{{Short description|American professional esports player}} {{Update|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox video game player | ID = Pobelter | name = Eugene Park | image = Pobelter at the NA LCS Summer 2016 playoffs.jpg | caption = Park in 2016 | birth_date = <!--{{birth date and age|||}}--> | birth_place = | nationality = Korean-American | team = | role = Mid Laner | league = LCS | games = ''League of Legends'' | nickname = The Notorious P.O.B.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Esguerra |first1=Tyler |title=Pobelter pulls off the perfect teleport flank to carry CLG over Team Liquid in week seven of the 2020 Spring Split |url=https://dotesports.com/league-of-legends/news/pobelter-pulls-off-the-perfect-teleport-flank-to-carry-clg-over-team-liquid-in-week-seven-of-the-2020-spring-split |accessdate=March 7, 2020 |work=Dot Esports |date=March 7, 2020}}</ref> | career_start = | career_end = | years1 = 2011–2012 | team1 = Team Curse | years4 = 2013 | team4 = Curse Academy | years7 = 2013 | team7 = Team Curse | years8 = 2014 | team8 = Evil Geniuses | years9 = 2015 | team9 = Winterfox | years10 = 2015 | team10 = Counter Logic Gaming | years11 = 2016–2017 | team11 = Immortals | years12 = 2018 | team12 = Team Liquid | years13 = 2019 | team13 = FlyQuest | years14 = 2020–2021 | team14 = Counter Logic Gaming | highlights = * 3× LCS champion }}
'''Eugene Park''', better known as '''Pobelter''', is an American retired ''League of Legends'' player who was formerly the mid laner for Counter Logic Gaming.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ousley |first1=Parkes |title=League of Legends: Pobelter to start mid for CLG, replacing Crown |url=https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/10447/pobelter-to-start-mid-for-clg-replacing-crown |accessdate=February 20, 2020 |work=Inven Global |date=February 19, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> He is a three-time champion of the LCS<ref>{{cite news |last1=Byers |first1=Preston |title=Pobelter won't play in LCS Spring Split, but he won't retire either |url=https://dotesports.com/league-of-legends/news/pobelter-wont-play-in-lcs-spring-split-but-he-wont-retire-either |accessdate=December 13, 2019 |work=Dotesports.com |date=November 25, 2019}}</ref> and has made four major international appearances.
== Early life == Pobelter has an older sister.<ref>{{cite video|people=Eugene "Pobelter" Park (subject)|date=August 11, 2015|title=DRIVE: The Pobelter Story #LCSDRIVE|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9ZI0TQJgY|publisher=LoL Esports|accessdate=April 22, 2016}}</ref> He attended Troy High School in Fullerton, California. He tested into the school as he was an out-of-district student, and studied computer science in the Troy Tech magnet program. Pobelter initially played ''League of Legends'' as a hobby during high school.<ref name="behind the id">{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/16834974/eugene-pobelter-park|title=Behind the ID: Eugene 'Pobelter' Park|date=July 6, 2016|website=ESPN.com|accessdate=November 25, 2021}}</ref>
== Career == Pobelter played on Team Curse, and eventually moved to Winterfox, a team largely perceived as being built around him. After Winterfox's loss in the relegation tournament after the Spring 2015 season, Pobelter abandoned the team and moved to Counter Logic Gaming, which proceeded to win the Summer 2015 Split. CLG then elected to play Huhi as their mid laner, prompting Pobelter to move to Immortals, which had highly successful regular seasons in 2016 but strangely failed in playoffs, losing 0–3 to TSM in the semifinals of the NA LCS Spring Split playoffs in April, and losing 2–3 to Cloud9 in the summer semifinals.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/15183675/bjergsen-tsm-trusted-other-took-immortals-league-legends-esports|title=Bjergsen: TSM trusted each other and took down Immortals|last=Erzberger|first=Tyler|date=April 11, 2016|website=|publisher=ESPN|access-date=April 14, 2016}}</ref> They finished third in the 2016 Spring NA LCS, beating Team Liquid 3–0 in the third-place decider match.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thescoreesports.com/lol/news/7345|title=Immortals sweep Team Liquid 3-0, secure third place in 2016 NA LCS Spring Playoffs|last=Rosen|first=Daniel|date=April 16, 2016|website=theScore esports|publisher=theScore Inc.|accessdate=April 22, 2016|archive-date=April 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426173035/http://www.thescoreesports.com/lol/news/7345|url-status=dead}}</ref> After Immortals were removed from the LCS in the 2018 season, Pobelter joined the successful Team Liquid. In 2019, Team Liquid replaced Pobelter with Jensen, and Pobelter went to Flyquest.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.riftherald.com/2018/12/4/18109004/flyquest-pobelter-roster-change|title=Pobelter moves to FlyQuest after one season with Team Liquid|website=Riftherald.com|first=Austen|last=Goslin|date=December 4, 2018|accessdate=November 25, 2021}}</ref> Flyquest was reasonably successful in 2019 Spring, finishing fourth, but placed ninth in the Summer split. Flyquest announced that they had hired Tristan "PowerOfEvil" Schrage as their midlaner for 2020; Pobelter wrote in November 2019 that he had not been picked up by any team for a starting position in 2020.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Esguerra |first1=Tyler |title=Doublelift: "I think [Pobelter] is easily a top 3, top 4 mid laner in LCS" |url=https://dotesports.com/news/doublelift-i-think-pobelter-is-easily-a-top-3-top-4-mid-laner-in-lcs |accessdate=December 13, 2019 |work=Dot Esports |date=November 26, 2019}}</ref> Unable to find a position, Pobelter coached for Team Liquid during the first half of the 2020 Spring Split, but eventually returned to Counter Logic Gaming's as their midlaner.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Esguerra |first1=Tyler |title=Pobelter joins Team Liquid as new positional coach |url=https://dotesports.com/league-of-legends/news/pobelter-joins-team-liquid-as-new-positional-coach |accessdate=December 13, 2019 |work=Dot Esports |date=December 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Pobelter joins Team Liquid as positional coach |url=https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/28284987/pobelter-joins-team-liquid-positional-coach |accessdate=December 13, 2019 |work=ESPN |date=December 12, 2019 |language=en}}</ref> On August 5, 2020, he was optioned to CLG's academy team.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Heath |first1=Jerome |title=Pobelter benched for week 9 of 2020 LCS Summer Split, IWD says |url=https://dotesports.com/league-of-legends/news/pobelter-benched-week-9-of-2020-lcs-summer-split-iwd |website=DOT Esports |date=August 5, 2020 |accessdate=6 August 2020}}</ref>
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== Tournament results == {| class=" wikitable" style="width: 100%;" ! colspan="6" | Career Tournament Results |- ! style="width:10%;" | Date ! style="width:40%;" | Event ! style="width:10%;" | Placing ! colspan="1" | Team ! colspan="1" | Record ! colspan="1" | Opponent |- | style="text-align:center;" | August 3{{ndash}}5, 2012 | 2012 MLG Summer Championship | style="text-align:center" | Bronze 3rd | style="text-align:center" | Team Curse | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 1-2 | style="text-align:center" | Azubu Blaze, Team SoloMid, and Team BLACK |- | style="text-align:center;" | March 15{{ndash}}17, 2013 | 2013 MLG Winter Championship | style="text-align:center" | 3rd-4th | style="text-align:center" | Curse Academy | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 0-2 | style="text-align:center" | Velocity eSports |- | style="text-align:center;" | June 29, 2013 | 2013 MLG Spring Championship | style="text-align:center" | 3rd-4th | style="text-align:center" | Curse Academy | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 1-2 | style="text-align:center" | FXOpen e-Sports |- | style="text-align:center;" | January 24{{ndash}}March 29, 2015 | 2015 NA LCS Spring Regular Season | style="text-align:center" | 8th | style="text-align:center" | Winterfox | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 7-11 | style="text-align:center" | N/A |- | style="text-align:center;" | May 30{{ndash}}July 26, 2015 | 2015 NA LCS Summer Regular Season | style="text-align:center" | Silver 2nd | style="text-align:center" | Counter Logic Gaming | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 13-5 | style="text-align:center" | N/A |- | style="text-align:center;" | August 23, 2015 | 2015 NA LCS Summer Playoffs | style="text-align:center" | Gold 1st | style="text-align:center" | Counter Logic Gaming | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 3-0 | style="text-align:center" | Team SoloMid |- | style="text-align:center;" | January 16{{ndash}}March 20, 2016 | 2016 NA LCS Spring Regular Season | style="text-align:center" | Gold 1st | style="text-align:center" | Immortals | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 17-1 | style="text-align:center" | N/A |- | style="text-align:center;" | April 10, 2016 | 2016 NA LCS Spring Playoffs | style="text-align:center" | Bronze 3rd | style="text-align:center" | Immortals | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 3-0 | style="text-align:center" |Team Liquid |- | style="text-align:center;" | June 3{{ndash}}July 31, 2016 | 2016 NA LCS Summer Regular Season | style="text-align:center" | Silver 2nd | style="text-align:center" | Immortals | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 16-2 | style="text-align:center" | N/A |- | style="text-align:center;" | August 27, 2016 | 2016 NA LCS Summer Playoffs | style="text-align:center" | Bronze 3rd | style="text-align:center" | Immortals | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 3-2 | style="text-align:center" | Counter Logic Gaming |- | style="text-align:center;" | January 20{{ndash}}March 26, 2017 | 2017 NA LCS Spring Regular Season | style="text-align:center" | 7th | style="text-align:center" | Immortals | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 8-10 | style="text-align:center" | N/A |- | style="text-align:center;" | June 2{{ndash}}August 6, 2017 | 2017 NA LCS Summer Regular Season | style="text-align:center" | Silver 2nd | style="text-align:center" | Immortals | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 14-4 | style="text-align:center" | N/A |- | style="text-align:center;" | September 3, 2017 | 2017 NA LCS Summer Playoffs | style="text-align:center" | Silver 2nd | style="text-align:center" | Immortals | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 1-3 | style="text-align:center" | Team SoloMid |- | style="text-align:center;" | October 5{{ndash}}15, 2017 | 2017 League of Legends World Championship Group Stage | style="text-align:center" | 9th-12th | style="text-align:center" | Immortals | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 2-5 | style="text-align:center" | Longzhu Gaming, Fnatic, and GIGABYTE Marines |- | style="text-align:center;" | January 20{{ndash}}March 18, 2018 | 2018 NA LCS Spring Regular Season | style="text-align:center" | 4th | style="text-align:center" | Team Liquid | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 12-8 | style="text-align:center" | N/A |- | style="text-align:center;" | April 8, 2018 |2018 NA LCS Spring Playoffs | style="text-align:center;" | Gold1st | style="text-align:center" | Team Liquid | style="text-align:center; width:5%;" | 3-0 | style="text-align:center" |100 Thieves |}
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{Team Liquid}}
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