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SK Gaming is an international electronic sports team who field teams in many different games and are particularly known for their success in Counter-Strike
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History

SK were formed in 1997 as a German Quake clan by three brothers who all lived in the town of Oberhausen. Their major international successes came when they took the already successful Swedish Counter-Strike clan Ninjas in Pyjamas into their organization using their players to create the team. Since then their main Counter-Strike team has been known from then on as SK.swe (SK Sweden). The SK.swe team have won most of the major international tournaments at least once and have been a dominant team in the Cyberathlete Professional League which is one of the most coveted championships in e-sports. Other SK Gaming teams are also notably successful in their respective games.

SK are a clan unafraid of breaking new ground, on February 1, 2003 they became the first organization in FPS gaming to contract their players when SK sweden became contractually bound to the clan. Having started to contracting their players, SK also set other precedents regarding contracts: on May 18, 2004 they were the first team to receive a fee for a player transfer after rivals Team NoA bought SK.swe player Ola "element" Moum out of his contract.

Things looked bad for them at the beginning of 2005 as SK.swe decided not to renew their contracts and to re-form Ninjas in Pyjamas, to secure a larger share of the sponsorships and prize money. This seems to be behind them now as a new SK.swe team has been formed including several of the old members.

Etymology

When playing Quake deathmatch, one of the founding members used to shout "Schröööt!" (literally meaning "shrapnel") when he took the double-barreled shotgun, they decided to incorporate this into their name and named their clan "Schroet Kommando" which translates into English as "Shrapnel Commando". Recently this has been changed and the clan now refers to itself as SK Gaming stating that this is their name now and not an abbreviation for the original name, probably because they did not feel that the old name fit into their goals of trying to create a more professional image.

Notable Achievements

SK have placed in the top 3 the following at major international tournaments:

Counter-Strike

2005

Cyberathlete Professional League
: Winter Championships - Champions
Cyberathlete Professional League
: Summer Championships - Champions
Electronic Sports World Cup 2005 - 2nd (SK.dk)

2004

Cyberathlete Professional League: Summer Championships - Runners-up

2003

Cyberathlete Professional League: Winter Championships - Champions
Cyberathlete Professional League: Copenhagen - Champions
Cyberathlete Professional League: Summer Championships - Champions
Cyberathlete Professional League: Cannes - Champions
World Cyber Games
- Champions
Electronic Sports World Cup
- Third Place

2002

Cyberathlete Professional League: Summer Championships - Champions
Cyberathlete Professional League: Winter Championships - Third Place

Painkiller

2005

Cyberathlete Professional League World Tour: Spain - Champion (Stephan 'SteLam' Lammert)

Unreal Tournament

2004

Cyberathlete Professional League: Summer Championships - Champions

Warcraft III

2005

EuroCup - First Place - SK.Hot

2003

World Cyber Games
- First Place - SK.Insomnia

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