Invictus Gaming
| Invictus Gaming | |
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| Abbreviation | iG |
| Headquarters |
 People's Republic of China
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| founding year | 2011 |
| Main sponsor | Wang Sicong |
| Homepage | igaming.com.cn |
| Teams | |
Invictus Gaming is a Chinese e-sports team. It was founded in 2011 and is best known for its internationally successful teams in the esports disciplines Dota 2 and League of Legends . The team is also active in StarCraft II , CrossFire and Hearthstone .
history
Invictus Gaming (iG for short) is owned by Wang Sicong , son of the Chinese multi-billionaire Wang Jianlin . He bought the Chinese esports organization Catastrophic Cruel Memory (CCM) for a record 40 million yuan ($ 6.2 million) in August 2011 and renamed it Invictus Gaming.
At The International 2011 tournament , which took place a few weeks after the acquisition , the first Dota 2 tournament with a total prize money of 1.6 million dollars, the team finished in fifth place.
A year later iG won not only the second edition of The International and thus the grand prize of one million dollars in Dota 2 , but also the World Cyber Games (WCG) in Dota 2 and the first-person shooter CrossFire . The Invictus League of Legends team won the national qualification for the Season 2 World Championship , dropped out in the quarterfinals and went home with $ 75,000 in prize money.
In 2013, both the Dota and the LoL team failed to achieve great success. While the League of Legends team did not even qualify for the world championship, the Dota team reached the shared fifth place in the third The International and thus a prize money of a little more than 100,000 dollars.
In 2014 iG's Dota 2 team took first place, worth around $ 81,000, at the ESL One tournament in Frankfurt's Commerzbank Arena . German-speaking mass media such as Bild .de or kicker .de also reported on this. At The International 4, which took place a little later and was by far the most highly endowed e-sports tournament to date, the team finished in seventh place and won over $ 500,000.
In November 2018, the organization's LoL team won the final of the Season 8 World Championship in a 3-0 win over title favorites Fnatic . This makes iG the first organization that can show championship titles in 2 MOBA's. The 2018 Worlds win grossed over $ 2,000,000 for the team.
player
Dota 2
Player in September 2016
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Xu "BurNIng" Zhilei
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Fu "Q" Bin
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Ou "Op" Peng
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Lin "Xxs" Jing
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Ye "BoBoKa" Zhibiao
League of Legends
Player in June 2019
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Lee "Duke" Ho-seong (since 2016, top)
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Kang "TheShy" Seung-lok (since 2017, top)
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Gao "Ning" Zhen-Ning (since 2017, Jungle)
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Song "RooKie" Eui-Jin (since 2014, Mid)
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Yu "Jackeylove" Wen-Bo (since 2017, ADC)
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Wang "Baolan" Liu-Yi (since 2017, support)
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Chen "West" Long (since 2017, support)
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Li-Tan "Lucas" Pan-Ao (since 2019, support)
StarCraft 2
- active players (selection)
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Lei "XiGua" Wang (Zerg, since 2011)
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Xiang "MacSed" Hu (Protoss, since 2011)
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Jinhui "Jim" Cao (Protoss, since 2011)
Successes (selection)
Dota 2
| date | space | competition | Prize money |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2011 | 5th / 6th | The International 2011 | $ 35,000 |
| Sep 2012 | 1. | The International 2012 | $ 1,000,000 |
| Dec 2012 | 1. | World Cyber Games 2012 | $ 20,000 |
| March 2013 | 1. | G-League Season 2 | ~ $ 32,500 (¥ 200,000) |
| Aug 2013 | 5th / 6th | The International 2013 | $ 114,975 |
| Jan. 2014 | 2. | WPC ACE Dota 2 League | ~ $ 49,000 (¥ 300,000) |
| Jan. 2014 | 1. | Red Bull ECL | ~ $ 16,300 (¥ 100,000) |
| June 2014 | 1. | World E-Sports Professional Classic | ~ $ 163,000 (¥ 1,000,000) |
| June 2014 | 1. | ESL One Frankfurt | $ 80,900 |
| July 2014 | 7th / 8th | The International 2014 | $ 516,825 |
| Oct. 2014 | 3rd to 4th | i-League | $ 19,301 |
League of Legends
| date | space | competition | Prize money |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 2012 | 5th-8th | Riot Season 2 World Championship | $ 75,000 |
| Apr. 2013 | 1. | GIGABYTE Stars War League Season 2 | ~ $ 24,500 (¥ 150,000) |
| June 2013 | 3. | Tencent LoL Pro League Spring 2013 | ~ $ 32,500 (¥ 200,000) |
| July 2013 | 2. | Intel Extreme Masters Season VIII Shanghai | $ 8,000 |
| Dec. 2013 | 1. | Intel Extreme Masters Season VIII Singapore | $ 25,000 |
| Jan. 2014 | 1. | Demacia Cup Season 1 | ~ $ 16,000 (¥ 100,000) |
| May 2014 | 2. | Tencent LoL Pro League Spring 2014 | ~ $ 48,300 (¥ 300,000) |
| Aug. 2014 | 6th | Tencent LoL Pro League Summer 2014 | ~ $ 16,100 (¥ 100,000) |
| March 2015 | 2. | Demacia Cup 2015 | ~ $ 16,100 (¥ 100,000) |
| Oct. 2015 | 14.-16. | Riot Season 2015 World Championship | $ 25,000 |
| Nov 2018 | 1. | Riot Season 2018 World Championship | $ 2,418,750 |
| Apr. 2019 | 1. | Tencent LoL Pro League Spring 2019 | ~ $ 223,200 (¥ 1,500,000) |
StarCraft 2
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XiGua:
- 2nd place World Cyber Games 2011 - $ 5000
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MacSed:
- 3rd place World Cyber Games 2012 - $ 5000
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Jim:
- 4th place World Cyber Games 2013 - $ 0
- 3rd / 4th 1st place IEM Shenzhen 2014 - $ 2000
CrossFire
- 1st place World Cyber Games 2012 - $ 25,000
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catastrophic Cruel Memories is now Invictus Gaming gosugamers.net
- ↑ Invictus Gaming's CCM acquisition said a 6-million-dollar deal gosugamers.net
- ↑ $ 6 million brings CCM and LGD to Invictus Gaming mineski.net
- ↑ Thousands of fans at the professional gamer battle in the stadium bild.de
- ↑ "Invictus Gaming" wins the ESL One in Frankfurt! kicker.de
- ↑ 2018 Season World Championship. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
- ^ Invictus Gaming. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .