SK Gaming

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Team Information
Location:	Europe
Managers:	Min-Sik "reis" Ko
Team Captain:	Carlos "ocelote" Rodríguez
Website:	SK Gaming
Sponsor:	Toshiba Kingston Gamed!de Bigben Inferno Online Killer Enexy digibet ASRock AZUBU TV G Data
Facebook:	SKGaming
Twitter:	SKGaming
Number of Players:	6
History
Created:	September 16, 2010(2010-09-16)
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SK Gaming has been part of the E-Sports community since 1997. The organization entered the League of Legends scene in September 2010. The SK Gaming team is led by Carlos "ocelote" Rodríguez.

History

Formation of SK Gaming

SK Gaming's foray into League of Legends began on September 16th, 2010, when SK acquired team I wear a Cape IRL consisting of Osaft22, SleazyWeazy, Severus, Reyk, Zylor, Pylat, and Awe kek.

Season 1

With this lineup, SK Gaming was able to take second place at 2010 World Cyber Games. In the group stage, SK Gaming was in a three way tied for first, going 2-1 by defeating AnotherStory and Counter Logic Gaming Prime, while falling to ChinaHero. In the playoffs, SK Gaming was able to defeat ChinaHero in their rematch 2-0, advancing to the finals of WCG 2010. There, SK Gaming would fall to Counter Logic Gaming 1-2, taking home second place.

In addition to taking on the roster of I wear a Cape IRL, on December 8th, 2010, SK Gaming recruited the members of Team Dimegio. With this pick up, SK acquired Araneae, nRated, rashaasii, Wickd, ALth0r, and ocelote.

On March 23rd of 2011, Araneae would leave SK Gaming.

Pre-Season 2

The SK lineup would undergo a few more changes in the coming months. One of the biggest roster changes in SK Gaming's history occurred on June of 2011, with ALth0r, Farfain, Limelight, nRated, Severus, and SleazyWeazy leaving. To take their place, SK Gaming would pick up Candy Panda, WetDreaM, and Nyph.

With their new roster, SK Gaming would participate in the 2011 IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Cologne. Unfortunately, SK would come out third in the group stages, going 1-2, defeating Frag Executors while falling to Counter Logic Gaming Prime and FnaticRC. Due to being unable to place top 2 in the group stages, SK Gaming would be eliminated from the tournament, taking home 5th/6th place along with Team ALTERNATE.

Shortly after the event, WetDreaM would be replaced by Snoopeh.

On October 5th, 2011, SK Gaming would place third in the IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Guangzhou. Showing a strong performance, SK Gaming would place first going 2-1, defeating CrossGaming and Invictus Gaming, while taking their only loss in the group stage by falling to eHome. In the semi-finals SK Gaming would fall to Counter Logic Gaming Prime 1-2, falling to fight for third place. Finish off strong, SK Gaming would defeat eHome 2-1 to take third at the tournament.

A few weeks later, SK Gaming would qualify for the IEM Season VI - Global Challenge New York. In the group stage, SK Gaming would place first going 3-0, defeating Sypher, Curse Gaming, and v8 eSports. Continuing on their success, SK Gaming would defeat Counter Logic Gaming Prime 2-0 in the semi-finals. However, SK would fall in the grand finals 0-2 to FnaticRC.

Season 2

In the coming months, SK Gaming would undergo several changes to their roster. On October 20th, long time top laner Wickd would leave SK to form a team with WetDreaM under the name of Absolute Legends. SK would pick up MoMa for a short stint to replace Wickd, but MoMa would leave shortly after signing on. Near the end of 2011, Snoopeh would leave SK Gaming to join the Counter Logic Gaming EU and Absolute Legends merger team. To fill the void, SK would pick up former against All authority top laner Kev1n.

Ten days after SK's roster changes, they would place fourth at the IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev. SK Gaming would place second in the group stage, defeating Curse Gaming and White Lotus while falling to Team SoloMid. Unfortunately SK would fall to Moscow Five in the semifinals 0-2 and Dignitas 0-2 in the third place match.

On February 12th, 2012, Dedrayon joined SK Gaming as their jungler. SK Gaming would have a dominant performance in the group stages of IEM Season VI - World Championship, going 4-1 and taking second place, defeating Curse Gaming, Team SoloMid, Sypher, and eHome, while losing their only game to Moscow Five. However, their success would not transfer over to the playoffs, as SK would fall to against All authority in the quarterfinals. SK Gaming would take 5th-6th place.

Long time mid lane AP Carry ocelote would switch roles with top lane player kev1n on May 20th, 2012. However, the change would not last for long as ocelote would return to the mid lane as SK's AP Carry on June 8th. Along with this change, Kev1n and Candy Panda would switch their positions, with kev1n become the AD Carry and Candy Panda taking the responsibility of top lane. A month after these position changes, long time SK member Candy Panda would leave the team along with jungler Dedrayon. To replace Candy Panda, SK brought on former Absolute Legends top lane player YoungBuck. Eleven days later, SK Gaming's roster would undergo another change, with Svenskeren and YoungBuck leaving and Kev1n moving back to the top lane.

On July 29th, SK grabbed 3rd place at European Challenger Circuit: Poland with Araneae jungling and YellOwStaR playing the AD carry role. Two days later, the lineup from Poland was announced by ocelote as the permanent roster.

Shortly before the start of the Season Two European Regionals, SK Gaming would temporarily pick up AD Carry YellOwStaR and Jungler Araneae. After two weeks of training, SK Gaming would make their appearance at the Season Two Regional Finals - Cologne on August 16, 2012. Matched up against the Polish team Team Acer.PL in the first round, SK Gaming would take the series 2-0 to advance to the next round. SK Gaming would cause a great upset in the semifinals, sweeping the heavily favored Counter Logic Gaming EU 2-0 to qualify for the Season 2 World Championship and advance to the grand finals of the tournament. Unfortunately there SK Gaming would meet the end of their success, falling to the Russian team Moscow Five 0-2 to take home second place. After the strong performance of their AD Carry YellOwStaR and Jungler Araneae, SK Gaming would recruit them to play full time.

On August 25th, during the Campus Gaming Party: Berlin, SK took the third place on the B group with two defeats (against Eclypsia.Luna and Fnatic). However, YellOwStaR and Kev1n weren't at Berlin for some personal reasons. For this tournament, they got Metalx (Western Wolves) and Schabs (Team Acer) to stand in for them.

In early October, SK Gaming traveled to Los Angeles to play in the Season 2 World Championship. Unfortunately for SK, they would meet an early exit, losing to CLG Prime, Azubu Frost, and Invictus Gaming in quick succession in the group stage. They left with an 11th-12th place result and $ 25,000.

On the 11th of November, SK Gaming would participate in Tales of the Lane. After placing 3-1 in their group with victories over Tt Dragons, mousesports, Team ALTERNATE, and one loss to Fnatic, SK was seeded into the Semifinals of the bracket stage. They lost their semifinal match to Eclypsia 0-2, and lost the following Third place match to Moscow Five 0-2, placing them fourth in the seven overall, going home with € 2,500.

Timeline

2010

• September 16th, I wear a Cape IRL is recruited. Osaft22, SleazyWeazy, Severus, Reyk, Zylor, Pylat, Awe kek join.
• December 8th, Team Dimegio recruited. Araneae, nRated, rashaasii, Wickd, ALth0r, and ocelote join.

2011

• March 23rd, Araneae leaves.
• June 23rd, ALth0r, Farfain, Limelight, nRated, Severus, and SleazyWeazy leave. Candy Panda, WetDreaM, and Nyph join.
• August 21st, 5th-6th Place at IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Cologne.
• August 24th, WetDreaM is replaced by Snoopeh.
• October 5th, 3rd place at IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Guangzhou.
• October 16th, 2nd place at IEM Season VI - Global Challenge New York.
• October 20th, Wickd leaves.
• November 4th, MoMa joins.
• November 22nd, MoMa leaves.
• December 20th, Snoopeh leaves.

2012

• January 12, Kev1n joins.
• January 22, 4th place at IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev.
• February 12, Dedrayon joins.
• March 10th, 5th-6th place at IEM Season VI - World Championship
• May 20th, ocelote and Kev1n switch roles.
• June 8th, ocelote returns to mid lane, Kev1n moves back to top lane.
• June 20th, Candy Panda and Dedrayon leave.
• July 9th, YoungBuck joins. Kev1n moves to the AD carry position.
• July 20th, YoungBuck leaves. Kev1n moves back to top lane.
• July 29th, 3rd place at European Challenger Circuit: Poland.
• July 31st, Araneae and YellOwStaR are officially announced on the roster.
• August 19th, 2nd place at Season Two Regional Finals.
• October 4th, 11th-12th place at Season 2 World Championship.
• November 18th, Araneae leaves.
• December 10th, YellOwStaR leaves while Candypanda and HyrqBot join.

2013

• April 12th, Moopz joins.
• April, Noonia joins.
• April 28th, 4th Place in the LCS Europe Season 3 Spring Playoffs
• May 6th, Noonia leaves.

Player Roster

Active

	ID	Name	Role
	Kev1n	Kevin Rubiszewski	Top
	hyrqBot	John Velly	Jungle
	ocelote	Carlos Rodríguez	Mid
	CandyPanda	Adrian Wübbelmann	AD
	Nyph	Patrick Funke	Support
	Moopz	Amaury Minguerche	Sub

Former

	ID	Name	Role	Next Team
	Noonia	Kai Gade	Sub	Sinners Never Sleep
	YellOwStaR	Bora Kim	AD	Fnatic
	Araneae	Alvar Martin	Jungle	Team ALTERNATE
	Youngbuck	Joey Steltenpool	Top	Eclypsia.Luna
	Dedrayon	Filip Romejko	Jungle	mousesports
	Snoopeh	Stephen Ellis	Jungle	Absolute Legends
	MoMa	Maik Wallus	Top	against All authority
	Wickd	Mike Petersen	Top	Absolute Legends
	WetDreaM	Tim Buysse	Jungle	Absolute Legends
	rashaasii	Adam Olofsson	Jungle	None
	SleazyWeazy	Benjamin Hiller	Jungle	logiX
	Severus	Johannes Lüder	Mid/Top	logiX
	nRated	Christoph Seitz	AD	against All authority
	Limelight	Asger Karl	Mid	None
	Farfain	Karl Wendt Höjer	Jungle	TCM-Gaming
	ALth0r	Romain Franzetti	Mid	against All authority
	Awe kek	Daniel Pabel	Sub	None
	Pylat	Lars Andersen	Sub	None
	Zylor	Christian Dietze	AD	None
	Reyk	Wai Noch Shum	Mid	Team gamed!
	Osaft22	Shawn Roger Bourquin	Support	against All authority

Temporary Subs

	ID	Name	Role	Replacing	Tournament
	SleazyWeazy	Benjamin Hiller	Jungle		IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev
	Metalx	Tom Latour	AD	YellOwStaR	Campus Gaming Party: Berlin
	Schabs	Thomas Vogel	Top	Kev1n	Campus Gaming Party: Berlin
	CandyPanda	Adrian Wübbelmann	AD	YellOwStaR	Tales of the Lane

Organization

	ID	Name	Position
	reis	Min-Sik Ko	Head of Team and Player Management
	TheSlasH	Alexander Müller	Team Owner

Team Achievements

In Premier Tournaments
Date		Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2013-04-28		A44th	LCS Europe Season 3 Spring Playoffs	0 : 2	Evil Geniuses	$ 10,000
2013-03-07		A99 - 10th	IEM Season VII - World Championship	1 : 4	Group Stage (W/L)	$ 5,700
2013-01-19		A55 - 6th	IEM Season VII - Global Challenge Katowice	1 : 2	Group Stage (W/L)	$ 3,000
2012-10-04		B111 - 12th	Season 2 World Championship	0 : 3	Group Stage (W/L)	$ 25,000
2012-08-19		A22nd	Season Two Regional Finals	0 : 2	Moscow Five	$ 30,000
2012-07-29		A33rd	European Challenger Circuit: Poland	2 : 1	Team Curse Europe	$ 5,000
2012-03-10		A55 - 6th	IEM VI - World Championship	1 : 2	against All authority	$ 2,800
2012-01-28		A44th	IEM VI - Kiev	1 : 2	Team Dignitas	$ 2,400
2012-06-10		A22nd	IEM VI - New York	0 : 2	Fnatic	$ 6,000
2012-04-27		A33rd	IEM VI - Guangzhou	2 : 1	EHOME	$ 3,400
2011-08-21		A55 - 6th	IEM VI - Cologne	1 : 2	Group Stage (W/L)	$ 2,100
2010-10-03		A22nd	WCG 2010 - Grand Finals	1 : 2	Counter Logic Gaming	$ 3,000

In Major Tournaments
Date	Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2012-11-11	A44th	Tales of the Lane	0 : 2	Moscow Five	€ 2,500
2012-08-23	A55 - 8th	Campus Gaming Party: Berlin	1 : 2	Group Stage (W/L)	$ 1,125
2011-08-20	A11st	ESL Major Series VIII	2 : 0	Team SoloMid	€ 2,500
2010-12-16	A11st	ESL Major Series VII	2 : 1	myRevenge	€ 1,500

In Minor Tournaments
Date	Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2012-06-27	A33rd	Absolute Arena Cup	0 : 1	Moscow Five	€ 200
2012-04-13	A22nd	DLCompare Pro Cup 1	0 : 2	Absolute Legends	€ 200
2012-02-14	A22nd	CDiscount Cup 1	FFL	against All authority	€ 250

Complete results in Minor, Monthly and Weekly Tournaments

Interviews

• August 17th, 2012 - SK LoL Gamescom Interview 2012 (video) with SK Gaming
• September 23rd, 2012 - Min-Sik "Reis" Ko interviewed: League of Legends with SK Gaming
• October 4th, 2012 - S2 finals: SK Pre-games (video) with SK Gaming

See Also

• Teams

External Links

• SK Gaming Preview: Season Two World Finals by ggChronicle
• SK Team Profile on lolesports.com