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In this Korean name, the family name is Jeong.
Impact
Impact at the Season 3 World Championship
Current team
TeamEvil Geniuses
RoleTop laner
GameLeague of Legends
LeagueLCS
Personal information
Name정언영
(Jeong Eon-yeong)
Born1994 or 1995 (age 28–29)[1]
NationalitySouth Korean
Team history
2012Xenics Storm
2013–2014SK Telecom T1
2015Team Impulse
2016NRG Esports
2016–2017Cloud9
2018–2020Team Liquid
2021–presentEvil Geniuses
Career highlights and awards

Jeong Eon-yeong (Korean: 정언영), better known as Impact, is a South Korean League of Legends player for Evil Geniuses of the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS). Impact won the Season 3 League of Legends World Championship as a member of SK Telecom T1 K. He played for both Team Impulse and NRG Esports in the LCS, before transferring to Cloud9 in May 2016. Impact left Cloud9 after the 2017 season and joined Team Liquid, where he won four LCS titles before departing the team for Evil Geniuses after the end of the 2020 season.

Career

Xenics Storm

Impact began his career as a support player for Xenics Storm in 2012, and the team managed to place third in spring.[2]

SK Telecom

In 2013, Impact joined SK Telecom T1 K along with Bengi, Faker, Piglet and PoohManDo.[3] The team went on to finished third in the spring split, and win the summer finals against KT Rolster Bullets.[4] The team qualified for the 2013 World Championship as Korea's third seed,[5] and subsequently tore through the tournament, dropping only 3 matches in the entire event, capped with a 3–0 sweep of China's Royal Club.[6][7][8][9]

Following their World Championship victory, Impact and SK Telecom T1 K, won the winter split in the LCK, as well as All-Start Paris, before struggling in spring and summer, failing to place top 4 in either split, and missing out on the 2014 World Championship, where Impact was unable to defend his title internationally.[10] At the end of the season, SKT parted ways with Impact.[11][12][13]

Team Impulse

Impact joined Team Impulse ahead of the 2015 season, moving to the LCS in North America.[14] The team had moderate regular season success, placing fourth and third in spring and summer, respectively. Impact was also voted to the First Team All–Pro in Summer, the first time the LCS gave out such awards.[15] However in playoffs, the team lost both times in the semifinals,[16][17] then missed Worlds after falling to Cloud9 in the regional gauntlet.[18]

NRG Esports

After the conclusion of the 2015 season, Impact left Team Impulse for NRG Esports.[19][13] The team made playoffs in spring with a 9–9 record, but were swept 0–3 in the quarterfinals by Team Liquid.[20]

Cloud9

After NRG's mediocre finish in spring, Cloud9 acquired Impact from NRG, and started him as their top laner for the summer split after a temporary bootcamp in Korea.[21][22] In the summer split, Cloud9 placed third in the regular season with a 12–6 record, while Impact saw his former team NRG regulated out of the LCS.[23] [24] Impact was voted to the All Pro Third Team,[25] and Cloud9 advanced all the way to the finals,[26] before falling to Team SoloMid.[27] Cloud9 qualified for the Regional Gauntlet at the end of the season, and defeated both Team Envy and Immortals to earn a spot at the 2016 World Championship.[28][29] At Worlds, Cloud9 made it out of their group, Group B, and advanced to the knockout stage with a 3–3 record.[30][31] Additionally, SK Telecom T1 were the first seed from Group B with a 5–1 record, and were the eventual winners of the tournament,[32] but their only loss in the group stage came at the hands of Cloud9, against their former top laner, Impact.[33][34] In the quarterfinals, Cloud9 were defeated 3–0 by Samsung Galaxy, who later reached the finals before losing to SKT.[35][32]

Impact remained on Cloud9 for the 2017 season, although substitute top laner Ray also joined the team, and played several games throughout the year in place of Impact.[36] The team started the season strong, with 8 consecutive wins,[37] and eventually finished the season with a 14–4 record.[38] Impact was voted to the All Pro Second Team, and the team enjoyed a bye in the first round of the playoffs.[39][40] In the semifinals, Cloud9 swept Pheonix 1 3–0, which set up a rematch from the previous year against Team SoloMid in the finals.[41] Cloud9 once again lost the match, after a full five games, and finished the split in second place.[42]

In summer, Cloud9 finished in fourth place in the regular season, but in the quarterfinals of the playoffs, Cloud9 were defeated by Dignitas in what was describes as a "massive upset", and knocked out early.[43][44] The team qualified for the Regional Gauntlet once again, and defeated Counter Logic Gaming 3–1 to qualify for Worlds.[45][46] At the 2017 World Championship, Cloud9 went undefeated in the Play–In stage, winning all 7 games to advance to the group stage, where they were placed into Group A, which one again had Impact's former squad, SK Telecom T1.[47][48] Once again they achieved a 3–3 result, placing second in their group, and advanced to the quarterfinals.[49] Cloud9 was matched against Team WE in the quarterfinals, and lost a five game series 2–3.[50]

Team Liquid

At the end of the 2017 season, Impact once again changed teams, reportedly turning down an offer to return to SK Telecom T1,[51] opting to remain in North America and join Team Liquid.[52][53] In spring, Team Liquid made playoff with a 11–7 record, and won matches against Cloud9 and Echo Fox to make the finals,[54] where they defeated 100 Thieves 3–0, setting a record for fastest finals victory, and giving Impact his first LCS Title.[55] The win earned Team Liquid a spot at the 2018 Mid–Season Invitational,[56] where they went 4–6, losing a tiebreaker to Fnatic and placing fifth in the group stage, failing to advance.[57] In summer, Team Liquid took first place in the regular season, securing a bye to the semifinals. Impact was also elected Third Team All Pro.[58] Once again, they advanced, defeating 100 Thieves to face Impact's former team Cloud9 in the finals.[59] Team Liquid swept the match, with a clean 3–0 victory over Cloud9 and Impact hoisted his second consecutive trophy.[60] Due to their victories, Team Liquid qualified for the 2018 League of Legends World Championship as North America's first seed.[61] At the tournament, they were drawn into Group D,[62] and finished in third with a 3–3 record, failing to advance to the knockout stage, and finishing in 9th–11th.[63]

Tournament results

SK Telecom T1

  • 1st – HOT6iX Champions Summer 2013 (SK Telecom T1)
  • 1st – Season 3 World Championship (SK Telecom T1)
  • 1st – PANDORA.TV Champions Winter 2013–2014 (SK Telecom T1 K)
  • 1st – All-Star Paris 2014 Invitational (SK Telecom T1 K)
  • 1st – ITENJOY NLB Summer 2014 (SK Telecom T1 K)

Cloud 9

  • 2nd – 2016 NA LCS Summer (Cloud 9)
  • 2nd – 2017 NA LCS Spring (Cloud 9)
  • 1st – 2017 Rift Rivals Blue Rift (NA LCS)

Team Liquid

  • 1st – 2018 NA LCS Spring (Team Liquid)
  • 2nd – 2018 Rift Rivals Blue Rift (NA LCS)
  • 1st – 2018 NA LCS Summer (Team Liquid)
  • 1st – 2019 LCS Spring (Team Liquid)
  • 2nd – 2019 Mid-Season Invitational (Team Liquid)
  • 2nd – 2019 Rift Rivals Blue Rift (LCS)
  • 1st – 2019 LCS Summer (Team Liquid)

Evil Geniuses

  • 2nd – 2022 LCS Lock In (Evil Geniuses)

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