Pobelter
Eugene Park, better known by his in-game name Pobelter, is an American professional League of Legends player who is the mid laner for Counter Logic Gaming.[2] He is a three-time champion of the LCS[3] and has made four major international appearances.
Pobelter | |
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Eugene Park | |
Personal information | |
Born | October 14, 1996 |
Nationality | American |
Nickname(s) | The Notorious P.O.B.[1] |
Career information | |
Status | Active |
League | LCS |
Current team | Counter Logic Gaming |
Games | League of Legends |
Role | Mid Laner |
Career history | |
2011 | unRestricted eSports |
2011–2012 | Team Curse |
2012 | Meat Playground |
2013 | Curse Academy |
2013 | Nickwu Tang Clan |
2013 | Infinite Odds |
2013 | Team Curse |
2013–2015 | Evil Geniuses |
2015 | Winterfox |
2015 | Counter Logic Gaming |
2015–2017 | Immortals |
2017–2018 | Team Liquid |
2018–2019 | FlyQuest |
2020–present | Counter Logic Gaming |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Early life
Pobelter was born on October 14, 1996. He has an older sister.[4] He attended Troy High School in Fullerton, California. He tested into the school as he was an out-of-district student, and studied computer science in the Troy Tech magnet program. Pobelter initially played League of Legends as a hobby during high school.[5]
Career
Pobelter played on Team Curse, and eventually moved to Winterfox, a team largely perceived as being built around him. After Winterfox's loss in the relegation tournament after the Spring 2015 season, Pobelter abandoned the team and moved to Counter Logic Gaming, which proceeded to win the Summer 2015 Split. CLG then elected to play Huhi as their mid laner, prompting Pobelter to move to Immortals, which had highly successful regular seasons in 2016 but strangely failed in playoffs, losing 0–3 to TSM in the semifinals of the NA LCS Spring Split playoffs in April, and losing 2–3 to Cloud9 in the summer seminals.[6] They finished third in the 2016 Spring NA LCS, beating Team Liquid 3–0 in the third-place decider match.[7] After Immortals were removed from the LCS in the 2018 season, Pobelter joined the successful Team Liquid. In 2019, Team Liquid replaced Pobelter with Jensen, and Pobelter went to Flyquest.[8] Flyquest was reasonably successful in 2019 Spring, finishing fourth, but placed ninth in the Summer split. Flyquest announced that they had hired Tristran "PowerOfEvil" Schrage as their midlaner for 2020; Pobelter wrote in November 2019 that he had not been picked up by any team for a starting position in 2020.[9] Unable to find a position, Pobelter coached for Team Liquid during the first half of the 2020 Spring Split, but eventually returned to Counter Logic Gaming's as their midlaner.[10][11] On August 5, 2020, he was optioned to CLG's academy team.[12]
Tournament results
Career Tournament Results | |||||
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Date | Event | Placing | Team | Record | Opponent |
August 3–5, 2012 | 2012 MLG Summer Championship | 3rd | Team Curse | 1-2 | Azubu Blaze, Team SoloMid, and Team BLACK |
March 15–17, 2013 | 2013 MLG Winter Championship | 3rd-4th | Curse Academy | 0-2 | Velocity eSports |
June 29, 2013 | 2013 MLG Spring Championship | 3rd-4th | Curse Academy | 1-2 | FXOpen e-Sports |
January 24–March 29, 2015 | 2015 NA LCS Spring Regular Season | 8th | Winterfox | 7-11 | N/A |
May 30–July 26, 2015 | 2015 NA LCS Summer Regular Season | 2nd | Counter Logic Gaming | 13-5 | N/A |
August 23, 2015 | 2015 NA LCS Summer Playoffs | 1st | Counter Logic Gaming | 3-0 | Team SoloMid |
January 16–March 20, 2016 | 2016 NA LCS Spring Regular Season | 1st | Immortals | 17-1 | N/A |
April 10, 2016 | 2016 NA LCS Spring Playoffs | 3rd | Immortals | 3-0 | Team Liquid |
June 3–July 31, 2016 | 2016 NA LCS Summer Regular Season | 2nd | Immortals | 16-2 | N/A |
August 27, 2016 | 2016 NA LCS Summer Playoffs | 3rd | Immortals | 3-2 | Counter Logic Gaming |
January 20–March 26, 2017 | 2017 NA LCS Spring Regular Season | 7th | Immortals | 8-10 | N/A |
June 2–August 6, 2017 | 2017 NA LCS Summer Regular Season | 2nd | Immortals | 14-4 | N/A |
September 3, 2017 | 2017 NA LCS Summer Playoffs | 2nd | Immortals | 1-3 | Team SoloMid |
October 5–15, 2017 | 2017 League of Legends World Championship Group Stage | 9th-12th | Immortals | 2-5 | Longzhu Gaming, Fnatic, and GIGABYTE Marines |
January 20–March 18, 2018 | 2018 NA LCS Spring Regular Season | 4th | Team Liquid | 12-8 | N/A |
April 8, 2018 | 2018 NA LCS Spring Playoffs | 1st | Team Liquid | 3-0 | 100 Thieves |
References
- Esguerra, Tyler (March 7, 2020). "Pobelter pulls off the perfect teleport flank to carry CLG over Team Liquid in week seven of the 2020 Spring Split". Dot Esports. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
- Ousley, Parkes (February 19, 2020). "League of Legends: Pobelter to start mid for CLG, replacing Crown". Inven Global. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
- Byers, Preston (November 25, 2019). "Pobelter won't play in LCS Spring Split, but he won't retire either". Dot Esports. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
- Eugene "Pobelter" Park (subject) (August 11, 2015). DRIVE: The Pobelter Story #LCSDRIVE. LoL Esports. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
- http://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/16834974/eugene-pobelter-park
- Erzberger, Tyler (April 11, 2016). "Bjergsen: TSM trusted each other and took down Immortals". ESPN. Retrieved April 14, 2016.
- Rosen, Daniel (April 16, 2016). "Immortals sweep Team Liquid 3-0, secure third place in 2016 NA LCS Spring Playoffs". theScore esports. theScore Inc. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
- https://www.riftherald.com/2018/12/4/18109004/flyquest-pobelter-roster-change
- Esguerra, Tyler (November 26, 2019). "Doublelift: "I think [Pobelter] is easily a top 3, top 4 mid laner in LCS"". Dot Esports. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
- Esguerra, Tyler (December 12, 2019). "Pobelter joins Team Liquid as new positional coach". Dot Esports. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
- "Pobelter joins Team Liquid as positional coach". ESPN. December 12, 2019. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
- Heath, Jerome. "Pobelter benched for week 9 of 2020 LCS Summer Split, IWD says". DOT Esports. Retrieved August 6, 2020.