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Prime
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Prime
Team Information
Location:
Coaches:
Kim "Cezanne" Jung Hwan
Manager:
Lee Jun Ho (이준호)
Approx. Total Winnings:
$63,818
Player earnings:
$589,779
Links
Achievements
Solo Achievements
History
Created:
2010-10-13
Disbanded:
2015-12-02
Overview[edit]
Prime was a Korean Team and clan. They were founded near the launch of Wings of Liberty. Near launch they were announced to be sponsored by the World Elite, but this sponsorship was eventually dropped.
In October 2010, Prime took part in the Brainbox Team Invitational placing third after oGs who won and the now disbanded team WeRRa that placed second.
Prime lost 2 players, Maka and Polt, on the opening day of the GSL Code S Sponsorship League. HongUn and anypro were later eliminated as well. MarineKing was the only Prime member that made it through Ro32, eventually making it to the finals where he was decisively defeated 0-4 by Mvp.
Going into February, Prime had 5 Code S players: MarineKing, HongUn, Check, anypro, and Polt. Maka and Polt were both defeated in the Up and Down Matches, putting them in Code A. A tournament was held to decide which player, of the 8 players who went to Code A from Up and Down matches, would replace LiveForever who was entering military service. Polt won the tournament, putting him back in Code S. Maka remained in Code A.
The "Optimus" ID, which references Transformers Autobot leader Optimus Prime, has been an ID MarineKing popularized in his first GSL finals, but never took up for himself since he never won a championship. The Prime coach has said that the "Optimus" ID will move around the team to the current Prime champion.[1] Polt was the first Prime player to win a GSL championship, so he was the first player to hold the title. After his switch to TSL, the status of the Optimus title is currently unknown.
Prime also has their own online clothing store which includes their team shirts as well as other merchandise. The clothes are all modeled by Prime players, with more of a focus given to MarineKing and Gerrard.[2] The store initially only delivered to Korean addresses, but opened up to international deliveries on September 24, 2011.[3]
Prime did not have much success in the team leagues in the first three seasons as they would always lose in the first round. However, in the GSTL Season 1, they pulled an upset by making it out of the group stages and into the play-offs where they eventually were defeated by MVP in the finals to place second.
Prime went one better during the 2012 GSTL Season 1 taking victory over StarTale with MarineKing taking victory over Curious to win 5-2 over all. The finals were the first GSTL finals to be held over seas, taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada.[4] The 3 months between March and June would prove to be incredibly successful for Prime, winning the IPL Team Arena Challenge 2, 2012 Global StarCraft II Team League Season 1 and 2012 KSL Team League Season 1 over New Star HoSeo, StarTale and StarTale again respectively. The KSL victory was notable for a 6 man all kill by MarineKing.
In October 2015 Prime was reported to be involved in a match fixing scandal. Head coach Gerrard and players YoDa and BboongBboong were found to have intentionally lost five matches in the first half of the year for money.[5] As ByuN and KeeN had left Prime just a day before the news came out, the team is now left without any active players on its roster.
Coach Kim Jung Hwan officially announced that Prime had disbanded on 2 December 2015.[6]
Timeline[edit]
Player Roster[edit]
Notable Former[edit]
Former Squad | Former Squad | |||||||||
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ID | Name | Join Date | Leave Date | New Team | ||||||
AnNyeong | ( Moon Hak Seon) | Leave Date: 2012-07-12 | ||||||||
AnNyeong | ( Moon Hak Seon) | Join Date: 2013-05-29 | Leave Date: 2013-12-23 | |||||||
anypro | ( Lee Jung Hwan) | Retired | ||||||||
AriA | ( Byun Jeong Geun) | Join Date: 2012-05-29 | Retired | |||||||
Barbie | ( Lee Yu Ra) | Join Date: 2013-03-25 | Leave Date: 2014-09-15 | |||||||
BBoongBBoong | ( Choi Jong Hyuk) | Leave Date: 2012-10-22 | ||||||||
BBoongBBoong | ( Choi Jong Hyuk) | Join Date: 2014-12-11 | Leave Date: 2015-10-19 | |||||||
Billowy | ( Kim Do Kyung) | Join Date: 2014-09-29 | Leave Date: 2014-10-20 | |||||||
BitByBit | ( Kim Nam Kyu) | Join Date: 2010-10-13 | Leave Date: 2011-03-04 | |||||||
ByuN | ( Byun Hyun Woo) | Join Date: 2011-10-08 | Leave Date: 2015-10-18 | |||||||
Choya | ( Lee Hyung Seop) | Join Date: 2014-02-20 | Leave Date: 2014-05-29 | |||||||
cOre | ( Ahn Jung Min) | Leave Date: 2012-03-01 | Retired | |||||||
Creator | ( Jang Hyun Woo) | Leave Date: 2015-07-20 | ||||||||
Daisy | ( Lee Jong Hyuk) | Join Date: 2011-03-04 | Leave Date: 2012-02-08 | |||||||
Dayfly | ( Lee Joong Heon) | Leave Date: 2011-03-04 | Retired | |||||||
DeParture | ( Hyun Sung Min) | Join Date: 2013-12-23 | Leave Date: 2014-08-05 | |||||||
eins | ( Joo Jin Hyuk) | Join Date: 2013-05-29 | Leave Date: 2014-05-27 | Retired | ||||||
Hannibal | ( Kim Dong Wook) | |||||||||
HongUn | ( Ahn Hong Wook) | Leave Date: 2011-11-17 | ||||||||
HyoLyn | ( Kim Kang Bin) | Leave Date: 2013-05-29 | ||||||||
Jila | ( Kim Ku Hyun) | Join Date: 2013-10-31 | Leave Date: 2014-04-10 | Retired | ||||||
Junwi | ( Park Gyung Lak) | |||||||||
KassiA | ( Kim Han Saem) | Join Date: 2013-12-23 | Leave Date: 2014-11-17 | |||||||
KeeN | ( Hwang Kyu Seok) | Join Date: 2015-02-23 | Leave Date: 2015-10-18 | |||||||
Check | ( Lee Hyung Joo) | Leave Date: 2011-10-21 | ||||||||
Classic | ( Kim Hong Jae) | Join Date: 2011-03-04 | Leave Date: 2013-03-31 | Retired | ||||||
Eternal | ( Kim Hyun Tae) | |||||||||
Fanta | ( Park Sung Joon) | |||||||||
Lucy | ( Jo Ji Hyun) | Join Date: 2012-08-21 | Leave Date: 2013-05-29 | |||||||
Lustboy | ( Ham Jang Sik) | |||||||||
Maka | ( Kwak Han Eol) | Leave Date: 2012-01-01 | ||||||||
MarineKing | ( Lee Jung Hoon) | Leave Date: 2013-10-11 | ||||||||
MarineKing | ( Lee Jung Hoon) | Join Date: 2014-02-13 | Leave Date: 2014-08-01 | |||||||
Maru | ( Cho Seong Ju) | Join Date: 2010-10-13 | Leave Date: 2013-12-13 | |||||||
Min | ( Hwang Doh Hyung) | |||||||||
MyuNgSiK | ( Kim Myung Sik) | Join Date: 2014-09-16 | Leave Date: 2015-04-19 | |||||||
Nette | ( Uk Dam Lee) | Join Date: 2014-12-16 | Retired | |||||||
Polt | ( Choi Seong Hun) | Leave Date: 2011-09-14 | ||||||||
Remember | ( Jung Chan Woo) | Join Date: 2013-06-23 | Leave Date: 2014-01-30 | |||||||
Ryung | ( Kim Dong Won) | Join Date: 2010-10-13 | Leave Date: 2010-11-?? | |||||||
SalvatioN | ( Kim Ki Yong) | Join Date: 2013-12-23 | Leave Date: 2014-08-04 | |||||||
Splendid | ( Jang Hyun) | Join Date: 2013-05-29 | Leave Date: 2014-04-10 | Retired | ||||||
State | ( Ryan Visbeck) | Join Date: 2014-03-06 | Leave Date: 2014-09-16 | |||||||
TANGTANG | ( Kim Dong Jin) | Join Date: 2014-11-?? | Leave Date: 2015-09-02 | Retired | ||||||
Terius | ( Song Byung Hak) | Join Date: 2011-07-23 | Leave Date: 2013-02-17 | |||||||
TerrOr | ( Jun Ji Won) | Leave Date: 2015-04-13 | Retired | |||||||
YoDa | ( Choi Byung Hyun) | Join Date: 2014-12-14 | Leave Date: 2015-10-19 | |||||||
Zoun | ( Bag Han Sol) | Join Date: 2014-11-?? | Leave Date: 2015-05-08 |
Organization[edit]
Team Achievements[edit]
Date | Place | Tier | Tournament | Result | Prize | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2012-12-08 | 5th - 6th | Premier | 2012 Global Starcraft II Team League Season 3 | 1-2 | Grp S. | $1,848.43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012-11-21 | 5th - 8th | Major | 2012 IGN Pro Team League | 1-2 | Grp S. | $1,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012-07-28 | 5th - 8th | Premier | 2012 Global StarCraft II Team League Season 2 | 0-2 | Grp S. | $1,756.93 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012-07-26 | 5th - 6th | Major | IPL Team Arena Challenge 3 | 3 : 5 | $1,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012-06-03 | 1st | Premier | Korean StarCraft II League 2012 Season 1 | 6 : 0 | $5,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012-04-07 | 1st | Premier | 2012 Global Starcraft II Team League Season 1 | 5 : 2 | $26,509.27 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012-03-09 | 1st | Major | IPL Team Arena Challenge 2 | 8 : 7 | $9,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012-01-30 | 1st | Minor | Korean StarCraft II League 2012 January | 6 : 3 | $1,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011-10-08 | 2nd | Premier | 2011 Global Starcraft II Team League Season 1 | 3 : 5 | $13,800 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011-07-13 | 1st | Minor | vVv's Wednesday Night StarCraft #9 | 4 : 3 | $100 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Extended list of results |
Awards[edit]
Date | Tier | Tournament | Award | Prize | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No recorded results found. |
Highlight Videos[edit]
- 2011-03-02 | Team House Tour by [[Artosis|Artosis]]
- 2011-06-02 | Team House Tour by [[Cyber Sports Network|Cyber Sports Network]]
- 2011-10-04 | Player Highlights by JJangsePrime
Interviews[edit]
Statistics[edit]
Earnings Statistics
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- ↑ GSL Super Tournament Media Day Interview
- ↑ Prime's new Clothing website opened!
- ↑ PrimeZZang Opens Internationally
- ↑ GSTL Finals at Las Vegas
- ↑ TeamLiquid ESPORTS (October 19, 2015). "YoDa, Gerrard banned for life in match-fixing scandal". TL.net. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ↑ Thouhastmail (December 2, 2015). "Team Prime officially disbands". TL.net. Retrieved December 2, 2015.
- ↑ KeeN joins Prime
- ↑ Kenzi (2015-04-13). "Prime Terror retire bye". Twitter.com. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
- ↑ http://imgur.com/nrWSzQm
- ↑ bypLy (April 19, 2015). "MyuNgSiK Joins StarTale from Prime". TL.net. Retrieved April 19 , 2015.
- ↑ "MacSed, Jim and XY joins PRIME for PL".
- ↑ "Zoun joins SKT".
- ↑ "Creator leaves PRIME".
- ↑ "TANGTANG to step back from pro gaming".
- ↑ "KeeN leaves Prime".
- ↑ "ByuN joins X-Team".
- ↑ TeamLiquid ESPORTS (October 18, 2015). "YoDa, Gerrard banned for life in match-fixing scandal". TL.net. Retrieved October 18, 2015.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Remember isn't retired, but is actually on search for a new team
- ↑ Marineking officially returns
- ↑ Prime sponsored by Home & Shopping
- ↑ Proleague R2 Rosters: Hurricane to Samsung, State and Choya to Prime, and more
- ↑ State offically joins Prime!
- ↑ Prime 2 player leaves Prime
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ Lorning (May 27, 2014). "einsPrime retires". TL.net. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
- ↑ AWalker9 (May 29, 2014). "Proleague Round 4 Team Rosters". TL.net. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
- ↑ Saser (July 31, 2014). "MVP "rebuilding": new players, coach, partnerships". TL.net. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
- ↑ kenzi (August 1, 2014). "MarineKing is leaving Prime". TL.net. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
- ↑ egernya (August 4, 2014). "Prime has a new main sponsor, KTC". TL.net. Retrieved August 4, 2014.
- ↑ Aeromi (August 3, 2014). "SalvatioN leaves Prime". TL.net. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
- ↑ kenzi (August 5, 2014). "MarineKing, SalvatioN, and DeParture Join MVP". TL.net. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
- ↑ Barbie leaves Prime
- ↑ MyuNgSiK joins Prime
- ↑ State leaves PRIME
- ↑ Billowy joins PRIME
- ↑ KeeN's tweet about Billowy
- ↑ [3]
- ↑ KassiA leaves Prime
- ↑ BBoongBBoong joins Prime
- ↑ YoDa joins Prime
- ↑ Nette joins Prime
- ↑ [4]
- ↑ 스타크래프트2 여성 프로게이머 이유라, 프라임 팀 입단 inven.co.kr 25/3/2013.
- ↑ [Interview]AZUBU vs Prime 2013 GSTL S1 Group Stage tl.net 31/03/2013.
- ↑ eSF (2013-05-29). "이스포츠 연맹 6월 게임단 로스터 공지". e-sf.co.kr.
- ↑ IM, Prime, MVP out of eSF, SouL joins
- ↑ [5]
- ↑ ex-BW pro Kal joins Prime
- ↑ sOs and Maru join Jin Air Green Wings
- ↑ SPL Round 1 Rosters.
- ↑ AnNyeong leaves Prime
- ↑ Maka streaming
- ↑ "Tt eSPORTS goes PRIME" Press Release on TteSPORTS.com
- ↑ MarineKing's interview
- ↑ "ESC ICY BOX welcomes Daisy"
- ↑ ByuN's interview
- ↑ ByuN's interview
- ↑ Creator's interview
- ↑ Bboongbboong leaves Prime team
- ↑ BB4 joins Team MJ
- ↑ "March KR roster changes"
- ↑ "Polt joins TSL"
- ↑ https://twitter.com/orangemilkis/status/122549758597414912
- ↑ https://tl.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=277434
- ↑ "Check joins eSahara!"
- ↑ https://tl.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=285937¤tpage=6#104
- ↑ https://tl.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=303457
- ↑ https://tl.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=178269