Hard

Hard
Retired
Hard
Background Information
Name	Anthony Barkhovtsev
Country of Birth	; Canada
Nationality	; Canada; ; Russia
Birthday	March 28, 1998 (age 26)
Residency	NANorth America
Competitive
Role	; Jungler
Favorite Champs	; ; ;
Competitive IDs	FamilyPuss
Soloqueue IDs	FamilyPuss, 9JX, C9 Hard, MuteTheWorld
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Overview

Tournament Results

Stats

Match History

Anthony "Hard" (▶️ listen) Barkhovtsev is a retired League of Legends esports player, previously jungler for Golden Guardians Academy. He was previously known as FamilyPuss.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠False Facade	≈Mar 2014≈2014-03-??	≈May 2014≈2014-05-18	≈2mo 17d ejel
NA	⁠⁠COGnitive Gaming	Dec 20142014-12-08	Dec 20142014-12-20	12d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9 Tempest	Jan 20152015-01-10^[1]	≈Oct 2015≈2015-10-??	≈8mo 22d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9	Jan 20152015-01-10	Jan 20162016-01-05^[2]	1yr 26d ejel
NA	⁠⁠The Warlords	Dec 20152015-12-12	Jan 20162016-01-13	1mo 1d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Echo Fox	Jan 20162016-01-05^[3]	Jan 20172017-01-05	1yr ejel
NA	⁠⁠Meltdown QC	≈Sep 2017≈2017-09-09	≈Sep 2017≈2017-09-10	≈1d ejel
NA	⁠⁠TL Academy	Jan 20182018-01-03^[6]	Sep 20182018-09-24^[4]	8mo 21d ejel
NA	⁠⁠GG Academy	Dec 20182018-12-18^[8]	Nov 20202020-11-19^[7]	1yr 11mo ejel

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠False Facade	≈Mar 2014≈2014-03-??	≈May 2014≈2014-05-18	≈2mo 17d ejel
NA	⁠⁠COGnitive Gaming	Dec 20142014-12-08	Dec 20142014-12-14	6d ejel
NA	⁠⁠COGnitive Gaming	Dec 20142014-12-14	Dec 20142014-12-20	6d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9 Tempest	Jan 20152015-01-10^[1]	≈Oct 2015≈2015-10-??	≈8mo 22d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9	Jan 20152015-01-10	Jan 20162016-01-05^[2]	1yr 26d ejel
NA	⁠⁠The Warlords	Dec 20152015-12-12	Jan 20162016-01-13	1mo 1d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Echo Fox	Jan 20162016-01-05^[3]	Jul 20162016-07-10	6mo 5d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Echo Fox	Jul 20162016-07-10	Jul 20162016-07-22	12d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Echo Fox	Jul 20162016-07-22	Jan 20172017-01-05	5mo 14d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Meltdown QC	≈Sep 2017≈2017-09-09	≈Sep 2017≈2017-09-10	≈1d ejel
NA	⁠⁠TL Academy	Jan 20182018-01-03^[6]	Sep 20182018-09-24^[4]	8mo 21d ejel
NA	⁠⁠GG Academy	Dec 20182018-12-18^[8]	Nov 20202020-11-19^[7]	1yr 11mo ejel

News

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2020

NA	⁠⁠FF	March (approx.), Acme, FamilyPuss, Eclypsil, AxelAxis, and Ravenzor join. e
NA	⁠⁠FF	May 18 (approx.), Acme, FamilyPuss, Xvs, Eclypsil, AxelAxis, and Ravenzor leave. e
NA	⁠⁠COG	December 8, Big ol Ron joins. 9JX, Jjayel, and i uzi join as substitutes. e
NA	⁠⁠COG	December 14, 9JX (Sub/Jungle to Top) changes position. Big ol Ron leaves. e
NA	⁠⁠COG	December 20, ⁠⁠COGnitive Gaming is disbanded. 9JX, Grigne, LoveLova, XerbeK, Trance, Jjayel, i uzi, and Tails (Head Coach) leave. e

NA	⁠⁠C9T	January 10, Cloud9 Tempest is reformed. Solo, Hard, Yusui, LOD, and Stixxay join.^[1] e
NA	⁠⁠C9	January 10, Hard and Yusui join as substitutes. e
NA	⁠⁠C9T	October (approx.), ⁠⁠Cloud9 Tempest is disbanded. Solo, Hard, LOD, Sheep, Westrice, Jintae, and Charlie (Head Coach) leave. e
NA	⁠⁠THE	December 12, BillyBoss, Cris, Hard, Shrimp, Pekin Woof, Mash, and Sheep join. e

NA	⁠⁠FOX	January 5, kfo, Hard, Froggen, KEITH, and Baby join.^[3] e
NA	⁠⁠C9	January 5, Hard leaves.^[2] e
NA	⁠⁠THE	January 13, BillyBoss, Cris, Hard, Shrimp, Pekin Woof, Mash, and Sheep leave. e
NA	⁠⁠FOX	July 10, Hard moves to substitute. e
NA	⁠⁠FOX	July 22, Hard moves to starting roster. Kez moves to substitute. e

NA	⁠⁠FOX	January 5, Akaadian and Gate join. Hard leaves. e
NA	⁠⁠MQC	September 9 (approx.), TQS Zuardian, Hard, Wazabiee, Shoryu, and Trance join. e
NA	⁠⁠MQC	September 10 (approx.), TQS Zuardian, Hard, Wazabiee, Shoryu, and Trance leave. e

NA	⁠⁠TL.A	January 3, Hard, Mickey, Shoryu, and Joey join. Viper rejoins.^[6] e
NA	⁠⁠TL.A	September 24, Hard and Joey leave.^[4]^[5] e
NA	⁠⁠GG.A	December 18, Hard and Palafox join.^[8] e

NA	⁠⁠GG.A	January 4, Hard's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2021. Palafox's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 17 November 2020.^[9] e
NA	⁠⁠GG.A	December 4, Ablazeolive, Gorica, and Raz (Head Coach) join. Darshan, Hard, and huhi will remain with the team for 2020.^[10] e

NA	⁠⁠GG.A	October 30, Hard is allowed to look for opportunities with other teams.^[11] e
NA	⁠⁠GG.A	November 19, Hard and Gorica are removed from the GCD.^[7] e
NA	⁠⁠GG.A	November 23, ZionSpartan and Keith leave. Hard and Gorica's departures are confirmed.^[12] e

Biography[]

2015 Season[]

Hard joined Cloud9's new Challenger roster Cloud9 G2A along with Solo, Yusui, LOD, and Stixxay in January 2015. Under the name C9 Charlies Angels, they placed fifth in the ranked 5's ladder leading up to the NACS Spring 2015 qualifier. Following Stixxay's move to CLG.Black, Fade joined the team, replacing Stixxay as starting support. The team defeated Roar and then Team Confound to qualify for the season. However, prior to the start of the season, it was revealed that the team had used a ringer in their matches against Team Confound. As a result, Cloud9 Tempest were disqualified from participating in the NACS, and Team Confound took their place. Additionally, Hard and his teammates were all suspended from all Riot-sponsored League of Legends competition until the 2015 Summer Split.^[13] This ban was lifted at the end of March, allowing Hard and his Cloud9 Tempest teammates to play competitively starting on May 11.^[14]

Now unbanned, Cloud9 Tempest participated in the NACS Summer Qualifier, with nearly the same roster as they had competed with in the spring qualifier, except that LOD moved to AD carry, and Sheep joined. After their first two rounds, Yusui was temporarily banned for four weeks for purchasing botted accounts, and Jintae was used as a substitute for the finals against CLG Black, which the team won, successfully qualifying for the Summer Season.

The team finished with a 5-5 record and in fourth place. In the playoffs, they also finished fourth, after losses to Renegades and Team Imagine. They missed out on the Summer Promotion Tournament but retained an automatic seed into the NACS Spring 2016 Season.

2016 Season[]

In the offseason, the roster of C9 Tempest went seperate ways. While his former teammates either retired or joined NACS team Ember, Hard joined Echo Fox, who acquired Gravity's NA LCS spot. Visa problems kept Hard along with teammates kfo and Froggen out of competition for several games early on in the season, and despite an upswing after the full roster returned, Echo Fox placed seventh at the end of the spring split - out of playoffs but also safe from relegation. Their overall season record was 6-12, with 6 of those losses coming from their games with a substitute roster as well as a forfeit prior to determining their substitute roster. With their full lineup, their record was 6-6.

In the Summer Season, Echo Fox had almost no roster problems at all - they substituted Grigne in for two games in week 3, and switched Froggen to top lane for one game while kfo played mid lane, but other than that they had a completely stable roster. With stability did not come an improvement over their spring performance; while they picked up several individual game wins (including handing Team SoloMid their only game 1 defeat of the entire split), the team lost every single series after the first week and finished in last place, three series behind the ninth-place NRG Esports. In the 2017 Spring Promotion Tournament, Echo Fox turned their season around and took advantage of NRG's weakness, beating Team Liquid Academy in the elimination round, losing to the much-improved Phoenix1, and then sweeping NRG in the final series to return to the LCS for 2017.

Trivia[]

Started playing League of Legends since a little after the beta, but never got into it until late Season 2 where he peaked ~1890 elo on EUNE.
Speaks English, French and Russian.

Tournament Results[]

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

Hard Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2020-08-13	5 - 6	NA Academy 2020 Summer Playoffs	2 : 3⁠⁠CLG.A	⁠⁠GG.A	ZionSpartan, Hard, Ablazeolive, Keith, Chime, Raz
2020-08-07	4	NA Academy 2020 Summer	10 - 8⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠GG.A	ZionSpartan, Hard, Ablazeolive, Keith, Chime, Raz
2020-03-27	7	NA Academy 2020 Spring	8 - 10⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠GG.A	ZionSpartan, Hard, Ablazeolive, Gorica, huhi, Keith, Raz, Spookz
2019-11-26	3 - 4	Twitch Rivals NA Team Draft I	0 : 2⁠⁠TYLE	⁠⁠YASS	Sanchovies, Hard, Yassuo, Prismal, Shady
2019-08-30	2	OPL 2019 Split 2 Showmatch	0 : 1⁠⁠BLUE	⁠⁠RED	Pabu, Hard, Palafox, FBI, Rogue
2019-08-16	2	NA Academy 2019 Summer Playoffs	1 : 3⁠⁠100.A	⁠⁠GG.A	Darshan, Hard, Palafox, Keith, Olleh, Inero
2019-07-28	2	NA Academy 2019 Summer	14 - 4⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠GG.A	Darshan, Hard, Palafox, Deftly, FBI, Keith, huhi, Olleh, Inero
2019-03-15	8	NA Academy 2019 Spring	7 - 11⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠GG.A	zig, Hard, Palafox, Benji, Sheep, Mango
2018-08-23	3 - 4	NA Academy 2018 Summer Playoffs	2 : 3⁠⁠CLG.A	⁠⁠TL.A	V1PER, Hard, Insanity, Shoryu, Joey, Timkiro
2018-08-10	2	NA Academy 2018 Summer	12 - 6⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TL.A	V1per, Hard, Insanity, Shoryu, Joey, Timkiro