July 2014, SK finally gave up its CS: GO team temporarily. On May 30, 2015, the clan's internet platform announced that it had signed a Danish CS: GO team.

The League of Legends team reached the World Cup , which was held in Asia , as the third-placed team from Europe . There it was eliminated in the group stage after Dennis "Svenskeren" Johnsen, the team's jungler, was banned from the organizer Riot Games for the first three games due to an incident of racism before the start of the tournament . Berk "Gilius" Demir replaced him in these three games. On November 24, 2014, the League of Legends team for the upcoming season was presented. The contracts of Simon “fredy122” Payne, Dennis “Svenskeren” Johnsen and Christoph “nRated” Seitz were extended, while Hampus “Fox” Myhre and Konstantinos “FORG1VEN” Tzortziou were newly signed. Jesse "Jesiz" Le and Adrian "CandyPanda" Wübbelmann had previously announced on Twitter that they had left the team. The round-robin tournament of the spring season in 2015 ended with SK Gaming 15: 3 in the first place. In the following playoffs it was enough for fourth place. After the change of the player Konstantinos "FORG1VEN" Tzortziou to league competitor Gambit Gaming , SK Gaming only reached the relegation place 9 in the summer season 2015. SK could not finish relegation successfully. The League of Legends team was relegated to the second-rate Challenger Series .

2016 - 2018: Successes in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

In the discipline Counter-Strike: Global Offensive , SK Gaming released its Danish lineup in June 2016. The reason for this was the commitment of the Brazilian winning team of the MLG Major Championship: Columbus 2016 from Luminosity Gaming on July 1, 2016. The new team won the Major ESL One Cologne 2016 on July 10, 2016 . In 2017, the team around Marcelo "coldzera" David and Gabriel "fallenN "Toledo continued the success of the previous year. SK Gaming defended the title at ESL One Cologne 2017 and also won the EPICENTER 2017 , BLAST Pro Series: Copenhagen 2017 and the finals of the third season of the Esports Championship Series by FACEIT . SK Gaming received at least US $ 100,000 in prize money for each of these tournaments.

On November 2, 2017 it was announced that the Austrian Mirza Jahic would return to FIFA.

Since 2018: return to League of Legends

On June 15, 2018, SK Gaming announced its return to League of Legends and the associated team around Gerrit 'Phrenic' Stukemeier and Tim 'Keduii' Willers. The team initially competed in the purely German-speaking leagues, including the ESL Championship and the Premier Tour organized by Riot Games, and, as a German representative, took second place at the European Masters in spring 2019.

At the end of 2018, SK Gaming was presented as one of ten members of the League of Legends European Championship , the European esports professional league, and is thus represented in the League of Legends game on both a European and national level.

Active players

(As of January 2020)

League of Legends (LEC Team)

  • CroatiaCroatiaToni 'Sacre' Sabalic (Top; since May 2019)
  • Korea SouthSouth KoreaKim 'Trick' Gang-yun (Jungle; since Dec. 2019)
  • GermanyGermanyJanik 'Jenax' Bartels (Mid; since Aug. 2019)
  • SloveniaSloveniaJuš 'Crownshot' Marušič (ADC; since Dec. 2018)
  • CroatiaCroatiaDino 'LiMiT' Tot (Support; since Dec. 2019)

League of Legends (AcademyTeam)

  • GermanyGermanySimon 'Ventair' Tschammer (Top; since Jan 2020)
  • GermanyGermanyGerrit 'Phrenic' Stukemeier (Jungle; since Jan. 2019)
  • GermanyGermanySteven 'Reeker' Chen (Mid; since Nov. 2019)
  • FranceFranceAlan 'Tiger' Roger (ADC; since Jan 2020)
  • PolandPolandAdrian 'Trymbi' Trybus (Support; since Jan. 2020)

FIFA

  • AustriaAustriaBosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Mirza 'Mirza' Jahic
  • GermanyGermany Timo 'Praii' Gruneisen
  • GermanyGermany Michael 'Phenomeno' Gherman
  • GermanyGermany Tim 'TheStrxnger' Katnavatos

Clash Royale

  • GermanyGermany Justus Noah 'Flobby' from Eitzen
  • GermanyGermany Morten 'Morten' Mehmert
  • MexicoMexico Sergio 'SergioRamos :)' Eduardo Ramos
  • GermanyGermany Samuel 'xopxsam' log
  • SpainSpain Francisco 'Javi14' Javier Rodriguez
  • GermanyGermanyLukas ' BigSpin ' Nägeler

Hearthstone

  • SpainSpain Esteban 'AKAWonder' Serrano

Smite

  • United StatesUnited States Steven 'Zapman' Zapas
  • CanadaCanada Neil 'Neilmah' Mah
  • CanadaCanada Paul 'Paul' Berger
  • United StatesUnited States Samuel 'Sam4soccer2' Waxman
  • United StatesUnited States Ronald 'Belair' Belair

Important former players and officials

1 The player was not continuously under contract with SK Gaming during the period mentioned.

Successes (excerpt)

Counter-Strike 1.6

  • CPL Winter 2005: 1st place
  • CPL Summer 2005: 1st place
  • CPL Winter 2003: 1st place
  • CPL Summer 2003: 1st place
  • CPL Summer 2002: 1st place
  • CPL Autumn 2003: 1st place
  • CPL Games 2003: 1st place
  • Electronic Sports World Cup 2003: 3rd place
  • World Cyber ​​Games 2003: 1st place
  • Electronic Sports World Cup 2005: 2nd place
  • KODE5 Global Finals 2007: 3rd place
  • Electronic Sports World Cup 2008: Top 8
  • ESL Intel Extreme Masters III GC LA: 1st place
  • ESL Intel Extreme Masters III GC Montreal: 2nd place
  • World Cyber ​​Games 2008: 2nd place
  • ESWC Masters of Cheonan 2009: 2nd place
  • KODE5 Global Finals 2009: 2nd place
  • ESL Intel Extreme Masters GC New York 2011: 1st place
  • ESL Intel Extreme Masters IV GC Chengdu: 1st place
  • Electronic Sports World Cup 2011 1st place

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

WarCraft III

  • three-time WC3L champion (Seasons I, II, XII)
  • WC3L runner-up (Season III)
  • three-time NGL-ONE runner-up (Seasons 2006, 2007, 2007/2008)
  • six times German champion of the ESL Pro Series (Seasons IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX) - Daniel "miou" Holthuis
  • Electronic Sports World Cup 2003: 1st place - Alborz "HeMaN" Haidarian
  • World Cyber ​​Games 2003: 1st place - Zdravko "Insomnia" Georgiev
  • Blizzard Worldwide Invitational 2004: 1st place - Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johansson
  • Blizzard Worldwide Invitational 2005: 1st place - Chun "Sweet" Jung-hee
  • World e-Sports Games 2005 Season 3: 1st place - Chun "Sweet" Jung-hee
  • KODE5 Global Finals 2006: 1st place - Andrey "Deadman" Sobolev

FIFA

  • six-time German champion of the ESL Pro Series (Seasons 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13)
  • World Cyber ​​Games 2005: 1st place - Dennis "styla" Schellhase
  • World Cyber ​​Games 2006: 1st place - Daniel "hero" Schellhase
  • World Cyber ​​Games 2007: 1st place - Daniel "hero" Schellhase
  • World Cyber ​​Games 2009: 1st place - Joshua “Kr0ne” desire
  • World Cyber ​​Games 2009: 2nd place - Daniel "hero" Schellhase
  • Brothers Daniel and Dennis Schellhase are inducted into the World Cyber ​​Games Hall of Fame

Quake

  • DeCL season 2 1998: 2nd place
  • DeCL season 3 1998: 2nd place
  • DeCL season 4 1999: 1st place
  • WSVG Intel Summer Championships 2006: 1st place - Johan "toxic" Quick
  • World Series of Video Games 2006: 1st place - Johan "toxic" Quick
  • ESWC Masters of Athens 2008: 1st place - Shane "rapha" Hendrixson
  • QuakeCon 2009: 1st place - Shane "rapha" Hendrixson
  • ESL Intel Extreme Masters Pro / Am Challenge GamesCom: 1st place - Shane "rapha" Hendrixson
  • ESL Intel Extreme Masters IV GC Dubai: 1st place - Shane "rapha" Hendrixson
  • ESL Intel Extreme Masters IV GC Cologne: 1st place - Shane "rapha" Hendrixson
  • ESL Intel Extreme Masters IV World Championship Finals: 1st place - Shane "rapha" Hendrixson
  • ESWC Grand Finals 2010: 1st place - Shane "rapha" Hendrixson

Painkiller

  • CPL World Tour Finals 2005: 4th place - Benjamin "zyz" Bohrmann
  • CPL World Tour Finals 2005: Top 12 - Stephan "SteLam" Lammert

Unreal Tournament

League of Legends

  • ESL Pro Series Summer Season 2011: 1st place
  • Intel Extreme Masters VI Global Challenge New York 2011: 2nd place
  • European Regional Finals Gamescom 2012: 2nd place
  • League Championship Series EU Season 3 Spring: 4th place
  • DreamHack Winter 2013: 1st place
  • League Championship Series EU Season 2014 Spring: 2nd place
  • League Championship Series EU Season 2015 Spring: 1st place
  • League of Legends Premier Tour 2018 Summer Gamescom: 2nd place
  • League of Legends Premier Tour 2018/2019 Winter Bern: 2nd place
  • League of Legends Premier Tour 2018/2019 Winter Vienna: 2nd place
  • Summoner's Inn League Season 1: 2nd place
  • Summoner's Inn League Season 2 Playoffs: 1st place
  • ESL Championship 2019 Spring Playoffs: 2nd place
  • European Masters 2019 Spring: 2nd place

StarCraft II

  • HomeStory Cup IV: 1st place - Jang Min "MC" Chul
  • ESL Intel Extreme Masters VI World Championship: 1st place - Jang Min "MC" Chul
  • Red Bull Battlegrounds Austin: 1st place - Jang Min "MC" Chul
  • North American Star League Season 3: 3rd place - Jang Min "MC" Chul
  • 2012 GSL Code S Season 3: 2nd place - Jang Min "MC" Chul

World of Warcraft

  • Blizzcon 2015 World Championship: 1st place

Web links

Individual evidence

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  52. ↑ Results of DeCL season 4 ( Memento from August 2, 2005 in the Internet Archive )