Reference
The EsportsQuiz reference library
Every quiz round is built from a historical record: which teams a player actually signed for, and which five names played a given final. These pages are that record, written out — the tournament histories, the organisations whose rosters come up most often, and the careers that are hardest to place.
Games
How each competitive scene is structured, and which events we count.
Competitive Counter-Strike: the eras, the Majors and the rosters that defined them
How professional Counter-Strike grew from CS 1.6 into CS2: the Major system, the five dynasties, why rosters move in blocks, and which players our quiz treats as famous.
Competitive VALORANT: from open circuit to partnered leagues
How VALORANT esports works: Masters and Champions, the 2023 partnership reset, regional identity, agent-role churn, and which players our quiz treats as elite.
Competitive League of Legends: Worlds, MSI and fifteen years of dynasties
How League of Legends esports works: the regional leagues, Worlds and MSI, the Korean and Chinese dynasties, and which players our quiz counts as internationally proven.
Tournament history
Champions, finalists and the roster patterns behind each era.
The founding Majors, 2013–2015: Fnatic, NiP and the first dynasties
The first seven CS:GO Majors, from DreamHack Winter 2013 to Cluj-Napoca 2015: every champion, the winning five, and why Swedish and Polish rosters defined the era.
Majors 2016–2018: Brazil takes over, then Denmark takes everything
The middle era of CS:GO Majors: Luminosity and SK Gaming's Brazilian core, Gambit's underdog run, Cloud9's North American title and the start of the Astralis dynasty.
Majors 2019–2021: the Astralis peak, a lost year and s1mple's title
Astralis' back-to-back 2019 Majors, the cancelled 2020 season, and Natus Vincere's dominant Stockholm 2021 run — champions, rosters and what changed.
Majors 2022–2026: international rosters and the CS2 transition
From FaZe Clan's international Antwerp win to Vitality's CS2 titles and Team Spirit's Shanghai run: the modern Major era, its champions and its rosters.
VALORANT Champions: every season finale since 2021
Every VALORANT Champions since 2021 — Acend, LOUD, Evil Geniuses, EDward Gaming — with the winning five, the finals context and how the partnership era changed the field.
VALORANT Masters: the mid-season titles and what they proved
Every VALORANT Masters winner from Reykjavík 2021 onwards, with rosters and context: Sentinels, Gambit, OpTic, FunPlus Phoenix, Fnatic, Gen.G, G2 and Paper Rex.
The League of Legends World Championship, 2011 onwards
Every League of Legends world champion from Fnatic in 2011 to T1's back-to-back titles: finalists, regions, rosters and the dynasties that shaped each period.
The Mid-Season Invitational: the year's other trophy
Every Mid-Season Invitational champion since 2015 — EDG, SKT, RNG, G2, DWG KIA, JD Gaming, Gen.G — and why MSI results predict Worlds less often than you would think.
Team profiles
The organisations that appear most often in our line-up rounds.
Astralis: the four-Major dynasty and the roster that never changed
Astralis' complete Major history, the five-man core behind four titles, the Kjaerbye-to-Magisk switch and what happened after device left.
Natus Vincere: two Majors, twelve years apart in style
NAVI's Counter-Strike history: the Zeus era, s1mple's arrival, the perfect Stockholm 2021 run, and the completely rebuilt roster that won Copenhagen 2024.
FaZe Clan: the international experiment that finally worked
FaZe Clan's Counter-Strike rosters from the 2017 superteam to the Antwerp 2022 Major win under karrigan, and why their line-ups are the hardest to date.
Team Vitality: building a decade around one player
Vitality's Counter-Strike history: ZywOo's arrival in 2018, the Danish reinforcements that won Paris 2023, and the international five that won Austin 2025.
Fnatic: three Majors, a world championship and two decades of rosters
Fnatic across all three games we cover: the 2013–2015 CS:GO Majors, the first League of Legends world title, and the Boaster-and-Derke VALORANT era.
Sentinels: VALORANT's first superteam, twice
Sentinels' two Masters titles three years apart, the TenZ era, the collapse in between, and the rosters that make them a staple of line-up rounds.
LOUD: the Champions title that changed Brazilian esports
LOUD's 2022 VALORANT Champions win in Istanbul, the five players who did it, where each of them went next, and why the roster only existed for one season.
Paper Rex: years of near-misses, then a title
Paper Rex's rise from Southeast Asian outsiders to Masters champions, the f0rsakeN and Jinggg core, and the aggressive style that made them the region's flagship.
T1: five world titles and the longest career in esports
T1's world championships from SK Telecom T1 in 2013 to the back-to-back titles of 2023 and 2024, the rosters behind each, and Faker's role in all five.
G2 Esports: Europe's most persistent contender
G2's League of Legends run from the Perkz era to the Caps years, Europe's only MSI title, the 2019 Worlds final, and their Counter-Strike and VALORANT rosters.
Royal Never Give Up: two MSIs and the Uzi question
RNG's history from Royal Club's early Worlds finals to two MSI titles, Uzi's career-defining 2018 season, and the 2022 roster that won without him.
Gen.G: the Samsung inheritance and a VALORANT breakthrough
Gen.G's League of Legends line back to Samsung Galaxy's 2017 world title, the Ruler and Chovy eras, MSI 2024, and the VALORANT roster that won Masters Shanghai.
Player careers
Full team-by-team timelines for the careers most worth knowing.
s1mple: the individual peak of Counter-Strike
s1mple's full Counter-Strike career: HellRaisers, FlipSid3, Team Liquid, eight years at Natus Vincere, the Stockholm 2021 Major and the move to Vitality.
dev1ce: four Majors and the most decorated career in Counter-Strike
dev1ce's career from Copenhagen Wolves and Dignitas to the four-Major Astralis dynasty, the Ninjas in Pyjamas year, the return, and the move to 100 Thieves.
NiKo: the best rifler of his generation, still without a Major
NiKo's career from mousesports to the FaZe superteam, the G2 years with huNter-, the move to Falcons, and why his Major record is the game's biggest gap.
ZywOo: one organisation, two Majors, no rebuild
ZywOo's career: promoted from the French scene to Team Vitality in 2018, world's best player twice, and the two Major titles in 2023 and 2025.
TenZ: the face of VALORANT's first era
TenZ's career from Cloud9's Counter-Strike roster into VALORANT, the loan that won Masters Reykjavík, and the 2024 Madrid title with a rebuilt Sentinels.
Derke: five years as Fnatic's star duelist
Derke's VALORANT career at Fnatic: the 2021 Masters Reykjavík final, the 2023 double, and why an unchanged organisation makes his rounds harder, not easier.
aspas: a world title at eighteen, then another region to conquer
aspas' VALORANT career: the LOUD roster that won Champions 2022, his individual awards, and the move to Leviatán that made him a two-organisation star.
Boaster: the longest-serving captain in VALORANT
Boaster's VALORANT career as Fnatic's in-game leader since 2021: the Masters finals, the 2023 double, and the role of a captain in a game that changes every patch.
Faker: five world titles across eleven years
Faker's career at SK Telecom T1 and T1: the 2013, 2015, 2016, 2023 and 2024 world championships, the rosters around him, and why he is the sport's benchmark.
Caps: Europe's most decorated player, and its most painful near-miss
Caps' career from Dark Passage to Fnatic and G2: two Worlds finals, Europe's only MSI title, and the record for most international appearances by a Western player.
Uzi: two world finals as a teenager, no title at the end
Uzi's career from Royal Club's 2013 Worlds final to Royal Never Give Up's MSI title in 2018 — the most decorated Chinese career without a world championship.
Ruler: a world title at Samsung, then a decade at the top
Ruler's career: the 2017 world championship with Samsung Galaxy, the Gen.G years through the rebrand, the JD Gaming spell in China, and the return to Korea.
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