Mineski

Mineski.Sports5
Location Philippines[1]
Founded 2004
Manager(s) Marvin "Nattefrost" Lu
Sponsors Sports5
PowerColor
Razer
Advanced Micro Devices
Mineski Infinity
SteelSeries
Gigabyte Technology
Divisions Dota 2
DotA
Website www.mineski.net
infinity.mineski.net

Mineski is a professional gaming organization established in the Philippines. The team is known to be one of the strongest Southeast Asian Electronic sports team in the Philippines, providing "successful" players in each competitive gaming genres. The team's performance became inconsistent after JuLz and Jhoven left the team. Even after a good performance in the The International 2014 SEA Qualifiers, the team went back to a slump. Their current win rate is 57% with 118 wins, 99 losses and 4 draws as of June 2014 according to gosugamers.[2]

History

Team history

Mineski is an organization driven by the pursuit to uplift the professional gaming scene in the Philippines.[3] Team Mineski is a professional gaming team founded on February 14, 2004[3] by a group of gamers and close friends in Manila, Philippines. They took the risk and hard work to make Philippine's electronic sport teams recognized and appreciated internationally. As passionate gamers, team Mineski also aims to be seen as an icon and role model for aspiring amateur gamers in the Philippines, despite its players don't really want to play professionally, playing "just for fun" by competing both local and international Dota and Dota 2 games.

Considered to have one of the strongest DotA teams, Mineski was also invited by Valve to compete with the top 15 DotA teams for the first International Dota 2 electronic sports tournament during 2011.[4][5]

Mineski is not only limited to the Philippine gaming community. They expanded by creating a Korean DotA line up in 2012. The Korean team is no longer active.[6]

Mineski qualified for Frankfurt Major 2015 by winning the Southeast Asia qualifier tournament.[7]

Mineski won the Philippine Qualifier for the ESL One Manila.[8]

Mineski also won the SEA Qualifier for the Manila Majors.

Roster

Nationality Alias Name Position
 Philippines Bimbo Ryan Jay Qui 1
 Singapore Meracle Galvin Kang Jian Wen 2
 Philippines RR.ph Ralph Richard Peñano 3
 Philippines Julz Julius De Leon 4
 United States /  Philippines ninjaboogie Michael Ross Jr. 5 Captain**
 South Africa Scantzor Anthony Hodgson Team Coach/Analyst

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Sponsorship

Mineski-Dota is currently sponsored by Gigabyte[10]SteelSeries.[11] and Sports5

Mineski.net states “… According to Eugene Lee, Marketing Manager of SteelSeries for South-East Asia, They've always set an eye for Mineski. He said that Mineski is not only a DOTA team but a whole organization that pushes eSports not only in the Philippines but also to the whole South-East Asia. "The organization is very passionate about eSports and I know that SteelSeries and Mineski shares the same passion that's why we always wanted to work with them.".”[12]

Team Profile

Mineski Team Profile

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Awards

2013 Awards

Place Competition
DOTA 2 bangkaan tournament
Gravahan DOTA 2 TOURNAMENT
BLK.4 Pisonet DOTA 2 tournament
Netolic Pro League Online September
GEST Dota2 August
Neolution GosuCup August
Gigabyte Mineski Pro-Gaming League 5-8 Dota2 (LAN)
GEST Dota2 July
Gigabyte Mineski Pro-Gaming League 5-7 Dota2 (LAN)
Neolution GosuCup June
Gigabyte Mineski Pro-Gaming League 5-6 Dota2 (LAN)
E2Max L33t Championship PH Qualifier
Gigabyte Mineski Pro-Gaming League 5-5 Dota2 (LAN)
TNC Cup Dota2
BluDOTA OGM Dota2 SEA Open
Gigabyte Mineski Pro-Gaming League 5-4 Dota2 (LAN)
Tide's Wrath Online Dota2 Tournament
TheNet.Com Dota2 Tournament Online
Gigabyte Mineski Pro-Gaming League 5-3 Dota2 (LAN)
Ledion Mini tournament Dota2
MSI Revolution Dota2 (LAN)
Gigabyte Mineski Pro-Gaming League 5-2 Dota2 (LAN)

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2012 Awards

Place Competition
Power Cup Dota2 Tournament
SMM 2012 Malaysia
Gigabyte GEST DotA Cup November (Online)
GPPC Dota2 Tournament November
Gigabyte GEST DotA Cup August (Online)
Davao Cyber Expo
MIOT Legarda Dota2
Alodia's Birthday Bash Dota1
Gigabyte Mineski Pro-Gaming League 4-3 DotA (LAN)
Ledion Dota Tournament: Big Dog J Birthday Celebration (LAN)
Razer Dota 2 Tournament Singapore
Gigabyte GEST DotA Cup February (Online)
Gigabyte Mineski Pro-Gaming League 4-1 DotA (LAN)
Pacific Dota Tournament Philippines, January (LAN)
Thailand Game Show (LAN)- DotA

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2011 Awards

Place Competition
Asian Cyber Games Dota 2 Malaysia Invitational
Sendi Mutiara Multimedia Grand Final
PCXpress Gaming Expo
WCG Asian Championship Dota 2
WCG Asian Championship WC3 Dota
Mineski Pro-Gaming League Grand Final
TheGamesXpo (TGX) Singapore
Mineski Pro-Gaming League 3-9
Mineski Pro-Gaming League 3-8
10th Place The International
Mineski Pro-Gaming League 3-7 (TGX PH Qualifiers)
Mineski Pro-Gaming League 3-6
Mineski Pro-Gaming League 3-6
Mineski Pro-Gaming League 3-4
D-Six Dota Tournament
Mineski Pro-Gaming League 3-3
Mineski Pro-Gaming League 3-2
Mineski Pro-Gaming League 3-1

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2010 Awards

Place Competition
10th Placer Sendi Mutiara Multimedia Grand Final
Gamepod DotA Tournament
Pacific 2nd Battle of the Champions Tournament
Alienware Mineski Pro-Gaming League 2-5
Alienware Mineski Pro-Gaming League 2-4
Alienware Mineski Pro-Gaming League 2-3
Pacific 1st Battle of the Champions Tournament
Alienware Mineski Pro-Gaming League 2-1
Alienware Mineski Pro-Gaming League 1-5
Alienware Mineski Pro-Gaming League 1-3
Cubizone DotA Tournament

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2009 Awards

Place Competition
10th Place Sendi Mutiara Multimedia (SMM) Grand Final
Mineski Dota Tournament 4 (MSDT-4)
Mineski Dota Tournament 3 (MSDT-3)
Mineski Dota Tournament 2 (MSDT-2)
Mineski Dota Tournament 2 (MSDT-1)
PSW4 Dota Tournament
Paradigm DotaPH EyeBall
New England College Dota Tourney (NEC)
Batlle of the Kriss 3
World GameMasters Tournament Philippines

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2008 Awards

Place Competition
ASUS WGT 2008 DOTA
Battle of the Kriss 2
SKOTH2
Participant ASIAN CYBERGAMES SG PH Representatives
Participant Asian Dota Championships 2008 Philippine Team
WCG DotA Philippines
Cyberzone Cyber Games
Battle of the Kriss
Pdip 2008
Wired Lounge Tournament
Aenigma
4th Place Asian Dota Championships
Philippine Regional War

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2005-2007 Awards

Place Competition
Asian Dota Championships Philippines
DLST 5
Paradigm TSEI Warm Up Tourney
I-hooked Tournament
Digital Affinity Tournament
Super Tournament
Y2k Tournament
Eaglepoint Tournament
E.G.G. Market! Market!
Tribu ni Misu Tournament
Katips DotA Tournament
1st La Salle DotA Tournament

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References

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