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RiiKzZ

"**RiiKzZ**" is a Vainglory player who is currently teamless.

## Biography

### 2015

RiiKzZ began his competitive career in the Autumn season, playing as one of the junglers for Vertigo Black. In Autumn Qualifier 1, Vertigo Black was knocked out by Team Rin in the round of 16, putting them in danger of not making the Autumn Live Championships. In Autumn Qualifier 2, Vertigo luckily made it to the round of 8, where they were eliminated by the future winners or the qualifier, VON Menace. At the Autumn finals, Veritgo finishes 5-6th, losing in the finals of the group 2 losers bracket to future Autumn Champions, Liberation X.

### 2016

In the Winter Season, Vertigo Black finished 5-8th in both the first and second qualifiers, losing to Alliance both times. However, finishing in the top 8 in both qualifiers was enough to qualify them for the Winter Live Championships for the second season in a row. There, Vertigo Black finished 7th-8th, losing to Hammers Kinetic in the second round.

In the Spring Season, Vertigo was knocked out in the round of 16 in the Adagio Bracket to new-coming team Nemesis Excrucio. In the second qualifier, they were eliminated in the round of 32 by Fate Z3R0, eliminating any chance of qualifying for the Spring Live Championships.

Vertigo Black disbanded following the Spring Season, and RiiKzZ retired from competitive play.

## Achievements

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NF Gaming

## History

NF Gaming is a European-based competitive organisation composed of high-skilled casual & competitive players sharing the same passion for playing Vainglory, the first ever mobile MOBA. The team’s focus is to hone their outstanding gaming skills with the aim of participating and winning in major tournaments.
NA Summer Live Championship 2016/Statistics/Heroes

View the corresponding EU VGL page

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Huskies

Jason "**Huskies**" Biundo is a player for Team Phoenix.

## Biography

Jason "**Huskies**" Biundo started playing Vainglory during May of 2016, shortly after the release of Celeste.

### 2015

Huskies began his competitive career in November 2015, when he formed Hammers Kinetic along with FearPoseidon, and Baunfire.

### 2016

In what became known in the community as a "cinderella story," the team upset matchup favorites, Liberation Y in the round of 32, as well as taking down VON Menace in the quarterfinals, eventually finishing fourth overall. In Winter VGL Qualifier 2, Hammers Kinetic made it to the round of 8 where they lost to first seeded Gankstars Sirius, but still qualified for the Winter Live Championships where huskies took on a substitute and coaching role. The team finished 5th overall at the Winter Live Championships.

In the Spring season, Huskies remained on Hammers Kinetic as a substitute and analyst, helping them to make the Spring Live Championship and finish in the top 4.

In the Summer Season, Huskies left Hammers Kinetic to pursue an analyst role with Team Phoenix. With his help, both Phoenix Reign and Phoenix Reborn qualified for the Summer Live Championships for the second season in a row.

## Trivia

* Does not actually own a Husky
* Name came from a desire to go to UCONN for college as a child
* Wears glasses
* Is exceptionally capable in all roles, but plays Roam in competitive.
KValafar

Ricardo "**KValafar**" Gonçalves is a player for SK Gaming.

## Biography

KValafar began his competitive career with Media Pixel eSports in the Autumn Season 2015 where he competed alongside Mowglie and Palmatoro.
The team initially did not make it to the Autumn Live Championship. Only due to SK Prometheus' forfeit they were able to attend the live event as the 8th seed. Coming in as the underdog, Media Pixel finished 1st place, gaining the title of the first Vainglory European Champions.

One month after their win at the Autumn Live Championship Media Pixel got picked up by the Team Secret organization.

In the Winter Season 2016, KValafar competed under the name of Team Secret at the Winter Live Championship. Finishing first and third at the VGL Winter Qualifiers they gained enough points to make it to Winter Live Championship as the first seed. During the live event Team Secret got knocked into the losers bracket by SNOW Tsunami. Winning in the losers bracket though, they made it into the finals to face off against Team SNOW Tsunami yet again where they won 3-0, thus taking home the title of the European Champions for the second time.

In the Spring Season 2016, Team Secret finished third and first during the VGL Spring Qualifiers, therefore making it to the Spring Live Championship as the first seed. On the first day of the live event the new hero Lance was picked in every single game, mostly by the support players. KValafar was the only one to take Lance into the lane as a carry. During the next days Team Secret made it into the finals without dropping a single game. Facing SNOW Tsunami in the finals Team Secret won 3-1 while giving up only one game throughout the entire Spring Live Championship. With their win, Team Secret claimed the title of the European Champions for the third time in a row.

In the Summer Season 2016, KValafar brought a variation of different heroes like Taka and Rona to the lane during the Evil Eight. Team Secret kept a 19 game series win streak after losing in Split 1 Week 1. During the entire Evil Eight Team Secret only dropped games to mousesports and Gankstars Cerberus. Finishing first overall in both splits, they qualified for the Summer Live Championship as the first seed.

## Trivia

* Played League of Legends before.
* Reached Simply Amazing after playing for one and a half weeks.
* Considered one of the best laners in Europe.

## Achievements

**Lua error in Module:PlayerResults at line 55: attempt to concatenate field 'Phase' (a nil value).**

## Interviews

* 2017
* 2016

* February 3rd, Player Spotlight KValafar (4m41s) *with SK Gaming*

* February 15th, Shatter The Vain 80: Keeping Secrets (49m23s) *with Shatter the Vain*
* March 20th, Team Secret - NVIDIA Spotlight (1m14s) *with Vainglory eSports*
* June, 11th, Team Secret - Team Interview (1m24s) *with Vainglory eSports*
Hardek

Rommel "**Hardek**" Soriano, Jr. is a player for NRG.

## Biography

Hardek began his official vainglory career in the Autumn season along with LostBoyToph where he played as mainly a jungler. In the first Autumn qualifiers, Nemesis Hydra made it to the semi-finals where they were knocked out by VON Menace in a surprising upset. The second qualier was slightly better, as Nemesis made it to the finals of the qualifier where they were again knocked out by VON. At the Autumn Live Championships, Hydra made it to the finals where they matched up against Liberation X this time. Hydra took an early 2-0 lead, but were reverse swept in the next through games, and lost the series 3-2.

In the Winter Season, Hydra finished 3rd place in the first Winter qualifier, winning against Hammers Kinetic in the 3rd place match. In qualifier 2, the team finished 5-8th after losing to Hammers Velocity in the round of 8, but still qualified for the Winter Championships. At the Winter Live Championships, Hydra made it to the semi-finals, but were eliminated 3-0 by Velocity, putting them at 3-4th finish.

In the Spring Season, Hardek moved to the jungle position with new addition of a new jungler to the team VONC. In the Spring VGL qualifiers, Nemesis finished 5-8th in both. In the first qualifier, they were knocked out by tournament winners Hammmers Kinetic and in the second qualifier by their sister team Nemesis Excrucio. This qualified Hydra for the Spring Live Championships for the third season in a row, this time as the 7th seed. Hydra went on to finish 3-4th overall, losing to Hammers Velocity in the semi-finals.

In the Summer Season, Hydra replaced VONC with former Hydra member, iLoveJoseph while Hardek remained in the lane. Hydra finished first in Evil Eight Split 1 after a long streak of first place finishes, but struggled slightly in split 2, finishing at just 5th place going into the Summer Live Championships.

## Trivia

* Hardek and LostBoyToph are some of the longest standing teammates in Vainglory, dating back to before official competitive seasons began.

## Achievements

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## Interviews

* 2016

* March 23rd, Nemesis Hydra - NVIDIA Spotlight (1m48ss) *with Vainglory eSports on YouTube*
MICSHE

Mico "**MICSHE**" Dedicatoria is a player for Echo Fox.

## Biography

### 2015

Micshe began his official competitive career in Autumn 2015 when he started Ardent Alliance with fellow players FlashX and iLoveJoseph. The team competed in Autumn qualiifer 1, where they finished 1st and earned a VIPL ticket to play in VIPL season 2. At VIPL, Alliance won their group 3-0 and went on to win the entire tournament. Due to their trip to VIPL, the team was unable to compete in Autumn qualifier 2 or the Autumn Live Championships.

### 2016

Following their 1st place finish at VIPL, the team dropped their affiliation with Ardent and became solely Alliance. In the Winter Season, the team returned to North America to compete in the VGL qualifiers. In qualifier 1, they finished 2nd, losing in the finals to Gankstars Sirius. In Qualifier 2, they faced off against GSS again in the finals, but this time came out victorious and won the qualifier, automatically qualifying them for the Winter Live Championships as the first seed. Shortly before the Winter championships began, it was announced that TSM acquired Alliance. Under new organization TSM, the team finished 1st at the Winter Championships after being knocked into the losers bracket in day 2 by Hammers Velocity.

In the Spring season, TSM finished 4th in the first VGL qualifier, losing to Velocity in the third place match. In the second qualifier, the team placed third and again qualified for the live championships. At the Spring Live Championships, TSM finished 5-6th, after losing in the finals of the losers bracket to Nemesis Hydra.

Following the Spring Season, Micshe left TSM to join Hammers Kinetic as starting laner along with other new addition PONtheoriginal for the Summer Season.. The team finish 5th in Evil Eight split 1 and 3rd in Split 2, qualifying them for the Summer Live Championships as the 3rd seed.

## Achievements

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## Interviews

* 2016

* March 24th, Meet TSM Vainglory (4m19s) *with TSM on YouTube*
* April 28th, TSM: Glory - Episode 1- Winter Championships (16m18s) *with TSM on YouTube*
* June 22nd, TSM: Glory - Episode 2 - Spring Championships (22m47s) *with TSM on YouTube*
Nemesis

**Nemesis** is a North American *Vainglory* organization.

## Timeline

* 2016
* 2015

* Apr 12th, **Hardek**, **LostBoyToph**, and **VONC** join according to the one-team-per-organization rule of VIS Pro League.
* Jun 19th, Hardek, LostBoyToph, and VONC go back to Nemesis Hydra with the end of VIS Pro League Spring 2016.

* November, team **Nemesis Titan** is formed.
* Autumn, team **Nemesis Hydra** is formed.

## Team Achievements

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SNOW Tsunami

**SNOW Tsunami** is a Russian Vainglory team.

## Timeline

* 2016

* January , Team SNOW separates as two teams with **SNOW Avalanche** and **SNOW Tsunami**. **lookatme**, **Sosiska**, **alexmagic** and **1Lt** join.
* January, **PTLam** joins.
* January 30th, **RoccoS** joins.

## Team Achievements

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## References

1. ↑ RoccoS joined team SNOW *team-snow.com*
R3cKeD

Anthony "**R3cKeD**" McGowan is a player for GankStars Sirius.

## Biography

R3cKeD began his official competitive career playing with Gankstars Vega in the Autumn season in Autumn qualifier 2 where he competed as a Roam with Oldskool and FooJee. The team finished 3-4th in their first qualifier together and, with that, qualified for the Autumn Live Championships. At the Autumn finals, the team finished 3rd overall, beating VON Menace in the 3rd place match.

In the Winter Season, Oldskool and R3cKeD stayed together on Vega. In Winter Qualifier 1, Vega lost to their sister team, Gankstars Sirius in the round of 8, Catherine Bracket finals. In qualifier 2, they lost in an upset to Rage Pingers, meaning that they did not qualify for the Winter Live Championships.

In the Spring Season, R3cKeD moved to Sirius where GankStars Sirius won third place in the Vainglory International Premier League/Season 3, going 3-0 in the group stages but losing 0-2 to Team Hack in the semifinals.GankStars Sirius fared better in the VGL/North America/Spring 2016/Qualifier 1, coming in second place after losing the finals match in a BO5 to Hammers Kinetic.

In the Summer Season, R3cKeD moved to Phoenix Reborn as the starting roamer, competing with StartingAllOver and XenoTek. The team struggled slightly in the first split, finishing 6th and forcing them to compete in challenge battles. The team won the challenge battles, and rebounded in split 2, finishing 4th overall, giving them the 4th seed going into the Summer Live Championships.

## Achievements

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NA Spring Live Championship 2016/Statistics/Heroes

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Noble eSports

## History

Following the Winter Season, Xeno left Hammers to start a new team under **Noble eSports** with fellow players Uni and El-Riesgo. Noble was knocked out in the round of 16 in the first qualifier by Gankstars Sirius, but rebounded in the second qualifier where they won in what the community considered a large upset against Qualifier 1 winners, Hammers Kinetic. They went on to finish 4th overall in qualifier 2, qualifying them for the Spring Live Championships where they finished 7-8th.

## Timeline

* 2016

* April 4, **XenoTek** joins.
* July 14th, XenoTek leaves.

## References

1. ↑ XenoTek joins Noble for Vainglory! *noble.gg*
2. ↑ Team Phoenix Adds XenoTek to Phoenix Reborn's Evil Eight Roster*phoenixvainglory.com*
Jetpacks

Jonathan "**jetpacks**" Bergius is a player for SK Gaming.

## Biography

Jonathan "jetpacks" Bergius was born in Drammen, Norway on the 5th of November, 1994. jetpacks graduated from the Høgskolen i Sørøst-Norge in 2016 with a Bachelor in Economics and Management. He now is a full-time Vainglory professional player.

Before playing Vainglory, jetpacks played competitively in *Fates Forever* on iOS for **Smack Camp**, jetpacks was a top 10 player before moving to Vainglory.

jetpacks started playing Vainglory during its beta in August 2014, and has been playing since it's release in November 2014.

### Vainglory Career

#### 2015

In February, jetpacks joined MYQ's team *R3D*, competing in VGL and ESL Cups. The team dominated the competition.

R3D Chimaera competed in the VGL EU Autumn Qualifier 1 and 2, qualifying for the EU Autumn 2015 Championship. Just before the Live Championship SK Gaming acquired R3D and the team played under the name SK Chimaera, placing 4th at the Live Championship.

#### 2016

Jetpacks made the move over to SK Prometheus, bring WalDeMar with him. SK Prometheus wins the EU VGL Winter 2016 Qualifier 2.

Around June, SK Gaming drops the SK Chimaera and SK Prometheus team names and creates one roster to compete under the SK Gaming name.

jetpacks stepped away from the Vainglory competitive scenes from June to August to complete an internship in marketing at a startup. He returned to SK Gaming in Septemeber to compete in the EU Evil Eight - Autumn Season 2016, as the dedicated Roamer for the team. SK Gaming faced relegation in split 1, but defended their spot against FluffyChickens in the Autumn 2016 Challenge Battles 1.

#### 2017

SK Gaming adds KValafar and Tyruzz to the roster in February jetpacks stays in the Roam position and Raph moves into the substitute position.

## Trivia

* jetpacks has played in a band since he was 14. He mainly plays the electric guitar but can play the bass, keyboard and drums as well. He plays the bass in the song *"Forget Why Remember How" by Morgan Olai*.
* jetpacks has been playing MOBA's since DOTA 1. He's played Heroes of Newerth, League of Legends, DOTA2 and SMITE as well.
* jetpacks likes to play other games as well, such as CS:GO, Civilisation and Minecraft.

## Achievements

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## Interviews

* 2016
* 2015

* April 12th, Enter the Halcyon fold: Jetpacks' Signature Krul Guide *with SK Gaming*
* December 4th, 8 Evil Questions: Jetpacks *with SK Gaming*

* November 15th, Meet SK Vainglory *with SK Gaming*
Phoenix Reign

**Phoenix Reign** is a North American team.

## History

Shortly after the finish of qualifier 2, Excrucio was picked up by Team Phoenix and renamed to Phoenix Reign. At the Spring Live Championships, Reign finished 2nd overall, again losing to Hammers Velocity in the finals 3-1.

In the Summer Season, Oldskool remained on Reign with Ezadox and new additions e36 and Statusbaked. . When Ezadox retired, Status's brother, Sam, took over as starting Roam. During this time, Skool became known in the community for his exceptional Celeste play. Reign finished Evil Eight Split 2 in second place, giving them the second seed going into the Summer Live championships.

## Timeline

* 2016

* May 9th, roster of **Excrucio** is acquired. **Ezadox**, **ILoveJoseph** and **Oldskool** join. **Stussy** joins as a coach.
* June 23rd, **Statusbaked** joins.
* August 3rd, Ezadox retires.
* September 20th, Oldskool and Statusbaked leave.
* September 23rd, **XenoTek**, **TheRoastedPotato**, and **LuluXiu** join.

## Team Achievements

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## Highlight Videos

* 2016

* June 5th, Spring Live Championship 2016: Phoenix Reign versus Nemesis Hydra (10m46s)
* June 20th, Vainglory Invitational Series Championship Grand Finals: Team Phoenix versus Liberation (5m6s)

## References

1. ↑ OldSkool, iLoveJoseph, Ezadox and Stussy Join Team Phoenix*phoenixvainglory.com*
2. ↑ Team Phoenix Adds Star Players Statusbaked and CullTheMeek*phoenixvainglory.com*
3. ↑ Ezadox Retires from Competitive Play*phoenixvainglory.com*
4. ↑ All-Stars Oldskool, Statusbaked, R3cKeD, and Chicken123 join GankStars*gank-stars.squarespace.com*
5. ↑ Team Phoenix Acquires Invincible Armada and Unveils Autumn Season Roster*teamphoenix.gg*
L3oN

Leon "**L3oN**" Pham is a Vainglory player who is currently teamless.

## Biography

Before the start of the VGL Spring Qualifiers, Gankstars made an announcement of expanding to the European Server. Their new team consisted of TetnoJJ on the lane, L3oN in the jungle, Emirking as the support and AeOn as a jungle sub. L3oN played in both qualifiers, winning first and second place with the team, thus qualifying for the Live Spring Championship as the the second seed. Due to passport issues L3oN was not able to attend the live event.

In the Summer Season 2016, L3oN moved onto the sub position as the passport issues could not be ressolved until the Summer Live Championship, to give the players attending the Live Championship a chance play together more frequently at the Evil Eight. L3oN subbed in as a laner and support during the last weeks of Split 2, when TetnoJJ and nettetoilette couldn't play.

## Trivia

* First one to reach Vainglorious Gold in the Autumn Season.
* Considered one of the best players in Europe.
* The longest live stream on mobrush was more than 10 hours.
* Enjoys singing and dacing during the streams.

## Achievements

**Lua error in Module:PlayerResults at line 55: attempt to concatenate field 'Phase' (a nil value).**

## Interviews

* 2015

* December 17th, An Interview with the World’s First Seasonal Vainglorious Gold Player *with BrokenMyth*
Invincible Armada

**Invincible Armada** is a South Korean team.

## Timeline

* 2017
* 2016

* March 9th, team reforms after leaving Phoenix Armada. **druid** and **Mango** rejoin. **Willy** joins.

* June, the roster cooperates with **Hunters** and form **Core Hunters** with **Wine**, **Mango** and **druid**.
* July 15th, **Senpan** joins.
* August 19th, Mango and druid leave.
* August 20th, Wine retires.
* September 23rd, roster is acquired by Team Phoenix and form Phoenix Armada.

## Team Achievements

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## References

1. ↑ druid's twitter status*mobcrush.com*
2. ↑ IMV Wine's Twitter status *twitter.com*
3. ↑ druid's Twitter status *twitter.com*
4. ↑ IMV Wine's Twitter status *twitter.com*
5. ↑ Team Phoenix Acquires Invincible Armada and Unveils Autumn Season Roster*teamphoenix.gg*
Nemesis Hydra

**Nemesis Hydra** is a North American team.

## History

In the first Autumn qualifiers, **Nemesis Hydra** made it to the semi-finals where they were knocked out by VON Menace in a surprising upset. The second qualier was slightly better, as Nemesis made it to the finals of the qualifier where they were again knocked out by VON. At the Autumn Live Championships, Hydra made it to the finals where they matched up against Liberation X this time. Hydra took an early 2-0 lead, but were reverse swept in the next through games, and lost the series 3-2.

In the Winter Season, Hydra finished 3rd place in the first Winter qualifier, winning against Hammers Kinetic in the 3rd place match. In qualifier 2, the team finished 5-8th after losing to Hammers Velocity in the round of 8, but still qualified for the Winter Championships. At the Winter Live Championships, Hydra made it to the semi-finals, but were eliminated 3-0 by Velocity, putting them at 3-4th finish.

In the Spring Season, Hardek moved to the jungle position with new addition of a new jungler to the team VONC. In the Spring VGL qualifiers, Nemesis finished 5-8th in both. In the first qualifier, they were knocked out by tournament winners Hammmers Kinetic and in the second qualifier by their sister team Nemesis Excrucio. This qualified Hydra for the Spring Live Championships for the third season in a row, this time as the 7th seed. Hydra went on to finish 3-4th overall, losing to Hammers Velocity in the semi-finals.

In the Summer Season, Hydra replaced VONC with former Hydra member, iLoveJoseph while Hardek remained in the lane. Hydra finished first in Evil Eight Split 1 after a long streak of first place finishes, but struggled slightly in split 2, finishing at just 5th place going into the Summer Live Championships.

## Timeline

* 2016
* 2015

* Sep 1st, team are aquired by **Cloud9**. Hardek, iLoveJoseph, and LostBoyToph leave.

* Autumn 2015, team is formed.

## References

1. ↑ Cloud 9 Esports aquires Vainglory team*superevilmegacorp.com*
Misfits

**Misfits** is a North American Vainglory team currently competing in the Vainglory Invitational Series league. Misfits entered Vainglory at the start of the 2017 competitive year alongside several other Vainglory franchise teams. Misfits made a complete roster change towards the middle of the Autumn season, when they brought in Jazville, Krully, and AllyPeterson (previously known as Tilt Rehab.)

## Timeline

* 2017

* February 22nd, roster of **Team Fate** is acquired. **Eeko**, **IllesT** and **Exhail** join.

## Team Achievements

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## References

1. ↑ Miami Heat, Misfits announce addition of Vainglory team *espn.com*
LoveIce4ever

"**LoveIce4ever**" is a Vainglory player who is currently teamless.

## Biography

LoveIce4ever started his competitive career in the Autumn season when he started VON Menace along with VONC and PhoenIx. The team instantly made a splash in the competitive scene, surprising the community by making it to the finals of the first Autumn qualifiers where they lost to Ardent Alliance. In the second qualifier, VON made it to the finals again where they finished in first place, autumatically qualifying them for the first seed at the Autumn Live Championships. During their "cinderella story" run, VON became known for playing off-meta compositions and for their "pack-like" rotations and playstyle. At the Autumn Live Championships, VON finished 4th overall, losing to GS Vega in the third place match.

In the Winter Season, LoveIce4ever remained on the roster to play in the Winter qualifiers. In qualifier 1, VON came in as the fourth seed and made it to the round of 8 where they were majorly upset by new team Hammers Kinetic in 2 games. In the second qualifier, they again met Kinetic in the round of 16 where they were upset 0-2 for the second time in a row.

LoveIce4ever retired following the Winter season.

## Achievements

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Portal:Teams/North America

* **North America**
* Europe
* Korea
* China
* Japan
* Southeast Asia

Premier Teams

Major Teams

Disbanded Teams

* ALLIANCE
* Ardent Alliance
* Ardent Awakening
* Ardent Axiom
* Excrucio
* GankStars Polaris
* GankStars Vega
* Hammers Force
* Liberation
* Liberation Y
* Nemesis Excrucio
* Hammers Velocity
* NRG Esports
* Cloud9

* Noble eSports
* Notorious Volare
* Phoenix Reborn
* Royale Club
* TAS Frame Perfect
* Team Penetrate
* Team Rin
* Vertigo Black
* Vertigo Diamond
* VON Menace
* Liberation X

* Rage Pingers
* Immortals
* Tempo Storm
Nemesis Excrucio

**Nemesis Excrucio** is a North American team.

## History

In the Spring Season, Oldskool left Vega and formed **Nemesis Excrucio** with Ezadox and iLoveJoseph. In their first tournament together, they finished 5-8th when they lost to Hammers Velocity in the Adagio bracket finals. In Spring Qualifier 2, they dropped affiliation with Nemesis and became just Excrucio.

## Timeline

* 2016

* March, team forms. **Oldskool**, **Ezadox**, and **iLoveJoseph** join.
* April, roster leaves the organization and forms **Excrucio**. Oldskool, iLoveJoseph, and Ezadox leave.

## Team Achievements

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NA Autumn Live Championship 2015

**View the corresponding NA VGL page**

The **North American Autumn Championship** was an offline tournament held in November 2015.

## Overview

### Format

* 8 Teams
	+ Winner of VGL Autumn Qualifier 2
	+ Next 7 top teams by total points from Spring Qualifier 1 & Spring Qualifier 2
* Two groups of 4 teams each
	+ Double elimination brackets
	+ Top two teams per group advance
* Playoffs
	+ Single elimination bracket

## Additional Content

### Articles

* http://www.vainglorygame.com/news/north-america-autumn-live-finals-preview/
LoneDelphi

Paul "**LoneDelphi**" Davis is a player for Echo Fox.

## Biography

### 2016

LoneDelphi started his official Vainglory career in summer of 2016 when he joined GankStars Sirius with lots, FooJee, PajamaDrama, Xelciar, and MackDaddyB.

After the summer season, LoneDelphi was dropped from the GankStars Sirius lineup and joined Ardent Aurora for a split, however, had to quickly retire from professional play due to school commitments.

### 2017

LoneDelphi announces his return to pro play, with a roster announcement of MICSHE and CullTheMeek. The team competed in VISPRO Winter 2017, until they were acquired by Echo Fox along with FooJee as head coach.

## Trivia

* LoneDelphi was previously known as SalamancerPaul in-game.

## Achievements

**Lua error in Module:PlayerResults at line 55: attempt to concatenate field 'Phase' (a nil value).**

## References

GankStars Roster Changes for Summer Season

Echo Fox Signs New Vainglory Roster
ILLMATIC

**ILLMATIC** is a Japanese team.

## Timeline

* 2017
* 2016

* March 15th, roster is acquired by SCARZ. Senpan, tototMix and take\_it\_easy5 leave.

* January, the team is formed with **take\_it\_easy5**, **Ayasaki** and **senpan**.
* January, the team is acquired by Team Good Luck. senpan and take\_it\_easy5 join the new team. Ayasaki leaves.
* June, the roster leaves Team Good Luck and reform **ILLMATIC** **take\_it\_easy5**, **tototMix** and **senpan** join.
* July 15th, Senpan joins Invincible Armada without leaving the roster of **ILLMATIC**.

## Team Achievements

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## References

1. ↑ 【新部門】Vainglory部門設立と所属選手のご紹介 (Japanese) *scarz.net*
2. ↑ IMV Wine's Twitter status *twitter.com*
Raph

Raphael "**Raph**" Kalab is a player for SK Gaming.

## Biography

Raphael "Raph" Kalab was born in Vienna, Austria on the 29th of March, 2000. Raph is currently attending a business academy in Vienna and studies whilst playing professionally.

Raph started playing Vainglory in November 2014 after watching a DonJon video showcasing Vainglory shortly after it's release to iOS.

### Vainglory Career

#### 2014

Raph joined a guild called LMC in December. LMC had members such as DonJon, bluberryz and Sickness.

#### 2015

In February, MYQ's guild *R3D* absorbed the LMC guild. DonJon convinced MYQ to trial Raph, and in March 2015 Raph joined R3D Prometheus. The team competed in the VGL EU Autumn Qualifier 1.

SK Gaming acquired R3D in November, and SK Prometheus was born with the same roster of Raph in Lane, IloH4uK as Jungle and RoccoS as Roam.

#### 2016

SK Prometheus wins the EU VGL Winter 2016 Qualifier 2 at the beginning of the year, with a roster of TetnoJJ in Lane, L3oN in Jungle and Raph in roam.

In spring, Raph shortens his competitive ID from **Raph29** to just Raph.

Around June, SK Gaming drops the SK Chimaera and SK Prometheus team names and creates one roster to compete under the SK Gaming name.

#### 2017

SK Gaming adds KValafar and Tyruzz to the roster in February. Raph moves into the substitute position.

## Trivia

* His teammates call him *dog* as when you say Raph over and over quickly it sounds like barking.
* Raph enjoys swimming and playing football.

## Achievements

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## Interviews

* 2016

* September 9th, SK Vainglory at Gamescom 2016 *with SK Gaming*
Oldskool

Gabriel "**Oldskool**" Villamariona is a player for Cloud 9.

## Biography

### 2016

Oldskool began his official competitive career with Gankstars Vega in Autumn qualifier 2 where he competed as a jungler with FooJee and R3cKeD. The team finished 3-4th in their first qualifier together and, with that, qualified for the Autumn Live Championships. At the Autumn finals, the team finished 3rd overall, beating VON Menace in the 3rd place match.

In the Winter Season, Vega stayed together. In Winter Qualifier 1, Vega lost to their sister team, Gankstars Sirius in the round of 8, Catherine Bracket finals. In qualifier 2, they lost in an upset to Rage Pingers, meaning that they did not qualify for the Winter Live Championships.

In the Spring Season, Oldskool left Vega and formed Nemesis Excrucio with Ezadox and iLoveJoseph. In their first tournament together, they finished 5-8th when they lost to Hammers Velocity in the Adagio bracket finals. In Spring Qualifier 2, they dropped affiliation with Nemesis and became just Excrucio and went on to finish 2nd after losing to Hammers Velocity in the finals. Shortly after the finish of qualifier 2, Excrucio was picked up by Team Phoenix and renamed to Phoenix Reign. At the Spring Live Championships, Reign finished 2nd overall, again losing to Hammers Velocity in the finals 3-1.

In the Summer Season, Oldskool remained on Reign with Ezadox and new additions e36 and Statusbaked. . When Ezadox retired, Status's brother, Sam, took over as starting Roam. During this time, Skool became known in the community for his exceptional Celeste play. Reign finished Evil Eight Split 2 in second place, giving them the second seed going into the Summer Live championships.

## Achievements

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## Interviews

http://www.phoenixvainglory.com/news/2016/7/7/ylxi5uttdwon433fuc7qgf8pobxs93

## External Links

http://www.phoenixvainglory.com/news/metaguide
http://www.phoenixvainglory.com/news/2016/8/11/oldskoolceleste
http://www.phoenixvainglory.com/news/oldskoolskye
Martohhh

Martik "**martohhh**" Atoyan is a player for Tribe Gaming.

## Biography

Martohhh began his competitive Vainglory career in the Autumn season playing with LiberationX. The team was upset in the round of 32 in the first Autumn Qualifier by Vertigo Black, putting them in danger of not qualifying for the Autumn Live Championships. The team rebounded in the second qualifier, finishing top 4 and narrowly qualified for the Autumn Championship. At the Autumn Championships, martohhh began as a substitute for LibX. However, in the finals match against Nemesis Hydra, Liberation fell down 0-2 in the best of 5 series. Martohhh replaced DawnEclypse in the third match, and led LiberationX to complete a reverse sweep and eventually win the Autumn Live Championships.

In the Winter season, martohhh remained on LiberationX. The winter season started off roughly for LibX, as they were majorly upset by much lower seeded Vainguard. They rebounded in the second qualifier, finishing fourth overall after losing to Hammers Velocity in the 3rd place match and again narrowly qualified for the Winter Live Championships. They rebounded in the second qualifier, finishing fourth overall after losing to Hammers Velocity in the 3rd place match and again narrowly qualified for the Winter Live Championships where they finished 5-6th.

In the Spring Season, martohhh remained on the roster while new addition PONtheoriginal joined as a laner and e36 began to split time with him for the position of starting Roam. In the first qualfiier, they were knocked out in the round of 8 against Gankstars Sirius. The second qualifier was very similar, as LibX finished 5-8th again, losing to TSM in the round of 8. With those performances, Liberation X qualified for the Spring Live Championships but finished 7-8th due to their starting laner, PONtheoriginal being unable to travel to the live event.

Following the Spring Season, martohhh started the season with Hammers Kinetic as a substitute. Halfway through the season, he left the team and became a free-agent. At the end of the season, he joined Apex as the starting Roam.

## Trivia

* Loves to make jokes, especially about TSM

## Achievements

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## Interviews

* 2016

* March 23rd, LiberationX - NVIDIA Spotlight (1m38s) *with Vainglory eSports on YouTube*
Inane

Michael "**Inane**" Shelden is a player for GankStars Sirius.

## Biography

### 2015

Inane began his competitive career playing with Nemesis Titan. Inane helped the team qualify for the Autumn Live Championships, leading them to a top 8 finish in the second Autumn Qualifier where they were knocked out by Gankstars Vega. However, it was enough to qualify for the live championships where they went in as the 7th seed and finished 5-6th. Inane was unable to attend the live finals, however.

### 2016

In the Winter Season, Inane joined Hammers Kinetic as a substitute. In what became known in the community as a "cinderella story," the team upset matchup favorites, Liberation Y in the round of 32, as well as taking down VON Menace in the quarterfinals, eventually finishing fourth overall. In Winter VGL Qualifier 2, Hammers Kinetic made it to the round of 8 where they lost to first seeded Gankstars Sirius, but still qualified for the Winter Live Championships where huskies took on a substitute and coaching role. The team finished 5th overall at the Winter Live Championships.

In the Spring Season, Inane joined Phoenix Rising for the Spring VGL qualifiers. The team narrowly missed qualifying for the live championships, however as they were eliminated in the round of 16. In the Summer Season, Inane joined Gankstars Sirius as the laner in Split 2. He helped the team qualify for challenge battles, but the team got eliminated by Ardent Aurora.

## Achievements

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Immortals

**Immortals** is a North American team.

## Timeline

* 2017

* February 7th, roster of **Hammers Velocity** is acquired. **Vains**, **Zio** (now **DNZio**) and **Vains** join. **SuiJeneris** joins as the coach.
* May (approx.), **SuiJeneris** moves to starting roamer. Vains move to jungler. Aloh4 moves to sub.

## Team Achievements

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## References

1. ↑ Immortals enters professional Vainglory *immortals.gg*
Hammers Velocity

**Hammers Velocity** is a North American team.

## History

### 2016

Zio joined **Hammers Velocity** as starting laner and competed with Aloh4 & Vains for the first time in NA Winter Qualifier 1. Velocity was knocked out of Q1 in the round of 16 by GankStars Vega. Velocity then went on to take a victory over the reigning champs LiberationX for a 3rd place finish in NA Winter Qualifier 2 and qualified to participate in the NA Winter Live Championship at Red Bull eSports Studio in Santa Monica, CA.

At the NA Winter Live Championship, Hammers Velocity finished their first season as a team in 2nd place.

Hammers Velocity started off the spring season with a 3rd place finish over reigning champs Team SoloMid in NA Spring Qualifier 1. Velocity then took first in NA Vainglory Master Series over Nemesis Excrucio. Velocity also took first in NA Spring Qualifier 2 over Excrucio (formerly Nemesis Excrucio), again qualifying Velocity to compete at the live championship.

At the NA Spring Live Championship, Hammers Velocity despite falling into the loser bracket took a convincing 3-1 victory in the Grand Finals, again over Phoenix Reign (formerly Excrucio).

## Timeline

* 2017
* 2016

* February 7th, roster is acquired by **Immortals**. Zio, ttigers, Aloh4, Beowulf and Vains leave. SuiJeneris leaves coaching position
* February 15th, team reforms. **ttigers** rejoins. **Chicken123** and **StartingAllOver** join. **MaxGreen** joins as the sub.
* February (approx.), team renames as their organization name, **Hammers eSports**. StartingAllOver, ttigers, Chicken123 and MaxGreen leave.

* January, team is formed. **Zio**, **Aloh4** and **Vains** join.
* Spring , **Beowulf** joins as substitute.
* June, **gabevizzle** joins. Vains retires.
* September 21st, **PONtheoriginal** and **ttigers** join. **Vains** rejoins.
* September 23rd, gabevizzle leaves.
* October 23rd, PONtheoriginal leaves.

## Team Achievements

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## References

1. ↑ Immortals enters professional Vainglory *immortals.gg*
2. ↑ Hammers Summer Roster Announcement VainGlory *hamersesports.com*
3. ↑ Hammers eSports Tweet*twitter.com*
4. ↑ Preview North America Evil Eight Week 1 Split 1*vainglorygame.com*
5. ↑ Hammers eSports Tweet*twitter.com*
IIoH4uK

Gleb "**IIoH4uK**" Zhurkin is a player for Fluffy Chickens.

## Biography

Gleb "IIoH4uK" Zhurkin was born in Moscow, Russia on the 28th of July, 1998. IIoH4uK is currently studying a Bachelor of Economics in Moscow, whilst playing Vainglory professionally.

IIoH4uK started playing Vainglory in November 2014 shortly after it's release to iOS.

#### 2015

IIoH4uK's first competitive team was UNKNOWN, after his friend MEDIC invited him to play. They competed in the ESL Weekly Cups, before UNKNOWN was acquired by SK Gaming in November.

#### 2016

IIoH4uK joined SK Prometheus, but later became a starter for SK Gaming when Prometheus and Chimaera joined together to become just one SK Gaming team in June. IIoH4uK transistioned from the Jungle to the Lane, and competed in the Evil Eight Summer 2016 for both split 1 and split 2.

IIoH4uK retired in September as he had just started his University degree, but after a month of retirement IIoH4uK returned, playing in the Fantasia IV, with xinyi and absynthemind, taking 2nd place.

Shortly after IIoH4uK came out of retirement, joining Fluffy Chickens in October. Fluffy Chickens made their way through the VGL Challenger Series in Autumn, coming second in both split 1 and split 2. Unfortunety for Fluffy Chickens, they were unable to win their Challenge Battle series against SK Gaming in Split 1 and Rising Lotus in Split 2.

During the off-season, Fluffy Chickens made roster changes.

#### 2017

Fluffy Chickens with a new roster of IIoH4uK, AeOn, ryuren, competed in the VGL Challenger Series Spring 2017 Split 1, taking 3rd place. Fluffy Chickens faced up against Denial Esports in the challenge battles beating them in a best of 5 series 3:2. Fluffy Chickens was promoted to the Vainglory 8 Spring 2017 Split 2.

## Trivia

* IIoH4uK's name is *Ponchik*, which means *Donut* in Russian. When IIoH4uK created the name, he used English letters to try and match the Russian Cyrillic script of Ponchik, which is **пончик**.
* IIoH4uK is a big football fan. His favourite team is *FC Spartak Moscow*.

## Achievements

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Infamous Gaming

**Infamous Gaming** is a defunct Singaporean esports organization that disbanded in October 2017 when their roster was acquired by Renegades.

## Timeline

* 2017

* October 20th, spaghetti, Chingy, SnkEA, Tezzaboy98 and uNi leave.

## Team Achievements

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## Gallery

* Infamous Gaming's previous logo prior to 2016

## References

1. ↑ Vainglory team Infamous joins the Renegades family *gameaxis.com*
Lyra

## Lore

The Consequence and the Inception

The First Mistake

## Abilities

Enemies inside the zone are snared, allowing them to move normally but preventing them from using movement abilities. Enemies attempting to dash into the area are interrupted upon crossing the walls.

 **Cooldown:** 24 / 22 / 20 / 18 / 14

After traveling through a portal, heroes must wait 4.5 seconds before they can re-enter a portal. This cooldown is also applied to enemies when Lyra hits them with the initial pulse of Bright Bulwark.
Heroes standing directly on top of a portal as it forms must step off the portal before they can use it.

 **Cooldown:** 70 / 50 / 30
Impunity

**Impunity** is a Singapore esports organization.

## Timeline

* 2017

* March 2nd, **Infamous Legion'**s roster is acquired. **spaghetti**, **Quatervois**, **deftQ** and **INKED** join.
* May 16th, **Bluexidy** joins as the sub laner.
* May 19th, spaghetti leaves.

## Team Achievements

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## References

1. ↑ Impunity's Facebook Status *facebook.com*
2. ↑ Impunity's Facebook Status *facebook.com*
3. ↑ Impunity's Facebook Status *facebook.com*
NA Spring Live Championship 2016/Statistics/Players

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HellsDevil

Christiaan "**HellsDevil**" Enwiah is a player for Team QLASH.

## Biography

Christiaan "HellsDevil" Enwiah was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands on the 4th of July, 2000. He currently is at middle school and studies whilst playing professionally.

HellsDevil started playing Vainglory in 2015 during season zero, just before the release of the hero Skye.

### Vainglory Career

#### 2016

HellsDevil joined Beyond HorizoN in the Evil 8 Autumn Season, where he competed in the challenger series. Due to personal reasons, he temporarily left them before the Autumn 2016 Challenge Battles 2 (which Beyond HorizoN won promoting them into the Vainglory 8). HellsDevil rejoined the team during the offseason.

#### 2017

On the 24th of January, 2017, HellsDevil left Beyond HorizoN. Shortly later he announced in February that he would be joining Rising Lotus as a starter to compete in the upcoming Vainglory 8 Spring 2017 Season.

## Trivia

* Used to play under the name of **Jeazh**.

## Achievements

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Poli5208

Christopher "**Poli5208**" Keokot is a player for Tempo Storm.

## Biography

Christopher "Poli5208" Keokot started playing competitive Vainglory in early 2016.

### 2016

Poli joins Team Penetrate in early 2016. Before Summer 2016, Poli leaves Team Penetrate and joins Sweet N' Sour as a substitute. Ardent Esports acquires Sweet N' Sour on July 22, 2016 and Poli joins Ardent Aurora as the Roamer. Poli leaves Ardent Aurora towards the end of 2016.

### 2017

Poli forms the team One Piece 101 along with selenagomez and MonkeyDLufffyy during the 2017 Winter offseason. One Piece 101 heads into VIS64 Challenger Split 1 of Spring season as the first seeded team.

## Achievements

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ILoveJoseph

Joseph "**iLoveJoseph**" Samano is a player for Cloud9.

## Biography

### 2015

iLoveJoseph began his official competitive career in Autumn 2015 when he competed on Ardent Alliance with fellow players MICSHE and FlashX. The team competed in Autumn qualiifer 1, where they finished 1st and earned a VIPL ticket to play in VIPL season 2. Joseph was unable to travel to VIPL, so he left the team following the qualfiier.

### 2016

In the Spring Season, Joseph joined Nemesis Excrucio with Ezadox and Oldskool. In their first tournament together, they finished 5-8th when they lost to Hammers Velocity in the Adagio bracket finals. In Spring Qualifier 2, they dropped affiliation with Nemesis and became just Excrucio and went on to finish 2nd after losing to Hammers Velocity in the finals. Shortly after the finish of qualifier 2, Excrucio was picked up by Team Phoenix and renamed to Phoenix Reign. At the Spring Live Championships, Reign finished 2nd overall, again losing to Hammers Velocity in the finals 3-1.

Following the Spring Season, Joseph left Reign and joined Nemesis Hydra as the starting jungler. The team finished 1st in Evil Eight Split 1, and 5th in split 2, giving them the 5th seed going into the Summer Live Championships.

## Trivia

* iLoveJoseph created the massively popular trend of creating in-game names starting with "iLove". CullTheMeek helped popularize the trend by creating his well-known smurf account, iLoveIce.

## Achievements

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Kinetik

**Kinetik** is a North American team.

## Timeline

* 2017
* 2016

* February 2nd, MICSHE and CullTheMeek leave.

* October 23rd, **Hammers Kinetic** roster parts away with Hammers eSports. **MICSHE**, **CullTheMeek**, **SuiJeneris** and **PONtheoriginal** join.

## Team Achievements

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## References

1. ↑ Echo Fox Signs New Vainglory Roster*echofox.gg*
2. ↑ Hammers eSports Tweet*twitter.com*