Zven

Zven

Background Information

Name	Jesper Svenningsen
Country of Birth	Denmark
Birthday	June 24, 1997 (1997-06-24)

Competitive

Team	Team SoloMid
Role	ADC
Current League	LCS

Social Media

Team History

Team	Start Date	End Date	Role
HOANG5	-	2/2013
Tricked	2/2013	9/2013
CJ Gaming	9/2013	-
iPG	-	12/2013
Kappa Prime	12/2013	1/2014
SK Prime	1/2014	4/2014
OG	12/2014	5/2016
G2	5/2016	11/2017
TSM	11/2017	Current

"Zven" (Real Name: Jesper Svenningsen) is a Danish League of Legends player, currently an ADC for Team SoloMid. Also known as "Niels", "Zvanillan" and "Phlow".

Biography

Despite playing League of Legends professionally since 2013, Zven's first major showing came in 2015 when he joined Origen. Forming a formidable bottom lane duo with long time partner Mithy, he was one of the main factors behind Origen's crushing performance in the EU Challenger Series. The team made it to the LCS quickly and finished second in their first LCS split. Qualifying for Worlds in a similar manner, they would end up having a performance Europe can be proud of, finishing 3rd-4th after losing to SK Telecom T1 in the semifinals.

Zven in particular was praised for his consistency and team fighting. He and Mithy would end up leaving Origen and joining G2 Esports after the team entered a huge slump. Though this decision was criticized by fans, Zven would end up winning multiple splits with G2. Unfortunately the team wasn't able to show up at Worlds twice in a row. He and Mithy then decided to move over to North America and join Team SoloMid for the 2018 Season in the hopes that they'll have better international showings.

Career History

• 2013
• 2014
• 2015
• 2016
• 2017

• Joins Hoang5 at an unknown date.
  • February~, leaves the team.
• February 15th, joins Tricked eSports, renames from Stæhr to Niels HD.
  • September 17th, roster is released.
• September~, joins CJ Gaming, leaves the team at an unknown date.
• November 25th, joins Intellectual Playground.
  • December, leaves the team.
• December~, joins Team Kappa Prime.

• with Team Kappa Prime
  • January~, leaves the team.
• January 17th, joins SK Gaming Prime, renames from Phlow to Zvanillan.
  • April 24th, team disbands.
• December 17th, joins Origen.

• with Origen
  • April 8th, 1st in EUCS 2015 Spring Playoffs.
  • August 23rd, 2nd in EU LCS 2015 Summer Playoffs.

• with Origen
  • January 7th, renames from Niels to Zven.
  • May 17th, leaves the team.
• May 18th, joins G2 Esports.

• with G2 Esports
  • November 24th, leaves the team.
• November 24th, joins Team SoloMid.

Trivia

• Favorite dish is Kebab.
• Was the only non-LCS player to be named in gaming.dk's team of the year.
• Was introduced to WhiteKnight108 and HawkDon through solo queue.
• Outstanding Rookie of the 2015 Season EU LCS Summer Split.

Results

• 2015

Date	Place	Event	R	Team	Result	Opponent
2015-08-31		EU LCS 2015 Regional Finals		OG	3 : 0	UOL
2015-08-23		EU LCS 2015 Summer Playoffs		OG	2 : 3	FNC
2015-07-24		EU LCS 2015 Summer Split		OG	12 - 6	Round Robin
2015-04-08		EUCS 2015 Spring Playoffs		OG	3 : 0	CWA
2015-03-25		EUCS 2015 Spring Split		OG	9 - 1	Round Robin
2015-02-04	Q	EUCS 2015 Spring Qualifier		OG	2 : 1	M Spirit

Media

Interviews

• 2015
• 2016
• 2017

• October 3rd, Niels efter segern över TSM with Fragbite
• October 4th, Niels on going undefeated at Worlds, Hermit's coaching, and Origen's winning mentality with The Daily Dot
• October 5th, Niels on Origen's start: 'I don’t feel like there’s pressure on me to perform [but] maybe there is now that we’re 3-0' with theScore
• October 16th, "We got lucky" Niels on Origen's amazing quarter finals performance with PC Gamer
• December 11th, Niels: "Everyone wanted to win against NA, and then win the 1v1 tournament" with theScore

• January 14th - Ask the Pros: Origen's Zven with LoL Esports
• February 2nd - Origen's Zven: 'Not going 2-0 this week would have been bad for us' with The Score Esports
• March 24th - Zven on facing UoL in the playoffs: 'UoL is the weakest team of the other five in the playoffs' with theScore
• April 11th - Zven on H2K's performance: 'I'm really disappointed in Vander and Jankos overall' with The Score Esports
• April 30th - Zven In The Spotlight with Origen
• August 19th - Zven: 'If we won the split, we would make up for the G2 fiasco at MSI...that would be a nice thing' with TheScore eSports

• January 22nd - "Fnatic ist unser größter Konkurrent" with sport1
• April 3rd - Zven's playstyle: "Win lane if you can, but don't cost your team the game. Don't try to be a star." with Blitz Esports
• May 12th - G2 Zven: 'The most important thing here is that we got better as a team' with YAHOO! Esports
• July 4th - G2 Zven on UOL and Fnatic at Rift Rivals: “(They) are pure best-of-one teams. They are much better in best-of-ones than best-of-fives, in my opinion.” with Slingshot Esports

Articles

• 2015
• 2016
• 2017

• August 15th - Player Spotlight: Niels by LoL Esports
• August 21st - WATCH FOR THESE PLAYERS IN THE LCS FINALS AND 3RD PLACE MATCHES by Emily Rand (lolesports.com)
• September 11th - WORLDS 2015 TEAM PROFILE - ORIGEN by CaptainTim (esportsheaven.com)
• October 4th - Niels on going undefeated at Worlds, Hermit's coaching, and Origen's winning mentality by Josh Raven (dailydot.com)
• December 10th - Best of Origen Niels "youtube.com"

• September 22nd - League of Legends Worlds: 7 AD carries to watch by Taylor Cocke (esports.yahoo.com)
• September 24th - The Worlds Top 20: #16 - Zven by LoL Esports
• September 25th - Past to Present: The Story of Zven by theScore Esports
• September 26th -
  • WORLDS 2016 TEAM PROFILE: G2 ESPORTS by HeckMaister (esportsheaven.com)
  • Worlds Top 20: 16 - Zven by LoL Esports
• November 4th - Kelsey Moser's EU LCS 2016 Player Awards and All-Stars Votes by Kelsey Moser (thescoreesports.com)

• January 23rd - Zven: 'We used to play really fast and when things went wrong they went really, really wrong really, really fast' by Sasha Erfanian (thescoreesports.com)
• March 14th - G2 Esports: Defeating the Monster by G2 Esports
• March 31st - Zven & Mithy: Synergy at first sight by LoL Esports
• April 6th - The top 10 players from the 2017 EU LCS Spring Split by theScore esports
• April 24th - Zven: “Maybe if we do well at MSI, we can make up a little bit for what happened in the past, and it will change some fans’ minds.” by Vince Nairn (slingshotesports.com)
• May 9th - Mid-Season Invitational 2017 power rankings by Gabriel Zoltan-Johan (thescoreesports.com)
• May 11th -
  • G2 Zven on Nunu pick: "We've actually practiced it, and it always worked for us." by Jaeic Lee (invenglobal.com)
  • The Moment: MSI 2017 Group Stage Day 2 Highlight by Byungho Kim (invenglobal.com)
• May 18th - Eyes on MSI: Europe Ep. 3 by LoL Esports
• May 20th - G2 Zven: "Doing scrims against SKT, WE, FW allowed us to learn and catch up" by Jaeic Lee (invenglobal.com)
• May 30th - This is our Kingdom by LoL Esports
• September 20th - WORLDS 2017 TOP 20 by LoL Esports
• September 28th - G2 Esports talk tactics and strategy for Worlds by Pieter van Hulst (redbull.com)

Gallery

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  TSM Zven
  Summer 2018

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  TSM Zven
  Spring 2018

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  G2 Zven
  Worlds 2017

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  OG Niels
  EULCS 2015 Summer

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  OG Zven
  EULCS 2016 Spring

External Links

• Lucian Guide
• Elohell article