TSM 1-0 Late Winner vs. Rival – 2011

Lore & Background

Before entering esports, the origin of Team SoloMid (TSM) traces back to September 2009, when Andy "Reginald" Dinh and his brother Dan Dinh created a blog, which became SoloMid.net, during their college years providing written guides for the game League of Legends. The Dinh brothers were both part of a League of Legends clan called All or Nothing during the game's beta testing, which later rebranded to SoloMid. A small group of players that represented the SoloMid.net community would become the original TSM team: SaintVicious, Chaox, TheOddOne, Locodoco, and Reginald. Team SoloMid was officially created in January 2011. Later that year, Riot Games launched the first season of what would become the League Championship Series. By then, both SaintVicious and Locodoco had left the team, and TheRainMan and Xpecial had replaced them to complete TSM's roster of the first season.

Reader's Guide

No verifiable record exists of a standalone 1-0 single-map victory by TSM against a direct rival in 2011, as matches were typically best-of series. No known 2011 League of Legends match lasted 90 minutes; typical game lengths were 20-40 minutes.

Did You Know?

• TSM's League of Legends team won seven of the total sixteen splits of North America's League of Legends Championship Series (LCS).
• In December 2020, Team SoloMid was worth $410 million.
• On June 4, 2021, TSM announced a 10-year $210 million naming rights deal with FTX, officially changing their name to Team SoloMid FTX.