Echo Fox

Echo Fox
Sport Gears of War 4
League of Legends
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Super Smash Bros.
Fighting games
Call of Duty
Vainglory
Founded 2015
Owner(s) Rick Fox
Website http://echofox.gg/

Echo Fox is a professional eSports organization which fields teams in Gears of War 4, League of Legends, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 , Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Street Fighter V, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Mortal Kombat X, Tekken 7, Injustice 2, and Vainglory.[1] The organization was founded after Rick Fox bought the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) spot of Gravity Gaming for around US$1 million.[2][3] The organization expanded into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive by signing a team called Torqued on January 26, 2016.[4] Jace Hall is the team's co-owner and manager.

League of Legends

On 1/23/2016, due to some concerns over player work-eligibility, Echo Fox was unable to submit a roster and was required to forfeit[5] their match against NRG eSports. Echo Fox finished last in the 2016 Summer NA LCS, forcing a relegation match. They defeated NRG eSports 3-0 in relegations and qualified for the 2017 NA LCS Spring Split.

Roster

ID Name Role Contract Ends
Looper Jang Hyeong-Seok (장형석) Top 11/20/2017
Akaadian Matthew Higginbotham Jungler 11/20/2017
Froggen Henrik Hansen Mid 11/20/2017
Keith Yuri Jew AD Carry 11/20/2017
Gate Austin Yu Support 11/19/2018
Feng Wang Xiao Feng Sub/Top Signed
Grigne Jonathan Armao Sub/Jungler 11/20/2017
Mash Brandon Phan Sub/AD Carry Signed

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Disbandment

While no official reason has been given for Echo Fox allowing its players to leave, many cite it due to bad performances at both Eleague Season 2 and IBUYPOWER Masters 2016. At Eleague, Echo Fox suffered humiliating losses versus Virtus.pro, (where they won only a single round on Nuke), and versus G2 Esports (where Echo Fox lost 16-3 and 16-2 on Nuke and Dust 2 respectively). At iBUYPOWER Masters 2016 Echo Fox finished a disappointing 5th-6th place.

Roster

ID Name Role Joined
fREAKAZOiD Ryan Abadir Rifler 2016-05-31[6]

Former

ID Name Role Joined Left
sgares Sean Gares In Game Leader 2016-01-26 2016-12-03[7]
ryx Ronnie Bylicki Entry Fragger 2016-01-26 2016-12-03[7]
roca Daniel Gustaferri Rifler 2016-04-19[8] 2016-12-03[7]
ShahZaM Shahzeb Khan AWPer 2016-04-27[9] 2016-12-03[7]
tck Trey Martin Rifler 2016-01-26 2016-04-09
mOE Mohamad Assad AWPer 2016-01-26 2016-04-27
a2z Armeen Toussi Lurker 2016-01-26 2016-05-27

Fighting games

Echo Fox entered the fighting game community on April 29, 2016 by signing Street Fighter V player Julio Fuentes.[10] A month later, they would sign Super Smash Bros. pro Jason "Mew2King" Zimmerman.[11]

In 2017, Echo Fox would make one of the biggest signings in eSports history by signing seven FGC players all at once, three of which were previously being from Evil Geniuses. In addition to this Echo Fox signed former EG manager Antonio "CoolGrayAJ" Javier as the team's new manager.[12] The signing of said superteam was met with mixed reception from the fighting game community. Evil Geniuses player Kenneth "K-Brad" Bradley vowed for the team to fall especially his former teammate, Justin Wong. Team Liquid's NuckleDu acknowledged the signing and feels anticipation as to what the new team can do, complementing each player as a Top 10 player in each of their main games.[13] Echo Fox would continue growing their team with the signing of Korean Tekken pros Saint and JDCR; this would bring their roster up to eleven players.[14]

Roster

ID Name Game(s) Character(s) Joined
Julio Julio Fuentes Street Fighter V Ken 2016-04-29[10]
Mew2King Jason Zimmerman Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Project M (video game)
Super Smash Bros. 64		 Marth, Sheik, Fox
Cloud
Meta Knight
Fox, Sheik, Marth
Kirby 		2016-05-17[11]
ChocoBlanka Yuko Momochi Street Fighter V M. Bison 2017-01-04[12]
Justin Wong Justin Wong Street Fighter V
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3		 Karin
Wolverine, Storm, Akuma		 2017-01-04[12]
MkLeo Leonardo Lopez Perez Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Marth, Cloud 2017-01-04[12]
Momochi Yusuke Momochi Street Fighter V Ken 2017-01-04[12]
Scar Brad Vaughn Injustice 2 Superman 2017-01-04[12]
SonicFox Dominique McLean Injustice 2
Skullgirls: 2nd Encore
Dead or Alive 5 Last Round		 Darkseid, Black Adam
Fukua, Eliza
Marie Rose, Christie, Phase 4, Rachel		 2017-01-04[12]
Tokido Hajime Taniguchi Street Fighter V Akuma 2017-01-04[12]
JDCR Hyun-jin Kim Tekken 7 Heihachi, Dragunov 2017-02-06[14]
Saint Jin-woo Choi Tekken 7 Jack-7 2017-02-06[14]
Theo Jivan Karapetian Injustice 2 Superman, Aquaman 2017-06-26[15]

Call of Duty

On May 13, 2016 Echo Fox added a Call of Duty team with a roster of Jeremy "Neslo" Olsen, Jordan "Proof" Cannon, Jonathan "SinfuL" Baez, and Josh "Cyborg" Kimpson.[16] In November, all players except Neslo were dropped and replaced by Anthony "Methodz" Zinni, Teegan "TcM" McCarthy, and Tanner "Mosh" Clark.[17]


Roster

ID Name Role Joined
Neslo Jeremy Olsen 2016-05-13
Methodz Anthony Zinni 2016-11-23
TcM Teegan McCarthy 2016-11-23
Mosh Tanner Clark 2016-11-23

References

  1. ↑ "Teams". Echo Fox. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  2. ↑ Soshnick, Scott (December 18, 2015). "Former NBA Player Rick Fox Buys eSports Team Gravity". Bloomberg News. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ Volk, Pete (December 18, 2015). "Rick Fox purchases League of Legends team for reported $1 million, will rebrand as Echo Fox". SB Nation. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  4. ↑ Sawant, Seth (January 26, 2016). "Torqued signed by Echo Fox". Gosu Gamers. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  5. ↑ "LoL Esports". www.lolesports.com. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
  6. ↑ Dozsa, Preston. "Echo Fox sign fREAKAZOiD". theScore eSports. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Echo Fox Official. "Echo Fox Allows Players to Exit". twitter.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  8. ↑ "roca joins Echo Fox". echofox.gg. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  9. ↑ Assad, Mohamad. "ShahZaM replaces mOE". Twitter. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  10. 1 2 Mueller, Saira; Jurek, Steven. "Echo Fox gets into fighting games, sign SFV player Julio Fuentes". The Daily Dot. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
  11. 1 2 Steiner, Dustin. "Echo Fox Signs Mew2King". PVP Live. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Beck, Kellen. "Echo Fox signs 7 players to build largest fighting game roster in esports". Mashable. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  13. ↑ Smith, Connor. "Echo Fox vs the world: Why the growing FGC rivalry is good for esports". Dot Esports. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  14. 1 2 3 Nordmark, Sam. "Echo Fox acquires top talent in Tekken". Dot eSports. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
  15. ↑ "We are thrilled to welcome our newest @InjusticeGame Fox, @FGC_Theo to the #FGCFOX roster!". Retrieved 2017-06-26.
  16. ↑ http://www.dailydot.com/esports/echo-fox-call-of-duty-team/
  17. ↑ https://dotesports.com/call-of-duty/echo-fox-announces-new-call-of-duty-roster-10087
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