NRG eSports

NRG eSports
Sport Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, Super Smash Bros., Smite, Hearthstone, Rocket League
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) Andy Miller, Mark Mastrov, Shaquille O'neal Gerard Kelly
Website http://www.nrg.gg/

NRG eSports is an esports organization based in California. It has rosters in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, Smite, Hearthstone, For Honor, Rocket League and Vainglory as well as a number of streamers on the Twitch platform.

History

The team was founded by Gerard Kelly and Sacramento Kings co-owners Andy Miller and Mark Mastrov[1] in December 2015.

On March 18, 2016 the team announced that Alex Rodriguez, Shaquille O'Neal and Jimmy Rollins were joining as investors.[2]

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

The Super Smash Bros. for Wii U player Nairoby "Nairo" Quezada joined NRG on August 23, 2016 after he left Team Liquid.[4]

On September 1, NRG acquired defending Smite World Champions team Panthera.[5]

On October 1, NRG acquired Rocket League team Kings of Urban.[6]

League of Legends

Tournament results

Roster

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

Former

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

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Tournament results

Roster

ID Name Joined
ptr Peter Gurney 2016-01-22
FugLy Jacob Medina 2016-05-27[9]
Brehze Vincent Cayonte 2016-12-19[10]
daps Damian Steele 2016-12-19[10]
LILMAN Derrick Boyne 2017-04-18

Overwatch

Roster

ID Name Role Joined
IDDQD André Dahlström DPS 2017-02-11
dummy Tim Olson Support 2016-08-03
numlocked Seb Barton Tank 2016-10-31
harbleu Anthony Ballo Flex 2017-03-16
YouMustHooey Estevao Gama DPS 2017-06-02
Grego Greg McAllen Support 2017-06-02

On April 13, 2017, Brandon "Seagull" Larned stepped down from the main roster to commit to streaming full time, but is still a part of NRG.

Super Smash Bros.

Roster

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

Smite

Tournament results

Roster

This roster of Yammyn, Dimi, Adapting, iRaffer, emilitoo, and YOUNGBAE won the Smite World Championship 2016 under Epsilon eSports[13]

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

For Honor


Roster

ID Game Character(s)
YEATGH For Honor Ps4 Shinobi

RuneScape

RuneScape was officially added to NRG's competitive lineup with the signing of the YouTube streamer Ice_Poseidon on September 7, 2016.[14]

Roster

ID Name Joined
Ice Poseidon Paul Michael 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

ID Name Joined
AmazHS Jason Chan 2016-09-09
Amnesia sc William Barton 2016

Rocket League

Tournament results

  • 1st - RLCS Season 2 NA Regional Championship[15]
  • 5th - RLCS Season 2 World Championships

Roster

ID Name Joined
Fireburner Jayson Nunez 2016-10-01
Jacob Jacob McDowell 2016-10-01
GarretG Garrett Gordan 2016-11-01

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, A-Rod, Rollins invest in esports team". ESPN.
  3. ↑ "Shaq and NRG eSports sign Overwatch squad".
  4. ↑ Wolf, Jacob. "NRG Esports picks up Super Smash Con winner Nairo". ESPN. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "NRG 🎮 on Twitter".
  6. ↑ "NRG 🎮 on Twitter".
  7. ↑ Mira, Luis. "Na'Vi win Counter Pit League S2". HLTV.org. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  8. ↑ Gonzales, Dennis. "Immortals win iBUYPOWER Fall Invitational". theScore eSports. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  9. ↑ Alcopra, William. "NRG sign FugLy and tabseN". theScore eSports. TheScore Inc. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  10. 1 2 Gonzales, Dennis. "NRG sign daps, Brehze, and MarkE". theScore eSports. TheScore Inc. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  11. ↑ "NRG Two Time Champions". Retrieved 2017-01-15.
  12. ↑ "NRG esports on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
  13. ↑ Fahey, Mike. "Your 2016 Smite World Champions Are Not These Guys". Kotaku. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
  14. 1 2 "Ice_Poseidon joins the NRG family". Twitter. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  15. ↑ Thompson, Luke. "RLCS S2 REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS RECAP". rocketleaguegame.com. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
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