Sander Kaasjager

Sander " Vo0 " Kaasjager ( born June 21, 1985 in Naarden, Netherlands) is a Dutch e- sports. He currently plays for the Clan Quake fnatic.

In 2005 Kaasjager in the computer game Painkiller celebrated his greatest successes. He participated in the worth one million U.S. dollars CPL World Tour, winning five of nine World Tour stops. Although he was defeated at the CPL World Tour Finals Johnathan " Fatal1ty " Wendel, yet he is widely regarded as the most successful Painkiller player of all time. During the CPL World Tour earned Kaasjager total of U.S. $ 252,000.

Career

The professional e-sports career by Sander " Vo0 " Kaasjager started with Quake III CPMA, a particularly fast mod from Quake III in which he was considered one of the strongest players in Europe. In Painkiller, the second game that Dutchman played professionally, he dominated all competitions in 2004 and secured at the Electronic Sports World Cup his first world title.

2005 CPL World Tour took place as the only tournament discipline with Painkiller. Kaasjager who stood the whole time with fnatic under contract, managed to maintain its position as the best player in the world to e-sports greats like Johnathan " Fatal1ty " Wendel and Benjamin " zyz " Bohrmann. He chose five of nine World Tour stops for himself and was the Most Valuable Player at the end of the CPL World Tour selected.

On the CPL World Tour Finals which took place in New York City from 20 to 22 November 2005, Vo0 and Fatal1ty contrasted with the grand finale. The Americans defeated Kaasjager previously in the finals of the Upper Brackets, which is why he had to win two best-of -three games. Wendel decided both rounds 2-0 and 2-0 and was rewarded with $ 150,000 for first place. Kaasjager got for second place $ 100,000. Despite the defeat in the deciding game Kaasjager is considered the star of the CPL World Tour, due to its initial dominance.

Kaasjager in 2005 with two eSports Awards honored as player and Breakthrough of the Year.

The media attention that has been brought against Sander " Vo0 " Kaasjager during and after the CPL World Tour, was very high. Among other published articles about him in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal as well as in De Telegraaf and he was filmed by MTV, VPRO and RTL 4.

On his 21st birthday was Vo0 end of his career known. He wanted to henceforth devote his studies, which he had paused in 2005 for one year. Furthermore, he could not get used to the new tournament game Quake 4.

2008 Sander " Vo0 " Kaasjager returned as Quake players back into the professional e- sports. He returned to his clan fnatic. On his first official tournament after almost three years, the Dutch qualifier for the ESWC, he lost the final Lemmy "IF- 22" de Groot. Shortly thereafter, he participated in the ESWC Masters of Paris, at the GameGune, QuakeCon and at the Electronic Sports World Cup 2008, but not make it to into the money.

Achievements

Painkiller

  • Electronic Sports World Cup 2004: 1st Place
  • CPL Summer 2004: 1st Place
  • CPL Winter 2004: 1st Place
  • CPL World Tour Stop Turkey: 1st place
  • CPL World Tour Stop Spain: 2nd place
  • CPL World Tour Stop Brazil: 1st place
  • CPL World Tour Stop Sweden: 1st place
  • CPL World Tour Stop USA: 2nd place
  • CPL World Tour Stop the UK: 1st place
  • CPL World Tour Stop in Singapore: 2nd place
  • CPL World Tour Stop Italy: 1st place
  • CPL World Tour Stop Chile: 3rd place
  • CPL World Tour Finals: 2nd place

Quake

  • ESWC Masters of Paris 2008: Top 16
  • GameGune 2008: 8th Place
  • QuakeCon 2008: Top 8
  • Electronic Sports World Cup 2008: Top 16

World of Warcraft

  • WSVG China 2007: 2nd place
Quake (series) Painkiller (video game) Mod (video gaming)
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