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Red Bulls
Red Bulls League of Legends Logo 2017.png
Short nameRB
GameLeague of Legends
Founded19 May 2017 (2017-05-19)
FoldedJanuary 2018 (2018-01)
LeagueEuropean League of Legends Challenger Series
LocationEurope
Head coachOliver "IzpAH" Steer
General managerGábor "The Minimalist" Fenyvesi
Main sponsorRed Bull
Websitewww.redbulls-lol.gg[dead link]

The Red Bulls were a professional League of Legends esports team created by Red Bull, which competed in the European League of Legends Challenger Series (EU CS), the second highest level of professional League of Legends in Europe.[1]

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League of Legends

League of Legends

League of Legends (LoL), commonly referred to as League, is a 2009 multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by Defense of the Ancients, a custom map for Warcraft III, Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre. Since its release in October 2009, League has been free-to-play and is monetized through purchasable character customization. The game is available for Microsoft Windows and macOS.

Esports

Esports

Esports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams. Although organized competitions have long been a part of video game culture, these were largely between amateurs until the late 2000s, when participation by professional gamers and spectatorship in these events through live streaming saw a large surge in popularity. By the 2010s, esports was a significant factor in the video game industry, with many game developers actively designing and providing funding for tournaments and other events.

Red Bull

Red Bull

Red Bull is a brand of energy drinks created and owned by the Austrian company Red Bull GmbH. With a market share of 38%, it is the most popular energy drink brand as of 2019, and the third most valuable soft drink brand behind Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Since its launch in 1987, more than 100 billion cans of Red Bull have been sold worldwide, including over 11.5 billion in 2022.

History

On 19 May 2017, Red Bull announced the creation of a professional League of Legends team named "Red Bulls".[2] The team is set to play in the European League of Legends Challenger Series, officially organized by developer Riot Games as the second-highest level of professional League of Legends competition in Europe, with the European League of Legends Championship Series being the highest level.[3] Red Bull announced former Fnatic League of Legends team manager Oliver "IzpAH" Steer as the head coach of the team, Gábor "The Minimalist" Fenyvesi as the general manager, and Raymond "kaSing" Tsang as the team captain.[4]

After having a 12–1 record in the 2017 Summer European Open Qualifiers and 7–1 in the 2017 Summer European Qualifiers, the Red Bulls qualified for the 2017 Summer European League of Legends Challenger Series, where they played against FC Schalke 04, Paris Saint-Germain, Giants Gaming, Origen, and Wind and Rain.[5][6] The Red Bulls failed to qualify for the EU LCS promotion tournament after losing 1–3 to FC Schalke 04 in playoffs. The team disbanded shortly after.

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Red Bull

Red Bull

Red Bull is a brand of energy drinks created and owned by the Austrian company Red Bull GmbH. With a market share of 38%, it is the most popular energy drink brand as of 2019, and the third most valuable soft drink brand behind Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Since its launch in 1987, more than 100 billion cans of Red Bull have been sold worldwide, including over 11.5 billion in 2022.

Riot Games

Riot Games

Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher and esports tournament organizer based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in September 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill to develop League of Legends and went on to develop several spin-off games and the unrelated first-person shooter game Valorant. In 2011, Riot Games was acquired by Chinese conglomerate Tencent. Riot Games' publishing arm, Riot Forge, oversees the production of League of Legends spin-offs by other developers. The company worked with Fortiche to release Arcane, a television series based on the League of Legends universe.

Fnatic

Fnatic

Fnatic is a professional esports organisation headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Founded on 23 July 2004, the team has players from around the world, across a variety of games, such as Apex Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, FIFA, Heroes of the Storm, League of Legends, Valorant, and Rainbow Six Siege.

KaSing

KaSing

Raymond Ka-Sing Tsang, better known by his in-game name kaSing, is a British-Hong Kong professional League of Legends player who as of June 2020 plays as the support for Excel Esports' academy team, BT Excel.

PSG Esports

PSG Esports

PSG Esports is a French professional esports organisation founded in 2016. Based in Paris, it is the esports department of the parent club Paris Saint-Germain F.C. The organisation has active divisions in FIFA, League of Legends, Dota 2 (PSG.LGD), FIFA Online, Brawl Stars, and Arena of Valor. It also had teams in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (PSG.RRQ) and Rocket League. Since December 2020, the club has an online youth system in France and around the world called the Paris Saint-Germain Academy Esports.

Giants Gaming

Giants Gaming

Giants Gaming, commonly referred to simply as Giants, is a Spanish professional esports organisation that has teams competing in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends, Call of Duty, FIFA, Fortnite, and Rainbow Six Siege. The League of Legends (LoL) team competes in the European League of Legends Championship Series. The organisation has two Rainbow Six Siege teams, a Singaporean team competing Southeast Asian Pro League and a Spanish team competing in the Spanish Nationals. Giants Gaming was founded in 2008 in Málaga, Spain.

Origen (esports)

Origen (esports)

Origen was a professional esports organisation based in Europe. Its main League of Legends team participated in the League of Legends European Championship (LEC), the top-level league for the game in Europe. It was founded by Enrique "xPeke" Cedeño Martínez after his departure from Fnatic.

Former roster

Nat. ID Name Role Next team
South Korea Thal Park Kwon-hyuk Top SK Telecom T1
South Korea MooJin Kim Moo-jin Jungle Flash Wolves
Sweden MagiFelix Felix Boström Mid Movistar Riders
Germany Sedrion Tarik Holz Bot EURONICS Gaming
United Kingdom kaSing Raymond Tsang Support Splyce

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South Korea

South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and shares a land border with North Korea. The country's western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. South Korea claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands. It has a population of 51.75 million, of which roughly half live in the Seoul Capital Area, the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the world. Other major cities include Incheon, Busan, and Daegu.

Flash Wolves

Flash Wolves

The Flash Wolves are a Taiwanese esports organization with players competing in Arena of Valor, Hearthstone, and League of Legends: Wild Rift. They formerly had teams competing in League of Legends, Overwatch, Special Force II, StarCraft II, and World of Tanks.

Sweden

Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge–tunnel across the Öresund. At 447,425 square kilometres (172,752 sq mi), Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of 25.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (66/sq mi), with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas, which cover 1.5% of the entire land area, in the central and southern half of the country.

Germany

Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of 357,022 square kilometres (137,847 sq mi), with a population of around 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr.

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is 242,495 square kilometres (93,628 sq mi), with an estimated 2020 population of 67 million people.

KaSing

KaSing

Raymond Ka-Sing Tsang, better known by his in-game name kaSing, is a British-Hong Kong professional League of Legends player who as of June 2020 plays as the support for Excel Esports' academy team, BT Excel.

Splyce

Splyce

Splyce (SPY) was a professional esports organization and media company based in Rochester, New York. Their League of Legends team was a franchise member of the LEC, Europe's top professional league for League of Legends. Splyce announced its rebranding from Follow eSports in November 2015. On November 29, 2019, Splyce's parent company, OverActive Media, announced it had merged Splyce with its other esports subsidiary, MAD Lions, and that all of Splyce's teams would henceforth compete under that name.

Tournament results

Placement Event Final result (W–L)
Qualified 2017 EUCS Summer Qualifiers Open Qualifier 2–0 (against Team Singularity)
Qualified 2017 EUCS Summer Qualifiers 3–0 (against Team LDLC)
3rd 2017 EUCS Summer Split 2–2–1
Did not qualify 2017 EUCS Summer Playoffs 1–3 (against FC Schalke 04)

Source: "Red Bulls (esports)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, September 28th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bulls_(esports).

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References
  1. ^ Streitberger, Thomas (May 23, 2017). "Red Bull mit eigenem LoL-Team". Laola1. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  2. ^ Robichaud, Andrew (May 19, 2017). "Red Bull announces League of Legends team". TSN. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  3. ^ Ring, Oliver (May 22, 2017). "Red Bull pick up League of Legends team to compete in CS Qualifiers". Esports Insider. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  4. ^ "A new Challenger Comes: Welcome Red Bulls". Red Bull. May 19, 2017. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  5. ^ Sacco, Dom (May 29, 2017). "RED BULLS AND WAR QUALIFY FOR EU LEAGUE OF LEGENDS CHALLENGER SERIES". eSports News UK. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  6. ^ Newell, Adam (May 19, 2017). "Red Bull has a new League of Legends team". Dot Esports. Archived from the original on 2017-07-19. Retrieved 2017-05-29.

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