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Dignitas

File:Dignitas logo 2018.png
Short name	DIG
Divisions	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Rocket League Smite Super Smash Bros. Melee
Founded	September 9, 2003 (2003-09-09)
Location	Newark, New Jersey
CEO	Michael Prindiville
Partners	Champion HyperX Mountain Dew Raynor Gaming Twitch.tv Western Digital
Parent group	Philadelphia 76ers (since 2016)
Earnings	US$3,601,548.82
Website	dignitas.gg

Dignitas (formerly Team Dignitas) is a professional esports organization based in the United Kingdom, founded by Michael "ODEE" O'Dell on 9 September 2003 when Battlefield 1942 clans Legion Condor and Sweden Kompanix merged. Team Dignitas was acquired by the Philadelphia 76ers in September 2016. The team has a rich history across many different esports, but is best known for its former League of Legends and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive squads.

The organization rebranded in October 2018, dropping "Team" from its name and replacing its old logo with an owlhead logo.

Divisions

Dignitas is known to support games that are less popular or have smaller communities. Currently, the organisation has teams competing in the following games:

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Clash Royale
• Rocket League
• Super Smash Bros. Melee
• SMITE

Former

• Battlefield 4
• Call of Duty
• Call of Duty 2
• Call of Duty 4
• Counter-Strike: Source
• Dota 2
• FIFA
• Fighting games
• Halo 5: Guardians
• League of Legends
• StarCraft II
• TrackMania Nations Forever
• TrackMania 2: Stadium
• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
• World of Tanks

Achievements

In 2006 the Battlefield 2 team was chosen as the Battlefield 2 Team of the Year by Geeksnet.org. In May 2007 the British scene page UKCounterTerrorist.com and the renowned www.HLTV.org put the Counter-Strike 1.6 team as number one in Great Britain. By winning the first official international Enemy Territory: Quake Wars tournament at QuakeCon2007 the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars team gained the fame as the best team in the world. The World in Conflict team of Team Dignitas was nominated for the eSports Award 2007 as "eSport Team of the Year". In early 2008, the team's French FIFA player Maxime "Aghaton" Paulet was chosen as the Best French FIFA 07 player by the French community site FIFAFever.com. Towards the end of 2008, Cadred.org chose their Counter-Strike: Source team was recognized as the best European team, and won the award for best overall team. In early 2009, Dignitas' Call of Duty 4 and the Team Fortress 2 teams both managed to place first in Cadred.org's European rankings for three consecutive months.

Throughout the years Team Dignitas was able to achieve numerous important victories. In 2007 Dignitas was able to announce its first ever World Champion with Freek "XeNoGeaR" winning the Trackmania Nations competition at the Electronic Sports World Cup (he also came second at the ESWC 2008 one year later) and taking home $10.000. Later also Fredrik "Bergie", Jesper "KarjeN" and Carl-Antoni "Carl Jr." have won big Trackmania competitions. August 2007 the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars team came victorious in the first ever International Quake Wars tournament at Quakecon 2007, taking home $22.000. Also in 2007, Team Dignitas player Shaun "Apollo" Clark placed first in Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars at the World Cyber Games 2007, winning $12,000. The World Cyber Games 2008 would again be won by Team Dignitas, this time by Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath player Pascal "Dackel" Pfefferle ($10,000). In January 2011, Team Dignitas player Jeffrey "SjoW" Brusi won $7,500 after placing first in the Starcraft 2 IEM European Tournament.

In recent history, Team Dignitas has been known to have one of the best Heroes of the Storm teams in the history of the esport. Led by British team captain James "Bakery" Baker, the team made it to the Grand Finals of the 2015 Heroes of the Storm World Championship, and went on to win 4 of the 5 European Championships in 2016. The team continued great form in 2017, winning the first international competition of the year at IEM Katowice, and taking home another Silver medal in the mid-season World Championship. The team made roster changes at the start of 2018, and Josh "Snitch" Bennett stepped up as team captain. The team has again won the first international tournament of the year, making the team the 3 time back-to-back-to-back champions at IEM Katowice.

Media appearances

Team Dignitas has been in both local and mainstream media over the years. During the Electronic Sports World Cup 2007, Team Dignitas kept an online diary about the team's attendance at the event on the BBC website. Between November 2007 and February 2008, Dignitas FIFA player Jonas "IstvaN" Salomonsen was frequently featured in Danish television like DR1 or DR2. In March 2008, David "Zaccubus" Treacy was featured in the BBC 1 Six O'Clock news where he is asked about his opinion on the game Manhunt 2. In August 2008, global microprocessor manufacturer Intel has released a video about Dignitas member David "Zaccubus" Treacy on its official website. At the World Cyber Games 2008 UK Qualifier, Dignitas player Shaun "Apollo" Clark was interviewed by BBC Radio 1. Team Dignitas players have also been featured in local print media. Examples are Jesper "EnergetiC" Hallberg who was interviewed in an article of local Swedish newspaper "Mälaröarnas Nyheter". Also Israeli FIFA player Yossi "RuBiNaLDo" Rubin was featured in the local newspaper "News of Netanya". Moreover, since August 2007 the British computer magazine PC Format has a regular feature about Team Dignitas in which players of the team blog about recent events.

League of Legends

Team Dignitas sold their newly European LCS-qualified League of Legends team to Follow eSports, who soon after rebranded as Splyce, on 3 November 2015 for nearly £625,000 ($1 million).

Roster

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

ID	Name	Joined
EMUHLEET	Emmalee Garrido	2017-02-28
artStar	Lynnie Noquez	2017-02-28
rain	Amanda Smith	2017-02-28
CAth	Catherine Leroux	2018-06-21
milk	Kiara Makua	2017-11-10
Xp3 (Coach)	David Garrido	2017-02-28

SMITE

ID	Name	Role	Joined
Variety	Harry Cumming	Solo	2017-02-08
QvoFred	Anders Korsbo	Jungle	2017-02-08
Hurriwind	Tyler Whitney	Mid	2019-01-10
Ataraxia	Nate Mark	Hunter	2019-01-10
Trixtank	Jeppe Gylling	Support	2017-02-08

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Super Smash Bros.

ID	Name	Game(s)	Character(s)	Joined
HugS	Hugo Gonzalez	Super Smash Bros. Melee	Samus	2018-01-12
Lucky	Jose "Joey" Aldama	Super Smash Bros. Melee	Fox	2018-01-15

Management

Notable former players

League of Legends

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Counter-Strike: 1.6

Overwatch

ID	Name	Role	Joined	Left
LiNkzr	Jiri Masalin	DPS	August 2016	May 2017

Fighting games

Rocket League

ID	Name	Joined	Left
Kaydop	Alexandre Courant	May 2018	January 2019
Chicago	Reed Wilen	January 2018	May 2018
Turtle	Isaac App	January 2018	May 2018
zol	Zoli Digness	January 2018	May 2018

Tournament results

League of Legends

• 5–6th – IEM X Cologne
• 9th – 2015 NA LCS Spring
• 6th – 2015 NA LCS Summer
• 5–6th – 2015 NA LCS Summer Playoffs
• 10th – 2016 NA LCS Spring

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

• 3rd–4th – EMS One Katowice 2014
• 3rd–4th – ESL One Cologne 2014
• 5–8th – DreamHack Winter 2014
• 3rd – MLG X-Games Aspen 2015
• 3rd – Copenhagen Games 2015
• 3rd–4th – DreamHack Open Tours 2015
• 3rd–4th – Gfinity Masters Summer
• 4th – Acer Predator Masters
• 3rd–4th – DreamHack Open London 2015
• 13–16th – DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015
• 3rd–4th – DreamHack Leipzig 2016
• 2nd – Global eSports Cup
• 4th – ESL Barcelona 2016

Heroes Of The Storm

• 2nd – 2015 Heroes of the Storm World Championship
• 1st – 2016 DreamHack All-Stars Valencia
• 1st – 2017 Heroes of the Storm Global Championship Phase #1 Western Clash
• 2nd – 2017 Heroes of the Storm Global Championship Mid-Season Brawl
• 2nd – 2017 Heroes of the Storm Gold Club World Championship
• 1st – 2018 Heroes of the Storm Global Championship Phase #1 Western Clash
• 2nd – 2018 Heroes of the Storm Global Championship Mid-Season Brawl
• 1st – 2018 Heroes of the Storm Global Championship Phase #2 Western Clash

Rocket League

• 1st – Rocket League World Championship Season 5
• 1st – Northern Arena: Rocket League Invitational 2
• 1st – Rocket League European Championship Season 6
• 2nd – Rocket League World Championship Season 6
• 1st – DreamHack Leipzig 2019

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External links

• Official website
• Electronic Sports World Cup 2007 Diary on BBC.co.uk

• Use dmy dates from December 2011
• 2003 establishments in the United Kingdom
• Counter-Strike teams
• Defunct and inactive fighting game player sponsors
• Esports teams based in the United Kingdom
• Hearthstone teams
• Heroes of the Storm teams
• Former North American League of Legends Championship Series teams
• Smite teams
• StarCraft II teams
• Video gaming in the United Kingdom
• World of Tanks teams
• Defunct and inactive Dota teams
• Team Dignitas players
• Team Razer
• Philadelphia 76ers
• Rocket League teams