Short name Secret Location Istanbul, Turkey | Founded August 2014 | |
Divisions Dota 2, Vainglory, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Street Fighter Colors Silver, Raisin black, Gainsboro Manager Matthew "Cyborgmatt" Bailey, Kemal "I am Kemal" Sadikoglu, Clement "Puppey" Ivanov | ||
Team Secret is a popular global eSports team based in Turkey that formed in 2014.
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In March Team Secret picked up an international female Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team. In April 2016, Team Secret expanded into the world of Street Fighter with Lee "Poongko" Chung-Gon as their first World Warrior, and also signed Otto "Silent Wolf" Bisno as a Super Smash Bros. Melee player.
2014
BigDaddy and Fly were confirmed to leave Fnatic on July 27, 2014. On August 3, 2014, S4 left Alliance. Some rumors of a new all-star team began to rise on reddit.
Na`Vi posted on their website they released Puppey and Kuroky. On August 27, 2014, Team Secret debuted and showed their roster in a match against Alliance Team Secret withdrew from Star Ladder in November 2014.
2015
After a solid second place in Star-Ladder Series 10, the team announce on their Twitter and the DAC site of the departure of Fly and BigDaddy, with Zai and Arteezy taking their place as stand-ins
Team Secret got a third place in the Dota 2 Asia Championships and decided to stick with their roster, going on to win 5 premier tournaments The team was sent to the losers bracket by ViCi Gaming.
Team Secret was widely considered to be the favorites to win The International 2015, but after a very disappointing 7-8th-place finish, the team announced that they would have some roster changes. Despite the overall success of the team for the year, members Arteezy and Kuroky were revealed to have clashed with one another and both players left the team. Arteezy went back to his previous team Evil Geniuses and Kuroky formed what would soon be the newest iteration of Team Liquid. On August 15, the team announced that Zai would take the next year off and finish school. As a result, s4 also decided to leave and rejoin his previous team Alliance
For the Frankfurt Major, the team's new roster was announced and consisted of w33ha, Misery, pieliedie, and EternalEnvy
2016
During the Shanghai Major, Team Secret went through the upper bracket beating previous Frankfurt Major winners: OG in a best of three of 2-1 in the first upper bracket round; they faced Evil Geniuses in the second upper bracket round and won 2-1. Team Secret then faced Team Liquid in the upper bracket finals in a best of 3, winning 2-0 and heading into the Major's Grand Final.
On the March 6, Team Secret played against the recent lower bracket winners Team Liquid in the Grand Finals in a best of five match for $1.1 million USD. Team Secret won the match with a 3-1 score.
On March 22, Team Secret announced that Artour "Arteezy" Babaev and Saahil "UNiVeRsE" Arora would be replacing w33 and MiSeRy.
On June 6, after placing last at the Manila Major, Team Secret announced that BuLba would be replacing Saahil "UNiVeRsE" Arora.
On August 27, the team announced a completely new roster, featuring Asian players.