Immortals is a professional

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organization based in the

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owned by

Immortals Gaming Club Immortals, LLC, doing business as Immortals Gaming Club (IGC), is a collective esports and gaming company. The company rebranded from Immortals to Immortals Gaming Club in 2019 after they acquired Brazil's Gamers Club. IGC owns and operates IGC E ...

. It was founded on October 7, 2015, after the acquisition of

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spot. Immortals applied for a franchise partnership with the LCS when the league began franchising in late 2017, but their application was declined by

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due to financial concerns, despite the fact that they were one of three North American teams to qualify for the 2017 World Championship. However, in mid-2019 they rejoined the LCS after their parent company, Immortals Gaming Club, bought out

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and their LCS spot. Immortals previously competed in other esports titles, including ''

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'', '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Vainglory''.

Ownership

Immortals is owned by

, a collective esports and gaming company. Other than owning the team their name stems from, Immortals Gaming Club owns

MIBR Made in Brazil (MIBR) is a professional esports organization with players competing in '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive,'' '' Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege'' and ''VALORANT''. It was a member of the G7 Teams. MIBR was founded on March 1, ...

and the

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team. Investors for the group include

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, Peter Levin, the president of

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, who co-founded

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; Allen Debevoise, former chairman at

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; Steve Kaplan, a co-owner of the

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; serial entrepreneur Brian Lee, entertainment industry venture capitalists Machine Shop Ventures; Neil Leibman, a co-owner of

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's Texas Rangers, and others.

''League of Legends''

On October 7, 2015, it was announced that a new esports organization called Immortals had acquired

's spot in the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (NA LCS). On October 14, 2015, Dodo8 announced his retirement and moved to a management position in Immortals. On December 8 it was announced that Seong "

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" Hoon Heo, Kim "

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" Yeu Jin, Eugene "

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" Park, Jason "

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" Tran, and Adrian "Adrian" Ma would be joining the team's inaugural roster. Of these five players, only Pobelter remained on the 2017 roster. On December 7, 2016, Joshua " Dardoch" Hartnett joined as Immortals' starting jungler, signing a three-year contract. Top laner Lee "Flame" Ho-jong and bot laner Liyu "

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" Sun joined on December 9, 2016, while support Kim "Olleh" Joo-sung was first reported as joining the team on December 12, 2016, with a press release from Immortals officially announcing his signing on the following day. 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

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. Nonetheless, Immortals qualified for the 2017 World Championship by having the most championship points at the end of the summer split. At the 2017 World Championship, Immortals were placed in Group B of the main event group stage, along with Europe's

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, South Korea's

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and Vietnam's

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. After losing to Fnatic in the second round robin and one of two subsequent tiebreaker matches, Immortals and knocked them out of the tournament. After failing to secure a spot in the newly franchised LCS, Immortals disbanded on November 20, 2017. In June 2019, Immortals announced that they had rejoined the LCS after their parent company,

, bought out

and their LCS spot. In January 2022, Immortals announced a multi-year naming rights partnership with the

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, renaming their LCS team to Immortals Progressive.

Current roster

Tournament results

* 1st — 2016 NA LCS Spring Round Robin * 3rd — 2016 NA LCS Spring Playoffs * 2nd — 2016 NA LCS Summer Round Robin * 3rd — 2016 NA LCS Summer Playoffs * 7th — 2017 NA LCS Spring Round Robin * 2nd — 2017 NA LCS Summer Round Robin * 2nd — 2017 NA LCS Summer Playoffs

''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive''

Immortals acquired

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's fully Brazilian lineup on June 1, 2016. The former coach of

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, Wilton "zews" Prado, replaced Gustavo "SHOOWTiME" Gonçalves on July 22, 2016. On June 21, Immortals won

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after beating

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2–0. The team placed 3rd-4th at CyberPowerPC Summer 2016, losing to

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in the semi-finals. Immortals won Northern Arena 2016 on September 4 after they beat Cloud9 in the finals. After a disappointing showing at ESL Pro League Season 4 Finals in Brazil, Immortals replaced Wilton "zews" Prado with former teammate of boltz, Lucas "steel" Lopes. The most recent roster change involving the team was when João "felps" Vasconcellos was traded to SK Gaming in exchange for Lincoln "fnx" Lau. On January 27, 2018, the team investors acquired the

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branding, after some months of negotiation with Paulo Velloso (former MiBR CEO), planning to come back with a Brazilian roster in the future.

Tournament results

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* 1st —

* 3rd-4th — CyberPowerPC Summer 2016 * 1st — Northern Arena 2016 * 2nd — PGL Kraków Major 2017 * 2nd — DreamHack Montreal 2017

''Super Smash Bros.''

Immortals branched into ''

'' by signing the ''

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'' and ''

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'' player Jason "ANTi" Bates on September 13, 2016. Three months later they signed '' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' player DaJuan "Shroomed" McDaniel, who was previously signed with

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''Dota 2''

On September 13, 2017, it was announced that Immortals had acquired the North American-based independent Korean squad ''Team Phoenix'' consisting of

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roster. On December 30, 2017, offlaner Forev announced via Twitter his departure from the team.

''Clash Royale''

Immortals started their Clash Royale team as part of the Clash Royale League North America. The team started on August 20, 2018, as part of Season 1 of the Clash Royale League. They went 10–4 in the regular season and won the playoffs to make it the World Finals in Tokyo, Japan. They got 4th in the seeding tournament and then lost in the quarter-finals.

Roster

''Rainbow Six Siege''

On June 5, 2018, the team have announced a new Rainbow Six: Siege team (the second Brazilian squad in the organization), acquiring the former team of BRK e-Sports. On August 3, the team was transferred to

, an esports organization owned by Immortals.

''Overwatch''

On July 12, 2017,

developer

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officially announced that Noah Whinston, CEO of the team, had acquired a Los Angeles-based

franchise spot for an estimated $20 million, after almost a year of discussion. "For us, the crucial part of ur reason to join the Overwatch Leagueoverall was the localization aspect — being able to have a local territory that we have control over and build deeper ties with a fan base than the current model really allows us to do," Whinston said in an interview. "That localization element, in addition the revenue sharing elements, and the stability and the strong competitive future of the game, all of those were important aspects for us when it came to making the decision." On October 23, 2017, Immortals revealed their franchise name as the Los Angeles Valiant. The team revealed their starting roster over a series of

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posts from October 30 to November 2, consisting of four DPS, four tanks, and three supports.

References

External links

* {{League of Legends Championship Series 2015 establishments in the United States League of Legends Championship Series teams Counter-Strike teams Defunct and inactive Overwatch teams Super Smash Bros. player sponsors Esports teams based in Los Angeles Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege teams Immortals Gaming Club