Absolute Legends

Absolute Legends
Team Information
Location:	Europe
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Youtube:	AbsoluteLegendsTV
Facebook:	AbsoluteLegends
Twitter:	AbsoluteLegends
History
Created:	Organization 2011-03-23 LoL Division 2011-10-30

Absolute Legends was formed on March 23rd, 2011 as a community website for the European League of Legends scene. The idea for the website came from Tim "WetDreaM" Buysse who played League of Legends competitively at the time.

In December 2011, Absolute Legends merged with Counter Logic Gaming and picked up a League of Legends team. This cooperation didn't work out and the two organizations parted ways after a short duration, though the competitive team stayed with CLG and became Counter Logic Gaming EU. Absolute Legends then acquired a new team, the former lineup of Mistral eSports. At the same time Absolute Legends also acquired a professional DotA2 team which formerly played for the Australian team Natural 9.

On March 22nd, 2012, eSahara joined Absolute Legends to form a single larger eSports organization. With this merge, Absolute Legends acquired a Counter Strike 1.6 team, two StarCraft 2 teams and one Quake Live player.

On June 1st, 2012, the Absolute Legends team was acquired by Curse Gaming as their new European division. Absolute Legends announced the acquisition of the entire ExHCL Gaming squad as the new Absolute Legends team.

History

Formation of Absolute Legends

Absolute Legends was founded on March 23rd, 2011 by Tim "WetDreaM" Buysse.

Absolute Legends would find some small scale success on several online tournaments, taking first at the Go4LoL EU West November Monthly Finals and Go4LoL EU West December Monthly Finals.

On December 20th, 2011, Absolute Legends would announce a merger with major North American gaming organization Counter Logic Gaming. With the merger came a roster change, with a lineup consisting of Wickd, Froggen, Snoopeh, yellowpete, and Krepo.

Season 2

However, a few weeks later Absolute Legends would separate with Counter Logic Gaming. With the separation, the team Absolute Legends team would move to CLG, becoming Counter Logic Gaming EU. Absolute Legends would pick up the team of Mistral eSports, consisting of Angush, extinkt, kottenx, Prepared, and Sleper.

With their new roster, Absolute Legends would take third in the Kings of Europe tournament. In the group stage, Absolute Legends would take second going 2-1, defeating SK Gaming and exGBT while falling to Moscow Five. In the semifinals, Absolute Legends would fall to Counter Logic Gaming EU 0-2, falling to take third. In the third place match, Absolute Legends would go 2-1 against Sypher.

Absolute Legends would be one of the 16 European teams to be invited to the HeartoWin Cup. Seeded into Group D, Absolute Legends would take second place going 2-1, defeating TCM Gaming and Moscow Five, while falling to mousesports. Advancing to the playoffs, Absolute Legends would take out CLG EU 2-0 in the quarterfinals and Western Wolves 2-1 in the semifinals. However, their success would end in the finals, where Absolute Legends would fall to against All authority 0-2, taking home second place from the tournament.

4Players.de All or Nothing would invite team Absolute Legends to participate in their winner takes all invitational tournament, held on March 31st, 2012. In the playoffs, AL would take out SK Gaming 1-0 in the quarterfinals and Team SoloMid 2-1 in the semifinals. However, Absolute Legends would fall to CLG.EU 0-2 in the grand finals.

The next event that Absolute Legends would attend would be their own Absolute Pro League: March, where they were able to achieve a third place finish. Showing a strong start, Absolute Legends would take first place in Group A, going 3-0 by defeating Sypher, WinFakt, and FnaticRC. In the quarterfinals, Absolute Legends would defeat Natus Vincere 2-0, but would drop to CLG.EU 1-2 in the semifinals. In the third place match, Absolute Legends would defeat Western Wolves 2-1.

Four days later, Absolute Legends would take first in the Go4LoL EU West February Monthly Finals, taking out aAa, mousesports, and exHCL Gaming.

In the Gamers Assembly 2012, Absolute Legends would take second place. Absolute Legends would most notably defeat Meet Your Makers, Team Sypher, and Counter Logic Gaming EU in the playoffs. In the grand finals, Team Sypher would take out Absolute Legends 0-2 in their rematch.

On April 18th, long time top lane player Angush would be kicked from the team due to a "[clash] of personality within the team". Xinec stated that "Angush became increasingly disrespectful towards every other person in the team. This escalated to the point where we honestly felt that we didn't want to be in a team with him any longer. Since Malunoo, Sleper, Extinkt and myself wanted to carry on playing as a team, we decided that the best solution was to part ways with Angush. Five days later, Absolute Legends would welcome Joey "Youngbuck" Steltenpool as their new top laner, replacing Angush.

The new lineup would play several scrims and games together, even taking first at the Scandic Games League on May 9th, 2012. However, the Absolute Legends EU roster would be acquired by Curse Gaming, becoming Curse Gaming EU. As a response, Absolute Legends would acquire the roster of exHCL Gaming, consisting of Celaver, veggie, Puki style, SuperAZE, and Kikis.

With the new team, Absolute Legends would take second place at the SK Trophy May. At the event, Absolute Legends would take out Fnatic and Meet Your Makers 1-0 in the round of 16 and quarterfinals. In the semifinals Absolute Legends would sweep Millenium 2-0 to advance in to the grand finals. There, AL would face against Russian favorite Moscow Five, who were able to defeat Absolute Legends 2-1.

Due to internal problems with the management and team, Kikis would depart from Absolute Legends. With his departure, Puki style would move to the top lane.

A few days after the departure of Kikis, Absolute Legends would lose the rest of their squadron, with Celaver, Puki style, Veggie, and SuperAZE leaving. Around one week later, Absolute Legends would acquire the roster of WinFakt, taking on YamatoCannon, Akilord, TheTess, Akamez, and firemane811.

Timeline

• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011

• March 12th, Absolute Legends releases their previous roster. ArQuel, Gucio, Kubex, Nzq, and dELORD leave.
• March 18th, Absolute Legends announces their new roster; Rodrigess, trancenergy, Aysel, D3ath, and Dizya join.

• February 10th, Absolute Legends releases their previous roster. Nicker, h0rse, HitooN, Tymek, and Trausi leave.
• April 17th, Absolute Legends acquires the roster of Old School Punchlines. Snipifyy, Gvidas, Odoamne, Abyss, and Elfen join.
• July, previous roster disbands. Snipify, Gvidas, Odoamne, Abyss, and Elfen leave.
• November 3rd, Absolute Legends announces their new roster; Zoolt4n, Gucio, Kubex, Nzq, and dELORD join.

• January 30th, Absolute Legends separates from Counter Logic Gaming. Mistral eSports' roster is acquired. Angush, extinkt, kottenx, Prepared and Sleper join.
• February, xinec and Malunoo replace Prepared and kottenx.
• March 22nd, AbsoluteLegends acquires eSahara.
• April 9th, 2nd Place in the Gamers Assembly 2012.
• April 18th, Angush leaves.
• April 23rd, YoungBuck joins.
• June 1st, Absolute Legends roster is acquired by Curse Gaming EU. Malunoo, Sleper, extinkt, xinec and YoungBuck leave. Absolute Legends acquires roster of exHCL Gaming. Celaver, veggie, Puki style, SuperAZE and Kikis join.
• June 29th, Kikis leaves. Puki style moves to top lane.
• July 3rd, Celaver, Puki style, Veggie, and SuperAZE are released.
• July 12th, Absolute Legends acquires roster of WinFakt. YamatoCannon, Akilord, TheTess, Akamez and firemane811 join. Absolute Legends renames to AbsoluteLegends.Alpha and announces they will be getting a second team.
• August 21st, YamatoCannon leaves.
• August 22nd, TheTess leaves.
• August 24th, the former lineup disbands. AbsoluteLegends.Alpha acquires roster of Bonjwas. Pose, Agent, Amazing, Tsuchi and Tundra join.
• August 31st, after not qualifying for IEM Global Challenge Guangzhou, the team disbands.
• December 28th, Absolute Legends acquires roster of Team Mistral. Nicker, h0rse, HitooN, Tymek, and Trausi join.

• March 23rd, Absolute Legends was founded
• October 30th, LoL Division is formed. Wickd, sOAZ, Froggen, Lyumi and WetDreaM join.

• October 31st, MoMa joins as sub.
• November 4th, MoMa and sOAZ leave. WetDreaM steps down from starting line up and becomes the team manager.
• November 14th, Absolute Legends merges with mTw. wewillfailer and Kbap join.
• December 13th, Kbap leaves.
• December 20th, Absolute Legends merges with Counter Logic Gaming. Lyumi and wewillfailer leave.

Player Roster

Active

	ID	Name	Role
	Rodrigess	Roman Dremov	01 Top
	trancenergy	Denis Babahin	02 Jungle
	Aysel	Alexandr Chernega	03 Mid
	D3ath	Vladislav Utyonishev	04 AD
	Dizya	Ilya Mikhaylenko	05 Support

Former

	ID	Name	Role	Next Team
	ArQuel	Krzysztof Sauć	01 Top	Team ROCK
	Gucio	Witold Tacikiewicz	02 Jungle	Team ROCK
	Kubex	James Madja	03 Mid	None
	Nzq	Robert Burczyk	04 AD	Team ROCK
	dELORD	Paweł Szabla	05 Support	Team ROCK
	Zoolt4n	Przemyslaw Mazur	01 Top	None
	Odoamne	Pascu Andrei	01 Top	AirWalk Gaming
	Gvidas	Gvidas Kazimieraitis	02 Jungle	Ray of Deads
	Elfen	Maxime Soufflet	03 Mid	None
	Snipifyy	Kevin Lundstrom	04 AD	None
	Abyss	Simon Pouchol	05 Support	None
	Nicker	Piotr Muzolf	03 Mid	Reason Gaming
	h0rse	Dawid Dabrowski	04 AD	None
	HitooN	Lukasz Dabrowski	01 Top	None
	Tymek	Tymoteusz Holynski	05 Support	None
	Trausi	Jacek Kurczych	02 Jungle	None
	Tundra	Jamie Duthie	01 Top	Animate eSports
	Amazing	Maurice Stückenschneider	02 Jungle	Team Acer
	Pose	Taavi Tuulik	03 Mid	against All authority
	Tsuchi	Ruben Schuwer	04 AD	against All authority
	Agent	Lars Prüßmeier	05 Support	myRevenge
	Akilord	Isaac Pelham-Chipper	03 Mid	Animate eSports
	firemane811	Johannes Lewerenz	04 AD	None
	Akamez	Ryan Buxton	05 Support	Animate eSports
	TheTess	Kasper Poulsen	02 Jungle	Copenhagen Wolves
	YamatoCannon	Jakob Mebdi	01 Top	Tt Dragons
	Puki style	Lukasz Zygmunciak	01 Top	Team Acer Poland
	Veggie	Fryderyk Koziol	02 Jungle	EloHell
	Celaver	Pawel Koprianiuk	03 Mid	Team Acer Poland
	SuperAZE	Piotr Prokop	05 Support	Team Acer Poland
	Kikis	Mateusz Szkudlarek	01 Top	Gamehoppers.eu
	YoungBuck	Joey Steltenpool	01 Top	Team Curse Europe
	Malunoo	Tobias Magnusson	02 Jungle	Team Curse Europe
	extinkt	Vytautas Melinauskas	03 Mid	Team Curse Europe
	Sleper	Algirdas Saliamonas	04 AD	Team Curse Europe
	xinec	Andreas Krogsbøll	05 Support	Team Curse Europe
	Angush	Aurimas Gedvilas	01 Top	Team of DOOM
	kottenx	Markus Tingval	02 Jungle	Teamless
	Prepared	Josvaldas Inta	05 Support	Teamless
	Wickd	Mike Petersen	01 Top	CLG Europe
	Froggen	Henrik Hansen	03 Mid	CLG Europe
	Lyumi	Marcel Haas	04 AD	Team Sypher
	wewillfailer	Bram De Winter	05 Support	3DMAX
	Kbap	Rene Werner	02 Jungle	None
	sOAZ	Paul Boyer	02 Jungle	against All authority
	MoMa	Maik Wallus	11 Sub	SK Gaming
	WetDreaM	Tim Buysse	05 Support	Manager

Organization

Active

	ID	Name	Position
	WetDreaM	Tim Buysse	11 CEO/Founder
	PanicButton	Dimitris Memmas	COO

Former

	ID	Name	Position	Next Team
	Broph		Head Coach	None

Team Achievements

In Premier Tournaments
Accomplished by Roster 6
Date		Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2013-01-19		A77 - 8th	IEM Season VII - Global Challenge Katowice	0 : 3	Group Stage	$ 2,500

Accomplished by Roster 3
Date		Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2012-06-18		A55 - 6th	DreamHack Summer 2012 (now Team Acer.PL)	1 : 2	Group Stage	$ 1,800

In Major Tournaments
Accomplished by Roster 2
Date	Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2012-05-24	A33rd	ESL Major Series Season IX	2 : 1	SK Gaming	€ 1,000
2012-04-09	A22nd	Gamers Assembly 2012	0 : 2	Team Sypher	€ 2,500

In Minor, Monthly, and Weekly Tournaments
Accomplished by Roster 3
Date		Event	Result		Winnings
2012-06-02		SK Trophy May	1 : 2	Moscow Five	$ 300

Accomplished by Roster 2
Date		Event	Result		Winnings
2012-05-28		CDiscount Cup 3	2 : 1	Team Sypher	€ 750
2012-05-20		4Players.de All or Nothing 3	2 : 0	SK Gaming	€ 1,000
2012-05-09		Scandic Games League	2 : 1	LLeague	€ 200
2012-05-02		4Players.de Play4Fame 2012 April Monthly Finals	2 : 1	CLG Europe	€ 500
2012-04-25		4Players.de All or Nothing 2	2 : 0	Moscow Five	€ 1,000
2012-04-13		DLCompare Pro Cup 1	2 : 0	SK Gaming	€ 550
2012-04-05		Go4LoL EU West February Monthly Finals	2 : 1	exHCL Gaming	€ 500
2012-04-03		CDiscount Cup 2	1 : 2	against All authority	€ 250
2012-04-01		Absolute Pro League: March	2 : 1	Western Wolves
2012-03-17		HeartoWin Cup	0 : 2	against All authority	€ 1,250
2012-03-11		Go4LoL Cup #80	1 : 0	Team WinFakt	€ 200
2012-02-12		Legendary Gaming New Year's Cup	0 : 2	Moscow Five	$15 RP Per Player
2012-02-05		Go4LoL Cup #75	1 : 0	Team SoloMid	€ 200

Accomplished by Roster 1
Date		Event	Result		Winnings
2011-11		Go4LoL EU West November Monthly Finals	1 : 0	Krzak	€ 500
2011-11-20		Go4LoL Cup #64	1 : 0	Time2Win	€ 200

Complete results in Minor, Monthly and Weekly Tournaments

Interviews

2012

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• January 30th - Interview with the new Absolute Legends LoL Team with Absolute Legends

2013

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• July 8th - Not in NA Anymore: Interview with AL SG Manager Nelson Sng with Team Dignitas

See Also

• Absolute Legends NA
• Teams