Team Curse

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Team Information
Location:	North America
Managers:	Steve "LiQuiD112" Arhancet
Team Captain:	Brandon "Saintvicious" DiMarco
Website:	http://www.teamcurse.net/
Sponsor:	TeamSpeak CM Storm Alienware Full Sail University GrubHub
Youtube:	CurseNetwork
Facebook:	Curse Gaming
Twitter:	TeamCurseGaming
Number of Players:	8
History
Created:	2011-08-28 LoL Division
Player Trades:	2012-12-16 Westrice leaves
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Team Curse is a North American League of Legends team sponsored by Curse, Inc., an online game portal and network of gaming sites. The roster was first formed by LiQuiD112 in 2010, when the team was originally named Team XXX. The team first received a sponsorship from unRestricted eSports. After qualifying for MLG Raleigh in August 2011, they obtained a sponsorship with Curse, and renamed to Curse Gaming.

In February 2012, they held their first major tournament The LoLPro.com Curse Invitational which coincided with the launch of their League of Legends website, lolpro.com.

History

Acquisition of unRestricted Roster

On August 25, 2011, the former unRestricted roster was picked up by Team Curse. Team Curse was Curse.com's first foray into the eSports scene. The initial roster of the team included LiQuiD112, DontMashMe, Doublelift, SYDTKO, Pobelter, Lapaka, Nyjacky, and Jsura.

Season 1

Team Curse attended their first event at 2011 MLG Raleigh, where the team took 4th, after losing three series. The team lost the best of three series against Counter Logic Gaming 1-2, Epik Gamer 1-2, and Team SoloMid 0-2, but obtained 40 Circuit Points from the event. This placed Team Curse in 4th in the NA Circuit Rankings behind the other three teams at the event.

Pre-Season 2

During Pre-Season 2, Curse reached the finals of the CSN Dawn of Champions Cup 2011 where they fell to Team WE 2-0, placing them second overall. Half a month later, Curse attended their second North American LAN, IGN Proleague Season 3 - Atlantic City, where they gained a 5th-8th placing after falling to Dignitas in the first round. Attending their first international event, Curse was one of the American invitees to IEM Season VI - Global Challenge New York where they gained a 5th-6th placing, going 1-2 in the group stage by defeating v8 Esports while falling to SK Gaming and Sypher. Curse's jungler Lapaka later decided to leave the team, stating his reasons as internal conflicts with one of the team members.

Season 2

With the arrival of Season 2 came changes to the Curse roster, with DontMashMe leaving due to irreconcilable differences with the management and direction of Curse, and Doublelift leaving in order to pursue a career with Counter Logic Gaming Prime as their new AD carry. Despite the departure of some of their key players, Curse was still able to play in the National ESL Premier League Season 2, placing second behind Counter Logic Gaming.

After being benched on Counter Logic Gaming Prime, support player Elementz joined Curse on December 19th. The next two major tournaments that Curse would attend were IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev and IEM Season VI - World Championship on January 22nd and March 10th, respectively, where they were able to place 5th-6th place in both events.

Around mid May, long time League of Legends player and theorycrafter Thomas "SYDTKO" Oh retired from competitive League of Legends. In the same month, a three team shuffle occurred between Curse, Dignitas, and Counter Logic Gaming Prime. As Curse's jungler Crumbzz was unable to move into the gaming house due to school commitments, Curse picked up Counter Logic Gaming Prime's jungler Saintvicious, who chose to leave his old team rather than lead CLG's second team, Counter Logic Gaming Black.

On June 8th, Curse picked up Westrice as their top laner, as Pobelter was too young to move to a gaming house. Curse's first competitive matches with Westrice as their top laner were at the MLG 2012 - Spring Championship, where the newly reformed team was able to place 7th/8th. On August 26th, Curse won the 2012 MLG Pro Circuit/Summer/Championship, beating Dignitas in the best of 5 finals 3-2. However, both teams were disqualified by MLG and Riot for violating MLG's Official Pro Circuit Conduct Rules: "competitors may not intentionally Forfeit a Game or conspire to manipulate Rankings or Brackets." No prize money or circuit points were awarded to either teams.

On August 20th, Curse would compete in the North American Regional Season 2 World Championship Qualifier, but failed to qualify, placing 4th, losing to Counter Logic Gaming in the 3rd place match.

Pre-Season 3

Following the conclusion of Season 2, on October 19th, 2012, Curse hosted an Extra Life League of Legends charity stream marathon supporting the Seattle Children's Hospital.

Team Curse would pick up gold in two minor tournaments in Solo Mid Series Week 4 and Solo Mid Series Week 5. Elementz would not play in these two tournaments, instead the winner of the Curse 1v1 tournament Rhux would tryout for the support position. On November 21st, LiQuiD112 announced on The Morning Liquid show that they would be benching Elementz in favor of Rhux. He cited that it would give them a "better opportunity" at the upcoming IPL 5 event.

Curse would compete in the IPL 5 tournament in Las Vegas on the 29th of November. They would take third in the group stages, suffering defeat twice at the hands of Moscow 5, but managing to win against Blackbean from Thailand. Being knocked to the losers bracket, Curse would sweep the series against Team Dynamic, and then be forced to fight against their sister team Curse EU. They would manage to eliminate Curse EU from the tournament 2-1 to advance against Taipei Assassins. The Taiwanese team would defeat them 2-0, ending their tournament run. Team Curse placed 7th-8th at the event and took home $1,750 in winnings.

Season 3

Curse started off the Spring Season of the NA LCS strong. They didn't drop a single game, up until week 4, when they lost their first game to Dignitas. Despite that loss, and having a rough rest of the season, Curse still finished 2nd, securing their spot in the Spring Playoffs along with securing their spot in the Summer Season of the NA LCS. Despite having a roster change right before the Playoffs, Curse went on to place 4th in the Spring Playoffs.

Timeline

2011

• August 25th, Team Curse signs former unRestricted roster. LiQuiD112, DontMashMe, Doublelift, SYDTKO, Pobelter, Lapaka, Nyjacky, and Jsura join.

To read about unRestricted history (Early 2011 - August 2011), click here.

• October 19th, Lapaka and Jsura are released while Crumbzz joins.
• November 24th, Doublelift leaves.
• November 26th, DontMashMe leaves.
• December 19th, Elementz joins. LiQuiD112 steps down to a managing role.
• December 20th, Cop joins.

2012

• January 19th, TeamSpeak sponsors Team Curse.
• Mid May, SYDTKO leaves.
• May 19th, Saintvicious replaces Crumbzz.
• June 8th, Westrice replaces Pobelter.
• August 12th, 2nd place at IPL Face Off: San Francisco Showdown.
• September 2nd, 4th place at Season 2 - Regional Finals Seattle
• September 28th, Salce joins.
• October 20th, Rhux joins.
• November 1st, Voyboy joins. Salce leaves.
• November 21st, Rhux becomes starting support. Elementz becomes sub.
• December 6th, Elementz becomes starting support. Rhux becomes sub.
• December 15th, Westrice leaves.

2013

• February, Hai joins.
• February 10th, CM Storm sponsors Team Curse.
• March 20th, Alienware sponsors Team Curse.
• April 7th, Swain Gretzky joins.
• April, OneBadBrad joins.
• April 20th, Elementz becomes a sub and Rhux becomes starting support.
• May 11th, Hai leaves.
• June 7th, Edward joins.

Player Roster

Active

	ID	Name	Role
	Voyboy	Joe Esfahani	Top
	Saintvicious	Brandon DiMarco	Jungle
	Nyjacky	Jacky Wang	Mid
	Cop	David Roberson	AD
	Edward	Edward Abgaryan	Support
	Rhux	Keenan Santos	Sub
	Swain Gretzky	Aaron Bean	Sub
	OneBadBrad	Brad Watson	Sub

Former

	ID	Name	Role	Next Team
	Hai	Hai Lam	Sub	Quantic Gaming
	Elementz	Cody Sigfusson	Support/Sub	Team Coast
	Westrice	Jonathan Nguyen	Top/Sub	Epik Gamer
	Salce	Trevor Salce	Top/Sub	Epik Gamer
	Pobelter	Eugene Park	Top/Sub	Meat Playground
	Crumbzz	Alberto Rengifo	Jungle	Team Dignitas
	SYDTKO	Thomas Oh	Top	Retired
	DontMashMe	Brandon Phan	AD	compLexity Gaming
	Doublelift	Peter Peng	AD	Counter Logic Gaming
	Lapaka	Luis Perez	Jungle	Absolute Legends North America
	Jsura		Jungle	None

Temporary Subs

	ID	Name	Role	Replacing	Tournament
	Pobelter	Eugene Park	Top	Westrice	MLG Summer Arena
	GibPfötchen	Peter Gaida	Top	SYDTKO	IEM Season VI - World Championship
	Only Jaximus	Phillip Carter	Top	Pobelter	IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev
	Flashy	Yurii Shilenkov	AP	Nyjacky	IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev

Organization

	ID	Name	Position
	LiQuiD112	Steve Arhancet	Manager

Team Achievements

In Premier Tournaments
Date		Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2013-04-28		A44th	LCS North America Season 3 Spring Playoffs	1 : 2	Team Vulcun	$ 10,000
2013-03-16		A43 - 4th	2013 MLG Winter Championship International	0 : 2	KT Rolster B
2013-01-18		A77 - 8th	IEM Season VII - Global Challenge Katowice	1 : 2	Group Stage (W/L)	$ 2,500
2012-12-01		A77 - 8th	IGN ProLeague 5	0 : 2	Taipei Assassins	$ 1,750
2012-11-03		A77 - 8th	2012 MLG Fall Championship	0 : 2	CLG Prime
2012-10-26		A77 - 8th	World e-Sports Masters 2012	0 : 1	Team WE.i-Rocks	$ 4,000
2012-09-02		A44th	Riot Season 2 North American Regionals	0 : 2	CLG Prime	$ 15,000
2012-08-12		A22nd	IGN ProLeague Face Off	0 : 3	Team SoloMid	$ 7,500
2012-06-10		A77 - 8th	2012 MLG Anaheim	1 : 2	Team Dynamic
2012-04-08		A55 - 6th	IGN ProLeague 4	1 : 2	Monomaniac eSports	$ 1,250
2012-03-10		A55 - 6th	IEM Season VI - World Championship	0 : 2	CLG Prime	$ 2,800
2012-01-22		A55 - 6th	IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev	1 : 2	Group Stage (W/L)	$ 2,100
2011-10-16		A55 - 6th	IEM Season VI - Global Challenge New York	1 : 2	Group Stage (W/L)	$ 2,100
2011-10-09		A55 - 8th	IGN ProLeague 3	0 : 2	Team Dignitas
2011-08-27		A44th	2011 MLG Raleigh	0 : 3	Group Stage (W/L)

In Major Tournaments
Date	Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2013-02-01	A11st	National ESL Pro Series V	FFW	Team Dignitas	$ 6,000
2012-12-16	A11st	SoloMid Series Finals	3 : 1	Cloud 9	$ 8,000
2012-11-11	A22nd	Lone Star Clash 2	2 : 3	CLG Europe	$ 4,000
2012-08-05	A33rd	2012 MLG Summer Arena	1 : 2	Group Stage (W/L)
2012-07-06	A33rd	National ESL Pro Series III	FFW	Team SoloMid	$ 900
2011-12-18	A22nd	National ESL Premier League II	0 : 2	Counter Logic Gaming	$ 1,200

Complete results in Minor, Monthly and Weekly Tournaments

Highlight Videos

• Jul 1, 2011 LeagueFRAGS presents: Team unRestricted
• Top 5 Curse plays from NA LCS

Videos

• October 8th, 2012 - Curse House Weekly Recap October 7th
• October 18th, 2012 - Azubu visits Curse Gaming House
• November 2nd, 2012 - Salce leaves Curse Gaming

Team Interviews

2012

• January 21st, 2012 - Interview with Elementz by Pico
• February 28th, 2012 - Curse's Vice President of Marketing Donovan Duncan Interview by Pico
• June 2nd, 2012 - Crs SaintVicious Interview by AskJoshy
• July 2nd, 2012 - I am Hubert Thieblot, founder and CEO of Curse. AMA with Reddit
• August 7th, 2012 - First look inside the Curse League of Legends Beverly Hills Gaming House with Forbes
• September 25th, 2012 - New Curse Gaming Director Of ESports Steve Arhancet Believes In The Future Of Pro Gaming with Forbes

2013

• January 10th, 2013 - Curse: High Stakes (video) with LoLChampSeries

Trivia

• Is jokingly referred to as CLG.Bench, or some variation thereof, by followers due to a history of acquiring released Counter Logic Gaming players (Elementz, Saintvicious, and Voyboy)

See Also

• Teams
• Team LoL Pro
• Curse Academy

External Links

• Reign of Gaming -- League of Legends news, tier lists, blogs, streams, and more!
• LoLPro - Pro League of Legends Guides and Videos
• Curse Team Profile on lolesports.com