The hype was huge before IPL5 last weekend, where they had scrambled together $100.000, as the biggest prize pot yet in Shootmania’s history. SK got an invite to this tournament and rapha, the achieved quake player, put together a team and went to Las Vegas to show the world that their free invite was not a mistake.

SK started out their group weak, losing their first map against Epsilon.NA but followed that up with a victory against Spin Move. With their momentum and confidence from their last match they came into the game versus Colwn, the winners of ESCW $10.000 tournament, and outplayed Stermy & Co 2-1, finishing 2nd in their group.

In the playoffs, SK got put against the top team Fnatic, who showed their strength in the group stage, finishing top in their group. And they really showed that they deserved that number one spot, beating SK in the semifinals, who now placed 3rd/4th.
But SK, consisting of id_, Mark 'cl0ck' McGrail and Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson, with a lot less preparation than the other teams before this tournament, really showed that they are a team to look out for and actually was the only team that beat Colwn at IPL5, who came out on top after a tough final vs Fnatic.



Here is Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson's thoughts on being invited to personally create a team for IPL5 and his thoughts on his teams performance.



We congratulate our SK Shootmania and are very proud of their result and the way they represented us throughout the weekend.