page_title: Alliance (esports)
section_title: 2014
hierarchical_section_title: Alliance (esports) / League of Legends / 2014
caption_attribution_description: English: Dota 2 team Alliance at Dreamhack Summer 2015. The team became shared third-place.
context_page_description: Alliance is a professional gaming and esports organization based in Sweden that was formed in April 2013. They have teams in TrackMania, Dota 2, Hearthstone, the Super Smash Bros. series and Fortnite, and previously had teams in League of Legends and StarCraft II.
  In December 2016, the organisation announced that it had become player-owned after parting with its parent organisation, GoodGame agency which was owned by Amazon through its subsidiary Twitch. The Dota 2 team won The International 2013, then the largest single prize money payout in esports history. The League of Legends team is the only team except Fnatic and G2 Esports that won a season of European League of Legends Championship Series.
context_section_description: In the Spring Split, Alliance finished 3rd in the regular season with a 16-12 record, behind SK Gaming and Fnatic. Alliance mid-laner Froggen was voted as the MVP of the Spring Split with 28% of the vote. In the playoffs, they finished 4th, losing to Fnatic in the semifinals 2-1, then lost to ROCCAT 2-0 in the 3rd place game.
  In the Summer Split, Alliance topped the regular season standings with a 21-7 record. They then won the playoffs with a 3-1 over Fnatic in the finals, giving the team a spot in the 2014 League of Legends World Championship. At the World Championship, Alliance finished 3rd in their group, failing to advance to the knockout stage. The team was upset by Brazilian team KaBuM! e-Sports, which denied them a chance to play in a tiebreaker for a chance to progress to the knockout stage.
  The team picked up Martin "Rekkles" Larsson on November 24, 2014. After a Riot Games rules change concerning sponsorship, Alliance LoL left the organization and rebranded itself as Elements.
caption: Alliance at DreamHack Summer 2015
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