T1 (esports)
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| Abbreviation | T1 |
| operator | T1 Entertainment & Sports |
| management | Joe Marsh, CEO
Song Jong-ho (송종호), Director |
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 Kim Soen-jung
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| founding year | 2003 |
| Homepage | t1.gg |
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T1 (formerly: SK Telecom T1) is an esports team owned by T1 Entertainment & Sports, a joint venture between SK Telecom and Comcast Spectator. It is a record world champion in League of Legends .
history
At the end of 2003, SK Telecom signed the StarCraft Team Orion (previously 4U) led by Lim Yo-hwan and thus founded Team First . Lim Yo-hwan took on the role of team captain. SK Telecom T1 is part of SK Sports, which also includes baseball team SK Wyverns from Incheon , basketball team SK Knights from Seoul and Olympic champion Park Tae-hwan . The team is also of sportswear manufacturer New Balance , the maker of memory products Eating Core (brand KLEVV occurring) and the beverage producers alliance between the two pharmaceutical companies Dong-A and Otsuka supported.
The organization has also been active in League of Legends since 2012 and won the Riot World Championships in 2013, 2015 and 2016, which are endowed with one million dollars . At the 2017 World Cup, SKT T1 reached the final but lost 3-0 to Samsung Galaxy. While SKT T1 failed to qualify for the World Cup in their own country in 2018, it returned to strength in 2019. The team reached the semi-finals of the 2019 World Championships, but had to admit defeat to the European G2 Esports , as they did at the Mid-Season Invitational that same year .
At the end of 2016, the Proleague in StarCraft 2 was discontinued and the StarCraft team from SK Telecom T1 was also dissolved.
In February 2019 it was announced that SK Telecom would be renamed T1, but this season, including the League of Legends World Championship, they still played under the previous name. As of November 2019, CEO Joe Marsh began officially referring to the team as T1. The name change was based on the foundation of T1 Entertainment & Sports , a joint venture between SK Telecom and Comcast Spectacor .
player
StarCraft: Brood War & StarCraft 2
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League of Legends
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Hearthstone
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Sebastian "Xixo" Bentert (since 2018)
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Frederik Høj "Hoej" Nielsen (since 2018)
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Kim "Surrender" Jung-soo (since 2018)
Successes (excerpt)
StarCraft
- 1st place: OnGameNet KTF EVERCup ProLeague 2003
- 1st place: LG IBM MBC Team League 2003-2004
- 1st place: Tucsan MBCGame Team League 2004
- 1st place: SKY ProLeague Grand Final 2005
- 1st place: Minor League 2007-2008
- 1st place: Shinhan Bank Proleague 2008–2009
- 1st place: Minor League 2009
- 1st place: Shinhan Bank Winners League
- 1st place: SK Planet Proleague Season 1 2011–2012
- 1st place: SK Telecom Proleague 2014–2015
League of Legends
- 1st place: Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge Cologne 2012
- 3rd place: Intel Extreme Masters World Championship 2013
- 3rd place: OLYMPUS Champions Spring 2013
- 1st place: HOT6iX Champions Summer 2013
- 1st place: Riot Season 3 World Championship
- 1st place: PANDORA.TV Champions Winter 2013–2014
- 5th-8th Place: HOT6iX Champions Spring 2014
- 1st place: Riot All-Star Invitational 2014
- 2nd place: OnGameNet Masters 2014
- 1st place: LCK Spring 2015
- 2nd place: Riot Mid-Season Invitational 2015
- 1st place: LCK Summer 2015
- 1st place: Riot World Championship 2015
- 1st place: Intel Extreme Masters World Championship 2016
- 1st place: LCK Spring 2016
- 1st place: Riot Mid-Season Invitational 2016
- 3rd place: LCK Summer 2016
- 1st place: Riot World Championship 2016
- 1st place: LCK Spring 2017
- 1st place: Riot Mid-Season Invitational 2017
- 2nd place: LCK Summer 2017
- 2nd place: Riot World Championship 2017
- 4th place: LCK Spring 2018
- 7th place: LCK Summer 2018
- 1st place: LCK Spring 2019
- 1st place: LCK Summer 2019
- 3rd to 4th Place: Riot World Championship 2019
Web links
- “Boys with flying fingers”, Der Spiegel, No. 6, February 6, 2006, p. 132 ff.
- "New kings of e-sports," The Korea Times, March 30, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ About SK Telecom T1 . sksports.net, accessed November 17, 2017 (Korean)
- ↑ Lim Yo-Hwan, Crazy as Me (임요환, 나 만큼 미쳐봐 ), 2004, Bookroad, ISBN 89-91239-15-3 (03810)
- ↑ SK Sports: 스포츠 팬 을 향한 행복 날개: SK 스포츠단
- ↑ SK Sports: SK 텔레콤 T1
- ↑ Worlds 2017 stats from the finals lolesports.com
- ↑ The End of Proleague thescoreesports.com
- ^ Comcast Spectacor, SK Telecom launch T1. ESPN , October 15, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 .
- ^ T1. Accessed April 10, 2020 (English).