Mineski
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Founded | 2004 |
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Location | Philippines[1] |
Manager | Marvin "Nattefrost" Lu |
Divisions | Dota 2 DotA |
Website | www infinity |
Mineski is a professional gaming organization established in the Philippines. The team is known to be one of the strongest Southeast Asian Electronic sports team in the Philippines, providing "successful" players in each competitive gaming genres. The team's performance became inconsistent after JuLz and Jhoven left the team. Even after a good performance in the The International 2014 SEA Qualifiers, the team went back to a slump. Their current win rate is 57% with 118 wins, 99 losses and 4 draws as of June 2014 according to gosugamers.[2]
History
Team history
Mineski is an organization driven by the pursuit to uplift the professional gaming scene in the Philippines.[3] Team Mineski is a professional gaming team founded on February 14, 2004[3] by a group of gamers and close friends in Manila, Philippines. They took the risk and hard work to make Philippine's electronic sport teams recognized and appreciated internationally. As passionate gamers, team Mineski also aims to be seen as an icon and role model for aspiring amateur gamers in the Philippines, despite its players don't really want to play professionally, playing "just for fun" by competing both local and international Dota and Dota 2 games.
Considered to have one of the strongest DotA teams, Mineski was also invited by Valve to compete with the top 15 DotA teams for the first International Dota 2 electronic sports tournament during 2011.[4][5]
Mineski is not only limited to the Philippine gaming community. They expanded by creating a Korean DotA line up in 2012. The Korean team is no longer active.[6]
Mineski qualified for Frankfurt Major 2015 by winning the Southeast Asia qualifier tournament.[7]
Mineski won the Philippine Qualifier for the ESL One Manila.[8]
Mineski also won the SEA Qualifier for the Manila Majors.
Roster
Nationality | Alias | Name | Position |
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Bimbo | Ryan Jay Qui | 1 |
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Meracle | Galvin Kang Jian Wen | 2 |
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RR.ph | Ralph Richard Peñano | 3 |
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Julz | Julius De Leon | 4 |
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ninjaboogie | Michael Ross Jr. | 5 Captain** |
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Scantzor | Anthony Hodgson | Team Coach/Analyst |
Sponsorship
Mineski-Dota is currently sponsored by Gigabyte[10]SteelSeries.[11] and Sports5
Mineski.net states “… According to Eugene Lee, Marketing Manager of SteelSeries for South-East Asia, They've always set an eye for Mineski. He said that Mineski is not only a DOTA team but a whole organization that pushes eSports not only in the Philippines but also to the whole South-East Asia. "The organization is very passionate about eSports and I know that SteelSeries and Mineski shares the same passion that's why we always wanted to work with them.".”[12]
Team Profile
Mineski Team Profile
- Rank: TBA
- Rating: 1054
- Tag: Gigabyte.Mski
- Stats: 178-20-164
- Win rate: 49%
- Clan: Gigabyte Mineski
- Game: Dota 2
- Members: 5
Awards
2013 Awards
2012 Awards
2011 Awards
2010 Awards
2009 Awards
2008 Awards
2005-2007 Awards
References
- ^ "About TL.net". Teamliquid.net. Retrieved 2014-01-02.
- ^ Retrieved on 28 December 2013
- ^ a b Retrieved on 28 December 2013
- ^ Retrieved on 2 January 2013
- ^ Retrieved on 2 January 2013
- ^ Retrieved on 2 January 2013
- ^ CERRUDO, AILEEN "CHAOS" (November 15, 2015). "MINESKI DID IT!". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
- ^ "Champions once more". Mineski. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
- ^ "Mineski Roster". Mineski. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
- ^ a b Retrieved on 8 June 2014
- ^ Retrieved on 8 June 2014
- ^ Retrieved on 2 January 2014
- ^ Retrieved on 10 May 2015
- ^ a b c d e f g https://www.facebook.com/mineskidota/info. Retrieved on 28 December 2013
- ^ a b c Retrieved on 2 January 2014