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EPIK Gamer
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Team Information
Org Location
United States
Region
NA
North America
History
Created2011-08
Disbanded2013-01

Epik Gamer was a North American League of Legends team, originally formed by former HawkShotGG teammates Dan Dinh and Salce in 2010.

The team has been around since the 2010 World Cyber Games, making it one of the first teams in the NA circuit along with Counter Logic Gaming. In May 2011, Dan Dinh and Salce, along with Dyrus, Doublelift, Westrice, and bobbyhankhill, formally created Epik. Team Epik became popular for their success at the Riot Season 1 NA Qualifiers, taking second. They then went on to capture fourth place at Riot Season 1 Championship. After going through several roster changes, in 2012 Epik was picked up as a second team by Team SoloMid and became Team SoloMid Evo, which disbanded four months later.

On December 12, Epik Gamer was rebooted for the North American Season 3 Championship Series, but failed to qualify, and subsequently disbanded.

History[]

Early Years of Epik Gamer[]

In August of 2010, team HawkshotGG was formed, consisting of Dan Dinh, Salce, Araragi, Master of LoL, Grafic, Xcessiv, and Dyrus. The team was formed in order to compete in the 2010 World Cyber Games. After qualifying for the 2010 World Cyber Games North American Qualifiers, HawkshotGG renames to EPIKGamer. Epik Gamer would take second place in the 2010 World Cyber Games North American Qualifiers, falling to Counter Logic Gaming in the grand finals 1-2.

In late September of 2010, Epik Gamer would disband, with Dan Dinh, Salce, Araragi, Master of LoL, Grafic, Xcessiv, and Dyrus leaving.

On May 1, 2011, Epik Gamer is reformed, consisting of a roster that includes Dan Dinh, Salce, Dyrus, Doublelift, Westrice, and bobbyhankhill.

Season 1[]

On May 22, 2011, EPIK would place second at the Riot Season 1 NA Qualifiers

Epik Gamer would attend the Riot Season 1 Championship on June 18, 2011, where they would place fourth. In the group stage, Epik Gamer would take first, going 3-0 by defeating against All authority, FnaticMSI, and Team Pacific. After placing first, Epik Gamer would be directly seeded into the semi finals, where they would fall 0-2 to FnaticMSI. Dropping down to the loser's bracket, EG would fall there to Team SoloMid 0-2.

Pre-Season 2[]

On July 9, 2011, PureGoldenBoy replaced Doublelift as support player for Epik Gamer.

Epik Gamer was invited to compete in the 2011 MLG Pro Circuit - Raleigh. In the group stage, Epik would place second going 2-1, defeating Team SoloMid, Curse Gaming, while falling to Counter Logic Gaming. Due to the extended series rule, Epik Gamer would come into the finals against Counter Logic Gaming 0-2. Unfortunately for EG, they would lose the next two games, going 0-4 against CLG in the finals and ending off with a second place finish.

On September 22, Epik would see another change in their roster, with Nhat Nguyen replacing PureGoldenBoy as Epik Gamer's new support. Nhat Nguyen would be suggested to the team by Riot Rara, they would have added CuRtoKy. After plying some matches with Nhat, the team decided to choose him.

Less than a month after the roster change, Epik Gamer would attend the IGN ProLeague Season 3 - Atlantic City. In the tournament, Epik would defeat v8 Esports 2-0 in the quarterfinals and Team SoloMid 2-1 in the semifinals. Advancing to the grand finals, Epik would lose 1-2 to Dignitas, taking home second place.

In the 2011 MLG Pro Circuit in Providence, Epik Gamer would take second place. At the event Epik would defeat Dignitas 2-0 in the first round and Team SoloMid 2-1 in the second round. However, Epik would lose in their rematch against Team Solomid in the grand finals, despite having a 2-1 lead over TSM.

End of Epik Gamer[]

In March and April of 2012, various changes occurred to the Epik Gamer player roster. On March 13, long time top lane player Dyrus left to join Team SoloMid. Two days after his departure, team founder, owner, and captain Dan Dinh was kicked from Epik Gamer. A few days after the two large departures, ClakeyD joined team Epik Gamer to become their new jungler. However, his tenure at EG would only last a month as he would leave on April 13. On the same day of ClakeyD's departure, former v8 Esports members Aphromoo and Unstoppable join Epik Gamer. On April 24, wingsofdeathx replaces Westrice.

At the end of these hectic final months, the resulting roster of Epik Gamer would be Salce, Aphromoo, Nhat Nguyen, Unstoppable, wingsofdeathx, and Callipygous.

On May 11, 2012, Team SoloMid acquires the roster of Epik Gamer, with Epik Gamer becoming Team SoloMid Evo

Pre-Season 3[]

In December of 2012, Epik Gamer reformed with Dan Dinh, Salce, Westrice, cat8, and puregoldenboy to compete in the Season 3 qualifiers. They played in the offline qualifiers on January 4-5 with wingsofdeathx as a sub in place of Westrice, and qualified for the live offline qualifier on January 11. But they failed to make it past the offline qualifiers, and subsequently disbanded again.

Timeline[]

  • 2010
  • 2011
  • 2012
  • 2013

Player Roster[]

Former[]

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.

Dates:Approx|Exact
PlayerNameRoleJoinedLeftNext Team
NA

SalceTrevor Salce
Mid Laner
Dec 20122012-12-20Jan 20132013-01-30FXOpen e-Sportslogo stdFXO
NA

WestriceJonathan Nguyen
Bot Laner
Dec 20122012-12-20Jan 20132013-01-30FXOpen e-Sportslogo stdFXO
NA

cat8Wooseong "Will" Kim (김우성)
Support
Dec 20122012-12-20Jan 20132013-01-30University of British Columbialogo stdUBC
NA

Dan DinhDaniel Dinh
Jungler
Dec 20122012-12-20≈Jan 2013≈2013-01-??TSMlogo stdTSM
NA

puregoldenboyJonathan Au
Support
Dec 20122012-12-20≈Jan 2013≈2013-01-??Retiredlogo stdRetired
NA

UnstoppableJohnny Tran
Jungler
≈Apr 2012≈2012-04-??May 20122012-05-11Team SoloMid Evologo stdTSM.E
NA

SalceTrevor Salce
Mid Laner
May 20112011-05-01May 20122012-05-11Team SoloMid Evologo stdTSM.E
NA

AphromooZaqueri Black
Bot Laner
≈Apr 2012≈2012-04-??May 20122012-05-11Team SoloMid Evologo stdTSM.E
NA

Nhat NguyenNhat Nguyen
Support
Sep 20112011-09-22May 20122012-05-11Team SoloMid Evologo stdTSM.E
NA

WestriceJonathan Nguyen
Top Laner
May 20112011-05-01Apr 20122012-04-24Team Curselogo stdCRS
NA

bobbyhankhillCameron Nelson
Sub/Bot
May 20112011-05-01≈Apr 2012≈2012-04-??Logo stdMCRC
NA

Dan DinhDaniel Dinh
Jungler
May 20112011-05-01Mar 20122012-03-15TEAM4NOT.NAlogo std4N
NA

DyrusMarcus Hill
Top Laner
May 20112011-05-01Mar 20122012-03-13TSMlogo stdTSM
NA

CrumbzzAlberto Rengifo
Mid Laner
(+)
(–)
Temp Sub
Oct 20112011-10-06Oct 20112011-10-09Team Curselogo stdCRS
NA

PureGoldenBoyJonathan Au
Support
Jul 20112011-07-09Sep 20112011-09-22Epik Gamerlogo stdEPIK
NA

DoubleliftYiliang "Peter" Peng (彭亦亮)
Support
May 20112011-05-01Jul 20112011-07-09UnRestricted eSportslogo stdUNR
NA

DyrusMarcus Hill
Top Laner
Aug 20102010-08-07Sep 20102010-09-12Epik Gamerlogo stdEPIK
NA

Araragi
Jungler
Aug 20102010-08-07Sep 20102010-09-12Rock Solidlogo stdRS
NA

Dan DinhDaniel Dinh
Jungler
Aug 20102010-08-07Sep 20102010-09-12Counter Logic Gaminglogo stdCLG
NA

SalceTrevor Salce
Mid Laner
Aug 20102010-08-07Sep 20102010-09-12Epik Gamerlogo stdEPIK
NA

XcessivJeremy Autore
Mid Laner
,
Bot Laner
Aug 20102010-08-07Sep 20102010-09-12Retiredlogo stdRetired
NA

MasteR of LoLJoshua Webb
Bot Laner
,
Top Laner
Aug 20102010-08-07Sep 20102010-09-12Logo stdNO C
NA

GraficVan Euclid
Support
Aug 20102010-08-07Sep 20102010-09-12Retiredlogo stdRetired
NA

DyrusMarcus Hill
Top Laner
≈Aug 2010≈2010-08-??Aug 20102010-08-07Epik Gamerlogo stdEPIK
NA

Araragi
Jungler
≈Aug 2010≈2010-08-??Aug 20102010-08-07Epik Gamerlogo stdEPIK
NA

Dan DinhDaniel Dinh
Jungler
≈Aug 2010≈2010-08-??Aug 20102010-08-07Epik Gamerlogo stdEPIK
NA

SalceTrevor Salce
Mid Laner
≈Aug 2010≈2010-08-??Aug 20102010-08-07Epik Gamerlogo stdEPIK
NA

XcessivJeremy Autore
Mid Laner
,
Bot Laner
≈Aug 2010≈2010-08-??Aug 20102010-08-07Epik Gamerlogo stdEPIK
NA

MasteR of LoLJoshua Webb
Bot Laner
,
Top Laner
≈Aug 2010≈2010-08-??Aug 20102010-08-07Epik Gamerlogo stdEPIK
NA

GraficVan Euclid
Support
≈Aug 2010≈2010-08-??Aug 20102010-08-07Epik Gamerlogo stdEPIK

Temporary Subs[]

ID Name Role Replacing Tournament

DontMashMe
Brandon Phan AD IGN Proleague Season 4 - Las Vegas

ClakeyD
Clark Douglas Smith Jungle IGN Proleague Season 4 - Las Vegas

Crumbzz
Alberto Rengifo AP
Salce
IGN Proleague Season 3 - Atlantic City

Tournaments[]

This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.

Minimum place

Epik Gamer Tournament Results - Show Prize as (LocalUSDEuros)
DatePlPrizeEventLast ResultRoster
2013-01-13NQ NA LCS 2013 Spring Qualifiers
0 - 2Blanklogo stdRR
 Westrice,  Dan Dinh,  Salce,  cat8,  PgB
2013-01-05Q S3 NA Online Qualifier
2 : 0The Salad Barlogo stdTSB
 Wingsofdeathx,  Dan Dinh,  Salce,  cat8,  PureGoldenBoy
2012-04-087 - 8$1,250$ 1,250€ 950 IPL 4 Las Vegas
0 : 2Monomaniac eSportslogo stdMME
 Westrice,  ClakeyD,  Salce,  DontMashMe,  Nhat Nguyen
2012-04-015 - 8 Leaguecraft ggClassic
1 : 2Counter Logic Gaminglogo stdCLG
 Salce,  ClakeyD,  Westrice,  DontMashMe,  Nhat Nguyen
2012-02-243 - 4 LoLPro.com Curse Invitational - Online
0 : 2Dignitaslogo stdDIG
 Dyrus,  Dan Dinh,  Salce,  Westrice,  Nhat Nguyen
2011-12-302$1,000$ 1,000€ 770 CLG's Last Call 2011
0 : 2Dignitaslogo stdDIG
2011-11-202$8,000$ 8,000€ 5,840 MLG 2011 Championship Providence
2 : 4TSMlogo stdTSM
 Dyrus,  Dan Dinh,  Salce,  Westrice,  Nhat Nguyen
2011-11-19Q MLG 2011 Providence Qualifiers
2 : 0APictureOfAGooselogo stdAPG
 Dyrus,  Dan Dinh,  Salce,  Westrice,  Nhat Nguyen
2011-11-135 - 8 Go4LoL NA 36
0 : 1Logo stdBRO
2011-10-092$5,000$ 5,000€ 3,700 IPL 3 Atlantic City
1 : 2Dignitaslogo stdDIG
 Dyrus,  Dan Dinh,  Crumbzz,  Westrice,  Nhat Nguyen
Total Prize: USD 15,250

Interviews[]

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References[]


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