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Noh “Gamsu” Yeong-jin
Noh Yeong-Jin (), better known as Gamsu, is a South Korean professional ''League of Legends'' player. He began his professional esports career with ''League of Legends'', playing as a top laner for several teams, such as Fnatic, Team Dignitas, and Samsung Galaxy Blue. Noh transitioned to professional ''Overwatch'' in 2016, competing for CONBOX in the OGN APEX Series. With the inception of the Overwatch League in 2017, Noh signed with the Boston Uprising before being traded to the Shanghai Dragons a season later. After one season with the Dragons, Noh signed with the Dallas Fuel. In late 2020, Noh retired from competitive ''Overwatch'' to pursue a career in ''League of Legends'' again. He played on 100 Thieves' academy teams until he was signed with Dignitas in mid-2022. Professional career ''League of Legends'' Gamsu started his esports career with Korean team Alienware Arena. They first competed in the PANDORA.TV Champions Winter 2013–2014, and ended up third place. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends
''League of Legends'' (''LoL'', commonly referred to as ''League'', is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by ''Defense of the Ancients'', a Mod (video games), custom map for ''Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III'', Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre. Since its release in October 2009, ''League'' has been free-to-play and is monetized through Freemium, purchasable character customization. The game is available for Windows and macOS. In the game, two teams of five players battle in player-versus-player combat, each team occupying and defending their half of the map. Each of the ten players controls a character, known as a "champion", with unique abilities and differing styles of play. During a match, champions become more powerful by collecting experience points, earning gold, and purchasing Item (game terminology), items to defeat the opposing team. In ''League''s main mode, Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game
The 2018 Overwatch League All-Star Game was the Overwatch League's (OWL) first edition of an all-star game that matched the top players in the Atlantic Division (ATL) against those in the Pacific Division (PAC). The game was played on August 26, 2018 at Blizzard Arena in Burbank, California and was the culmination of the league's All-Star Weekend. The Atlantic took the first All-Star title by defeating the Pacific by a score of 4–1. The game was televised by Disney XD and ESPN3 and streamed live on Twitch. All-Star Game The All-Star Game was a five-map match between players from the Atlantic Division and Pacific Division using standard competitive settings. All 18 players on each team were required to have play-time, and substitutions were allowed between each map change. Rosters and coaches The rosters and coaches for the All-Star game were selected through a voting process. The starters were chosen by the fans, with voting beginning on June 1 and ending on June 17. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upcomer
Enthusiast Gaming Holdings Inc. is a Canadian digital media company specializing in video game journalism. Founded in 2014 by entrepreneur Menashe Kestenbaum, the company owned the websites ''Destructoid'' and ''Escapist Magazine'' from 2014 to September 2022, as well the gaming convention Enthusiast Gaming Live Expo (EGLX). The company went public on the TSX Venture Exchange in October 2018. In January 2020, the company's listing moved to the Toronto Stock Exchange. The company was also trading on the Nasdaq from April 2021 to October 2023. Enthusiast Gaming owns a number of websites and runs an annual convention in Toronto. Brands Websites * ''DiabloII Net & Wiki'' (acquired 2018) * ''Gaming Street'' (founded 2019) * ''Planet Destiny'' (acquired 2019) * Steel Media (''Pocket Gamer'') (acquired 2019) * The Sims Resource (acquired 2019) * Omnia Media (acquired 2020) * Vedatis (''Icy Veins'') (acquired 2021) * Tabwire (''Tabstats'') (acquired 2021) * ''GameKnot'' (acquired 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco Shock
The San Francisco Shock are an United States, American professional Overwatch (video game)#Esports, ''Overwatch'' esports team based in San Francisco, California. The Shock competed in the Overwatch League (OWL) as a member of the league's West region. Founded in 2017, the San Francisco Shock was one of the twelve founding members of the OWL and was one of three professional ''Overwatch'' teams in California. The team is owned by Andy Miller (businessman), Andy Miller, co-owner of the Sacramento Kings and NRG Esports. In their time with the OWL, the Shock won three midseason tournament titles, qualified for four season playoffs, reached the Grand Finals three times, and won back-to-back Grand Finals, making them one of the most accomplished franchise in Overwatch League history. Franchise history Beginnings On July 12, 2017, ''Overwatch (video game), Overwatch'' developer Activision Blizzard officially announced that Andy Miller (businessman), Andy Miller, co-founder and co- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Losing Streak
In sports, a losing streak (a.k.a. a cold streak, losing skid, slide, schneid, or losing Slump (sports), slump) is an uninterrupted string of contests (games, matches, etc.) lost by a team or individual. A losing streak is thus the opposite of a winning streak. A losing streak can last as few as two games, or it may last much longer. Distinction from winless streak A losing streak and a winless streak are distinctively different, as a winless streak may include: # tie games or draws # in first-class cricket, unfinished matches # in association football, ice hockey and some field hockey leagues where points are awarded for wins and drawn games, overtime or shootout losses if the draw at the end of regulation counts as a draw for points percentage. Tie games can also be included in an unbeaten streak, as in soccer. Existence and causation Most quantitative studies of winning and losing streaks, and the associated concept of The Big Mo, psychological momentum, have failed to fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Overwatch League Season
The 2018 Overwatch League season was the inaugural season for the Overwatch League, an esports league based on the video game ''Overwatch'' which began on January 10, 2018. Regular season play continued through June 16, 2018, while post-season play ran from July 11–28, 2018. The London Spitfire won the Grand Finals over the Philadelphia Fusion to become the League champions, with the Spitfire's Park "Profit" Jun-young named the Finals MVP. An All-Star Weekend was held following the post-season from August 25–26, 2018. Schedule The season's format and schedule were announced in November 2017. The inaugural regular season ran from January 10 to June 17, 2018, broken out into four stages. Each stage lasted five weeks, with a one-week break between each stages. Each regular season week featured twelve games, three matches per day from Wednesday to Saturday, with each team having played in two games that week. During stages one and two of season one, at the end of each stage, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Characters Of Overwatch
The ''Overwatch'' franchise, a series of first-person shooter games developed by Blizzard Entertainment, consists of 43 playable characters across both games. The original 2016 game, ''Overwatch'', featured 32 playable characters known as heroes and a number of supporting characters as part of the game's narrative, which is told through animated media and digital comics outside of the game. Its sequel, '' Overwatch 2'', was released in October 2022 and replaced ''Overwatch''. The sequel builds upon the same hero roster and added more characters, currently consisting of 43 heroes. However, as ''Overwatch 2'' had been developed to be a faster game with five-versus-five teams rather than six-versus-six, several of the characters had tweaks or major rebuilds within ''Overwatch 2'', as well as different character designs. The story of ''Overwatch'' takes place on Earth in the "near future" in the years after the "Omnic Crisis," a period in which robots (called "omnics") rose up in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 EU LCS Spring Split
The 2016 European ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (2016 EU LCS) was the fourth season of the European ''League of Legends'' Championship Series. The Spring Split began on January 16, with a rematch of the 2015 EU LCS Summer playoff finals. Most matches were played at a film studio in Adlershof, Berlin. The finals were played in Rotterdam, Netherlands, at the Rotterdam Ahoy. The Summer Split was won by G2 Esports, with a roster of Expect, Trick, PerkZ, Zven, Mithy, Relinquished, Kikis, their first title. Most games were being played at Riot Games' studio in Adlershof, Berlin, Germany. The finals were at the Tauron Arena Kraków in Kraków, Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai .... Spring Rosters Regular season Playoffs Summer Rosters Regula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer 2015 NA LCS
The 2015 NA LCS season was the third year of the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series. It saw an expansion of the league from eight to ten teams, as well as the introduction of championship points and the regional finals gauntlet to better determine which teams should qualify for the World Championship. The season was divided into spring and summer splits, each consisting of a regular season and playoff stage. The top six teams from the regular season advanced to the playoff stage, with the top two teams receiving a bye to the semifinals. Regular season games and the spring playoffs were played in the Riot Games Studios in Los Angeles, California, while the summer finals were held at Madison Square Garden. The spring split began on January 24 and concluded with Team SoloMid winning their third NA LCS title on April 19, with a roster consisting of Dyrus, Santorin, Bjergsen, WildTurtle and Lustboy. The summer split began on May 30 and concluded with Counter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gambit Gaming
Gambit Esports, formerly Gambit Gaming, is an inactive Russian esports organization owned by telecommunications company MTS. It was established in January 2013 after the acquisition of the former ''League of Legends'' roster of Moscow Five. Gambit has teams competing in ''Apex Legends'', ''Dota 2'', ''Fortnite Battle Royale'', and ''Valorant''. It previously had a ''League of Legends'' team competing in the European ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (EU LCS), and later the ''League of Legends'' Continental League (LCL). ''Counter-Strike:Global Offensive'' History On 8 January 2016, Gambit acquired a ''CS:GO'' roster consisting mostly of former HellRaisers players. The players were Mikhail " Dosia" Stolyarov, Dauren "AdreN" Kystaubayev, Rustem "mou" Telepov, Dmitry "hooch" Bogdanov, and Jan "wayLander" Rahkonen. Gambit qualified for MLG Columbus 2016, beating Renegades and Cloud9 in the offline qualifier and later placed 9–12th at the main event. Gambit annou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
