Bubbadub

Bubbadub
Retired as Player
Bubbadub
Background Information
Name	Royce Newcomb
Country of Birth	; United States
Residency	NANorth America
Competitive
Role	; Coach
Favorite Champs	; ; ; ;
Social Media & Links

Overview

Tournament Results

Stats

Match History

Royce "Bubbadub" Newcomb is a League of Legends esports player, previously associate analyst for Golden Guardians.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠Reality Check Gaming	≈Jan 2013≈2013-01-??	≈Mar 2013≈2013-03-??	≈2mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠High Rollers Gaming	≈Mar 2013≈2013-03-??	≈Apr 2013≈2013-04-??	≈1mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Reality Check Gaming	≈Apr 2013≈2013-04-??	≈Aug 2013≈2013-08-??	≈4mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Determined Gaming	Oct 20132013-10-01^[2]	Feb 20142014-02-07^[1]	4mo 6d ejel
NA	⁠⁠compLexity.Black	Feb 20142014-02-07^[4]	Apr 20142014-04-29^[3]	2mo 22d ejel
NA	⁠⁠compLexity Gaming	Apr 20142014-04-29^[6]	Nov 20142014-11-03^[5]	6mo 4d ejel
NA	⁠⁠compLexity.Black	Nov 20142014-11-03^[8]	Dec 20142014-12-09^[7]	1mo 6d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Fusion	Apr 20152015-04-14^[9]	May 20152015-05-13	29d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9 Tempest	May 20152015-05-21^[10]	Jul 20152015-07-18	1mo 28d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9	Jul 20152015-07-18	≈Jan 2017≈2017-01-??	≈1yr 5mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9 Challenger	Jul 20162016-07-06	Jan 20172017-01-06^[11]	6mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Golden Guardians	Dec 20202020-12-22^[13]	Nov 20232023-11-20^[12]	2yr 10mo ejel

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠Reality Check Gaming	≈Jan 2013≈2013-01-??	≈Mar 2013≈2013-03-??	≈2mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠High Rollers Gaming	≈Mar 2013≈2013-03-??	≈Apr 2013≈2013-04-??	≈1mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Reality Check Gaming	≈Apr 2013≈2013-04-??	≈Aug 2013≈2013-08-??	≈4mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠To Be Determined	Oct 20132013-10-01^[2]	Dec 20132013-12-13^[14]	2mo 12d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Determined Gaming	Dec 20132013-12-13^[14]	Feb 20142014-02-07^[1]	1mo 25d ejel
NA	⁠⁠compLexity.Black	Feb 20142014-02-07^[4]	Apr 20142014-04-29^[3]	2mo 22d ejel
NA	⁠⁠compLexity Gaming	Apr 20142014-04-29^[6]	Nov 20142014-11-03^[5]	6mo 4d ejel
NA	⁠⁠compLexity.Black	Nov 20142014-11-03^[8]	Dec 20142014-12-09^[7]	1mo 6d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Fusion	Apr 20152015-04-14^[9]	May 20152015-05-13	29d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9 Tempest	May 20152015-05-21^[10]	Jul 20152015-07-18	1mo 28d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9	Jul 20152015-07-18	≈Oct 2015≈2015-10-??	≈2mo 14d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9	≈Oct 2015≈2015-10-??	≈Jan 2017≈2017-01-??	≈1yr 3mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9 Challenger	Jul 20162016-07-06	Jan 20172017-01-06^[11]	6mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Golden Guardians	Dec 20202020-12-22^[13]	Nov 20232023-11-20^[12]	2yr 10mo ejel

News

2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2020
2023

NA	⁠⁠RXG	January (approx.), Gleebglarbu, billowedporpoise, Cheesedbeluga, and Bubbadub join. e
NA	⁠⁠RXG	March (approx.), Gleebglarbu, billowedporpoise, Cheesedbeluga, and Bubbadub leave. e
NA	⁠⁠HRG	March (approx.), monstercow, billowedporpoise, Cheesedbeluga, Kamiscaze, and Bubbadub join. e
NA	⁠⁠HRG	April (approx.), monstercow, billowedporpoise, Cheesedbeluga, Kamiscaze, and Bubbadub leave. e
NA	⁠⁠RXG	April (approx.), xHazzard joins. Bubbadub rejoins. e
NA	⁠⁠RXG	August (approx.), Fragnat1c and Bubbadub leave. e
NA	⁠⁠TBD	October 1, Bubbadub joins.^[2] e
NA	⁠⁠DTG	December 13, ⁠⁠To Be Determined renames to ⁠⁠Determined Gaming.^[14] e

NA	⁠⁠DTG	February 7, Determined Gaming transfers its roster to compLexity.Black. Westrice, Brokenshard, PR0LLY, ROBERTxLEE, and Bubbadub leave.^[1] e
NA	⁠⁠CLB	February 7, compLexity.Black acquires the roster of Determined Gaming. Westrice, Brokenshard, PR0LLY, ROBERTxLEE, and Bubbadub join.^[4] e
NA	⁠⁠CLB	April 29, Westrice, Brokenshard, PR0LLY, ROBERTxLEE, Bubbadub, Kubz (Coach), and Leviathan (Coach,Analyst) leave.^[3] e
NA	⁠⁠COL	April 29, Westrice, Brokenshard, ROBERTxLEE, and Kubz (Coach) join. PR0LLY and Bubbadub rejoin.^[6] e
NA	⁠⁠COL	November 3, ⁠⁠compLexity Gaming splits into two rosters, ⁠⁠compLexity.Black and ⁠⁠compLexity.White. Westrice, Kez, goldenglue, Bubbadub, PR0LLY, ROBERTxLEE, and Kubz (Coach) leave.^[5] e
NA	⁠⁠CLB	November 3, ⁠⁠compLexity.Black is reformed. i KeNNy u and Xmithie join. PR0LLY, ROBERTxLEE, Bubbadub, and Kubz (Coach) rejoin.^[8] e
NA	⁠⁠CLB	December 9, Bubbadub retires.^[7] e

NA	⁠⁠FSN	April 14, Bubbadub (Analyst) joins.^[9] e
NA	⁠⁠FSN	May 13, ⁠⁠Team Fusion is disbanded. Chunkyfresh, NintendudeX, HuHi, Nientonsoh, Trance, CurryshotGG (Head Coach), and Bubbadub (Analyst) leave. e
NA	⁠⁠C9T	May 21, Bubbadub (Head Coach) joins.^[10] e
NA	⁠⁠C9	July 18, Bubbadub (Head Coach) joins from academy roster. Charlie (Head Coach) leaves for academy roster. e
NA	⁠⁠C9T	July 18, Charlie (Head Coach) joins from main roster. Bubbadub (Head Coach) leaves for main roster. e
NA	⁠⁠C9	October (approx.), Bubbadub (Head Coach to Assistant Coach) changes position. e

NA

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⁠C9C

July 6,
Bubbadub joins as substitute.

e

NA	⁠⁠C9	January (approx.), Bubbadub (Assistant Coach) leaves. e
NA	⁠⁠C9C	January 6, Balls, Hai, Altec, LemonNation, Bubbadub, Bunny FuFuu, Smoothie, and Thinkcard (Head Coach) leave.^[11] e

NA

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⁠GG

December 22, Bubbadub (Associate Analyst) and Swip3rR (Two-Way Player Coach) join.^[13]

e

NA

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⁠GG

November 20, Team will not participate in the LCS in 2024.
Licorice,
River,
Gori,
Stixxay,
huhi, Spookz (Head Coach), Chuz (Assistant Coach), Inero (General Manager), Bubbadub (Associate Analyst), Hustlin (Two-Way Player Coach), Ji Eun (Assistant General Manager), and Spellsy (Director of Operations) leave.^[12]

e

Biography[]

Royce "Bubbadub" Newcomb began playing video games at the age of 8 with Nintendo. His name stuck from a character friend who made it for him in Everquest. He changed it from Bubba to Bubbadub during his World of Warcraft days because Bubba was a name that was frequently taken. He was a collegiate Starcraft league player for two seasons and a semi-pro Starcraft 2 player while he finished up school. He always wanted to be a pro gamer, but if that wasn't possible, then he was going to get a job working in electrical engineering.

During the Starcraft 2 beta downtimes his ROOT clanmates were playing League of Legends a bit. Initially he really liked the idea but didn't make the switch due to his commitments in Starcraft 2. The first champion he mained was Corki. Bubbadub made a team named Reality Check Gaming out of high ranked solo queue players. They qualified for a few Challenger-level tournaments but were never extremely notable. After Reality Check Gaming disbanded, Bubbadub got tryouts for several mid-high tier challenger teams and ultimately joined TBD, replacing former support NydusHerMain, who moved to ggLA.

2014 Season[]

TBD qualified for the spring promotion tournament in the spring but lost 3-0 to Evil Geniuses. However, their performance drew them the attention of compLexity, and they were sponsored by the organization to form the team compLexity.Black. As coL.Black, they participated in both the first and second NA Challenger spring series, and then in the playoffs qualified for the summer promotion tournament. There, they defeated Team Coast 3-1 and qualified for the summer split. After compLexity dropped sponsorship of compLexity.Red, Bubbadub's team became the flagship compLexity Gaming roster.

In the summer split, compLexity finished in last place with a 10-18 record, one game behind Evil Geniuses. In relegation hey were forced to play against Team 8 for their spot in the spring season, and they lost the series 2-3.

2015 Preseason[]

In early November 2014, compLexity once again formed two rosters, this time coL.White and coL.Black. Bubbadub joined coL.Black along with I KeNNy u, Xmithie, pr0lly, and ROBERTxLEE, qualifying for the Spring Expansion Tournament via compLexity's promotion tournament participation.^[15] After a bye in the first round, the team lost 0-2 to Final Five in the second round of the online portion tournament and were eliminated.

After the Expansion Tournament ended, Bubbadub retired from competitive League of Legends play.^[16]

2015 Season[]

Bubbadub joined Team Fusion as an analyst in April 2015, shortly before the team's games against Team Dignitas in the Summer Promotion tournament.^[17] After Fusion lost the series, the team disbanded, and Bubbadub then joined Cloud9 Tempest as their head coach.^[18] Seven weeks into the NA LCS Summer Season, Cloud9 decided to swap their coaches and moved Bubbadub to their main roster.

Trivia[]

One of the fews married League of Legends pro players.
Used his own house as the gaming house for Determined Gaming.
Known for playing Thresh, Morgana, Karma, Zyra and Lulu competitively.
He played Volleyball in the Junior Olympics for a few years in High School! He was on a team called Apex.

Tournament Results[]

This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.

Bubbadub Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2015-10-31	9 - 11	Worlds 2015	3 - 3⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠C9	Balls, Hai, Incarnati0n, Sneaky, LemonNation, Bubbadub
2015-08-31	1	NA Regional Finals 2015	3 : 1⁠⁠TL	⁠⁠C9	Balls, Hai, Incarnati0n, Sneaky, LemonNation, Bubbadub
2015-07-26	7	NA LCS 2015 Summer	6 - 12⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠C9	Balls, Meteos, Hai, Incarnati0n, Sneaky, LemonNation, Charlie, Bubbadub
2014-11-22	NQ	NA LCS 2015 Spring Expansion	0 : 2⁠⁠F5	⁠⁠CLB	i KeNNy u, CloudNguyen, pr0lly, ROBERTxLEE, Bubbadub
2014-09-11	NQ	NA LCS 2015 Spring Promotion	2 : 3⁠⁠T8	⁠⁠COL	Westrice, Kez, pr0lly, ROBERTxLEE, Bubbadub
2014-08-03	8	NA LCS 2014 Summer	10 - 18⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠COL	Westrice, Brokenshard, Kez, pr0lly, Mancloud, ROBERTxLEE, Bubbadub, Kubz
2014-05-04	3	Lone Star Clash 3	0 : 2⁠⁠T8	⁠⁠COL	Westrice, Brokenshard, goldenglue, ROBERTxLEE, Bubbadub
2014-04-27	Q	NA LCS 2014 Summer Promotion	3 : 1⁠⁠CST	⁠⁠CLB	Westrice, Brokenshard, pr0lly, ROBERTxLEE, Bubbadub, Kubz
2014-04-13	3	NACS 2014 Spring Playoffs	3 : 2⁠⁠CA	⁠⁠CLB	Westrice, Brokenshard, pr0lly, ROBERTxLEE, Bubbadub, Kubz
2014-03-24	5 - 6	NACL Season 2	1 : 2⁠⁠C9T	⁠⁠CLB	Westrice, TheOddOrange, Brokenshard, Cpt Ziploc, pr0lly, ROBERTxLEE, Impactful, Bubbadub