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Apex Gaming was previously a North American team. In September 2016, they merged with Team Dignitas. For the Apex Legends esports wiki, click here.
History[]
2016 Season[]
Apex Gaming was announced to have acquired Team Imagine's NACS 2016 Spring Season seed in a LoL Esports article on January 8, 2016.[1] Their roster wasn't revealed until almost two weeks later and included three former LCS players - Cris, Keane, and Xpecial - and two Korean players: Eve from Samsung and Police from Ever, with Shrimp as a substitute. They were coached by former Team Coast coach Saintvicious and former Samsung mid laner BlisS.[2]
Apex won both the regular season of NACS and the playoffs, using both Eve and Shrimp actively in the jungle. In the promotion tournament, they were seeded first against the ninth-place Team Impulse, to whom they lost, and then against second place Challenger team Team Dragon Knights, a rematch of the Challenger Series finals. This time, they didn't even drop one game against TDK and qualified successfully for the LCS summer split.
On May 2, during the midseason break, Apex announced the indefinite suspension of Eve for "disciplinary reasons."[3] Soon after the suspension, ESPN reported that the reason for the ban was due to Eve's Korean account being banned by Riot Korea for use of scripts.[4] Additionally, the team added Ray and Apollo to their starting roster, replacing Cris and Police, respectively. The starting lineup of Ray, Shrimp, Keane, Apollo, and Xpecial was used for all of their summer split games.
Apex's season started out strong, with a 2-0 first week including a 2-1 upset of reigning NA LCS champions and MSI alums CLG. Their success, however, was short-lived, and by week 5 they were in 7th place, where they remained for the rest of the season, out of reach of the playoffs but also safe from relegations for the 2017 Spring Season.
In September, Apex Gaming was acquired by the Philadelphia 76ers along with Team Dignitas, and the two organizations merged, under the Dignitas brand.[5]
Timeline[]
- 2016
- January 20, Apex Gaming is formed.
Cris,
Eve,
Keane,
Police,
Xpecial, Saintvicious (Head Coach), and BlisS (Assistant Coach) join.
Shrimp joins as substitute.[6] - January 22,
Big ol Ron and
Indivisible join as substitutes.
BIG is loaned from Echo Fox.
Moon is loaned from NRG Esports. - January 27,
BIG's loan from Echo Fox ends.
Moon's loan from NRG Esports ends. - February 17,
Shrimp moves to starting roster. - March 3,
BrandonFTW joins as substitute. Saintvicious (Head Coach to Head Coach/Sub/Jungle) and BlisS (Assistant Coach to Assistant Coach/Sub/Mid) change positions.
Indivisible leaves. - April 6, Shrimp renames to ShrimP.
- May 2,
Eve leaves after being suspended indefinitely by the team for disciplinary reasons.[7] - May 18,
Police leaves. - May 19,
Apollo joins.
Shiphtur joins as substitute.[8][9] Crumbz (Assistant Coach) joins.[10] - May 20,
Ray,
Diamondprox,
Roar, and
KonKwon join. Saintvicious (Head Coach/Sub/Jungle to Head Coach) and BlisS (Assistant Coach/Sub/Mid to Assistant Coach) change positions.
Big ol Ron and
BrandonFTW leave.[11] - June 4,
Cris,
Diamondprox,
Roar, and
KonKwon move to substitutes. - July (approx.), Cop (Coach) joins.
- July 7,
KonKwon retires.[12] - September 26,
Apex Gaming is acquired by the Philadelphia 76ers and merges with 
Dignitas under the Dignitas brand.
Ray,
ShrimP,
Keane,
Apollo,
Xpecial,
Cris,
Diamondprox,
Shiphtur,
Roar, Saintvicious (Head Coach), Cop (Coach), BlisS (Assistant Coach), and Crumbz (Assistant Coach) leave.[13]
Player Roster[]
Former[]
Players are shown for the entire duration of their tenure on the team, with the role and substitute/trainee status they had upon their departure.
| Player | Name | Role | Joined | Left | Next Team | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ray | Jeon Ji-won (전지원) | Top Laner | May 20162016-05-20 | Sep 20162016-09-26 |  DIG | ||
| ShrimP | Lee Byeong-hoon (이병훈) | Jungler | Jan 20162016-01-20 | Sep 20162016-09-26 | DIG | ||
| Keane | Jang Lae-young (장래영) | Mid Laner | Jan 20162016-01-20 | Sep 20162016-09-26 | DIG | ||
| Apollo | Apollo Price | Bot Laner | May 20162016-05-19 | Sep 20162016-09-26 | DIG | ||
| Xpecial | Alex Chu (朱啓恩) | Support | Jan 20162016-01-20 | Sep 20162016-09-26 | DIG | ||
| Cris | Cristian Rosales | Sub/Top | Jan 20162016-01-20 | Sep 20162016-09-26 | DIG | ||
| Diamondprox | Danil Reshetnikov | Sub/Jun | May 20162016-05-20 | Sep 20162016-09-26 |  GMB | ||
| Shiphtur | Danny Le | Sub/Mid | May 20162016-05-19 | Sep 20162016-09-26 |  DFX | ||
| Roar | Oh Jang-won (오장원) | Sub/Bot | May 20162016-05-20 | Sep 20162016-09-26 |  APP | ||
| KonKwon | Kevin Kwon (권구혁) | Sub/Sup | May 20162016-05-20 | Jul 20162016-07-07 |  BGJ | ||
| Big ol Ron | Ryan Ballard | Sub/Top | Jan 20162016-01-22 | May 20162016-05-20 |  TL.A | ||
| BrandonFTW | Brandon Chen | Sub/Top | Mar 20162016-03-03 | May 20162016-05-20 |  P1 | ||
| Saintvicious | Brandon DiMarco | Sub/Jun | Mar 20162016-03-03 | May 20162016-05-20 | APX | ||
| BlisS | Park Jong-won (박종원) | Sub/Mid | Mar 20162016-03-03 | May 20162016-05-20 | APX | ||
| Police | Park Hyeong-gi (박형기) | Bot Laner | Jan 20162016-01-20 | May 20162016-05-18 |  VIT | ||
| Eve | Seo Jun-cheol (서준철) | Jungler | Jan 20162016-01-20 | May 20162016-05-02 |  Retired | ||
| Indivisible | Paul Nguyen | Sub/Sup | Jan 20162016-01-22 | Mar 20162016-03-03 |  NA P | ||
| Moon | Galen Holgate | Jungler (+) (–) On Loan | Jan 20162016-01-22 | Jan 20162016-01-27 |  NRG | ||
| BIG | Terry Chuong | Support (+) (–) On Loan | Jan 20162016-01-22 | Jan 20162016-01-27 |  FOX |
Organization[]
Former[]
| C | ID | Name | Position | Next Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Slan | Owner | None | ||
| Michael Slan | Owner |  Dignitas
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| Shark | Charlene Hamm | General Manager | Dignitas
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| Saintvicious | Brandon DiMarco | Head Coach | Dignitas
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| Cop | David Roberson | Coach | Dignitas
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| BlisS | Park Jong-won (박종원) | Assistant Coach | None | |
| Crumbz | Alberto Rengifo | Assistant Coach |  Caster
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Player League Participation[]
LCS
| Player | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Games | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | Spring | Summer | ||
| Apollo |  |  | | |  |  | |  | |  | |  | | 312 | |||||||||||
| Xpecial |  | | |  |  | | | |  | 270 | |||||||||||||||
| Keane |  | | | | |  | | 204 | |||||||||||||||||
| Shrimp |  | | | | 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Ray | |  | | 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Tournaments[]
This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
| Apex Gaming Tournament Results - Show Prize as (Local • USD • Euros) | |||||
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| Date | Pl | Prize | Event | Last Result | Roster |
| 2016-07-31 | 7 | NA LCS 2016 Summer | 8 - 10  RR | Ray, ShrimP, Keane, Apollo, Xpecial, Saintvicious | |
| 2016-04-08 | Q | NA LCS 2016 Summer Promotion | Cris, Eve, ShrimP, Keane, Police, Xpecial, Saintvicious | ||
| 2016-03-16 | 1 | $10,000$ 10,000€ 8,920 | NACS 2016 Spring Playoffs | Cris, Shrimp, Eve, Keane, Police, Xpecial, Saintvicious | |
| 2016-02-24 | 1 | NACS 2016 Spring | 3-2-0 RR | Big ol Ron, Cris, Moon, Eve, Shrimp, Keane, Police, Big, Xpecial | |
| Total Prize: USD 10,000 | |||||
Media[]
- 2016
- March 17, Saintvicious on the keys to Apex's success—and how Ohq is 'super overrated' [Archived] with Samuel Lingle on The Daily Dot
- April 8, Team Apex AMA with , and on reddit
- May 29, The team of mystery: Apex Gaming by Tyler Erzberger on ESPN
- July 10, Cop and Saintvicious on Cop's role as Apex Trial Coach: 'Ready to go on stage if Saint dies of old age' with Travis Gafford on YouTube
See Also[]
External Links[]
Images[]
Apex's 2016 LCS Summer Promotion Roster
Previous Logo
References[]
- ↑ 2016 NA CS Qualifier Finals primer lolesports.com
- ↑ Saintvicious's Twitlonger twitlonger.com
- ↑ Apex's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ Jacob Wolf's ESPN Now post espn.go.com
- ↑ Philadelphia 76ers acquire, merge and manage leading esports teams Dignitas and Apex team-dignitas.net
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 Saintvicious' TwitLonger twitlonger.com
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Apex's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Team Dignitas transfer NACS Spot To Apex Gaming team-dignitas.net
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Apex's Team Page lolesports.com
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Apex Welcomes Crumbzz apxgaming.com
- ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 Apex Gaming's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 KonKwon's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 Philadelphia 76ers acquire, merge and manage leading esports teams Dignitas and Apex team-dignitas.net