Team Summary

Serious Gaming is a professional Dutch-based electronic sports organisation founded in December 2004. Currently having teams in Call of Duty 4, Warcraft 3, Warcraft 3 DotA and Quake 3/4, it holds a rich history in games like Counter-Strike 1.6, Call of Duty 2, Painkiller and Need for Speed. 


2004
The team was founded in December 2004 by it’s general manager, Bas Peeperkorn. After he gained the team it’s first sponsor, Serious Gaming was able to acquire it’s first player, Niels "Zhrance" van Tilborg, at the same time. Niels played Painkiller and was talented to be one of the world’s top 16 players. With this start, Serious Gaming was able to perform at the Cyberathlete Professional League event in Dallas.

2005
Since the announcement of the CPL World Tour, Serious Gaming was able to sign new duelers to compete on this stage. Besides the experience Fredrik "aim" Edesater and Stefan "maddog" Timmermans, Markus "sadface" Andersen and Polish toptalent Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski gave their world to Serious Gaming.

This year was also the year Serious Gaming became a multigaming organisation. With the acquiring of the Finnish Counter-Strike team of Wings, Serious Gaming now compete at the most prestigious professional gaming event of that year the World Cyber Games hosted in Seoul, South Korea.

2006
Serious Gaming recruited the Check Six 'mixteam' that won ClanBase EuroCup XIII LAN Finals. After some inactivity some players dropped out and the team decided to become a full Swedish team. The results weren't as good as thought and another lineup change determined for both parties it was better to let eachother go.

2007
Serious Gaming wanted to spread their horizon again and Call of Duty 2 gave them the right opportunity. The newly recruited Call of Duty 2 team was a mixture of some of the most talented players around in the Netherlands. Already proved themself on the highest stage of their scene, they easily continued their winning streak. With the start of all major Warcraft 3 competitions, a lot of teams split up and forms. This also included Serious. After losing some players, the team gained some remarkable talents like Nikolaus "SonKiE" Cassidy, Hjalmar "DoWaQ" Högborg and Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi to mention some.

Staff

Current Staff

Bas "basZ" Peeperkorn (General Manager)
Jos "Zerter" Buyvoets (Warcraft 3 Team Manager) 
Stefan "Maddog" Timmermans (Quake Team Manager)
Aschwinn "rekke" Van den Hoorn (Call of Duty 4 Team Manager)
Loic "kiraM" Renoullin (Warcraft 3 DotA Team Manager) 
Niels "zhrance" van Tilborg (Website designer)
Koen "keon" Kuit (Website coder)

Former Staff

Sebastian "rax" Serafin (retired Warcraft 3 Team Manager)
Patrick "Spittie" Bordier (retired Warcraft 3 Team Manager)

Current Roster

Call of Duty 4

History

Formerly ranked as Europe's Number 1 team by GotFrag, this team joined Serious' ranks March 2007 as the Call of Duty 2 team. They had a legendary win streak playing Call of Duty 2 in 2007, in the year they won three major events on a row.

Achievements:

CoDQCup #1 January
SHG Open 2007
ClanBase EuroCup XIV
Electronic Sports League IPS Qualifer
CoDQCup #3 March
Samsung Netgamez 2007
Crossfire Prizefight Challenge 2
CoDQCup #6 Wonderbase Edition
Wonderbase 2007
Total Gaming League European League

Current Roster:

Siebe "nutec" Huisman
Bob "supreme" Janssen
Niels "zem" van Steenbergen
Nick "solz" Schurink
Rick "r1k" Smit

Former Players:

Michiel "rapz" Kappen (retired)
Youri "kasparov" Mohrs (released)
Roy "r0y" Zantinge (retired)
Roman ‘Roman’ Semjonov(released)

Quake 4

History

The Quake 4 team consists of two young duelers, with the Polish one known as being the biggest talent in First Person Shooter games. Since the CPL World Tour, Serious Gaming expanded their 'duel' division in order to compete with the best. Both active players joined up by then and showed age doesn't limit yourself in winning tournaments. Due the age restrictions, Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski couldn't fight the best and had to wait untill the World Series of Video Games removed the rule. He has won six of the ten international tournaments he entered, with a second, two fourth and one fifth place in the remaining four.

Achievements:

Netgamez 2006a ( Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski)
The Gathering ( Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski)
4th QuakeCon 2006 ( Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski)
Digital Life Expo 2006 ( Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski)
5th World Cyber Games 2006 ( Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski)
Poznan Game Arena ( Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski])
Multiplay i30 & Belkin Quake 4 Tournament ( Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski)
Electronic Sports World Cup Polish Qualifier ( Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski)
World Series of Video Games Louisville ( Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski)
Electronic Sports World Cup ( Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski) 
4th World Series of Video Games Toronto ( Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski)
Multiplay i32 $20.000 Quake 4 Cup ( Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski)
The Gathering 2007 ( Markus "sadface" Andersen)
The Gathering 2006 ( Markus "sadface" Andersen)

Current Roster:

Maciek "av3k" Krzykowski
Markus "sadface" Andersen

Former Players:

Niels "zhrance" van Tilborg (retired)
Stefan "maddog" Timmermans (retired)
Fredrik "aim" Edesater (retired)

Warcraft 3

History:

Serious Gaming's Warcraft III division currently participates in the three most prestigious Warcraft III team leagues: the Warcraft 3 Champions League, the NGL One Professional league and the Warcraft III Premier League.

Achievements:

KODE5 Romania ( Angel "Bianconero" Ganchev)
Dreamhack Winter 2007 ( Hjalmar "DowaQ" Högberg)
Stars War IV ( Yury "Neytpoh" Karev)
ASUS Autumn Cup 2007 ( Yury "Neytpoh" karev)
OLDI ProPlay Cup Finals ( Yury "Neytpoh" karev)
5th ASUS Spring Masters 2007 ( Yury "Neytpoh" Karev)
4th ASUS Summer Cup 2007 ( Pavel "DoLLaR" Kondrashov)
World Cyber Games 2007 Lithuania ( Romanas "Lose" Rimkus)
World Cyber Games 2007 Baltic ( Romanas "Lose" Rimkus)
World Cyber Games 2006 Ukraine ( Valentine "FiX" Krulikovksy)
Electronic Sports World Cup 2007 Ukraine ( Valentine "FiX" Krulikovksy)
ASUS Summer Cup 2007 ( Maxim "Swift" Kholomiev)
Electronic Sports World Cup 2006 United Kingdom ( Benjamin "DeMusliM" Baker)
Electronic Sports World Cup 2007 United Kingdom ( Kyan "Shad" Shirazi-Kia)
Electronic Sports World Cup 2006 The Netherlands ( Jos "Zerter" Buyvoets) 
5th Acon 5 2005 China ( Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi)
7th Blizzard WorldWide Inv. 2006 South Korea ( Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi)
E-Masters 2006 Belgium ( Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi)
9th Electronic Sports World Cup 2006 France ( Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi)
ASUS Summer 2006 Russia ( Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi)
EuroCup 13 2006 Denmark ( Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi)
9th E-Games 2007 China ( Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi)
4th GGL Digital Life 2007 United States ( Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi)

Current Roster:

Yury "Neytpoh" Karev
Pavel "DoLLaR" Kondrashov
Arslan "Tama" Dagirov
Angel "Bianconero" Ganchev
Nikolaus "SonKiE" Cassidy
Hjalmar "DowaQ" Högberg
Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi
Hamish "kowi" Parker

Honorary members:

Igor "Caravaggio" Lyalin (retired)
Oskar "Zubie" Rudberg (retired)

Former Players:

Valentine "FiX" Krulikovksy (moved to New Generation Team)
Bejamin "DeMuslim" Baker (moved to Four Kings)
Daniel "XlorD" Spenst (moved to SK-Gaming)
Rho "Rholle" Loving (moved to Team-FatCap)
Yaroslav "NIghtWOlf" Kavetsky (moved to Mortal Team Work)
Maxim "Swift" Kholomiev (released)
Kyan "Shad" Shirazi-Kia (released)
Nikita "NapS" Shatokhin (released) 
Romanas "Lose" Rimkus (released)

Warcraft 3 DotA

History:

As a French-based team, they started to play under the tag of Dimension4. Due to their unexistant interest about the players and the game, the team continued leagues under the redBear name and two other players joined to complete the team. With Serious wanted to take a change in DotA and redBear searching a new home, the two eventually found eachother easy.

Achievements:

6th Meet Your Makers Nations Cup (online)
Dota.fr League Season 2 2006 (online)
Dota.fr League Season 3 2006 (online)
Clan ladder IHCS season (online)
Godzilan 2 2007 France
Polytech LAN 2007 France
ESFrance Spring Cup (online)
Dota.fr League Season 4 2007 (online)
Dota.fr League Season 5 2007 (online)
Dota League Division 3 2007 (online) 
9/16 Meet Your Makers Pride #4 2007 (online)
9/16 Meet Your Makers Pride #5 2007 (online)
9/16 Meet Your Makers Pride #7 2008 (online)
 Miage LAN 2007 France

Current Roster:

Olvier "i)arkarax4" Barièrre
Adriano "JorgE" Lioret
Loic "kiraM" Renoullin
Marko "SilentCat" Kovacevic
Thomas "Jester" Wolf
Clement "SOYCD" Rodmacq
Leng "ltm" Ong

Former Players:

Julien "Krabe" De Lopez
Geoffroy "fatalerroR" Zienkiewicz