| Chain | ||
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| Background Information | ||
| Name | Sam Dineley | |
| Country of Birth | Northern Ireland | |
| Birthday | December 6, 1998 (age 25) | |
| Residency | Europe | |
| Competitive | ||
| Role | Player | |
| PSN ID | EmigrantChain | |
| XBL Gamertag | XGN Chain | |
| Social Media & Links | ||
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Sam "Chain" Dineley is a Call of Duty esports player, previously a player for The Originals.
Team History
| Team | Start | End | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 IGI eSports | May 20152015-05-12[2] | Jun 20152015-06-10[1] | 29d | ejel | ||
 iGame | Mar 20172017-03-23[4] | Mar 20172017-03-30[3] | 7d | ejel | ||
 Most Wanted | Oct 20172017-10-12 | Oct 20172017-10-28 | 16d | ejel | ||
 Team Vitality | Jul 20182018-07-24 | Nov 20182018-11-29[7] | 4mo 5d | ejel | ||
 Fact Revolution | Nov 20182018-11-29[9] | Feb 20192019-02-28[8] | 2mo 29d | ejel | ||
 Lightning Pandas | Mar 20192019-03-05[11] | Apr 20192019-04-18[10] | 1mo 13d | ejel | ||
 Alliance | Apr 20192019-04-26 | Jun 20192019-06-01[13] | 1mo 5d | ejel | ||
 The Bhoys | Jul 20192019-07-07[15] | Aug 20192019-08-12[14] | 1mo 5d | ejel | ||
 Celtic FC Esports | Aug 20192019-08-12[16] | ≈Aug 2019≈2019-08-?? | ≈17d | ejel | ||
 Team Singularity | Dec 20192019-12-07[18] | Nov 20202020-11-29[17] | 11mo 22d | ejel | ||
 Connect | Jun 20202020-06-02[20] | Jul 20202020-07-10[19] | 1mo 8d | On Loan ejel | ||
 GANGSTERZ | ≈Dec 2020≈2020-12-?? | ≈Jan 2021≈2021-01-?? | ≈1mo 28d | ejel | ||
 Obtained Esports | Feb 20212021-02-06[22] | Mar 20212021-03-15[21] | 1mo 9d | ejel | ||
 The Originals | Jul 20212021-07-17 | ≈Sep 2021≈2021-09-?? | ≈1mo 15d | ejel |
| Team | Start | End | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IGI eSports | May 20152015-05-12[2] | Jun 20152015-06-10[1] | 29d | ejel | ||
| iGame | Mar 20172017-03-23[4] | Mar 20172017-03-30[3] | 7d | ejel | ||
| Most Wanted | Oct 20172017-10-12 | Oct 20172017-10-28 | 16d | ejel | ||
| Team Vitality | Jul 20182018-07-24 | Nov 20182018-11-29[7] | 4mo 5d | ejel | ||
| Fact Revolution | Nov 20182018-11-29[9] | Feb 20192019-02-28[8] | 2mo 29d | ejel | ||
| Lightning Pandas | Mar 20192019-03-05[11] | Apr 20192019-04-18[10] | 1mo 13d | ejel | ||
| Alliance | Apr 20192019-04-26 | Jun 20192019-06-01[13] | 1mo 5d | ejel | ||
| The Bhoys | Jul 20192019-07-07[15] | Aug 20192019-08-12[14] | 1mo 5d | ejel | ||
| Celtic FC Esports | Aug 20192019-08-12[16] | ≈Aug 2019≈2019-08-?? | ≈17d | ejel | ||
| Team Singularity | Dec 20192019-12-07[18] | May 20202020-05-06[23] | 4mo 30d | ejel | ||
| Team Singularity | May 20202020-05-06[23] | Jun 20202020-06-02[24] | 27d | ejel | ||
| Team Singularity | Jun 20202020-06-02[24] | Jul 20202020-07-10 | 1mo 8d | Loaned Out ejel | ||
| Connect | Jun 20202020-06-02[20] | Jul 20202020-07-10[19] | 1mo 8d | On Loan ejel | ||
| Team Singularity | Jul 20202020-07-10 | Jul 20202020-07-10[25] | ejel | |||
| Team Singularity | Jul 20202020-07-10[25] | Nov 20202020-11-29[17] | 4mo 19d | ejel | ||
| GANGSTERZ | ≈Dec 2020≈2020-12-?? | ≈Jan 2021≈2021-01-?? | ≈1mo 28d | ejel | ||
| Obtained Esports | Feb 20212021-02-06[22] | Mar 20212021-03-15[21] | 1mo 9d | ejel | ||
| The Originals | Jul 20212021-07-17 | ≈Sep 2021≈2021-09-?? | ≈1mo 15d | ejel |
News
- 2015
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
 IGI | May 12, Agon, aMaZe, Chain, and KraQz join.[2] | |
| IGI | June 10, Ant, DREAL, Forgiven, and Rob join. Agon, aMaZe, Chain, and Harley leave.[1] |
 iG | March 23, Chain and Defrag join. Desire and Weeman leave.[4][5][6] | |
| iG | March 30, Braaain joins. Desire and Weeman rejoin. Chain, Defrag, and Deleo leave.[3] | |
 MW | October 12, Chain, Creza, Subsist, and Verdict join. | |
| MW | October 28, Chain, Creza, Subsist, and Verdict leave. |
 VIT | July 24, Chain, Denza, and Maple join. RiskiN becomes inactive. | |
| VIT | November 29, Chain and Maple leave.[7] | |
 FACT | November 29, Cammy, Chain, Defrag, Maple, and SunnyB join.[9] |
| FACT | February 28, Cammy, Chain, Defrag, Maple, and SunnyB leave.[8] | |
 LP | March 5, Chain and Hawqeh join. Nastie joins as substitute. Alexx and Joshh leave.[11][12] | |
| LP | April 18, Organization ceases operations. Chain, Dqvee, Hawqeh, Maple, Peatie, Nastiee, and Op2 (Coach) leave.[10] | |
 A | April 26, Chain, Dqvee, Hawqeh, Maple, and Peatie join. | |
| A | June 1, Chain leaves.[13] | |
 Bhoys | July 7, Bance, Chain, Nastie, QwiKeR, and Seany join.[15] | |
| Bhoys | August 12, Roster is signed by  Celtic FC Esports. Bance, Chain, Nastie, QwiKeR, and Seany leave.[14] | |
| CEL | August 12, Signs roster of  The Bhoys. Bance, Chain, Nastie, and QwiKeR join. Seany is loaned from Team Reciprocity.[16] | |
| CEL | August (approx.), Chain and Nastie leave. | |
 SNG | December 7, Chain joins. Maple rejoins. Insight will remain with the team.[18] |
| SNG | March 2, Team begins bootcamp in the United States.[26] | |
| SNG | April 27, Team returns to Europe after bootcamp in the United States ends.[27] | |
| SNG | May 6, Gismo joins. Chain moves to substitute.[23] | |
| SNG | June 2, Chain is loaned to Connect.[24] | |
 CONN | June 2, Chain is loaned from Team Singularity. Linney leaves.[20] | |
| CONN | July 10, Linney joins. Chain's loan from Team Singularity ends.[19] | |
| SNG | July 10, Chain returns from loan to Connect. Chain moves to starting roster. Maple moves to substitute.[25] | |
| SNG | October 5, Maple moves to starting roster. Chain becomes restricted free agent.[28] | |
| SNG | November 29, Chain leaves.[17] | |
 GANG | December (approx.), Breszy, Chain, Urban, and Wailers join. |
Biography[]
World War II[]
Chain was well known in the EU Search and Destroy scene and named "Chall to Chain" for his time on Black Ops 3 and Infinite Warfare, at the start of the new season, he decided to try and compete in variant. Chain's teams struggled at first unable to make it past top 16s in EU MLG 2Ks constantly changing teams and playing with other EU AMs such as Creza, Subsist, Braaain, and a few more. He landed on a team with Weeman and the veterans ShAnE and Watson, and this team placed sixth in the CWL UK National Circuit Stage 1. At his first LAN event, Chain teamed with ShAnE, Dominate, and Bidz for the CWL Birmingham Open, but the team was unable to make it out of the open bracket with a poor top 40 placement. This team then placed seventh in the CWL UK National Circuit Stage 2 and had to play in the CWL UK National Circuit Stage 2 Relegation where they managed qualified for Stage 3 after replacing Dominate and Bidz and picking back up Weeman and Watson. In the CWL UK National Circuit Stage 3 the team placed fifth, which was the highest thus far. Chain's talent was starting to get noticed and it landed it on a team with SamB, Maple, and the veteran Tommey. Chain saw his highest placements with this new team as they placed top 4 in their first EU MLG 2k and placed top 4 in the CWL UK National Circuit Stage 4. Seeing the potential in this team, Team Vitality picked them up, and after a poor top 16 in an EU MLG 2K, SamB was dropped for the veteran Belgian AM Denza. With Denza, Team Vitality managed to qualify for CWL Champs only dropping one map at the CWL Championship LCQ. At the CWL Championship, Team Vitality shocked many by beating Echo Fox and making it out of pools. In bracket play, Team Vitality lost to Champs winners Evil Geniuses in the first round of the winners bracket, but managed to reverse sweep Lethal Gaming in a close series before losing to Elevate for a surprising top 12 placement.
Black Ops 4[]
Despite making a decent Champs run, the team split up and Chain and Maple joined a team with Cammy, Defrag, and SunnyB to start the new game cycle. This team was looking decently online placing top 4 in EU MLG 2Ks and Chain was still showing off his snd prowess winning an online 3v3 snd tourney with Nastie and Rizl. Chain, Maple, and the boys were then picked up by Fact Revolution to compete at the CWL Las Vegas Open. At Vegas, the team fell just shy of making it out of the open bracket with a top 28 placement, but that was good enough to qualify for the CWL Pro League Qualifier. Ahead of the qualifier, the team placed top 4 in a few more EU MLG 2ks and Chain won another 3v3 snd tourney. At the CWL Pro League Qualifier, Fact Revolution got off to a hot start in their pool with a 3-1 start, but they finished 3-3 and would have to play in bracket play where they lost in a game 5 to Excelerate Gaming and lost to Red Reserve meaning they missed out on qualifying for the CWL Pro League. Chain then stuck to online tournaments until ending up on Lightning Pandas to team with Dqvee, Peatie, Maple, Hawqeh. This team was picked up by Alliance and added Falcore as a coach to compete at the CWL London Open where they placed a disappointing top 12. Chain then went back to online tournaments and due to his snd prowess and perceived gun skill, he was picked up on The Bhoys to team with Bance, Seany, Nastie, and QwiKeR. This team lost to fellow EU AMs Team WaR in two close game 5 series in the CWL UK Amateur Finals Qualifier. However, at the actual CWL Amateur Finals, The Bhoys got their revenge beating Team WaR in another two close game 5 series in the grand finals to take home Chain's highest prize money to date.
Trivia[]
- Chain's favorite Call of Duty title is Call of Duty: Black Ops 3.
Achievements[]
This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
Media[]
- 2020
- February 17, Team Singularity - CDL Open Minnesota Aftermovie! by Team Singularity on YouTube
- March 7, CDL Open Paris Report by Curt Bottomley on Team Singularity
- March 13, CDL LA Open Report by Curt Bottomley on Team Singularity
- March 20, Who's the next underrated AM player that's going to breakout into the CDL by u/pottsy3 on CodCompetitive
- December 10, Top 20 MW Challengers Players: #10 - #6 by Breaking Point Team on Breaking Point
Gallery[]
Chain at COD Champs 2018
Fact Revolution Chain in 2019
Lightning Pandas Chain in 2019
Chain at Launch Weekend 2020
Chain at Challengers 2020 Finals
Redirects
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 IGI's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 IGI's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 iGame's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Desire's Twitlonger twitter.com
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Weeman's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 QwiKeR's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Fact Revolution's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Fact Revolution's Post factpro.no
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Fact Revolution's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Lightning Pandas' TwitLonger twitlonger.com
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Lightning Pandas' Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Lightning Pandas' Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Vortex's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Celtic FC's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Seany's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Celtic FC Esports take part in the 2019 CWL Championship celticfc.net
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Unchained teamsingularity.com
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Singularity's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Maple benched teamsingularity.com
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Chain loaned teamsingularity.com
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Obtained's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Obtained's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 Team Singularity's Post twitter.com
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Chain loaned teamsingularity.com
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 Maple benched teamsingularity.com
- ↑ Detain's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ Detain's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ Team Singularity's Tweet twitter.com