SK Gaming

This marked SK's first LAN competition after the addition of veteran

cadiaN to the starting line-up. After a shaky first map in the playoffs, the team managed to dispose of KILLERFISH and proceeded to face Mousesports in the semi-finals of the tournament. Unfortunately they were sent to the lower bracket after great individual performances from Spiidi and ChrisJ.

In the lower-bracket, SK had a tough opponent in the face of HellRaisers. The CIS team fell victim to Team Dignitas in the upper-breacket quarters but managed to bounce back by delivering an upset 2-0 win over tournament favourites Team SoloMid, thus knocking them out of the tournament.

SK CS:GO were joined by cadiaN for APM and the upcoming IEM gamescom

In the game versus SK, HR were just as merciless. Despite a dominant overpass win for our team, Dosia and co were determined not to let another podium finish slip through their fingers. A one-sided recital on both Cobblestone and Dust 2 knocked-out SK in fifth place. The latter was an especially strong performance as HR allowed only 3 rounds to the opposition before closing the map and the series.

Despite the loss, nex delivered insane performances versus eFrag and HR.

The victors of the winners and losers bracket had to play a best-of-seven in order to determine the APM champion. Mousesports and HellRaisers respectively entered the battlefield and took the series to a seventh game. In the end, the CIS representatives took three maps in a row to win the competition.

Acer Predator Masters Season 1 final standings:

1. HellRaisers - $20,000
2. MouseSports - $10,000
3. eFrag.net - $7,000
4. Team Dignitas - $3,000
5. SK Gaming

DanielPY

Former lead editor and interviewer for SK Gaming

Follow me on twitter - @Adddler or LINK

Work experience:
iNNERFiRE - multi-game journalist and Editor-in-Chief: 2012
onGamers - League of Legends Feature Producer: 01.2014 - 02.2015
SK-Gaming - League of Legends Lead Editor: 11.2012 - 08.2015

My journey into eSports started in 2004 when I accidentally caught a small video on TV from the WarCraft 3 WCG 2004 final. I opened up the SK Gaming website from my father's laptop and never stopped reading to this day. In early 2010 I started writing at a Bulgarian news website simply because I disliked how the current editor was handling his job and with time, I got to be Editor-In-Chief. My main writing interests back then were StarCraft 2, QuakeLive and League of Legends.

Fast-forward to 2012, after a small hiatus and moving to England to attend university, I decided to start writing news posts again, inspired by a couple of industry figures who have taken their turns taking eSports writing to a new level. With the beginning of IPL5, I was given a trial with SK Gaming which was successful and I never looked back.

In early 2014, onGamers presented me with an incredible opportunity to join their ranks which I took. Although I believe my 2014 was rather poor (in terms of work ethic and results), I have made changes during the winter break to ensure that sufficient effort will be made to repair that. Unfortunately, due to the collapse of the team, the project was at a stand still which marked the end of my stint with the oG crew.

I continued producing 1 on 1 interviews with SK members until July 2015. After that, other commitments arose and I figured I could not provide the flow of content I promised my superiors and took a step back, leaving SK.

If you are an eSports fan who is looking to get into writing or simply want to chat about eSports across the years, you can always find me on my twitter - @Adddler . Below you can find some trivia about me.

BroodWar / StarCraft 2

Favourites:
BW pro: sAvi0r and Flash (for different reasons)
BW race: Terran
BW series: Hana Daetoo MSL
SC2 pro: Creator and Stephano (different reasons)
SC2 race: Terran
SC2 series: ThorZain vs Polt at DreamHack Open 2012 and any big final played by King MvP
StarCraft related article: God of the Battlefield

Quake

Pro: Alexey 'Cypher' Yanushevski
Map: Aerowalk, BloodRun (100% Eastern European choices)
Series: Cooller vs Cypher. Especially the brilliant defensive Cypher game on Aero (game 4).
Rivalry: Rapha vs Cypher
Quake related articled: The Quadra Interview and the one and only Cypher PoV

League of Legends

Pro(s): FORG1VEN, Faker, WeiXiao, NaMei and Mata.
Position: AD Carry
Series: All the World Elite games at IPL5, KT Bullets versus SK Telecom T1 K OGN Summer 2013 Final and LPL Summer Final between StarHorn Royal Club and EDG (The perfect Jinx game by Namei).
League related article: Most of TeamLiquid.net's takes on the 2012 and 2013 OGN tournaments.

Counter-Strike

Pro: f0rest
Team: Fnatic (2008-2009)
Series: AGAiN vs Fnatic at WCG 2009. Literally broke a cup after the game. One of the most emotional series for me as a spectator.

Events attended:

Gfinity League of Legends - August 2013 (SK Gaming)
EU LCS Week 5 London - June 2014 (SK Gaming / onGamers)
GamesCom 2014 Cologne - August 2014 (SK Gaming / onGamers)
EU LCS 2015 Week 7 Spring Split - March 2015 (SK Gaming)
Intel Extreme Masters Season IX Katowice - March 2015 (SK-Gaming)