Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Living Legend "Grubby"




Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen (22 years old)  is a Dutch professional player of the real time strategy game Warcraft III  he is currently playing in the electronic sports team "Meet Your Makers" (MYM). He was rated the #1 top Warcraft III player in the World by SK-Gaming and WCReplays.com in 2006.  His total prize money earnings are over $160,000 USD. Additional incomes over the years have come from various sources such as a salary received from professional gaming team Meet Your Makers , offering Warcraft 3 lessons , sponsors and commercials. In addition he has been dating with "Miss Singapure 2003".

His Notable Accomplishments:
* 2008 1st ESL Continental Final Asia (prize: $5 000) (Korea)
* 2008 1st World Cyber Games (prize: $19 000) (Germany)
* 2007 1st Extreme Masters Winter (prize: $3 000) (Korea)
* 2007 3rd MBCGame World War Grand Prix (prize: $4 380) (Korea)
* 2007 5th ProGamer League I (China)
* 2007 3rd Electronic Sports World Cup (prize: $3 000) (France)
* 2007 3rd Battle.net Season V European qualifier (prize: $500) (Germany)
* 2007 4th World Series of Video Games, Wuhan (prize: $1 000) (China)
* 2007 3rd Samsung European Championship (prize: $1 000) (Germany)
* 2007 5nd-8th Extreme Masters (prize: $1 800) Germany)
* 2007 2nd MBCGame World War Season I (prize: $8 000) (South-Korea)
* 2007 3rd Battle.net Season IV Finals (prize: $2 000) (Germany)
* 2006 1st World Series of Video Games Finals (prize: $20 000) (USA)
* 2006 2nd Superfight#2 Match 1 (prize: $1 500) (South-Korea)
* 2006 1st MBCGame Warcraft 3 World War #1 (prize: $5 000) (South-Korea)
* 2006 5th-8th World Cyber Games (prize :$1 250) (Italy)
* 2006 1st World Series of Video Games, London (prize: $5 000) (United Kingdom)
* 2006 3rd KODE5 Global Finals (prize: $1 000) (China)
* 2006 2nd ClanBase EuroCup XII (prize: $1 000) (Denmark)
* 2006 1st World E-Sports Festival (prize: $6 000 + PC package) (China)
* 2006 5th-8th Electronic Sports World Cup (prize: $2 000) (France)
* 2006 1st V-Sports All-Stars (prize: CPU + Graphic Card (7900GTX))(USA)
* 2006 2nd World e-Sports Games Masters 2006 (prize: $7 000) (China)
* 2006 1st Samsung European Championship (prize: $5 120) (Germany)
* 2006 2nd Blizzard Worldwide Invitiational (prize: $10 000) (South-Korea)
* 2005 3rd World Cyber Games (prize: $7 500) (Singapore)
* 2005 1st BlizzCon (prize: $10 000) (USA)
* 2005 1st Revellcell Masters (prize: $2 000) (Germany)
* 2005 1st Digital Life Gaming Tournament (prize: $10 000) (USA)
* 2005 1st Cyberathlete Professional League: Istanbul (prize: $1 600) (Turkey)
* 2005 1st Electronic Sports World Cup (prize: $13 000) (France)
* 2005 1st Samsung European Championship (prize: $12 800) (Germany)
* 2004 1st World Cyber Games (prize: $25 000) (USA)
* 2004 1st The Cyber X Games tournament (prize: $10 000, never paid) (USA)

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