Mineski

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TEAM INFORMATION
LOCATION:	Philippines
NO. OF PLAYERS:	7
TEAM STAFF
MANAGERS:	Roy "Shiro" Inciong
TEAM CAPTAIN:	Eric Allen "Exo" Gubatan
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HISTORY
CREATED:	Organization 2004-DD-DD LoL Division 2012-11-17
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Mineski is a professional gaming organization based out of the Philippines. Founded in 2004, the organization is known as one of the premier Southeast Asian electronic sports group, boasting highly successful players across each competitive genre.

History

2012
On 17 November 2012, Mineski acquired Team Nirvana.DK to form Mineski League of Legends team. Since the inception, the team has grown and been competitively solid, placing high in all minor tournaments they entered leading up to Season 3. Becoming known as a top contender of the Philippine scene, the team was able to participate in the Season 3 Southeast Asia Regional Finals after coming in 2nd at the Philippine qualifiers. The team would come from loser's bracket to face the team that sent them there in the finals, the powerhouse of Singapore Sentinels. In the grand finals, Mineski would beat the heavy favorite SGS to place first, granting them a coveted spot at Season 3 World Championship.

2013

At the Season 3 World Championship, Mineski would face off against the world's best in their first big international tournament. Despite good efforts and becoming a fan favorite during groups, they would not advance to the bracket stage, going 0-8, finishing 14th and gaining good experience for their future endeavors.

2014
Mineski qualifies for the 2014 GPL Winter as they became first at the Season 3 Southeast Regional Finals and the only representative for the Philippines. They show their great performances at the group stages, at the end of the group stages, they got the record of 5-5 and automatically qualified for the quarterfinals. At the quarterfinals, they challenged the Taiwanese team, the Taipei Snipers, they went into straight defeat against them and thus, they failed to make step into the Semifinals at the series record of 0-3 in favor of the Snipers. After the tournament, they entered 5-8th placers respectively. They make it to the 2014 GPL Spring Qualifier but they ended the tournament at 4th place in the Group Stage.

The team joined the very first Pro Gaming Series, this was the Philippines' very first League of Legends major tournament. Their first match would be against CMStorm but they went into straight defeat at the best-of-2 matches. The team went their first victory against Manila Eagles but it was ended into draw at the best-of-2 matches. After it, they suffered again two straight losses at their third and fourth matches at the series against Wargods and Imperium Pro Team. The team ended with the record of 2-8 and with 2 draws and 3 losses at the best-of-2 series overall. After their match at IPT, their jungler and top laner, Kaigu and Snoy left the team. The team finished last place at the tournament and probably dropped to 2014 PGS Summer Promotion. On April 6th, after the PGS Spring finals has ended, Exo left the team and joined Manila Eagles. Thus, Yume was the only member of the Season 3 World Championship remained on the team.

After Kaigu, Snoy and Exo left the team. Their substitutes, Ced and Sepi replaces the roles of Snoy and Exo. After a days, Mineski acquired their new jungler named Kulit. As they became the bottom two at the PGS Spring, they dropped into the Summer Promotion. They show their best performance on their match against Crying and ended into victory with a 2-0 record. After the game, the team automatically qualified at 2014 PGS Summer along with Pacific eSports.

Their very first match at the PGS Summer would be against Manila Eagles and Diamond Team. They suffered two straight losses on their best-of-2 match against MLE. After their match against MLE. Mineski won their first game against Diamond but they defeated on the second game and ended into draw. During the group stages, the team went several draws against their opponent. Their very first straight 2-0 victory at the best-of-2 group stage would be against Pacific eSports. They successfully finished 4th at the round robin group stage and automatically stepped in into the semifinals.

But after their recent success at the group stage. Sepi left the team. Thus the top lane went on vacancy. After a days, the acquired their new member, Hamezu. The team went line-up changes, Yume switches to top lane in order to Hamezu make into the mid lane.

During the semifinals, they would face Manila Eagles, the second place at the group stage, but they went unsuccessful to defeat them. After their defeat at the semifinals, they went into the 3rd Place match against Diamond. This time, Mineski dominates Diamond with a 2-0 victory and thus qualified at the 2015 GPL Spring.

After 2014 PGS Summer was ended, Manila Eagles went into a controversial status. Thus, MLE went into a one year suspension on all League of Legends Tournament. However the members of MLE became teamless, Exo and Tgee,were two of the members of MLE at that time, rejoined the team.

The team again went into line-up changes, Yume returns to mid lane, Exo and Tgee became the AD Carry and the top laner for the team. Hamezu went on substitution.

Timeline

• May 15th, Kaigu joins as their new Top laner while Hamezu leaves. Line-up changes: Tgee becomes Support while Noel becomes sub.
• Dec 4th, Windgod joins while Yume moves to sub. Noel leaves.

• March 30th, Kaigu and Snoy leave.
• April 15th, Exo leaves.
• May 4th Makulit joins as their new Jungler
• August 7th Hamezu joins as their new Mid laner while Yume moves to Top lane.
• August 30th 3rd Place in 2014 PGS Summer. Qualifies for 2015 GPL/Spring.
• October 24th, Exo and Tgee rejoined Mineski after leaving Manila Eagles. Line-up changes: Yume returns to Mid while Hamezu becomes sub.

• June 10th, Kaigu leaves. Noelly joins.
• July 7th, Kaigu rejoins.
• August 8th, 2nd place at Season 3 SEA Philippines Qualifier.
• August 18th, 1st place at Season 3 Southeast Asia Regional Finals.
• August 18th, Qualifies for Season 3 World Championship.
• October 10th, Kaigu leaves.
• October 30th, Sepi joins, Ced becomes the starting mid laner, while Snoy and Yume become subs.
• November 2nd, Kaigu rejoins.
• December 24th, Tgee leaves.

• November 17th, Mineski acquires the roster of Team Nirvana.DK. 430, CED, Exo, Shoot, Ezra and G join.

Player Roster

		ID	Name
		Kaigu	Jon Lance Hernandez
		Hamez	James Karl Santos
		Exosen	Eric Allen Gubatan
		Zensho	Keefe Jyro Pascual
		Tgee	Gerald Gianne Gelacio

		ID	Name
		Nickstah	Nickelson Yanga

	ID	Name	Role	Next Team
		Yume	Danyll Jann Balisi	None
		Ced	Cedrick Daez	None
		Windgod		None
		Kulit	James Calumpag	Imperium Pro Team
		Noel	Noel Cruz	None
		Sepi	Eric Medina	None
		Snoy	Elijah Joshua Guerrero	Imperium Pro Team
		Shoot	Dennis Librando	None
		Ezra	Wen Honrubia	CMStorm Gaming
		Hamezu	James Santos	None

	ID	Name	Role	Replacing	Tournament
	Exo	Eric Allen Gubatan	Support	Noel	2015 PGS Spring

Organization

	ID	Name	Position
	Shiro	Roy Inciong	Manager

Team Achievements

2017 Tournaments
Date		Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2017-07-30		2nd	2017 PGS Summer Playoffs	2 : 3	Manila Eagles
2017-07-06		2nd	2017 Rift Rivals - Purple	1 : 3	LJL
2017-07-01		3rd	2017 PGS Summer Split	9 - 5	Group Stage/Round Robin (W-L)
2017-04-14		3 - 4th	2017 GPL Spring	2 : 3	Ascension Gaming
2017-03-18		1st	2017 PGS Spring Playoffs	3 : 2	Imperium Pro Team
2016-03-03		1st	2017 PGS Spring Split	10 - 4	Group Stage/Round Robin (W-L)

2015 Tournaments
Date		Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2015-07-17		13 - 16th	2015 GPL Summer Group Stage 1	0-1-2	Group Stage/Round Robin (W-L)	$ 2,500
2015-02-06		9 - 12th	GPL Spring Group Stage 1	2-2-2	Group Stage/Round Robin (W-L)	$ 3,500

2014 Tournaments
Date		Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2014-08-30		3rd	2014 PGS Summer	2 : 0	Diamond Team	2015 GPL Winter Seed
2014-05-05		Q	2014 PGS Summer/Promotion	2 : 0	Crying	2014 PGS Summer Seed
2014-04-06		4 - 6th	2014 PGS Spring	2 : 8	Group Stage/Round Robin (W-L)
2014-01-12		4th	2014 GPL Spring/Philippine Qualifier	5 : 5	Group Stage/Round Robin (W-L)

2013 Tournaments
Date		Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2013-12-13		5 - 8th	2014 GPL Winter	0 : 3	Taipei Snipers	$ 8,000
2013-11-03		3rd	Dell Invitational Cup V	0 : 1	Full Louis	$ 100
2013-10-13		1st	CM Storm Pacific Pro Circuit Season 2 October	1 : 0	Exile	₱ 10,000
2013-10-04		13 - 14th	Season 3 World Championship	0 : 8	Group Stage/Round Robin (W-L)	$ 25,000
2013-09-08		1st	GIGABYTE Mineski Pro Gaming League 5-9 Class S	1 : 0	Manila Eagles	₱ 12,000
2013-09-01		3rd	Dell Invitational Cup IV	0 : 1	Full Louis	$ 100
2013-08-18		1st	Season 3 Southeast Asia Regional Finals	2 : 1	Singapore Sentinels	₫ 200,000,000 S3WC Seed
2013-08-10		2nd	Season 3 Philippine Qualifier	0 : 1	Exile	₱ 10,000
2013-08-04		1st	GIGABYTE Mineski Pro Gaming League 5-8 Class S	2 : 0	Exile	₱ 12,000
2013-07-14		2nd	CM Storm Pacific Pro Circuit Season 2 July	0 : 1	Manila Eagles	₱ 5,000
2013-07-07		1st	GIGABYTE Mineski Pro Gaming League 5-7 Class S	2 : 0	Exile	₱ 12,000
2013-06-23		1st	MSI-TNC Gaming Cup June	1 : 0	Dzyfr	₱ 10,000
2013-06-02		1st	GIGABYTE Mineski Pro Gaming League 5-6	2 : 0	Manila Eagles	₱ 20,000
2013-05-19		1st	MSI-TNC Gaming Cup May	1 : 0	MSI Evolution GT	₱ 10,000
2013-05-12		1st	CM Storm Pacific Pro Circuit Season 2 May	1 : 0	Kimchi Gaming	₱ 10,000
2013-05-05		2nd	GIGABYTE Mineski Pro Gaming League 5-5	0 : 2	Manila Eagles	₱ 10,000
2013-04-24		2nd	MSI-TNC Gaming Cup April	0 : 1	Manila Eagles	₱ 5,000
2013-04-07		1st	GIGABYTE Mineski Pro Gaming League 5-4	2 : 0	Manila Eagles	₱ 20,000
2013-03-03		2nd	GIGABYTE Mineski Pro Gaming League 5-3	1 : 2	Manila Eagles	₱ 10,000
2013-02-03		2nd	GIGABYTE Mineski Pro Gaming League 5-2	0 : 2	Manila Eagles	₱ 10,000

2012 Tournaments
Date		Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2012-12-09		1st	CM Storm League breakrONE Internet Cafe	1 : 0	Qaqadoodleszzzx	₱ 10,000 + Prizes
2012-12-02		2nd	Pacific Summoners League December Leg	0 : 2	Pacific eSports	₱ 7,000
2012-12-01		1st	CM Storm League Tgar! NetCafe	1 : 0	???	₱ 3,000 + Prizes
2012-11-18		1st	PC Express GAMEX	1 : 0	GodS	₱ 10,000 Gift Ct.

Interviews

• September 9th - Not in NA Anymore: Interview with S3 World Finalists Team Mineski with Team Dignitas
• September 20th - Mineski: "We wanted to fight TSM, because we think we can take them on." with GosuGamers
• October 22nd -Mineski League of Legends talked about the GMPGL Grand Finals with Mineski
• November 1st -Interview with Mineski about Dell Invitational Cup V with GameLand International

Other Contents

• June 28th - WHAT TO EXPECT COMING INTO RIFT RIVALS IN VIETNAM by aMigraine (esportsheaven.com)

• VIDEO: Huge Wombo Combo in GPL! - 2015 GPL Spring

• VIDEO: S3 SEA Regional Qualifier Championship Team Mineski (Exo) Vs Singapore Sentinels (Chawy)

Gallery

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  2015 PGS Spring
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  2014 GPL
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  2013 World Championship

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