Type Gaming
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Type Gaming
Team Information
Location:
Manager:
Elsemiek "Els" Jager
Shinya "sugeo" Tamaoka
Shinya "sugeo" Tamaoka
Sponsor:
Links
Player Breakdown
Number of Players:
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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]
| ID | Name | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | New Team | ||
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nemuke | Daigo Ozaki | - | 41 - 48th 
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- |  Rush Clan
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PSiArc | Naohiro Nishimura | - | - | - |  DetonatioN Gaming
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Former[edit]
| ID | Name | New Team | ||
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DBS | Thorsten Seifert | Inactive |
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NarutO | Silvano Bovo |  Meet Your Makers
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SaltTheWound | Bastian Brouwers |  Blight Gaming
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ReaL | Oh Jin Sil |  Alien Invasion
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PhoeNix | Jeon Young Sik | Meet Your Makers
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breek | Taiki Kobayashi | Retired |
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Sun | Jung Tae Hyun |
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ENZA | Senzaki Toshikazu | LD50 Gaming
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Management[edit]
| ID | Name | Position | |
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Lex | Alexis Susset | Vice President |
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Els | Elsemiek Jager | Vice President |
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sugeo | Shinya Tamaoka | Japan Team Manager |
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mOps | Maria | Editor |
Former[edit]
| ID | Name | Position | New Team | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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TaKe | Dennis Gehlen | Team Manager |  Team ALTERNATE
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JeeF | Felix Jedelhauser | Team Manager |  MVP
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Gallery[edit]
Type Gaming at Barcraft Tokyo
References[edit]
- ↑ "Type II Pro Starcraft team announcement" Thread on TeamLiquid.net. October 5th 2011.
- ↑ "Type announces Holmes Place as sponsor and creation of Japanese Roster" TypeSC.net. January 1st 2012. TeamLiquid.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".
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