- Dennis Gehlen
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Dennis Gehlen TaKe, TaKeSeN 
Status inactive Date of birth March 7, 1986 Hometown Krefeld Country of origin Germany Current team Team Alternate Games Warcraft III Series, Starcraft 2 Official website Dennis „TaKe“ Gehlen (* March 7, 1986 in Krefeld) is a professional Starcraft-II-commentator and works as a freelancer for Turtle Entertainment which hosts ESL-TV as well as the Electronic Sports League.
He is able to rely on many famous co-casters, because of his former gaming career. Gehlen is a former Warcraft-III-player, founder and manager of the clan SK06 (today SK Gaming).
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Biography
In 2001, Gehlen started his gaming-career with the game Starcraft Broodwar but one year later changed to Warcraft III[1] playing "Human". Later in 2002, Gehlen was able to celebrate his biggest win in a tournament (finished second in the ESL Pro Series) and won 6500 €. In the next year Gehlen wasn't able to achieve such a good place, but in 2004 he was able to finish under the top three.
Only 19 years old, Gehlen became team-manager of his clan Team SK06.[2] After finishing his A-Levels he started working for Turtle Entertainment[3] and began his career as E-Sport-commentator. Furthermore he is managing the Team Alternate and lead it to big tournaments wins in the years 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Since the beginning of the Starcraft II Beta, he began playing and commentating for his new game. In spring 2011 Gehlen became a freelancer but gets hired by Turtle Entertainment for events like the ESL Pro Series or the Homestory Cup.
Homestory Cup
Homestory Cup I
The first Homestory Cup took place in September 2010 and the only players attending were Benjamin "DeMusliM“ Baker, Dennis "HasuObs“ Schneider, Giacomo "Socke“ Thüs, and Jos "ret“ de Kroon. Gehlen and Kevin "RotterdaM“ Van der Kooi casted the event with a price money of 500 €. "DeMuslim“ was able to defeat the other players and to win the tournament. The event was casted from Gehlens flat which was the main reason why it was named "Homestory Cup".
Homestory Cup II
Because of the great success of the first Homestory Cup, Gehlen decided to acquire some sponsors, to raise the price money to 2800 € and he was able to invite eleven players to his house while five others were joining online. Gehlen and also players casted the games and viewer peaks of 20000 could be reached. „White-Ra“ was able to win the tournament.
Players in Gehlen's flat Online players Dmytro 'DIMAGA' Filipchuk Pavel 'BratOK' Kuznetsov Carlo 'ClouD' Giannacco Oleksii 'White-Ra' Krupnyk Giacomo 'Socke' Thüs Grzegorz 'MaNa' Komincz Dario 'TLO' Wünsch Johan 'Naniwa' Lucchesi Benjamin 'DeMusLiM' Baker Stefan 'MorroW' Andersson Jonathan 'DarK.FoRcE' Belke Benoit 'Adelscott' Strypsteen Dennis 'HasuObs' Schneider Lahtinen 'Naama' Santeri Jeffrey 'SjoW' Brusi Hayder 'Haypro' Hussein Homestory Cup III
The third Homestory Cup takes place from June 23 till 26, 2011[4] Because Gehlen moved to a bigger flat, it was possible to invite 32 players and the price pool increased to 5000 €.
The following players will attend the tournament[4]:
Protoss (14) Terran (8) Zerg (10) White-Ra GoOdy IdrA MC Jimpo Delphi HuK DeMusliM DIMAGA Socke Jinro ret HasuObs ClouD Dark.FoRcE NaNiwa Tarson Machine Grubby ThorZaIN XlorD SaSe Naama MoMaN Bischu HayprO Tyler Stephano Adelscott ToD NightEnD iNSoLeNCe Furthermore, it will be possible to watch all the matches through the ESL-site or fans can watch it directly in an Irish Pub below Gehlen's flat.[5]
Achievements[6]
Year Event Result 2002 ESL Pro Series Season 1 2. Place 2004 ESL Pro Series Season 5 3. Place 2006 NGL ONE 2. Place 2006 ASUS European Nations War 2006 1. Place 2007 ASUS European Nations War 2007 3. Place 2008 ASUS European Nations War 2008 1. Place References
- ^ inWarcraft.de - Die größte deutsche Warcraft 3 Seite. Infos, Tipps, Tricks, Downloads, Foren, Strategien und vieles mehr zu WarCraft III von Blizzard. - by inGame
- ^ inWarcraft.de - Die größte deutsche Warcraft 3 Seite. Infos, Tipps, Tricks, Downloads, Foren, Strategien und vieles mehr zu WarCraft III von Blizzard. - by inGame
- ^ prediction Gaming e.V. - one step ahead
- ^ a b HomeStoryCup III - Preview
- ^ Fragster - Public Viewing beim Homestory Cup 3
- ^ ESL: TaKe - Player - Germany - ESL - Die eSport-Liga
External Links
Categories:- German Internet personalities
- German sports announcers
- StarCraft commentators
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Professional StarCraft players
- Professional StarCraft II players
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