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Type Gaming
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Type Gaming
Team Information
Location:
Manager:
Elsemiek "Els" Jager
Shinya "sugeo" Tamaoka
Shinya "sugeo" Tamaoka
Sponsored by:
Team Earnings:
$377.30
Links
History
Created:
2011-10-05
Disbanded:
2012-10-14
Overview[edit]
Type Gaming, previously Type II Gaming, was a professional StarCraft 2 team with headquarters in Germany and a training house based in the North Rhine-Westphalia region, a strategic location that allowed easy access to the TakeTV House, ESL, IEM as well as other events and LANs throughout Europe.
History[edit]
2011[edit]
- October 5, Type II Gaming's creation is announced with an initial player roster of Sun, ReaL, PhoeNix, and DBS managed by Lex and TaKe.[1]
2012[edit]
- January 1, Two Japanese players, nemuke and PSiArc, join the team. Holmes Place is announced as a new sponsor. The team is renamed to Type Gaming.[2]
- January 5, Type announces a partnership with European eSports organization Vitriolic Gaming, to become Type.Vitriolic.[3][4]
- January 27, NarutO joins the team after leaving mTw.[5]
- February, The partnership with Vitriolic Gaming falls through, and the team reverts to being Type Gaming.
- March 14, Another two Japanese players, ENZA and breek, join the team.[6][7]
- March 18, SaltTheWound joins the team after leaving ESC ICYBOX.[8]
- April 1, JeeF joins the team as Team Manager.[9]
- June 27, ENZA leaves Type Gaming.[10]
- July 8, breek departs from Type Gaming and retires from competitive Starcraft 2 to concentrate on his college studies.
- July 30, PhoeNix leaves the team.[11]
- August 8, ReaL leaves the team.[12]
- August 9, SaltTheWound leaves the team.[13]
- October 14, Lex announces the closure of Type Gaming.[14]
Player Roster[edit]
Roster at the time of disbandment[edit]
| Former Players | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Join Date | Leave Date | New Team | ||
 |  | nemuke | Daigo Ozaki | 2012-01-01 | 2012-10-14 |  Rush Clan |
| | PSiArc | Naohiro Nishimura | 2012-01-01 | 2012-10-14 |  DetonatioN Gaming |
Former[edit]
| Former Players | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Join Date | Leave Date | New Team | ||
|  | breek | Taiki Kobayashi | 2012-03-14 | 2012-07-08 |  Retirement |
 | | DBS | Thorsten Seifert | 2011-07-?? | 2012-10-14 | Inactive |
|  | ENZA | Senzaki Toshikazu | 2012-03-14 | 2012-06-27 |  LD50 Gaming |
| | NarutO | Silvano Bovo | 2012-01-27 | 2012-??-?? |  Meet Your Makers |
 | | PhoeNix | Jeon Young Sik | 2011-10-05 | 2012-07-30 | Meet Your Makers |
| | ReaL | Oh Jin Sil | 2011-10-05 | 2012-08-08 |  Alien Invasion |
| | SaltTheWound | Bastian Brouwers | 2012-03-18 | 2012-08-09 |  Blight Gaming |
| | Sun | Jung Tae Hyun | |||
Management[edit]
| Staff at time of Disbandment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Position | |
 | Lex | Alexis Susset | Vice President |
 | Els | Elsemiek Jager | Vice President |
| sugeo | Shinya Tamaoka | Japan Team Manager |
| mOps | Maria | Editor |
Former[edit]
| Former Staff | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Position | New Team | ||
| | TaKe | Dennis Gehlen | Team Manager |  Team ALTERNATE |
| | JeeF | Felix Jedelhauser | Team Manager |  MVP |
Team Achievements[edit]
| Date | Place | Tier | Tournament | Result | Prize | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-05-27 | 4th | Minor | 4PL Clan League Season 2 | 2 : 3 |  | $377 | ||
| Complete list of results in any tournament | ||||||||
Gallery[edit]
Type Gaming at Barcraft Tokyo
Statistics[edit]
Earnings Statistics
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References[edit]
- ↑ "Type II Pro Starcraft team announcement" Thread on TL.net. October 5th 2011.
- ↑ "Type announces Holmes Place as sponsor and creation of Japanese Roster" TypeSC.net. January 1st 2012. TL.net Forum thread
- ↑ "Vitriolic announces parternship with Type" TypeSC.net. January 5th 2012.
- ↑ "Vitriolic partners with Type" Vitriolic-Gaming.com. January 5th 2012.
- ↑ NarutO's Twitter Twitter.com. January 27th 2012.
- ↑ "Type Gamingが8名体制に、さらなる飛躍を狙う" SC-Times.net. March 14th 2012.
- ↑ "Type announces two new players from Japan" TypeSC.net. March 14th 2012.
- ↑ http://www.escgaming.de/artikel,1054,esc-icy-box-verabschiedet-saltthewound.html
- ↑ "Type announces new member: JeeF". TypeSC.net. April 4th 2012.
- ↑ ENZA leaves Type
- ↑ PhoeNix leaves Type
- ↑ ReaL leaves Type
- ↑ STW and Type part ways
- ↑ TypeLex (2012-10-14). "Type Gaming closure".
