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Dignitas

File:Dignitas logo 2018.png
Short name	DIG
Divisions	League of Legends Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Rocket League Smite Super Smash Bros. Melee
Founded	9 September 2003 (2003-09-09)
Location	Newark, New Jersey
Owners	Joshua Harris David S. Blitzer
CEO	Michael "Prindi" Prindiville
General manager	Andrew Barton
Partners	Champion HyperX Mountain Dew Raynor Gaming Twitch.tv Western Digital
Parent group	Philadelphia 76ers (since 2016)
Earnings	US$3.63 million
Website	dignitas.gg

Dignitas (formerly Team Dignitas) is a professional esports organization based in the Newark, New Jersey, founded by Michael "ODEE" O'Dell on 9 September 2003 when Battlefield 1942 clans Legion Condor and Sweden Kompanix merged. 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 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. In September 2019, Dignitas formed a new parent company, New Meta Entertainment (NME), a digital sports and entertainment company operating in three primary verticals: esports teams, content and marketing, and investments. Michael Prindiville is the CEO of New Meta Entertainment.

Divisions

Currently, the organisation has teams competing in the following games:

• League of Legends
• 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
• Heroes of the Storm
• Quake 3
• Quake 4
• 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 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 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, 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 Dignitas, this time by Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath player Pascal "Dackel" Pfefferle ($10,000). In January 2011, Dignitas player Jeffrey "SjoW" Brusi won $7,500 after placing first in the Starcraft 2 IEM European Tournament.

In recent history, 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.

Dignitas' female Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster is one of the best female CSGO teams in the world. The team took GIRLGAMER Esports Festival back-to-back in 2017 and 2018, and Intel Extreme Challenge Katowice in 2018 and 2019.

League of Legends

After being rejected as a franchise partner for NA LCS in 2017, Dignitas returned to League of Legends in 2019 by acquiring Clutch Gaming. With Dignitas' coaching, Clutch climbed from almost last-placed at the ned of LCS Spring Season to qualifying for Worlds 2019 as NA's third-seed. The team is competing under Dignitas' banner starting with 2020.

Roster

League of Legends

Nat.	ID	Name	Role	Joined
	Huni	Heo Seung-hoon	Top Laner	November 27, 2018
	Lira	Nam Tae-yoo	Jungler	December 2, 2017
	Damonte	Tanner Damonte	Mid Laner	November 26, 2018
	Cody Sun	Cody Sun	Bot Laner	March 22, 2019
	Vulcan	Philippe Laflamme	Support	November 28, 2018

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Female

Nat.	ID	Name	Joined
	EMUHLEET	Emmalee Garrido	2017-02-28
	artStar	Lynnie Noquez	2017-02-28
	rain	Amanda Smith	2017-02-28
	milk	Kiara Makua	2017-11-10		Theia	Melisa Mundorff	2019-08-13
	Xp3 (coach)	David Garrido	2017-02-28

SMITE

Nat.	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

Rocket League

Nat.	ID	Name	Joined
	ViolentPanda	Jos van Meurs	2018-05-22
	Yukeo	Maurice Weihs	2019-01-17
	Aztral	Maello Ernst	2019-07-20

Super Smash Bros.

Nat.	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

Nat.	ID	Name	Role	Joined	Left
	cajunb	Rene Borg	Rifler/AWPer	February 2014	February 2015
	device	Nicolai Reedtz	AWPer	February 2014	February 2015
	dupreeh	Peter Rasmussen	Rifler (Entry-Fragger)	February 2014	February 2015
	karrigan	Finn Andersen	In-Game Leader	December 2014	February 2015
	Xyp9x	Andreas Højsleth	Rifler	February 2014	February 2015
	FeTiSh	Henrik Christensen	In-Game Leader	February 2014	March 2015
	Nico	Nicolaj Jensen	AWPer	February 2015	September 2015
	schneider	Andreas Lindberg	AWPer	September 2015	October 2015
	aizy	Philip Aistrup	Rifler	January 2015	November 2015
	Pimp	Jacob Winneche	Rifler/AWPer	January 2015	November 2015
	Kjaerbye	Markus Kjærbye	Rifler	January 2015	May 2016
	MSL	Mathias Lauridsen	Lurker/In-Game Leader	March 2015	December 2016
	k0nfig	Kristian Wienecke	Rifler	November 2015	December 2016
	RUBINO	Ruben Villarroel	Rifler	November 2015	December 2016
	cajunb	Rene Borg	Rifler/AWPer	May 2016	December 2016
	Magiskb0Y	Emil Reif	Rifler	June 2016	December 2016

Counter-Strike: 1.6

Nat.	ID	Name	Role	Joined	Left
	RattlesnK	Sam Gawn	Captain/AWPer	September 2005	June 2009
	immuNe	Rob Frith	Rifler/AWPer	September 2005	January 2007
	punt	Daniel Dougherty	Rifler (Entry-Fragger)	September 2005	April 2007
	w1cked	David Gee	Rifler	September 2005	February 2007
	vpr	Simon Carter	Rifler	September 2005	January 2007
	Mangiacapra	Marc Mangiacapra	Rifler	March 2007	June 2008
	pt	Pete Wright	Rifler	February 2007	June 2008

Overwatch

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

Fighting games

Rocket League

Nat.	ID	Name	Joined	Left
	Turbopolsa	Pierre Silfver	May 2018	June 2019
	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

• 5th–6th – IEM X Cologne
• 9th – 2015 NA LCS Spring
• 6th – 2015 NA LCS Summer
• 5th–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
• 5th–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
• 13th–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
• Dignitas players
• Team Razer
• Philadelphia 76ers
• Rocket League teams