MeetYourMakers
Location:	Denmark
Founded:	2004 2009 (refounded)
Dissolution:	2009
Manager(s):	Dennis Nirtl Khaled Naim Martin Wyss Christian Heese
Divisions:	Counter-Strike Warcraft III DotA Allstars
Website:	http://www.mymym.com

MeetYourMakers, abbreviated MYM, is a professional gaming organization based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in March 2001 by Mark Peter "Mercy" Fries, mainly as a Counter-Strike team.^[1] However, MeetYourMakers disbanded in 2009 but was re-founded later that year.

Contents 1 History 2 Notable Achievements 2.1 Warcraft III 2.2 Counter-Strike 2.3 DotA 2.4 StarCraft:BroodWar 3 Editorial part 4 External links 5 References

[edit] History

The original MeetYourMakers team was most famous for their WarCraft III division, from which MeetYourMakers claimed it to be the highest paid WarCraft III team around the globe^[2] along with being the top two teams in the world from November 27, 2005 on^[3]. with several sources confirming this and indicated that star player Jang Jae Ho was making $108,000 USD on a yearly basis in salary alone. The impressive records for MeetYourMakers garnered the respect and invitation for G7 Teams, which allowed them to become a member from August 8, 2006 to its dissolution in 2009.

In individual competitions the team was notoriously known for three highly-talented players: Jang Jae Ho who was ranked #3 in international competition, along with being #1 in Korean competition since his first major win in 2003, Jae Wook Noh who was ranked #10 in international competition and #5 in Korean competition throughout history with his first major win dating back to 2005 and Manuel Schenkhuizen, who was rated the #1 top Warcraft III player in the World back in 2006. These were the rankings held upon the bankruptcy of ESNation and the dissolution of MeetYourMakers on March 19, 2009. By the end of the original organization, MeetYourMakers held prize teams for Warcraft III, Counter-Strike, StarCraft and DotA.

On August 19, 2009, it was announced that MeetYourMakers had created a new team of staff and would be returning to the eSports scene with new teams.^[4] On September 10, a new Warcraft III team was revealed, followed by a Counter-Strike 1.6 team on September 20 and DotA Allstars team on October 4, respectively.^[5][6][7]

[edit] Notable Achievements

[edit] Warcraft III

• 3rd place NGL One Season V 2008
• 1st place WC3L Season XIII 2008 ^[8]
• 3rd place ROTK 2008
• 1st place NGL One Season IV 2008
• 2nd place WC3L Season XII 2007
• 1st place NGL One Season III 2007
• 2nd place WC3L Season X 2007 ^[9]
• 1st place WC3L Season IX 2006 ^[10]
• 1st place NGL One Season I 2006 ^[11]
• 2nd place WC3L Season VIII 2005 ^[12]
• 4th place WC3L Season VII 2005 ^[13]
• 2nd place WC3L Season VI 2004 ^[14]

[edit] Counter-Strike

• 1st place Pimpalo i burnike winneriai
• 2nd place Intel Extreme Masters III Global Finals
• 3rd place Dreamhack Winter 2008
• 2nd place Extreme Masters Global Challenge - Dubai 2008
• 1st place ESWC 2008 in San Jose
• 1st place Dreamhack Summer 2008
• 2nd place Samsung Euro Championship 2008
• 2nd place CPL World Season Finals 2006^[15][16]
• 2nd place Samsung European Championship 2007
• 1st place Dreamhack winter 2009

[edit] DotA

• 3rd place ESWC Grand Finals 2008
• 1st place Prime Defending League 1
• 2nd place EMS Season 2
• 1st place Fire N Ice 2007
• 1st place Sennheiser Prime Defending 9
• 2nd place Sennheiser Prime Defending 8
• 2nd place Sennheiser Prime Defending 7
• 3rd place Dreamhack Summer 2008
• 1st place Dreamhack Winter 2007
• 1st place Dreamhack Summer 2007

[edit] StarCraft:BroodWar

• 1st place iCCup CL #3
• 1st place iCCup CL #4
• 1st place iCCup CL #5
• 1st place WGTour CL 2008
• 3rd place White-ra World Cyber Games 2007
• 3rd place Strelok World Cyber Games 2008
• 1st place GameStarLeague
• 2nd place Dreamhack Winter 2007 & Summer 2008
• 3rd place for White-ra at PGL 2008
• 1st place Iefnaij - TeamLiquidStarLeague

[edit] Editorial part

While MYM describes the players and teams, myMYM describes the website which focuses on eSports coverage and content for certain games such as Counter-Strike, Warcraft 3 and DotA. The page reached it's peak of unique users in 2008 after Jonas Gebhardt (nickname: The1Crow) was hired fulltime from February 2008 and moved due to that job from his home in Stuttgart, Germany to Copenhagen, Denmark. His job title was International Content Supervisor and after Gebhardt was hired the website started to grow massively as he rebuilt and restrengthen the content part and was known inside the crew as a strong leader with clear visions. One major way to success was sending him to all major eSports event around the world, including a one month stay in China were he filmed together with Marcus 'Wind' Ho a documentary about eSports in China, which was due to unknown reasons never released.

Gebhardt also became famous for conducting more than 100 video interviews with the biggest eSports players. During his leadership myMYM massively improved the quality of its content and was known as the most important content page for Warcraft 3 and DotA related news and articles.

Later on myMYM got nominated two times in a row for the eSports Award in 2007 and 2008 which is given away by the ESL. Next to that Warcraft 3 editor Frank 'Mirhi' Fields got nominated two times in a row for best eSports Journalist in 2008 and 2009 while Marcus 'Wind' Ho was nominated in 2007. Jonas 'The1Crow' Gebhardt was nominated in 2009 for eSports Photo and won the award.

After MYM and myMYM closed its door in February 2009, Gebhardt worked on several eSports project as consultant or product manager. As MYM and myMYM.com returned later on in 2009 he returned as part time hired Content Manager.

[edit] External links

• Official Website

[edit] References