MeetYourMakers

MeetYourMakers GmbH
Location Headquarters in Mannheim, Germany
Founded 2000
Manager(s) Matthew Brookes
Divisions FIFA 14
Battlefield 4
Hearthstone
Heroes of the Storm
Website mymym.com

MeetYourMakers (MYM or mYm) is an esports organization based in Germany. It competes in League of Legends (LoL), Dota 2, StarCraft II, and Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. MYM was founded in 2001.

MYM dropped their WarCraft III team in 2009.[1]

In July 2015 MeetYourMakers was involved in an incident where the team manager threatened to take Marcin "Kori" Wolski's house away as a result of his leaving the team.[2][3][4][5] After the dissolution of their previous LoL team they acquired League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) team Supa Hot Crew.[6]

In the history of MYM, players and teams from MYM were featured with awards like “eSports player of the year”, “eSports team of the year” and more founder Brian M Layne. MYM won more than 400 titles at important major events around the world, including the World Cyber Games (WCG) and the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC).

During 2008 MeetYourMakers sponsored the "Golden Five" Polish Counter-Strike players Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas, Filip "NEO" Kubski, Łukasz "LUq" Wnęk, Mariusz "loord" Cybulski, and Jakub "Kuben" Gurczyński, and this team was one of the best teams in the world at the time, winning tournaments such as DreamHack Summer 2008 and ESWC 2008.

History

In 2000, the Dane Mark Peter "Mercy" Fries founded the organization Meet Your Makers, the first time publicly made its appearance in 2001. 2002, the decision was made to rebuild Meet Your Makers to a professional organization.

The organization Meet Your Makers was bought by investors in 2006. These investors founded together with the former owners of the company Regroup eSports A / S, which was' renamed on 16 July 2008 in ESNation A / S beginning of August 2006 joined MYM unification G7 Teams at.

The Warcraft III Department has always been considered the flagship of Meet Your Makers. MYM players have reached many high rankings in various international leagues and tournaments, such as the ESL WC3L Series, the NGL ONE and World Cyber Games. Jang "Moon" Jae-ho Since February 2006, the Korean professional players stood at Meet Your Makers under contract. He was considered the best paid Warcraft III player in the world, his monthly salary was estimated at around 8,000 euros during his time in MYM article about Moons content the beginning of 2008 also changed the Dutch Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen to MYM.

The end of 2007: committed Meet Your Makers after several failed attempts to gain a foothold in the Counter-Strike world, the reigning World Cyber Games World Champion PGS Gaming. The new team won the Electronic Sports World Cup 2008.

Early 2009 sparked the MYM team for Warcraft III and Starcraft on surprising.

First August 2009: bought the Leipziger IT companies' FIO Systems AG Meet Your Makers, a few weeks later the organization with new teams in Warcraft III, Counter-Strike and Warcraft was reopened III DotA.

On June 6, 2012: the Meet Your Makers was sold by the FIO Systems AG to a private investor and registered as a limited company. 'Khaled Naim' acts since as managing director of Meet Your Makers GmbH.

June 2014: Meet Your Makers GmbH cooperates with the hmf Group (Mannheim), which constitute an integral marketing partner and support in the operational sales.

October 2014: currently owns Meet Your Makers team in Fifa 14 Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm and Battlefield 4

Active and former players/teams

Call of Duty 4

Not decided yet (but probably from Serbia)

World Of Warcraft: Nostalrius/Elysium (New 2016)

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (New 2016)

Former

Starcraft II

Warcraft III

League of Legends (disbanded)

FIFA 14

Hearthstone

Battlefield 4

Tournament results

Counter-Strike

Warcraft III

League of Legends

Battlefield 4

References

  1. ↑ Turlakov, Ivan "GpZ)Zork(". "MeetYourMakers drops WarCraft 3 team".
  2. ↑ "MeetYourMakers". LoL Esports. Riot Games.
  3. ↑ LeJacq, Yannick (9 February 2015). "League Of Legends Player Tries To Quit Team, Manager Freaks Out". Kotaku. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
  4. ↑ Lewis, Richard (8 February 2015). "MYM threatened Kori with taking his mother's house". The Daily Dot. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
  5. ↑ Zacny, Rob (3 Feb 2015). "LCS team MeetYourMakers in contract scandal after threatening to take a player's family home". PCGamesN. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  6. ↑ "Meet Your Makers | LoL Esports". Retrieved 2015-12-15.
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