Counter Logic Gaming

Counter Logic Gaming
Abbreviation	CLG
Place of foundation	United States
founding year	2010
Homepage	clgaming.net
Teams
active League of Legends Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Overwatch Super Smash Bros. former Dota 2 Call of Duty Halo

Counter Logic Gaming (short CLG ) is a company founded in April 2010 e-sports team. It is best known in the League of Legends discipline , where - along with Team SoloMid and Cloud 9 - it is one of the most popular teams in North America, although the team did not win a single major title between August 2011 and August 2015.

Between December 2011 and December 2012, in addition to the North American team, a European team under the name CLG.EU was under contract, which was also among the world's best. In December 2012 the lineup changed completely to the organization Evil Geniuses . Both the North American and the former European CLG teams have each earned well over one hundred thousand US dollars in prize money.

In 2012, the organization had a team in the Dota 2 discipline under contract for a few months , which earned around $ 15,000 in prize money in several smaller leagues and tournaments.

history

CLG was founded in April 2010 and won the World Cyber ​​Games in autumn 2010, the first major tournament to be played in League of Legends.

In 2011, the team finished fifth at the Riot Season 1 World Championship (held at DreamHack Summer) . With the Intel Extreme Masters in Cologne and the MLG in Raleigh, the team won two more tournaments a little later. Further top placements at IEM, MLG and the IGN ProLeague followed by autumn 2012; however, the team could not win any of the tournaments. The European team around midlaner Henrik "Froggen" Hansen (CLG.EU), signed in December 2011, won a major tournament with the DreamHack Summer 2012.

CLG.EU in the final of OGN Champions in South Korea

In spring 2012 the North American CLG team (CLG Prime) took part in the OGN trainee The Champions Spring in South Korea . There the team reached the quarter-finals. For the subsequent OGN Champions Summer Season, both CLG teams moved to Korea for three months. CLG.EU achieved second place there, while CLG Prime was eliminated again in the quarter-finals.

In autumn 2012, both teams qualified for the Riot Season 2 World Championship , which at the time was the most highly endowed e-sports tournament of all time with prize money totaling 2 million US dollars. With a tied ninth place, CLG Prime won $ 50,000, CLG.EU even made it to the semifinals and secured prize money of $ 150,000. Shortly afterwards, CLG.EU came in second at DreamHack Winter 2012, before the team switched to the organization Evil Geniuses .

The North American CLG team has been playing in the newly created professional league LCS since the beginning of 2013 and was in the middle of the table there in 2013. The qualification for the Riot Season 3 World Championship , again endowed with around 2 million dollars , was missed. In July 2013, CLG signed OGN commentator Christopher “MonteCristo” Mykles to coach the team. Shortly before that, co-founder George "HotshotGG" Georgallidis resigned as a professional player and switched to management.

In October 2013, Steve "chauster" Chau, the last member of the original line-up, left the team. With the German player Marcel "dexter" Feldkamp , a European player was signed for the first time in November 2013, who played as a jungler for CLG in 2014 after a temporary visa problem. After a disappointing season and the missed qualification for the world championship, the team was reassigned to the top and jungle position. In 2015, for the first time in several years, the team won a major tournament with the LCS Summer Split and thus qualified for the world championship, but was eliminated from the group stage as bottom group.

In October 2015, CLG announced that it had separated from Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng after 4 years due to internal differences.

In mid-January 2015, the organization signed a North American roster in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive . The lineup qualified for the ESL One Katowice 2015 in February 2015 .

player

League of Legends

CLG NA

• Kim "Ruin" Hyeong-min (top, since May 2019)
• Raymond "Wiggily" Griffin (Jungle, since Dec. 2018)
• Lee "Crown" Min-Ho (Mid, since Nov. 2019)
• Trevor "Stixxay" Hayes (AD, since Jan. 2016)
• Andy "Smoothie" Ta (Support, Nov. 2019)

former players (selection)

• Tristan "PowerOfEvil" Schrage (Mid, Nov. 2018 – Nov. 2019)
• Jaehyun "Huhi" Choi (Mid, May 2015 – Nov. 2018)
• Darshan "Darshan" Upadhyaha (Top, Nov. 2014 – Jul. 2019)
• Cody "Elementz" Sigfusson (Support, Apr. 2010 – Oct. 2011)
• Brandon "Saintvicious" DiMarco (Jungle, Feb. 2011 – Apr. 2012)
• Choi "Locodoco" Yoon-seop (Support, Oct. 2012 – Dec. 2012)
• George "HotshotGG" Georgallidis (Top / Jungle, Apr. 2010 – May 2013)
• Steve "chauster" Chau (Jungle / AD / Support, Apr. 2010 – Oct. 2013)
• Michael "bigfatlp" Tang (Jungle / Mid, Apr. 2010 – Nov. 2012, May 2013 – Oct. 2013)
• Zach "Nientonsoh" Malhas (Top, May 2013-May 2014)
• Marcel "dexter" Feldkamp (Jungle, Jan. 2014 – Oct. 2014)
• Shin "Seraph" Woo-yeong (Top, May. 2014 – Nov. 2014)
• Austin "Link" Shin (Mid, Dec. 2012 – May 2015)
• Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng (AD, Nov. 2011-Oct. 2015)
• Eugene "Pobelter" Park (Mid, May 2015 – Oct. 2015)
• Jake "Xmithie" Puchero (Jungle, Dec. 2014 – May 2017)

CLG Academy

• Kevin "fallenbandit" Wu (Top, since Nov. 2016)
• Omar "OmarGod" Amin (Jungle, since Nov. 2016)
• Jean-Sébastien "Tuesday" Thery (Mid, since Nov. 2016)
• Osama "Zag" Alkhalaileh (AD, since Nov. 2016)
• Lee "Fill" Hyo-won (Support, since Nov. 2016)

CLG EU

former players (Dec. 2011 – Dec. 2012)

• Mike "Wickd" Petersen (Top)
• Stephen "Snoopeh" Ellis (Jungle)
• Henrik "Froggen" Hansen (Mid)
• Peter "Yellowpete" Wüppen (AD)
• Mitch "Krepo" Voorspoels (Support)

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

CLG

• Steve "reltuC" Cutler (since Jan. 2015)
• Ethan "seams" Arnold (since Aug. 2016)
• Kenneth "koosta" Suen (since June 2016)
• Pujan "FNS" Mehta (Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2017, since Jan. 2017)
• Ricky "Rickeh" Mulholland (since Mar. 2016)

former players

• Peter "ptr ^" Gurney (Jan. 2015 – Apr. 2015)
• Jacob "FugLy" Medina (Jan. 2016 – June 2016)
• Josh "jdm64" Marzano (June 2015 – June 2016)
• Faruk "pita" Pita (Coach, Dec. 2015 – July 2016)
• Tarik "tarik" Celik (Jan. 2015 – July 2016)
• Garett "Grt" Bambrough (Coach, Aug. 2016 – Sep. 2016)
• James "hazed" Cobb (Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2016)
• Yassine "Subroza" Taoufik (Aug. 2016 – Feb. 2017)
• Chet "ImAPet" Singh (Coach, Dec. 2016 – June 2017)

CLG Red

• Diane "di ^" Tran (since July 2015)
• Benita "bENITA" Novshadian (since July 2015)
• Jennifer "refinnej" Le (since June 2017)
• Emma "Emy" Choe (since June 2017)
• Cody "cubed" Thaw (Coach, since June 2017)

former players

• Christine "potter" Chi (July 2015 – January 2018)
• Catherine "CAth" Leroux (July 2015 – May 2016)
• Erik "da_bears" Stromberg (Coach, Aug. 2016 – Feb. 2017)
• Stephanie "missharvey" Harvey (July 2015 – June 2017)
• Klaudia "klaudia" Beczkiewicz (Aug. 2016 – June 2017)

Super Smash Bros.

Melee

• Kevin "PewPewU" Toy (since June 2015)
• Zachary "SFAT" Cordoni (since December 2016)

Wii U

• James "VoiD" Makekau-Tyson (since June 2016)

Successes (selection)

League of Legends

CLG (North America)

date	space	competition	Prize money
Oct 2010	1.	World Cyber ​​Games 2010	0$ 6,000
June 2011	5.	Riot World Championship - Season 1	0$ 3,500
Aug 2011	1.	Intel Extreme Masters Season VI - Global Challenge Cologne	$ 12,000
Aug 2011	1.	Major League Gaming - Raleigh 2011	$ 12,500
Oct 2011	2.	Intel Extreme Masters Season VI - Global Challenge Guangzhou	0$ 6,000
Dec 2011	3.	World Cyber ​​Games 2011	0$ 6,000
March 2012	3.	Intel Extreme Masters Season VI - World Championship	0$ 8,000
Apr. 2012	2.	IGN ProLeague 4th	$ 25,000
June 2012	2.	Major League Gaming - Spring Championship	$ 12,000
Sep 2012	3.	Riot North American Regional Finals	$ 20,000
Oct. 2012	9/10	Riot World Championship - Season 2	$ 50,000
Apr. 2013	5th / 6th	League Championship Series - Season 3 Spring Playoffs	-
Sep 2013	5.	League Championship Series - Season 3 Summer Playoffs	-
Nov 2013	3rd / 4th	Intel Extreme Masters Season VI - World Championship	0$ 5,000
Apr. 2014	3.	League Championship Series - 2014 Spring Playoffs	$ 15,000
Sep 2014	6th	League Championship Series - 2014 Summer Playoffs	-
Dec. 2014	2.	Intel Extreme Masters Season IX - Cologne	0$ 6,500
Apr. 2015	5th-6th	League Championship Series - 2015 Summer Playoffs	-
Aug 2015	1.	League Championship Series - 2015 Summer Playoffs	$ 50,000
Oct. 2015	12./13.	Riot World Championship - 2015	$ 35,000

CLG (Europe)

date	space	competition	Prize money
June 2012	1.	DreamHack Summer 2012	0$ 15,000
July 2012	2.	ESL European Challenger Circuit: Poland	0$ 10,000
Aug 2012	3.	Riot European Regional Finals	0$ 10,000
Aug 2012	2.	OGN trainee The Champions Summer 2012	~ $ 17,590
Oct. 2012	3rd / 4th	Riot World Championship - Season 2	$ 150,000
Nov. 2012	2.	DreamHack Winter 2012	0$ 12,725

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

date	space	competition	Prize money
June 2015	4th	ESL ESEA Pro League Season 1 - NA Division	0$ 13,500
July 2015	3rd to 4th	ESL ESEA Pro League Season 1 - Playoffs	0$ 25,000
Dec 2015	1.	Northern Arena 2015	0$ 10,000
June 2017	3rd to 4th	DreamHack Summer 2017	0$ 10,000
Sep 2017	3rd to 4th	DreamHack Montreal 2017	0$ 10,000

Web links

• clgaming.net
• Interview with George 'HotshotGG' Georgallidis forbes.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Counter Logic Gaming wiki.teamliquid.net
2. ↑ CLG Dota 2 Disbands clgaming.net
3. ↑ List of Major League of Legends Tournaments from 2010 to date esportsearnings.com
4. ↑ CLG to Participate in OGN the Champions Summer! clgaming.net
5. ↑ Ex-CLG.eu officially sign with Evil Geniuses gosugamers.net
6. ↑ CLG brings on MonteCristo as Coach clgaming.net
7. ↑ Chauster Retires from League of Legends, CLG Roster Changes clgaming.net
8. ↑ German LoL professional rejected at the US border winfuture.de
9. ↑ Introducing CLG Counter-Strike on clgaming.net
10. ↑ World Cyber Games 2010 esportspedia.com
11. ↑ Riot Season 1 Championship esportspedia.com
12. ^ IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Cologne esportspedia.com
13. ↑ 2011 MLG Pro Circuit / Raleigh esportspedia.com
14. ^ IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Guangzhou esportspedia.com
15. ↑ World Cyber ​​Games 2011 ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 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. esportspedia.com 
16. ↑ IEM Season VI - World Championship esportspedia.com
17. ↑ IGN ProLeague Season 4 - Las Vegas ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2014 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. esportspedia.com 
18. ↑ 2012 MLG Pro Circuit / Spring esportspedia.com
19. ↑ Season 2 / Regional Finals - Seattle esportspedia.com
20. ↑ Season 2 World Championship esportspedia.com
21. ^ Riot League Championship Series / North America / Season 3 / Spring Playoffs esportspedia.com
22. ^ Riot League Championship Series / North America / Season 3 / Summer Playoffs esportspedia.com
23. ↑ IEM Season VIII - Cologne esportspedia.com
24. ^ Riot League Championship Series / North America / Season 4 / Spring Playoffs esportspedia.com
25. ↑ Riot League Championship Series / North America / 2014 Season / Summer Playoffs esportspedia.com
26. ^ IEM Season IX - Cologne esportspedia.com
27. ↑ Riot League Championship Series / North America / 2015 Season / Spring Playoffs esportspedia.com
28. ↑ Riot League Championship Series / North America / 2015 Season / Summer Playoffs esportspedia.com
29. ↑ 2015 World Championship esportspedia.com
30. ↑ DreamHack Summer 2012 esportspedia.com
31. ^ European Challenger Circuit: Poland esportspedia.com
32. ^ European Challenger Circuit: Poland esportspedia.com
33. ↑ Trainee The Champions Summer 2012 esportspedia.com
34. ↑ Season 2 World Championship esportspedia.com
35. ↑ DreamHack Winter 2012 esportspedia.com
36. ↑ ESL ESEA North America Pro League Season 1 esportsearnings.com
37. ↑ ESL ESEA Pro League Season 1 Finals esportsearnings.com
38. ↑ Northern Arena 2015 esportsearnings.com
39. ↑ DreamHack Summer 2017 (CS: GO Pro) esportsearnings.com
40. ↑ DreamHack Montreal 2017 (CS: GO) esportsearnings.com