Tribe Gaming (TRB) is a North American
mobile gaming esports
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and
entertainment
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organization headquartered in
Austin
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, Texas. Founded in 2017,
Tribe currently fields professional teams across multiple mobile
video game
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titles including:
Clash Royale,
Clash of Clans,
Brawl Stars, and
Call of Duty: Mobile. These teams are based in North America and Europe but compete globally. In addition to esports, Tribe creates unique entertainment featuring a diverse roster of mobile gaming
content creators
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. The members of Tribe Gaming are as follows: MOLT, Orange Juice Gaming, BenTimm1, Lex - Brawl Stars, KairosTime Gaming, Rey - Brawl Stars, Natwithaheart, Tom - Brawl Stars, and Cori - Brawl Stars.
History
2017
In April, Tribe Gaming was announced as a mobile gaming esports organization, initially fielding a competitive Vainglory team. After a subpar entrance into the competitive scene, the organization acquired the Vainglory roster of
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, consisting of DNZio, MaxGreen, ttigers, and Xelciar. As a heavy underdog, the team won the 2017 Vainglory World Championship and $70,000 first place prize at the
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Origina ...
in
Singapore
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, beating the likes of
Cloud9 and
G2 Esports
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.
2018
In April, the organization was accepted into the North American
Clash Royale League as the sole mobile gaming esports organization. Later that year, Tribe Gaming became the first mobile gaming esports organization to bring on board a smartphone partner and gaming chair partner, brokering deals with
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and
Secretlab
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History
Secretlab was founded as a startup company in December 2014 by former professional esport ...
respectively.
2019
In March, Tribe Gaming's Vainglory team repeated as World Champions at the
Chongqing Olympic Sports Center in
Chongqing
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,
China
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, defeating Team ACE 2–0 in the finals. Tribe Gaming expanded by adding two additional game divisions in 2019, fielding new rosters in Clash of Clans and PUBG: Mobile.
Tribe Gaming's Clash of Clans team finished in 4th place at the 2019 Clash of Clans World Championship, taking home US$50,000. Tribe Gaming's Brawl Stars team, consisting of Jack Chepo, Cryingman, and Slash, finished in 3rd/4th place at the 2019 Brawl Stars World Finals, taking home $25,000.
2020
In January, Tribe Gaming entered Brawl Stars by signing the 2019 World Championship team of Cerulean, Tom, and SpenLC. Cerulean left in Spring 2020 and was replaced by Symantec.
In March, Tribe Gaming announced a financing round of $1M from an investment group that included the likes of
Gordon Hayward and
Cesaro.
After Tribe Gaming's European Brawl Stars team(Symantec, Tom, and SpenLC) did not qualify for the world championships, Tribe decided to sign the North American Champions, Cori, Zoulan, and Tyrant Star. Tribe Gaming's North American Brawl Stars team finished in 3rd/4th place at the 2020 Brawl Stars World Finals in November, winning a total of US$125,000.
2021
Tribe's European team's roster expired and they chose not to resign. On 27 February, Raz joined the NA Tribe Gaming team as a fourth player. Symantec left to join SK Gaming and Tom and SpenLC joined KC and Drage and played as free agents under the name Tea Drinkers for a few months. Drage took the role of coach as he was not yet 16 years of age. In April, however, they rejoined Tribe Gaming. At the end of the 2021 competitive brawl stars season, both the European and North American teams ended up qualifying for the Brawl Stars World Finals that took place in Bucharest, Romania.
In the 2021 Clash of Clans World Championship, Tribe took 3rd place out of 8 teams and earned $100,000.
2022
In 21 January, Spencer Hendley, known professionally as SpenLC, retired from playing Brawl Stars competitively and left the roster of Tribe Gaming EU.
[https://twitter.com/TribeGaming/status/1484620251497123840 ] He continues to upload videos on his two Youtube channels.
Management
Current rosters
Content creators
Brawl Stars EU
Brawl Stars NA
References
External links
{{Official website, https://tribegaming.gg
Esports teams based in the United States
Vainglory (video game) teams
Esports teams established in 2017