Samsung Galaxy

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[e][h]Samsung Galaxy
Team Information
Location:
South Korea Korea
Region:
South Korea Korea
Sponsor:
Samsung
Total Earnings:
$2,650,754
Links
History
Created:
2013-09-07
Disbanded:
2018-11-30
Recent Player Trades:
2016-12-19 - Haru joins.
2016-12-02 - TrAce joins as a coach.
2016-11-30 - Helper leaves, Kim Jung-soo leaves.
2016-09-07 - oDin joins as a coach.

Samsung Galaxy Pro-Game Team is a South Korean professional League of Legends team which participates in League of Legends Champions Korea, and is a part of the Korean e-Sports Association. Throughout its history as a professional Brood War team, and until September 2013 as a StarCraft II team, it was known as Samsung KHAN. The organisation entered League of Legends after acquiring the rosters of MVP Ozone and MVP Blue [1].

History[edit]

After the 2014 World Championship and the announcement by KeSPA of a new format for Korean competition which prohibited organizations from fielding multiple teams, Samsung was unable to retain any of its players from either Samsung White or Samsung Blue. The team was invited to compete in 2015 Champions Spring and on December 2nd 2014 announced a preliminary roster for the season consisting of CuVee, Eve, BlisS, Fury, and Wraith[2]. In Champions Spring Samsung's new roster struggled and finished in last place with a record of 2-12, forcing them to play in the summer promotion tournament. The team managed to qualify for Champions Summer by beating Prime and Xenics. Crown and Luna joined the roster[3] before the season started, helping Samsung to an improved record of 6-12 and avoiding relegation with a 7th place finish.

Samsung competed in the 2015 LoL KeSPA Cup, where they were upset by the eventual champions Ever in the first round. Afterwards, Samsung announced roster changes resulting in Eve, Ace, BlisS, Fury and Luna leaving the team[4] while Ambition, Helper, CoreJJ, and Stitch joined the lineup.[5]

In 2016 Champions Spring Samsung showed improvement over the previous year. After looking like they could clinch the fifth and final seed for the playoffs, Samsung were denied by the surging Afreeca Freecs who beat them by the game score tiebreaker and giving Samsung a sixth place finish for the split with a 10-8 record. In the midseason, Samsung Galaxy picked up a new AD Carry in Ruler, while CoreJJ moved to Support. During the 2016 summer split, Samsung showed considerable improvement, notably taking a 2-0 win against the ROX Tigers in the opening week. They ended the regular season in fourth place with a 12-6 series record, seeding them into the playoffs. They defeated the Afreeca Freecs in the first round, but were then matched against KT Rolster and swept 3-0 resulting in a fourth place finish. Samsung managed to qualify as the second seed in the LCK Regional Finals by accumalated circuit points. In the rematch against the Afreeca Freecs, Samsung lost the first game before swapping out veteran support Wraith for new ADC-turned-support CoreJJ. With this swap, Samsung managed to beat the Freecs 3-1 and move on to play against KT Rolster. Samsung, using this new roster, upset the heavy favorites 3-2 breaking a 19 game losing streak against KT and qualifying for the 2016 World Championship.

At the World Championship, Samsung were drawn into Group D along with North America's Team SoloMid, China's Royal Never Give Up, and Europe's Splyce. What followed was considered by many the most impressive team performance of the first two Weeks, as they won five of their six matches in what was arguably the hardest group at Worlds in convincing fashion. The team advanced to the Bracket Stage and was drawn against Cloud9, which they handily won 3-0 and moved on to the Semifinals, where they once again swept a Western team, this time Europe's H2k-Gaming. Their opponent in the Grand Finals were fellow Korean team SK Telecom T1: after losing the first two games, the Samsung squad went on to almost pull off a reverse sweep by winning Games 3 and 4. In the end, however, Samsung fell to SKT in a 49 minute game.

Timeline[edit]

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Player Roster[edit]

Worlds 2017 Roster
ID Name Position Join Date Leave Date New Team
South Korea CuVee Lee Seong-jin (이성진) Top 2014-12-02[2] 2017-11-30[15] KSV
South Korea Ambition Kang Chan-yong (강찬용) Jungle 2015-11-30[7] 2017-11-30[15] KSV
South Korea Haru Kang Min-seung (강민승) Jungle 2016-12-19[13] 2017-11-30[15] KSV
South Korea Crown Lee Min-ho (이민호) Mid 2015-05-19[3] 2017-11-30[15] KSV
South Korea Ruler Park Jae-hyuk (박재혁) ADC 2016-05-17[8] 2017-11-30[15] KSV
South Korea CoreJJ Jo Yong-in (조용인) Support 2015-12-01[5] 2017-11-30[15] KSV
Former Players
ID Name Position Join Date Leave Date New Team
South Korea Wraith Kwon Ji-min (권지민 Support 2014-12-02[2] 2017-11-28[15] Jin Air Green Wings
South Korea Stitch Lee Seung-ju (이승주) ADC 2016-12-01[5] 2017-11-28[14] G-Rex
South Korea Helper Kwon Yeong-jae (권영재) Top 2015-12-01[5] 2016-11-30[11] Ever8 Winners
South Korea Eve Seo Jun-cheol (서준철) Jungle 2014-12-02[2] 2015-11-30[4] Apex Gaming
South Korea BlisS Park Jong-won (박종원) Mid 2014-12-02[2] 2015-11-30[4] Apex Gaming
South Korea Ace Kim Ji-hoon (김지훈) Mid 2015-02-?? 2015-11-30[4] Template:Team/virtuoso gaming
South Korea Fury Lee Jin-yong (이진용) ADC 2014-12-02[2] 2016-11-30[4] Incredible Miracle
South Korea Luna Jang Kyung-ho (장경호) Support 2015-02-19[3] 2016-11-30[4]
None
South Korea Raven Kim Ae-jun (김애준) Sub/ADC 2014-12-?? 2015-12-??
None

Organization[edit]

Former Organization
ID Name Position Join Date Leave Date New Organization
South Korea Edgar Choi Woo-beom (최우범) Head Coach 2013-09-07[1] 2017-11-30[15] KSV
South Korea oDin Ju Yeong-dal (주영달) Coach 2016-09-07[10] 2017-11-30[15] KSV
South Korea TrAce Yeo Chang-dong (여창동) Coach 2016-12-19[12] 2017-11-30[15] KSV
South Korea Kim Kim Jung-su (김정수) Coach 2015-12-01 [5] 2016-11-30[11] Team Dignitas
South Korea Horang2 Lee Kyung-min (이경민) Coach 2015-01-09 [6] 2015-11-30[4]
None

Achievements[edit]

Date Placement Tier Tournament Results Prize
2017-11-30 A33 - 4th A2Major KeSPA Cup KeSPA Cup 2017 1 : 2 $9,138
2017-11-04 A11st A1Premier World Championship 2017 World Championship 3 : 0 $1,723,721.63
2017-08-15 A44th A1Premier LCK LCK Summer 2017 0 : 3 $17,711
2017-07-09 A22nd A1Premier Rift Rivals Rift Rivals 2017: LCK vs LPL vs LMS 1 : 3 $10,000
2017-04-15 A33rd A1Premier LCK LCK Spring 2017 0 : 3 $26,871
2016-12-18 A11st A2Major Intel Extreme Masters IEM Season XI - Gyeonggi 3 : 1 $50,000
2016-10-29 A22nd A1Premier World Championship 2016 World Championship 2 : 3 $760,500
2016-08-20 A44th A1Premier LCK LCK Summer 2016 0 : 3 $18,040
2016-04-09 A66th A1Premier LCK LCK Spring 2016 10/-/8 Grp. S. $8,780
2015-08-13 A77th A1Premier LCK LCK Summer 2015 6/-/12 Grp. S. $8,479
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Awards[edit]

Recent Matches[edit]

DateTimeTierTournamentScoreVs. Team
2017-12-0108:00 UTCA2MajorKeSPA Cup 2017 - SemifinalsKeSPA Cup 2017 - Semifinals1 : 2 KT
2017-11-2808:00 UTCA2MajorKeSPA Cup 2017 - QuarterfinalsKeSPA Cup 2017 - Quarterfinals2 : 0 MVP
2017-11-0407:00 UTCA1Premier2017 World Championship - Finals2017 World Championship - Finals3 : 0 SKT
2017-10-2907:30 UTCA1Premier2017 World Championship - Semifinals2017 World Championship - Semifinals3 : 1 WE
2017-10-1908:00 UTCA1Premier2017 World Championship - Quarterfinals2017 World Championship - Quarterfinals3 : 0 LZ
Complete list of matches in any tournament

Gallery[edit]

Additional Content[edit]

Articles[edit]

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Videos[edit]

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Highlight Videos[edit]

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Match Highlights[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 박상진 (2013-09-07). "삼성전자 MVP 인수하며 LOL 팀 창단, 팀명은 '삼성 갤럭시 프로게임팀'" (in South Korea Korean). inven.co.kr. Translation / Liquidlegends.net thread
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 박범 (2014-12-02). "별들의 전쟁 시작! LoL 챔피언스 코리아 프리시즌 로스터 공개" (in South Korea Korean). inven.co.kr.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Tyler "Fionn" Erzberger (2015-05-19). "Champions Korea Summer 2015 Rosters for Round 1 Announced" (in United Kingdom English). thescoreesports.com.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Samsung Galaxy Facebook (2015-11-30). "Samsung contract terminations" (in United Kingdom English). facebook.com.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Samsung Galaxy Facebook (2015-12-01). "introducing new players" (in United Kingdom English). facebook.com.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kenzi (2015-01-09). "이경민, 삼성 갤럭시 LoL 코치로 합류" (in South Korea Korean). dailygame.co.kr. Translation / Liquidlegends.net thread
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Samsung Galaxy Facebook (2015-11-30). "Ambition joins Samsung" (in United Kingdom English). facebook.com.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Samsung Galaxy Facebook (2016-05-17). "Park JaeHyeok(Bung) joins our LOL Team" (in United Kingdom English). facebook.com.
  9. ↑ 손창식 (2016-05-19). "'코어장전' 조용인, 원거리 딜러에서 서포터로 변경" (in South Korea Korean). fomos.kr.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 김기자 (2016-09-07). "주영달, 삼성 갤럭시 LoL팀 코치로 복귀" (in South Korea Korean). fomos.kr.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Samsung Galaxy Facebook (2016-11-30). "Samsung GALAXY Team's coach Mr. Jung Soo Kim and player Mr. Young Jae Kwon contracts are going to terminate" (in United Kingdom English). facebook.com.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Samsung Galaxy Facebook (2016-12-02). "The new coaching staff Mr. Changdong Yeo has been elected." (in United Kingdom English). facebook.com.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Samsung Galaxy Facebook (2016-12-19). "Samsung GALAXY LOL Team scouts Mr. Minseung Kang(Jungle) aka Haroo." (in United Kingdom English). facebook.com.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 김기자 (2017-11-28). "Stitch joins" (in South Korea). fomos.
  15. ↑ 15.00 15.01 15.02 15.03 15.04 15.05 15.06 15.07 15.08 15.09 15.10 @kespalol (2017-11-28). "Wraith leaves". Facebook.
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