Team Secret

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Team Secret
Team Secret logo.svg
GamesDota 2
Rainbow Six Siege
PUBG Mobile
League of Legends
League of Legends: Wild Rift
VALORANT
FoundedAugust 2014; 7 years ago (2014-08)
LocationEurope
Head coachLee "Heen" Seung-gon
ManagerCyborgmatt
John Yao
PartnersMetaThreads
NVIDIA
GG.Bet
Websitehttp://teamsecret.gg/

Team Secret is a global esports team formed in 2014, best known for their Dota 2 team.

In March 2016, 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] In July 2018 Team Secret entered into competitive Age of Empires 2 after acquiring key members from Team TyRanT.[4] In August 2018, Team Secret expanded into Rainbow Six Siege Pro League by signing Team IDK.[5]

History[]

2014[]

BigDaddy and Fly were confirmed to leave Fnatic on July 27, 2014.[6] On August 3, 2014, s4 left Alliance. Some rumors of a new all-star team began to rise on Reddit.[citation needed]

Na`Vi posted on their website they released Puppey and KuroKy.[7] On August 27, 2014, Team Secret debuted and showed their roster in a match against Alliance.[8]

2015[]

After a solid second place in Star-Ladder Series 10,[citation needed] the team announced 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 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]

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.[16] On August 15, the team announced that Zai would take the next year off and finish school.[17] As a result, s4 also decided to leave and rejoin his previous team Alliance.[18]

For the Frankfurt Major, the team's new roster was announced and consisted of EternalEnVy, w33, Misery, Puppey, and pieliedie.[19][20]

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.[21]

On March 6, Team Secret played against the recent lower bracket winners Team Liquid in the Grand Finals in a best of five match for US$1.1 million. Team Secret won the match with a 3–1 score.[22]

On March 22, Team Secret announced that Artour "Arteezy" Babaev and Saahil "Universe" Arora would be replacing w33 and MiSeRy.[23]

On June 6, after placing last at the Manila Major, Team Secret announced that Kanishka "BuLba" Sosale would be replacing Saahil "UNiVeRsE" Arora.[24]

On August 27, the team announced a completely new roster, featuring Asian players Pyo "MP" No-a, Yeik "MidOne" Nai Zheng and Lee "Forev" Sang-don in addition to the already established European support duo Johan "pieliedie" Åström and Clement "Puppey" Ivanov.[25]

On November 6, Forev's departure was announced. His replacement for the season would be German offlaner Maurice "KheZu" Gutmann.[26]

2017[]

After achieving no major tournament victories by May 2017, notably knocked out in the first round of the Kiev Major by tournament underdogs SG-esports, Team Secret replaced pieliedie with Yazied "YapzOr" Jaradat,[27] moving Puppey to the 5 position. While their results were somewhat improved, it did not make up for a lackluster season, leading to Team Secret not being directly invited to The International 2017. After making it through the European qualifiers, Team Secret was knocked out of The International 2017 by eventual champion Team Liquid in a tense 2–1 series, finishing in 9th-12th place. During the following roster shuffle, KheZu and MP were replaced by Marcus "Ace" Hoelgaard and Adrian "FATA-" Trinks in September 2017.[28] With the new roster and new season of Dota Pro Circuit 2017-2018, they went on to win DreamLeague Season 8.

2018[]

Despite the team achieved several minor tournament victories, they did not win any major tournament in 2018, placing 5th-6th in The International 2018. With the new season of Dota Pro Circuit 2018-2019, the team underwent another roster shuffle, with Ace and Fata leaving the team, replacing them would be Michał "Nisha" Jankowski and Ludwig "zai" Wåhlberg.[29]

2019[]

At the KL Major, Team Secret were hailed as one of the favorites. After topping their group easily, the team went on to tear through the Upper Bracket, only dropping one game to Virtus.pro in the Upper Bracket Finals. Unfortunately for Secret, VP took their revenge in the Grand Finals in a nail-biting five-game series, where Secret were able to take a 2–1 lead but were unable to secure a final victory to take home the Major Championship.

With the shuffle, the team achieved a couple major tournament wins, notably The Chongqing Major and MDL Disneyland Paris Major. Team Secret now have 14.400 points in the ranking of the professional season Dota 2 from Valve and occupy the very first place in it with Puppey being voted as the MDL MVP. They played 8 games on the last day MDL Disneyland Paris Major winning through the upper bracket and coming to win the finals in style. Zai was a major factor in making space with his Mars for Nisha and MidOne. Nisha had the most last hits at 35 min in the tournament. Team Secret would go on to win the finals in a very convincing manner with a results of 3–1 over Team Liquid.

Dota 2[]

Current roster[]

Team Secret roster
Players Coaches
Handle Name Nationality
Safe Lane  MATUMBAMAN  Urpalainen, Lasse   Finland 
Mid Lane  Nisha  Jankowski, Michał   Poland 
Off Lane  zai  Wåhlberg, Ludwig   Sweden 
Support / Roamer  YapzOr  Jaradat, Yazied   Jordan 
Support  Puppey (C)  Ivanov, Clement   Estonia 
Head coach
  • Lee "Heen" Seung-gon
Legend
  • (I) Inactive
  • (S) Suspended
  • (C) Team captain
  • Substitute player Substitute
  • Injured Injury / Illness

Latest roster transaction: 4 November 2019.

Notable team achievements[]

2014

  • 3rd — ESL One New York 2014
  • 2nd — StarLadder StarSeries Season 10
  • 3rd — The Summit 2
  • 1st — XMG Captains Draft 2.0
  • 1st — Dota Pit League Season 2

2015

  • 3rd — Dota 2 Asia Championships 2015
  • 1st — Red Bull Battle Grounds: Dota 2
  • 1st — Summit 3
  • 1st — MarsTV Dota 2 League 2015 Spring
  • 1st — ESL One Frankfurt 2015
  • 7th — The International 2015a
  • 2nd — ESL One New York 2015
  • 1st — MLG World Finals
  • 1st — Nanyang Dota 2 Championships
  • 2nd — Frankfurt Majorb

2016

2017

  • 9th — Kiev Majorb
  • 3rd — EPICENTER 2017
  • 2nd — DOTA Summit 7
  • 3rd — DreamLeague Season 7
  • 9th — The International 2017a
  • 3rd — StarLadder i-League Invitational Season 3
  • 2nd — ESL One Hamburg 2017
  • 1st — DreamLeague Season 8

2018

  • 1st — Captains Draft 4.0
  • 3rd — ESL One Genting 2018
  • 5th — ESL One Katowice 2018
  • 5th — Bucharest Majorb
  • 1st — DreamLeague Season 9
  • 9th — Dota 2 Asia Championships 2018b
  • 7th — EPICENTER XLb
  • 5th — MDL Changsha Majorb
  • 4th — China Dota2 Supermajorb
  • 5th — The International 2018a
  • 1st — PVP Esports Championship
  • 1st — ESL One Hamburg 2018
  • 2nd — The Kuala Lumpur Majorb

2019

  • 4th — MegaFon Winter Clash
  • 1st — The Chongqing Majorb
  • 1st — ESL One Katowice 2019
  • 4th — DreamLeague Season 11b
  • 1st — MDL Disneyland® Paris Majorb
  • 1st — ESL One Birmingham 2019
  • 4th — The International 2019a

2020

  • 1st — DreamLeague Season 13b

a: Hosted by Valve
b: Dota Pro Circuit

Rainbow Six Siege[]

History[]

Shortly before the Six Major Paris 2018, Team Secret signed Team IDK.[5] The original roster consisted of Bryan "Elemzje" Tebessi, Ryan "Lacky" Stapley, Leon "LeonGids" Giddens, Matthew "meepeY" Sharples, David "sTiZze" de Castro and Louis "Helbee" Bureau as coach. At the Paris Major, Team Secret placed 3-4th after besting OrgLess, FaZe Clan, Team Vitality, and losing to G2 Esports, the eventual champions and received $25,000.[30]

On February 17, 2020, Joonas "jNSzki" Savolainen came out of retirement after leaving G2 and later the Mousesports/GiFu roster to replace Elemzje.[31]

On May 5, the team disbanded[32]

On May 13, Team Secret signed Team OrgLess after they qualified for the European League, ahead of their debut.[33]

Current roster[]

Team Secret roster
Players Coaches
Handle Name Nationality
Hife  Finkenwirth, Vincent   Germany 
SlebbeN  Nordlund, Alex   Finland 
Gomfi  de Meulenaere, Santino   Belgium 
Keenan  Dunne, Keenan   Ireland 
pacbull (C)  Bull, Peter   United Kingdom 
Head coach
  • William "Titan" Davie
Legend
  • (I) Inactive
  • (S) Suspended
  • (C) Team captain
  • Substitute player Substitute
  • Injured Injury / Illness

Latest roster transaction: 6 June 2021.

Rosters[]

Super Smash Bros. Melee[]

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

PUBG Mobile[]

Recently, Team Secret recruited a Malaysian Team Genexsus who won their respective PMCO Malaysia Finals before going to Shanghai for PMCO SEA League. The team now advanced to PMCO SEA Grand Finals in Jakarta and won 4th place which qualifies them for the Preliminaries Round for PMCO Global Finals in Berlin in July 2019 where they finished in the 11th place out of 15 teams that joined. They were also the first Malaysian team to represent Malaysia in the global tournament . As of June 2020, Team Secret recruited 3 new players as well as a coach for their team. Those players are Thai player Madtoi from ILMN The Murder, Malaysian uHigh and Rex, and their new Coach, Jangs.[34]

ID Role Date Joined Nationality
OnTheGo Manager 2019 Malaysia
BiuBiu Captain 29 April 2019 Malaysia
Ishotz Sniper 21 January 2020 Malaysia
Madtoi Sniper/Support 21 January 2020 Thailand
uHigh Fragger 6 February 2020 Malaysia
Rex Fragger/Support 5 July 2020 Malaysia
JangSs Coach 3 June 2020 Malaysia

Fighting games[]

Date Tournament Game Country Placement Player
2016 EVO 2016 Tekken 7: Fated Retribution United States 3rd Chung-gon "Poongko" Lee
Japan Cup 2016 Street Fighter V Japan 2nd Chung-gon "Poongko" Lee
SoCal Regionals 2016 Tekken 7: Fated Retribution United States 1st Chung-gon "Poongko" Lee

Counter Strike: Global Offensive[]

On November 25, Team Secret acquired team m1x, who took to fight Astralis and Ninjas In Pyjamas and defeated Mouseports when trying to qualify for ECS

ID Name Role
Kosovo juanflatroo Flatron Halimi Entry
Poland tudsoN Filip Tudev Support
Denmark PERCY Martin Wessel IGL
Kosovo sinnopsyy Dionis Budeci Rot
Israel anarkez Guy Trachtman In Game Leader

[35]

Wild Rift[]

ID Name Role
Philippines Azar Eleazar Salle Baron
Philippines Trebor Robert Mansilungan Jungle
Philippines Core Morris Raymundo Mid
Philippines Tatsurii Heri Garcia Mid
Philippines Chewy Caster Dela Cruz Dragon
Philippines Hamezz James Santos Support

[36]

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