CJ Entus

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CJ Entus
CJ Entus Logo.png
Abbreviation CJ
Headquarters Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea
founding year 2001
Main sponsor CJ Group
Teams
active
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CJ Entus is the e-sports - factory team of South Korean conglomerate CJ Group (inter alia food, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology..). It was founded in 2001 under the name ProSuma and has had its current name since 2006 , after being renamed Greatest Ones .

history

In StarCraft , by far the most popular esports title in South Korea during the 2000s, as well as the successor title StarCraft 2 , CJ Entus was one of the KeSPA - Proleague teams. In this team league, the team was able to win the title three times (2003, 2009, 2012).

Outstanding results in individual competitions include winning the OnGameNet StarLeague (OSL) 2003 and the World Cyber ​​Games (WCG) 2004 by the player Seo "XellOs" Ji-hoon , the win of the WCG 2005 by Lee "fOru" Jae- hoon as well as victories at BlizzCon 2009 and OSL 2010 by Kim "EffOrt" Jung-woo . In addition, there are three wins in the MBCGame StarCraft League (MSL) and an OSL by Ma "sAviOr" Jae-yoon , which were subsequently revoked because of his involvement in the KeSPA betting manipulation scandal .

In a documentary about the StarCraft tournament at the WCG 2005 by National Geographic , which was also shown on television in German dubbing on n-tv , the team (at that time still Greatest Ones ) around the participants "XellOs" and "fOru “ Portrayed in more detail. With the American Greg "IdrA" Fields , a non-Korean also played for CJ between 2008 and 2010.

The team's most successful player in StarCraft 2 was Kim "herO" Joon-ho with about $ 177,000 in prize money during his time at CJ Entus.

In early 2013, CJ Entus took over two of the most successful South Korean teams in the League of Legends title, Blaze and Frost . They won several hundred thousand euros in prize money before they switched to CJ Entus and have since won the World Cyber ​​Games 2013 (CJ Blaze), the first two places in the IEM Season 7 World Championship (CJ Blaze before CJ Frost) and top places build on the successful past at OGN championships.

At the end of 2016, the division for StarCraft 2 and at the end of 2017 that for League of Legends were dissolved. For this a team for the game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds was signed.

Former players

StarCraft and StarCraft 2 (selection)

League of Legends

gallery

  • CJ StarCraft team after winning the Proleaue 2012

  • Ma "sAviOr" Jae-yoon

  • Kim "EffOrt" Jung-woo

  • Lee "foru" Jae-hoon

  • Park "Shy" Sang-myun

  • Ham "Lustboy" Jang-sik

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ english.cj.net
  2. ↑ South Korea Starcraft gamers accused of match rigging news.bbc.co.uk
  3. ↑ gulli.com Forum ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / board.gulli.com
  4. ↑ StarCraft: World Cyber ​​Games 2005 (National Geographic documentary) youtube.com
  5. ↑ Kim "herO" Joon-ho esportsearnings.com
  6. ↑ Results of the AZUBU Frost and AZUBU Blaze team on esportsearnings.com, accessed on July 15, 2016
  7. ↑ MiG Frost and MiG Blaze Team Results on esportsearnings.com, accessed July 15, 2016
  8. ↑ CJ Entus Officially Enters PUBG theshotcaller.net