The Story of Regi 2.0: The Controversial Fall of an Esports Dynasty

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In 2018 Team SoloMid's founder, Andy "Reginald" Dinh was on top of the world.

He was the CEO of the most valuable team in esports, and business was booming. His players and teams were cleaning up. He was a king.

But in five short years, it all came tumbling down.

TSM has changed a lot in the last five years. The team Regi built is in shambles and it might not even exist anymore. But how did the man who took over esports fall this far?

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[XBMxBama]

Destroying the Double lift roster after that rough worlds showing instead of letting it keep growing another year was the turning point.

[brandonlee]

Bro he investigated himself and found himself not guilty 😂

[wowcorny]

Bjergsen was TSM, the moment he left was the moment they died

[blanco]

As a witness to the birth of TSM, this video lacked a lot of previous key info. Regi showed being an asshole a lot before all the LCS franchising and him being a CEO

[bcjdtqq]

If TSM was still winning and had financial backing nobody would care about what kind of person Regi is. He is exactly who he always has been.

[GothPaoki]

Regi is that guy who'd try to teach Messi how to dribble correctly!

[SDZ]

Poetic that TSM partnered with FTX and went down the same way.

[AnhNguyen-bjzc]

Truly living up to the name Talent Suppression Machine

[dezero]

Good ending:Nadeshot/100T
Bad ending:Regi/TSM

[chrissears]

I still remember that video of him flaming Wildturtle for throwing after they lost a game, and then going back and watching the game and Regi played way waaay fucking worse than Turtle did that game

[dooooopy]

bro thought he got free money from ftx ☠ and set standards for player treatment is diabolical 💀

[osukasuyi]

I miss those TSM chants. I watched the 2016 lcs summer finals in toronto and those TSM chants were crazy

[JYMBO]

A Boss will whip his employees shouting "work harder" as they try to push the boulder up the hill... a leader will roll up his sleeves & help pull form the otherside... he's always had that "i don't care if they hate me as long as we win" attitude which is a rookie mistake, you can't make people respect you through fear, that's something every CEO learns & grows out of very quickly, especially once they realise you get WAY better results if you're caring and helpful, your presence should be valuable, that's how you earn true respect

[ElJukBX]

The only TSM teams I’ve ever enjoyed was the Apex roster and the r6 roster. I never liked Regi from the beginning and he so unattached from those games that I could I actually stand to watch them. And they were both greatly successful! No one will ever match TSM’s year 3 Algs performance!

[Extra_Depresso]

TSM dynasty died when Bjergsen wasn't a player anymore. Regi's ego destroyed TSM's rosters, from how to play and to live.

[kthekid]

You know its bad when a single channel has made like 5 separate videos on you that could be a full blown hour doc at this point

[Betroid]

Hauntzer bjergsen double lift bio frost was a stacked roster

[rairairai]

the name itself solo mid which probably meant only him himself mattered, goes to show how deluded he was and a bully. toad face joke

[HarryDK]

The TSM chants was Iconic back in the day, even EU and Korean chant it at the beginning. Damn

[Scottx]

Looking foward to playing that new Black Myth game starring Regi.