Origen is a European team that was founded by xPeke to compete in the EU LCS (now LEC). The organization was acquired by RFRSH Entertainment in late 2018.

History [ edit ]

Origen was initially founded by xPeke in December 2014 after he departed Fnatic to found his own team. Jungler Amazing (of Team SoloMid), support Mithy (formerly of Lemondogs), and rookie AD carry Niels joined xPeke as he played mid lane. xPeke's former Fnatic teammate sOAZ joined shortly thereafter to play top lane. Origen established a base and gaming house in Tenerife in the Canary Islands of Spain.

2015 Season [ edit ]

Origen qualified for the EUCS Spring Qualifier via the Challenger Ladder, where they beat Millenium Spirit in their bracket final, securing their qualification to the EUCS Spring Season. Origen were unbeaten until their penultimate game of the split, against LowLandLions.White, and despite dropping that one game easily secured first place in the regular season. Origen also placed highly in tournaments throughout this period, winning the ESL MWC Challenge and Gamers Assembly 2015. The Spring Playoffs saw Origen beat Reason Gaming in the semifinals 2-1 and then going on to sweep Copenhagen Wolves Academy (the team formerly known as LowLandLions.White) in the final to win the tournament and secure automatic qualification to the EU LCS Summer Season. Notably, their last game against CW Academy ended on a Zed backdoor by xPeke reminiscent of his famous backdoor at IEM Katowice in 2013, and the team would become known for its backdoor plays to win games.

Throughout the EU LCS Summer Season, Origen jostled for 2nd position with H2k-Gaming, while Fnatic sat far ahead in an undefeated 1st place throughout. Impressive individual performances helped the team ultimately secure that 2nd place regular season finish, and with it a bye past the Summer Playoffs quarterfinal round. In the semifinals, Origen faced off against rivals H2k and won 3-1; perhaps even more impressively, they took two games off Fnatic in the finals despite ultimately losing the series. Their second-place overall finish earned Origen 90 Championship Points, enough for the second seed in the 2015 Season Europe Regional Finals. There, they beat Team ROCCAT in a 3-2 series and then Unicorns of Love in an easy 3-0 and successfully qualified for the 2015 World Championship, where they would play as Europe's #3 seed. Shortly after their qualification, LeDuck decided to leave his role of head coach. He was replaced by analyst Hermit.

At the 2015 World Championship, Origen were drawn into Group D along with Team SoloMid, KT Rolster, and LGD Gaming. Origen went 3-0 in the 1st week of the round robin and ended the group with a 4-2 record, meaning they would advance to the knockout stage of the tournament. Origen won their quarterfinal series 3-1 against the Flash Wolves, becoming the first Western team to win a best-of-five at a World Championship, but were later knocked out by SK Telecom T1, the eventual champions, in the semifinals. Origen, along with fellow semifinalists Fnatic, placed higher than any Western team at Worlds since 2012.

2016 Season [ edit ]

After rumors that xPeke would retire from competitive play, Origen announced a six-man roster for the 2016 season, including former Unicorns of Love mid laner PowerOfEvil and xPeke as co-mid laners. Head coach Hermit also left the team. Their new roster, with PowerOfEvil starting in every game, debuted at IEM San Jose, where after a quarterfinal bye they swept Team SoloMid and Counter Logic Gaming to win the tournament. Not only was it Origen's first international tournament victory, but it was also first time a European team won a major event with a Korean team present since Gambit Gaming's victory at IEM Season VII Katowice, a year and a half beforehand.

Origen's performance at IEM San Jose resulted in their qualification to the IEM World Championship. At the tournament, they first lost to Royal Never Give Up in the upper bracket of their group before then losing to Team SoloMid in the lower bracket, resulting in the team's elimination from the tournament.

EU LCS Spring Split [ edit ]

Although xPeke and PowerOfEvil continued to ostensibly be co-midlaners, PowerOfEvil played all but three games throughout the spring split of the EU LCS. After a rocky start, Origen climbed to fifth place at 11-7 and secured a berth in the spring playoffs. There, Origen defeated Unicorns of Love and H2k Gaming before falling to G2 Esports in their second straight finals loss.

EU LCS Summer Split [ edit ]

Despite Origen's relative success in the spring, AD carry Niels (since renamed to Zven) and support Mithy departed for G2 Esports, citing the team's stressful environment throughout the split.[1] Origen signed EU LCS veteran FORG1VEN to AD carry along with G2's former support Hybrid.

Before the summer 2016 split, the EU LCS reorganized into a round-robin Best-of-Two format. Origen struggled to progress with its new roster, picking up only two series wins the entire split and staying in relegation territory throughout. Adding to the team's problems, FORG1VEN departed the team after three weeks and left Origen without an AD carry. As their substitute mid laner, xPeke stepped in to the AD carry role for much of the remainder of the season. He was briefly replaced by Lithuanian rookie Toaster, but xPeke moved back to the starting position only ten days later. Origen ended in ninth place with a 2-8-8 series record, cementing their unenviable berth in the upcoming Promotion Tournament.

In a close series in the Promotion Tournament, Origen defeated Misfits 3-2 to retain their EU LCS position.

2017 Season [ edit ]

EU LCS Spring Split [ edit ]

Following the disastrous summer split of 2016, all of Origen's players left the organization except xPeke, who moved back to a substitute mid position. Origen signed top laner Satorius, jungler Wisdom and support Hiiva of Misfits, EU LCS veteran Tabzz as AD carry, and rookie korean mid laner NaeHyun to round out its new roster. After the EU LCS reorganized to a two-group format prior to the spring split, Origen was selected to be in Group B along with H2K, Unicorns of Love, Splyce, and Team Vitality. Origen were considered the weakest team going into Spring Split and criticized for their roster moves, especially NaeHyun, who hadn't won a single of the 17 games he played in LSPL for Team KungFu. The expectations proved to be correct as Origen couldn't pick up a single series, let alone game win, in the first five weeks. Prior to Week 6, Origen released Hiiva and once again moved xPeke to the starting roster, this time to the support role. Origen however were unable to improve and lost to Misfits in Week 7. Even though Cinkrof joined Origen as an additional jungler, Wisdom remained the starting jungler in Week 8. Origen were able to improve slightly and picked up a game each against Team ROCCAT and Giants Gaming, breaking NaeHyun's loss streak of 32 games across all competitions, but still lost both series 1-2. As Wisdom left Origen, Cinkrof became the starting jungler for the last three weeks. Despite the roster change, Origen were unable to win any more games, ending the regular season in 5th place of Group B with a 0-13 record.

As the last placed team of their group, Origen faced demotion from EU LCS in the Summer Promotion tournament, and faced Misfits Academy in the first round. Origen lost the series 0-3 and moved down to the lower bracket, where they faced fellow EU LCS team Giants Gaming. After another 0-3 loss, Origen were eliminated and lost their spot in EU LCS.

EU CS Summer Split [ edit ]

None of Origen's players remained with the organization after Spring Split. After it was unclear whether Origen would even use their Challenger Series spot, they picked up the roster of Wind and Rain, who had previously qualified for CS Summer Split after a surprisingly successful qualifying campaign, consisting of Dan Dan, xani, SRH, DarkSide, and Quixeth. Neon and Iluzjonist joined as a substitutes, but started in the AD carry and Support positions for the first week respectively. After Origen only won a single series in the first three weeks, starting with Week 4, Neon and Iluzjonist returned to the starting lineup permanently and SevenArmy replaced xani, who moved to a coaching position. However, the roster changes did not help Origen to reach a playoff spot, and instead finished in fourth place with a 1-0-4 record.

2018 Season [ edit ]

Origen went silent after the end of 2017 Summer Split, and it was to the surprise of many when Origen's return was announced on their Twitter account at the end of March. After former Liverpool F.C. and Real Madrid footballer Álvaro Arbeloa retweeted the announcement tweets, he announced his partnership with Origen on April 3, most likely investing in the organization.[2]

2019 Season [ edit ]

In 2018 it was reported that Astralis' parent company RFRSH Entertainment had acquired Origen and would use their name and brand for their EU LCS entry as part of the 2019 European franchise program.[3] On November 20, Riot Games confirmed Origen as one of the ten partner teams for the LEC 2019 Spring Split.[4]

Origen recruited Deficio and Guilhoto as manager and head coach. With their expertise they signed a roster containing of many experienced players in Alphari, Kold, nukeduck, and mithy and young AD carry Patrik. After a rough start to the Spring Split they found their style and showed consistent and clean gameplay. They finished the split in 2nd place behind G2 which meant that they secured their place at the finals weekend in Rotterdam and at Rift Rivals. In Round 2 of playoffs they faced off against G2 for a place in the final but were outclassed by their opponents in a 0-3 sweep. Due to the new playoff format they got a second chance to reach the finals in semifinals against Fnatic. They won the series convincingly 3-1 to face G2 in a rematch for the title where their opponents styled on them in another 0-3 sweep and the fastest LEC playoff series ever.

After a very difficult starting schedule in Summer Split during which they lost to the other 3 top 4 teams of spring whilst beating the lower teams Origen went into RR in 4th with a 3-3 record. Despite losing to TL on day 2 after a dominating day 1 the team managed to win their game in the final and win the tournament for LEC. After RR however it became more and more apparent that the team had lost something compared to Spring Split and after ending regular season with a loss streak of 4 games they dropped out of playoff positions due to H2H records. They went into gauntlet as 2nd seed due to their points from spring but on top of being underdog compared to Splyce and Schalke already Kold got ill just before the gauntlet so they had to swap in academy jungler Zanzarah. Neither of those did stop them from putting up a fight in Round 1 against Splyce though. They started great and won game 1 convincingly before two dominant defeats. After yet another fast dominant victory in game 4 they lost clearly in a slow and methodical game 5.

2020 Season [ edit ]

For the 2020 Season Origen signed Xerxe from Splyce, Upset from S04 and Destiny from OPL team Mammoth while Kold, Patrick and mithy left the team. With a win against Fnatic they had a good start into Spring Split and found themselves near the top of the league after week 2 only dropping their game against G2. After another loss the week after they kept a flawless record against the worse teams until last week but were not able to beat the top teams and therefore found themselves in 3rd place with a 13-5 record. In Round 1 of playoffs they faced Fnatic and did not find an answer to their comp in games 1 and 2 before struggling to close out game 3 and throwing an advantage in midgame of game 4 which meant that they dropped into Loser's Bracket. There they recovered from a tough game 1 loss against Rogue to win the series convincingly 3-1 and face G2 in Round 3. Following yet another game 1 they lost another game where they had a clear advantage in a lategame teamfight to come back with a great game 3 but stood no chance in game 4 which ended their split.

Timeline [ edit ]

Player Roster [ edit ]

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Formerly On Loan [ edit ]

Player League Participation [ edit ]

Organization [ edit ]

Current [ edit ]

C ID Name Position xPeke Enrique Cedeño Martínez 80 Founder & Co-Owner nikolaj Nikolaj Nyholm Founder & Chairman at Astralis Group JakobLK Jakob Lund Kristensen Founder & CCO at Astralis Group Anders Hørsholt President & CEO at Astralis Group Jakob Hansen CFO at Astralis Group Kasper Hvidt Director of Sports

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Tournaments [ edit ]

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Media [ edit ]

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Images [ edit ]

Logos [ edit ]

Origen Logo

(2014)

Origen Logo

(2015 - 2018)

Previous Logo (2018)

Rosters [ edit ]

Origen 2015 EUCS Spring Roster

Origen 2015 EU LCS Summer Roster

Origen with sponsors Ozone Gaming

Origen 2016 EU LCS Spring Roster

Origen 2016 EU LCS Summer Roster with FORG1VEN as starting AD carry and Hybrid as starting Support

Origen 2016 EU LCS Summer Roster with xPeke as starting AD carry

Origen 2017 EU LCS Spring Roster with Hiiva as starting support

Origen 2019 LEC Spring and Summer Roster