TSM finished the spring round robin with a 75% winrate and in first place, and in the playoffs they defeated Good Game University 3-2. Though the community as at first skeptical about the change, WildTurtle was quickly accepted after scoring a pentakill on Caitlyn against compLexity Gaming in his very first game with the team. After week 5, Chaox was benched from the team and replaced by Cloud9's AD carry WildTurtle. At Worlds, TSM received a group stage bye as the top North American seed, but they lost in the quarterfinals to eventual second-place team Azubu Frost.Īs one of the North American teams that attended the season 2 World Championship, TSM were given an automatic seed into the first-ever season of the North American League Championship Series, along with Dignitas and Counter Logic Gaming. TSM accrued by far the most circuit points out of any North American team, and so received the top seed to the season 2 regional final, which they won. First-place titles included IPL 4, MLG Anaheim, IPL Face Off:San Francisco, and the GIGABYTE Esports LAN. After this change, TSM became known as one of the strongest teams in the world - and the strongest team in North America, winning or placing highly in every LAN event they played for the rest of the year. He was replaced by Dyrus, who had already been living in TSM's team house but playing for Epik Gamer.
Two months after Kiev, on March 13, 2012, TheRainMan resigned from Team SoloMid, citing differences in training regimen plans, as he wanted to focus more on solo queue while the rest of the team wanted to focus on full team scrims. The first tournament of the 2012 year that Team SoloMid attended was the IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev, where they finised second to Moscow Five. Their last tournament in 2011 was the National ESL Premier League Season 2, where they placed third overall. Once Season 2 started, TSM continued to attend events. The move immediately produced results, as TSM took first in their next event, the 2011 MLG - Providence tournament. In light of failing to take first, TSM moved into a gaming house in the state of New York in late October of 2011.
The IGN ProLeague Season 3 in Atlantic City, and finished 7-8th place in the offline IEM Season VI - Global Challenge New York.
Second at the IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Cologne, failed to get out of groups at the 2011 MLG Pro Circuit - Raleigh, fourth place at
They placed third at National ESL Premier League Season 1, second at ESL Major Series - Season VIII Team SoloMid attended several circuits in the Preseason 2. Team SoloMid ended the tournament in 3rd place and took home $ 10,000 USD. In a close match, against All authority bested TSM and took the series. aAa started the best-of-three series with a one game advantage due to their previous win against TSM in the winner's bracket. Team SoloMid met Epik Gamer, a fellow North American team, and defeated them 2-0 to advance to the loser bracket finals where they faced aAa for a second time. TSM was defeated by aAa 1-2 and knocked down to the loser's bracket. Team SoloMid then met the French against All authority squad in the semifinals of the double elimination playoffs. TSM took first place in their group, going 2-1 and being the only team to lose to the Singaporean team, Xan. Riot Season 1 Championship Īfter the roster solidified with Reginald, TheOddOne, The Rain Man, Xpecial and Chaox, Team SoloMid attended the Riot Season 1 Championship on June 20, 2011. The month of April saw two major additions to TSM, with the arrival of Xpecial and The Rain Man. This led the team to pick up subs for the upcoming months, such as FeedFest, Westrice, Chu8, Doublelift and Qlown. The original roster consisted of Saintvicious, Reginald, Chaox, TheOddOne, and Locodoco but Saintvicious left Team SoloMid to join Counter Logic Gaming In February. TSM is the only team to qualify to the first seven World Championships and also is the only team to make the first ten NA LCS Finals.Īfter All or Nothing disbanded, Reginald decided to continue his competitive career by building a team in support of his site.
The organization previously hosted TSM Darkness and the now-disbanded Team SoloMid Evo. The team was first seen in early 2011 after being formed to participate in the Riot Season 1 Championship later that year. Since June 2021, the organization has been known as TSM FTX in non-Riot Games esports, but is not permitted to use that name in League of Legends or VALORANT due to sponsorship restrictions. TSM (previously known as Team SoloMid) is a North American esports team, created around the community website SoloMid.Net by brothers Andy " Reginald" Dinh and Dan " Dan Dinh" Dinh in September 2009.