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Final Five is a North American team.
History[]
Final Five was formed when Rhux left Team Coast to build a team with manager MizzPeach under the agency Motion Gaming. With a roster of Rhux, ShorterACE, Gate, Prototype White, and Rule18 and substitute Elbakro they qualified for the North American Spring Expansion Tournament via the ranked 5's ladder under the team name Eun Jeong Jo pls notice, finishing with the seventh-place ladder seed into the tournament, behind Zenith eSports and ahead of Monstar Kittenz. In the online portion of the tournament, they defeated Zenith eSports 2-1 and then CompLexity.Black 2-0 and qualified for the offline stage along with Team Fusion, Team Coast, and Curse Academy.
Going into the offline stage as underdogs, Final Five surprised by taking Team Fusion to five games, though they did ultimately lose the series, moving to the loser's bracket. There they faced Team Coast and were eliminated, this time losing 1-3.
Final Five's roster for the NACL New Year's Kick-off Tournament included Ensign Ledo and Airtom as substitutes, though they never officially joined the team. The team placed fifth/sixth in the tournament.
On December 29, Veritas left Avant Garde and joined Final Five to begin a trial for AD carry.[1] The next day it was further announced that ShorterACE would no longer be starting for Final Five due to external conflicts including school. At the same time, MizzPeach's title changed from team manager to Vice President of Motion Gaming.[2]
2015 Season[]
Due to their participation in the offline stage of the Expansion Tournament, Final Five automatically qualified for the NA Challenger Series Spring Season. After a 2-2 record over the first two weeks, KonKwon, previously of Team Dragon Knights, joined the team as starting support, while Rule18 was moved to a substitute position.
One week later, Final Five joined the Coast organization, and both teams made roster swaps. KonKown left Final Five to play on Coast, while Impaler and Sheep left Coast to play in the Challenger Series with Final Five. This made the starting lineup for the last two weeks of the Challenger Series include Rhux, Impaler, Gate, Veritas, and Sheep.[3] After the roster swap, Final Five's results actually worsened, and they lost all of their remaining Challenger Series games - they did still qualify for the playoffs, but they lost 0-2 to Enemy eSports and then 0-2 to Team Fusion, missing out on the Summer Promotion Tournament. However, due to their playoff participation, they were given an automatic seed into the summer NACS season. Prior to the start of that season, Final Five and Coast separated from each other, enabling both of them to keep their seeds into the tournament.[4] Prior to the start of the summer season, Final Five rebranded as Vortex.
Timeline[]
- 2014
- 2015
- September 26, Final Five is formed.
Rhux joins. - October 15,
Gate joins. - October 20,
Prototype White and
Rule18 join. - October 24,
ShorterACE joins. - November (approx.),
Elbakro joins as substitute. - December 29,
ShorterACE leaves.[5]
- January (approx.),
heavenTime and CurryshotGG (Coach,Analyst) join.
Elbakro leaves. - January 15,
Veritas joins. - February (approx.), CurryshotGG (Coach,Analyst) leaves.
- February 13,
Prototype White leaves. - February 17,
mancloud and
Tigger join as substitutes. - March 3,
KonKwon joins.
Rule18 moves to substitute. - March 13,
Impaler and
Sheep join.
heavenTime and
KonKwon leave.[6] - April 14,
Sheep leaves.[7] - May (approx.),
Chau,
Metroid, and
Biofrost join.
Impaler,
mancloud,
Tigger, and
Rule18 leave. - June (approx.),
Wizardry joins.
Rhux leaves. - June 16,
Final Five rebrands as 
Vortex.
Wizardry,
Chau,
Metroid,
Gate,
Veritas, and
Biofrost leave.
Player Roster[]
Former[]
Players are shown for the entire duration of their tenure on the team, with the role and substitute/trainee status they had upon their departure.
| Player | Name | Role | Joined | Left | Next Team | ||
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| Wizardry | Yi Yong-woo (이용우) | Top Laner | ≈Jun 2015≈2015-06-?? | Jun 20152015-06-16 |  VTX | ||
| Chau | Chau Nguyen | Jungler | ≈May 2015≈2015-05-?? | Jun 20152015-06-16 | VTX | ||
| Metroid | Stephane Guillemot | Jungler | ≈May 2015≈2015-05-?? | Jun 20152015-06-16 |  Retired | ||
| Gate | Jiajun "Austin" Yu | Mid Laner | Oct 20142014-10-15 | Jun 20152015-06-16 | VTX | ||
| Veritas | Kim Kyoung-min (김경민) | Bot Laner | Jan 20152015-01-15 | Jun 20152015-06-16 | VTX | ||
| Biofrost | Vincent Wang | Support | ≈May 2015≈2015-05-?? | Jun 20152015-06-16 | VTX | ||
| Rhux | Keenan Santos | Top Laner | Sep 20142014-09-26 | ≈Jun 2015≈2015-06-?? |  HORI | ||
| Impaler | Matthew Taylor | Jungler | Mar 20152015-03-13 | ≈May 2015≈2015-05-?? | TEAC | ||
| mancloud | Zachary Allan Hoschar | Sub/Mid | Feb 20152015-02-17 | ≈May 2015≈2015-05-?? |  MAG | ||
| Tigger | Wesley Duncan | Sub/Mid | Feb 20152015-02-17 | ≈May 2015≈2015-05-?? | Retired | ||
| Rule18 | Brice Andrew Wilkerson | Sub/Sup | Oct 20142014-10-20 | ≈May 2015≈2015-05-?? | Retired | ||
| Sheep | Jamie Gallagher | Support | Mar 20152015-03-13 | Apr 20152015-04-14 |  C9T | ||
| heavenTime | Simon Jeon | Jungler | ≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-?? | Mar 20152015-03-13 | VTX | ||
| KonKwon | Kevin Kwon (권구혁) | Support | Mar 20152015-03-03 | Mar 20152015-03-13 |  NRG | ||
| Prototype White | Marko Sosnicki | Bot Laner | Oct 20142014-10-20 | Feb 20152015-02-13 |  MU | ||
| Elbakro | Tristan Mojica | Sub/Mid | ≈Nov 2014≈2014-11-?? | ≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-?? | Retired | ||
| ShorterACE | Ryan Nget | Jungler | Oct 20142014-10-24 | Dec 20142014-12-29 |  WFX |
Organization[]
Former[]
| ID | Name | Position | Next Team | |
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| exqzr | Michael Hunnersen | Owner | Vortex
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| MizzPeach | Nicole Manning | Vice President |  Team Coast
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| JAMALSKi | Guy Cohen | Manager | None | |
| TheSource | Bron Mitchell | Coach | Vortex
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| CurryshotGG | Rohit Nathani | Head Analyst/Coach |  Team Fusion
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| Silverlight6 | Silver Lucoris | Head Coach | None |
Tournaments[]
This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
| Final Five Tournament Results - Show Prize as (Local • USD • Euros) | |||||
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| Date | Pl | Prize | Event | Last Result | Roster |
| 2015-04-08 | 4 | $3,000$ 3,000€ 2,772 | NACS 2015 Spring Playoffs | Rhux, Impaler, Gate, Veritas, Sheep | |
| 2015-03-25 | 4 | NACS 2015 Spring | 4 - 6  RR | Rhux, heavenTime, Impaler, Gate, Veritas, Rule18, KonKwon, Sheep | |
| 2015-01-11 | 9 - 16 | EPS Season XI | |||
| 2014-12-19 | 5 - 6 | NACL New Year’s Kick-off | Rhux, ShorterAce, Gate, Prototype White, Rule18 | ||
| 2014-12-13 | NQ | NA LCS 2015 Spring Expansion | Rhux, ShorterACE, Gate, Prototype, Rule18 | ||
| Total Prize: USD 3,000 | |||||
Highlight Videos[]
Interviews[]
2014[]
- November 18 - F5: A Refreshing Contender – F5 Gate says “Rhux is strong…its our game to lose” with trainforgame
- November 18 - Interview with North American Expansion Team Final Five with Esportspedia
Articles[]
2014[]
- November 13 -North American LCS expansion tournament: Bracket Previews by Azubu
- November 20 - 2015 NA LCS Expansion: Online Finals Preview by Azubu
- November 28 - North American Expansion Tournament: The Final Four from Esports Heaven
See Also[]
External Links[]
References[]
- ↑ Veritas's tweet twitter.com
- ↑ Final Five Roster Changes and Future Plans. reddit.com
- ↑ Team Coast Picks Up Final Five – Impaler and Sheep to F5 content.azubu.tv
- ↑ Team Coast's Facebook post facebook.com
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Final Five Roster Changes and Future Plans. reddit.com
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Team Coast Picks Up Final Five – Impaler and Sheep to F5 content.azubu.tv
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Cloud9 Tempest Acquires Sheep cloud9.gg