Splyce

Splyce
Manager(s) Daniel Vorborg
Divisions Call of Duty, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and World of Warcraft

Splyce (formerly known as Follow eSports) is a professional video gaming esports team and esports broadcast finding service. It describes itself as the "TV Guide of eSports". Splyce has teams and players competing in Call of Duty, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and World of Warcraft. The team announced its rebranding in November 2015.[1] Follow eSports acquired the LoL team of Dignitas EU after that team qualified for the League of Legends Championship Series Europe on 3 November 2015 for nearly £625,000 ($1 million).

League of Legends

Follow eSports acquired the LoL team of Dignitas EU after that team qualified for the League of Legends Championship Series Europe on 29 October 2015 for nearly £625,000 ($1 million).[2] At the time of the acquisition the team's roster consisted of Martin "Wunderwear" Hansen, Chres "Sencux" Laursen, Kasper "Kobbe" Kobberup, and Jonas "Nisbeth" Anderson with Daniel Vorborg as Team Manager.

Tournament results

Roster

Nationality ID Name Role
 Denmark Wunder Martin Hansen Top
 Denmark Trashy Jonas Anderson Jungle
 Denmark Sencux Chres Laursen Mid
 Denmark Kobbe Kasper Kobberup AD
 Slovenia Mikyx Mihael Mehle Support

Call of Duty

On December 2, the day that the organization renamed itself, they picked up a Call of Duty roster consisting of JoshuaLee “Joshh” Sheppard, Jordan “Reedy” Reed, James “Dominate” Batz, and Benjamin “Bance” Bance.[1] On May 8, 2 Place at ESWC Zénith 2016. They are participating in the Call of Duty World League.[3]

Counter-Strike

On August 19, 2015 Follow eSports announced it had acquired the roster of SapphireKelownaDotCom.[4] Follow eSports dropped SapphireKelownaDotCom and picked up the roster of ex-eLevate on October 25, 2015.[5] Following shortly after the organisation's rebranding from Follow eSports to Splyce, the roster disbanded on December 27, 2015.[6] On December 30, 2015, Splyce picked up four players from the team formerly known as Dogmen[7] and picked up David "DAVEY" Stafford as their fifth player on January 14, 2016.[8] Splyce was invited to the MLG Columbus 2016 qualifiers due to The Mongolz being unable to get visas. They qualified for MLG Columbus 2016 after beating Counter Logic Gaming and Vexed Gaming.[9] Shortly after on June 17, 2016 Abraham "abE" Fazli and Andrew "Professor_Chaos" Heintz departed from the team,[10] though Professor_Chaos was announced as Splyce's new coach on June 21, 2016.[11] Jason "jasonR" Ruchelski additionally departed from the roster on July 7, 2016.[12] On July 12, 2016 Splyce officially announced the signing of Joey "CRUC1AL" Steusel, Asger "AcilioN" Larsen and Enkhtaivan "Machinegun" Lkhagva.[13]

Tournament results

Roster

Nationality ID Name Join date
 United States arya Arya Hekmat 2015-12-30
 Canada DAVEY David Stafford 2016-01-14
 Netherlands CRUC1AL Joey Steusel 2016-07-12
 Denmark AcilioN Asger Larsen 2016-07-12
 Mongolia Machinegun Enkhtaivan Lkhagva 2016-07-12

Former

Nationality ID Name Join date Leave date
 United States FREAKAZOiD (stand-in) Ryan Abadir
 United States abE Abraham Fasli 2015-12-30 2016-06-17
 United States Professor_Chaos Andrew Heintz 2015-12-30 2016-06-17
 Canada jasonR Jason Ruchelski 2015-12-30 2016-07-06

Super Smash Bros.

On August 24, 2015 FolloweSports started a Super Smash Bros. division first signing two players.[14]

Nationality Alias Full Name Game(s) Character(s) Joined
 United States MacD McCain LaVelle Super Smash Bros. Melee Peach 2015-08-24
 United States Nintendude Michael Brancato Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. 64		 Ice Climbers
Fox, Pikachu		 2015-08-24

References

  1. 1 2 "Follow eSports Becomes Splyce". The Daily Dot. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Million-dollar deal for pro-gaming team". BBC. 3 November 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  3. ↑ http://espn.go.com/esports/story/_/id/16985642/splyce-wants-change-european-narrative-call-duty
  4. ↑ https://splyce.gg/topics/post/15
  5. ↑ Rosen, Daniel. "Follow eSports picks up ex-eLevate CSGO". theScore eSports. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  6. ↑ Park, Paul. "Splyce's CS:GO roster disbands". theScore eSports. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  7. ↑ Barak, Jon. "Splyce signs Dogmen". GosuGamers. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  8. ↑ "DAVEY joins Splyce". Twitter. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  9. ↑ Kovanen, Tomi. "Splyce's Cinderella story". splyce.gg. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  10. ↑ Rosen, Daniel. "Splyce drop abE and Professor_Chaos". theScore eSports. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  11. ↑ Mira, Luis. "Professor_Chaos to coach Splyce". HLTV.org. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  12. ↑ Malachowski, Michal. "jasonR removed from Splyce". HLTV.org. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  13. ↑ "Three players added to Splyce CS:GO roster". splyce.gg. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  14. ↑ https://splyce.gg/topics/post/17
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