FunPlus Phoenix is a Chinese professional esports organization owned by video game developer FunPlus. It has teams competing in League of Legends, , Fortnite Battle Royale, and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. FunPlus Phoenix's League of Legends team competes in the League of LegendsPro League, the top level of professional League of Legends in China. On 10 November 2019, the team won the 2019 League of LegendsWorld Championship after defeating G2 Esports in the grand finals.
''League of Legends''
History
On 20 December 2017, FunPlus' esports division announced the creation of FPX and its acquisition of a spot in the League of Legends Pro League. FPX's inaugural roster consisted of top laner Kim "GimGoon" Han-saem, jungler Hu "Pepper" Zhi-Wei, mid laner Feng "bing" Jin-Wei, bot laner Lin "Lwx" Wei-Xiang, and support Liu "Crisp" Qing-Song. The team's first tournament was the 2017 Demacia Championship, which they placed ninth to fifteenth after losing to Team WE in the third and final round of Group E. For the 2018 LPL Spring regular season, FPX was placed in the league's western conference. Despite adding veteran mid laner Yu "Cool" Jia-Jun, FPX finished fifth in their conference with a 9–10 record and did not qualify for playoffs. Chen "Alex" Yu-Ming replaced Pepper as the team's primary jungler for the 2018 LPL Summer regular season. FPX finished fourth in their conference with an 8–11 record, qualifying for playoffs as one of the bottom seeds. They were promptly defeated by JD Gaming in the first round. In preparation for the 2019 LPL Spring regular season, FPX revamped their roster, adding jungler Gao "Tian" Tian-Liang and veteran mid laner Kim "Doinb" Tae-sang. The team massively improved, finishing first in the regular season with a 13–2 record and getting an automatic bye to the semifinals. However, in an upset result, FPX lost 2–3 to JD Gaming in the semifinals, and advanced to the third place decider match rather than the finals. FPX defeated Topsports Gaming 3–1 in the third place decider match. Going into the 2019 LPL Summer Split without making any roster changes, FPX once again finished first in the regular season and automatically qualified for the semifinals. In the semifinals FPX defeated Bilibili Gaming 3–1, qualifying them for the finals and the 2019 World Championship, as any result would have sent FPX to the World Championship. FPX then defeated three-time champions Royal Never Give Up 3–1 in the finals, securing their first title. For the main eventgroup stage of the 2019 World Championship, FPX was placed in Group B along with Splyce, J Team, and GAM Esports. After defeating Splyce in a tiebreaker match, FPX qualified for the knockout stage as the first seed in their group. In the quarterfinals FPX defeated Fnatic, which finished runner-up the year prior, and in the semifinals FPX defeated fellow LPL team and defending world championsInvictus Gaming to advance to the finals. FPX then swept G2 Esports 3–0 in the finals to win their first international title and the LPL's second World Championship title. On 30 November 2019, FPX won the award for "best team" at the 2019 China LoL of the Year Awards, held during the LPL All-Star event. In preparation for the 2020 spring season, several additions were made to FPX's roster: Two-time LCK champion Kim "Khan" Dong-ha joined from SKT T1, while three players were promoted from FPX's academy team.
Roster
Tournament results
''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive''
On 15 March 2020, FPX announced they had signed the former Danish roster of Heroic, consisting of Marco "Snappi" Pfeiffer, Casper "cadiaN" Møller, Johannes "b0RUP" Borup, Patrick "es3tag" Hansen, and Martin "Stavn" Lund, with Frederik "LOMME" Nielsen as their coach. After Patrick "es3tag" Hansen left the team to join Astralis, the organization dropped the roster and fielded North American team Bad News Bears, consisting of Michael "dapr" Gulino, Peter "ptr" Gurney, Jonathan "Jonji" Carey, Mitch "mitch" Semago, and Austin "crashies" Roberts. This roster only lasted for the inaugural season of the Flashpoint league. Since then, FPX has not shown any interest in signing another CS:GO roster.
