# 100 Thieves

100 Thieves, LLC (abbreviated 100T) is an American lifestyle brand and gaming organization based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2017 by Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag. The organization competes in several video games, including Apex Legends, Call of Duty, League of Legends, Marvel Rivals and Valorant.
They currently operate four franchise teams, which compete in the League of Legends Championship of The Americas (LTA), Valorant Champions Tour (VCT), Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) and the Call of Duty League (CDL) (branded as Los Angeles Thieves); their LTA team is currently a "provisional guest partner" in the North Conference.

## History

100 Thieves was founded in 2017 by Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag, a former OpTic Gaming Call of Duty team captain, (MLG) X Games gold medalist, and 2014 Esports Athlete of the year. In November 2017, 100 Thieves received a multimillion-dollar investment from Cleveland Cavaliers and Quicken Loans owner Dan Gilbert allowing the company to expand into a full-fledged esports organization.
On October 23, 2018, 100 Thieves announced that they finished their Series A funding round co-led by Scooter Braun and Drake, who both became co-owners when they raised $25 million. Included in this round was Sequoia Capital, Ludlow Ventures, Courtside Ventures, WndrCo, Marc Benioff, Drew Houston, Green Bay Ventures, Tao Capital and Advancit Capital. Their Series B funding round on July 16, 2019, was led by Artist Capital Management which raised $35 million. Included in this round is Aglae Ventures, Groupe Arnault (controlling shareholder of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy).
In March 2021, 100 Thieves signed a sponsorship deal with Truly Seltzer and Twisted Tea. They acquired gaming peripheral company Higround in October 2021, marking their first acquisition. On December 2, 2021, 100 Thieves announced their Series C funding round, which raised $60 million.
In May 2022, 100 Thieves announced its intentions to publish a video game. It hired former Telltale Games CEO Pete Hawley as its Chief Product Officer to set up a studio. In July, more than 10 members of 100 Thieves' content team were laid off. Nadeshot launched his own energy drink, called Juvee, on October 4.
In January 2023, around 30 employees were laid off, including several lead staff members. That November, 100 Thieves announced it was laying off 20% of its workforce, affecting employees at its game studio and energy drink brand. These business units would also be spun off as separate companies in order to focus on esports and apparel.
On May 6, 2024, the Esports World Cup Foundation, funded by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund and organizers of the Esports World Cup tournament series, announced the 30 organizations (known in the ESWC as Clubs) who would make up the Club Support Program, with 100 Thieves being one of them. This program gives teams a one-time six-figure stipend if an organization is willing to enter new esports as well as additional funding each year if they drive viewership and fan engagement to the Esports World Cup.

## Divisions
### League of Legends
#### Inaugural season

On November 20, 2017, 100 Thieves was accepted as a franchise organization for the 2018 NA LCS season. The team signed Neil "pr0lly" Hammad as its head coach and Kim "Ssumday" Chan-ho, William "Meteos" Hartman, Ryu "Ryu" Sang-wook, Cody Sun, and Zaqueri "Aphromoo" Black for its starting roster. The team placed first in the spring split regular season with a 12–6 record, securing a bye into the semifinals. Additionally, Aphromoo was voted as MVP of the spring split. The first team they faced in the playoffs was Clutch Gaming, and 100 Thieves won 3–2, moving on to the finals, where they were swept 0–3 by Team Liquid in the finals.
100 Thieves' second-place finish qualified them for Rift Rivals 2018, an international tournament between the top three spring teams from Europe and North America. The team elected to use substitute player Đỗ "Levi" Duy Khánh in place of Meteos for the tournament. Team Liquid, 100 Thieves, and Echo Fox competed against Europe's Fnatic, G2 Esports, and Splyce, going a combined 4–5 in the double round-robin group stage with 100 Thieves with a 1–2 record after a single win against Splyce. In the best-of-five "relay race" finals, the team lost their game against Fnatic, contributing to North America's combined 1–3 loss to Europe.
Before the summer split, 100 Thieves traded Meteos to Flyquest, in exchange for their jungler, Andy "AnDa" Hoang. Following this roster move, the team placed third in the regular season with a 10–8 record. The team won their first match 3–0 over FlyQuest, before losing 1–3 to Team Liquid in the semi-finals, then losing 2–3 in the third place match to Team SoloMid.
The team's performance across both splits allowed them to qualify for the 2018 League of Legends World Championship in South Korea as North America's second seed. The team was drawn to Group D with Europe's Fnatic, China's Invictus Gaming, and Hong Kong's G-Rex. Shortly after qualifying for the world championship, they replaced Cody Sun with substitute player Richard "Rikara" Oh. 100 Thieves finished third in their group with a 2–4 record, and 12th overall, not qualifying for the knockout stage.

#### 2019–2022

In 2019, the team extended top laner Ssumday's contract, while Ryu moved to an assistant position. Cody Sun and Rikara opted to leave the team, and they were replaced by Choi "huhi" Jae-hyun and Bae "Bang" Jan-sik. Partway through the spring split, Huhi was benched in favor for Max "Soligo" Soong, but despite attempts at change, the team finished the spring split in dead last, with a 4–14 record, and elected to make additional roster changes for summer. Huhi left the team, and Maurice "Amazing" Stückenschneider joined to replace AnDa, who was moved to the academy roster along with Ryu. A month into the split, the team replaced Soligo with Ryu from the academy roster, and also swapped Ssumday with Aaron "FakeGod" Lee, as LCS rules required at least 3 North American residents on the starting roster. The team finished the summer split in eighth place and did not qualify for the post–season.
100 Thieves began the 2020 season with the announcement that Chris "PapaSmithy" Smith would be joining the team as the new general manager. Tony "Zikz" Gray was the next addition to the roster, replacing pr0lly as head coach, and both Meteos and Cody Sun rejoined the team for the second time, alongside new additions William "Stunt" Chen and Tommy "Ryoma" Le. Ryu, Amazing, Bang and Aphromoo all left the team, with FakeGod rejoining Academy and Ssumday rejoining the main roster. In spring, the team finished third in the regular season with a 10–8 record, and qualified for post–season for the first time since 2018. However once in the playoffs, they were swept 0–3 by Cloud9, and then lost 2–3 to Team SoloMid in the losers' bracket. After an 1–5 start in the summer split, the team parted ways with players Meteos and Stunt, and called up academy players Juan "Contractz" Garcia and Philippe "Poome" Lavoie-Giguere to replace them. The team finished in seventh at the end of the summer split with a 7–11 record, and were seeded into the loser's bracket of the playoffs, where they would be swept 0–3 by Evil Geniuses to finish their 2020 season.
The 2021 season started with the team signing Can "Closer" Çelik, Victor "FBI" Huang, Tanner "Damonte" Damonte, and a returning Huhi from Golden Guardians. Ry0ma (renamed from Ryoma) and Poome were moved to the academy roster, while Cody Sun and Contractz both left the team. The team also added Aleš "Freeze" Kněžínek and Ham "Lustboy" Jang-sik to the coaching staff. The season started off with the preseason Lock−In tournament, and the team starting strong, placing first in their group, before sweeping Immortals 2–0 in the first round of the knock−out stage. In the semifinals they faced Cloud9, and despite winning the first two games, were reverse swept to lose 2–3 in the series, and finish 3rd/4th in the tournament. In week 5 of the spring split, the team decided to bring back Ry0ma as their starter and sent Damonte to academy. They finished the spring split in third place, and in the Mid-Season Showdown, were swept 0–3 by Cloud9, before picking up a 3–0 win of their own against Dignitas in the losers bracket. The team faced Team SoloMid next, and fell 1–3, and were eliminated from playoffs.
After a fourth place finish in the spring split, the team parted ways with head coach Zikz and hired Bok "Reapered" Han-gyu as his replacement. Prior to the start of the summer split, 100 Thieves signed Felix "Abbedagge" Braun from the LEC, and Ry0ma was subsequently sent back to academy, while Damonte was dropped by the organization. The revamped roster would go on to finish second in the regular season, with a record of 29–16. The team won their first playoff match 3–2 against Evil Geniuses, before falling 2–3 to Team Liquid. In the losers' bracket, 100 Thieves defeated Cloud9 3–1 to set up a finals rematch against Team Liquid. This time around, 100 Thieves defeated Team Liquid in a 3–0 sweep, to win the 2021 LCS Championship and qualify for the 2021 League of Legends World Championship. The team's performance secured them a bye into Group B alongside China's Edward Gaming, Korea's T1, and Japan's DetonatioN FocusMe. The team finished third in their group, with a 3–3 record, and were eliminated from the tournament, placing 9th–12th overall and ending their season.
In 2022, the team announced all five players would be returning, with academy top laner Milan "Tenacity" Oleksij as a sixth man. Alfonso "Mithy" Rodriguez also joined the coaching staff in the off−season. Once again, 100 Thieves were atop their group in the Lock−In tournament, however they were upset 0–2 by Dignitas in the quarterfinals of the Knock−Out stage, and eliminated early. Through the first round robin of the spring split, 100 Thieves accumulated a 5–4 record, putting them in a three way tie for third place. 100 Thieves ultimately ended the spring split with a record of 12–6, securing themselves third place. In the first round of Playoffs, they swept Cloud 9 3–0 to advance to the winner bracket finals, where they came back from a 0–2 deficit to reverse sweep Team Liquid and advance to Grand Finals. There, they lost 0–3 to Evil Geniuses, denying 100 Thieves back to back championships.
Following a group stage exit at the 2022 World Championship, General manager PapaSmithy and coaches Repeared, Mithy, and Freeze parted ways with the team.

#### 2023

For the 2023 season, 100 Thieves released the entire roster except Closer, signing veterans Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng and Søren "Bjergsen" Bjerg and promoting Alan "Busio" Cwalina from the academy, and Tenacity to full-time top laner. The team also hired Christopher "Kaas" Oudheusden as their new head coach with Erlend "Nukeduck" Holm joining as an assistant and promoting Joseph "JungleJuice" Jang as general manager.. After a 5-8 start to the Spring Split, Kaas and 100 Thieves parted ways and Nukeduck was promoted to interim head coach with Danny "Dan Dan" Comte joining as an assistant from the challengers team. Following a quick exit in Spring playoffs, Bjergsen announced his retirement.
After Bjergsen's retirement, the team announced their new head coach in Jang "Cain" Nu-ri and the signing of Lim "Quid" Hyeon-seung as their new mid laner. The team also brought back Ssumday as Tenacity decided to move to content creation. The team finished with a 7-11 record and placed 7th-8th in the summer split championship.

#### 2024

For the 2024 season, the team parted ways with the whole roster and coaching staff except for Quid, signing Rayan "Sniper" Shoura, Kim "River" Dong-woo, Brandon "Meech" Choi, and Bill "Eyla" Nguyen. The team also announced Greyson "Goldenglue" Gilmer as their new head coach. The team finished 5th-8th in the Spring playoffs with a 10-4 record in the regular season.
During the Summer split, Meech was benched and the team signed Frank "Tomo" Lam. The team finished the regular season with a 3-4 record and finished 3rd in the Summer playoffs and qualified for the 2024 World Championship play-in, where they would be eliminated by PSG Talon. In October 2024, Meech was released. On October 31, 100 Thieves announced their intention to sell their LCS franchise spot for the 2025 season, however, after close collaboration with Riot Games, 100 Thieves would continue to take part in the LCS (now reformed as the League of Legends Championship of The Americas (LTA) as the LCS merged with both CBLOL and LLA) as a "guest partner". In November 2024, Tomo was released and FBI was re-signed as the new starting bot laner.

#### Current roster
### Call of Duty
#### 2019 season

The team started the season off signing the team of Kenneth "Kenny" Williams, Maurice "Fero" Henriquez, Sam "Octane" Larew, Austin "SlasheR" Liddicoat, and Ian "Enable" Wyatt. They placed 9th–12th at CWL Las Vegas 2019, qualifying for the Pro League Qualifiers and for the Pro League. After this, they had to re-evaluate the roster, and acquired Preston "Priestahh" Greiner and head coach James "Crowder" Crowder on loans from FaZe Clan, with Fero getting benched. At CWL Fort Worth 2019, the team finished 4th losing to Team Reciprocity, citing medical issues with player Priestahh and being replaced by Fero. At CWL London 2019, the team won the organization's first trophy. At CWL Anaheim 2019, the team won the organization's second trophy. After the Pro League, 100 Thieves finished second in Division B, qualifying for Pro League playoffs. At the Pro League Playoffs, the team placed 5th–6th, losing to Gen.G esports. In the 2019 Call of Duty World Championship, 100 Thieves finished second, with a loss to eUnited.

#### Los Angeles Thieves

After initially announcing their intention to not join the Call of Duty League in 2019, 100 Thieves announced in November 2020 that they would enter the league as the "Los Angeles Thieves" after acquiring OpTic Gaming's slot.

#### Current roster
### Valorant

On June 4, 2020, 100 Thieves Esports announced their entrance into the Valorant competitive scene through the signing of Spencer "Hiko" Martin. Within three weeks of signing Hiko, the team was finalized. The team also signed Hector "FrosT" Rosario as their head coach but he was announced until months later. The original team consisted of Keane "Valliate" Alonso, Diondre "YaBoiDre" Bond, Zachary "Venerated" Roach, and Alfred "Pride" Choi. This team, however, did not last long; on August 14, 2020, the entire team, apart from Hiko, was released. Shortly thereafter, the team went on to sign Counter-Strike: Global Offensive veterans Nick "nitr0" Cannella and Joshua "steel" Nissan. 2 months later, the team was once again finalized after signing Peter "Asuna" Mazuryk and Quan "dicey" Tran from Immortals. The team went on to win the very first Valorant First Strike tournament, defeating TSM in the grand finals.
On January 26, 2021, the team brought in Jonathan "silenx" Huntington as a substitute in place of nitr0, due to nitr0's wife going into labor. On February 28, 2021, the team benched dicey in favor of another veteran CS:GO player, Ethan "Ethan" Arnold. After the Masters 3 tourney, the team decided to call up their substitute Aaron "b0i" Thao to the starting roster and moved steel to the bench. The team also added Johann "seven" Hernandez as a substitute. Their 2021 season ended after falling to Cloud9 in the NA Last Chance Qualifier for Valorant Champions. On November 12, the team fired FrosT. On November 23, dicey and b0i were dropped from the team. Soon after, both steel and nitr0 departed the team.
They started 2022 with the signing of Adam "ec1s" Eccles and Hunter "BabyJ" Schline and promoting analyst Jovanni "Jovi" Vera to head coach. Shockingly, after two losses in the 2022 NA VCT Challengers Stage 1 group stage, ec1s and BabyJ were released; the team then acquired Sean "bang" Bezerra and Noah "jcStani" Smith on loans. After being eliminated in the 2022 NA VCT Challengers group stage, the team parted ways with Jovi and hired Sean "sgares" Gares as head coach with Michael "Mikes" Hockom joining him as an assistant, and hiring Daniel "ddk" Kapadia as general manager. On March 27, jcStani announced his free agency after his loan period ended with the team. On April 12, Hiko announced his retirement from competitive Valorant but remained with the organization as a content creator. A couple days later, bang was fully bought out and the team then signed Derrek "Derrek" Ha, Brenden "stellar" McGrath, and William "Will" Cheng, while Ethan was moved to the bench and later released. The team was able to qualify for 2022 Valorant Champions after beating The Guard in the grand finals of the NA Last Chance Qualifier. The team was then placed Group D alongside DRX, FURIA Esports, and Fnatic. The team finished the tournament 9-12th. Following the end of the regular 2022 season, 100 Thieves released Will and signed XSET star player Matthew "Cryocells" Panganiban, and Mikes was promoted to head coach, following Sgares's departure. 100 Thieves ended the year by winning the Red Bull Home Ground tournament #3 in Manchester with a 3–0 win over Cloud9 in December 2022.
In September 2022, 100 Thieves was selected as one of the thirty teams to be part of Riot Games' partnership program for the 2023 season. During the season, they failed to qualify to Americas League playoffs and were also eliminated in their first match in the Americas Last Chance Qualifier. On September 12, 2023, 100 Thieves announced the release of Derrek and stellar.
On September 25, 2023, 100 Thieves signed Tony "Zikz" Gray as head coach, who had previously been head coach for their League of Legends team. Mikes was moved back to assistant coach. On November 1, 2023, 100 Thieves announced Daniel "eeiu" Vucenovic to the starting roster. 100 Thieves competed in the main event of Red Bull Home Ground #4 in Tokyo with Nicholas "NaturE" Garrison as a stand-in, and placed fifth.
On January 8, 2024, 100 Thieves rounded out their roster with in-game leader, Kelden "Boostio" Pupello. Boostio, along with Zikz, previously won the 2023 Valorant Champions with Evil Geniuses. The season started off poorly with 100 Thieves losing all their games in the Kickoff tournament and being eliminated. In Americas Stage 1, they placed second in their group and qualified for the playoffs. With a clean sweep of their playoff games including a 3–0 win over G2 Esports in the grand final, they became Stage 1 champions and qualified to Masters Shanghai as the first seed from Americas, earning a bye to the playoffs and 9 circuit points for the 2024 Valorant Champions. At Shanghai, they placed 4th after beating FUT and Paper Rex but losing to both eventual finalists Gen.G and Team Heretics. With a 2–3 record in Americas Stage 2, the team made it into playoffs but placed 4th, ending their year one win away from qualifying to Champions. On October 3, it was announced that Bang would be leaving after two and a half years with the team. On October 8, Alexander "Zander" Dituri was announced as the new fifth member of the roster.

#### Current roster
### Apex Legends

In February 2019, 100 Thieves announced their entrance in the Apex Legends competitive scene, signing Connor "Gigz" White, Justin "Teenage" Phipps, and Isiah "Lifted" Slowik as their first roster. In August 2019, 100 Thieves announced Justin "JP2" Pate as their fourth roster member. In the same month, 100 Thieves announced their exit from the Apex Legends scene, releasing their entire roster.
In October 2021, 100 Thieves returned to Apex Legends, signing the roster of Brendan "Onmuu" Pode, Alex "scuwry" Scala, and Nicholas "Vein" Hobbs. In February 2022, the team released Vein and signed Alan "Vaxlon" Gonzalez, with Tyler "Sickks" Clark joining later on as their new head coach. The team placed 3rd in the 2022 Apex Legends Global Series World Championship. In September 2023, 100 Thieves released their entire roster.
In November 2024, 100 Thieves announced the roster of Tyler "Dezignful" Gardner, Noyan "Genburten" Ozkose, and Timothy "iiTzTimmy" An, with Deston "Bronzey" Nguyen as the head coach. After being eliminated in the group stage of the 2024 Apex Legends Global Series World Championship, Dezignful announced that he would be exploring his options for next season.
In March 2025, 100 Thieves announced the departures of Dezingful and iiTzTimmy and announced the signings of Josue "Phony" Ruiz and Evan "Verhulst" to join Genburten for the 2025 season.

#### Current roster
### Marvel Rivals

In March 2025, 100 Thieves announced their entry into the Marvel Rivals competitive scene with the roster of Huu "Billion" Ngo, Anthony "delenna" Rosa, Harvey "hxrvey" Scattergood, James "SJP" Hudson, Marschal "Terra" Weaver, Eric "TTK" Arraiga, and Vincent "Vinnie" Scaratine with Joshua "Tensa" Small as head coach.

#### Current roster
## Former divisions
### Clash Royale

In April 2018, 100 Thieves was announced as member of the Clash Royale League. In the following months, 100 Thieves announced the roster of Eduadro "Eddie" Rojas-Torras, Jacob "Frost" Horsch, James "Pt105" Keresey, and Hoan "PureZuhn" Le, with Davis "Gilgamesh" Huang as head coach and William "Woody" Hix as the team's general manager.
In December 2018, 100 Thieves announced their departure from competitive Clash Royale.

### Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

In December 2017, 100 Thieves announced that they signed the former roster of Immortals which included players Bruno "BIT" Lima, Lincoln "fnx" Lau, Henrique "HEN1" Teles, Vito "kNgV-" Giuseppe, and Lucas "LUCAS1" Teles with Rodolfo "bLecker" Blecker as head coach. However, the organization had issues with visas, resulting in the team being disbanded.
In late October 2019, 100 Thieves announced the signing of the former Renegades roster which included Aaron "AZR" Ward, Sean "Gratisfaction" Kaiwai, Joakim "jkaem" Myrbostad, Justin "jks" Savage, and Jay "Liazz" Tregillgas with Aleksandar "kassad" Trifunović as head coach. At IEM Beijing 2019, the team placed second in the tournament, losing to Astralis. The team placed 7th–8th at the ESL Season 10 Pro League Finals, losing to Fnatic. On October 12, 2020, 100 Thieves announced their departure from the competitive CS:GO scene, citing complications with travel, a focus on European events, and COVID-19 as the main reasons behind the move.

### Fortnite: Battle Royale

In July 2018, 100 Thieves announced their entrance into the Fortnite: Battle Royale competitive scene, announcing the signings of Kenith, Archie "Parallax" Sharder, and Alex "Risker" Biamonte, with SirDimetrious joining a month later.
At the beginning of 2019, Risker and Parallax were released and the team signed Maurilio "Blind" Gramajo, Davis "Ceice" McClellan, Hayden "Elevate" Krueger, Brandon "Klass" Weaver, and Gabriel "Kyuzi" Harlos. At the end of 2019, Blind, Kenith, and SirDimetrious were released, with the team signing Diego "Arkhram" Lima, Brendan "Falconer" Facloner, and Brett "grandmateets" Squires. At the Fortnite World Cup, Ceice and Elevate placed 3rd in the duos competition, while Arkhram and Falconer placed 5th.
In 2020, the team signed Martin "MrSavage" Andersen and Brodie "rehx" Franks, with Grandmateets, Klass, and Kyzui leaving the team.
In February 2021, Ceice and Elevate left the team. The next year, 100 Thieves exited the Fortnite: Battle Royale competitive scene, releasing the remaining roster members.

## 100 Thieves Compound

The 100 Thieves Compound is a 15,000 square foot esports, entertainment, and apparel hub, located in Culver City, California. It has four sports training rooms: the Rocket Mortgage League of Legends training room, the AT&T Valorant training room, the Totino's Fortnite training room, and the League of Legends Academy training room. It also has a content studio, which is worth around half a million dollars. Other areas include the Cash App Lounge, the Totino's basketball court, many business operation areas and four streaming pods. Chairs, catering, and PCs are provided by Secretlab, Chipotle and NZXT respectively. It was formerly known as the 100 Thieves Cash App Compound.
The compound served as an LA County vote center for the 2020 United States presidential election.

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Ceremony | Category | Result |
| 2021 | Esports Awards | Esports Apparel of the Year | Won |
| 2021 | Esports Awards | Esports Organization of the Year | Won |
| 2022 | The Streamer Awards | Best Content Organization | Nominated |
| 2022 | Esports Awards | Content Group of the Year | Nominated |
| 2022 | Esports Awards | Esports Apparel of the Year | Won |
| 2022 | Esports Awards | Esports Creative Team of the Year | Nominated |
| 2023 | The Streamer Awards | Best Content Organization | Nominated |