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Clutch Gaming
Clutch Gaming (CG) was an American esports organization owned by Dignitas and the Houston Rockets. It was one of four organizations that joined the ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (LCS) after the league began franchising in 2018, the others being 100 Thieves, the Golden Guardians and OpTic Gaming. Clutch Gaming was under the sole ownership of the Houston Rockets until June 6, 2019, when it was announced that the majority share in the franchise had been purchased by Dignitas and its parent company. Clutch Gaming completely merged with Dignitas on October 28, 2019. History Founding The Houston Rockets announced the founding of Clutch Gaming and its acquisition of a spot in the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (NA LCS) on November 20, 2017. Clutch Gaming was one of four organizations to join the NA LCS after the league began franchising, the others being 100 Thieves, the Golden Guardians and OpTic Gaming. 2018 season For the 2018 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends
''League of Legends'' (''LoL''), commonly referred to as ''League'', is a 2009 multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by ''Defense of the Ancients'', a Mod (video games), custom map for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, ''Warcraft III'', Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre. Since its release in October 2009, ''League'' has been free-to-play and is monetized through Freemium, purchasable character customization. The game is available for Microsoft Windows and macOS. In the game, two teams of five players battle in player-versus-player combat, each team occupying and defending their half of the map. Each of the ten players controls a character, known as a "champion", with unique abilities and differing styles of play. During a match, champions become more powerful by collecting experience points, earning gold, and purchasing Item (game terminology), items to defeat the opposing team. In ''League' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloud9 League Of Legends
The ''League of Legends'' division of Cloud9 (C9) is a gaming team based in Los Angeles, California, and competes in the League Championship Series (LCS), the top-level professional league for video game ''League of Legends'' in the United States and Canada. Established in 2013, the ''League of Legends'' division was the founding division of Cloud9. The team was originally a player-owned team before they were acquired by Quantic Gaming that same year; weeks later, the contracts of the players were sold to Jack Etienne. Under their founding roster of Balls, Meteos, Hai, Sneaky, and LemonNation, Cloud9 won back-to-back LCS titles in their first two years of existence by winning the 2013 NA LCS Summer Split and 2014 NA LCS Spring Split. The team claimed their third LCS title by winning the 2020 LCS Spring Split in what was generally considered one of the greatest season performances by a team in the league's history. The team's fourth LCS title came in Spring 2021 after winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unicorns Of Love
Unicorns of Love (UOL) is a professional esports organisation founded on 15 August 2013 and based in Hamburg, Germany. Its ''League of Legends'' team competes in the League of Legends Continental League, ''League of Legends'' Continental League (LCL), the Commonwealth of Independent States' top professional league for the game. The organisation previously had a team that competed in the European League of Legends Championship Series (EU LCS). ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' History UOL announced on 17 January 2019 that it had signed an all-German roster for its inaugural CS:GO team. The team consists of Oliver "kzy" Heck, Markus "maRky" Reitenbach, Andre "Kirby" Kempa, Christian "crisby" Schmitt, and Denim "DeniMM" Ameti. Final roster ''League of Legends'' History UOL qualified for the 2015 EULCS Spring Split after they defeated Millenium 3-2 in the spring promotion tournament. UOL then played in the Intel Extreme Masters Season IX, Intel Extreme Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 League Of Legends World Championship
The 2019 ''League of Legends'' World Championship was an esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game ''League of Legends''. It was the ninth iteration of the ''League of Legends'' World Championship, an annual international tournament organized by the game's developer, Riot Games. It was held from October 2, 2019, to November 10, 2019, in Berlin, Madrid and Paris. Twenty four teams from 13 regions qualified for the tournament based on their placement in regional circuits such as those in China, Europe, North America, South Korea and Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau with twelve of those teams having to reach the main event via a play-in stage. "Phoenix" was the tournament's theme song, put together by Chrissy Costanza and Cailin Russo, while Blanke, Carpenter Brut, and 1788-L produced their own remix versions of "Phoenix". A virtual rap group named "True Damage" was unveiled by Riot Games during the ceremony, with Soyeon from (G)I-dle, Duckwrth, Thutmose, Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counter Logic Gaming
Counter Logic Gaming (CLG) is an American esports organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in April 2010 by George "HotshotGG" Georgallidis and Alexander "Vodoo" Beutel as a ''League of Legends'' team, and has since branched out into other games. CLG fields the oldest ''League of Legends'' team still active, having competed in every split of the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (NA LCS) since it began in Spring 2013. CLG has won two NA LCS splits, the 2015 Summer NA LCS and 2016 Spring NA LCS. The team has also attended the 2012, 2015 and 2016 ''League of Legends'' World Championships, and was eliminated in the group stage on each occasion. The organization also fields ''Smite'', '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' (CS:GO), '' Super Smash Bros.'', ''Fortnite'' and ''H1Z1'' teams, and previously included ''Dota 2'', ''Overwatch'', '' Hearthstone'', ''Rocket League'', ''Halo'', ''Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Liquid
Team Liquid is a multi-regional professional esports organization based in the Netherlands that was founded in 2000. With the release of '' StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty'', Team Liquid signed their first professional players. In 2012, Team Liquid acquired a North American ''Dota 2'' team, marking their first venture into multi-genre management. In January 2015, Team Liquid officially merged with Team Curse under the Liquid banner, bringing on Steve Arhancet, his supporting staff, and former Curse ''League of Legends,'' ''Street Fighter'', and '' Super Smash Bros.'' teams. Their European ''Dota 2'' squad won The International 2017, which had one of the largest prize pools for any esports tournament in history. Team Liquid's ''League of Legends'' team has won four LCS titles, and their '' Counter-Strike Global Offensive'' team was awarded the Intel Grand Slam prize in 2019 after winning four tournaments in just 63 days. Team Liquid also has Rainbow Six Siege, Free Fire and Valoran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cody Sun
Liyu "Cody" Sun ( zh, s=孙立宇; born April 25, 1997) is a Canadian professional ''League of Legends'' player who was most recently the bot laner for Mirage Elyandra of the (LFL). He first rose to prominence while playing for Immortals in 2017, qualifying for the World Championship in his debut year in the LCS. The next year he qualified with 100 Thieves, and again the year after with Clutch Gaming. Career Cody Sun began his ''League of Legends'' career in the Challenger scene, playing for several semi-professional teams from mid-2015 to late 2016. Immortals (2017) On December 9, 2016, he joined Immortals and in the following year debuted in the LCS as the team's bot laner. Following a seventh-place finish in the spring split, Immortals finished second in the summer regular season and advanced all the way to the summer finals, where they were defeated by TSM. Nonetheless, Immortals qualified for the 2017 World Championship by having the most championship points at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vulcan (gamer)
Philippe Laflamme, better known as Vulcan, is a Canadian professional ''League of Legends'' support for Evil Geniuses, in the League Championship Series (LCS). Previously, Vulcan has played for Cloud9 as well as Clutch Gaming, the team that drafted him. Professional career Clutch Gaming Vulcan was invited to the LCS proving grounds following the 2018 season, in which he showcased his skills, as well as his communication and teamwork. He was drafted fourth overall by Clutch Gaming, which gave the organization exclusive negotiation rights with Vulcan. Vulcan signed with Clutch, and entered the 2019 LCS season as their starting support, making his debut on January 26. The team had a rough start, going 5–13 in his first season, missing playoffs. Due to the team's poor performance, Vulcan's bot lane partner Piglet was released, and AD Carry Cody Sun was signed as his replacement. In the summer split, Vulcan and Clutch made playoffs as the fifth seed, and finished fourth overal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piglet (gamer)
Chae Gwang-jin ( ko, 채광진), better known as Piglet, is a South Korean former professional ''League of Legends'' player, and current coach for T1 Academy. Piglet won the Season 3 World Championship in 2013 with LCK team SK Telecom T1. With Team Liquid he finished 3rd both in the Spring and Summer splits of the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series, but once again missed the World Championship when his team was defeated by Cloud9 in the final qualifying gauntlet. Career 2013 Before Piglet played ''League of Legends'', he was a semi-professional player of '' StarCraft''. His family was strongly against him becoming a pro gamer, so he lied that he quit the game. Meanwhile, he went to PC bangs to play and practice. However, he felt that he didn't play well enough and gave up the idea of being a pro. After playing ''League of Legends'' Piglet wondered if it would also have a pro scene, and when he saw people playing the game on TV his interest in becomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damonte (gamer)
Tanner Damonte, better known mononymously as Damonte (), is an American professional ''League of Legends'' player who is a positional coach for Counter Logic Gaming. Damonte is one of the few domestic mid laners to have recently competed in North America's LCS, alongside other players like Goldenglue and Pobelter. He is particularly known for his mastery of the champion Qiyana. Career Echo Fox (2016–2018) Damonte began playing ''League of Legends'' competitively in January 2015, competing in amateur leagues under the names "Mini" and "Mini Me". In February 2016 he joined his first major professional team, Echo Fox, as a substitute player. From July 2016 to June 2017, he played as the mid laner for Delta Fox, Echo Fox's academy team competing in the Challenger Series. Damonte made his LCS debut in May 2017, after he was promoted to a starting position in Echo Fox's main roster. However, he was moved back to the academy roster in December 2017, before once again being p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huni (gamer)
Heo Seung-hoon ( ko, 허승훈), better known as Huni (), is a South Korean former professional ''League of Legends'' player. Career Huni started his career in ''League of Legends'' as a part of the Samsung organization. He was one of the practice partners for the team, though he was never announced as an official substitute for the team. Just before the start of the 2015 EU LCS Spring/Regular Season, Huni joined Fnatic as their starting toplaner, his first official team, as part of the new roster alongside Reignover, Febiven, Steelback, and YellOwStaR — the only player from the previous line-up. In spite of low expectations for the team consisting of relatively unknown players, they placed second in the regular season with a 13–5 game record, and Huni won the Rookie of the Split award for the EU LCS. In the playoffs, Huni and Fnatic took first place for the 2015 Spring EU LCS after edging out Unicorns of Love in a 3–2 series. From there, Huni went to MSI, where he and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 League Of Legends World Championship
The 2018 ''League of Legends'' World Championship was an esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game ''League of Legends''. It was the eighth iteration of the ''League of Legends'' World Championship, an annual international tournament organized by the game's developer, Riot Games. It was held from October 1 to November 3, 2018, in cities across South Korea. Twenty four teams qualified for the tournament based on their placement in regional circuits such as those in China, South Korea, Europe, and North America, with twelve of those teams having to reach the group stage via a play-in round. The tournament became known for its very surprising results, numerous upsets, and has often been considered the most unpredictable worlds in League of Legends' history. The tournament also became the most watched esports event in history, reaching a peak of over 200 million concurrent viewers during the finals. It surpassed the viewership of the 2017 League of Legen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
