Dodo

Dodo
Retired as Player
Dodo
Background Information
Name	Kang Jun-hyeok (강준혁)
Country of Birth	; South Korea
Birthday	February 25, 1989 (age 36)
Residency	AMEAmericas
Prev Residencies	NANorth America
Competitive
Team	⁠⁠Team Liquid
Contract Expires	2020-11-17
Role	; Manager
Favorite Champs	; ;
Competitive IDs	Dodo8
Social Media & Links

Overview

Tournament Results

Stats

Match History

Kang "Dodo" Jun-hyeok (Hangul: 강준혁) is a League of Legends esports player, currently general manager and assistant coach for Team Liquid. He was previously known as Dodo8.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠Team 8	Dec 20132013-12-26	Oct 20152015-10-07^[1]	1yr 9mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Immortals	Oct 20152015-10-07^[4]	Oct 20152015-10-14^[2]	7d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Immortals	Oct 20152015-10-14^[2]	Jun 20162016-06-25	8mo 11d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Immortals	Jun 20162016-06-25	May 20172017-05-26	11mo 1d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Immortals	May 20172017-05-26	Nov 20172017-11-01^[5]	5mo 6d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Liquid	Dec 20172017-12-08^[9]	Present	7yr 5mo ej

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠Team 8	Dec 20132013-12-26	Oct 20152015-10-07^[1]	1yr 9mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Immortals	Oct 20152015-10-07^[4]	Oct 20152015-10-14^[2]	7d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Immortals	Oct 20152015-10-14^[2]	Jun 20162016-06-25	8mo 11d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Immortals	Jun 20162016-06-25	May 20172017-05-26	11mo 1d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Immortals	May 20172017-05-26	Nov 20172017-11-01^[5]	5mo 6d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Liquid	Dec 20172017-12-08^[9]	Jan 20202020-01-24^[10]	2yr 1mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Liquid	Jan 20202020-01-24^[10]	Nov 20202020-11-14^[11]	9mo 21d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Liquid	Nov 20202020-11-14^[11]	Apr 20232023-04-28^[12]	2yr 5mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Liquid	Apr 20232023-04-28^[12]	Present	2yr 19d ej

News

2013
2015
2016
2017
2020
2023
2024

NA

⁠

⁠T8

December 26, Team 8 is formed.
RicheRich,
Guess8,
chu8,
Slooshi, and
Dodo8 join.

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NA	⁠⁠T8	October 7, Porpoise8, goldenglue, Nien8, Dodo8, BrandonFtw, CheeseBeluga, Alex Ich, Slooshi8, Maplestreet8, HISTORY TEACHER (Head Coach), and Matt (Head Analyst) leave.^[1] e
NA	⁠⁠IMT	October 7, Porpoise, goldenglue, Nien, Dodo8, and HISTORY TEACHER (Head Coach) join.^[4] e
NA	⁠⁠IMT	October 14, Dodo8 retires and moves to player manager.^[2]^[3] e

NA

⁠

⁠IMT

June 25, Dodo8 (Player Manager to Player Manager/Sub/Support) changes position.
Impactful leaves.

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NA	⁠⁠IMT	May 26, Dodo (Player Manager/Sub/Support to Team Manager) changes position. e
NA	⁠⁠IMT	November 1, SSONG (Head Coach), Loyota (Head Analyst), Dodo (Team Manager), and Robert Yip (Sport Psychology and Performance Coach) leave.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] e
NA	⁠⁠TL	December 8, Dodo (Assistant Coach) joins.^[9] e

NA	⁠⁠TL	January 8, Pobelter and Dodo (Assistant Coach)'s contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 17 November 2020.^[13] e
NA	⁠⁠TL	January 24, Fasffy (Assistant Team Manager) joins. Dodo (Assistant Coach to Assistant Coach/Team Manager) changes position.^[10] e
NA	⁠⁠TL	November 14, Dodo (Assistant Coach/Team Manager to General Manager) and Fasffy (Assistant Team Manager to Team Manager) change positions.^[11] e

NA

⁠

⁠TL

April 28, Reignover (Assistant Coach to Head Coach) and Dodo (General Manager to General Manager/Assistant Coach) change positions.^[12]

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AME

⁠

⁠TL

October 31, Dodo changes residency from

NA

North America to

AME

Americas.

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Biography

Jun was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1989, and he lived in Korea until 2000, when he moved to Orange County in the United States. He has been playing video games since the third grade, beginning with StarCraft. He played Heroes of Newerth competitively from 2010 to 2011 with Evil Geniuses, then the top-ranked team in the world. He switched to League of Legends after growing bored of HoN and also wanting to play with his real-life friends. In 2013, Jun graduated from California State University of Long Beach with a major in education.

2014 Season

With Team 8, dodo8 played in and won multiple Challenger events during Season 4, including the Black Monster Cup once, the Lone Star Clash 3, and then the Black Monster Cup a second time. The team's success in Riot-sponsored events was less impressive, but they eventually managed to qualify for the Spring 2015 LCS.

2015 Preseason

Dodo8 and maplestreet substituted for Lyon Gaming at IEM San Jose, replacing Arce and NerzhuL, respectively.^[14] They were eliminated in the quarterfinals, losing 0-2 to Unicorns of Love and tied for fifth place with paiN Gaming.

2015 Season

In the spring split of the 2015 LCS, Team 8 initially slipped into ninth place after the fifth week. After a more successful end to the season, however, they climbed into a tie for the final playoff spot, but lost the tiebreaker to Team Liquid and settled into seventh with a 9-9 record. In the summer season, Team 8 once again finished the regular season tied for seventh; however, this time, they lost to Cloud9 and were sent to the 2016 Spring Promotion Tournament. They chose Team Imagine as their Challenger opponent and beat them 3-1 to stay in the LCS for the spring season.

2016 Preseason

In October 2015, Immortals was announced as the new brand of Team 8.^[15] Shortly after the rebranding, Dodo8 retired from competitive play and became the team's player manager.^[16]^[17]

Trivia

His ID Dodo means "stoic" in Korean and Jun says it represents his personality.
Initially mained ADC when he started playing League, playing Sivir, Graves, and Twitch.

Tournament Results

This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.

Dodo Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2023-10-23	15 - 16	Worlds 2023	1 : 2⁠⁠GAM	⁠⁠TL	Summit, Pyosik, APA, Yeon, CoreJJ, Reignover, Dodo
2023-08-19	3	LCS 2023 Championship	2 : 3⁠⁠NRG	⁠⁠TL	Summit, Pyosik, APA, Yeon, CoreJJ, Reignover, Dodo
2023-07-21	4	LCS 2023 Summer	10 - 8⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TL	Summit, Pyosik, Haeri, APA, Yeon, CoreJJ, Reignover, Dodo
2020-03-29	9	LCS 2020 Spring	7 - 11⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TL	Impact, Shernfire, Broxah, Jensen, Doublelift, Tactical, CoreJJ, Cain, Dodo
2019-08-25	1	LCS 2019 Summer Playoffs	3 : 2⁠⁠C9	⁠⁠TL	Impact, Xmithie, Jensen, Doublelift, CoreJJ, Cain, Dodo
2019-08-04	1	LCS 2019 Summer	14 - 4⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TL	Impact, Xmithie, Jensen, Doublelift, CoreJJ, Cain, Dodo
2019-08-02	5 - 6	NA Academy 2019 Summer Playoffs	0 : 3⁠⁠TSM.A	⁠⁠TL.A	Jenkins, OddOrange, Insanity, Shoryu, Matt, Dodo
2019-07-28	5	NA Academy 2019 Summer	9 - 9⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TL.A	Jenkins, MikeYeung, OddOrange, Insanity, Shoryu, Matt, Jack Kayser, Yaltz, Dodo
2019-04-13	1	LCS 2019 Spring Playoffs	3 : 2⁠⁠TSM	⁠⁠TL	Impact, Xmithie, Jensen, Doublelift, CoreJJ, Cain, Dodo
2019-03-24	1	LCS 2019 Spring	14 - 4⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TL	Impact, Xmithie, Jensen, Doublelift, CoreJJ, Cain, Dodo