Svenskeren
Dennis Johnsen (born January 2, 1996), better known as Svenskeren (; ), is a Danish former professional ''League of Legends'' player. He has played for SK Gaming, Supa Hot Crew, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Copenhagen Wolves, Team SoloMid, Cloud9, and Evil Geniuses. During the 2014 League of Legends World Championship group stage in Taiwan, Svenskeren registered an account by the name TaipeiChingChong on the Garena servers and was subsequently fined and suspended by Riot Games for racism. The incident was also criticized by the Taiwanese version of the newspaper ''Apple Daily''. SK Gaming ultimately finished 9–11th. TSM was involved in a dispute with H2k-Gaming over Svenskeren's contract as both sides claimed they had signed him first. Eventually he signed with TSM, replacing Lucas "Santorin" Larsen as their jungler. At his first tournament with the team, they finished 3rd-4th at Intel Extreme Masters Season X - San Jose. Personal life Johnsen was born on January 2, 1996, and grew ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 of Legends Championship of The Americas (LTA), the top-level professional league for video game ''League of Legends'' in the Americas, as a franchised team in the North Conference. 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 League Championship Series (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 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blaber (gamer)
Robert Huang (born January 4, 2000), better known as Blaber, is an American professional ''League of Legends'' player for Cloud9. Blaber is considered by many to be one of the best ''League of Legends'' players from North America. Huang was voted to both the League of Legends Championship Series Best Junglers and Best Players of All Time by a panel of experts as part of the LCS10 anniversary campaign. Early life Huang was born and raised in Maryland and played competitive travel badminton until the age of 15. He began playing ''League of Legends'' in the season 1 beta at the age of 9. He followed ''League of Legends'' esports from an early age and was originally a fan of Doublelift and CLG. Career Huang, then competing under the name "blaberfish2," was drafted by Cloud9 at the 2017 Scouting Grounds draft. A high school student at the time, Huang told the team that he wanted to finish school before pursuing a career in ''League of Legends''. After graduating in 2018, Huang comp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2019 LCS Season
The 2019 LCS season was the seventh season of the ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (LCS), a professional esports league for the video game ''League of Legends''. The season was divided into two splits: Spring and Summer. The Spring Split began on January 26 and culminated with the playoff finals on April 13, 2019. The Summer Split began on June 1 and culminated with the Spring Split finals on August 25, 2019. Team Liquid won the spring split playoffs, qualifying them for the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational. Team Liquid also won the summer split playoffs, directly qualifying them for the 2019 World Championship. Cloud9 and Clutch Gaming also qualified for the 2019 World Championship via Championship Points and winning the Regional Finals, respectively. Spring The Spring Split regular season began on January 26 and ended on March 24, 2019. The regular season followed a standard double round-robin format, where each team faced every other team twice. The top six teams fr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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TSM League Of Legends Division
The ''League of Legends'' division of TSM was a gaming team based in Los Angeles, California, that competed in the League Championship Series (LCS), the top-level professional league for video game ''League of Legends'' in the United States and Canada, from 2013 to 2023. The organization sold their LCS franchise slot in 2023. Established in 2011, the ''League of Legends'' division was the founding division of Team SoloMid. The team formed from a group of players that represented the community of the online ''League of Legends'' blog SoloMid.net, which was founded by brothers Dan Dinh and Andy "Reginald" Dinh. TSM was one of the founding members of the LCS and won the inaugural NA LCS championship. They won five more LCS titles from 2014 to 2017, including three consecutive titles: Summer 2016, Spring 2017, and Summer 2017. Their seventh LCS title came in Summer 2020. Internationally, TSM has taken part in a total two Mid-Season Invitationals and eight League of Legends ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Evil Geniuses
Evil Geniuses (EG) is an American esports organization based in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington. Founded in 1999, the organization has fielded players in various fighting games, ''Call of Duty (series), Call of Duty'', ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', ''Dota 2'', ''Fortnite Battle Royale'', ''Halo (series), Halo,'' ''League of Legends'', ''Valorant'', ''StarCraft II'', ''Rocket League'', ''Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege'', and ''World of Warcraft''. In May 2019, EG was acquired by PEAK6, a Chicago-based investment company. While independently owned at the time of the acquisition, it was formerly a subsidiary of GoodGame Agency, which in turn was owned by Amazon.com through its division Twitch (service), Twitch. EG's ''Dota 2'' team won The International 2015, receiving the largest prize payout in esports history at the time. Their ''Call of Duty: WWII'' team won the Call of Duty Championship 2018, 2018 Call of Duty Championship. Their ''Valorant'' team won the 202 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2015 EU LCS Season
The 2015 European League of Legends Championship Series (2015 EU LCS) was the third season of the European League of Legends Championship Series. The Summer Split began with a rematch of the 2015 EU LCS Spring playoff finals between Unicorns of Love and fnatic. It was won by fnatic, their fifth split title. Most matches were played at a film studio in Adlershof, Berlin. The finals were played at the Hovet Arena Globentorget, Arenatorget in Johanneshov, Stockholm, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count .... Spring Regular season Summer Rosters Regular season Playoffs References European League of Legends Championship League of Legends EMEA Championship seasons European League of Legends Championship European League of Legends Championship ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2014 League Of Legends World Championship
The 2014 ''League of Legends'' World Championship was an esports tournament held from September 18 to October 19, 2014, for the multiplayer online battle arena video game ''League of Legends''. It was the fourth iteration of the League of Legends World Championship, ''League of Legends'' World Championship, an annual international tournament organized by the game's developer, Riot Games. Matches were held in Taipei, Singapore, Busan, and Seoul, with grand finals being at the Seoul World Cup Stadium in Seoul, South Korea. The 16 teams qualified by either winning a major professional league or a regional qualifying tournament. There was a 16 team round-robin tournament, round-robin group stage followed by an 8 team single elimination bracket. The games were officially streamed on Twitch (service), Twitch and Azubu in several languages and the finals were aired online on ESPN3. The group stage began on September 18 in Taipei at the National Taiwan University Sports Center and conclu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2018 NA LCS Season
The 2018 NA LCS season was the seventh season of the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (NA LCS), a professional esports league for the video game ''League of Legends''. The season was divided into two splits: Spring and Summer. The Spring Split began on January 20 and culminated with the playoff finals on April 8, 2018. The Summer Split began on June 16 and culminated with the Spring Split finals on September 9, 2018. The 2018 season saw a shift in the NA LCS from a promotion and relegation system to a franchised league with ten permanent teams. The buy-in price for existing teams was , while new teams incurred an additional $3million, distributed to replaced teams. Over 100 applications were received, narrowed down to a shortlist, with the final ten franchised teams announced in November 2017. Of the final ten franchised teams, six were previously established in the NA LCS, while four new organizations joined the league. Team Liquid won the spring split pl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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SK Gaming
SK Gaming is a professional esports organization based in Germany that has teams across the world competing in different titles. SK is particularly known for their success in '' Counter-Strike'' (CS) tournaments. SK's Brazilian ''CS'' team won the ESL One Cologne 2016 Major. SK currently has players and teams competing in ''League of Legends'' and '' Hearthstone''. SK Gaming was founded in 1997 by a small group of '' Quake'' players in Oberhausen. History Beginnings Schröt Kommando was founded in 1997 as a German '' Quake'' clan by four brothers and three accomplices in Oberhausen. The original line-up of Schroet Kommando consisted of Ralf "Griff" Reichert, Daniel "Godlike" Beames, Tim "Burke" Reichert, Benjamin "Kane" Reichert, Kristof "Speed" Salwiczek, Carsten "Storch" Kramer and Sven "Ramses" Tümmers. According to Ralf Reichert, the original naming of the organization originated from one of the members repeatedly shouting "Schröt!" This was a common occurre ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Goldenglue
Greyson Gregory Gilmer (born November 23, 1996), better known by his in-game name Goldenglue, is an American ''League of Legends'' coach and former professional player. He is currently the head coach of 100 Thieves. Early life Gilmer was raised in the town of Flower Mound, Texas. As a teenager he played varsity football for Edward S. Marcus High School. After receiving an offer from NA LCS team Dignitas in March 2014, Gilmer decided to quit football and focus on a career in professional esports. Career Dignitas signed Greyson "Goldenglue" Gilmer in March 2014 to replace their long-time mid laner William "Scarra" Li, who had agreed to transition to a coaching role. However, two weeks later Goldenglue was benched and Scarra was brought back to the mid lane; Goldenglue left the team shortly thereafter. Goldenglue played for several Challenger teams afterward from mid-2014 to late 2016, and only played briefly for a few LCS teams during relegation matches or as an emerg ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2017 NA LCS Season
The 2017 NA LCS season was the sixth season of the League Championship Series (esports), North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (NA LCS), a professional esports league for the video game ''League of Legends''. The season was divided into two splits: Spring and Summer. The Spring Split began on January 20 and culminated with the playoff finals on April 23, 2017. The Summer Split began on June 2 and culminated with the Spring Split finals on September 3, 2017. TSM League of Legends division, Team SoloMid won the spring split playoffs, qualifying them for the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational. Team SoloMid also won the summer split playoffs, directly qualifying them for the 2017 League of Legends World Championship, 2017 World Championship. Immortals (esports), Immortals and Cloud9 League of Legends, Cloud9 also qualified for the 2017 World Championship via Championship Points and winning the regional qualifier, respectively. Spring The Spring Split regular season beg ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2016 NA LCS Season
The 2016 NA LCS season was the fourth year of the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series. It was divided into spring and summer splits, each consisting of a regular season and playoff stage. Regular season games were played in the Riot Games Studios in Los Angeles, California. Format Teams compete in a double round robin tournament over the course of nine weeks during the regular season, with matches being best-of-three. The top six teams from the regular season advanced to the playoff stage, with the top two teams receiving a bye to the semifinals. The seventh place team qualifies for the next split of the LCS but does not participate in playoffs. The bottom three teams play in a promotion/relegation tournament against the top two NA Challenger Series teams. Playoffs were single-elimination and matches were best-of-five. The winner of the summer split automatically qualified for the 2016 World Championship, while the team with the most cumulative champions ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |