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Revision as of 20:31, 27 August 2019

Griffin
Griffin Logo
Team Information
Org Location
South Korea
Region
KR
Korea
Head CoachKim "cvMax" Dae-ho
SponsorSTILL8
Douyu
CORSAIR
SUITSUIT
History
Created2016-11-??
Social Media & Links
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Infobox Facebook Fanpagelogo std
Infobox Instagramlogo std
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Current Roster
Griffin 2019Spring

Griffin (Korean: 그리핀) is a Korean team. They are owned by STILL8.

History[]

Griffin was founded in November 2016 as NOT BAD, and started playing as Griffin in January 2017.

2017 Season[]

Spring Split[]

They formed a young roster with Sword, Yonghun, Rather, Force, and Shield. During the Spring Split they had a decent 3-2 start but could not keep it up losing the rest of the splits series despite signing two new junglers. This meant a 9th place finish and dropping into the promotion tournament where they surprisingly clearly fought off REVERSE Gaming in a 3-0 sweep with new support Jin.

Summer Split[]

For the Summer Split they kept the roster from the promotion tournament but started the split like spring ended. After week 5 they signed former pro player cvMax as new coach and with him went on a tear winning 5 of their last 6 series as well as the tiebreaker to finish the split in 3rd place. In playoffs however they were surprisingly beaten by APK Prince 1-3.

KeSPA Cup[]

A few months later they got the chance to take revenge against them at the 2017 LoL KeSPA Cup with their new botlane signings Viper and Lehends. They swept past them as well as LCK team Afreeca and even managed to gain international attention when they nearly managed to beat SK Telecom T1 who lost the world championship finals a few weeks before.

2018 Season[]

Spring Split[]

They continued their good showings during the Spring Split dominating the league with a start of 8 clean sweeps. After those they started to give talented rookie Chovy who just became old enough to be allowed to play some game time and despite losing two games continued to win the rest of the series which meant they placed 1st and got a direct place at the promotion tournament to LCK. In the promotion tournament they swept past Kongdoo and also won the first qualifying round against MVP convincingly to qualify for the LCK.

Summer Split[]

Due to their dominating qualification and keeping their roster there were hopes that finally a competitive team came up from CK again. Griffin fulfilled these hopes with a very dominant 8-1 start and a Summer Split finish in 2nd place. Going as second seed into playoffs they closely fought off Afreeca in semifinals after being down 1-2 and went up twice in finals against KT Rolster but could not close it out. The lack of championship points from spring split meant they went as 2nd seed but still as favourites into the Regional Finals. In round 2 they faced the after a bad season reinvigorated world championship roster on Gen.G and lost the series 2-3.

KeSPA Cup[]

In the 2018 LoL KeSPA Cup they got seeded in quarterfinals of playoffs where Afreeca were their first opponents. They swept their new roster 2-0 before sweeping past newly to LCK promoted team DAMWON Gaming and the new roster of Gen.G to win their first title.

2019 Season[]

2019 Preseason[]

In November, "e-sportainment" company STILL8, previously owners of Kongdoo Monster, purchased Griffin.[1][2]

Spring Split[]

They carried this forward and stomped their competition in the first 6 weeks of Spring Split. After SK Telecom T1 showed to the rest of the league in week 7 that Griffin are absolutely beatable despite losing their rematch 1-2 in extremely close fashion Griffin lost a couple of series towards the end of the split. According to their coach they were trying new things out and managed to hold on to first place and therefore first seed going into playoffs. In the highly anticipated finals match against SKT Griffin did not manage to perform as well as expected and were clean swept.

Timeline[]

  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016

Player Roster[]

Active[]

R C ID Name Role Contract Ends Joined
KR
Doran Choi Hyeon-joon (최현준) 2Top 2021-11-15 2018-12-??
KR
Sword Choi Sung-won (최성원) 3Top 2021-11-15 2017-01-10
KR
Tarzan Lee Seung-yong (이승용) 4Jungle 2021-11-15 2017-03-11
KR
Chovy Jeong Ji-hoon (정지훈) 5Mid 2021-11-15 2018-03-07
KR
Viper Park Do-hyeon (박도현) 6Bot 2021-11-15 2017-11-19
KR
Lehends Son Si-woo (손시우) 7Support 2021-11-15 2017-11-19
KR
Kabbie Jeong Sang-hyeon (정상현) 8Sub/Sup 2021-11-15 2018-12-10

Loaned Out[]

ID Name Role Loaned To Duration
KR
Rather Shin Hyeong-seop (신형섭) 13Mid Flash Wolveslogo stdFlash Wolves Dec 2018 - Present
KR
Kanavi Seo Jin-hyeok (서진혁) 12Jungle JD Gaminglogo stdJD Gaming May 2019 - Present

Former[]

R C ID Name Role Next Team Joined Left
KR
Plex Bae Ho-young (배호영) 23Sub/Mid LNG Esportslogo stdLNG Esports 2018-12-112018-12-?? 2019-05-232019-05-23
KR
Newt Kim Jin (김진) 25Sub/Sup LGD Gaminglogo stdLGD Gaming 2017-05-042017-05-04 2018-05-302018-05-30
KR
Gankster Song Yong-hoon (송용훈) 22Sub/Jun LGD Gaminglogo stdLGD Gaming 2016-11-112016-11-?? 2018-04-152018-04-15
KR
Force Han Sang-woo (한상우) 14Bot None 2016-11-112016-11-?? 2018-01-172018-01-17
KR
Greed Choi Geon-woo (최건우) 21Sub/Top None 2016-11-112016-11-?? 2017-06-022017-06-02
KR
Bin Lee Seung-bin (이승빈) 22Sub/Jun None 2017-02-102017-02-10 2017-06-022017-06-02
KR
Build Son Beom-jin (손범진) 25Sub/Sup Griffin (Korean Team)logo stdCoach 2016-11-112016-11-?? 2017-06-022017-06-02
KR
Shield Song Ju-yeong (송주영) 15Support Crest Gaming Actlogo stdCrest Gaming Act 2017-01-102017-01-10 2017-05-042017-05-04

Player League Participation[]

Playoff games are NOT included, but regular-season tiebreaker games ARE.

LCK

Player2012201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024Games
SpringSummerWinterSpringSummerWinterSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummer
LehendsGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdHanwha Life Esportslogo stdHanwha Life Esportslogo stdAfreeca Freecslogo stdAfreeca Freecslogo stdGen.Glogo stdGen.Glogo stdKT Rolsterlogo stdKT Rolsterlogo stdGen.Glogo std493
ChovyGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdDragonXlogo stdDRXlogo stdHanwha Life Esportslogo stdHanwha Life Esportslogo stdGen.Glogo stdGen.Glogo stdGen.Glogo stdGen.Glogo stdGen.Glogo std487
ViperGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdHanwha Life Esportslogo stdHanwha Life Esportslogo stdHanwha Life Esportslogo stdHanwha Life Esportslogo std336
DoranGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdDragonXlogo stdDRXlogo stdKT Rolsterlogo stdKT Rolsterlogo stdGen.Glogo stdGen.Glogo stdGen.Glogo stdGen.Glogo stdHanwha Life Esportslogo std397
UntaraCJ Entuslogo stdCJ Entuslogo stdSK Telecom T1logo stdSK Telecom T1logo stdGriffin (Korean Team)logo std129
HOYAGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdFredit BRIONlogo stdFredit BRIONlogo stdDWG KIAlogo std101
NaehyunKingzone DragonXlogo stdKingzone DragonXlogo stdGriffin (Korean Team)logo std50
KabbieGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdSANDBOX Gaminglogo std47

CK

Player201520162017201820192020Games
Spring 1Spring 2SummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummer
ReGankI Gaming Starlogo stdGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdGriffin (Korean Team)logo stdAsura (Korean Team)logo stdAsura (Korean Team)logo stdAsura (Korean Team)logo std110
LehendsSBENU Korealogo stdBPZlogo stdGriffin (Korean Team)logo std75
ViperGriffin (Korean Team)logo std30
ChovyGriffin (Korean Team)logo std4
NaehyunES Sharkslogo stdGriffin (Korean Team)logo std49
CitrusGriffin (Korean Team)logo std35
HOYAGriffin (Korean Team)logo std35
YusinGriffin (Korean Team)logo std35

Organization[]

Current[]

C ID Name Position
Shark Seo Kyung-jong (서경종) Owner
Cho Gyu-nam (조규남) Manager
TINO Kim Dong-woo (김동우) Leader
cvMax Kim Dae-ho (김대호) 80Head Coach
Chaos Byun Young-sub (변영섭) Coach

Former[]

C ID Name Position Next Team
Kang Dae-hee (강대희) Coach Asura (Korean Team)logo stdASURA
Build Son Beom-jin (손범진) 80Coach None

Tournament Results[]

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

Minimum place

Griffin Tournament Results - Show Prize as (LocalUSDEuros)
DatePlPrizeEventLast ResultRoster
2020-08-205₩4,000,000₩4,000,000₩4,000,000 CK 2020 Summer
5 - 9Blanklogo stdRR
 Hoya,  Citrus,  Naehyun,  Wayne,  Yusin,  Chaos,  Rather,  Chico
2020-04-29NQ LCK 2020 Summer Promotion
0 : 2SANDBOX Gaminglogo stdSB
 Sword,  Untara,  Tarzan,  Ucal,  Viper,  WADID,  Irove,  GBM,  Rather
2020-04-1610₩10,000,000₩10,000,000₩10,000,000 LCK 2020 Spring
5 - 13Blanklogo stdRR
 Sword,  Hoya,  Untara,  Tarzan,  Ucal,  Naehyun,  Viper,  Irove,  H Dragon,  GBM
2019-12-305 - 8₩8,000,000$ 6,867.25€ 6,152.36 KeSPA Cup 2019
0 : 2SANDBOX Gaminglogo stdSB
 Untara,  Tarzan,  Naehyun,  Viper,  Kabbie,  H Dragon,  GBM
2019-10-265 - 8$89,000$ 89,000€ 78,776.57 Worlds 2019
1 : 3Invictus Gaminglogo stdiG
 Sword,  Tarzan,  Chovy,  Viper,  Lehends,  Chaos
2019-08-312₩60,000,000$ 50,901.48€ 45,670.74 LCK 2019 Summer Playoffs
1 : 3SK Telecom T1logo stdSKT
 Doran,  Tarzan,  Chovy,  Viper,  Lehends,  cvMax,  Chaos
2019-08-181 LCK 2019 Summer
13 - 5Blanklogo stdRR
 Sword,  Doran,  Tarzan,  Chovy,  Viper,  Lehends,  cvMax,  Chaos
2019-07-071 Rift Rivals 2019 LCK-LPL-LMS-VCS
3 : 1LoL Pro Leaguelogo stdLPL
 Sword,  Tarzan,  Chovy,  Viper,  Lehends,  cvMax
2019-04-132₩60,000,000₩60,000,000₩60,000,000 LCK 2019 Spring Playoffs
0 : 3SK Telecom T1logo stdSKT
 Sword,  Tarzan,  Chovy,  Viper,  Lehends,  cvMax,  Chaos
2019-03-311 LCK 2019 Spring
15 - 3Blanklogo stdRR
 Sword,  Tarzan,  Chovy,  Viper,  Lehends,  cvMax,  Chaos
Total Prize: KRW 142,000,000USD 89,000

Articles & Videos[]

  • 2019
  • 2018

Interviews[]

Team's Content[]

Highlight Videos[]

Gallery[]

External Links[]

References[]