written by Nasser "xani" El Mouaden

SK Gaming (Schroet Kommando) is one of the most well known teams around the world and stands as a legend since oldschool times in the world of Counter-Strike since the team has been the home of some of the greatest player eSport has known such as HeatoN, potti, SpawN, elemeNt and so on... The former german organization has seen its swedish counter-strike division grow faster and faster to finnally get the most performing roster of the two SK divisions. They've won most of the big events around the world and dominated 2003 almost flawlessly.

We saw them playing pretty well at last weekend WCG swedish qualifiers, having some close games against the winner in the group stage (14:16) to fnatic and versus NiP in semifinal loosing two maps (de_nuke : 14:16; de_dust2 : 10:16).

SK Gaming lineup :

• Abdissamad "SpawN" Mohamed
• Christer "fisker" Eriksson
• Robert "RobbaN" Dahlstrom
• Jimmy "allen" Allen
• Emil "striker" Westerberg

Fnatic has been part of the very best teams in the world for around 2 years now when dsn got involved in it; for the first as a stand-in for CPL singapoure where he performed well what made him become a full member of fnatic's Counter-Strike squad.

After reforming the team in 2006 by bringing in cArn, his mate from their former team Gamers.nu, the newcomer Archi, and f0rest and Tentpole from begrip, things started to work out quite well as the lineup was gathering undoubtedly some of the best skills and most aggressive playstyle around what made the team strong enough to perform well at big events as they kept doing later on by placing 3rd at ESWC grand finals 2007 and getting the #1 spot in GameGune, WEG e-Stars 2007 and swedish WCG qualifiers where they took the final over NiP pretty easily.

Moreover they also ended up 1st at the last NGL One season.

Fnatic will stand as favourite in this NGL One finals.

Fnatic's lineup :

• Harley "dsn" Orwall
• Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg
• Patrik "cArn" Sattermon
• Oskar "ins" Holm
• Oscar "Archi" Torgersen

Team NoA : The whole thing started in November 26th of 2003 when team NoA was created firstly with an intercontinental norwegian/american/canadian (3/1/1) roster. They reached the CPL winter grand final loosing to SK after around one month after their creation. After that, NoA kept rocking the north american scene and won the CPL summer event 2004 by beatting EYEballers in an awesome final, meanwhile elemeNt was added to the team.

Then team NoA went on a fully scandinavian based team adding swedes ( Red, speedi, kixer) and kept changing and trying new combination by adding new two norwegian players (xione, prb) and two danes from team Asylum; zonic and hpx.

They performed well after these moves as they won the shgOpen 2006 easily.

Summer 2006 was a turning for the team as XeqtR announced quiting professional gaming along with prb not renewing his contract what left as norwegian just the name of the team.

The team signed a full danish lineup with at the beginning Paddy, who was replaced later on by Sunde.

They finnally headed to ESWC where they reach the final to give us an amazing and very close match against the polish powerhouse PGS.

NoA's lineup :

• Danny "zonic" Sorensen
• Brian "hpx" Pohl Christensen
• Muhamed "mJe" Eid
• Alexander "ave" Holdt
• Christoffer "Sunde" Sunde

mousesports : mouz has been one of the best german teams for years now. Created in Berlin in 2002, mouz sheltered some of the greatest names of german counter-strike scene such as the AWP legend Johnny R., blizzard, Roman R , more recently Silver and so on...

Mousesports have had turbulent times as its lineup didnt stop changing, it kept therefore instable and the team wasn't able to practice as they should. We saw them playing the "newcomer card" as they added cyx and gob b to their starting lineup.

However, they managed to get a spot for NGL One finals by beatting x6tence easily on de_train (16:01) and confirmed by winning their next NGL One match versus NoA on de_nuke (16:09).

They will attend the NGL One finals at the games convention as underdogs.

mousesports lineup :

• Navid "Kapio" Javadi
• Antonio "cyx" Daniloski
• Fatih "gob b" Dayik
• Franz "gore" Burghardt
• Manuel "Tixo" Makohl