SK Gaming has featured in the February edition of Atomic, an Australian Computing magazine, after the Australian team Immunity trained at the SK Office last November.
SK Gaming welcomed Immunity to come to the SK Office to train during the World Cyber Games, and they also had a chance to sharpen their skills with our Swedish Counter-Strike team for almost a week prior to the tournament. The piece in question came out in print down under and was entitled "Diplomatic Immunity."
Extract from Atomic's February edition
Eye of the Tiger
"In fact the walls of the SK offices are practically wallpapered in these cheques - and we spotted more tucked behind the furniture!"
"Immunity flew into Frankfurt, then hopped a train to Cologne, and - showing their commitment to the cause - they had no intention of crawling off to their hotel for a nap like any sane human after a long haul to Europe. Having arrived a week early in Cologne, the team dumped their gear and headed straight into bootcamp, having secured a great opportunity to train with one of the best teams in the world, SK Gaming.
SK is one of the world's premier pro gaming organisations, covering the gamut of core pro gaming titles. Their Counter-Strike 1.6 team hails from Sweden and was warm favourites to take out the title. SK is a superstar team on the world stage, signing autographs and earning a very comfortable living winning giant novelty-sized cheques. In fact the walls of the SK offices are practically wallpapered in these cheques, and we spotted more tucked behind the furniture - there's only so much wall space for showing off your winnings!
The gaming servers in Europe were stunning to see in action. With a real international pro scene, Immunity was granted access to a private server network to train against the best from right across the continent. When a match is organised through this network a private server will be raised at a location in a third country, when necessary, to ensure fair latency between the two competing teams. A very different world from the laggy garbage we all take for granted back home.
The team really showed they were not just here for a holiday, putting in a big effort to show the world they had real talent to bring to the table. Over the week their confidence grew, and when they started taking regular matches against some fancied competition, the team started to entertain thoughts of scoring some upset wins at the Games."
The rest of the article including the tale of what happened in the SK Office after the Aussies went on a night out can be found in the online version of the printed article here.
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