CJ Entus
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CJ Entus is a Korean multi-gaming organization originally founded in 2001 under the name "ProSuma" as a StarCraft: Brood War team before Korean holding company CJ became its title sponsor in 2006, giving the team its current name. It entered League of Legends in 2012 with its own team and then acquired both Azubu Frost and Azubu Blaze in 2013 after both teams' rosters announced they would not be renewing their Azubu contracts.
History[edit]
Season 2[edit]
CJ Entus made its first foray into the competitive scene when they formed a team that consisted of Pecko, LongPanda, Kkinsh, emboob, Eryuk. The team played in their first OGN at Azubu The Champions Summer 2012 where they lost all their games and placed last in their group. Their performances in NLB gained them enough circuit points to qualify for the Season 2 Korea Regional Finals. However, they lost in the fifth place tiebreaker 3-1 to Incredible Miracle.
Season 3[edit]
CJ's first tournament of the season was IEM Season VII - Global Challenge Cologne where they made it to the semifinals but lost 2-1 to Fnatic. They came back to Korea to play in OLYMPUS Champions Winter 2012-2013 where they lost 3-2 in the quarterfinals to Azubu Frost. The CJ organization sponsored Azubu Frost and Azubu Blaze and they were renamed to CJ Entus Frost and CJ Entus Blaze respectively. When both teams were picked up by CJ, the original CJ Entus team disbanded. A mixed CJ Entus roster participated in the OGN Club Masters where they made it to playoffs but placed fourth overall after losing 3-2 to Xenics-OP United and 3-0 to KT Rolster. Unfortunately, both CJ teams missed worlds at the end of the season. However, they earned the distinction of making the IEM Season VII World Championship grand finals an all-CJ final, which Blaze won 3-1.
2014 Season[edit]
Another mixed CJ Entus roster participated in the SK Telecom LTE-A LoL Masters 2014 where they placed third overall after losing to Samsung Galaxy in the semifinals. Neither of the CJ teams performed well in any of the 2014 OGN seasons, so both teams missed the regionals and, by extension, worlds.
2015 Season[edit]
Changes to the OGN rules forced Frost and Blaze to merge. The new roster consisted of Shy, Ambition, CoCo, Space, and Madlife. CJ Entus were invited to IEM Katowice, the IEM Season IX final in March 2015. They finished in 5th/6th place, after defeating Gambit Gaming but then losing to Team SoloMid and Team WE. CJ placed third in the regular season of SBENU Champions Spring 2015 and made it to the playoffs but they lost 3-2 in the semifinals to SK Telecom T1 and placed third for the season. The team played in SBENU Champions Summer 2015 and placed third in the regular season again. However, they lost 3-0 in the second round to the KOO Tigers and placed fourth for the season. CJ earned enough circuit points to qualify for the 2015 Season Korea Regional Finals where they lost 3-2 in the semifinals to the Jin Air Green Wings and missed out on worlds.
2016 Preseason[edit]
CJ played in the 2015 LoL KeSPA Cup where they lost 3-0 in the finals to Ever. After this tournament, CJ embarked on a major rebuilding, replacing their entire coaching staff as well as their entire roster save for longtime veterans Shy and Madlife. To replace their team, CJ brought in toplaner Untara, jungler Bubbling, midlaner Sky, and ADC Kramer, as well as retaining their underage rookies Bdd and Ghost. Filling in their coaching staff was Reach and Cain, both formerly of NaJin e-mFire.
2016 Season[edit]
CJ started off the 2016 LCK Spring Season first round robin with a 4-5 set record at seventh place. For the second round robin, CJ started rookie midlaner Bdd, who recently turned 17 years of age, making him eligible to play competitively. Though many expected CJ to perform better due to Bdd, they still went 4-5 in the second round robin, leading to an 8-10 set record and an eighth place finish in the spring split.
CJ Entus had a very poor showing in the 2016 LCK Summer Season, going 3-15 total in set score. None of their substitutes, nor their new rookie jungler in Haru seemed to make a difference in their abysmal results. Locked into tenth place in the LCK season, CJ Entus participated in the 2017 LCK Spring Promotion. In the first round they were swept 2-0 by Kongdoo Monster, bringing them down to the loser's bracket. There, they beat SBENU Korea 2-0 before falling to ESC Ever in a 3-0 sweep to become relegated from the LCK. This marked the first time an original Kespa team was relegated from the LCK.
For their first split in the Challenger scene they decided to build a new roster and tried out 3 new players at 2016 LoL KeSPA Cup. With this roster they were not able to take revenge against ESC Ever and instead got expectedly 0-2 swept. While Soul who was on SBENU during S6 got a place on the roster for next season Reach and Momo had to leave again.
2017 Season[edit]
They went for a decently experienced squad with Winged from Jin Air, Veritas returning to Korea from EU LCS team Unicorns of Love, former Longzhu support Pure and decided to give Candy his chance after his suspension ended. This roster went on an absolute tear during the first half of Spring Split before dropping a few games towards the end but stay undefeated in series. In playoff finals they faced Ever8 Winners and after winning game 1 they got surprisingly dismantled for the remainder of the series but qualified to the promotion tournament anyways.
There they faced Kongdoo in round 1 and lost the series 1-2 despite a strong performance in game 1. In the elimination match they faced E8W again and were once again left without a chance which meant a second split in Challenger for them.
CJ Entus went into Summer Split as a favourite because they only changed their coach but kept the roster together and once again absolutely dominated in regular season. They ended this time with a 13-1 record clean sweeping their opponents in every win. This first place meant that they were already qualified for the promotion tournament as well as the playoff finals. There they faced Kongdoo who finished 2nd in regular season and after 4 very one-sided game the game back from the brink of another finals defeat to ace their opponents 49 minutes into game 5 and pushed through for the victory.
In the Spring Promotion they faced bbq Olivers in round 1 where they once again had a good game 1 but were destroyed in the next 2 games not even killing a single tower. In elimination round they met E8W again and turned the series with a slow victory in game 2 before dominating game 3 to face bbq for a rematch in the second qualifying round. They were once again shut down and after failing to get back into LCK for the second time the team disbanded in November 2017.
Timeline[edit]
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- May 24, Team is formed.
LongPanda,
Eryuk,
emboob,
Pecko,
kkinsh, and fOru (Coach) join.[1][2] - August 13,
inSec joins.[3] - September 9,
dade joins. emboob (Mid to Bot) changes position.
Pecko leaves.[4] - October (approx.),
Space joins. - December 16, 3rd-4th place in the IEM Season VII - Global Challenge Cologne.
- January 2,
Trick,
Roar, and
Max move to trainees.[10] - February 20,
Roar leaves. - March 25, AnimalDAX (Coach) joins.[11]
- April (approx.),
Bdd and
Ghost join as trainees. - April 24, 3rd Place in the SBENU Champions Spring 2015.
- May 18,
Max moves to substitute.[12] - June 30,
Helper joins as substitute.
Trick moves to substitute.[13] - August 19, 4th Place in the SBENU Champions Summer 2015.
- September 4, 3rd Place in the 2015 Season Korea Regional Finals.
- November 4,
Helper,
Trick, and
Max leave.[14] - November 17, Onair (Head Coach), AnimalDAX (Coach), and Kezman (Coach) leave.[15]
- November 30, Reach (Head Coach) and Cain (Coach) join.
Ambition and
CoCo leave.[16] - December 1,
Space leaves.[17] - December 28,
Untara,
Bubbling,
Sky, and
Kramer join.
Shy,
Bdd, and
Ghost move to substitutes.[18]
- February 16,
DayDream joins as substitute.[19] - March 2,
Bdd moves to starting roster. - April 11,
DayDream leaves.[20] - May 11,
Haru joins.
Bubbling moves to substitute.[21] - June 25,
Shy moves to starting roster.
Untara moves to substitute. - October 28, MOKUZA (Coach) and viNylCat (Coach) join.[22]
- November 1,
Soul,
Reach,
MoMo, and
SungHo join as trainees.[23] Cain (Coach) leaves.[24] - November 10,
MoMo leaves.[25][26] - November 30,
Shy,
Haru,
Bdd,
Sky,
Kramer,
MadLife,
Untara,
Bubbling, and
Ghost leave.[27] - December 10,
Reach leaves.[28] - December 11,
Winged and
Pure join.
Soul and
SungHo move to starting roster.[29] SungHo renames to Racoon. - December 19,
Candy joins.[30]
- January 4,
Avenger and
Veritas join.[31] - March 27, Racoon (Support to Top) changes position.
- April 3,
Racoon and
Avenger move to substitutes. - May 23, viNylCat (Coach to Head Coach) changes position. Reach (Head Coach) leaves.[32]
- November 13, Roster disbands.
Soul,
Winged,
Candy,
Veritas,
Pure,
Racoon,
Avenger, viNylCat (Head Coach), and MOKUZA (Coach) leave.[33] - November 30, Team forfeits CK seed.[34]
Player Roster[edit]
Former[edit]
Players are shown for the entire duration of their tenure on the team, with the role and substitute/trainee status they had upon their departure.
| Player | Name | Role | Joined | Left | Next Team | ||
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| Soul | Seo Hyeon-seok (서현석) | Top Laner | Nov 20162016-11-01 | Nov 20172017-11-13 |  Retired | |
| Winged | Park Tae-jin (박태진) | Jungler | Dec 20162016-12-11 | Nov 20172017-11-13 |  VSG | |
| Candy | Kim Seung-ju (김승주) | Mid Laner | Dec 20162016-12-19 | Nov 20172017-11-13 |  GRX | |
| Veritas | Kim Kyoung-min (김경민) | Bot Laner | Jan 20172017-01-04 | Nov 20172017-11-13 |  DWG | |
| Pure | Kim Jin-sun (김진선) | Support | Dec 20162016-12-11 | Nov 20172017-11-13 | VSG | |
| Racoon | Park Sung-ho (박성호) | Sub/Top | Nov 20162016-11-01 | Nov 20172017-11-13 |  WNS | |
| Avenger | Yoo Seon-woo (유선우) | Sub/Bot | Jan 20172017-01-04 | Nov 20172017-11-13 | WNS | |
| Reach | Lee Joo-won (이주원) | Trn/Jun | Nov 20162016-11-01 | Dec 20162016-12-10 |  FB | |
| Shy | Park Sang-myeon (박상면) | Top Laner | Dec 20142014-12-02 | Nov 20162016-11-30 |  ROX | |
| Haru | Kang Min-seung (강민승) | Jungler | May 20162016-05-11 | Nov 20162016-11-30 |  SSG | |
| Bdd | Gwak Bo-seong (곽보성) | Mid Laner | ≈Apr 2015≈2015-04-?? | Nov 20162016-11-30 |  LZ | |
| Sky | Kim Ha-neul (김하늘) | Mid Laner | Dec 20152015-12-28 | Nov 20162016-11-30 |  SKT | |
| Kramer | Ha Jong-hun (하종훈) | Bot Laner | Dec 20152015-12-28 | Nov 20162016-11-30 |  AF | |
| MadLife | Hong Min-gi (홍민기) | Support | Dec 20142014-12-02 | Nov 20162016-11-30 |  GCU | |
| Untara | Park Ui-jin (박의진) | Sub/Top | Dec 20152015-12-28 | Nov 20162016-11-30 | SKT | |
| Bubbling | Park Jun-hyeong (박준형) | Sub/Jun | Dec 20152015-12-28 | Nov 20162016-11-30 |  KZ | |
| Ghost | Jang Yong-jun (장용준) | Sub/Bot | ≈Apr 2015≈2015-04-?? | Nov 20162016-11-30 |  ESC | |
| MoMo | Park Min-sik (박민식) | Trn/Bot | Nov 20162016-11-01 | Nov 20162016-11-10 | Retired | |
| DayDream | Kang Kyung-min (강경민) | Sub/Jun | Feb 20162016-02-16 | Apr 20162016-04-11 |  DFM | |
| Space | Seon Ho-san (선호산) | Bot Laner | Dec 20142014-12-02 | Dec 20152015-12-01 | Retired | |
| Ambition | Kang Chan-yong (강찬용) | Jungler | Dec 20142014-12-02 | Nov 20152015-11-30 | SSG | |
| CoCo | Shin Jin-yeong (신진영) | Mid Laner | Dec 20142014-12-02 | Nov 20152015-11-30 |  IM | |
| Helper | Kwon Yeong-jae (권영재) | Sub/Top | Jun 20152015-06-30 | Nov 20152015-11-04 | SSG | |
| Trick | Kim Gang-yun (김강윤) | Sub/Jun | Dec 20142014-12-02 | Nov 20152015-11-04 |  G2 | |
| Max | Jeong Jong-bin (정종빈) | Sub/Sup | Dec 20142014-12-02 | Nov 20152015-11-04 |  MVP | |
| Roar | Oh Jang-won (오장원) | Trn/Bot | Dec 20142014-12-02 | Feb 20152015-02-20 | IM | |
| LongPanda | Kim Yoon-jae (김윤재) | Top Laner | May 20122012-05-24 | Feb 20132013-02-04 |  CTU | |
| Eryuk | Yoon Seung-taek (윤승택) | Jungler | May 20122012-05-24 | Feb 20132013-02-04 | Retired | |
| inSec | Choi In-seok (최인석) | Jungler | Aug 20122012-08-13 | Feb 20132013-02-04 |  KT B | |
| dade | Bae Eo-jin (배어진) | Mid Laner | Sep 20122012-09-09 | Feb 20132013-02-04 | MVP O | |
| Emboob | Kim Joon-seob (김준섭) | Bot Laner | May 20122012-05-24 | Feb 20132013-02-04 | Retired | |
| Space | Seon Ho-san (선호산) | Bot Laner | ≈Oct 2012≈2012-10-?? | Feb 20132013-02-04 |  CJF | |
| kkinsh | Kim Beom-seok (김범석) | Support | May 20122012-05-24 | Feb 20132013-02-04 | CJF | |
| Pecko | Jeong Hui-cheol (정희철) | Bot Laner | May 20122012-05-24 | Sep 20122012-09-09 | Retired |
Player League Participation[edit]
LCK
| Player | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | Games | |||||||||||
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| Spring | Summer | Winter | Spring | Summer | Winter | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | ||
| Kish |  | | | |  | 38 | |||||||||||||||
| LongPanda | | |  | 26 | |||||||||||||||||
| Emboob | | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Eryuk | | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Pecko | | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Space |  | | | | | | | | | 155 | |||||||||||
| Dade | |  | |  | | | 109 | ||||||||||||||
| InSec | |  | | | | 72 | |||||||||||||||
| Ambition |  |  | | | | | | | | | | | | |  |  | 386 | ||||
| MadLife | |  | | | | | | | | | | | 293 | ||||||||
| Shy | | | | | | | | | | |  | | 243 | ||||||||
| Coco |  | | | | | |  | | 178 | ||||||||||||
| Max | | | | | | | 210 | ||||||||||||||
| Trick | |  | | 80 | |||||||||||||||||
| Roar | | |  | 47 | |||||||||||||||||
| Helper | | |  | 32 | |||||||||||||||||
| Bdd | | | |  | | | | | | 334 | |||||||||||
| Kramer | | |  | | | | 227 | ||||||||||||||
| Untara | | |  | |  | 129 | |||||||||||||||
| Bubbling | | | 47 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sky | | | 41 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Ghost | | | | | |  | |  | | 304 | |||||||||||
| Haru | | | | | | |  | | 172 | ||||||||||||
CK
| Player | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | Games | |||||||
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| Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | ||
| Veritas | | | |  | | 115 | ||||||||
| Pure | | | | | 107 | |||||||||
| Soul |  | | | 72 | ||||||||||
| Candy | | | 60 | |||||||||||
| Winged | | | 60 | |||||||||||
| GAP | |  | | 46 | ||||||||||
| Racoon | | | 37 | |||||||||||
Organization[edit]
Former[edit]
| C | ID | Name | Position | Next Team |
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| viNylCat | Chae Woo-cheol (채우철) | Head Coach |  Team WE
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| MOKUZA | Kim Dae-woong (김대웅) | Coach | Team WE
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| Reach | Park Jung-suk (박정석) | Head Coach |  Brion Blade
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| Cain | Jang Nu-ri (장누리) | Coach |  Cloud9
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| Park Yong-woon (박용운) | Director |  Qiao Gu Reapers
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| Onair | Kang Hyun-jong (강현종) | Head Coach | Afreeca Freecs
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| Kezman | Son Dae-young (손대영) | Coach |  EDward Esports
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| AnimalDAX | Jung Je-seung (정제승) | Coach | Afreeca Freecs
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| fOru | Lee Jae-hoon (이재훈) | Coach | None |
Tournaments[edit]
This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
Media[edit]
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2018
- December 20, On the decline, CJ Entus by , and on Gold Per 10
- January 18, CJ Entus: Resurrected? by , and on Gold Per 10
- January 26, The Return of CJ Entus by , and on LoL Esports
- May 4, CJ Entus - NaJin e-mFire Rivalry by , and on LiquidLegends
- June 5, The Old Boys of Entus by , and on The Score
- October 28, Operation Save CJ Entus 2016: the delusional ramblings of a former fan by Tyler "Fionn" Erzberger on The Score
- November 16, Despite everything, they're still CJ by Emily Rand on Follow eSports
- February 26, Entertain Us: CJ Entus' unlikely Spring by Emily Rand on The Score
- August 27, The Thorin Treatment: The Empire Ended by Thorin on GAMURS
- September 2, A look back at League of Legends revolutionaries CJ Entus by Taylor Cocke on Yahoo Esports
- January 6, Thorin's Thoughts - CJ Entus Should Have Made the Super-Team (LoL) by Thorin on YouTube
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 CJ 엔투스, 프로리그 참가 대기업 팀 중 최초로 LOL팀 창단 (Korean) naver.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 CJ Entus creates LoL team! teamliquid.net
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 CJ 엔투스, 새로운 정글러로 'insec' 선수 영입 (Korean) inven.co.kr
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 LOL, CJ 엔투스 프로게임단 ‘Dade’ 배어진 영입 (Korean) inven.co.kr
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 아주부 코리아, 소속 LOL팀 프로스트, 블레이즈 계약 만료 “다음을 기약하며” (Korean) inven.co.kr
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 프로스트-블레이즈 CJ 입단, ‘인섹’ 등 기존 선수들 거취는? (Korean) naver.com
- ↑ [뉴스] '10인 로스터 폐기, 최소 연봉 2천 확정' LoL 개편 최종안 공개 (Korean) inven.co.kr
- ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 별들의 전쟁 시작! LoL 챔피언스 코리아 프리시즌 로스터 공개 (Korean) inven.co.kr
- ↑ CJ Entus' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 스베누 롤챔스 코리아 스프링 2015 출전 구단 로스터 (Korean) tving.com
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 [뉴스] CJ 엔투스 LoL 게임단, 정제승 코치 합류 (Korean) inven.co.kr
- ↑ 2015 스베누 롤챔스 코리아 서머 출전 구단 로스터 (Korean) tving.com
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 피카부-파라곤-엑스페션 합류, 롤챔스 서머 2R 로스터 (Korean) naver.com
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 CJ Entus' Facebook Post
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 CJ Entus' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 CJ Entus' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 CJ Entus' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 CJ Entus' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 CJ Entus' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 CJ Entus' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 CJ Entus' Facebook Post (Korean) facebook.com
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 CJ Entus' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 2016 LoL KeSPA Cup 참가 팀 로스터 공개 e-sports.or.kr
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 CJ Entus' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 [뉴스] 과거 폭언-욕설 '모모' 박민식, CJ 입단 없다 (Korean) inven.co.kr
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Report: CJ Entus choose not to sign MoMo amidst allegations of sexual harassment thescoreesports.com
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 27.4 27.5 27.6 27.7 27.8 27.9 CJ Entus' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 1907 Fenerbahçe Esports' Facebook Post (Turkish) facebook.com
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 CJ Entus' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 CJ, 전 제닉스 출신 '캔디' 김승주 영입 (Korean) fomos.kr
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 CJ Entus' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 박정석, CJ 엔투스 감독 사임... 후임은 채우철 코치 (Korean) fomos.kr
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 33.4 33.5 33.6 33.7 33.8 33.9 CJ Entus' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ CJ 엔투스, 챌린저스 참가 포기…'역사 속으로' (Korean) fomos.kr
