Immortals (esports)

Immortals
Sport Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Super Smash Bros.
Overwatch
Vainglory
Dota 2
Arena of Valor
Founded 2015
Based in Los Angeles, California
Chairman Clinton Foy
Manager Noah Whinston (CEO)
Ari Segal (President/COO)
Website immortals.gg

Immortals is a professional esports team based in the United States that was created on October 7, 2015. The team was founded after buying the NA LCS spot of Team 8.[1] They used to compete in the North American League of Legends Championship Series, but were declined entry for the 2018 season, despite being one of the three teams from the LCS to qualify for the World Championship Series in 2017. Immortals has since expanded into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, Dota 2, Super Smash Bros, Vainglory and Arena of Valor.

League of Legends

On October 7, 2015 it was announced that a new organization called Immortals would be acquiring the Team 8 spot in the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS).[2] On October 14, 2015, Dodo8 announced his retirement and moved to a management position in Immortals.[3] On December 8 it was announced that Seong "Huni" Hoon Heo, Kim "Reignover" Yeu Jin, Eugene "Pobelter" Park, Jason "WildTurtle" Tran, and Adrian "Adrian" Ma would be joining the team.[4] Of these five players, only one remained on the 2017 roster; Pobelter. On December 7, 2016, Joshua "Dardoch" Hartnett joined as starting jungler, signing a three-year contract.[5] Lee "Flame" Ho-jong (top lane) and Li Yu "Cody Sun" Sun (ADC) joined on December 9, 2016;[6] Kim "Olleh" Joo-sung (support) was first reported as joining on December 12, 2016,[7] with a press release from Immortals following on December 13, 2016.[8]

Former

Summoner ID Name Position
Flame Lee Ho-jong Top
Xmithie Jake Kevin Puchero Jungle
Pobelter Eugene Park Mid
Cody Sun Li Yu 'Cody' Sun ADC
AnDa Andy Hoang Sub/Jungle
Stunt William Chen Sub/Support
Dardoch Joshua Hartnett Jungle
Huni Seong Hoon Heo Top
Reignover Kim Yeu Jin Jungle
WildTurtle Jason Tran ADC
Adrian Adrian Ma Support
Olleh Kim Joo-sung Support[9]

Staff

Summoner ID Name Position
Ssong Sang-soo Kim Head Coach
Robert Robert Yip Coach
Dodo8 Jun Kang Team Manager
Loyotalol Brendan Schilling Head Analyst
Lufty Nick Luft Analyst

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 Tempo Storm's fully Brazilian lineup on June 1, 2016.[10] The former coach of SK Gaming, Wilton "zews" Prado replaced Gustavo "SHOOWTiME" Gonçalves on July 22, 2016.[11] On June 21, Immortals won DreamHack Summer 2016 after beating Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-0.[12] The team placed 3rd-4th at CyberPowerPC Summer 2016, losing to Cloud9 in the semi-finals.[13] Immortals won Northern Arena 2016 on September 4 after they beat Cloud9 in the finals.[14] 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 Entry Fragger João "felps" Vasconcellos was traded to SK Gaming in exchange for Lincoln "fnx" Lau. In January 27, 2018, the team investors acquired the MiBR branding, after some months of negotiation with Paulo Velloso (former MiBR CEO), planning to come back with a Brazilian roster in the future.[15][16]

Roster

Alias Name Role Join date
Brazil fer Fernando Alvarenga Entry fragger June 23, 2018[17]
Brazil coldzera Marcelo David Lurker June 23, 2018[17]
Brazil FalleN Gabriel Toledo AWPer, in-game leader June 23, 2018[17]
United States Stewie2K Jake Yip Entry fragger June 23, 2018[17]
United States tarik Tarik Celik Rifler July 14, 2018[18]
Serbia YNk Janko Paunović Coach August 1, 2018[19]
Brazil dead Ricardo Sinigaglia Team manager June 23, 2018[17]
Finland lurppis Tomi Kovanen General manager February 21, 2018[20]

Inactive

Alias Name Role Join date Inactive date Notes
Brazil boltz Ricardo Prass Support June 23, 2018 July 14, 2018 Replaced with tarik on active roster.[18]

Former

Former players
Alias Name Role Joined Left Next team Current team
Brazil SHOOWTiME Gustavo Gonçalves Lurker June 1, 2016[21] July 22, 2016[22] INTZ eSports Imperial e-Sports
Brazil felps João Vasconcellos Entry fragger June 1, 2016[21] February 5, 2017[23] SK Gaming NoTag (ex-NTC)
Brazil zews Wilton Prado Rifler July 22, 2016[24] November 4, 2016[25] Team Liquid (Coach) Team Liquid (Coach)
Brazil kNgV- Vito Giuseppe AWPer, support July 25, 2017[26] September 20, 2017[27] 100 Thieves NoTag (ex-NTC)
Brazil steel Lucas Lopes In-game leader November 4, 2016[28] November 13, 2016[29] CNB e-Sports Club Luminosity Gaming
Brazil zakk Rafael Fernandes Coach June 1, 2016[21] December 8, 2017[30] Luminosity Gaming (Coach) Luminosity Gaming (Coach)
Brazil HEN1 Henrique Teles AWPer June 1, 2016[21] December 12, 2017[31] 100 Thieves Luminosity Gaming
Brazil LUCAS1 Lucas Teles Entry fragger June 1, 2016[21] December 12, 2017[31] 100 Thieves Luminosity Gaming
Brazil fnx Lincoln Lau Lurker February 2, 2017 December 12, 2017[31] 100 Thieves Free agent
Brazil horvy João Horvath Support October 3, 2017 August 21, 2018[32] NoTag (ex-NTC) NoTag (ex-NTC)

Tournament results

Super Smash Bros.

Immortals branched into Super Smash Bros. by signing the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Brawl player Jason "ANTi" Bates on September 13, 2016.[34] Three months later, they signed Super Smash Bros. Melee player DaJuan "Shroomed" McDaniel who was previously signed with Winterfox.[35]

Roster

ID Name Games Main character(s) Join date
ANTi Jason Bates Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Smash Bros. Brawl		 Mario, Cloud Strife
Meta Knight		 2016-09-13
Shroomed DaJuan McDaniel Super Smash Bros. Melee Sheik 2016-12-22

Dota 2

On September 13, 2017 it was announced that Immortals had acquired the North American-based independent Korean squad Team Phoenix consisting of The International 2016 MVP Phoenix roster.[36]

On December 30, 2017 offlaner Forev announced via Twitter his departure from the team.[37]

Roster

ID Name Position Join Date
QO Kim Seon-yeob Carry/Mid (1/2) 09-13-2017[36]
MP Pyo No-a Carry/Mid (1/2) 09-13-2017[36]
Febby Kim Yong-min Support (4/5) 09-13-2017[36]
Dubu Kim Doo-young Support (4/5) 09-13-2017[36]

Staff

The group is headed by a team of investors which includes Anschutz Entertainment Group, Peter Levin, the president of Lionsgate Interactive Venture and Games, who co-founded Nerdist; Allen Debevoise, a chairman at Machinima.com; Steve Kaplan, a co-owner of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies; Honest Co. CEO Brian Lee, entertainment industry venture capitalists Machine Shop Ventures, and others.[38]

References

  1. ↑ "Immortals esports team raises money from an elite investment consortium". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
  2. ↑ Jarvey, Natalie (October 7, 2015). "Entertainment, Tech Investors Acquire Esports Franchise". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
  3. ↑ Lingle, Samuel (October 14, 2015). "Dodo8 ends his playing career, moves on to player management". The Daily Dot. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
  4. ↑ Raven, Josh (Dec 7, 2015). "Huni, Pobelter, WildTurtle headline star-studded Immortals roster". Retrieved Dec 8, 2015.
  5. ↑ Volk, Pete (Dec 7, 2016). "Immortals signs Dardoch as new jungler". The Rift Herald. Retrieved Dec 13, 2016.
  6. ↑ Volk, Pete (Dec 9, 2016). "Immortals signs Flame, Cody Sun on new roster". The Rift Herald. Retrieved Dec 13, 2016.
  7. ↑ Wolf, Jacob (Dec 12, 2016). "Sources: Immortals sign Olleh, will compete Tuesday". ESPN. Retrieved Dec 13, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Introducing Olleh as the Immortals support". immortals.gg. Dec 13, 2016. Retrieved Dec 13, 2016.
  9. ↑ https://www.lolesports.com/en_US/na-lcs/na_2018_spring/players/olleh
  10. ↑ Wolf, Jacob. "Immortals purchase Tempo Storm's Counter-Strike team". ESPN. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  11. ↑ "IMMORTALS CS:GO Division Update". immortals.gg. Archived from the original on 25 July 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  12. 1 2 Gonzales, Dennis. "Immortals win DreamHack Summer 2016 after 2-0 victory over NiP". theScore esports. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  13. 1 2 Malachowski, Michal. "C9 win CyberPowerPC Summer 2016". HLTV.org. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  14. 1 2 Robichaud, Andrew. "ESPORTS Sep 4 Immortals beats Cloud9 to win Northern Arena". The Sports Network. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  15. ↑ "Paulo Velloso confirms talks with Immortals over mibr brand". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
  16. ↑ "Draft5 - O calendário do CS brasileiro". Draft5 (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2018-05-03.
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 "Roster - MIBR". MIBR. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  18. 1 2 "MIBR confirm tarik signing". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  19. ↑ "MIBR UNVEIL YNK AS COACH". Immortals. 2018-02-21. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  20. ↑ "lurppis joins Immortals as General Manager for CS:GO". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
  21. 1 2 3 4 5 Švejda, Milan (June 1, 2016). "Immortals sign Tempo Storm roster". HLTV.org. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  22. ↑ Jose, Josh (November 7, 2016). "Pushing The Irreplaceable Shoowtime Out The Door Was An Immortal Screw Up". ClickOn. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  23. ↑ "SK sign felps, fnx move to Immortals". Kill Ping. February 6, 2017. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  24. ↑ Wolf, Jacob (July 22, 2016). "Coach zews leaves SK Gaming, joins Immortals as player". ESPN. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  25. ↑ Randhawa, Navneet (November 14, 2016). "Immortals' steel on filling in for zews: 'I was a little bit afraid'". The Score eSports. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  26. ↑ Mira, Luis (July 25, 2017). "Immortals sign kNg". HLTV.org. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  27. ↑ Stewart, Jack (September 20, 2017). "CS:GO player KNGV has left Immortals after breaking his suspension, sending death threats and being late for a final". Daily Mail. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  28. ↑ Miles, Lucas Aznar (November 8, 2016). "steel to Immortals for zews". HLTV.org. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  29. ↑ Švejda, Milan (November 13, 2017). "steel transferred to Liquid". HLTV.org. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  30. ↑ Davis, Collin (December 2, 2017). "zakk exits Immortals". Dust2.us. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
  31. 1 2 3 Goldstein, DG (December 12, 2017). "100 Thieves Reveal Inaugural Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Roster". Dexerto. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
  32. ↑ "NTC add horvy; bit benched, fnx released". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
  33. ↑ "DreamHack Montreal 2017". Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  34. ↑ Wolf, Jacob. "Immortals signs CEO 2016 champion ANTi". ESPN. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  35. ↑ Wolf, Jacob. "Immortals pick up Smash Bros Melee player Shroomed". ESPN. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
  36. 1 2 3 4 5 Rose, Victoria (September 13, 2017). "Immortals acquires Korean Team Phoenix roster". The Flying Courier. Retrieved October 24, 2017.
  37. ↑ Bonifacio, Patrick. "Forev makes his exit from Immortals' Dota 2 roster". Dot Esports. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  38. ↑ Lingle, Samuel (October 7, 2015). "Meet the Immortals, the venture capital-funded esports franchise that bought Team 8's LCS spot". The Daily Dot. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
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