The history of Indian e-sports is a roller coaster ride be it the collaboration of Noble E-sports who lately backed out of India after a controversy or be it the huge surprising burst of PubG Mobile scene in India.
Here we are with the list of top 5 teams who made e-sports famous in India.
1. Team SouL:
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Mortal is the owner and co-founder of team SouL, the first ever PubG Mobile team to win everything in Indian circuit before going to represent India in global stage for multiple times.
The nostalgic old team SouL consisting of Viper, Mortal, Owais and Ronak is still unforgettable for those who've watched that era. Fast forward 2 years on currently SouL merged themselves with 8-bit another gaming organization to form S8UL a gaming organization who have already shattered every single record.
Be it the watching numbers of Youtube or Loco or be it promoting other games in the Indian getting community after the PubG ban. S8UL has a dedicated gaming bootcamp named S8UL gaming house which is the largest and costliest in India.
Team SouL is currently powered by S8UL and in this new era of BGMI they would again rise to the top as their new line up looks awfully fantastic.
The new team consists former Orange Rock members Mavi and Scout Op with the other old members Viper, Mortal and Regaltos to form one of the deadliest team who will be looking for the ultimate glory.
2. Global E-sports:
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One of the most famous PC gaming organization owned by Dr. Rushindra Sinha has done wonders to Indian gaming community. Global E-sports burst into the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro scene in 2019.
They made some pretty major waves by signing some top Indian CS:GO players earlier in their career as a pro team. In that same year, they came second in the ESL India premiership.
And with the arrival of the new FPP PC game Valorant owned by Riot Games Global E-sports has grown up to their highest potential having one of the best roster in India winning mostly every tournament till the date.
Having one of the most seasoned veteran PC gaming player Hellranger as their IGL and one of the best duelists in the world SK Rossi as their Jett main player they've gone on to dominate almost everyone.
Although their last defeat came against their arch rivals Velocity Gaming who went on to beat them in the last Valorant Conquerer Championship (VCC) India qualifiers.
Abiding to their expansion plan in the Indian gaming community they've gone onto hire a new BGMI line up consisting of some famous players in the community.
Their roster consists of Sangwan who previously player for terms like SouL and Fnatic with him from the old line up of team Powerhouse Dark & Iconic are also with him and the other two players are Iconic and Blaezi.
3. TSM-Entity:
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TSM is one of the best probably the best gaming organization in the World. Back in 2019 after the rise of PubG Mobile's e-sport scenario they went came in India and acquired the roster of Entity Gaming and from then on the name TSM-Entity has risen throughout the world.
They've been the best South Asian did in 2019 winning everything in this region they went on to finish 6th in the PubG World League 2020.
Their team who won everything were considered as one of the most aggressive teams in the World having one of the top 5 assaulters in the world named Jonathan thru looked unstoppable.
Having an IGL like Ghatak & Clutchgod while support players Zgod and Neyoo their gun power terrified everyone.
Though due to some personal issues this whole line up had been dropped by TSM-Entity note they own a different and new kind up hoping to achieve the same things what their previous team did.
4. Velocity Gaming:
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Velocity Gaming is one of the most famous PC gaming organization who went on to become the first Indian Valorant team to qualify for the VCC beating Global E-sports in Indian Valorant El Classico.
Velocity Gaming was founded in the year 2019 by Manoj SENTINEL Kasyap. Manoj is an ex- Counter Strike 1.6 pro, who has played many National and International tournaments.
He's a Harvard graduate and currently the executive director for Mahi Granites Pvt Ltd that's why he renamed his Valorant team as Team Mahi though they haven't performed well in that name do he again went back to Velocity Gaming.
The org. started with a competitive CsGo line up where they became famous but with the rise of Valorant they also shifted and dominated tournaments after tournaments winning them or at least reaching to the finals.
Their Valorant roster has a very renowned CsGo player as IGL name Amaterasu while they've changed their team a lot in recent times but he and Rite2Ace has been an integral part of the team. Apart from these two veterans the team consists of Hellif, Mazik, MW1 & Vibhor and their manager is Euphoria.
Apart from the competitive line up they also have a great list of content creators who entertains everyone creating gaming related content on Youtube and Loco some of the famous of them are Fa2 & Tbone.
5. Orange Rock:
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Orange Rock is currently the highest-earning mobile esports team in India. While SouL may have been the most popular PUBG team, Orange Rock is by far the most popular PUBG Mobile team in India.
Their second place finish in PubG World League East where they lost the trophy with only 3 points have made them intentionally famous.
Apart from that they've won a lot of tournaments like ESL India Premiership 2020 Summer Season, PUBG Mobile Pro League – Spring Split 2020: South Asia, and PUBG Mobile Club Open – Spring Split 2020: India.
Though all of them came under the leadership of Mavi who have currently joined team SouL and his helping hand as well as his brother from another mother Scout Op who've been the backbone of their team in PMWL also joined team SouL.
Their new roster consists of Aditya, Destro, Gill and Vexe showing great prowess but still the drop clashes that they're having against team SouL hampering both the team's practice.
Though alike TSM-Entity this router of OR has a very huge responsibility and expectations against their names and they also wish to prove all their doubters wrong.
There are a lot of teams in India's gaming community which is still in it's early days but these are some of the names which is largely helping the community grow and make gaming a career option in Indian culture.
Written by: Gourav Chowdhury
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