Team Secret

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Team Secret
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Location Turkey
Founded August 2014
Manager(s) Matthew "Cyborgmatt" Bailey, Kemal "I am Kemal" Sadikoglu, Clement "Puppey" Ivanov
Divisions Dota 2, Vainglory, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Street Fighter
Website http://teamsecret.gg/

Team Secret is a popular global eSports team that formed in 2014. Team Secret has placed itself as one of the top Dota 2 teams in the world after winning several major tournaments in 2015.

In March Team Secret picked up an international female Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team.[1] In April 2016, Team Secret expanded into the world of Street Fighter with Lee "Poongko" Chung-Gon as their first World Warrior, and also signed Otto "Silent Wolf" Bisno as a Super Smash Bros. Melee player.[2][3]

Dota 2

2014

BigDaddy and Fly were confirmed to leave Fnatic on July 27, 2014.[4] On August 3, 2014, S4 left Alliance. Some rumors of a new all-star team began to rise on reddit.

Na`Vi posted on their website they released Puppey and Kuroky.[5] On August 27, 2014, Team Secret debuted and showed their roster in a match against Alliance[6] Team Secret withdrew from Star Ladder in November 2014.[7]

2015

After a solid second place in Star-Ladder Series 10,[8] the team announce on their Twitter and the DAC site of the departure of Fly and BigDaddy, with Zai and Arteezy taking their place as stand-ins[9]

Team Secret got a third place in the Dota 2 Asia Championships[10] and decided to stick with their roster, going on to win 5 premier tournaments[11][12][13][14][15] The team was sent to the losers bracket by ViCi Gaming.[16]

Team Secret was widely considered to be the favorites to win The International 2015, but after a very disappointing 7-8th-place finish, the team announced that they would have some roster changes. Despite the overall success of the team for the year, members Arteezy and Kuroky were revealed to have clashed with one another and both players left the team. Arteezy went back to his previous team Evil Geniuses and Kuroky formed what would soon be the newest iteration of Team Liquid.[17] On August 15, the team announced that Zai would take the next year off and finish school.[18] As a result, s4 also decided to leave and rejoin his previous team Alliance[19]

For the Frankfurt Major, the team's new roster was announced and consisted of w33ha, Misery, pieliedie, and EternalEnvy[20][21]

2016

During the Shanghai Major, Team Secret went through the upper bracket beating previous Frankfurt Major winners: OG in a best of three of 2-1 in the first upper bracket round; they faced Evil Geniuses in the second upper bracket round and won 2-1. Team Secret then faced Team Liquid in the upper bracket finals in a best of 3, winning 2-0 and heading into the Major's Grand Final.[22]

On the March 6, Team Secret played against the recent lower bracket winners Team Liquid in the Grand Finals in a best of five match for $1.1 million USD. Team Secret won the match with a 3-1 score.[23]

On March 22, Team Secret announced that Artour "Arteezy" Babaev and Saahil "UNiVeRsE" Arora would be replacing w33 and MiSeRy.[24]

On June 6, after placing last at the Manila Major, Team Secret announced that BuLba would be replacing Saahil "UNiVeRsE" Arora.[25]

On August 27, the team announced a completely new roster, featuring Asian players.[26]

Roster

Dota 2

Nationality ID Name Position Join date
 South Korea MP Pyo No-a 1 2016-08-27
 Malaysia MidOne Yeik Nai Zheng 2 2016-08-27
 Germany Khezu Maurice Gutmann 3 2016-11-06
 Estonia Puppey Clement Ivanov 4 2014-08-27
 Sweden pieliedie Johan Åström 5 2015-08-22

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Nationality ID Name Join date
 Sweden juliano Julia Kiran 2016-03-17
 Sweden zAAz Zainab Turkie 2016-03-17
 Russia Ant1ka Anna Ananikova 2016-09-01
 Russia vilga Ksenia Kluenkova 2016-03-17
 Denmark mimimicheater Michaela Lintrup 2016-03-17
 Hungary nylon Nikolett Keszeli 2016-03-17

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Nationality ID Name Character(s) Join date
 United States Silent Wolf Otto Bisno Fox 2016-04-03

Fighting games

Nationality ID Name Game(s) Character(s) Join date
 South Korea Poongko Lee Chung-Gon Street Fighter V
Tekken 7		 Cammy
Akuma		 2016-04-11

Former

Dota 2

Nationality ID Name Position Join date Leave date
 Sweden Solitude Yousif Kutaiba Sub 2015-12-07 2016-06-??
 Russia distiled Nikolay Prokhorenko Sub 2015-12-07 2016-06-??
 Romania w33 Aliwi Omar 2 2015-08-22 2016-03-22
 Denmark MiSeRy Rasmus Berth Filipsen 3 2015-08-22 2016-03-22
 Sweden zai Ludwig Wåhlberg 3 2015-01-06 2015-08-30
 Sweden s4 Gustav Magnusson 1, 2 2014-08-27 2015-08-22
 Israel Fly Tal Aizik 3
 Germany KuroKy Kuro Salehi Takhasomi 4 2014-08-27 2015-08-22
 Denmark BigDaddy Johan Sundstein 4 2014-08-27 2015-01-01
 Israel Simbaaa Tal Aizik 3 2014-08-27 2014-12-16

Notable Achievements

Dota 2

Fighting games

DateTournamentGameCountryPlacementPlayer
2016EVO 2016Tekken 7: Fated RetributionUnited StatesChung-gon "Poongko" Lee
2016Japan Cup 2016Street Fighter VJapanChung-gon "Poongko" Lee
2016SoCal Regionals 2016Tekken 7: Fated RetributionUnited StatesChung-gon "Poongko" Lee

References

  1. ↑ Mira, Luis. "Team Secret recruit WRTP". HLTV. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Sadikoglu, Kemal. "Poongko joins Team Secret as their first Street Fighter player". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
  3. ↑ Sadikoglu, Kemal. "Silent Wolf joins Team Secret". Twitter. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Fnatic".
  5. ↑ "Natus Vincere parts with Puppey". Retrieved November 26, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Secret Reveal Their Members". Retrieved November 26, 2015.
  7. ↑ Wynne, Jared (Dec 28, 2014). "Team Secret joins list of Dota 2 withdrawals". The Daily Dot.
  8. ↑ "Star Ladder Season 10". Retrieved November 26, 2015.
  9. ↑ "DAC Official Site". Retrieved November 26, 2015.
  10. ↑ "最终结果 - 亚洲邀请赛 -《DOTA2》官方网站". dac.dota2.com.cn. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  11. ↑ "The Summit 3 Grand Final Recap: Team Secret defeat Evil Geniuses 3-1; win The Summit 3". theScore eSports. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  12. ↑ "Behind Team Secret's Win at Nanyang Championships". www.redbull.com. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  13. ↑ "MarsTV Dota 2 League all-Western podium: Team Secret take their third championship title – Dota Blast". Dota Blast. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  14. ↑ "Team Secret beat EG 3-1, win ESL One". www.gosugamers.net. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  15. ↑ "Team Secret defeat Evil Geniuses 3-1 to win MLG World Finals 2015". theScore eSports. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  16. ↑ Barker, Ian J. (February 6, 2015). "Team Secret's perfect run comes to an end". The Daily Dot.
  17. ↑ "Arteezy's comments on stream about Kuroky trigger heavy community debate". Retrieved November 26, 2015.
  18. ↑ "Team Secret Roster Changes". Retrieved November 26, 2015.
  19. ↑ "S4 joins Alliance". Retrieved November 26, 2015.
  20. ↑ "New Secret". Retrieved November 26, 2015.
  21. ↑ Cerrudo, Aileen (August 22, 2015). "Team Secret's New Lineup Announced". Philippine Daily Inquirer.
  22. ↑ "There and Back Again: Clement". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
  23. ↑ "Three teams remain in Dota 2 Shanghai Majors". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
  24. ↑ Kemal, Sadikoglu. "Arteezy and UNiVeRSe join Team Secret". Twitter. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  25. ↑ "THE ROAD TO THE INTERNATIONAL 2016". Team Secret. June 6, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  26. ↑ Hanson, Michael (August 27, 2016). "Team Secret announces new roster, including MP, MidOne, Forev". ESPN. Retrieved August 27, 2016.

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