Team Secret

Team Secret is a global esports team formed in 2014, best known for their Dota 2 team.

"Secret Team" redirects here. For the book by L. Fletcher Prouty, see The Secret Team. For the Steven Universe episode, see List of Steven Universe episodes § ep29.
Team Secret
GamesAge of Empires 2
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Dota 2
Rainbow Six Siege
Street Fighter
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Vainglory
PUBG Mobile
League of Legends
Trackmania
FoundedAugust 2014 (2014-08)
LocationEurope
Head coachLee "Heen" Seung-gon
ManagerCyborgmatt
John Yao
PartnersMetaThreads
NVIDIA
GG.Bet
Websitehttp://teamsecret.gg/

In March 2016, Team Secret picked up an international female Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team.[1] In April 2016, Team Secret expanded into the world of Street Fighter with Lee "Poongko" Chung-Gon as their first World Warrior, and also signed Otto "Silent Wolf" Bisno as a Super Smash Bros. Melee player.[2][3] In July 2018 Team Secret entered into competitive Age of Empires 2 after acquiring key members from Team TyRanT.[4] In August 2018, Team Secret expanded into Rainbow Six Siege Pro League by signing Team IDK.[5]

History

2014

BigDaddy and Fly were confirmed to leave Fnatic on July 27, 2014.[6] On August 3, 2014, s4 left Alliance. Some rumors of a new all-star team began to rise on Reddit.

Na`Vi posted on their website they released Puppey and KuroKy.[7] On August 27, 2014, Team Secret debuted and showed their roster in a match against Alliance.[8]

2015

After a solid second place in Star-Ladder Series 10,[9] the team announce on their Twitter and the DAC site of the departure of Fly and BigDaddy, with zai and Arteezy taking their place as stand-ins.[10]

Team Secret got a third place in the Dota 2 Asia Championships[11] and decided to stick with their roster, going on to win 5 premier tournaments.[12][13][14][15][16] The team was sent to the losers bracket by Vici Gaming.[17]

Team Secret was widely considered to be the favorites to win The International 2015, but after a very disappointing 7-8th-place finish, the team announced that they would have some roster changes. Despite the overall success of the team for the year, members Arteezy and KuroKy were revealed to have clashed with one another and both players left the team. Arteezy went back to his previous team Evil Geniuses and KuroKy formed what would soon be the newest iteration of Team Liquid.[18] On August 15, the team announced that Zai would take the next year off and finish school.[19] As a result, s4 also decided to leave and rejoin his previous team Alliance.[20]

For the Frankfurt Major, the team's new roster was announced and consisted of EternalEnVy, w33, Misery, Puppey, and pieliedie.[21][22]

2016

During the Shanghai Major, Team Secret went through the upper bracket beating previous Frankfurt Major winners: OG in a best of three of 2–1 in the first upper bracket round; they faced Evil Geniuses in the second upper bracket round and won 2–1. Team Secret then faced Team Liquid in the upper bracket finals in a best of 3, winning 2-0 and heading into the Major's Grand Final.[23]

On March 6, Team Secret played against the recent lower bracket winners Team Liquid in the Grand Finals in a best of five match for US$1.1 million. Team Secret won the match with a 3–1 score.[24]

On March 22, Team Secret announced that Artour "Arteezy" Babaev and Saahil "Universe" Arora would be replacing w33 and MiSeRy.[25]

On June 6, after placing last at the Manila Major, Team Secret announced that Kanishka "BuLba" Sosale would be replacing Saahil "UNiVeRsE" Arora.[26]

On August 27, the team announced a completely new roster, featuring Asian players Pyo "MP" No-a, Yeik "MidOne" Nai Zheng and Lee "Forev" Sang-don in addition to the already established European support duo Johan "pieliedie" Åström and Clement "Puppey" Ivanov.[27]

On November 6, Forev's departure was announced. His replacement for the season would be German offlaner Maurice "KheZu" Gutmann.[28]

2017

After achieving no major tournament victories by May 2017, notably knocked out in the first round of the Kiev Major by tournament underdogs SG-esports, Team Secret replaced pieliedie with Yazied "YapzOr" Jaradat,[29] moving Puppey to the 5 position. While their results were somewhat improved, it did not make up for a lackluster season, leading to Team Secret not being directly invited to The International 2017. After making it through the European qualifiers, Team Secret was knocked out of The International 2017 by eventual champion Team Liquid in a tense 2–1 series, finishing in 9th-12th place. During the following roster shuffle, KheZu and MP were replaced by Marcus "Ace" Hoelgaard and Adrian "FATA-" Trinks in September 2017.[30] With the new roster and new season of Dota Pro Circuit 2017-2018, they went on to win DreamLeague Season 8.

2018

Despite the team achieved several minor tournament victories, they did not win any major tournament in 2018, placing 5th-6th in The International 2018. With the new season of Dota Pro Circuit 2018-2019, the team underwent another roster shuffle, with Ace and Fata leaving the team, replacing them would be Michał "Nisha" Jankowski and Ludwig "zai" Wåhlberg.[31]

2019

At the KL Major, Team Secret were hailed as one of the favorites. After topping their group easily, the team went on to tear through the Upper Bracket, only dropping one game to Virtus.pro in the Upper Bracket Finals. Unfortunately for Secret, VP took their revenge in the Grand Finals in a nail-biting five game series, where Secret were able to take a 2–1 lead but were unable to secure a final victory to take home the Major Championship.

With the shuffle, the team achieved a couple major tournament wins, notably The Chongqing Major and MDL Disneyland Paris Major. Team Secret now have 14.400 points in the ranking of the professional season Dota 2 from Valve and occupy the very first place in it with Puppey being voted as the MDL MVP. They played 8 games on the last day MDL Disneyland Paris Major winning through the upper bracket and coming to win the finals in style. Zai was a major factor in making space with his Mars for Nisha and MidOne. Nisha had the most last hits at 35 min in the tournament. Team Secret would go on to win the finals in a very convincing manner with a results of 3–1 over Team Liquid.

Dota 2

Current players
As of 5 November 2019.
ID Name Nationality
MATUMBAMAN Lasse Urpalainen  Finland
Nisha Michał Jankowski  Poland
zai Ludwig Wåhlberg  Sweden
YapzOr Yazied Jaradat  Jordan
Puppey (captain) Clement Ivanov  Estonia


Notable team achievements

2014

  • 3rd — ESL One New York 2014
  • 2nd — StarLadder StarSeries Season 10
  • 3rd — The Summit 2
  • 1st — XMG Captains Draft 2.0
  • 1st — Dota Pit League Season 2

2015

  • 3rd — Dota 2 Asia Championships 2015
  • 1st — Red Bull Battle Grounds: Dota 2
  • 1st — Summit 3
  • 1st — MarsTV Dota 2 League 2015 Spring
  • 1st — ESL One Frankfurt 2015
  • 7th — The International 2015a
  • 2nd — ESL One New York 2015
  • 1st — MLG World Finals
  • 1st — Nanyang Dota 2 Championships
  • 2nd — Frankfurt Majorb

2016

2017

  • 9th — Kiev Majorb
  • 3rd — EPICENTER 2017
  • 2nd — DOTA Summit 7
  • 3rd — DreamLeague Season 7
  • 9th — The International 2017a
  • 3rd — StarLadder i-League Invitational Season 3
  • 2nd — ESL One Hamburg 2017
  • 1st — DreamLeague Season 8

2018

  • 1st — Captains Draft 4.0
  • 3rd — ESL One Genting 2018
  • 5th — ESL One Katowice 2018
  • 5th — Bucharest Majorb
  • 1st — DreamLeague Season 9
  • 9th — Dota 2 Asia Championships 2018b
  • 7th — EPICENTER XLb
  • 5th — MDL Changsha Majorb
  • 4th — China Dota2 Supermajorb
  • 5th — The International 2018a
  • 1st — PVP Esports Championship
  • 1st — ESL One Hamburg 2018
  • 2nd — The Kuala Lumpur Majorb

2019

  • 4th — MegaFon Winter Clash
  • 1st — The Chongqing Majorb
  • 1st — ESL One Katowice 2019
  • 4th — DreamLeague Season 11b
  • 1st — MDL Disneyland® Paris Majorb
  • 1st — ESL One Birmingham 2019
  • 4th — The International 2019a

2020

  • 1st — DreamLeague Season 13b

a: Hosted by Valve
b: Dota Pro Circuit

Rainbow Six Siege

History

Shortly before the Six Major Paris 2018, Team Secret signed Team IDK.[5] The original roster consisted of Bryan "Elemzje" Tebessi, Ryan "Lacky" Stapley, Leon "LeonGids" Giddens, Matthew "meepeY" Sharples, David "sTiZze" de Castro and Louis "Helbee" Bureau as coach. At the Paris Major, Team Secret placed 3-4th after besting OrgLess, FaZe Clan, Team Vitality, and losing to G2 Esports, the eventual champions and received $25,000.[32]

On February 17, 2020, Joonas "jNSzki" Savolainen came out of retirement after leaving G2 and later the Mousesports/GiFu roster to replace Elemzje.[33]

On May 5, the team disbanded[34]

On May 13, Team Secret signed Team OrgLess after they qualified for the European League, ahead of their debut.[35]

Current roster
Nat. ID Name Role Join Date
Drvn Fynn Lorenzen Fragger 2020-05-13[35]
Exp0 Daniel Massierer In-game Leader 2020-05-13[35]
Hife Vincent Finkenwirth Flex 2020-05-13[35]
KS Niklas Massierer Flex Support 2020-05-13[35]
Prano Kevin Pranowitz Captain/Fragger 2020-05-13[35]
Lazzo Lasse Klie Head Coach 2020-05-13[35]
Omerta Stefan Saltalamacchia Coach 2020-05-13[35]
Titan William Davie Analyst 2020-05-13[35]

Former British roster
Nat. ID Name Role Join Date Leave Date New Team Current Team
Lacky Ryan Stapley Support 2018-08-01[36] 2019-02-28[37] T3H Esports Inactive
Plebma Jack Bentley Substitute 2019-02-20[38] 2019-05-29[39] Wind and Rain Retired
sTiZze David de Castro Flex 2018-08-01[36] 2019-06-03[40] Retired
Elemzje Bryan Tebessi Flex Fragger 2018-08-01[36] 2020-02-05[41] BDS Esport BDS Esport
LeonGids Leon Giddens Fragger 2018-08-01[36] 2020-05-05[34] Rogue Rogue
meepeY Matthew Sharples IGL/Flex 2018-08-01[36] 2020-05-05[34] eUnited eUnited
Fonkers Aku Seppä Flex 2019-02-28[37] 2020-05-05[34] Ex-CR4ZY MnM Gaming
jNSzki Joonas Savolainen Support 2020-02-17[33] 2020-05-05[34] Retired
Blas Balázs Kővári Flex Support 2020-03-31[42] 2020-05-05[34] LowLandLions Retired
Helbee Louis Bureau Coach 2018-08-01[36] 2020-05-05[34] Team Vitality Team Vitality
r0usty Wille Turunen Assistant Coach 2019-08-12 2020-05-05[34] Rogue[43] Rogue
Ferral Daniel Rotheram Inactive 2019-06-03[44] 2020-05-05[34] Retired

Notable team achievements
Tournament Date Location Placement Prize
German Roster
European Open Clash 2020-06-07 Europe 9-16th $0
European League Season 1 - Stage 1 2020-07-20 Europe 9th $0
GSA League 2020 2020-08-03 Germany, Switzerland, Austria 1st Finals
GSA League 2020 Finals 2020-09-13 Germany, Switzerland, Austria 3rd $6,153
Former British Roster
Six Major Paris 2018 2018-08-18 Paris, France 3-4th $25,000
Dreamhack Valencia 2018 2018-09-08 Valencia, Spain 5-8th $1,000
Pro League Season 8 EU 2018-10-25 Europe 3rd $6,000
ESL Premiership Winter 2018 Group Stage 2018-11-14 United Kingdom and Ireland 1st Finals
ESL Premiership Winter 2018 Finals 2018-12-06 Leicecester, United Kingdom 1st $6,000
ESL Premiership Spring 2019 Group Stage 2019-03-16 United Kingdom and Ireland 1st Finals
ESL Premiership Spring 2019 Finals 2019-03-30 Manchester, United Kingdom 2nd $2,609
Pro League Season 9 EU 2019-04-26 Europe 7th $3,000
Allied Esports Vegas Minor 2019-06-09 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 1st $30,000
ESL Premiership Summer 2019 Group Stage 2019-07-04 United Kingdom and Ireland 2nd Finals
ESL Premiership Summer 2019 Finals 2019-07-27 Leicecester, United Kingdom 2nd $2,476
Six Major Raleigh 2019 2019-08-17 Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 3-4th $40,000
Challenger League Season 10 EU 2019-10-28 Europe 3rd $3,500
OGA Pit Minor 2019-12-08 Split, Croatia 5-8th $4,000
Challenger League Season 11 EU 2020-05-01 Europe 5th $1,750

Age of Empires 2
ID Name Join date
TheViper Ørjan Larsen 2018-07-14
TaToH Roberto Jiménez 2018-07-14
JorDan_23 Marco Bloch 2018-07-14
slam Chris Gregson 2018-07-14
DauT Darko Dautovic 2018-07-14
Nili_AoE Sven Reichardt 2019-11-03

Rosters

Super Smash Bros. Melee
ID Name Character(s) Join date
Silent Wolf Otto Bisno Fox 2016-04-03

PUBG Mobile

Recently, Team Secret recruited a Malaysian Team Genexsus who won their respective PMCO Malaysia Finals before going to Shanghai for PMCO SEA League. The team now advanced to PMCO SEA Grand Finals in Jakarta and won 4th place which qualifies them for the Preliminaries Round for PMCO Global Finals in Berlin in July 2019 where they finished in the 11th place out of 15 teams that joined. They were also the first Malaysian team to represent Malaysia in the global tournament . As of June 2020, Team Secret recruited 3 new players as well as a coach for their team. Those players are Thai player Madtoi from ILMN The Murder, Malaysian uHigh and Rex, and their new Coach, Jangs.[45]

ID Role Date Joined Nationality
OnTheGo Manager 2019 Malaysia
BiuBiuCaptain 29 April 2019 Malaysia
IshotzSniper 21 January 2020 Malaysia
MadtoiSniper/Support 21 January 2020 Thailand
uHighFragger 6 February 2020 Malaysia
Rex Fragger/Support 5 July 2020 Malaysia
JangSs Coach 3 June 2020 Malaysia

Fighting games
Date Tournament Game Country Placement Player
2016 EVO 2016 Tekken 7: Fated Retribution United States 3rd Chung-gon "Poongko" Lee
Japan Cup 2016 Street Fighter V Japan 2nd Chung-gon "Poongko" Lee
SoCal Regionals 2016 Tekken 7: Fated Retribution United States 1st Chung-gon "Poongko" Lee

Counter Strike: Global Offensive

On November 25, Team Secret acquired team m1x, who took to fight Astralis and Ninjas In Pyjamas and defeated Mouseports when trying to qualify for ECS

ID Name Role
juanflatroo Flatron Halimi Entry
tudsoN Filip Tudev Support
PERCY Martin Wessel IGL
sinnopsyy Dionis Budeci Rot
anarkez Guy Trachtman In Game Leader

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