Pobelter

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Pobelter
Pobelter at the NA LCS Summer 2016 playoffs.jpg
Park in 2016
Personal information
NameEugene Park
Nickname(s)The Notorious P.O.B. [1]
NationalityAmerican
Career information
Games League of Legends
RoleMid Laner
Team history
2011–2012 Team Curse
2013 Curse Academy
2013Team Curse
2014 Evil Geniuses
2015 Winterfox
2015 Counter Logic Gaming
2016–2017 Immortals
2018 Team Liquid
2019 FlyQuest
2020–2021 Counter Logic Gaming
Career highlights and awards
  • 3× LCS champion

Eugene Park, better known as Pobelter, is an American retired League of Legends player who was formerly the mid laner for Counter Logic Gaming. [2] He is a three-time champion of the LCS [3] and has made four major international appearances.

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Early life

Pobelter has an older sister. [4] He attended Troy High School in Fullerton, California. He tested into the school as he was an out-of-district student, and studied computer science in the Troy Tech magnet program. Pobelter initially played League of Legends as a hobby during high school. [5]

Career

Pobelter played on Team Curse, and eventually moved to Winterfox, a team largely perceived as being built around him. After Winterfox's loss in the relegation tournament after the Spring 2015 season, Pobelter abandoned the team and moved to Counter Logic Gaming, which proceeded to win the Summer 2015 Split. CLG then elected to play Huhi as their mid laner, prompting Pobelter to move to Immortals, which had highly successful regular seasons in 2016 but strangely failed in playoffs, losing 0–3 to TSM in the semifinals of the NA LCS Spring Split playoffs in April, and losing 2–3 to Cloud9 in the summer seminals. [6] They finished third in the 2016 Spring NA LCS, beating Team Liquid 3–0 in the third-place decider match. [7] After Immortals were removed from the LCS in the 2018 season, Pobelter joined the successful Team Liquid. In 2019, Team Liquid replaced Pobelter with Jensen, and Pobelter went to Flyquest. [8] Flyquest was reasonably successful in 2019 Spring, finishing fourth, but placed ninth in the Summer split. Flyquest announced that they had hired Tristan "PowerOfEvil" Schrage as their midlaner for 2020; Pobelter wrote in November 2019 that he had not been picked up by any team for a starting position in 2020. [9] Unable to find a position, Pobelter coached for Team Liquid during the first half of the 2020 Spring Split, but eventually returned to Counter Logic Gaming's as their midlaner. [10] [11] On August 5, 2020, he was optioned to CLG's academy team. [12]

Tournament results

Career Tournament Results
DateEventPlacingTeamRecordOpponent
August 3–5, 2012 2012 MLG Summer Championship Med 3.png 3rd Team Curse 1-2Azubu Blaze, Team SoloMid, and Team BLACK
March 15–17, 2013 2013 MLG Winter Championship 3rd-4thCurse Academy0-2Velocity eSports
June 29, 2013 2013 MLG Spring Championship 3rd-4thCurse Academy1-2FXOpen e-Sports
January 24–March 29, 2015 2015 NA LCS Spring Regular Season8thWinterfox7-11N/A
May 30–July 26, 2015 2015 NA LCS Summer Regular Season Med 2.png 2nd Counter Logic Gaming 13-5N/A
August 23, 2015 2015 NA LCS Summer Playoffs Med 1.png 1stCounter Logic Gaming3-0 Team SoloMid
January 16–March 20, 2016 2016 NA LCS Spring Regular Season Med 1.png 1st Immortals 17-1N/A
April 10, 2016 2016 NA LCS Spring Playoffs Med 3.png 3rdImmortals3-0 Team Liquid
June 3–July 31, 2016 2016 NA LCS Summer Regular Season Med 2.png 2ndImmortals16-2N/A
August 27, 2016 2016 NA LCS Summer Playoffs Med 3.png 3rdImmortals3-2Counter Logic Gaming
January 20–March 26, 20172017 NA LCS Spring Regular Season7thImmortals8-10N/A
June 2–August 6, 20172017 NA LCS Summer Regular Season Med 2.png 2ndImmortals14-4N/A
September 3, 20172017 NA LCS Summer Playoffs Med 2.png 2ndImmortals1-3Team SoloMid
October 5–15, 2017 2017 League of Legends World Championship Group Stage9th-12thImmortals2-5Longzhu Gaming, Fnatic, and GIGABYTE Marines
January 20–March 18, 20182018 NA LCS Spring Regular Season4th Team Liquid 12-8N/A
April 8, 2018 2018 NA LCS Spring Playoffs Med 1.png 1stTeam Liquid3-0 100 Thieves

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References

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  2. ↑ Ousley, Parkes (February 19, 2020). "League of Legends: Pobelter to start mid for CLG, replacing Crown". Inven Global. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
  3. ↑ Byers, Preston (November 25, 2019). "Pobelter won't play in LCS Spring Split, but he won't retire either". Dotesports.com. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ Eugene "Pobelter" Park (subject) (August 11, 2015). DRIVE: The Pobelter Story #LCSDRIVE. LoL Esports. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Behind the ID: Eugene 'Pobelter' Park". ESPN.com. July 6, 2016. Retrieved November 25, 2021.
  6. ↑ Erzberger, Tyler (April 11, 2016). "Bjergsen: TSM trusted each other and took down Immortals". ESPN . Retrieved April 14, 2016.
  7. ↑ Rosen, Daniel (April 16, 2016). "Immortals sweep Team Liquid 3-0, secure third place in 2016 NA LCS Spring Playoffs". theScore esports. theScore Inc. Archived from the original on April 26, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
  8. ↑ Goslin, Austen (December 4, 2018). "Pobelter moves to FlyQuest after one season with Team Liquid". Riftherald.com. Retrieved November 25, 2021.
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  10. ↑ Esguerra, Tyler (December 12, 2019). "Pobelter joins Team Liquid as new positional coach". Dot Esports. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
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  12. ↑ Heath, Jerome (August 5, 2020). "Pobelter benched for week 9 of 2020 LCS Summer Split, IWD says". DOT Esports. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
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