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Team Empire
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Team Empire
Team Information
Location:
Manager:
Alexander "StrangeR" Solomonov
Approx. Total Winnings:
$14,037
Player earnings:
$171,491
Links
Solo Achievements
History
Created:
2010-11-14
Disbanded:
2014-10-13
Team Empire is one of the premier teams in Russia and the CIS across all eSport titles. The organization was established in 2004 with headquarters in Moscow.
Team Empire is known as one of Russia's largest and best known gaming organizations, particularly for their teams and players in StarCraft II, League of Legends, Dota 2, Hearthstone, and Call of Duty amongst many other titles.
Their StarCraft II division was founded in November 2010 with names such as Kas, NaNiwa, Bly, Forsen, ho8ot, Aristeo and Cubert amongst others.[1] Initially, the team focused on players from Russian-speaking countries, with a few European high profile players like NaNiwa and Nerchio. In order to further their competitive goals, Team Empire expanded their horizons and acquired Koreans players viOLet and VINES in 2012, but eventually went back to their Russian roots.
The team placed particular focus on team leagues, and in late 2013, when their roster was reduced to three core players, they entered into a team partnership with the Finnish team Ence eSports to form Empire-Ence with players such as elfi, Serral and the teamless Brat_OK, but this partnership was ultimately dissolved after successive defeats in the ESL Euro Series.
Despite its international aspirations, Team Empire maintains a strong commitment with the CIS scene by establishing the Team Empire Academy for StarCraft II, made up solely of Russian-speaking players.
Timeline[edit]
Former Roster[edit]
Full list of player transfers and former players here.
Main Team[edit]
| Former Squad | Former Squad | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Join Date | Leave Date | New Team | ||||||
  Aristeo | ( Anton Vasilyev) | Join Date: 2010-11-13 | Leave Date: 2013-07-15 | Retired | ||||||
  Beastyqt | ( Aleksandar Krstić) | Join Date: 2011-01-09 | Leave Date: 2013-06-27 |  Cascade | ||||||
 Bly | ( Aleksandr Svysiuk) | Join Date: 2011-01-24 | Leave Date: 2011-03-30 |  Virus Gaming | ||||||
| Brat_OK | ( Pavel Kuznetsov) | Join Date: 2012-07-11 | Leave Date: 2013-07-15 | Cascade | ||||||
| Cubert | ( Marat Shakirzyanov) | Join Date: 2010-11-13 | Leave Date: 2011-03-30 | |||||||
 DieStar | ( Marcin Wieczorek) | Join Date: 2010-11-13 | Leave Date: 2011-01-09 |  Millenium | ||||||
| Easy | ( Vyacheslav Trushkin) | Join Date: 2014-03-11 | Leave Date: 2014-10-12 | |||||||
 Forsen | ( Sebastian Fors) | Join Date: 2010-01-09 | Leave Date: 2011-01-20 |  Alien Invasion | ||||||
 frum | ( Yuri Kulik) | Join Date: 2010-11-13 | Leave Date: 2011-09-17 | Cascade | ||||||
| Happy | ( Dmitry Kostin) | Join Date: 2011-03-30 | Leave Date: 2014-10-12 | Retired | ||||||
| ho8ot | ( Andrei Mikheev) | Join Date: 2010-11-13 | Leave Date: 2013-02-16 |  7x Team | ||||||
| Kas | ( Mihaylo Hayda) | Join Date: 2010-10-31 | Leave Date: 2014-05-06 | Cascade | ||||||
| KroLu | ( Michał Królewski) | Join Date: 2011-01-24 | Leave Date: 2011-02-26 |  Meet Your Makers | ||||||
| LESTER | ( Arzhan Bekzhanov) | Join Date: 2010-11-13 | Leave Date: 2011-02-19 | |||||||
| NaNiwa | ( Johan Lucchesi) | Join Date: 2010-11-29 | Leave Date: 2011-01-19 |  Team Dignitas | ||||||
| Nerchio | ( Artur Bloch) | Join Date: 2011-04-02 | Leave Date: 2011-07-18 |  Team Acer | ||||||
| Noname | ( Nikita Andreev) | Join Date: 2010-11-13 | Leave Date: 2011-09-17 | |||||||
| OutSide | ( Roman Emelyanov) | Join Date: 2010-11-13 | Leave Date: 2011-03-30 |  incredible Panic | ||||||
| Siw | ( Vladimir Syzranov) | Join Date: 2011-07-28 | Leave Date: 2013-08-12 | Retired | ||||||
 TheMista | ( Themistoklis Bonidis) | Join Date: 2012-05-09 | Leave Date: 2013-01-07 | Retired | ||||||
 VINES | ( Lee Sang Hun) | Join Date: 2012-05-17 | Leave Date: 2012-09-07 |  apeX eSports | ||||||
| viOlet | ( Kim Dong Hwan) | Join Date: 2012-01-20 | Leave Date: 2012-07-01 |  AZUBU | ||||||
 Welmu | ( Vesa Hovinen) | Join Date: 2011-07-28 | Leave Date: 2012-03-01 |  Eclypsia | ||||||
Academy[edit]
| Former Squad | Former Squad | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Join Date | Leave Date | New Team | ||||||
| Casper | ( Sergey Kozlov) | Join Date: 2013-09-30 | Leave Date: 2014-01-05 | |||||||
| Doomer | ( Sergey Takara) | Join Date: 2013-09-30 | Leave Date: 2014-01-05 | |||||||
| Haidarovic | ( Aizat Mavludov) | Join Date: 2013-09-30 | Leave Date: 2014-01-05 | |||||||
| Huffy | ( Alexander Chertulov) | Join Date: 2013-09-30 | Leave Date: 2014-03-11 | |||||||
| jinbojeog | ( Alexander Gordon) | Join Date: 2013-09-30 | Leave Date: 2014-01-05 | |||||||
 Koldun | ( Paul Skripko) | Join Date: 2013-09-30 | Leave Date: 2014-01-05 | |||||||
| Lost | ( Andrew Smetanin) | Join Date: 2013-09-30 | Leave Date: 2014-10-12 | |||||||
| Marador | ( Stepan Stulnik) | Join Date: 2013-09-30 | Leave Date: 2014-10-12 | |||||||
| MrKillous | ( Nikita Gurevich) | Join Date: 2014-03-11 | Leave Date: 2014-10-12 | |||||||
| RusZerg | ( Ilya Lyara) | Join Date: 2013-09-30 | Leave Date: 2014-10-12 |  Monolith team | ||||||
| uThermal | ( Artem Podzorov) | Join Date: 2013-09-30 | Leave Date: 2014-10-12 | |||||||
| Volt | ( Max Harhota) | Join Date: 2013-09-30 | Leave Date: 2014-01-05 | |||||||
Organization[edit]
| Staff at time of Disbandment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Position | |
| StrangeR | Alexander Solomonov | HR manager and head StarCraft II Manager |
| AnahRoniX | Sergey Bykovskiy | PR manager and head dota II Manager |
Team Achievements[edit]
| Date | Place | Tier | Tournament | Result | Prize | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-13 | 1st | Minor |  | RaidCall EMS Spring 2013 | 2 : 1 |  | $2,500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013-03-19 | 1st | Minor |  | Cascade1xbet Clan League Season 4 | 4 : 2 |  | $1,200 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012-12-15 | 4th | Major |  | Evil Geniuses Master's Cup Series League VIII | 0 : 3 | | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012-10-24 | 1st | Minor | | incredible Panic Team League Season 4 | 6 : 4 |  | $1,300 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012-04-08 | 2nd | Minor | | incredible Panic Team League Season 3 | 2 : 4 | | $300 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011-11-13 | 1st | Minor | | GosuCoaching Premiere League Season 2 | 3 : 2 |  | $3,500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011-09-22 | 2nd | Major |  | Evil Geniuses Master's Cup Series League VI | 1 : 3 | | $3,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011-09-15 | 2nd | Minor | | incredible Panic Team League Season 2 | 3 : 4 |  | $200 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011-06-19 | 1st | Minor | | SC2CL Season 2 | 9/2 | Grp S. | $1,071.52 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010-11-20 | 3rd | Minor | | Russian-language Pro League 2 | 3 : 4 | | $235.10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extended list of results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Awards[edit]
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Award | Prize | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No recorded results found. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Statistics[edit]
Earnings Statistics
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References[edit]
- ↑ Generic SC (6th January 2011). "[Interview SGL talks with Empire.Kas"]. tl.net.
- ↑ Kirill 'RusseD' Minnikov (6th January 2014). "Empire.Academy продолжает своё развитие". www.team-empire.org.
- ↑ Kirill 'RusseD' Minnikov (12th March 2014). "Empire.Academy продолжает своё развитие". www.team-empire.org.
- ↑ Kirill 'RusseD' Minnikov (6th May 2014). "Team Empire without Kas". www.team-empire.org.
- ↑ mikkmagro (8th June 2014). "Empire.Easy promoted from Academy to Main". tl.net.
- ↑ Vladimir "rOx" Matienko (13th October 2014). "Team Empire closes Starcraft II squad". team-empire.org.
- ↑ Shadow_Dog (9th January 2013). "Second chance for Siw - Siw joins Team Empire". tl.net.
- ↑ rox.kis.craft (9th January 2013). "Empire меняют TheMista'у на Siw'a". www.goodgame.ru.
- ↑ Labora (28th June 2013). "Team Empire and Beastyqt ways parted". www.team-empire.org.
- ↑ StrangeR (16th July 2013). "Team Empire parted ways with Brat_Ok". www.team-empire.org.
- ↑ StrangeR (1st August 2013). "Team Empire and Ence.elfi join forces for team leagues". www.team-empire.org.
- ↑ FlamingPie (13th August 2013). "Empire Siw Retires from Starcraft 2". tl.net.
- ↑ Linz (22nd January 2012). "viOLet joins Team Empire". tl.net.
- ↑ dragonborn (3rd March 2012). "Welmu and Empire part ways". tl.net.
- ↑ Keeper (10th May 2012). "TheMista to Empire". tl.net.
- ↑ Keeper (19th May 2012). "Empire signs VINES". tl.net.
- ↑ johnnywup (2nd July 2012). "viOLet becomes free agent". tl.net.
- ↑ Keeper (12th July 2012). "Empire welcomes Brat_Ok". tl.net.
- ↑ Heyoka (8th September 2012). "Team Empire and VINES part ways". tl.net.
- ↑ Tex (10th January 2011). "Empire restructured - Report". www.mymym.com.
- ↑ Millenium (10th January 2011). "Millenium accueille un second Terran". www.millenium.org.
- ↑ Progamer.ru (20th January 2011). "Starcraft 2: Naniwa перешел в Team Dignitas". www.progamer.ru.
- ↑ Progamer.ru (21st January 2011). "Starcraft 2: Team Empire избавилась от Forsen’а и обещала представить новых рекрутов". www.progamer.ru.
- ↑ Team Empire (25th January 2011). "Team Empire Facebook Post". www.facebook.com/EmpireEsport.
- ↑ StrangeR (20th February 2011). "LESTER покидает Team Empire". www.team-empire.tv.
- ↑ Sheeperich (30th March 2011). "SC2CL Masters: Introducing our third invite". www.starcraft2.ingame.de.
- ↑ StrangeR (31st March 2011). "Happy вступает в Team Empire!". www.team-empire.tv.
- ↑ ikse (3rd April 2011). "Nerchio signe chez Empire". www.team-aaa.com.
- ↑ Numy (20th July 2011). "Team Acer adds SC2 team.". tl.net.
- ↑ Bash (29th July 2011). "NCM Clan прощается с Siw и NCE". www.ncmclan.tv.
- ↑ StrangeR (18th September 2011). "AsitY - назначается тренером sc2 состава и другие изменения.". www.team-empire.tv.
- ↑ StrangeR (23rd November 2011). "Чемпион Финляндии вступает в Team Empire". www.team-empire.tv.
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