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Velocity eSports
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North America
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NA
North America
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Created2013-03-10
Disbanded2013-11-12
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Velocity eSports is a North American esports organization that was founded in March 2013 around their League of Legends team after their departure from the Dirt Nap Gaming organization.

History[]

Season 3[]

Velocity eSports was formed in March 2013 after the original lineup left the Dirt Nap Gaming organization. The remaining members felt, due to several roster changes, that they needed a new image to portray them.[1] Their first tournament appearance was in the 2013 MLG Dallas Summer Promotion Tournament.

On May 11 2013, during the LCS Summer Promotion, Velocity eSports beat former NA LCS Team, Team MRN, 3-2 thus qualifying for the Summer Season of North American LCS.

On Week 5 of the NA LCS Summer Season, ecco moved from Sub to become the Mid laner, moving Vileroze to Top Lane and Cris to Sub. On Week 8, Vileroze announced that Top Lane wasn't working out for him and quit the team, moving Cris back to Top Lane, the team went on to have a 1-2 record for the week.

The Summer season in LCS was not great for Velocity, even though winning their first game in a convincing fashion but were left throughout the season with poor performances. The roster changes did not help the team to adjust and they would eventually end the season last place with a record of 5-23, still able to keep hopes alive for Season 4 to win their spot back in the Spring Promotion.

In September, it was announced that ecco would leave the team as their mid laner, having Velocity change their roster by moving frommaplestreet to mid and picking up new player Slackoh for AD. After executing this roster change, Velocity eSports took part in the North American Challenger League, with two fellow LCS teams up for relegation, Team Curse and Team Coast, as well as 7 of the top Challenger teams in North America. The new roster changes, however, didn't prove to be enough to help the team break their losing spell. Velocity had a disappointing showing in the NACL, sitting in last place 7 weeks in with a record of 5-15. In mid-November, news broke that Velocity would be releasing their entire roster, citing that both the management and the players were tired and frustrated of being unable to "win consistently on any stage" they competed in, and that some of their members were at the point where they would rather quit than continue to lose.[2]

Following the release of the Velocity eSports roster, it was announced that Denial eSports.East would temporarily stand-in for Velocity for the remaining matches of the North American Challenger League.[3] Although it was stated that Velocity would be finding a new group of players to represent the Velocity brand in the upcoming relegation tournament, speculation immediately started about whether or not Velocity would sell their spot in the North American LCS to a different organization. Heated debate followed on Reddit, with a rumor spreading that Evil Geniuses had purchased Velocity's North American LCS spot, and that they intended on transferring the majority of their current roster to a new "EG.NA" team, with a few members staying behind in Europe for the formation of a new "European Superteam", which had already been rumored for quite some time.[4] Sure enough, the rumors proved to be true. One month after the release of the Velocity eSports starting roster, it was announced that Snoopeh, Yellowpete and Krepo of Evil Geniuses would be transferring to Velocity, being joined by Pobelter, formerly of Team Curse, and Innox, formerly of Napkins in Disguise. It was also stated that the Velocity eSports brand would be changed to the Evil Geniuses brand, effectively importing EG from Europe to North America. As an organization is forbidden from owning more than one team in the League Championship Series, regardless of region, the team holding the Evil Geniuses spot in the European LCS will compete under the name Alliance, an organization with strong ties to Evil Geniuses, both brand names being owned by the same person.[5]

Timeline[]

  • 2013

Player Roster[]

S3 ves

Velocity eSports' S3 NA LCS Summer Split Initial Starting Lineup
Left to Right: Evaniskus, NK Inc, Vileroze, frommaplestreet, Cris

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.

Dates:Approx|Exact
PlayerNameRoleJoinedLeftNext Team
NA

CrisCristian Rosales
Top Laner
Mar 20132013-03-10Nov 20132013-11-12COGnitive Gaminglogo stdCOG
NA

Nk IncAndrew Erickson
Jungler
Mar 20132013-03-10Nov 20132013-11-12Skylinelogo stdSKL
NA

SlackohSean Ricky Paul
Mid Laner
Sep 20132013-09-03Nov 20132013-11-12Retiredlogo stdRetired
NA

EvaniskusEvan Stevens
Support
Mar 20132013-03-10Nov 20132013-11-12Skylinelogo stdSKL
NA

FrommaplestreetAinslie Wyllie
Sub/Bot
Mar 20132013-03-10Nov 20132013-11-12Team 8logo stdT8
NA

nothinghereGabriel Charbonneau
Sub/Bot
Jun 20132013-06-03Nov 20132013-11-12Logo stdLES
NA

GleebglarbuNicolas Haddad
Sub/Sup
Jun 20132013-06-03Nov 20132013-11-12Evil Geniuses.NAlogo stdEG
NA

eccoTyler Spesick
Mid Laner
Jun 20132013-06-03Sep 20132013-09-03Team Dreameklogo stdDMK
NA

잘 못Albert "Sun" Zheng
Sub/Top
Apr 20132013-04-24≈Aug 2013≈2013-08-??Retiredlogo stdRetired
NA

VilerozeJoseph Bourassa
Top Laner
Apr 20132013-04-25Jul 20132013-07-30Retiredlogo stdRetired
NA

FallenBanditKevin Wu
Sub/Top
Mar 20132013-03-10Jun 20132013-06-03Logo stdOTAC
NA

dx30Wil Levine
Sub/Sup
Mar 20132013-03-10Jun 20132013-06-03Retiredlogo stdRetired
NA

울지마Christopher Chung
Sub/Sup
Mar 20132013-03-10Jun 20132013-06-03Retiredlogo stdRetired
NA

PR0LLYNeil Hammad
Mid Laner
Mar 20132013-03-10Apr 20132013-04-02CompLexity Gaminglogo stdCOL

Temporary Subs[]

ID Name Role Replacing Tournament
1Goal1Dream Manuel Germain 13Mid IPL Summer Promotion Qualifier

Player League Participation[]

Playoff games are NOT included, but regular-season tiebreaker games ARE.

LCS

Player201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024Games
SpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummerSpringSummer
CrisVelocity eSportslogo stdTeam Coastlogo stdNRG Esportslogo std42

Organization[]

Former[]

C ID Name Position Next Team
SondeSC Alex Ledoux Chief Executive Officer None
guitarasaurus Brian Cordry 80Chief Operating Officer/Manager Evil Geniuses.NAlogo stdEvil Geniuses
Studio Christopher Grant 80Coach None

Tournaments[]

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

Minimum place

Velocity eSports Tournament Results - Show Prize as (LocalUSDEuros)
DatePlPrizeEventLast ResultRoster
2013-11-217 - 10$1,000$ 1,000€ 720 North American Challenger League
5 - 21Blanklogo stdRR
 Cris,  Nk Inc,  frommaplestreet,  Slackoh,  Evaniskus
2013-09-143$150$ 150€ 112.5 ggLA Challenger Arena #5
0 : 2To Be Determinedlogo stdTBD
 Cris,  Nk Inc,  frommaplestreet,  Slackoh,  Evaniskus
2013-08-168 NA LCS 2013 Summer
5 - 23Blanklogo stdRR
 Cris,  Nk Inc,  Vileroze,  ecco,  mapléstreet,  Evaniskus
2013-06-082$2,500$ 2,500€ 1,875 NESL Pro Series Season 6
0 : 2Cloud9logo stdC9
 Cris,  Nk Inc,  Vileroze,  frommaplestreet,  Evaniskus
2013-05-12Q NA LCS 2013 Summer Promotion
3 : 2Team MRNlogo stdMRN
 Cris,  Nk Inc,  Vileroze,  mapléstreet,  Evaniskus
2013-04-242 Razer League of Legends Challenge
0 : 2Quantic Gaminglogo stdQTC
 Cris,  Nk Inc,  Vileroze,  frommaplestreet,  Evaniskus
2013-03-243 We Will Do It Ourselves Cup
1 : 21 Trick Ponieslogo std1TP
 Cris,  Nk Inc,  PR0LLY,  frommaplestreet,  dx30,  Evaniskus
2013-03-092$5,000$ 5,000€ 3,800 MLG 2013 Winter - Summer Promotion Qualifier
1 : 3Cloud9logo stdC9
 Cris,  Nk Inc,  PR0LLY,  frommaplestreet,  Nisker
Total Prize: USD 8,650

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