NRG eSports

NRG eSports
Sport League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, Super Smash Bros., Smite, Hearthstone, Rocket League, Gears of War 4, RuneScape, Vainglory
Founded 2015
League North American League of Legends Championship Series, Rocket League Championship Series
Based in Los Angeles, California, US
Arena Riot NA LCS Studios
Colors Black and pink
Owner(s) Gerard Kelly, Andy Miller, Mark Mastrov, Shaquille O'neal
Website http://www.nrg.gg/

NRG eSports is an eSports organization based in California. It has a League of Legends team that will begin competing in the North American League of Legends Championship Series starting with the Spring 2016 Split, as well as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, Smite, Hearthstone, and Rocket League teams. NRG entered the NA LCS after buying a spot from Team Coast, and has entered the SPL after acquiring Panthera.

History

The team is owned and founded by Gerard Kelly, and Sacramento Kings co-owners Andy Miller and Mark Mastrov,[1] and NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O'Neal is also a co-owner.[2] In January 4, 2016 coach Charlie Lispie announced that he had left the organization.[3] The organization branched into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on January 22, 2016.[4] In April 2016, NRG appointed Andrew Pruett as Chief Executive Officer. Gerard Kelly, former CEO, moved into a general management role within the organization.[5]

On March 18, 2016 the team announced that Alex Rodriguez, Shaquille O'Neal and Jimmy Rollins were joining as investors.[6]

On August 3, NRG signed the members of the former Overwatch team Luminosity Gaming.[7]

The Super Smash Bros. for Wii U player Nairoby "Nairo" Quezada joined NRG on August 23, 2016 after he left Team Liquid.[8]

On September 1, NRG acquired defending Smite World Champions team Panthera.[9]

On October 1, NRG acquired Rocket League team Kings of Urban.[10]

League of Legends

Tournament results

Roster

Nationality ID Name Role Joined
 South Korea GBM Lee Chang-suk (이창석) Mid 2015-11-16
 Venezuela Quas Diego Ruiz Top 2016-04-26
 United States KiWiKiD Alan Nguyen Support 2016-04-26
 South Korea Ohq Oh Gyu-min (오규민) AD Carry 2016-05-13

Former

Nationality ID Name Role Joined Left
 United States Moon Galen Holgate Jungle 2015-11-16 2016-04-26
 Canada Altec Johnny Ru AD Carry 2015-11-16 2016-04-26
 South Korea KonKwon Kevin Kwon Support 2015-11-16 2016-04-26
 South Korea Impact Jung Eon-yeong (정언영) Top 2015-11-16 2016-05-09
 Denmark Santorin Lucas Tao Kilmer Larsen Jungle 2016-04-26 Aug 2016

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Tournament results

Roster

Nationality ID Name Joined
 Germany
 Turkey 		gob b Fatih Dayik 2016-01-22
 Serbia LEGIJA Nikola Ninic 2016-01-22
 United States FugLy Jacob Medina 2016-05-27[12]
 Germany tabseN Johannes Wodarz 2016-05-27[12]
 Brazil peacemaker Luis Tadeu 2016-11-19[13]

Overwatch

Roster

Nationality ID Name Joined
 United States Pookz Mark Rendon 2016-08-03
 United States dummy Tim Olson 2016-08-03
 United States milo Yomar Toledo 2016-08-03
 United States GODS Daniel Graeser 2016-08-03
 United States Enigma Carl Yangsheng 2016-08-03
 United States Seagull Brandon Larned 2016-08-03

Super Smash Bros.

Roster

Nationality ID Name Game Character(s) Joined
 United States Nairo Nairoby Quezada Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Zero Suit Samus 2016-08-23

Smite

Roster

Nationality ID Name Role Joined
 Sweden Yammyn André Brännvall Mid 2016-09-01
 Germany Dimi Peter Dimitrov Solo 2016-09-01
 Sweden Adapting Kennet Ros Jungle 2016-09-01
 United Kingdom iRaffer Craig Rathbone Guardian (Support) 2016-09-01
 Sweden Emilitoo Emil Stärnman Hunter (ADC) 2016-09-01

RuneScape & Vainglory

RuneScape & Vainglory was officially added to NRG's competitive lineup with the signing of the Twitch.tv streamer Ice_Poseidon, a Vainglory and Runescape professional, on September 7, 2016.[14]

He is the host of a $5,000 Vainglory tournament to be held in 2017 with his sister Enza Denino as co-host who is going to play Vainglory for her first time live on Twitch.[15]

Roster

Nationality ID Name Joined
 United States Ice_Poseidon Paul Denino 2016-09-07[14]

Hearthstone

NRG eSports officially added Hearthstone to their lineup with the addition of Twitch streamer AmazHS. More recently, they also added American rising star, Will Barton (a.k.a. Amnesiac or Amnesia_SC) Amnesia_sc

Roster

Nationality ID Name Joined
 Hong Kong AmazHS Jason Chan 2016-09-09
 United States Amnesia_sc William Barton 2016

Rocket League

Tournament results

Roster

Nationality ID Name Joined
 United States Fireburner Jayson Nunez 2016-10-01
 United States Jacob Jacob McDowell 2016-10-01
 Canada Sadjunior Kais Zehri 2016-10-01

Gears of War 4

Roster

Nationality ID Name Joined
 United States Sleepytime Yadiel Hidalgo 2016-9-15
 United States Sir Sicamore Marvin Moya 2016-9-15
 United States Twist3dshot Marlon Haynes 2016-9-15
 United States KO Frank Tibbs 2016-9-15
 United States Xavier Celsius Christopher Hill 2016-9-15

References

  1. ↑ Volk, Pete (November 16, 2015). "NRG eSports, new LCS team purchased by Sacramento Kings co-owners, announces roster". SB Nation. Retrieved January 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Shaq, NRG Esports pick up Overwatch team". ESPN.
  3. ↑ Moser, Kelsey (January 4, 2016). "Charlie Lipsie and NRG eSports part ways". TheScore eSports. TheScore Inc. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ Lambert, Morgan (January 22, 2016). "NRG eSports acquires CS:GO team". NRG eSports. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ "NRG appoints new CEO, former head of Apple iAd publisher relations". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  6. ↑ "Shaq, A-Rod, Rollins invest in esports team". ESPN.
  7. ↑ "Shaq and NRG eSports sign Overwatch squad".
  8. ↑ Wolf, Jacob. "NRG Esports picks up Super Smash Con winner Nairo". ESPN. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "NRG 🎮 on Twitter".
  10. ↑ "NRG 🎮 on Twitter".
  11. ↑ Mira, Luis. "Na'Vi win Counter Pit League S2". HLTV.org. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  12. 1 2 Alcopra, William. "NRG sign FugLy and tabseN". theScore eSports. TheScore Inc. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  13. ↑ Mile, Lucas. "peacemaker to NRG; ptr out". HLTV.org. HLTV. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  14. 1 2 "Ice_Poseidon joins the NRG family". Twitter. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  15. ↑ "lol". Twitch. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  16. ↑ Thompson, Luke. "RLCS S2 REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS RECAP". rocketleaguegame.com. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
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