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- For the pro wrestling stable known as Team 3D, see Dudley Boyz.
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Team Desire - Discipline - Dedication, better known as Team 3D, is an American electronic sports company with teams that compete in Counter-Strike: Source, Warcraft 3, and Dead or Alive 4 games, and formerly fielded teams in Counter-Strike, Halo 2, Painkiller, Call of Duty, Quake 4. Team 3D competes internationally against the world's best teams and players. Team 3D was formed in 2002 and is still being operated by the company's managing director, Craig "Torbull" Levine.
Team 3D has corporate sponsorship, which allows the team to travel around the globe from China to Brazil to Europe and North America to compete. Team 3D's corporate sponsors are NVIDIA, Sennheiser, Xfire, PNY, SteelSeries, and Velocity Servers. Team 3D has recently acquired Intel as their new marquee sponsor.
Thousands of fans visit the team's website daily to interact with the players, ask questions, schedule lessons, and learn of the team's progress at competitions and in leagues.
The organization is one of the founder members of the G7 Teams.
Team 3D Divisions
Team 3D: Counter-Strike: Source
Current Roster
Kyle "Ksharp" Miller (4/9/02 - Inactive from 2006-03-30[1] to 2007-01-13[2], currently active)- Dave "moto" Geffon (8/5/02)
- Salvatore "Volcano" Garozzo (9/6/04)
- Mikey "Method" So (8/16/05)
Jimmy "Lin" Lin (01/13/07)- Andy "rectar" Rector (01/13/07)
Former Players
- Ron "Rambo" Kim (4/9/02 - 1/12/07 transfered to Complexity Gaming)[3]
- Mike "SmEeZ" Bell (5/7/02 only)
- Lawrence "br0nx" Khali (5/22/02 - 6/26/02)[4]
- Alex "Jaden" Moore (4/9/02 - 7/23/02)
- Eric "da_bears" Stromberg (4/9/02 - 7/23/02)
- Dave "kane" Cannon (8/5/02 - 6/21/03)
- Sean "Bullseye" Morgan (4/9/02 - 4/29/04 transfered to Complexity Gaming)[5]
- Ognian "steel" Gueorguiev (8/5/02 - 5/5/05)
- *Johnny "boms" Quach (7/19/03 - 5/23/05)
- Charlie "cBz" Pyo (2/7/05 - 7/25/05 released)
- Josh "Dominator" Sievers (5/19/05 - 01/13/07 released, joined zEx)
- Griffin "shaGuar" Benger (8/16/05 - 01/13/07 released, joined Evil Geniuses)
Team 3D: Warcraft 3
- Dennis "Shortround" Chan (6/7/06)
Team 3D: Dead or Alive 4
- Emmanuel "MASTER" Rodriguez (9/11/06) [6]
Notable Accomplishments
2002-2006 Team 3D: Counter-Strike
- 1st Place Cyberathlete Professional League Winter 2002
- 2nd Place World Cyber Games 2003
- 1st Place Cyber X Games USA 2003
- 1st Place World Cyber Games 2004 (Counter-Strike: Condition Zero)
- 1st Place Global Gaming League AmeriCup Finals 2005
- 1st Place GGL DigitaLife Finals 2005
- 1st Place World Cyber Games 2005 (Counter-Strike: Source)
- 1st Place WSVG Kentucky 2006
- 2nd Place GGL DigitalLife Finals 2006
- 2nd Place WSVG Finals 2006
World Championships
- WCG: 2 (2004, 2005)
- CPL: 1 (2002)
Zonerank Rankings
2006 Team 3D: WarCraft 3
- 4th Place WSVG 2006
2005 Team 3D: Halo 2
- 1st Place MLG Orlando 2005
- 1st Place MLG St. Louis 2005
- 2nd Place MLG Philadelphia 2005
- 1st Place MLG Los Angeles 2005
- 1st Place MLG Atlanta 2005
- 1st Place MLG Chicago 2005
- 1st Place MLG New York City Finals 2005
- 1st Place CPL Summer 2005
- 1st Place two-on-two WCG World Finals 2005
Note: Team 3D no longer employs Halo 2 team.
2004 Team 3D: Call of Duty
- 1st Place IonGamers 2004
- 2nd Place CPL Summer 2004
2005 Team 3D: Painkiller
- 6th Place CPL Summer 2005
- 7th Place CPL World Tour Finals 2005 (Media Coverage Provided By MTV)
2005 Season Overview
Team 3D: Counter-Strike
In July 2005, Team 3D acquired players Griffin "shaGuar" Benger (CA) and Mikey "Method" So (US) from Team NoA. The addition of these two international superstars, as well as four consecutive victories over rival American team Complexity Gaming, was believed by many, including the most popular electronic sports online journal GotFrag, to solidify Team 3D as the America's premier Counter-Strike team. Team 3D still has quite a ways to go to even think of competing with European teams such as Team fnatic, Team EYEBALLERS, Schroet Kommando, and NiP. In 2005, however, Team 3D did force a triple overtime in a match vs the newly renovated Team SK (Schroet Kommando). SK won 25-23 in a nailbiter, having tied in regulation, and both previous overtimes. As a Counter-Strike 1.6 team, it was questionable how Team 3D would be able to perform at the World Cyber Games 2005 world finals, which featured Counter-Strike: Source. They practiced for a short time with Powers Gaming, the team which placed first at the CPL Summer 2005 Championship and was widely regarded as the best Counter-Strike: Source team in the world. Despite the adjustment from 1.6 to Source, Team 3D was able to win the tournament. They followed with a victory in January 2006 at the EverLAN Winter Championship which included a victory over their previous partners Powers Gaming.
Team 3D: Halo 2
Team 3D's Halo 2 team was nearly unstoppable in 2005, winning nine of the ten Major League Gaming tournaments they entered. The lone exception was a 2nd place finish at MLG Philadelphia 2005. Team members were Ogre 1, Ogre 2, Walshy, and Ryan "Saiyan" Danford. Team 3D's members were credited with several innovative techniques for play, such as double shooting, double jumping, and numerous ways to evade enemy fire in Halo 2.
The Halo 2 Division left Team 3D on 2006-04-19 to become Final Boss after accepting a sponsorship from Gilbert Arenas.[7] The name, Final Boss, was apparently chosen because they feel that they are the final team to beat in any tournament. This change was made days before the MLG New York 2006 tournament, the first MLG event of the 2006 season.