There are many principles that this world is based on, one of those is estimation which in gaming community is more likely known as respect. The respect for people which is not on the level it should be, and it’s not just a problem of gaming community, it’s the world’s problem.

The new king in the name of StarCraft II arrives to consolidate the RTS community and once and for all get rid of the WarCraft vs StarCraft altercation.

StarCraft II Questions & Answers series continues with batch 30 as Brett Woods answers questions regarding map making.

The first playday of the WarCraft III Champions League Season X was finished on Monday with a big achievement for the 4Kings team, defeating the World Elite squad.

The WarCraft III Champions League Season X started four days ago with a match between NiP and hoorai, today the time has come for both of our teams to start their regular WC3L season.

The online part of the NGL One league is coming to an end with two last matches which are going to be played today.

The moment which everybody involved in the gaming scene was waiting for has finally arrived - the Electronic Sports World Cup 2006 event is starting in Paris, France. The ESWC 2006 is definitely one of the most important WarCraft III tournaments. Tons of top gamers have arrived in France to take part in a great show and fight for a first prize of 13,000$. Of course as always SK Gaming has some representatives in the spot light, there is our famous Human star SK.Insomnia, the German player SK.fire_de and our Night Elf gamer SK.HoT. But beside those guys there are also a lot of other great players taking part, just to name a few, we've got the reigning champion 4K.Grubby, Chinese gamer WE.Sky or the Undead star MYM]Lucifer. We also got lots of less known players who surely want to show off and prove their skills on the international scene of WarCraft III. Just to remind you of some rules, in the first group stage we are going to see eight groups, three top players from each group are going to qualify to the second group stage where they are going to be divided into four groups. As you can see this event is promising to be a great show and you can surely expect a lot of hot WC3 action, stay tuned for results and good luck all! Final Bracket Grand Final: Lucifer [2:0] Zeus TBA Third Place Decider: Sky [2:1] Insomnia EI, TR, TM Semi Finals: Sky [1:2] Lucifer EI, TR, TS Zeus [2:1] Insomnia EI, TS, TR Quarter Finals: Sky [2:0] NilknarfLP TBA Lucifer [2:0] ToD EI - TR fire_de [0:2] Insomnia TBA Grubby [1:2] Zeus19 TM - EI - TS The third match had to be regamed after a PC crash or something. Final Standings: 1. Lucifer - 13,000$ 2. Zeus - 9,000$ 3. WE.Sky - 6,000$ 4. SK.Insomnia - 4,000$ 5-8. SK.Fire_de - 2,000$ 5-8. 4K^ToD - 2,000$ 5-8. u5.NilknarfLP - 2,000$ 5-8. 4K^Grubby - 2,000$ Second Group Stage Group A Name P W L Points Sky 5 5 0 15 ToD 5 4 1 12 TitaN 5 3 2 9 NightWolf 5 2 3 6 Shortround 5 1 4 3 PaTo 5 0 5 0 Round 1 Shortround [2:1] PaTo Sky [2:1] ToD TitaN [2:1] PaTo Round 2 TitaN [0:2] Sky NightWolf [2:0] Shortround NightWolf [0:2] ToD Round 3 PaTo [0:2] ToD Shortround [0:2] Sky NightWolf [0:2] TitaN Round 4 Shortround [0:2] ToD PaTo [0:2] Sky TitaN [0:2] ToD Round 5 NightWolf [2:0] PaTo TitaN [2:1] Shortround NightWolf [0:2] Sky Round 1 Bjarke [0:2] Creolophus Zeus19 [2:1] RotterdaM Zerter [0:2] Creolophus Round 2 Zerter [1:2] Zeus19 fire_de [2:0] Bjarke fire_de [2:1] RotterdaM Round 3 Creolophus [2:1] RotterdaM Bjarke [0:2] Zeus19 fire_de [2:0] Zerter Round 4 Bjarke [2:1] RotterdaM Creolophus [0:2] Zeus19 Zerter [2:0] RotterdaM Round 5 fire_de [1:2] Creolophus Zerter [0:2] Bjarke fire_de [2:0] Zeus19 Group B Name P W L Points fire_de 5 4 1 12 Zeus19 5 4 1 12 Creolophus 5 4 1 12 Bjarke 5 2 3 6 Zerter 5 1 4 3 RotterdaM 5 0 5 0 Group C Name P W L Points Lucifer 5 4 1 12 Insomnia 5 4 1 12 suhO 5 3 2 9 FoV 5 3 2 9 Wolf 5 1 4 3 LoL_vs_XD 5 0 5 0 Round 1 Wolf [1:2] suhO LoL_vs_XD [0:2] Lucifer Insomnia [2:0] suhO Round 2 Insomnia [2:0] LoL_vs_XD FoV [2:0] Wolf FoV [0:2] Lucifer Round 3 suhO [2:1] Lucifer Wolf [2:0] LoL_vs_XD FoV [1:2] Insomnia Round 4 Wolf [0:2] Lucifer suhO [2:0] LoL_vs_XD Insomnia [0:2] Lucifer Round 5 FoV [2:0] suhO Insomnia [2:0] Wolf FoV [2:0] LoL_vs_XD Round 1 HasuHasi [0:2] DIDI8 HoT [0:2] NilknarfLP FuRy [2:1] DIDI8 Round 2 FuRy [2:0] HoT Grubby [2:0] HasuHasi Grubby [2:1] NilknarfLP Round 3 DIDI8 [0:2] NilknarfLP HasuHasi [0:2] HoT Grubby [2:0] FuRy Round 4 HasuHasi [0:2] NilknarfLP DIDI8 [0:2] HoT FuRy [0:2] NilknarfLP Round 5 Grubby [2:0] DIDI8 FuRy [2:0] HasuHasi Grubby [2:1] HoT Group D Name P W L Points Grubby 5 5 0 15 NilknarfLP 5 4 1 12 FuRy 5 3 2 9 HoT 5 2 3 6 DIDI8 5 1 4 3 HasuHasi 5 0 5 0

The time has come for the Electronic Sports World Cup 2006 event to start and four of our SK Gaming players are at the spot in Paris and are ready to take part in the competition.

The WarCraft III Champions League Season IX finals started today at 15:00 CET with a game between Korean squad of MeetYourMakers and Asian team from World Elite.

After some nice action in the Upper Bracket Round 4 the time has come for another four teams to say bye to WarCraft III Champions League as we are stepping into the Lower Bracket. This time we are going to see four intensive games. One of the most interesting is probably a confrontation between the German team of ID Gaming and Dutch based Praetorians. The German team already proved to be a great squad as they managed to play some nice games and get into tight competition with mTw which they lost with a close score of 2:3. On the other hand Praetorians is a promising team with some young and motivated players and this is their last chance to prove that they are strong enough to take part in the regular WC3L season. We also have another national fight between United5 and Avant Garde. That game surely has one favourite which is u5, those guys are veterans of WC3L as they played in the previous season but we can never know what aG can show in this game. Sadly another four teams are going to lose their chance to play in the WC3L but the competition is getting tighter and all teams really want to get those two spots which are still left opened. This means that we can expect some interesting games, stay tuned for results and good luck! Coverage - WaaaghTV

The WarCraft III Champions League qualifier is now stepping into it's final stage as we are going to see two Upper Bracket Round 4 matches with the teams that win their games qualifying for the regular WC3L season. We can surely expect some tough matches because of the high stake! The first game which we are going to concentrate on will be a close match between two titans of this qualifier, on the first side we have the German powerhouse mousesports with lots of international stars in the roster, just to name a few like SaSe, TitaN or the human player Spell. On the other side we have the Russian team of es4x, who have surely proved their strength in this qualifier when they managed to beat some good teams during their way to the Upper Bracket semi finals, the biggest success of the team was a win over the Korean roster of LanFan consisting players like HomeRunBall or Mamoru. This game will show which team is the stronger one, an old veteran team who have already played in the previous season of WC3L or the newcomer who surely holds a great potential. The second game is a German war between two famous organisations, we have another veteran of the WC3L - mTw facing the German squad of SK Gaming. Two teams who definitely have some impressive players in their rosters but only one can get up on top after this game. SK Germany played some nice games in the qualifier by beating teams like mYm.dk or the US squad of United5, on the other hand mTw also played some intensive games and managed to win over ecLs or another German team ID Gaming. This is another match which surely promises to be a great show so we can expect some nice games here. Remember to follow our coverage on SK-Gaming.com and expect some Shoutcast and WaaaghTV coverage, both games are scheduled to start on Thursday, 15th of June, 17:00 CET. Good luck all teams! Coverage - WaaaghTV

After some hard fought matches in the Upper Bracket Round 2 it's time to give the teams that lost their first match one last chance in the qualifiers, and I'm speaking about the Lower Bracket's first round. Four teams will have to say good bye to the WarCraft III Champions League as we are going to see four matches in this round. To begin with, we got the Danish squad of MeetYourMakers who lost to our very own SK Germany, playing against the Austrian team of AoD. This match surely promises to be an interesting confrontation. Stepping forward we are going to see a clash between the French team EFC and the Russian ecLs. The new excello WarCraft III squad is going to face the European team Praetorians who will have high expectations to reach the WC3L Season X. Last but not least we are going to see a game between aG and the Bulgarian team JuSt. After JuSt's recent recruitment of Shocker, who came into the team from 3wD these guys surely want to prove their strength and they are going to be a tough opponent for the US team of aG. As you can see the Lower Bracket Round 1 presents some nice teams and you can expect some interesting matches. Stay tuned for results and good luck to all the clans!

Together with the Lower Bracket Round 1 we are stepping into round three of the Upper Bracket. After some nice matches in the previous round the teams that won their games are now going to face each other and fight for a spot in the fourth round. At the beginning we are going to start with a close match-up between German team mousesports and the European squad of Kow3. Mouz is surely a strong opponent with their star players, just to name a few like TitaN or SaSe who is performing really good in the NGL One league. On the other hand Kow3 also managed to play some good games during this qualifier and are surely going to be a hard opponent for the German team. After that we are going to see some German action with three German teams playing in two games, I'm speaking about the games between mTw and ID Gaming, followed by the game SK.ger vs u5. The second game is going to be a nice show as we are going to see a face-off between last season participant u5, a team that have really strong players in their lineup and a newcomer squad of SK.ger, both teams already managed to beat some strong opponents but this game will be a hard one for both. At the end we are going to see even more interesting game, we've got the Russian powerhouse es4x, a team which presents some really impressive skills facing the team of LanFan. Powered up with talented Koreans like HomeRunBall or Mamoru. The qualifier is still going further and we are going to see more and more interesting games so stay tuned for results and good luck! Coverage - WaaaghTV mouz vs Kow3: - German shoutcast by The_DD SK.ger vs u5: - English shoutcast by Croft - German shoutcast by Orcish

The WarCraft III Champions League Season X Qualifiers are now stepping into round two, from now on all teams who lose their matches will still get a second chance in the lower bracket. Speaking about the second round of the qualification we are surely going to see some interesting matches. Just to name a few, mousesports facing the Bulgarian team JuSt, and also two teams that are the second, national squads of the famous organisations are going to face each other, I'm speaking about the match between German squad of SK Gaming and Danish team from MeetYourMakers. All games are played with the standard WC3L system, four 1on1 games and one 2on2 game, the first team which manages to get 3 points wins the match and gets into the next round, the loser of the game goes straight into the lower bracket. We can surely expect some WaaaghTV and shoutcast coverage for the upcoming games. Stay tuned for results, and good luck! Coverage - WaaaghTV

Each weekend, together with sorax we are going to host a special showmatch called SK Q4 King of the Hill, where two players are going to compete against each other in order to fight for the king title. The one that will win the match is going to be crowned as the champion and will wait for a challenger to play against next weekend. The game system is bo3, the map pool can be found below. Update: We have decided to change the map system, and we are going to use a system which is similiar to the one used in WarCraft III. The list of maps, which are #1 Monsoon, #2 Phrantic and so on are now going to be the first map. Loser of the first map is going to choose the second map but he can't take the map which was already played. If the score is 1:1 after two maps, the player that lost 2nd map choose third map but he can't choose map1 and map2. This means that during one match one map is not going to be used twice. We are also going to bring you an intensive coverage from every single showmatch. Also feel free to join the official channel: #koth.q4 on Quakenet. Mappool: Galang Lost Fleet Monsoon Phrantic First Map: #5: Monsoon #6: Phrantic #7: Lost Fleet #8: Galang