Old-school SteelSeries signed products up for grabs
While moving to our new headquarter we made a quite interesting discovery at the very bottom of the product-stacks, stored at the former office.
Around year 2005 when NiP (Ninjas in Pyjamas) was busy ruling the world Counter-Strike-wise, we worked closely together with the team on product development, and had the guys sign a few of our products during a photo shoot in Copenhagen. Current mTw player whimp (The Titans member back then) was there as well and was kind enough to sign a few Icemat shirts.
So we figured: Instead of ebaying away these very rare items, we wanted to give you guys a shot at getting your hands on them - for free. The products available at this first competition are the following:
Icemat 2nd Edition Black (SteelSeries Experience I-2) - signed by Vilden.
White Icemat shirt - signed by whimp.
White Icemat shirt - signed by whimp.
Icemat Siberia (SteelSeries Siberia full-size) - signed on the back by NiP players Ahl, Potti, HeatoN, SpawN and Hyper.
SteelSeries 5Hv2 headband (not entire headset) - signed by NiP players Ahl, Potti, HeatoN, SpawN and Hyper.
NiP-Gaming The Revival t-shirt - signed on the back by NiP players Ahl, Potti, HeatoN, SpawN and Hyper.
The competition is quite simple: Write a comment to this post that describes the most memorable highlight from your time spent within the gaming community. Everything is acceptable - we just want to know what memory you find the most important and legendary of your gaming career. What comes to your mind? Being able to visit the very first CPL event? Playing a match against a professional team? Reading about your national team taking home gold in the Nations Cup? Winning an important final match with a 140 bpm heart rate?
If this competition has a decent turn-out, I promise to put up more old-school signed gaming gear and run more events like this in the very near future.
Good luck. :)
/Casper
May 13th, 2008 15:54
Ok, for me the most memorable highlight was the SEL Season 4 Final at the Inferno Online Stockholm with the unbeatable SK.swe in 2003. I made some coverage for mTw there and it’s the best internetcafe i visit so far. It was a realy nice to see how far esport in sweden was at this time and it was enjoyable tournament too.
May 13th, 2008 17:19
Oh I found something related to SteelSeries in my coverage, what I want to add :-) The Steelpad 4D prototype used by SK.swe http://www.sk-gaming.com/photo/39537
May 13th, 2008 17:20
Sorry, but there is no edit function, here is the right pic: http://www.sk-gaming.com/photo/39486
May 13th, 2008 17:35
my best memory must have been my first big LAN and also on the same LAN we beat one of the best 1.6 teams in Finland at the time… It was an amazing feeling (this was back in 2004)
May 13th, 2008 17:41
My most memorable moment was kvickens 0-12 against playzone during Dreamhack skellefteå
May 13th, 2008 17:55
Well, the best highlight that i remember is when x6tence won against 4Kings in the groupstage in ESWC 2005 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb_lnUmv6yo). They started with 4-11 for 4Kings, and in the second part, they managed to win and went to the brackets. It was an epic win for the spanish gaming :)
May 13th, 2008 18:19
3DvsSK gaming @ CPLwinter 05′ where SK where able to win after OT on CPL_MILL. Thankz to Vildens AWP-skill and Snajdans clutch moves they won with something like 22-~~
May 13th, 2008 18:27
My most memorable moment was visiting the Crossfire Devotii Challenge 4 in Enschede, Holland. The weather was cold and rainy pretty much the whole event, including a storm with lightning and thunder which made our whole cabin shake with people screaming like mad.
The other day my teammate savage didn’t feel very well, he had caught a cold due to the bad weather. This resulted in a little kid making fun of him by staring at him all the time on the way home while he was trying to get some sleep (poor savage) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7pEAlS6fzc)
May 13th, 2008 18:56
To me the most memorable moment was when the new NiP lineup (2006 or so) beat SK in a qualifier for some competition, turning around the match from being under 3-12 after the T round on train, to a 16-14 win.
Every NiP player was on fire, and the completely overrun SK. How they managed to get back from the dump they were in was amazing.
The match was played not long after I really got into CS, and it was just an amazing experience.
May 13th, 2008 19:24
my most memorable moment must be when i still played Day of Defeat, was playing CAL-open with some schoolfriends. when we in the semifinals was forced to beat the number one team in the world Begrip. We got our asses kicked like never before. But when you get accused of using aimbot from the best team in the world, you must be proud of yourself.
May 13th, 2008 19:37
my most memorable moment must be when we cleared Molten core for the first time! And took down the big bad RAGNAROS! such a great feeling taking him down and get server first!
May 13th, 2008 19:40
Well this is a mix of a very good memory and a very bad one :) I was up one night and played a cs-cup with some friends and we had made us to the final. First round and we where defenders @ inferno. Me and 1 m8 held the b-site. He was a little aggro and i was defensive in the site. The rush came and my m8 was killed and i manage to take 2 of them and then runaway and team up with my other m8’s. We took the “banana” way and they had 2 peep’s there. My friends died pretty quick by them and i manage to take them with my grenade and then i rushed into the site and took the last guy of them and the bomb was tickin so fast that i had to defuse directly, my friends was cheering in ventrilo and i was so happy so i answered them. But then the round was lost because i have Mouse3 as the push-to-talk key and that is the same button i use to jump in cs. So when i released the button i managed to scroll the button down :/ So from over excited to have the biggest feeldown of the night in just one buttonklick. That was like the best and wors moment for me, but after i was just laughing about it.
May 13th, 2008 20:08
My best memory of my gaming career was when me and my friends went to Dreamhack 1999! We were not so intresed in playing games but when we saw the old NiP (HeatoN, potti, ahl and so on..). I got so insipred that i just had to try the game, i played everyday for like 1 month and i got stuck on the game real quick. I became fast one of the best players in my town! I was recognized when i went to the town by cs players and other ppl. It was great to feel like HeatoN and the other pro people do, that is so awesome! :)
May 13th, 2008 20:34
Best memory of my cs career were back in the betas when CS was such fun to play and there were no recoil and you did increase speed when jumping not decrease.
I remember me and my friends that lived in the same street as me jumped of school just to play this awesome game all day long.
Back then it was other pros than HeatoN and the others that is well known today.
Ahh beautiful memories.
May 13th, 2008 20:59
My best memory was when i was at dreamhack summer 2003 with my brother and his friends i was kind of nervous beacuse i was only 13 and i had just began to play counter-strike. I was huuuge fan of heaton and potti back then. When we came to Jönköping i was so excited and just wanted to start my computer and start to play. After a couple of hours i saw them, i couldn`t belive my eyes it was heaton and potti like 15meters from me. I got very excited and forced my brother to follow me to get their signs on my mousepad. My brother forced me to follow and i did. I got red like an tomato in my face when they asked for my name. When we walked back to our computers i was just so happy, i jumped and runned to my computer to tell my friends that i got heaton and pottis signs on my mousepad. They got reeaaaly jealous! Now after 5 years i still got the mousepad hanging at the wall as a memory of the two counter-strike legends heaton and potti!
Best memory ever!
May 13th, 2008 21:23
Oh god how bad I want some of that stuff and of course - when I need my memory most it’s all empty and out of service. Well, I need to at least give it a try - its not my happiest gaming moment alltough it is quite funny afterwards;
It all happened ~1.5 weeks ago, it was saturday and I had just got out of the bed. I started my computer and went downstairs to make some chicken soup. Great start of the day. The soup was ready and I grabbed a cup and went upstairs with this lovelly breakfast. After a while, when the soup was a bit cooler, I started to whip it with a spoon. The only problem is that my imagination was somewhere far far away from that soup. It all ends up with a too hard whip and the not to lovelly soup flows out all over my keyboard, headset and mousemat - GOD DAMNIT.
My gaming is a bit different these days; an old win98-keyboard and a lousy mousepad. The only thing I could save was the mouse :O
// F - in need of some luck.
May 13th, 2008 22:18
My facorite gaming memory would have to be little less than a year ago when our team at the time managed to make a 15-0 comeback as ct to win a match 16-14 on nuke where we had become really depressed after the horrible t-side.
We managed to get some momentum in the first few rounds and everyone started shouting like never before in vent which just raised the energy level for everyone and for the remaining 11 rounds we completely shut the other team down as everyone brought their game to a whole new level. It was an amazing feeling to take that last round and we couldn’t stop laughing in vent.
May 13th, 2008 23:24
This story is from way back in the days, when people played de_aztec and bunny-jumped around with deagles on a daily basis. On the 13th of December, when all the cool Swedish kids in our age got drunk on 3,5or and stayed up all night waiting for a blond hot chick dressed in a white dress and candles in her hair to appear, we did the same, minus the 3,5or and the hot chick. What we did have, was a lot more computers and cheeze ballz. This would be our first LAN ever. Since we were new to CS (some of us had only played for a week or two) we had to play against #pracc.se-n00bs. Even then we got our asses whopped, that is how bad we sucked. Even POD-bots had a chance. We were at the bottom of the food chain. But we were happy, because that is what huge amounts of sugary drinks and playing computer all night with your friends makes you when you are fourteen.
We became even happier when while looking for someone to play against at 4 o’clock in the morning, someone from SoA (who were on of that times most famous clans, they were even in “Frag or Die” goddamnit) whispered us as a reply on our “5 on 5, your server, we are lolz”-spam. They wanted to play against us. We just stared at each other for a couple of seconds, then rushed onto their server. This was holy ground for us.
We were convinced that if we just managed to get some cool frags we would be in the next Superplayers, and then HeatoN would become our best buddy for life, giving us a life time supply of Jolt Cola and Alienware computers for being the most l33t haxxorz on the planet.
Well… After 12 rounds it was 0 - 12 to them. It was also 0 - 12 to all of us. But we were still happy, even though we stank of Danish urine.
At the start of round 13 it happened. I put my .45 bullet from my deagle through one of the Danes head. Blood was everywhere. Cheeze ballz was flying in the room where we sat. Even with all the adrenaline pumping through my body, I remembered to push “print screen”. Then I just sat there, jaw dropped, hearing the screams of my friends as if they were really far away, even though they were next to me.. It was fucking ecstasy. And after this, it just kept on getting more awesome.
2 minutes later we had won the round, and I had even got one more frag. As a side effect of the high spirit in the room, we had also woken everyone in the house with our victorious teenage roars. We did not care about that. We were all of a sudden, even if it was only in our minds, progamers. And progamers do not care about their parents beauty sleep.
20 minutes later, the game was over. 22 - 2. SoA said that we was one of the lousiest clans they had ever played against. We did not care about that, not the least bit. We had our rounds that we won, we had the screenshots and most importantly we had each other.
That morning, after the SoA-game, we won every game we played against the random-#pracc.se-n00bz we met. That early December morning, we were invincible.
… Uhm. Sorry about the wall of text. It got a little out of hand. Well, for you who read it through, thanks for taking the time. Now hand over that damn headset!!11 =D=DD
May 14th, 2008 01:03
My greatest E-sport memory… I think it must have been my first real LAN party and the year was 2002
I had been to several small LANpartys but this was a big one with 100 gamers.
I hardly knew what CS was back then but since I was going to this LAN I ofc had to buy it. So 1 day before the LAN starts Im stressed sick about finding the right patches and making the game work my parents was think about not even alowing me to go since I was so stressed out finaky I managed to get everything to work and I toke my Good ‘ol P2 450Mhz to the big LAN (No P2 wasent good at the time)
The feeling was amazing for the first time I felt that I belonged somewhere even if I dident know how to change my name in CS and was called “Player” the whole LAN and even thought I was dead 99% of the time (and got the Nickname *DEAD* since it would be another color back then)
And bang something amazing is coming on the bigscreen..
I hear Fear of the Dark and see Darkred screenshots in a good mixture I can feel the WooooW feeling and 1 min later I knew that I wanted to be a CS Progamer seeing Heaton, Potti, oath, Xenon… it gave a meaning to my life back when I was 12 years old.
May 14th, 2008 07:54
I remember when i first played cs in the summer of 05.All my friend were pro and i was a noob,and one day a friend told me about the best clan in the world,Sk. I google sk and found there homepage and
a video called “SK belive”. I downloaded it and i was in love in Sk and specially in vilden and his awp. My friend learned me how to watch demos in cs. I started to studie his moves and how he shots. And one day me and my friends were planing to go to an i-net club and play cs.They had a clan and i was to bad to play in it,but that they all my practice was payed of
i started buying awp and owning them.You should
see the look on there faces.Sow finally i was in the “gang”. After a year of practice we decided to go to the famous Dreamhack . When we got there i saw something i never thought i would see. It was vilden and his SK . I tried to go closer to him but he was surrounded by fans and they got sined headset and sweaters and i was to late. But i SK went out soon and the tournament and they left DH . I was sow close to talk to vilden. And today i still think about what if i got to speak to vilden.
May 14th, 2008 07:58
My best counter strike memory was at a LAN at my friend. We were 6 friends that sat in his garage. We were all noobs and had only been playing on de_rats and fy_simpson. But the Lan was realy fun because we played against each other. And we didn´t know what mIRC was. We had realy bad internet connection so no one was aloud at MSN because that would make us have delay +100 on the public servers. And we played all night against each other and on some random publics. That was great fun :)
May 14th, 2008 14:16
My best memory related to gaming is when I met the pro’s at warpzone, a Norwegian LAN. The whole team catch-gamer(prb, REAL, juve9le, bSL, ooPS) were there and this was back in 2005. I was so lucky and I had butterflies flying in my stomach.I had a team, called team-ePort and we met the team during the LAN. We got really owned, but something really surprising happened.I busted all the 5 players in a B-rush and aced, all the 5 players lied on the ground and were just astonished. This was totally the biggest moment of my gaming-career. After the match(which ended 16-11) team catch-gamer spectated me during the other games. We ended up at a 2nd place and won 10.000 NOK. This was just great, and that’s the reason for why I’m still competing.
May 14th, 2008 15:52
Many people, mostly swedes, recognizes me from the betting section at www.fragbite.com
An incredible memory was back in 2005 when I reset my bites to 1.000 the 27th of August, in other words 4 days from the end of the betting round.
That Saturday night the betting waqs a success for me with many matches from “Kylie Invite” (Kylie from Begrip’s own cup). No more matches were played after the Saturday, and 4 days later I was declared the winner of the month with slightly less than 30.000 bites. I had managed to get my 1.000 bites to grow to 30.000 in one single night, a growth that usually takes the whole monthly-long round.
This story might not sound supernatural for a stranger of Fragbite, but for those how know the betting system is this surely an unbeatable record made by ME! :)
May 15th, 2008 12:10
the most memorable cs match i have ever seen was cpl grand final 2005 between SK and lunatic hai i stayed up to 4 o clock in the morning when the match started to see that match with my older brother. it was so amazing with the skill of the players all of sk played great! i will remember that for ever. and when SK won me and my brother yelld out and woke the whole family. that night i could go to sleep with a smile on my lips :)
May 15th, 2008 14:52
One of my alltime favorite E-sport memory was about two years ago. Me and two friends joined a clan and after some time we got pretty good. The actual shock for us was when we started playing some of the more unknown yet better teams. Im not saying that im a pro (far from it) but i did have talent.
Anyhow, to the major event.
Me and my two friends planted the bomb at A in de_dust2. We knew the opposite team were at B since one of our decoys just died there. I was running down and taking a couple of shots att them from afar while they were going straight from B to A. I suddenly got into this mad-crazed killing mode where i seemed to hit everything spot on. Two guys just instantly died when they showed their faces. I turned around and ran up to the bomb, taking out one shooting at me from the lowered shelter (the one you pass when running from T´s starting point, going left and going for A) I didn´t even see him, i just took a shot at the place where i thought from experiance he would stand, and saw the red splash. Turning around, facing the bomb area, im seeing two CT´s coming around the corner from the catwalk. I finish one off by this lucky HS that goes straight thru the wall and hits him. Then im locked in this huge duel that ended with me emptying my AK-47, and with 1 bullet left, i got the final shot by shooting him thru the edge of a box. At the end of this event, i had 1 hp left and the huge cheering on ventrilo.
That has to be one of THE most amazing things ever happening to me while gaming.
Sorry for the long comment, wanted to all the little details in.
May 16th, 2008 01:04
The most fun thing I can remember related to gaming was when the LAN Dreamhack was in Borlänge, and there was this guy walking in his sleep on the second floor, and unfortunate enough he managed to fall down from the second floor and hurt himself pretty badly in the process. When asked about it, he said that he dreamed he was jumping around on platforms in Quake 3. Haha, even though the poor fella hurt himself, you couldn’t help laughing your ass off!
May 16th, 2008 14:27
My greatest memory is when i were on DreamHack and saw all the great players and i got Really excited about standing behind them and watch them play. i stoud behind my favourite player, Vilden, and saw him do a really nice game vs. Aftermath. after the game i was kinda close to him ( :p ) and he jumped of the chair and turned around. i was exactly there and i to cheering cuz they won. when he saw me cheering he said, Hey Fella, and jumped to him m8s.
i just hope it was me he was talkin to ^^
May 18th, 2008 09:12
the biggest deal for me was when valve first released their HLDS update that allowed a spectator-only server, and i set it up on my server (#3 CS server in the world at the time) and had 128 people all spectating the server. that was when i realized how video games might be the next “professional sports.” i know it’s a boring story but it was very exciting at the time :P
May 19th, 2008 16:05
My best memory from my gaming “career” must have been some years ago (I was 15 at that time) when I was in the US on vacation with my parents. This was about the time where I really started getting into CS 1.6 and knowing about the celebrities/pro-gamers on the scene. I can’t remember what city we were in but we went out for dinner one night and I actually walked by Ksharp when we left the place where we had eaten.
I didn’t notice him until he had walked past me but then it shook me that it was actually the 3D player! I couldn’t remember his nickname back then, but I remembered him from some event photos I had seen online. I quickly turned around (my parents not really knowing what I was doing), tapped him on the back and asked him if he would sign an autograph for me. He was of course happy to do that, and my mom happened to have a pen in her purse.
This might not seem a big deal to all of you, but this happening actually resulted in me getting to explain a lot about gaming to my parents. They had no idea about how big gaming is/was but after finding out that I actually got the autograph from a gamer (and not a musician, which they thought for a start), they got really curious.
From that point on, they actually started to respect my gaming way more than before, so it was a great turning point in my relationship to both gaming and my parents.
(PS: I still have the autograph in my closet :D)
May 19th, 2008 17:49
my most memorable moment will be winning 1 of the last 3 mouse pad (Qck Heavy) from SteelSeries Christmas Competition @ HLTV.org http://www.hltv.org/?pageid=35&newsid=436 , i will be able to try out the quality of Steelseries product especially the long lasting cloth pad.
May 20th, 2008 13:08
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May 20th, 2008 22:16
Most memorable moment (so far), must have been when visiting ESWC for the first time. It was ESWC 2007 in Paris. Grand final featured PGS and NoA. To watch the final was 5000 turned-on fans, that put a solid memory in my mind. The French fans had favored NoA and when yelling “NOA NOA NOA” or just cheering in general, it gave me goose-bumps. It might sound a bit odd to some, to get goose-bumps from a Counter-Strike final, but thats truth and nothing but the truth.
Several time after this happened, I’ve experienced getting goose-bumps by watching intense Counter-Strike up close (KODE5 mTw vs SK-Gaming). So if you ever have the chance to visit a grand final, I really recommend you to do it, should the chance occur.
To those of you who didn’t attend ESWC 2007 in Paris, watch the link below. Who knows, you might even get goose-bumps(?).
http://www.dailymotion.com/Yaourt1511/video/x2ii6m_noa-win-the-second-map-eswc-2007-gr_events
May 26th, 2008 08:12
My best CS memory comes from my early “carrer” days. I played for a clan called Debil formed by me and some irl mates. We were shit and the victories were few but we still keep coming. After finishing last in most online tournament we signed up for our day of glory came…
It was the summer of 2006, me and my clanmates had been LANing for 2 days when it finaly happend. We had reached the final of one of playparks online tournaments. Before the game we all sat down watching SK believe followed by us running around the room yelling “come on boys lets get them!”. 15 minutes later after the warmup the final began. It was a tight game on cpl_mill. The first rounds I was more nervous than the time I lost my virginty. But then the adrenalin took over and every frag were followed by shouting. And then it came, the final round vs Bevara (Swedish clan). We rush B1 loosing 2 guys taking out one ct, planted the bomb and took defensiv positions. My mate Per who was the best player of our team took out 2 guys before being picked of. It was now 3on3. I took out one guy with a HE, 20 sec left on the bomb timer. We could smell victory! 10 sec left. We take out another ct and then booooom! We rised from our chair and started screaming. An unbeatable feeling. And there you go my best counter strike memory.
/Deil_zor
June 17th, 2008 17:16
oh My God!
can i have one ?just one!
June 17th, 2008 17:30
i want to make friends with you who love CS1.6 and i want to konw something about CS
my emil:397428876@qq.com
please
i’m very happy to received your email
June 17th, 2008 17:36
i haven’t any experience
because i’m a girl,and in china there are so less girl who play CS,but i’m very love to play CS with boys,there are no reasons but love
come on!CS!fighting!
June 25th, 2008 17:15
I know the competition is over and i won’t get any prize for this, but, im really surprised how noone mentioned the World Cyber Games 2004 game where Schroet Kommando fought Team 3D at de_nuke. That was the most amazing game i’ve ever seen in my life, and im probably not the only one. That was something truly incredible what SK did. (Just wanted to remind you guys of this fact)
June 29th, 2008 07:48
no wait, sorry, wrong event. it was CPL Winter 2005, where they even took overtime to de_cpl_mill :/
Weird how i realised it only after 15 hours of Diablo II multyplayer :|