StarCraft II: SK closes division: Jimpo, Joe & inuh released

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By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields

Jul 4, 2011 17:31

SK Gaming officially announces the release of its StarCraft II division, made up of Jimpo, Joe and inuh. New players to be signed by July 15th 2011.

SK Gaming can officially announce today that it is closing down its StarCraft II EU division for the time being, meaning that

Jimmy 'Jimpo' Wölfinger,

Johannes Sabroe 'Joe' Witt and

Hun 'inuh' Park have now all been released from their contracts and are free agents.

SK Gaming's SC2 division, until now, housed:

Jimmy 'Jimpo' Wölfinger

Johannes Sabroe 'Joe' Witt

Hun 'inuh' Park

SK Gaming's player manager

Min-Sik 'reis' Ko explained:

"We started this team with a vision of getting players with big potential and a talent for SC2 into SK Gaming to give them the best support possible and to see how they would perform in tournaments. We strongly believe our former players did a good job, but it is time for both, SK and the players to move forward."

SK Gaming's managing director

Alexander Müller adds:

"It is our own standard to claim international titles. Therefore we are thrilled to let the community know that the end of the European division is just the beginning of a new era for us. Within the next 14 days we will present new talent in our SC2 department and I am quite sure the community will quite like it. We have a tradition of working with players outside of the Europe in RTS titles, as you know."

During his time with SK Gaming Jimpo's best results were placing 9th-16th at Copenhagen games and 3rd-4th at the Swedish WCG qualifier. At Dreamhack Summer and HomeStory Cup #3 he was unable to progress from the group stage. Joe managed to place 5th-8th at Copenhagen games, losing to eventual champion MC. inuh played the EPS Summer season but was relegated, and also found himself unable to qualify for the main Dreamhack Summer tournament due to losing in the BYOC qualifier.

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ToWeRaBuSe 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

Hmm, looks like SK is going back to a Korean RTS division? :)

Go SK.Zacard for SC2 (just kidding).

CatalinJoel 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

wow great pic :D GoodLuck!

Loka 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

so koreans it is, or probably NA players as well

YourmumisEZ 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

SK.Fruitdealer and sk.Tester?:P

jonz 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

SK.Destiny / KiWiKaKi !!!1!!1!1!!1!

platomi 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

in my opinion destiny for sure not, but maybe we will see KiWiKaKi in SK. THis would be great.

EunByuL 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

Good decision, the players were very much underperforming.
HwangSin said he was interested in joining an international team.

Murdy 10 months ago

+3 thumbs

Weren't underperforming. They were just mediocre players to start out with.

RdNX 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

SK.MC / Fruitdealer :D

kesk 10 months ago

+3 thumbs

hell, its about time .. \o/

DNABUSE 10 months ago

+2 thumbs

haha finally sk came to its senses and wants to rejoin the world's elite.

Tuvsh1n 10 months ago

+2 thumbs

That's right chose :D

meZde 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

Send the Madfrog to Korea! ;D

NhvK- 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

Sidenote: That picture is awesome for the -.- face.

DarthBotto 10 months ago

+2 thumbs

It's unfortunate that the division has been put to rest for now. However, we're preparing for new talent that will compliment the success of our past RTS squads.

TiCHEN 10 months ago

+2 thumbs

just buy a korean sc2 team.

geek_nd 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

no it sucks, they have to build a real spirit for the fan, good news by the way, they were talented players but they didnt played enough I guess?

WoLFoU- 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

SK.FruitDealer
SK.Tester
SK.ToD
SK.MC (!!!)
SK.KiWiKaKi
SK.Slush
SK.Dimaga
SK.Brat_OK !

I thing i have 80% of the line up !

platomi 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

ToD & KiWiKaKi are possible in my opinion! ToD is an awesome player and has much potential right now!
We won't see MC,DIMAGA, BratOK, Slush or Fruitdealer here.

SK|DrunKin 10 months ago

+2 thumbs

gl Jimpo and co, was always funny to talk with you :)

NIIINO 10 months ago

+2 thumbs

SK.FruitDealer !

szczota 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

"We started this team with a vision of getting players with big potential and a talent for SC2 into SK Gaming to give them the best support possible and to see how they would perform in tournaments"
And after a few tournaments you released them :( I feel sorry for them - should've been gotten more time... :/
Werent bad results imo.

Now excited to see who is it gonna be :) SK creating team house in Korea? :p

skinex 10 months ago

+1 thumbs

Finally! This was coming all the way, SC2 has grown so big that its not like SK at all to keep players of sub-pro level in their roster. Expect to see the best (or most expensive at least...) players money can buy.

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