David Saldaña was born in 1998 and lives in Madrid, the capitol of Spain. He recently became content editor at wSystem eSports Club and worked previously for Pain Gaming™ e-Sports Assoc. His hobbies are Gaming & Hardware …… and content creating. We like to introduce his first article for SD-Gaming Europe and see forward to more.
Hi I am David, learning every day on eSports to do this even much bigger with my mates. Writing around the world. Today I will talk about a new Spanish team formed from the merger between Baskonia and Atlantis.
Baskonia
Club Deportivo Saski-Baskonia S.A.D (http://www.baskonia.com) is a Spanish professional basketball club, playing in the liga ACB, from the Basque city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
The club was founded in 1959 played at first at Spain's highest level in 1971, and emerged as a major force in Spanish basketball in the 1990s. Baskonia advanced to the Euroleague Final Four in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Atlantis
Atlantis e-sports club is relatively new to the video gaming scene, but has emerged as one of Spain’s best clubs. Now it will do so wearing the Baskonia colors and bringing the recognizable basketball team’s likeness to a new world of fans. Baskonia will share its brand marketing and commercial experience with Atlantis and help it develop a professional business plan.
Baskonia-Atlantis will focus initially on five competitive teams in League of Legends, FIFA, NBA2K, DOTA2 and HearthStone.
Pic from Baskonia e-Sports Website.
Last year, we could see a preview of what is to come for the Spanish club Atlantis when they joined with Baskonia. Just a few months later Baskonia Atlantis passed to be called Baskonia e-Sports, getting so fully into electronic sports of Spain, with the support of the peripherals brand: Mars Gaming.
Saski Baskonia basketball club gives a firm step forward and they will be the new managers take the administrative formalities within the club. This union has with carried to a new image and design that they will continue with a new portal for the website, which will extend into their social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Youtube.
Pic from Baskonia e-Sports Website.
They have not forgotten ahead of what will be their teams for this season and at the moment we can confirm that they will have representation at these games: League Of Legends, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Hearthstone, and FIFA.In League Of Legends we can confirm the presence of Alvar "Araneae" Martín, who will be the manager of this team:
- Nicolás "Nixerino" Colocho. (ADC)
- Adrián “Homi” Moldes. (Support)
- Sergio "Diamond" Marti. (Mid)
- Alex "Carbono" González. (Jungle)
- Fernando "Nandisk0" Peñalba. (Top)
In the absence of the roster of Counter Strike: Global Offensive team will be directed by the former CEO of Baskonia Atlantis and one of the best players that has had Spain, Ana "Anouc" Oliveras.
At Hearthstone continues the Gamergy champion Mario 'Mariodela' Lorente, which is one of the players with more future in the national and European scene. FIFA continues with Rafael 'Ralfitita' Riobó one of the players of this game with a hard to beat palmares.
So far my first introduction of the e-sports Spanish scene. See you next time with more news.
David Saldaña.
