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Echo Fox
Echo Fox was an American esports organization. It was founded on December 18, 2015, by retired basketball player Rick Fox, who created Echo Fox after he purchased the NA LCS spot of Gravity Gaming. The organization had expanded into various games with teams competing in titles such as ''Call of Duty'', '' CS:GO'', ''Dragon Ball FighterZ'', ''Injustice 2,'' ''Madden NFL 19'', ''Mortal Kombat'', '' Super Smash Bros.'', and ''Street Fighter V''. Echo Fox had several fighting game players with championship titles and are a well known organization in the professional scene. History On December 18, 2015 Rick Fox and his business partners, Amit Raizada and Khalid Jones, entered the professional esports scene with their acquisition of the NA LCS spot of Gravity Gaming, creating a new team named Echo Fox. According to Raizada, he and Jones "both offered up $1 million each to get the new team off the ground" while Fox "never put in any of his own money into Echo Fox." Fox and Raiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apex Legends
''Apex Legends'' is a free-to-play Battle royale game, battle royale-hero shooter game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in February 2019, for Nintendo Switch in March 2021, and for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in March 2022. A mobile version of the game designed for touchscreens titled ''Apex Legends Mobile'' was released in May 2022 on Android (operating system), Android and iOS. The game supports cross-platform play, excluding the aforementioned mobile platforms. Before the match, players form into two- or three-player squads, and select from Player character, pre-designed characters with distinctive abilities, known as "Legends". The game has two gameplay modes. In "Battle Royale", up to 20 three-person squads or 30 two-person duos land on an island and search for weapons and supplies before attempting to defeat all other players in combat. The available play area on the island s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sentinels (esports)
Sentinels is an American esports organization based in Los Angeles, California. The organization was founded as ''League of Legends'' team Phoenix1 and competed in the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS). In June 2018, Phoenix1 rebranded to Sentinels. The company currently fields teams in, ''Valorant'', ''Apex Legends'', and ''Halo''. History Phoenix1 was founded in May 2016 as a ''League of Legends'' team to compete in the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS). After the NA LCS became a franchised league, Phoenix1 sold their LCS spot. Following, Phoenix1 partnered with Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (KSE) to launch their Overwatch League franchised team Los Angeles Gladiators for the video game ''Overwatch''. After successfully launching the ''Overwatch'' team, the company rebranded to Sentinels in June 2018. Sentinels opened two new divisions in 2018; in June 2018, they entered ''Hearthstone'' esports, and the following month, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evil Geniuses
Evil Geniuses (EG) is an American esports organization based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1999, the organization has fielded players in various fighting games, ''Call of Duty'', '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', ''Dota 2'', ''Fortnite Battle Royale'', ''Halo,'' ''League of Legends'', ''StarCraft II'', ''Rocket League'', ''Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege'', and ''World of Warcraft''. In May 2019, EG was acquired by PEAK6 Investments LLC, a Chicago-based investment company. While independently owned at the time of the acquisition, it was formerly a subsidiary of GoodGame Agency, which in turn was owned by Amazon.com through its division Twitch. EG's ''Dota 2'' squad won The International 2015, receiving the largest prize payout in esports history at the time. Their ''Call of Duty: WWII'' roster won the 2018 Call of Duty Championship. History Evil Geniuses was founded as a Quake clan in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1997. Playing from the first cyber cafe i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PVP Live
PVP Live was an American esports news website. It was founded in 2012 and included a statistics database. The website was owned by PVP Live Interactive, Inc. PVP Live came out of its most recent beta on June 8, 2015. The company is based in Frisco, Texas. History Prior incarnations of the organization include the Heroes Live, PVE Live, and Hearth Live websites, a podcast, as well as Armageddon, an online World of Warcraft Arena tournament, and Tavern Takeover, an online ''Hearthstone'' tournament. The third production of Tavern Takeover was widely criticized for poor sound production, resulting in the CEO issuing a public apology and stating that sound issues would be a thing of the past. Several months later, the first episode of PVP Live's Hearthstone Pro League also struggled with sound issues. In 2015, the website planned on producing a 24-hour online show along the lines of ESPN's ''Sports Center''. On May 23, 2016, the site broke the news that ESPN was in talks with Riot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mew2King
Jason Sheldon Zimmerman (born February 5, 1989), known by his gamertag Mew2King, commonly shortened to M2K, is an Americans, American professional ''Super Smash Bros. (series), Super Smash Bros.'' professional Super Smash Bros. competition, player from Cinnaminson Township, New Jersey, Cinnaminson, New Jersey. He has won more than 70 tournaments during his career, primarily in ''Super Smash Bros. Melee''. Zimmerman is one of the "Five Gods" of ''Melee'', along with Juan Debiedma, Juan "Hungrybox" Debiedma, Adam Lindgren, Adam "Armada" Lindgren, Kevin Nanney, Kevin "PPMD" Nanney, and Joseph Marquez, Joseph "Mang0" Marquez and is also widely considered one of the greatest ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' players of all time. He has also competed at a top-level in ''Super Smash Bros. for Wii U'', ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' and ''Project M''. In ''Melee'', Zimmerman primarily plays Marth (Fire Emblem), Marth, Princess Zelda#Sheik, Sheik, and Fox McCloud, Fox, while he plays Meta Knight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Dot
''The Daily Dot'' is a digital media company covering the culture of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Founded by Nicholas White in 2011, ''The Daily Dot'' is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The site, conceived as the Internet's "hometown newspaper", focuses on topics such as streaming entertainment, geek culture, memes, gadgets and social issues, such as LGBT, gender and race. In addition, an e-commerce arm produces branded video for advertisers and sells items from an online marketplace. History ''The Daily Dot'' was established in 2011 by Nicholas White, whose goal was to cover Internet communities such as Reddit and Tumblr in the same manner as hometown newspapers cover their own communities. White's family has been in the newspaper business since buying the '' Sandusky Register'' in Ohio in 1869, and White was a reporter and executive with the family's media company before establishing the site. White launched ''The Daily Dot'' with $600,000 and a handful of full-tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fighting Game Community
The fighting game community, often abbreviated to FGC, is a collective of video gamers who play fighting games such as '' Marvel vs. Capcom'', ''Mortal Kombat'', '' Soulcalibur'', ''Street Fighter'', ''Guilty Gear'', ''The King of Fighters'', '' Blazblue'', '' Super Smash Bros.'', ''Tekken'', '' Dead or Alive'', ''Samurai Shodown'', and many others. The fighting game community started out small in the late 1990s and throughout the 2000s referred to as the grassroots era, but it has grown to a larger scale in the 2010s, with many tournaments being held around the world. This is predominantly due to the rise of esports and digitized viewing habits on live streaming sites such as Twitch. History Beginnings The game '' Street Fighter II: The World Warrior'' was a huge success when it was released in 1991 and is regarded as one of the most influential video games of all time. It refined and popularized the fighting game genre and introduced many now-staples of the genre, such as c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
G2 Esports
G2 Esports (G2) is a European esports organization headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with players competing in ''League of Legends'', ''Valorant'', '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', '' Hearthstone'', ''Rocket League'', ''Rainbow Six Siege'', and ''iRacing''. The organization was founded in Spain on 24 February 2014 as Gamers2 by former ''League of Legends'' pro Carlos "ocelote" Rodríguez Santiago and investor Jens Hilgers. The organization rebranded as G2 Esports on 15 October 2015. G2's ''League of Legends'' team competes in the ''League of Legends'' European Championship (LEC), the highest level of competitive ''League of Legends'' in Europe. The team has won nine domestic titles in Europe, the most of any organization, and became the only Western team to win the Mid-Season Invitational in 2019. The organization's ''Rainbow Six Siege'' team competes in the European League (EUL), the highest level of competitive ''Rainbow Six Siege'' in Europe. The team won the Six Maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virtus
''Virtus'' () was a specific virtue in Ancient Rome. It carries connotations of valor, manliness, excellence, courage, character, and worth, perceived as masculine strengths (from Latin ''vir'', "man"). It was thus a frequently stated virtue of Roman emperors, and was personified as a deity—Virtus. Origins The origins of the word ''virtus'' can be traced back to the Latin word ''vir'', "man". The common list of attributes associated with ''virtus'' are typically perceived masculine strengths, which may indicate its derivation from ''vir''. From the early to the later days of the Roman Empire, there appears to have been a development in how the concept was understood. Originally ''virtus'' was used to describe specifically martial courage, but it eventually grew to be used to describe a range of Roman virtues. It was often divided into different qualities including ''prudentia'' (prudence), ''iustitia'' (justice), ''temperantia'' (temperance, self-control), and ''fortit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ELEAGUE Season 2
''ELEAGUE Season 2'' was the second season of the ELEAGUE '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' league that ran from October 21, 2016, to December 3, 2016, and was broadcast on cable television on TBS. The season featured 120 teams overall and 16 teams in the main tournament from across the world competing in a seven-week season, which included a regular season and a playoffs. The broadcast was simultaneously available on the online streaming service Twitch. The season began with Season 1 semifinalist mousesports defeating Brazil's second best team Immortals and ended in the grand finals with OpTic Gaming pulling off an upset against Astralis to take home Season 2's ELEAGUE title. Format Season 2 will reflect a format much like a CS:GO major, such at the recent ESL One Cologne 2016. The top eight finishers from last season's ELEAGUE will automatically be invited to compete in the second season. The other sixteen teams are invited to play in the Closed Qualifiers in their respect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
100 Thieves
100 Thieves, LLC is an American lifestyle brand and gaming organization based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2017 by Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag and Dan Gilbert. The organization competes in several video games, including ''Apex Legends'', ''Call of Duty'', ''Fortnite Battle Royale'', ''League of Legends'' and ''Valorant''. They currently own two franchise teams: 100 Thieves of the League of Legends Championship Series and the Los Angeles Thieves of the Call of Duty League. History 100 Thieves was founded in 2017 by Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag, a former OpTic Gaming ''Call of Duty'' team captain, (MLG) X Games gold medalist, and 2014 Esports Athlete of the year. In November 2017, 100 Thieves received a multimillion-dollar investment from Cleveland Cavaliers and Quicken Loans owner Dan Gilbert allowing the company to expand into a full-fledged esports organization. On October 23, 2018, 100 Thieves announced that they finished their Series A funding round co-led by Scooter Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League East, East division. They are one of two major league clubs based in New York City, the other is the National League (NL)'s New York Mets. The team was founded in when Frank J. Farrell, Frank Farrell and William Stephen Devery, Bill Devery purchased the franchise rights to the defunct Baltimore Orioles (no relation to the current Baltimore Orioles, team of the same name) after it ceased operations and used them to establish the New York Highlanders. The Highlanders were officially renamed the New York Yankees in . The team is owned by Yankee Global Enterprises, a limited liability company that is controlled by the family of the late George Steinbrenner, who purchased the team in 1973. Brian Cashman is the team's general manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
