Prime

Overview

Team Results

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Team Information
Location:	South Korea
Coaches:	Park "Gerrard" Oi Sik
Manager:	Lee Jun Ho (이준호)
Website:	Prime Prime Clothing Store Facebook
Sponsor:	Tt eSPORTS OCZ Technology
TLPD:	Prime International Prime Korean
Player Breakdown
Number of Players:	8
3  3  2
History
Created:	2010-10-13

Prime is a top Korean StarCraft II team.

Overview

Prime is a Korean Team and clan. They were founded near the launch of Wings of Liberty. Near launch they were announced to be sponsored by the World Elite, but this sponsorship was eventually dropped.

In October of 2010, Prime took part in the Brainbox Team Invitational placing third after oGs who won and the now disbanded team WeRRa that placed second.

Prime lost 2 players, Maka and Polt, on the opening day of the GSL Code S Sponsorship League. HongUn and anypro were later eliminated as well. MarineKing was the only Prime member that made it through Ro32, eventually making it to the finals where he was decisively defeated 0-4 by Mvp.

Going into February, Prime had 5 Code S players: MarineKing, HongUn, Check, anypro, and Polt. Maka and Polt were both defeated in the Up and Down Matches, putting them in Code A. A tournament was held to decide which player, of the 8 players who went to Code A from Up and Down matches, would replace LiveForever who was entering military service. Polt won the tournament, putting him back in Code S. Maka remained in Code A.

The "Optimus" ID has been an ID MarineKing popularized in his first GSL finals, but never took up for himself since he never won a championship. The Prime coach has said that the "Optimus" ID will move around the team to the current Prime champion. Polt was the first Prime player to win a GSL championship, so he was the first player to hold the title. After his switch to TSL, the status of the Optimus title is currently unknown.

Prime also has their own online clothing store which includes their team shirts as well as other merchandise. The clothes are all modeled by Prime players, with more of a focus given to MarineKing and Gerrard. The store initially only delivered to Korean addresses, but opened up to international deliveries on September 24th, 2011.

Prime did not have much success in the team leagues in the first three seasons as they would always lose in the first round. However, in the GSTL Season 1, they pulled an upset by making it out of the group stages and into the play-offs where they eventually were defeated by MVP in the finals to place second.

Prime went one better during the 2012 GSTL Season 1 taking victory over StarTale with MarineKing taking victory over Leenock to win 5-3 over all. The finals were the first GSTL finals to be held over seas, taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 3 months between March and June would prove to be incredibly successful for Prime, winning the IPL Team Arena Challenge 2, 2012 Global StarCraft II Team League Season 1 and 2012 KSL Team League Season 1 over New Star HoSeo, StarTale and StarTale again respectively. The KSL victory was notable for a 6 man all kill by MarineKing.

History

2010

• October 13th, Prime was founded.
• Min leaves Prime. He later joined SlayerS.

2011

• March 4th, BitByBit, ParkJongHyuk, and Dayfly are all dropped from Prime's roster. While Classic and Daisy joined Prime.
• September 14th, Polt leaves Prime. He later joined Team SCV Life.
• October 7th, ByuN joined Prime, after leaving ZeNEX.
• October 8th, Prime places second in the 2011 Global StarCraft II Team League Season 1.
• October 21st, Check leaves Prime. He later joined eSahara.
• November 17th, HongUn leaves Prime. He later joined eSahara.

2012

• January 1st, Maka was reported to have left the team. He later joined eSahara.
• January 4th, Tt eSPORTS was announced as a new global partner.
• March 1st, cOre retires from progaming.
• April 8th, Prime wins 2012 Global StarCraft II Team League Season 1.
• May 1st, Daisy leaves Prime to join ESC ICYBOX.
• May 20th, AriA joined Prime, after oGs disbanded.
• July 12th, AnNyeong leaves Prime and retires.
• August 21th, Lucy joins Prime.
• October 22nd, BBoong leaves Prime. He later joined MJ Team along with former Prime players Bitbybit and Hannibal.

2013

• January 23rd, TerrOr and Emir join Prime.
• March 25th, Coach Gerrard's girlfriend, Barbie joins Prime as their first female pro gamer.
• March 31st, Classic retires.

Player Roster

Prime's roster after winning 2012 Global StarCraft II Team League Season 1.

Notable

Best Yearly Results:

		ID	Name	2010	2011	2012	2013
South Korea	p	Barbie	Lee Yura	Y-	Y-	Y-	Y-
South Korea	T	ByuN	Byun Hyun Woo	D2Ro32	A4 Ro4	A4 Ro4	D2 Ro32
South Korea	P	Creator	Jang Hyun Woo	Y-	LB6 Ro16	A1st	B6Ro16
South Korea	Z	Emir	Kim Kang Bin	Y-	Y-	Y-	Y-
South Korea	P	Lucy	Jo Ji Hyun	Y-	Y-	Y-	Y-
South Korea	T	MarineKing	Lee Jung Hoon	A22nd	A2 2nd	A1st	A44th
South Korea	T	Maru	Cho Seong Ju	D2Ro32	LD2 Ro32	B6 Ro16	D2 Ro32
South Korea	Z	TerrOr	Jeon Ji Won	Y-	Y-	Y-	Y-

Former

		ID	Name	New Team
South Korea	P	Classic	Kim Hong Jae	Retired
South Korea	Z	Terius	Song Byung Hak	Retired/Unknown
South Korea	Z	AriA	Byun Jeong Geun	Retired/Unknown
South Korea	Z	Salmosa	Hwang Sung Woo	Retired/Unknown
South Korea	Z	BBoong	Choi Jong Hyuk	MJ Team
South Korea	p	Nettie	Jun Yung Soo	Retired/Unknown
South Korea	Z	AnNyeong	Moon Hak Seon	Retired
South Korea	T	Libero	Kim Tae In	Retired/Unknown
South Korea	T	Tankboy	Lee Yoo Seok	Retired/Unknown
South Korea	T	Hannibal	Kim Dong Wook	MJ Team
South Korea	P	Daisy	Lee Jong Hyuk	ESC ICYBOX
South Korea	P	cOre	Ahn Jung Min	Retired
South Korea	P	anypro	Lee Jung Hwan	Retired/Unknown
South Korea	T	Maka	Kwak Han Eol	eSahara
South Korea	P	HongUn	Ahn Hong Wook	eSahara
South Korea	Z	Check	Lee Hyung Joo	eSahara
South Korea	T	Polt	Choi Seong Hun	Team SCV Life
South Korea	T	ParkJongHyuk	Park Jong Hyuk	Retired/Unknown
South Korea	T	Myth	Kim Sung Yeon	Retired/Unknown
South Korea	T	Dayfly	Lee Joong Heon	Retired/Unknown
South Korea	T	BitByBit	Kim Nam Kyu	MJ Team
South Korea	Z	Aory	Byun Joon Young	Retired/Unknown
South Korea	Z	Chipmunk	Hong Won Wi	Retired/Unknown
South Korea	P	Wind	Choi Jin Seok	Retired/Unknown
South Korea	T	Min	Hwang Doh Hyung	SlayerS
South Korea	T	Ryung	Kim Dong Won	Incredible Miracle
South Korea	Z	Fanta	Park Sung Joon	StarTale
South Korea	P	Eternal	Kim Hyun Tae	Team SCV Life
South Korea	Z	Junwi	Park Gyung Lak	Incredible Miracle

Team Achievements

2012

Date	Event	Result
2012-06-03	2012 KSL Team League Season 1	6 : 0
2012-04-08	2012 Global StarCraft II Team League Season 1	5 : 2
2012-03-09	IPL Team Arena Challenge 2	8 : 7
2012-01-30	2012 KSL Team League - January	6 : 3
2012-01-22	IPL Team Arena Challenge 2 Qualifier 2	3 : 5

2011

Date	Event	Result
2011-10-08	2011 Global StarCraft II Team League Season 1	3 : 5

2010

Date	Event	Result
2010-10-16	2010 Brainbox StarCraft II Team Invitational	3 : 0

Championships

Global Starcraft II Team League Champions
2011 GSTL Season 1 Preceeded By:  MVP	2012 GSTL Season 1 8 April 2012 – 28 July 2012  Prime	2012 GSTL Season 2 Succeeded By:  FXO

IPL Team Arena Challenge Champions
IPL TAC 1 Preceeded By:  QIM‎	IPL TAC 2 23 January 2012 – 11 August 2012  Prime	IPL TAC 3 Succeeded By:  IM

Highlight Videos

• 2011-03-02 | Team House Tour by Artosis
• 2011-06-02 | Team House Tour by Cyber Sports Network
• 2011-10-04 | Player Highlights by JJangsePrime