Month: February 2020

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Announcement of Head Coach “pNshr”

Announcement of Head Coach “pNshr”

We are proud to announce that SKADE has secured the services of veteran coach Nikolay “pNshr” Pauninto as the new head coach of our CS:GO roster. Nikolay signed with SKADE after being spending a year with Copenhagen Flames. His desire to work with his native Bulgarians was a perfect match for SKADE’s Bulgarian lineup.

SKADE has improved immeasurably over the past months, and the roster’s potential to reach the top tier leagues meant that we need someone that was 100% dedicated to ensuring their success. This responsibility was something Nikolay wanted to be part of, and we quickly found common ground. He’s already been working with the team for several weeks, but he has officially signed on with SKADE ahead of our next event in Copenhagen Games.

Previous Head Coach and CEO Kim-Erik “Zarotan” Aanes will continue on as CEO as we expand our esports efforts across several projects. Kim-Erik will continue to be involved with our Counter-Strike team, the change now gives him more opportunity to focus on growing our brand. With Aanes’ oversight, pNshr will focus on strategy and player performance in-game.

Aanes has this to say on pNshr’s addition: “Based on the improvement we have seen in this roster and our goal of reaching the top tier scene, a coach that can dedication 100% of his time to the team is what we needed. pNshr has already worked with the guys for some time, and I can say that he is what we needed as we look forward to several online tournaments and Copenhagen Games in April.”
Please welcome Nikolay to the SKADE family, and for those teams who will face our Bulgarian force in the future; good luck

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PRESS RELEASE: FLASHPOINT LOS ANGELES

PRESS RELEASE: FLASHPOINT LOS ANGELES

Through February we’ve been extremely proud of our team to have overcome the European Qualifier, granting us a spot at the Global Qualifier of Flashpoint League. Defeating several teams higher ranked than us, going on a 6/1 win/loss run we gained one of only two tickets, finishing second among 32 teams total in the European qualifiers.

It is with great sadness we have to cancel the trip due to a series of VISA application issues at the US Bulgarian Embassy, where our team and coach were declined their VISA`s as a result we are not able to participate in this event.

We want to thank the lawyers from FaceIT and those at the Embassy trying their best to help us with the VISA’s. We understand they had to do everything by the book, we are sad to say that it all came down to a misunderstanding about the potential winnings from the tournament.

We as a team are upset about this, but again this is not the end of the world! With the experience about how this process works will surely give us ammunition not to fail at a later stage. Because there will for sure will be several later stages!

We are practicing and prepared for new challenges and we have just begun our preparations for the Copenhagen Games in about 1.5 months.

Stay tuned Denmark. We are coming!

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SKADE BEAT SPIRIT TO QUALIFY FOR FLASHPOINT GLOBAL QUALIFIER

SKADE have secured the last spot in the FLASHPOINT Global Qualifier from Europe after taking down Spirit in the closed qualifier’s consolidation final.

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FlashPoint | Here we go!

FlashPoint | Here we go!

What an adventure the boys have gone through, big victory for the Skade squad Next up is the Global Qualifiers In Los Angeles. What a match we had. GG and well fought by Team Spirit

We are thrilled and excited to play live on LAN once again, Super proud of all the boys, and we will focus on practice and be ready for LA 3rd-5th of March

“Overall I’m really proud of the team, we’ve had a really confident game, no pressure at all throughout the whole series. We just played like practice and we took the win.” Teodor “Spellan” Nikolov

“Can’t express myself right now I’m so happy. Really proud of the team, every one played so well.. Some crucial rounds went in our favor and that helped us secure the second map.” Alex “Rainwaker” Petrov

“My hands are f*g shaking i was literally crying on the phone with my mother and my baby brother” Ivan “rock1ng” Stratiev

“Overall I’m really proud of the team, we’ve had a really confident game, no pressure at all throughout the whole series. We just played like practice and we took the win.” Kostadin “rafftu” Turbinov

If you want to support us even more go follow all our medias and feel free to share our achievement with all your friends

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Make a living playing video games

Should teenagers be encouraged to spend more time playing video games, asks Kim-Erik Aanes. In this talk he takes us through his journey from playing alone to being part of a global esport community with huge events that surpasses world championships in traditional sports. Kim-Erik Aanes teaches esports at Vefsn Folkehøgskole Toppen and manages his own team of competition gamers through the organization GamersLeague eSports.

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Til europatoppen med Skade

Kim-Erik Aanes signerte kontrakter med de første spillerne til e-sportklubben Skade….

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GAMIFICATION, VÆXT MOSJØEN

Bli med og lær mer om en svært voksende næring globalt, nemlig gaming!Vi får besøk av Kim Erik Aanes fra HelgeLan AS. Han skal fortelle oss om gaming som E-sport og som næring.Hva er det næringslivet trenger fra gamere?
Hvordan kan næringslivet benytte kunnskapen og egenskapene som gamere har opparbeidet seg?Dette er et spennende tema som vi skal snakke mer om under Gamification på Væxt Mosjøen 23. Oktober.

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“Er de nye toppidrettsutøverne virtuelle?”

Når ble det egentlig toppidrett å spille videospill? I store deler av verden regnes nå data- og videospilling som idrett og ‘gamere’ kalles ‘virtuelle idrettsutøvere’. Konkurranser i videospilling er blitt e-sport. Grovt sett finnes det tre kategorier av e-sport: (1) strategispill (som Star Craft og League of Legends), (2) spill som simulerer analog/fysisk idrett (FIFA, NBA, NHL) og (3) skytespill (såkalte ‘First person shooters’ som Counter Strike og Fortnite). Strategispillet League of Legends (LoL) er en av de mest populære spillene med 100 millioner individuelle spillere i 2018. Blant spillene som simulerer idrett er FIFA mest populært med sine 45 millioner spillere, men størst av alle troner skytespillet Fortnite med over 250 millioner spillere. De mest anerkjente utøverne kringkaster seg selv mens de spiller, på plattformer hvor de kan snakke med sine fans mens de spiller. Noen av dem har globale følgerskarer på størrelse med fanbasen til rockestjerner. 

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Flashpoint Closed Qualifier

Flashpoint Closed Qualifier

Amazing news everyone, we have got the direct invitation to the closed qualifier of the Flashpoint CS:GO tournament “played from February 14th-17th”

We are extremely grateful and happy to have received this invitation 🤠 we hope to reach far 🏆 and we will prepare this upcoming week, not letting this awesome opportunity slip by.

On our twitter we have daily updates and there will be more information about the matches coming up 😃

-Kim-Erik Aanes
“We are super excited to get this invite, and not just because it’s a big tournament. For us it’s also a sign of recognition that our hard work is starting to show and pay off. Now all focus is on preparation for this qualifier and hopefully the boys will bring their a-game for this one. If they do there is no stopping them”

-R0cking
“We are so grateful that we got invited to the FLASHPOINT closed Qualifier, we were struggling to get invites for closed quals. Now as soon as we got this chance we don’t think we are going to miss it out, we will prepare and we gonna do our best to qualify for the L.A playoffs and qualify for the Global Event”

https://www.hltv.org/…/5…/flashpoint-europe-closed-qualifier
https://www.flashpoint.live

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