Samsung Black History

Creation and the Past (January 2021)

 

Samsung Black was originally created as an academy team for Cloud 7 - a legacy team for Nashor's League (currently CWL). At first, it was known as Cloud 7 Academy but after the tryouts for jungle and support were concluded the team ownership was passed to me (Tekh). Then the decision was made to look for a new team name (partially because we were stomping the "main" squad in scrims). As Samsung (in Korea) had sister teams named White and Blue we have decided to go with that and name our team Samsung Black to be considered an independent team but still operating from Cloud 7 discord server. The main roster for Nashor’s League was Jonfoble, Weebie, MonkeyBusiness, Kanze, and Tekh(Me). We have finished the regular split second only to GAL (our main rival). In the playoffs phase we defeated the lower-seeded team, and then a 3-2 team named Fire in the semis. [I was appointed an admin for NL after our quarters win as the league was collapsing and I wanted to make it play out and help it finish]. Our final was streamed, and it took 6 hours, it was an intense match that was going back and forth. We won Game 1, Game 3, and Game 5. We were banning or picking enemy support champions as she was an "egirl" and we attacked that angle playing very aggressively on botlane. That is how the meme for the 4-man bot was created, and the min 3/4 tp's from our top and enemy were coming. Basically, 4v4 bot fights. We were known for these. Our top laner Jonfoble was chosen as the MVP of the finals. The prize was 60 EUR.

 

Struggle and downfall - CWL Season 1

 

After a successful transition to CWL from Nashor’s League – our team was the first that registered for it as I was spending around 15-20 hours a week working on the league.

After scrimming and playing league games, the team could not replicate the success of the previous regular season. Top laner Jonfoble left near the end of the regular season due to bad team performances. We found a new top laner that was quite different (Antonish) and was playing weakside for us instead of being an overall player that could play anything. I would like to mention that the weakest link of our team before Jonfoble left was Weebie that was playing jungle and clearly had no idea what macro is and how to communicate and fill the role that he had to do at the level of the league has rose to, due to transition from NL to CWL. After some more league games our ADC - Kanze was talking to me about leaving the team due to our frustration with our jungler (Weebie) and his performances. I wanted to try and convince him to stay and finish the regular season and playoffs - I was unsuccessful. He left the team when around 4 games were left to play in the regular split. We tried some available ADC's, and the decision was made (against my will) to go with "Foxy" which was (British - the same as Weebie – that affected the decision). We played some scrims and 2 league games (2 more to finish split). From the start, Weebie was downplaying his bad performances (zero macro and playing like a "pussy" - scared and seem like no mechanics as a player whatsoever). After that, I decided to leave the team, transfer the team, and discord ownership to Weebie to be able to finish the season under the same name. It was a loan or lease of my IP. That is where my beef with Weebie and his "Greef" organization comes from. Weebie during that time was known already to be boosted in the current and previous seasons to reach gold and then plat or diamond 1 even. As I condone any kind of boosting that convinced me he is the person preferring to use his vast wealth to solve problems instead of going for the root cause that was to blame. The team had an early exit from the playoffs. And shortly after "Greef" (REEF) was created. And the naming rights went back to me.

 

The story continues – recent events

 

The current iteration of Samsung Black was revived (made from scratch) when at the start of the year we were informed that Voracity (Mikkel) is done with competitive for the near future (We were betting when it will happen as his performance and professionalism were in shambles for past 6 months). Our main team Nightingale NSG disbanded, and we left the NSG discord server. (Me and Vinnie - the ADC that was chosen by me from tryout after CHRI did betray us and go to CCG and inted our last 4 league games - SLE and CWL). At first, I was looking for a team that wanted a bot duo so we could stay together - I always put a lot of effort into choosing the right person to play with me as my playstyle changes depending on the ability that my AD has. We did not find a team willing to take us. I have made a discord server and announced the tryouts for TOP, JG, and MID. For top lane we had no candidates or some that were of questionable quality (low WR or playstyle that they were not able to support with performance). I have decided to ask Kevin (He played for NSG Niflheim with me before I joined the main NSG team - the reason was me wanting to play with a better ADC which was STFU(Gormon) at the time, later CHRI that was playing top lane in the team). I knew him as a good and stable player with good mental and willing to play weakside for the team. So that was our choice. For the Jungle and Midlane tryouts, we have tried out a lot of people that had some issues with mental stability or were not suited for our playstyle. Currently, the jungler we chose is versatile and can play supportive or carry jungler for our team. Our mid laner can play carry AD or AP roles, perform, and call good macro and ensure the team's stability in tense moments. Me and Vinnie (ADC) prefer playing ultra-aggressive botlane that prefers to push enemies for mistakes and capitalize on it and take the game from our botlane advantage. It is great for me as I love to play engage champions and force people to make mistakes by making them uncomfortable when laning against me. The lane kingdom approach.

So far from scrims we have learned that we can play any meta and style to get a win as our champion pools are quite large and remarkably diverse. We are completing a pool of various team comps that draw bans and are ridiculously hard to predict based on what we can play. We would like to play around our botlane and mid lane with varying degrees of carry the potential of them match to match.

I am sure our team's star will be either our Jungler or Mid laner. Our Jungler can be a great enabler for the rest of the team or just take the game himself and force it to close as a carry player. Our Mid laner, however, can win mid-matchup 1v1, help the team with correct macro over voice comms, and make the game easier for me and the jungler to call shots and what to do next.

Our strength right now is in well-chosen players that complement our ability to play remarkably diverse playstyles and perform correct macro in whatever game we play.

 

 

If Mikkel or my previous teammates come back from "retirement" I would love to face them otherwise I do not really care who we play - we are looking to stomp everyone and win it all.

 

 

And the story continues today...