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| Lourlo | ||
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| Background Information | ||
| Name | Samson Jackson | |
| Country of Birth | United States | |
| Birthday | March 24, 1998 (age 26) | |
| Residency | North America | |
| Competitive | ||
| Team |  Team Liquid | |
| Role | Streamer | |
| Favorite Champs | ||
| Soloqueue IDs | NA: quantumfan olruol year of lourlo The Lo | |
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Samson "Lourlo" (▶️ listen) Jackson is a League of Legends esports player, currently content creator for Team Liquid.
Team History
| Team | Start | End | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sirens A Team | ≈Jun 2013≈2013-06-?? | ≈Nov 2013≈2013-11-02 | ≈5mo 1d ejel | ||
 Storm | Sep 20142014-09-03 | Feb 20152015-02-25 | 5mo 22d ejel | ||
 Also Known As | ≈Oct 2014≈2014-10-?? | ≈Nov 2014≈2014-11-?? | ≈1mo ejel | ||
 Enemy | Feb 20152015-02-17[1] | ≈Apr 2015≈2015-04-?? | ≈1mo 12d ejel | ||
 CLG Black | ≈Feb 2015≈2015-02-24 | Nov 20152015-11-05[2] | ≈8mo 9d ejel | ||
| Team Liquid | Jan 20162016-01-04[4] | Dec 20172017-12-01[3] | 1yr 10mo ejel | ||
| TL Academy | Jan 20162016-01-22 | Mar 20162016-03-01 | 1mo 10d ejel | ||
| TL Academy | Jun 20162016-06-03 | Jul 20162016-07-08 | 1mo 5d ejel | ||
 Golden Guardians | Dec 20172017-12-13[7] | Dec 20182018-12-06[5] | 1yr 24d ejel | ||
 Echo Fox | Dec 20182018-12-06[8] | Jan 20192019-01-11 | 1mo 5d ejel | ||
| FOX Academy | Jan 20192019-01-11 | Aug 20192019-08-16[9] | 7mo 5d ejel | ||
| Echo Fox | Jun 20192019-06-22[11] | Aug 20192019-08-16[10] | 1mo 24d ejel | ||
 Dignitas Academy | Jan 20202020-01-07[13] | Nov 20212021-11-15[12] | 1yr 10mo ejel | ||
| Dignitas | Jun 20202020-06-26[14] | Jul 20202020-07-18 | 22d ejel | ||
| Team Liquid | Jun 20222022-06-06[15] | Present | 2yr 3mo ej |
| Team | Start | End | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sirens A Team | ≈Jun 2013≈2013-06-?? | ≈Nov 2013≈2013-11-02 | ≈5mo 1d ejel | ||
| Storm | Sep 20142014-09-03 | Feb 20152015-02-25 | 5mo 22d ejel | ||
| Also Known As | ≈Oct 2014≈2014-10-?? | ≈Nov 2014≈2014-11-?? | ≈1mo ejel | ||
| Enemy | Feb 20152015-02-17[1] | ≈Apr 2015≈2015-04-?? | ≈1mo 12d ejel | ||
| CLG Black | ≈Feb 2015≈2015-02-24 | Nov 20152015-11-05[2] | ≈8mo 9d ejel | ||
| Team Liquid | Jan 20162016-01-04[4] | Dec 20172017-12-01[3] | 1yr 10mo ejel | ||
| TL Academy | Jan 20162016-01-22 | Mar 20162016-03-01 | 1mo 10d ejel | ||
| TL Academy | Jun 20162016-06-03 | Jul 20162016-07-08 | 1mo 5d ejel | ||
| Golden Guardians | Dec 20172017-12-13[7] | Dec 20182018-12-06[5] | 1yr 24d ejel | ||
| Echo Fox | Dec 20182018-12-06[8] | Jan 20192019-01-11 | 1mo 5d ejel | ||
| FOX Academy | Jan 20192019-01-11 | Aug 20192019-08-16[9] | 7mo 5d ejel | ||
| Echo Fox | Jun 20192019-06-22[11] | Aug 20192019-08-16[10] | 1mo 24d ejel | ||
| Dignitas Academy | Jan 20202020-01-07[13] | Nov 20212021-11-15[12] | 1yr 10mo ejel | ||
| Dignitas | Jun 20202020-06-26[14] | Jul 20202020-07-18 | 22d ejel | ||
| Team Liquid | Jun 20222022-06-06[15] | Present | 2yr 3mo ej |
News
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
 SIRE | June (approx.), Lourlo, Nightblue3, KillaKast, SwingingSalt, and Trixzim join. | |
| SIRE | November 2 (approx.), Lourlo, Nightblue3, KillaKast, SwingingSalt, and Trixzim leave. |
 STR | September 3, Storm is formed. Lourlo, hairyabs, mandatorycloud, xPecake, and babyeator join. | |
 AKA | October (approx.), Lourlo joins. | |
| AKA | November (approx.), Lourlo leaves. |
 NME | February 17, Lourlo joins as substitute. Cackgod rejoins as substitute.[1] | |
 CLB | February 24 (approx.), Lourlo joins. | |
| STR | February 25, Lourlo leaves. | |
| NME | April (approx.), Lourlo leaves. | |
| CLB | November 5, Lourlo, Huhi, Stixxay, and KeNNy leave.[2] |
 TL | January 4, Lourlo joins.[4] | |
| TL.A | January 22, Smoothie joins. Lourlo, FeniX, and Piglet join as substitutes. IWDominate joins as temporary substitute for Week 1 of NACS 2016 Spring. Dardoch and Matt move to substitutes. | |
| TL.A | March 1, Lourlo, Dardoch, FeniX, Piglet, and Matt leave. | |
| TL.A | June 3, Dardoch rejoins. Lourlo, FeniX, Piglet, and Matt rejoin as substitutes. Moon moves to substitute. chocopie leaves. | |
| TL.A | July 8, IWDominate joins as substitute. Lourlo, Dardoch, FeniX, and Matt leave. |
| TL | December 1, Lourlo leaves.[3] | |
 GG | December 13, Lourlo, Contractz, Hai, Deftly, Matt, Locodoco (Head Coach), and Akiri (Assistant Coach) join.[7] |
 FOX | December 6, Lourlo joins.[8] | |
| GG | December 6, Lourlo and Matt leave.[5][6] | |
| FOX | December 11, Lourlo's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 19 November 2019.[16] |
| FOX.A | January 5, Lourlo and Yusui's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 19 November 2019.[17] | |
| FOX | January 11, Lourlo and Lost leave for academy roster. | |
| FOX.A | January 11, Lourlo joins from main roster. Lost rejoins from main roster. Spica becomes inactive. | |
| FOX | June 22, Lourlo and Panda rejoin from academy roster.[11] | |
| FOX.A | August 16, Lourlo, Solo, Panda, Yusui, Lost, Fill, and Mabrey (Head Coach) leave.[9] | |
| FOX | August 16, Lourlo, Solo, MikeYeung, Fenix, Apollo, Hakuho, SSONG (Head Coach), Tyler (Assistant Coach), and Jim (Head Analyst) leave.[10] |
 DIG.A | January 7, Lourlo joins.[13] Lourlo and Olleh's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2021.[18] | |
| DIG | June 26, Lourlo joins from academy roster.[14] | |
| DIG | July 18, Lourlo leaves for academy roster. |
Biography[]
Samson "Lourlo" Jackson started gaming with World of Warcraft and has since played Hearthstone, Diablo, Bloodline Champions, and League of Legends. In 2012, he played on Severity Gaming, but it wasn't until 2014 that he joined his first serious team.
2015 Preseason[]
Lourlo joined Storm in September 2014 as one of the team's founding members, along with hairyabs, mandatorycloud, xPecake, and babyeator. The team was initially going to attempt to qualify for the 2015 spring LCS via the Expansion Tournament. However, Lourlo would not turn 17 until March 24, 2015. The team decided to keep Lourlo on the roster and play in the Challenger scene for one split instead.
2015 Season[]
Lourlo left Storm and later joined CLG Black after Westrice left, beginning to play for them in the second week of the NACS Spring Season. The team placed 6th and last in the season, after losing a tiebreaker game to TSM Darkness. CLG Black retained their summer season qualifier seed from having participated in the spring season, receiving a first-round bye. However, after defeating Maelstrom, they lost to Cloud9 Tempest and then to Magnetic, missing out on the NACS summer season.
2016 Season[]
In January, Team Liquid announced Lourlo as their toplaner for the 2016 NA LCS Spring Season, filling the gap left by Quas's suspension.[20] Liquid's spring split started out rocky, with an 0-2 first week and cumulative winrates of 50% or worse after each of the first eight weeks. Eventually, their new roster started to solidify, and they climbed into a fourth-place regular-season finish, behind the newly-formed and almost-undefeated Immortals, CLG, and Cloud9. Their quarterfinal series was an easy 3-0 over NRG Esports, but in the semifinals, they lost a narrow five-game series to CLG (the eventual champions). In the fifth game, Piglet was caught out in mid lane by a double-teleport from both Darshan and Huhi at the same time to the same ward and died. While Liquid were already behind in that game, it was this play that sealed the win for their opponents. In the third-place series against the tournament-favorite Immortals who had been knocked down in an upset by TSM, Liquid lost once again, this time 0-3, to finish the playoffs in fourth place overall and continuing their "fourth-place curse."
Despite Dardoch's stellar spring split performance, on May 27, he was suspended by the team for "behavioral problems and team dynamics issues" ahead of the Summer Split.[21] Liquid Academy jungler Moon was used for the team's first series instead, which they lost, and by the end of the week Dardoch was starting again, where he remained through the end of the Playoffs. Soon after Dardoch's return, Fabbbyyy was also traded to the main Team Liquid roster, this time in exchange for Piglet. This roster of Lourlo, Dardoch, Fenix, Fabbbyyy, and Matt stabilized, and the team finished in fifth place with a 9-9 series record. In the playoffs, they shook up their roster once again, substituting in Jynthe for their third game against CLG after two losses. Jynthe won his first game, but Team Liquid ultimately lost the series 3-1 and then also lost in the first round of the Regional Finals to Team EnVyUs, this time with both Jynthe at AD carry and former substitute mid laner Arcsecond jungling.
2017 Season[]
The 2017 Season wasn't very good for Lourlo. Team Liquid went into the 2017 NA LCS Spring Season with a lot of hype but failed to live up to their expectations. They finished the regular season in 9th place with 5 wins and 13 losses. They would have to attend the 2017 NA LCS Summer Promotion and re-qualified for the LCS with a 3-2 victory over Gold Coin United. Their Summer Season in the LCS was a similar story. After another 9th place finish 4 wins and 14 losses, they attended the 2018 NA LCS Spring Promotion and retained their LCS spot with a 3-2 victory over Phoenix1.
2018 Season[]
Lourlo left TL in December and joined the newly formed Golden Guardians. Golden Guardians were predicted to be one of the weakest teams in the Spring Split, in part due to being the only team to have a roster solely consisting of North American players. This prediction would prove prescient, as they were the last team to record a win and finished 4-14 despite showing some late-season improvement.
Golden Guardians got off to a much better start in the summer split than they had in the spring, matching their spring win total by Week 4 and ending Week 5 in playoff contention with a 5-5 record. However, they completely collapsed over the final four weeks, losing every one of their remaining games and once again landing in tenth place, outside of playoffs.
2019 Season[]
Lourlo left Golden Guardians and joined Echo Fox for the 2019 season. Although it originally seemed that he and Solo would be competing for LCS roster, Lourlo ended up spending all of the spring split on Echo Fox Academy. The team didn't have the best start to the split, but soon established themselves as a respectable team, eventually finishing 10-8 and in a four-way tie for third place. In the playoff quarterfinals, they were randomly drawn to face 100 Thieves Academy and beat them 3-2, but were swept by TSM Academy in the semifinals.
Lourlo stayed with Echo Fox Academy for the summer academy split. He played in all but two of their games and also played in six games for the struggling Echo Fox, but the LCS team only won a single game with him in the lineup. His time with the academy team was more successful, as although they only went 7-9 with Lourlo in the lineup, the team still squeaked into playoffs as the sixth seed. In the playoffs, they took 100 Thieves Academy to the full five games, but lost, ending their season.
2020 Season[]
Echo Fox disbanded in the off-season, so Lourlo joined the newly formed Dignitas Academy. With a roster of five players with substantial LCS experience, DIG.A were one of the most dominant teams in the spring academy split, winning their first six games and holding first place until Week 6. Although they tailed off later on and were eventually overtaken by Cloud9 Academy, Dignitas Academy still finished second with an 12-6 record. The team's regular season finish gave them a bye into the semifinals of the spring playoffs, but they were upset by Evil Geniuses Academy 3-1, keeping them out of finals.
Lourlo started the summer split on Dignitas Academy, but after the LCS team lost their first four games of the season, he was called up to replace V1per on the main roster. Lourlo ended up playing Weeks 3 through 5 of the LCS split with the main team. Dignitas only extended their loss strike to eight games in the first two weeks with him, but managed to break it in Week 5 and post their first 2-0 marker of the season. Despite that success, V1per returned to the LCS roster for Week 6, and Lourlo rejoined the academy team to start Week 7 of their split. However, with a different and more unstable roster, the academy team was unable to replicate their spring successes, and finished 8-10, in seventh place.
Trivia[]
- "Lourlo" was his first World of Warcraft character name.
- Would be an AD carry player if he weren't a top laner.
- Is the brother of SMITE player Aror.
Tournament Results[]
This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
| Lourlo 1v1 Tournament Results | |||||
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| Date | Pl | Event | Prize | Team | Last Result |
| 2022-03-07 | 23 | CQ 2022 Spring Split 1 |  F/A | ||
Media[]
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- January 4, Lourlo on Team Liquid's 10-man roster: 'It is kind of refreshing to be able to work with so many people' [Archived] with Lisa Doan, Daniel Rosen, and Nic Doucet on theScore esports
- January 16, Team Liquid - Vlog 07 - Meet Team Liquid's New Top Laner Lourlo by , and on HTC Gaming
- January 16, TL Lourlo: "The Start May Be a Little Shaky, but in Time I Think We'll Be a Good Team" with , and on onGamers
- January 19, Lourlo on Matt and Dardoch: 'They can lead the team well. We were lacking that with the other five' with , and on The Score
- February 10, Lourlo Says Matt and Dardoch Now Do Most Shotcalling on TL with , and on G|League
- February 16, Lourlo on Liquid's mistakes versus Cloud9 and translating scrim results to the stage with , and on The Score
- March 16, Lourlo: 'Dardoch isn't a normal rookie... nothing phases him' by Samuel Lingle on Daily Dot
- March 22, Lourlo on TL's playoff chances: 'We are definitely going to make it to either semifinals or finals' with , and on The Score
- April 8, [LoL] Head-to-Head: Lourlo vs. Darshan with , and on The Score
- April 9, TL Lourlo and Aror - his professional Smite playing brother - on being an esports family with , and on Yahoo!
- April 15, LoL NA LCS: 1 on 1 with Team Liquid - Lourlo with , and on ESPN
- June 8, Lourlo: 'I think Dardoch's been improving really well mentally...I'm really proud of him' with , and on The Score
- June 25, Lourlo: 'I'm not sure what our ceiling is with fabbbyyy, but I know it's really high' with , and on The Score
- July 13, Lourlo on Dardoch's impact on him: 'It's pretty crazy to me that he could change me so much' with , and on The Score
- July 31, Lourlo on facing C9: 'I think they're similar stylistically to us...we have a really good shot' with , and on The Score
- August 11, Lourlo: ‘I think people underestimate NA top laners, the top end of NA is pretty competitive’ with , and on Yahoo!
- January 25, Lourlo on Piglet’s return to LCS roster: “Piglet’s always the type of player that when he’s on the roster, everyone wants to work extra hard.” with , and on Slingshot
- January 25, Lourlo: ‘I’m really looking to improve myself even more and be a top tier talent this split’ with , and on Yahoo Esports
- January 28, Is 2017 the year of Lourlo by Kelsey Moser on Yahoo Esports
- February 15, Lourlo talks playing against Dardoch, having Saintvicious as a coach, and Team Liquid’s struggles with , and on Yahoo Esports
- February 15, Lourlo chats about his relationship with his brother who's a SMITE pro and having family support with , and on Blitz Esports
- June 9, Lourlo on his trust in Cain to lead TL, Piglet’s interview and how Doublelift helped him improve with , and on theScore Esports
- June 16, Lourlo on relegation: “I don’t want to make anyone else go through that because it is pretty much utter hell because there’s so much stress.” with , and on Andrew Kim for Slingshot Esports
- July 25, Team Liquid LoL Lourlo 20 Questions with , and on HyperX
- December 15, Lourlo: 'Golden Guardians want to build something that's long lasting and develop players over time' with Travis Gafford on YouTube
- January 25, GG Lourlo: 'I want to become a top talent this split and I want to show it' with Travis Gafford on YouTube
- January 27, Lourlo: ‘I think the community definitely underestimates us a little bit’ with David Demarco on The Game Haus
- February 19, Lourlo and Matt get revenge against their former team as Golden Guardians defeat Team Liquid by Malcolm Abbas on Dot Esports
- February 21, Lourlo on his huge upset/revenge win against Team Liquid and how Golden Guardians are progressing with Travis Gafford on YouTube
- February 26, Lourlo: "I saw myself staying on TL for a majority of my career. It was like family." with , and on Blitz Esports
- June 20, GGS Lourlo Gives His Thoughts On The Aatrox Rework: "Aatrox might be complete trash for another 2 months and you will probably never see him again." with James "Bick" Hong on Inven Global
- July 6, No Room For Doubt by , and on The Player's Lobby
- July 17, Lourlo: “Aatrox is so braindead, a plat player could lane against any LCS top laner and win. with Parkes Ousley on The Shotcaller
- July 20, Lourlo: “It brings me the most joy right now to beat Liquid and to see how they react when they lose” with Aaron Mickunas on Dot Esports
- August 22, Lourlo: "It's recently been some low lows, but I appreciate everyone who has stuck with me." with Parkes Ousley on The Shotcaller
- January 9, EF Lourlo: "Coach Ssong, a reunion with Fenix, and the opportunity to play with Rush were three things that were appealing." with Nick Geracie on Inven Global
- June 27, Lourlo says that Blaber, Yasui, and Lost are the top 3 Academy players with Locodoco on YouTube
Post-Match Interviews
| Date | Tournament | Match | Link |
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| 2021-08-20 | Unified Grand Prix 2021 Summer |  DIG.A vs  GG.A | Link |
| 2021-08-10 | Unified Grand Prix 2021 Summer | DIG.A vs  GLV | Link |
| 2021-07-01 | NA Academy 2021 Summer | GG.A vs DIG.A | Link |
| 2020-07-11 | LCS 2020 Summer |  FLY vs DIG | Link |
| 2020-06-19 | NA Academy 2020 Summer | FLY.A vs DIG.A | Link |
| 2020-02-10 | NA Academy 2020 Spring |  TSM.A vs DIG.A | Link |
| 2019-06-24 | NA Academy 2019 Summer |  FOX.A vs  CG.A | Link |
| 2018-07-22 | NA LCS 2018 Summer | GG vs  CLG | Link |
| 2018-06-17 | NA LCS 2018 Summer |  TL vs GG | Link |
| 2018-02-18 | NA LCS 2018 Spring | TL vs GG | Link |
| 2017-08-11 | NA LCS 2018 Spring Promotion | TL vs  EUN | Link |
Images[]
TL Lourlo, NA LCS 2016 Spring
TL Lourlo, NA LCS 2016 Summer
TL Lourlo, NA LCS 2017 Spring
GG Lourlo, NA LCS 2018 Spring
GG Lourlo, NA LCS 2018 Summer
FOX.A Lourlo, NA Academy 2019 Spring
FOX.A Lourlo, NA Academy 2019 Summer
DIG.A Lourlo, NA Academy 2020 Spring
DIG.A Lourlo, NA Academy 2020 Summer
DIG.A Lourlo, NA Academy 2021 Spring
TL Lourlo
Name Pronunciation
| Lourlo | |
|---|---|
| Accuracy | Riot |
| Voiced By | Raafaa |
Redirects
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 New Subs! Lourlo and The Return of Cackgod(Now Ennui) enemyesports.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 CLG Black is Recruiting clgaming.net
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Team Liquid LoL | Thank You Lourlo youtube.com
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Liquid LoL | Meet Lourlo - Top Lane youtube.com
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Golden Guardians' Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Golden Guardians' Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Golden Guardians Announce North American League of Legends Championship Series Roster nba.com
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Echo Fox's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Ousted from LCS, Echo Fox release players espn.com
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Ousted from LCS, Echo Fox release players espn.com
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Tyler's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Dignitas' Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Dignitas' Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Dignitas' Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Team Liquid LoL's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ Archive Pages: before change - ; after change - NA - 2018-12-11
- ↑ Archive Pages: before change - ; after change - NA - 2019-01-05
- ↑ Archive Pages: before change - ; after change - NA - 2020-01-07
- ↑ Samson Jackson's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ Liquid LoL | Meet Lourlo - Top Lane youtube.com
- ↑ Dardoch Suspension teamliquidpro.com