Echo Fox

Echo Fox

Sport	League of Legends Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Street Fighter V
Founded	2015
Owner(s)	Rick Fox
Website	http://echofox.gg/

Echo Fox is a professional esports organization which fields teams in League of Legends and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The organization was founded after Rick Fox bought the LCS spot of Gravity Gaming for around $1 million USD.^{[1][2] [3]} The organization expanded into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive by signing a team called Torqued on January 26, 2016.^[4]

Competition

Its League of Legends team will begin competing in the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS) starting in January 2016. As of 1/2/2016 the team finalized its roster of Froggen, Hard, Keith, KFO and Baby.

Its Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team will be competing in ELeague with its current roster of sgares, a2z, ryx, roca and ShahZaM. This league is set to begin at an unannounced point in 2016 and will be televised.

Issues

On 1/23/2016, due to some concerns over player work-eligibility, Echo Fox was unable to submit a roster and was required to forfeit^[5] their match against NRG eSports.

Roster

League of Legends

Nationality	ID	Name	Role	Joined
South Korea	kfo	Park Jeong-hun (박정훈)	Top	2015-01-05
Canada	Hard	Anthony Barkhovtsev	Jungle	2015-01-05
Denmark	Froggen	Henrik Hansen	Mid	2015-01-05
United States	Keith	Yuri Jew	AD Carry	2015-01-05
United States	Big	Terry Chuong	Support	2015-01-05

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Nationality	ID	Name	Role	Joined
United States	sgares	Sean Gares	In Game Leader	2016-01-26
Canada	a2z	Armeen Toussi	Lurk	2016-01-26
United States	ryx	Ronnie Bylicki	Entry Fragger	2016-01-26
United States	roca	Daniel Gustaferri	Rifler	2016-04-19[6]
United States	ShahZaM	Shahzeb Khan	AWPer	2016-04-27[7]

Former

Nationality	ID	Name	Role	Joined	Left
United States	tck	Trey Martin	Rifler	2016-01-26	2016-04-09
United States	mOE	Mohamad Assad	AWPer	2016-01-26	2016-04-27

Fighting games

Nationality	ID	Name	Game	Character	Joined
United States	Julio	Julio Fuentes	Street Fighter V	Ken	2016-04-29[8]

References

1. Soshnick, Scott (December 18, 2015). "Former NBA Player Rick Fox Buys eSports Team Gravity". Bloomberg News. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
2. Volk, Pete (December 18, 2015). "Rick Fox purchases League of Legends team for reported $1 million, will rebrand as Echo Fox". SB Nation. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
3. Lewis, Richard (December 18, 2015). "NBA Legend Rick Fox Purchases ‘League of Legends’ Franchise". Breitbart News Network. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
4. Sawant, Seth (January 26, 2016). "Torqued signed by Echo Fox". Gosu Gamers. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
5. "LoL Esports". www.lolesports.com. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
6. "roca joins Echo Fox". echofox.gg. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
7. Assad, Mohamad. "ShahZaM replaces mOE". Twitter. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
8. Mueller, Saira; Jurek, Steven. "Echo Fox gets into fighting games, sign SFV player Julio Fuentes". The Daily Dot. Retrieved April 29, 2016.