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38-449: This is a list of teams that participated in the final season of the GSTL. Other teams that participated in prior seasons of the tournament include Incredible Miracle (including with SK Gaming as IM-SK), Team Liquid , MVP, Prime, New Star HoSeo, Fnatic , SlayerS, Old Generations, FXOpen e-Sports, ZeNEX, F.United, and Team SCV Life. Some foreign teams partnered with local ones to participate in

76-401: A joint brotherly career as the most-successful virtual sports players of all time. In a massive Counter-Strike roster overhaul on 7 December, SK Gaming signed on the departing Fnatic players Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg and Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund, (the latter of whom played for the organization previously), while also seeing the departure of Dennis "walle" Wallenberg. On 21 December, it

114-557: A massive overhaul, removing the vast majority of the squad, but bringing in recently dismissed players from other professional organizations. On 1 July, it was announced that the SK Gaming's Heroes of Newerth team would be replaced by the former squad of Evil Geniuses . On Independence Day of 2011, July 4th, SK Gaming released its European StarCraft II roster consisting of Hun "inuh" Park, Jimmy "jimpo" Wölfinger and Johannes Sabroe "Joe" Witt, citing unsatisfactory performances. The squad

152-510: A single elimination best of 15 format. The tournament lasted all the way till game 15 but the World All Stars could not complete the come back and beat Team Korea. On February 12, it was announced that GomTV would be hosting a GSTL Preseason event for the first StarCraft II expansion, Heart of the Swarm . This was the first GomTV tournament played on this new version of the game, and was played on

190-505: A singular German organization. Alongside Thorstensson's departure, the highly successful Warcraft III departed, as well, in order to make way for SK Gaming to operate as a more conservative business. To accommodate for the Counter-Strike stability issues, SK Gaming announced the replacement of Frej "kHRYSTAL" Sjöström with the former Fnatic player Rasmus "GuX" Ståhl. In one of the greatest controversies in electronic sports history,

228-679: A strong winning streak during the Sunwell Plateau and completed most of the instance's boss kills first. Due to differences in interests, the PvE team was dismissed, with a stronger emphasis upon the PvP aspect. Near the end of 2008, SK Gaming entered the competitive console scene, with acquisition of a German Xbox team. Beginning in the fall of 2009, the Counter-Strike squad would encounter long-term stability issues, as long-time member Kristoffer "Tentpole" Nordlund and Marcus "zet" Sundström were removed from

266-710: A surprising move, SK Gaming announced that the Counter-Strike team would be removing the player with the shortest tenure, Marcus "Delpan" Larsson, in favor of their first permanent Danish member and former mTw ace, Martin Alexander "trace" Bang Heldt at the end of January. On 13 April, however, Larsson once more returned to the team, replacing Heldt. On 27 July 2012, it was announced that SK Gaming's Counter-Strike division would lose Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström, Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg and Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund, as well as team captain Anton Budak, due to SK's decision to not send

304-754: The ESL One Cologne 2016 Major. SK currently has players and teams competing in League of Legends and Hearthstone . SK Gaming was founded in 1997 by a small group of Quake players in Oberhausen . Schröt Kommando was founded in 1997 as a German Quake clan by four brothers and three accomplices in Oberhausen . The original line-up of 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,

342-523: The StarCraft II team. These new StarCraft II players would, however, become the entirety of the division, as it was soon announced afterwards that Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johansson would not be given a contract for 2011. On 16 January, it was announced that SK Gaming would be adding another United States Counter-Strike division, which would include former SK Gaming female member Alice "ali" Lew. On 28 February, SK Gaming announced that Toshiba would be taking

380-601: The "SK Insider" subscription service. However, according to Rodic, the vast majority of the company's funds originates from sponsorships. Riot Games announced on 20 November 2018 that SK Gaming would be one of ten franchise partners participating in the newly rebranded League of Legends European Championship (LEC). On 20 December 2018, the organisation announced it had signed top laner Jorge "Werlyb" Casanovas Moreno-Torres, jungler Oskar "Selfmade" Boderek, mid laner Choi "Pirean" Jun-sik, bot laner Jus "Crownshot" Marusic and support Han "Dreams" Min-kook for their starting roster in

418-423: The 2013 HOT6 GSTL Season 2, the league contracted significantly as three teams left the league, with five participating teams remaining. The format changed once again, including a greatly reworked final playoff tournament. From March 28 to March 29, 2011, GomTV hosted a special tournament called the 2011 LG Cinema 3D GOMTV World Championship Seoul. The GOMTV World Championship hosted Team Korea vs. World All Stars in

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456-406: The 2019 LEC Spring Split. Simon "Swiffer" Papamarkos David "OWN3R" Rodríguez de la Torre Roster updated 5 June 2024. Bold denotes a CS:GO Major World Championships World Championships Annemarie Warnkross Annemarie Carpendale ( née Warnkross ; born 29 October 1977) is a German television presenter. She has been with ProSieben since 2005, where she hosts

494-559: The Beames family home operated as the Schroet Kommando headquarters, concentrating primarily upon the Quake series . Early on, Schroet Kommando became one of the first clans to feature an all-female team; the most notable of which was Annemarie "XS" Warnkross , who later became a well-known host on German television. The organization expanded into Counter-Strike , where it became known as one of

532-513: The action RTS scene, however, with the acquisition of an all-Danish Dota 2 squad previously known as Next Evolution ESC, in November 2011, but dismissed the team for the unpredictability of the relatively young scene for the game. In early 2012, the partnership between SK Gaming and Old Generations ended, with Min Chul "MC" Jang joining the organization, while Yoon-Yeol "NaDa" Lee remained with oGs. In

570-506: The beta servers. It was the only preseason GSTL event organized, as the league folded following its second 2013 regular season. SK Gaming SK Gaming is a professional esports organization based in Germany that has teams across the world competing in different titles. SK is particularly known for their success in Counter-Strike (CS) tournaments. SK's Brazilian CS team won

608-518: The closure of SK's investment into the Action RTS scene with the departure of its Defense of the Ancients team in 2009, SK Gaming took in a squad for the relatively unknown title Avalon Heroes in 2010, as well as an American Heroes of Newerth squad and a European League of Legends squad. In August 2010, welcomed back Warcraft III veteran Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johansson , with the creation of

646-512: The college. In between, she had extra appearances in various television series, shows and in the film Pura Vida Ibiza . She was also active in the news editorial team of RTL Zwei and worked part-time as a photo and catwalk model. In 2002, she took part in a casting at VIVA and made it into the final selection. From March 2004, she hosted the charts, from May 2004 she worked for the Club Rotation format. Since March 2005, Carpendale has hosted

684-451: The competing StarCraft II Proleague , some before and some after the dissolution of the GSTL. The Global StarCraft II Team League started in February 2011. For its first iterations, the GSTL was a short, 4 day event that invited the top 8 Korean teams to play and took place within a single month. Following three such events in 2011, This format was eventually abandoned due to the popularity of

722-450: The events, with the tournament series transitioning to multiple month seasons. The new GSTL format allowed a greater number of teams to participate. The inclusion of new teams led to the debut of non-Korean teams participating in the GSTL, both independently and in partnership with local Korean teams. Following this change, the league hovered between 8 and 12 teams, peaking with the latter twice, once each in 2011 and 2012. For its final season,

760-432: The league, including Evil Geniuses with SlayerS under the name SlayerS-EG, Team Liquid (prior to participating on their own) with Old Generations under oGsTL, and Quantic Gaming with StarTale under StarTaleQ. Axiom-Acer was itself a partnership between Axiom eSports and Team Acer, two non-Korean teams. Of these, Incredible Miracle, StarTale, MVP, Prime, and EG-Liquid, a combination of Evil Geniuses and Team Liquid, moved to

798-622: The most-successful squads in all of Germany. In September 2001, Andreas "bds" Thorstensson merged his Geekboys team and news syndicate with that of SK Gaming, with a long-term prospect of emphasizing the success of his own organization. Thorstensson revolutionized electronic sports by having SK act as the first organization to have payable premium services ( "SK Insider" , a virtual marketplace in which subscribers could download demos (replays), mods and add-ons better and earlier than others, talk directly to SK gamers etc.). The organization's international Counter-Strike success came when they signed on

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836-462: The organization Fnatic arranged for Rasmus "GuX" Ståhl to rejoin their Counter-Strike team, after a series of failed performances. Ståhl did not technically sign his contract with SK after five months, while still receiving months of payment and was intended to attend Arbalet Dallas with his team, after his plane ticket was purchased. However, it was revealed through Ståhl's message logs that Fnatic had paid him not to use SK's ticket to Dallas Despite

874-462: The organization's StarCraft II division. 2010 marked the final year in which SK Gaming would support World of Warcraft , with the removal of its European, American and Asian squads, as well as the unannounced closure of its Sansibar squad. On 3 December, it was announced that the German FIFA duo of Daniel "hero" Schellhase and Dennis "styla" Schellhase would be retiring from eSports, following

912-449: The original naming of the organization originated from one of the members repeatedly shouting "Schröt!" This was a common occurrence from whenever a double-barreled shotgun would be handled, due to the translation meaning "shrapnel" . Eventually, the team adopted this into their name, thus becoming "Schroet Kommando". Since then, the organization began using their abbreviation more often, until it eventually became SK Gaming . Initially,

950-589: The players of the successful Swedish Counter-Strike clan Ninjas in Pyjamas . In 2003, SK Gaming became the first electronic sports organization to contract players, beginning with the SK Sweden Counter-Strike squad. The 2006 season brought no successes to the Counter-Strike team, the most notable of which, the team failed to qualify for the Electronic Sports World Cup , in which Sweden

988-555: The program taff on ProSieben , initially together with Stefan Gödde and since March 2009 with Daniel Aminati. Since November 2008, she has also hosted the weekly celebrity and lifestyle show red! Stars, Lifestyle & More . Since 2007, she and Steven Gätjen have presented the ProSieben coverage of the Academy Awards , in which taff and red! broadcasts annually from Los Angeles. After Gätjen's departure from ProSieben, she

1026-411: The reins of main sponsor from Acer Inc. , which had served as the primary sponsor since 2009. On 12 March, SK Gaming announced the additions of the up and rising StarCraft II Dane Johannes Sabroe "Joe" Witt, as well as a Bloodline Champions squad. On 4 April, five-year Counter-Strike player, Jimmy "allen" Allén, announced his inactivity, due to considerable health ailments, setting the stage for

1064-469: The release of the Sunwell Plateau, the final and most challenging raid encounter of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade , the organization sponsored Curse, one of the highest-ranked guilds at the time. SK Gaming's German competitor, Mousesports , had significantly commanded the recognition with maintaining Nihilum, the most-successful guild in the world, achieving a strong majority of world first raid kills. The newly recruited SK.PvE squad, however, had

1102-558: The roster for disagreements and misrepresentation issues. The roster began refocusing with the acquisition of H2k Gaming players Johan "face" Klasson and Frej "kHRYSTAL" Sjöström, which gained its best respective victory two weeks after the change with a gold medal victory against Fnatic . 2009 marked the conclusion of managing director and partial owner Andreas Thorstensson's tenure, as he stepped down from SK Gaming to further pursue his web development career, giving full executive authority to Alexander T. Müller-Rodic, thereby making SK Gaming

1140-478: The sole StarCraft II player Min Chul "MC" Jang and sports player Bruce "Spank" Grannec. In January 2017 it was announced that Visa would be a sponsor of SK Gaming. SK Gaming is incorporated as a German limited liability company ( GmbH ). Its owners are Alexander Müller-Rodic, Andreas Thorstensson and Ralf Reichert. SK Gaming operates largely due to its sponsorships, most-notably by Toshiba , Kingston Technology and Bigben . The company also finances itself by

1178-513: The tabloid programs taff and red! . From 2000 to 2005, she was a dancer in the band Bellini . Carpendale was born in Hanover and grew up in Siegen , where her mother worked as a primary school teacher. She danced in ballet, played piano and performed in various theatres. In 2000, she became a dancer in the pop group Bellini . In 2005, she left the band to concentrate on presenting and studying for

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1216-438: The team to GameGune 2012. On 30 July, SK Gaming announced the final closing of the Counter-Strike division. On 15 January 2013, it was determined that SteelSeries has ended their ten-year sponsorship of SK Gaming, in addition to Evil Geniuses . In an annual wrap-up, SK's CEO Alexander T. Müller-Rodic announced the departures of League of Legends players Carlos "ocelote" Rodríguez Santiago, Patrick "Nyph" Funke, as well as

1254-606: The ten major tournaments during that year, including four out of five World Championships . Meanwhile, the FIFA 06 squad had a successful year, as the team managed to win the prestigious Electronic Sports League Pro Series twice, and the German player Daniel "hero" Schellhase won the World Cyber Games championship. In 2008, SK Gaming began to invest in World of Warcraft and shortly before

1292-545: The trial replacement, Dennis "dennis" Edman. However, on 23 May, SK Gaming declared that Edman would no longer be playing for the organization and that Allén would participate in the WCG Swedish Qualifier the following weekend. On 29 May, however, a permanent replacement was made with the still-contracted Fnatic player and former SK stand-in, Marcus "Delpan" Larsson. On 23 June, following a disappointing Dreamhack appearance, SK Gaming's League of Legends team underwent

1330-523: Was accompanied in 2016 by taff presenter Viviane Geppert. From 2016 to 2018, Carpendale hosted the dating show Kiss Bang Love . The tenth season of the ProSieben and Sat.1 casting show The Voice of Germany will be presented by Carpendale as a substitute for Lena Gercke , alongside Thore Schölermann . Carpendale was in a relationship with Oliver Pocher from 2002 to 2004. In September 2013, she married actor Wayne Carpendale in Ibiza , with whom she

1368-481: Was announced that SK Gaming would be closing its Counter-Strike female team, as well as its short-lived Counter-Strike: Source team, in order to retain a more conservative roster for 2011. The first development of 2011 constituted the trimming of the Xbox 360 sports roster and the addition of a competitive Call of Duty: Black Ops team, as well as the addition of newcomers Hun "inuh" Park and Jimmy "jimpo" Wölfinger to

1406-510: Was remade, however, on 15 July, with the partnership with the South Korean pro-gamer house Old Generations, for SK Gaming to sponsor Min Chul "MC" Jang and Yoon-Yeol "NaDa" Lee for international events. Due to long-term prospective differences, the Heroes of Newerth once again parted ways with the organization, during SK's attendance at Gamescom . SK Gaming would invest in a different sector of

1444-718: Was represented by rivals Ninjas in Pyjamas and the developing Fnatic team. Thereafter, the team managed to qualify for the KODE5 finals, where they won two matches and lost to the Brazilians from Made in Brazil during the group stages. They then lost to Wisdom Nerve Victory in the single elimination round, placing fifth to eighth overall. Success did come for the Quake 4 squad however, as the Swedish star player Johan "Toxic" Quick managed to win eight out of

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