Bad Monkey Gaming

## History

Formerly LIONs, this team was arguably one of the top teams in Newerth at the start of 2014, winning HTS2 cycles frequently. The first and biggest challenge came when the qualifiers for the LAN event were happening. The team seemed to struggle - they came as the clear winner, ending up losing to dnL in winner's bracket and soon to NK in the loser's one. Due to Turkey's team not participating however, one additional spot for an INT team arose, and that was to be the winner of relegation match between BMG and NK. BMG won and went to Thailand to compete in grand finals. Despite strong play, they were decimated in the finals by sG, securing 2nd place.

Soon after aforementioned finals, stayGreen disbanded, leaving BMG as the #1 team in scene. Due to internal reasons, Superkge was dropped from the roster (remaining a member of organisation though), replaced by Limmp of sG. This roster dominated during the first half of 2014, winning both Carnage in Caldavar seasons.

Right before HTS3 started, a deadly drug accident happened to fUzi. Limmp went on to play Dota 2 with his former sG teammates as well. Team quickly picked up Xibbe and Superkge to finish the roster though. Despite still looking good, the team wasn't practicing enough and ended up losing the finals of first HTS3 cycle to Sync. That lead up to the team completely disbanding and partly leaving to Dota 2. However, Xibbe and Superkge remained and Support was already on the team as substitute. HTS roster change rules allow 2 players to come between cycles, so they picked up Haxxeren and Tankafett to finish up the team and kept competing. Despite initial losses, explained by "not enough time to practice", the team won 4th cycle and didn't allow Sync to be the first team to win 4 consecutive ones. Sadly, they fell short in 5th cycle and undergone major roster changes, releasing Xibbe and Support for Fajn` and Ownedme and even dropped to Gold Division in cycle 6, disbanding soon after.

Having won the HTS3 Grand Finals qualifier, the Willowkeeper team got picked up by the organisation instead, even though it was about to be the first LAN experience for all of the players. As Sync esports didn't manage to get through group stages on HTS3 Grand Finals though, BMG became the only international team in the bracket and their path to victory was almost certain, no matter how scarier the Thai teams looked compared to previous years. Although dropping some games, they managed to win it all, notably by great plays by BOXI and overall inovativeness and flexibility of the team - nicely shown in the last game of the final bo5, where they sent RootOf\_z suicide, Kracke jungle and BOXI dual mid with Fusen (with only baltazar` playing on his common spot) to a great success.

After becoming the HTS3 champion (first other Hontour champion than sG), they released Kracke from the roster in exchange for Mightymarcus (Makke) because of his lack of loyalty to HoN and his potential of retiring soon. Therefore, they somewhat lowered their chances at Dreamhack Summer 2015, which ultimately resulted to them ending 5-6th, however, with bigger hopes for 4th season of Hontour.

## Rosters

**Post-HTS3 Roster**

 **baltazar`** | Carry

**HTS3 Finals Roster**

 **baltazar`** | Carry

**Late HTS3 Roster**

 **Haxxeren** | Carry

**Early HTS3 Roster**

 **Haxxeren** | Carry

**HTS2 Finals and Carnage in Caldavar Roster**

 **fUzi** | Carry

## Team Achievements

1st place: Hontour Season 2 Cycle 10

3rd place: Hontour Season 2 Grand Finals Playoffs

1st place: Hontour Season 2 Redemption Match

2nd place: Hontour Season 2 Grand Finals

1st place: Garena Invite Cup #1

1st place: Carnage in Caldavar Season 1

1st place: Carnage in Caldavar Season 2

1st place: Hontour Season 3 Cycle 4

2nd place: Hontour Season 3 Cycle 1

3rd place: Hontour Season 3 Cycle 3

1st place: Hontour Season 3 Grand Finals

1st place: Dreamhack Summer 2015 Qualifier #5

2nd place: Dreamhack Summer Warm-up

5-6th place: Dreamhack Summer 2015

## Highlight Videos

sG vs BMG HTS2 Cycle 10 game 4, playing vs a lvl 1 Kongor

BOXI highlights from HTS3 LAN finals

## Interviews

Interview with fUzi

Interview with BOXI