Flamengo Esports

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Flamengo Esports
Flamengo Esports logo.png
Short nameFLA
Games
Founded6 October 2017 (2017-10-06)
Location Brazil
Championships1× CBLoL (2019 Split 2)
Parent group Clube de Regatas do Flamengo

Flamengo Esports is the esports department of traditional sports club Flamengo. [1] It had a League of Legends team competing in the Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends (CBLoL), Brazil's top professional league for the game. [2]

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League of Legends

History

On 6 October 2017 Flamengo announced the creation if its esports department and its acquisition of the BRCC (Brazilian equivalent of North America and Europe's former challenger series) spot of Merciless Gaming. [1] For its inaugural roster, Flamengo signed top laner Park "Jisu" Jin-cheol, [3] jungler Thúlio "Sirt" Carlos, [4] mid laner Danniel "Evrot" Franco, [5] bot laner Felipe "brTT" Gonçalves, and support Eidi "esA" Yanagimachi. [6] The team debuted in BRCC 2018 Split 1 and finished as runner-ups, qualifying for the BRCC 2018 Split 2 promotion tournament. Flamengo qualified for the CBLoL after defeating Team oNe eSports 3–2 in the "access series" match. [7]

Flamengo finished as runner-ups in the team's first CBLoL appearance, in both the regular season and playoffs after losing 2–3 to KaBuM! e-Sports in the finals. In preparation for the 2019 CBLoL season, Flamengo replaced its entire roster excluding brTT, signing top laner Leonardo "Robo" Souza, [8] jungler Lee "Shrimp" Byeong-hoon, mid laner Bruno "Goku" Miyaguchi, [9] and support Han "Luci" Chang-hoon. [10] The team dominated the regular season of Split 1, losing only a single game to KaBuM. [7] However, in playoffs Flamengo once again fell short, losing to INTZ e-Sports 2–3 in the finals. [7] After placing first once again in the regular season of Split 2, Flamengo managed to defeat INTZ 3–2 to finally win their first CBLoL title. [7] This also qualified the team for play-in stage [11] of the 2019 World Championship. [2] [12]

For the 2019 World Championship play-in stage round robin, Flamengo was placed in Group D, along with South Korean team DAMWON Gaming and Turkish team Royal Youth. [13] Despite a good showing against DAMWON Gaming [14] and Royal Youth in the first round robin (the latter of which Flamengo defeated), [15] Flamengo faltered in the second, losing to both teams [16] [17] and tying Royal Youth for second in Group D. After losing the tiebreaker match to Royal Youth, Flamengo was eliminated from the tournament. [18]

Tournament results

PlacementEventFinal result (W–L)
Qualified

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Tibúrcio, Matheus (6 October 2017). "Focando no LoL, Flamengo anuncia seletiva e apresenta planos nos e-sports". Sportv (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Meet the League of Legends World Championship qualifiers — Part II". ESPN. 7 September 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "Para matar a ansiedade da Nação, temos o orgulho de anunciar Jincheol "Jisu" Park como nosso novo top laner! ..." Facebook (in Brazilian Portuguese). Flamengo eSports via Facebook. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  4. ↑ "Voltando direto dos Estados Unidos, SirT chegou ao Brasil gankando aqui na Gávea! ..." Facebook (in Brazilian Portuguese). Flamengo eSports via Facebook. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  5. ↑ "Reconhecido pela sua rápida evolução e talento explosivo, temos o orgulho de anunciar, Danniel "Evrot" Franco! ..." Facebook (in Brazilian Portuguese). Flamengo eSports via Facebook. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  6. ↑ "Deem as boas vindas ao nosso Suporte! Eidi esa Yanagimachi! ..." Facebook (in Brazilian Portuguese). Flamengo eSports via Facebook. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Baker, Thomas (30 September 2019). "2019 Play-In Profile: Flamengo Esports (FLA)". The Game Haus. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  8. ↑ @flaesports (21 November 2018). "Boa tarde, Nação! Continuando o ciclo de contratações para 2019, oficializamos a chegada do Leonardo "Robo" Souza como Top Laner do Mais Querido! ..." (Tweet). Retrieved 1 October 2019– via Twitter.
  9. ↑ @flaesports (22 May 2018). "Tem anúncio de Mid também, Nação! O @gokucplol é o novo reforço do Mengão e chegou pra completar nosso time de craques. Seja bem-vindo! Vamos juntos em busca do título!" (Tweet). Retrieved 1 October 2019– via Twitter.
  10. ↑ @flaesports (27 November 2018). "Fala, Nação! Apresentamos oficialmente Han "Luci" Chang-hoon como o nosso novo suporte. ..." (Tweet). Retrieved 1 October 2019– via Twitter.
  11. ↑ Li, Xing (30 September 2019). "Who will make it out of the Worlds 2019 play-in stage?". Dot Esports. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  12. ↑ "2019 League of Legends World Championship team power rankings". ESPN. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  13. ↑ Goslin, Austen (23 September 2019). "2019 League of Legends World Championship Group Stage draw show results". The Rift Herald. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  14. ↑ Esguerra, Tyler (3 October 2019). "DAMWON Gaming vs. Flamengo Esports had 957,000 peak viewers at Worlds 2019". Dot Esports. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  15. ↑ Ashton, Graham (4 October 2019). "Play-In Profile: Flamengo eSports Brings Brazil's Soccer Passion to Berlin". The Esports Observer. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  16. ↑ Endres, Elena (5 October 2019). "DAMWON Gaming breeze through play-ins undefeated". Dot Esports. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  17. ↑ "Damwon Gaming cruise to play-ins bracket at League of Legends World Championships". ESPN. 5 October 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  18. ↑ Li, Xing (5 October 2019). "Royal Youth beat Flamengo in tiebreaker to qualify for the Worlds 2019 play-in knockouts". Dot Esports. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
INTZ e-Sports
 CBLoL winner
2019 Split 2
With: Robo, Shrimp, Goku, brTT, Luci 		Succeeded by
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