that the Counter-Strike team would be removing the player with the shortest tenure, Marcus "Delpan" Larsson, in favor of their first permanent Danish member and former mTw ace, Martin Alexander "trace" Bang Heldt at the end of January. On 13 April, however, Larsson once more returned to the team, replacing Heldt. On 27 July 2012, it was announced that SK Gaming's Counter-Strike division would lose Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström, Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg and Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund, as well as team captain Anton Budak, due to SK's decision to not send the team to GameGune 2012. On 30 July, SK Gaming announced the final closing of the Counter-Strike division. On 15 January 2013, it was determined that SteelSeries has ended their ten-year sponsorship of SK Gaming, in addition to Evil Geniuses. In an annual wrap-up, SK's CEO Alexander T. Müller-Rodic announced the departures of League of Legends players Carlos "ocelote" Rodríguez Santiago, Patrick "Nyph" Funke, as well as the sole StarCraft II player Min Chul "MC" Jang and sports player Bruce "Spank" Grannec. In January 2017 it was announced that Visa would be a sponsor of SK Gaming. Business model SK Gaming is incorporated as a German limited liability company (GmbH). Its owners are Alexander Müller-Rodic, Andreas Thorstensson and Ralf Reichert. SK Gaming operates largely due to its sponsorships, most-notably by Toshiba, Kingston Technology and Bigben. The company also finances itself by the "SK Insider" subscription service. However, according to Rodic, the vast majority of the company's funds originates from sponsorships. League of Legends Riot Games announced on 20 November 2018 that SK Gaming would be one of ten franchise partners participating in the newly rebranded League of Legends European Championship (LEC). On 20 December 2018, the organisation announced it had signed top laner Jorge "Werlyb" Casanovas Moreno-Torres, jungler Oskar "Selfmade" Boderek, mid laner Choi "Pirean" Jun-sik, bot laner Jus "Crownshot" Marusic and support Han "Dreams" Min-kook for their starting roster in the 2019 LEC Spring Split. Active rosters FIFA Hearthstone League of Legends Notable alumni Tim "Burke" Reichert (Quake) Benjamin "Kane" Reichert (Quake) Musa "kila" Celik (Quake) Emil "HeatoN" Christensen (Counter-Strike) Andreas "bds" Thorstensson (Counter-Strike) Fredrik "MaDFroG" Johansson (Warcraft III, StarCraft II) Lee "NaDa" Yoon-yeol (StarCraft II) Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg (Counter-Strike) Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund (Counter-Strike) Jang "MC" Min-chul (StarCraft II) Dennis "Svenskeren" Johnsen (League of Legends) Mikail "Maikelele" Bill (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) Shane "rapha" Hendrixson (Quake) Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo de Alcântara