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Retired
Ron
Ronald
Background Information
NameRyan Ballard
Country of Birth
Canada
BirthdayMarch 18, 1998 (age 26)
Residency
NA
North America
Competitive
Role
Top Laner
Favorite Champs


Ryan "Ron" Ballard is a retired League of Legends esports player, previously top laner for Team Liquid Academy.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes
Dates:Approx|Exact
TeamStartEnd
NA
Monster Kittenslogo stdMonster Kittens
≈Oct 2014≈2014-10-??≈Dec 2014≈2014-12-??≈2mo
ejel
NA
COGnitive Gaminglogo stdCOGnitive Gaming
Dec 20142014-12-08Dec 20142014-12-146d
ejel
NA
Logo stdTeam 321
≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-08≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-20≈12d
ejel
NA
Logo stdTeam Confound
≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-20Feb 20152015-02-16≈27d
ejel
NA
TSM Darknesslogo stdTSM Darkness
Feb 20152015-02-16[1]Apr 20152015-04-051mo 17d
ejel
NA
Team Imaginelogo stdTeam Imagine
Apr 20152015-04-05[2]≈Jul 2015≈2015-07-22≈3mo 17d
ejel
NA
Logo stdStars eSports Club
≈Jan 2016≈2016-01-16≈Jan 2016≈2016-01-17≈1d
ejel
NA
Apex Gaminglogo stdApex Gaming
Jan 20162016-01-22May 20162016-05-20[3]3mo 29d
ejel
NA
Zenith Esportslogo stdZenith Esports
≈Apr 2016≈2016-04-??≈May 2016≈2016-05-??≈23d
ejel
NA
Team Liquid Academylogo stdTL Academy
≈Apr 2017≈2017-04-14≈Apr 2017≈2017-04-16≈2d
ejel
TeamStartEnd
NA
Monster Kittenslogo stdMonster Kittens
≈Oct 2014≈2014-10-??≈Dec 2014≈2014-12-??≈2mo
ejel
NA
COGnitive Gaminglogo stdCOGnitive Gaming
Dec 20142014-12-08Dec 20142014-12-146d
ejel
NA
Logo stdTeam 321
≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-08≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-20≈12d
ejel
NA
Logo stdTeam Confound
≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-20Feb 20152015-02-16≈27d
ejel
NA
TSM Darknesslogo stdTSM Darkness
Feb 20152015-02-16[1]Apr 20152015-04-051mo 17d
ejel
NA
Elominglelogo stdElomingle
Apr 20152015-04-05[2]May 20152015-05-191mo 14d
ejel
NA
Magneticlogo stdMagnetic
May 20152015-05-19Jun 20152015-06-1729d
ejel
NA
Team Imaginelogo stdTeam Imagine
Jun 20152015-06-17Jul 20152015-07-0518d
ejel
NA
Team Imaginelogo stdTeam Imagine
Jul 20152015-07-05≈Jul 2015≈2015-07-22≈17d
ejel
NA
Logo stdStars eSports Club
≈Jan 2016≈2016-01-16≈Jan 2016≈2016-01-17≈1d
ejel
NA
Apex Gaminglogo stdApex Gaming
Jan 20162016-01-22May 20162016-05-20[3]3mo 29d
ejel
NA
Zenith Esportslogo stdZenith Esports
≈Apr 2016≈2016-04-??≈May 2016≈2016-05-??≈23d
ejel
NA
Team Liquid Academylogo stdTL Academy
≈Apr 2017≈2017-04-14≈Apr 2017≈2017-04-16≈2d
ejel

News

  • 2014
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
NA
Monster Kittenslogo stdMKZOctober (approx.),
ChumpJohn,
Arcsecond, and
Hanjaro join.

Big ol Ron and
small blue man join as substitutes.
NA
Monster Kittenslogo stdMKZDecember (approx.),
Big ol Ron leaves.
NA
COGnitive Gaminglogo stdCOGDecember 8,
Big ol Ron joins.

9JX,
Jjayel, and
i uzi join as substitutes.
NA
COGnitive Gaminglogo stdCOGDecember 14, 9JX (Sub/Jungle to Top) changes position.
Big ol Ron leaves.
NA
Logo std321January 8 (approx.),
Ron,
Azingy,
Arcsecond,
JJackstar, and
Indivisible join.
NA
Logo stdCONFJanuary 20 (approx.), Logo stdTeam 321 renames to Logo stdTeam Confound.
NA
Logo stdCONFFebruary 16,
Ron,
Azingy,
Arcsecond,
JJackstar, and
Indivisible leave.
NA
TSM Darknesslogo stdTSDFebruary 16,
Ron,
Azingy,
Arcsecond,
t3azer, and
Indivisible join.

JJackstar joins as substitute.
[1]
NA
TSM Darknesslogo stdTSDApril 5,
Ron,
Inori,
Arcsecond,
Indivisible,
JJackstar, and
xSojin leave.
NA
Elominglelogo stdELOApril 5,
Ron,
ShorterACE,
Arcsecond, and
Indivisible join.

xSojin joins as substitute.
[2]
NA
Magneticlogo stdIMGMay 19, Elominglelogo stdElomingle renames to Magneticlogo stdMagnetic.
NA
Team Imaginelogo stdIMGJune 17, Magneticlogo stdMagnetic renames to Team Imaginelogo stdTeam Imagine.
NA
Team Imaginelogo stdIMGJuly 5,
Chunkyfresh,
Moon,
Intense, and
Baby join.

mancloud moves to starting roster.
Ron,
Dardoch,
Massacre, and
Indivisible move to substitutes.
Wolfe,
xSojin, and
SoJaded leave.
NA
Team Imaginelogo stdIMGJuly 22 (approx.),
Ron,
Massacre, and
Indivisible leave.
NA
Logo stdSTARJanuary 16 (approx.),
ron,
Mr Dr Snugglez,
wasori,
Near8, and
Sawyer join.
NA
Logo stdSTARJanuary 17 (approx.),
ron,
Mr Dr Snugglez,
wasori,
Near8, and
Sawyer leave.
NA
Apex Gaminglogo stdAPXJanuary 22,
Big ol Ron and
Indivisible join as substitutes.

BIG is loaned from Echo Fox.

Moon is loaned from NRG Esports.
NA
Zenith Esportslogo stdZENApril (approx.),
Ron joins.
NA
Zenith Esportslogo stdZENMay (approx.), pookar (Analyst) joins.
Ron,
bmxspecks,
Ablazeolive,
Andybendy,
Lohpally, and Surza (Head Coach) leave.
NA
Apex Gaminglogo stdAPXMay 20,
Ray,
Diamondprox,
Roar, and
KonKwon join.
Saintvicious (Head Coach/Sub/Jungle to Head Coach) and BlisS (Assistant Coach/Sub/Mid to Assistant Coach) change positions.
Big ol Ron and
BrandonFTW leave.[3]
NA
Team Liquid Academylogo stdTL.AApril 14 (approx.), Team Liquid Academylogo stdTeam Liquid Academy is formed.
Ron,
Chorong,
Arcsecond,
Youngbin, and
KonKwon join.

Saintvicious and
TheOddOrange join as substitutes.
NA
Team Liquid Academylogo stdTL.AApril 16 (approx.), Team Liquid Academylogo stdTeam Liquid Academy is disbanded.
Ron,
Chorong,
Arcsecond,
Youngbin,
KonKwon,
Saintvicious, and
TheOddOrange leave.

Biography[]

Ryan "Ron" Ballard is from British Columbia, Canada. He is currently in high school, studying computer programming and animation. When he was five, he began to play Mario games on Nintendo before moving on to Zelda and then World of Warcraft.

2015 Preseason[]

Originally known as "Big ol Ron", he started out as the substitute toplaner for Monstar Kittenz, one of the teams that qualified for the NA Spring Expansion Tournament via the Ranked 5's ladder. Monstar Kittenz lost to compLexity.White 1-2 in the first round of the tournament. After Monstar Kittenz were eliminated from the Expansion Tournament, Big ol Ron joined COGnitive Gaming as their starting top laner.

2015 Season[]

Big ol Ron later COGnitive left to play with Team Confound, a team formed to play in the NACS Spring Qualifier. Under the ranked ladder team 321321321, they reached the qualifier with the 5th-place seed and defeated AffNity in the first round before losing to Cloud9 Tempest in the second round. However, after Cloud9 Tempest were found guilty of using a ringer in their matches, Team Confound were given the spot in the NACS Spring Season. After this ruling was announced, the team was acquired by Team SoloMid to form TSM Darkness. In the announcement, he was listed as Ron, though he continued to compete under the name Big ol Ron.

TSM Darkness finished in fifth place in the NACS spring season after beating CLG Black in a tiebreaker game. After TSM dropped sponsorship of the team due to t3azer's having leaked scrim results to Team Fusion, the team renamed to Elomingle. They retained their seeding into the NACS summer season qualifier. After another namechange to Magnetic, the team qualified for the summer season, and then they renamed once again to Team Imagine. Ron played with Imagine for the first two weeks of the season before the entire roster was replaced.

2016 Season[]

Though he had previously announced his intent to retire from competitive play, Ron joined Stars eSpots Club for the Carbon Winter Invitational in January 2016.

Trivia[]

  • The name "Big ol Ron" comes from people at his school calling each other "Ron."

Tournament Results[]

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

Minimum place

Ron Tournament Results
DatePlEventLast ResultTeamRoster
2017-04-23NQ NACS 2017 Summer Open Qualifiers
0 : 2Logo std8.1
Team Liquid Academylogo stdTL.A Ron,  Chorong,  Arcsecond,  Youngbin,  KonKwon
2016-05-01NQ NACS 2016 Summer Open Qualifier
0 : 2Logo stdTOVE
Zenith Esportslogo stdZEN Ron,  bmxspecks,  Ablazeolive,  Andybendy,  Lohpally
2016-02-241 NACS 2016 Spring
3-2-0Blanklogo stdRR
Apex Gaminglogo stdAPX Big ol Ron,  Cris,  Moon,  Eve,  Shrimp,  Keane,  Police,  Big,  Xpecial
2016-01-173 - 4 Carbon Winter Invitational 2016
1 : 2Top Dog Gaminglogo stdTDG
Logo stdSTAR ron,  Mr Dr Snugglez,  wasori,  Near8,  Sawyer
2015-07-223 NACS 2015 Summer
6 - 4Blanklogo stdRR
Team Imaginelogo stdIMG Big ol Ron,  Chunkyfresh,  Dardoch,  Moon,  Wolfe,  mancloud,  TheMassacre8,  Intense,  Steeelback,  Indivisible,  Baby,  Mozilla
2015-06-16Q NACS 2015 Summer Qualifier
2 : 0CLG Blacklogo stdCLB
Magneticlogo stdIMG Big ol Ron,  Sojin,  Dardoch,  Wolfe,  themassacre8,  Indivisible
2015-05-135 - 6 AlphaDraft Challenger League
FF : WCrewcadelogo stdCrew
Elominglelogo stdELO Ron,  ShorterACE,  Zaryabs,  Arcsecond,  Moonway,  Biofrost
2015-03-255 NACS 2015 Spring
2 - 8Blanklogo stdRR
TSM Darknesslogo stdTSD t3azer,  Big ol Ron,  Azingy,  Sojin,  Inori,  Arcsecond,  JJackstar,  Indivisible
2015-02-04Q NACS 2015 Spring Qualifier
W : DQCloud9 Tempestlogo stdC9T
Logo stdCONF Big ol Ron,  Azingy,  Arcsecond,  JJackstar,  Indivisible
2015-01-113 - 4 EPS Season XI
1 : 2Team Dragon Knightslogo stdTDK
Logo std3213 Ron,  Azingy,  Arcsecond,  JJackstar,  Indivisible

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Redirects

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Team SoloMid's Facebook Post facebook.com
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 ShorterACE's Tweet twitter.com
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Apex Gaming's Tweet twitter.com
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