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FocusMe attended the 2015 International Wildcard Invitational (IWCI). The team only managed to secure a single victory over Kaos Latin Gamers in the group stage, ending with a 1–5 record and placing 6th out of seven teams. In the 2015 LJL Season 2, DetonatioN FocusMe placed second but later won the grand finals once again, securing a spot in the 2015 International Wildcard Tournament in Turkey. DetonatioN FocusMe took surprising victories over Australian team
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division began as an unsponsored amateur team named FocusMe, competing independently until it was acquired and renamed by DetonatioN Gaming. DetonatioN FocusMe's first roster consisted of top laner Kodai "Gorira13" Ichimichi, jungler Noritaka "Anelace" Takehara, mid laner Kyohei "Ceros" Yoshida, bot
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team by introducing salaries and a gaming house as living accommodation, something other organizations in Japan had previously avoided due to the country's stigma on professional gaming. After winning the 2015 LJL Season 1 finals in a 3–0 victory over sister team DetonatioN RabbitFive, DetonatioN
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DetonatioN FocusMe placed last out of four teams in the LJL's inaugural season, but would later go on to win the second season of the LJL in the same year. That victory gave the team an invitation to South Korea's NLB Summer 2014, where they lost in the first round of the Gold League to Prime
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3–0, qualifying them for the 2016 IWCI. DetonatioN FocusMe placed fifth at the 2016 IWCI with a 3–4 record, failing to move on to the qualifying brackets. In the 2016 LJL Summer Split, DetonatioN FocusMe placed second in the regular season and in playoffs, behind Rampage in both cases.
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DetonatioN FocusMe had a dominant regular season in the 2019 LJL Spring Split, losing only a single game to Sengoku Gaming and ending in first place with a 20–1 record. This directly qualified the team for the grand finals, where they swept Unsold Stuff Gaming 3–0 to qualify for the
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In both the 2017 LJL Spring and 2017 LJL Summer Splits, DetonatioN FocusMe placed first in the regular season but lost to Rampage in the grand finals. DetonatioN FocusMe was one of three teams that represented the LJL at
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Sentinel. Afterwards, DetonatioN FocusMe placed first in the 2014 LJL Summer Split's regular season, moving on to the grand finals, where they defeated Rascal Jester 3–2 in a close series.
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DetonatioN FocusMe dominated the regular season of the LJL 2018 Spring Split, dropping only three games and ending in first place with a 10–0 series record. However, they lost to
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In the 2019 LJL Summer Split DetonatioN FocusMe finished first in both the regular season and playoffs, defeating V3 Esports in the latter to qualify for the
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and Thai team Bangkok Titans on the first day of competition, but later lost all their remaining games on the second day and ultimately placed last.
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DetonatioN FocusMe was placed in Group B of the first round of the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational play-in stage, along with Russian team
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until 2015, when Riot Games applied the rule "one organization – one team" in every top league. DetonatioN FocusMe competes in the
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For the 2016 LJL Spring Split, DetonatioN FocusMe acquired jungler Yun "Catch" Sang-ho and support Han "viviD" Gi-hun from
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2017 GPL-LJL-OPL, which the league won after a 3–1 victory over the representatives of Southeast Asia's
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play-in stage, DetonatioN FocusMe was drawn into Group B, along with North America's Cloud9, Taiwan's
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division, which began as an amateur team named "FocusMe". It also had a sister team
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On 23 January 2015, DetonatioN FocusMe became Japan's first full-time professional
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laner Yuta "Yutapon" Sugiura, and Ryota "Maa" Nakano. Prior to the creation of the
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play-in stage, DetonatioN FocusMe was drawn into Group C with North American team
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