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S8UL Esports (pronounced S-Eight-U-L) is an Indian professional eSports organization. It fields competitive eSports roster in several mobile games. It was formed by partnership of Team SouL and Team 8-Bit.

S8UL currently fields players in Battlegrounds Mobile India, Free Fire, and Clash of Clans. The organization previously had a Call of Duty: Mobile and a Valorant roster.

Team SouL
Team SouL was formed as a PUBG Mobile team in 2018 to compete in the DreamHack event held in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The initial roster of the team included Naman "MortaL" Mathur, Yash "VipeR" Soni, Harpreet "RonaK" Singh and Mohammed Owais Lakhani.

In March 2019, Team SouL won PUBG Mobile India Series and won prize money of $41,806. Afterwards they won PMCO Spring Split 2019's Indian Championship and earned themselves a spot in the Global Finals.

Team 8-Bit
Team 8-Bit was started by Animesh "Thug" Aggarwal as an Clash Royale clan. Later on in 2018, when PUBG Mobile was globally launched he set up a PUBG Mobile roster to compete in tournaments.

Lokesh "Goldy" Jain, an entrepreneur from a business family in Delhi joined Team 8-Bit in 2019 partnering with Thug.

Partnership
Mortal and Thug met through the game PUBG Mobile and soon developed a good friendship among them. They both realised they had the same vision of having a team of their own.

Team SouL owned by MortaL, and Team 8-Bit at first exclusively owned by Thug and later co-owned with Goldy, became partners in Indian eSports scenario. Initially this partnership was informal, and was casually called S8UL. Eventually they decided to make the partnership official, and both organisations joined to form S8UL Esports.

Content Creation
S8UL Esports also produce content, primarily for YouTube, and has signed a large number of content creators.

The most popular content creators of S8UL on YouTube, in terms of subscribers count, are:


 * 1) MortaL
 * 2) sc0ut
 * 3) SOUL Regaltos

Gaming House
On April 2, 2021 S8UL revealed their gaming house where all of its competitive players and content creators will reside. Its price was revealed to be $1 Million, built around 15,000 square feet. It is located in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Battlegrounds Mobile India
S8UL Esports features an Battlegrounds Mobile India roster, which was revealed on 7 July, 2021. The team is named Team SouL and officialy referred to as Team SouL sponsored by S8UL Esports.

Clash of Clans
On March 6, 2021 S8UL Esports announced their Clash of Clans lineup of several former Clash of Clans players for Team 8-Bit.

The lineup consists of Archit, Akki, Ashish, Addy, Taxy and Virus.

Garena Free Fire
On 16 July, 2021 S8UL Esports announced their Free Fire roster. S8UL has now entered into Free Fire competitive scene.

The roster consists Martin, Raju, Mr. Gamer and MIND.

Valorant
S8UL disbanded its Valorant roster on March 4, 2021, due to bad performance.

S8UL signed the team Innocent 5 in January 2021. But later when the team failed to perform, it was decided to release the roster.

The roster of S8UL Esports for Valorant consisted of Mithul "Binks69" Nayak, Harshvardhan "Kuzuri" Singh Panwar, Shreyas "Edit99" Kshirsagar, Sahil "Strixx" Rane, Tanmay "NotFox" Verma, and Rishabh "EzzzYy" Gupta.

Call of Duty: Mobile
S8UL announced their Call of Duty: Mobile roster on March 4, 2021. But in less than two weeks, the roster was released.

The lineup of this team included Arav "Monk" Narang, Priyank "Death" Birajdar, Armaan "Moon Scope" Dharni, Akshan "Argon" Madhani, Amitabh "Xenon" Srivastav.

Management
Siddhant "SID" Joshi is the manager of every competitive esports lineups of S8UL.

S8UL and all of its content creators' are managed by 8bit Creatives, a talent management firm run by Thug and Goldy.