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allen goes inactive from SK Gaming

By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields
Apr 4, 2011 13:31


ImageSK Gaming's allen has announced he will be going inactive from competitive play due to illness. Read his statement inside.

SE SK Gaming 's SE Jimmy 'allen' Allen has officially gone inactive from professional Counter-Strike due to illness. The long time SK player last played for the team the IEM V European Championship. When the World Championship came around he was forced to withdraw a week early from attendance and SE Dennis 'dennis' Edman was brought in to replace him in Hannover. allen doesn't rule out a comeback one day though.

allen explains his decision in his own words:

"Hey guys! After almost 5 years in the SK hoodie I've decieded to become inactive until further notice. I haven't been feeling well lately due to a sickness that effects me in a negative way regarding Counter-Strike. I choose to play the IEM Euro Finals in January even though I didn't feel well and after that I realized I should take a break and focus on my illness for a while.

I hope to be back one day and I wanna thank SK Gaming and my lovely team-mates for some great years, and I wish them gl this year, I think they'll do really well. Sick lineup 2011.

I also wanna thank all my loyal fans, of course, for all the support during the years. It helped me a lot keeping myself motivated having you guys cheering me on. Hope you guys will still be out there if I do a comeback.

I guess you guys wanted me to explain more about my illness but I find that very hard, it's complicated. Sorry about that. But I'm sure I will be fine in reasonable time."


SE SK Gaming 's current lineup:
SE Robert 'RobbaN' Dahlström
SE Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg
SE Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund
SE Johan 'face' Klasson
SE Dennis 'dennis' Edman (trial)

allen joined SK Gaming in the Summer of 2006 as a 17 year old from Raw Gaming, where he had played with the likes of Hyper and archie.

Some of allen's accomplishments with SK Gaming:
2007 DE SEC (1st)
2007 US IEM II LA (2nd)
2008 DE IEM II Finals (4th)
2008 RU Kode5 Global Final (3rd)
2008 US IEM III LA (1st)
2008 CA IEM III Montreal (2nd)
2008 DE WCG (2nd - Silver medal)
2008 SE DreamHack Winter (1st)
2009 DE EM III Global Finals (4th)
2009 KR ESWC Masters Cheonan (2nd)
2009 RU Kode5 Global Final (2nd)
2009 CN IEM IV Chengdu (1st)
2009 AE IEM IV Dubai (3rd)
2009 KR IEF (1st)
2009 SE Arbalet Cup Europe (1st)
2010 DE IEM IV European Finals (3rd)
2010 DE IEM IV World Championship (3rd)
2010 UA Arbalet Best of Four (2nd)
2010 SE IOL S2 Final4 (1st)
2010 FR ESWC (2nd)
2010 DE SEC (1st)
2010 FI WCG Nordic (1st)
2010 CN WEM (2nd)

allen was also named MVP of Arbalet Cup Europe 2009.


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