GIGABYTE Marines

GIGABYTE Marines
Short name GAM
Divisions League of Legends
Founded May 2014
Location Vietnam
Manager Dang Tuan Linh
Partners Gigabyte Technology
Acer
AORUS
Huboo
Logitech
Phong Vu Computers
Twitch

The GIGABYTE Marines, also known as Marine Esports and formerly known as the Boba Marines and Team Miracle, are a Vietnamese professional League of Legends team competing in the Vietnam Championship Series (VCS). The team rose to prominence in 2017 after performing above expectations at the annual Mid-Season Invitational (MSI).[1]

History

The team was founded in May 2014 by companies Tt Esports and Boba Net under the name Team Miracle. During the 2014 VCS Summer Split, the team played as Tt Miracle Boba and finished the split in 8th place with 3 wins and 4 losses. However, they was able to avoid relegation after the addition of former Saigon Jokers support and World Championships participant Junie.[2]

For the 2015 season, Archie, GoNy, and QTV rejoined their former teammates after leaving the Saigon Jokers, and Team Miracle renamed to the Boba Marines. The Marines failed to qualify for the spring split of the 2015 Garena Pro League (GPL), but did qualify for the summer split after finishing 3rd in the 2015 VCS Spring Split. During the mid-season, the Marines replaced their mid laner Navy with Optimus from Saigon Fantastic Five. Despite showing improvement and winning the 2015 VCS Summer Split, the Marines were unable to win the 2015 GPL Summer Split.[2]

In 2016, the Marines finished 3rd in the 2016 VCS Spring Split and 4th in the 2016 Mountain Dew Championship Series Summer Split (MDCS; i.e. VCS). The GPL also changed their qualification guidelines so that only champions of regional SEA tournaments could participate, meaning the Marines were unable to participate in GPL 2016.[2]

Before the 2017 season, the Marines' management made the decision to release their entire roster excluding Optimus and Archie. Afterwards, star players Ren, Levi, Slay, and Sergh joined the Marines as top, jungle, AD carry, and substitute support respectively. Tinikun also joined as head coach.[2] The team received new sponsors, Gigabyte Technology and Adonis Icyber Gaming, and renamed to Marine Esports. As the GIGABYTE Marines, the team won the 2017 MDCS Spring Split and the 2017 GPL Spring Split without losing a single game, qualifying them for the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational (MSI).

At MSI 2017, the Marines finished the 1st round of the play-in group stage with 5 wins and 1 loss, only losing to Virtus.pro. In the second round, the Marines won the first two games of a best-of-5 against Team SoloMid, before being reverse swept and losing 2–3. In the third and last qualifying round, the Marines beat SuperMassive eSports 3–1 to secure a spot in the main event.[3] At the main event of MSI 2017, the Marines finished last in 6th place, with 3 wins and 7 losses.[4] Despite their placement, the Marines' performance secured their region, Vietnam, a guaranteed group stage seed at the 2017 World Championships[1] and an additional spot in the GPL.[5]

The Marines were placed in Group B at the 2017 Worlds Championships, where they initially tied for second with Fnatic and Immortals,[6] but had the highest seed going into the tiebreaker matches due to them having the shortest combined victory time.[7] However, the Marines lost their tiebreaker match to Fnatic and did not advance to the knockout stage.[8][9]

Shortly after the 2017 World Championships, Slay and Stark both announced they would be leaving the team.[10] Optimus left the team post-season on 16 October 2017[11] and Levi joined the American team 100 Thieves on 26 December 2017.[12]

The Marines finished 3rd in the 2018 VCS Spring Split regular season with 9 wins and 5 losses,[13] qualifying for playoffs, where they defeated Young Generation 3–1 in the quarterfinals and UTM Esports 3–1 in the semifinals. The Marines then played in the finals against EVOS Esports, narrowly losing to them 2–3.[14]

Roster

ID Name Role
Kiaya Tran Duy Sang Top Laner
Spot Nguyen Phan Dinh Khoi Jungler
Blazes Do Dinh Sang Mid Laner
Noway Nguyen Vu Long AD Carry
Archie Tran Minh Nhut Support
Tinikun Duong Nguyen Duy Thanh Head Coach

References

  1. 1 2 "GIGABYTE Marines | LoL Esports". www.lolesports.com. LoL Esports. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "GIGABYTE Marines". Leaguepedia | League of Legends Esports Wiki. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "2017 Mid-Season Invitational". Leaguepedia | League of Legends Esports Wiki. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "2017 Mid-Season Invitational/Main Event". Leaguepedia | League of Legends Esports Wiki. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  5. ↑ Wolf, Jacob (25 July 2017). "Eleven teams protest GPL and Riot Games' mid-season rule change". ESPN.com. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  6. ↑ Newell, Adam. "Here are the results for the group stage at the 2017 World Championship". Dot Esports. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "2017 Season World Championship". Leaguepedia | League of Legends Esports Wiki. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  8. ↑ Newell, Adam (12 October 2017). "Fnatic stage miracle comeback to claim Worlds quarterfinal spot". Dot Esports. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  9. ↑ Goslin, Austen (12 October 2017). "Worlds 2017 Group Stage: Group B finale recap". The Rift Herald. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  10. ↑ "Slay left Gigabyte Marines after returning home from MSI, and Stark may be leaving too". Dot Esports. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  11. ↑ Mickunas, Aaron (16 October 2017). "Optimus has left GIGABYTE Marines". Dot Esports. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  12. ↑ Abbas, Malcolm (26 December 2017). "100 Thieves complete academy roster, sign Levi". Dot Esports. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  13. ↑ "VCS/2018 Season/Spring Season". Leaguepedia | League of Legends Esports Wiki. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  14. ↑ "VCS/2018 Season/Spring Playoffs". Leaguepedia | League of Legends Esports Wiki. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
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