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Vicious Killers
Vicious Killers
Team Information
Coaches:
Kyzer, ChiOt
Manager:
ChiOt
Team Captain:
JusticeSimon
Sponsor:
ChiOt
Links
Player Breakdown
Number of Players:
10
3
2
3History
Created:
2010-07-25
Disbanded:
2017-12-31
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Team VK (Vicious Killers), formed in Singapore during 2010, was initially a casual clan consisting some Vietnamese players who were staying in Singapore. From early 2015, VK started to recruit more competitive players from various countries (mostly in Southeast Asia region). The team is now still a self-funded team, most players are sponsored by team manager Vo "ChiOt" Huu Tien.
History[edit]
From 2015, Team VK firstly gathered casual Starcraft II players to participating Vietnam Team League, a local Team League tournament of Vietnam. After that, VK expanded into a multi-nationals semi-pro team including competitive players in various countries. In 2017, VK joins SEA Open Team League (Season 1).
- January 5, Junbo and Today joins.
- January 6, Glow and control joins.
- January 24, KNife joins.
- February 28, Today leaves to focus on studying.
- March 12, Revenant retirement.
- May 11, Stranger joins.
- May 22, ZeNa joins.
- May 25, Scare joins.
- August 28, Scare is removed from the team due to his bad behaviors.
- September 8, RevolutioN joins.
- Early 2016, many young players join Team VK, the team expands more and more after VTL (Vietnam Team League, the biggest team league competition in South East Asisa) started on Jan 2015.
- Jan 2016, Le "Freedom" Tuan Linh joins Team VK as the first rookie player of the team, he is now Assistant Manager of Team VK, and organizing/casting/streaming lots of SC2 events in Vietnam.
- April 2016, Team VK becomes Runner Up team of VTL Season 1 after losing to Team EZ in the Grand Finals (with the score 3-4)
- Late April 2016, Singaporean Terran Justin "Elusory" Chua joins, after this event, Team VK starts to accept application from foreigners.
- May 2016, Korean semi-pro player Lim "Apdo" Byun Chan joins the as a Coach-Player.
- July 2016, to celebrate 6th birthday of Starcraft II (and almost 6th year since Team VK was founded), Team VK is now have an official name: Vicious Killers. The name is made by ChiOt (Team Manager) together with HowCuteIAm (Team Designer)
- End of July 2016, Team VK becomes the Champion team of VTL Season 2 after a close final match versus team HoG (with score 4-3)
- August 2016, Team VK divides into VK Black and VK White in order to participate in Vietnam Team League (VTL) 2016 Season 3.
- August 2016, Singaporean Protoss player Alvin "Lobo" Toh joins.
- September 2016, Korean semi-pro player Kang "Oracle" Seung Hyeon joins.
- October 2016, Australian zerg HOTBIGTIT joins VK.
- October 2016, WhitePuma and JoeKooler have been promoted from Academy into Main Roster.
- 2 November 2016, Korean ex-pro player Yoo "Ezpz" Youngjun (a.k.a "MVPGalaxy") joins Team VK as the 4th Korean Terran player of the team.
- 7 November 2016, Singaporean Zerg player Ryan "Kyzer" Low joins Team VK.
- 25 November 2016, Korean female Zerg player Kim "CherryiCe" Eun Ji joins VK as the 3rd female player of the team.
- November 2015,Team VK is reformed and reorganized by Vo "ChiOt" Huu Tien (also known as "CoLoR" during Wings of Liberty time), ChiOt also persuades some old Team VK members to comeback to Starcraft II, and he is (somehow) successful.
- December 2015, Team VK's Manager, Vo "ChiOt" Huu Tien, organizes some activities as well as show-matches for Vietnam SC2 Community, his plan is to pull team VK into those events and make Team VK be alive again after 4 years of inactivity.
- End 2015, Le "JusticeSimon" Thien Vu joins the team and became the core member of Team VK.
- Team VK became inactive since the end of 2011 due to many core players lost their interest in Starcraft II, some switched to Dota 2 and some retired from gaming completely.
- The biggest SC2 community of Vietnam teanvk.net was shut down after that.
- July 2010, a group of Vietnamese Starcraft 2 players living in Singapore decided to form a casual team with the name "VK", at that time all the founders still did not know what is "VK" really stands for.
- August 2010, Team VK created the very first SC2 community for Vietnamese SC2 players under teamvk.net domain.
Player Roster at the time of disbandement[edit]
| Former Players | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Join Date | Leave Date | New Team | ||
 | | Junbo | Junbo Sim | 2017-01-05 | ||
 | | JusticeSimon  | Le Thien Vu | 2017-12-31 |  Alpha X | |
| | KNife | Lee Sae Young | 2017-01-24 | ||
 | | Kyzer | Ryan Low | 2016-11-07 | 2017-12-31 | |
| | Lobo | Alvin Toh | 2017-12-31 | ||
| | Stranger | An Seong Yob | 2017-05-11 | 2018-09-17 |  Black Night |
| | ThuocLao | Le Thanh Ha | 2011-06-15 | 2017-12-31 | |
Partner[edit]
| ID | Name | Partner with | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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StriKE | Pichayut Prasertwit |  Alpha Red
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Demi | Varun Immanuel |  OSC Elite
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Casual Players[edit]
| Former Players | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Join Date | Leave Date | New Team | ||
| | Ares | Ngo Quang Vinh | 2015-12-31 | ||
| | Calypso | Be Chi Dung | 2016-05-31 | ||
| | CherryiCe | Kim Eun Ji | 2016-11-24 | ||
| | ColdFire | Le Hoang Linh | 2016-07-31 | ||
| | ChiOt | Vo Huu Tien | 2010-06-30 | ||
| | Freedom | Le Tuan Linh | 2015-12-31 | ||
| | HappyMarine | Duc La | 2016-04-30 | ||
 | | HOTBIGTIT | Lochlann Foster | 2016-09-30 | ||
| | JoeKooler | Chitsanupong Klaithin | 2016-06-30 | ||
| | Khoi | Khoi Tran | 2016-07-31 | ||
| | Levyathan | Nguyen Minh Hieu | 2016-06-30 | ||
| | HowCuteIAm | Huynh Thai Ngoc | 2016-04-30 | ||
| | JAViE | Vy Huynh | 2016-04-30 | ||
| | Apdo | Lim Byun Chan | 2016-04-30 | ||
| | Oracle | Kang Seung Hyeon | 2016-08-31 | ||
| | Miraak | Duc Thang | 2016-03-31 | ||
| | MonkeyBoss | Kiet Tran | 2016-06-30 | ||
| | NguyenSanity | Jason Nguyen | 2015-12-31 | ||
| | NinjaToss | Harnie Le | 2016-06-30 | ||
| | nOObie | Mai Thanh Hung | 2012-01-01 | ||
| | ProtossNam | Huynh Vinh Nam | 2016-07-31 | ||
 | | ProzeR | Sean Cheng | 2016-11-28 | ||
| | Ratking | Danai Laohachewin | 2016-06-30 | ||
| | silvermouse | Nguyen Tien Duc | 2016-08-31 | ||
| | WhitePuma | David Fitzgerald | 2016-07-31 | ||
Inactive Players[edit]
| ID | Name | Inactive since | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Adios | Nguyen Nhu Huy | 2012 |
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Wery | Wery Nguyen | 2012 |
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DD | Nguyen Dinh Duy | 2012 |
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Rainbow | Le Nguyen The Dat | 2011 |
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Mashix | Le Minh Duc | 2012 |
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Naut | Tuan Phan | 2012 |
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Sirentt | To Hong Phuc | 2015 |
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iPawn | Chinh Le | 2012 |
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NoneTurtle | Dat Nguyen | 2015 |
Former[edit]
| Former Players | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID | Name | Join Date | Leave Date | New Team | ||
| | control | Won Jun Young | 2018-06-16 |  Iron Chain | |
| | Elusory | Chua Hoe Hwee, Justin | 2016-04-30 | 2017-07-31 | OSC Elite |
| | Glow | Oh Tae Wan | 2017-01-06 | 2017-06-?? | |
| | KubeR | Nguyen Huu Kien | |||
| | LaZy | Tony Nguyen | |||
| | Ezpz | Yoo Young Joon | 2016-11-02 | 2017-12-31 |  Retirement |
| | Revenant | Marcus Tan Sin Yik | 2016-12-12 | 2017-03-12 | Retirement |
| | RevolutioN | Choi Ji Min | |||
| | ShiveR | Terry Duong | Retirement | ||
| | Today | Kim Dae Hee | 2017-01-06 | ||
 | | Kashim | Adrian Główczyk | 2016-12-05 | 2018-06-25 |  IndyK Crew |
| | ZeNa | Ham Jin Soo | 2017-05-22 | ||
Organization[edit]
| ID | Name | Position | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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ChiOt | Vo Huu Tien | Founder, Manager, Coach |
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Kyzer | Ryan Low | Head Coach |
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DD | Nguyen Dinh Duy | Co-Founder |
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Freedom | Le Tuan Linh | Assistant Manager |
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JoeKooler | Chitsanupong Klaithin | Assistant Manager |
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NinjaToss | Harnie Le | Social Media Manager |
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HowCuteIAm | Huynh Thai Ngoc | Designer |
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JusticeSimon | Le Thien Vu | Captain, Designer |
Team Achievements[edit]
| Date | Placement | Tier | Tournament | Result | Prize | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | ||||||||
| 2017-03-19 | 3rd | Minor | SEA Open Team League 2017 Season 1 | 4 : 2 | 
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$50 | ||