Luminosity Gaming

Luminosity Gaming
Location Los Angeles
Founded 2015
Manager(s) Steve "Buyaka" Maida
Sponsors Twitch
Kinguin
Zowie
CyberPowerPC
HyperX
AlphaDraft
GG.Bet
Games Academy
Divisions Call of Duty, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Smite, Super Smash Bros.
Website luminosity.gg

Luminosity Gaming is a professional esports video game team. It has teams competing in Call of Duty, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Smite, and Overwatch.[1] The team was founded in Canada by Steve "Buyaka" Maida in 2015 but has since moved its headquarters to Los Angeles, California, United States.

Madden NFL 17

On October 15, 2016 Luminosity picked up Eric "Problem" Wright. Widely known as the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) in the Madden franchise, Problem is the only 3 time winner of the Madden Challenge. No one else has won more than one. He also won Madden Nation, Season 3, which was featured on ESPN, along with numerous other tournaments [2] http://luminosity.gg/articles/features/gaming/64/lg-sign-1-madden-player-in-the-world-eric-problem-wright

Hearthstone

On January 11, 2015 Luminosity picked up Stanislav Cifka, Nuno "Ignite" Pinho and Josh "Impact" Graham.[3] On July 13, 2015 Christopher "PHONETAP" Huynh left Team Hearthlytics and joined Luminosity.[4]

Counter-Strike

On April 30, 2015 Peter "ptr" Gurney joined the team as an AWPer.[5] On July 29 it was announced that Luminosity dropped its roster and picked up a team based in Brazil that consisted of Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo, Fernando "fer" Alvarenga, Lucas "steel" Lopes, Ricardo "boltz" Prass, and Marcelo "coldzera" David.[6] In November 2015 Luminosity reached the quarterfinals of DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015.[7] Luminosity won MLG Columbus 2016 on April 3, 2016.[8] On May 8, 2016 Luminosity won DreamHack Austin where they beat fellow Brazilian team Tempo Storm 2-0 in the finals.[9] A couple of days later on May 16, 2016 the team won the ESL Pro League Season 3 Finals after beating G2 Esports 3-2 in the finals.[10] On June 24, 2016 it was officially announced that the Brazilian roster would be joining SK Gaming on July 1, 2016.[11][12] The roster's final tournament with Luminosity was the Esports Championship Series Season 1 Finals where they placed second, losing to G2 Esports in the finals.[13]

Luminosity signed the Brazilian team WinOut on July 30, 2016. Its roster consists of Renato "nak" Nakano, Bruno "bit" Lima, Lucas "destinyy" Bullo, Vinicios "PKL" Coelho, Gustavo "yeL" Knittel and is coached by Alessandro "apoka" Marcucci.[14] Renato "nak" Nakano and Bruno "bit" Lima were kicked on the team on September 8, 2016.[15] Gustavo "SHOOWTiME" Gonçalves and Bruno "shz" Martinelli joined Luminosity on September 11.[16]

Roster

Nationality ID Name Join date
 Brazil destinyy Lucas Bullo 2016-07-30
 Brazil PKL Vinicios Coelho 2016-07-30
 Brazil yeL Gustavo Knittel 2016-07-30
 Brazil SHOOWTiME Gustavo Gonçalves 2016-09-11
 Brazil shz Bruno Martinelli 2016-09-11

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Nationality ID Name Join date Leave date
 Brazil boltz Ricardo Prass 2015-07-28 2015-11-23
 Brazil steel Lucas Lopes 2015-07-28 2015-11-23
 Brazil FalleN Gabriel Toledo 2015-07-28 2016-07-01
 Brazil fer Fernando Alvarenga 2015-07-28 2016-07-01
 Brazil coldzera Marcelo David 2015-07-28 2016-07-01
 Brazil fnx Lincoln Lau 2015-11-23 2016-07-01
 Brazil TACO Tacio Filho 2015-11-23 2016-07-01
 Brazil bit Bruno Lima 2016-07-30 2016-09-08
 Brazil nak Renato Nakano 2016-07-30 2016-09-08

Tournament placements

Bold denotes a CS:GO Major

Call of Duty

Luminosity picked up a Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare team in November 2015. They missed qualifying for the Call of Duty World League in the LAN (off-line) qualifiers.[17] They however were able to qualify via the online qualifiers.

Roster

Smite

Nationality ID Name Position Join date
 United States Tinkler I C Wiener Jungler 2016-07-30
 United States BaRRaCCuDDa John Salter Hunter/Captain 2016-03-22
 United States JeffHindla Rosario Vilardi Support 2016-03-22
 United States Xenotronics Nathan Hewitt Mid Lane 2016-07-30
 United States ScaryD Roland Belair Solo Lane 2016-05-05

Overwatch

Former

Nationality ID Name Join date
 United States Harbleu Anthony Ballo 2016-03-25
 United States milo Yomar Toledo 2016-03-25
 United States Pierow Brian Alesandro 2016-03-25
 United States Enigma Carl Yangsheng 2016-03-25
 United States Seagull Brandon Larned 2016-03-25

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Nationality ID Name Join date
 United States SpaceLy Michael Schmaele 2015-11-09
 United States Saints Renato Forza 2015-12-10
 United States Nameless Anthony Wheeler 2016-05-21
 United States StuDy Jeremy Astacio 2016-04-20

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Nationality ID Name Join date
 United States Saints Renato Forza 2015-12-10
 United States Classic Nicholas DiCostanzo 2016-10-28
 United States Octane Sam Larew 2016-10-28
 United States Slacked Josiah Berry 2016-10-28

Hearthstone

Nationality ID Name Join date
 United States PHONETAP Christopher Huynh 2015-07-13
 United States Chakki[18] Keaton Gill 2016-08-03
 United States Fr0zen[18] Frank Zhang 2016-08-03
 United States Muzzy[18] Muzahidul Islam 2016-08-03
 United States Zalae[19] Paul Nemeth 2016-08-15

League of Legends

Nationality ID Name Join date
 United States Voyboy Joedat Esfahani 2016-03-08

Super Smash Bros.

Nationality ID Name Game Character(s) Joined
 Japan Abadango[20] Yuta Kawamura Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Mewtwo 2016-10-08
 Germany Ice[21] Mustafa Akcakaya Super Smash Bros. Melee Fox 2016-10-21

Former

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Nationality ID Name Join date Leave date
 United States Replays James Crowder 2015-11-09 2016-04-20
 United States J0hn Johnathan Perez 2015-11-09 2016-04-20
 United States TeePee Tyler Polchow 2016-04-20 2016-05-22

References

  1. ↑ "Team - Luminosity Gaming | Professional Esports Organization". www.luminosity.gg. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  2. ↑ .
  3. ↑ Leslie, Callum (June 11, 2015). "Luminosity expands into Hearthstone with experienced trio". The Daily Dot.
  4. ↑ Leslie, Callum (July 13, 2015). "PHONETAP joins Luminosity Gaming". The Daily Dot. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  5. ↑ Wolf, Jacob (April 30, 2015). "Ptr joins Luminosity". The Daily Dot. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  6. ↑ Raven, Josh (July 29, 2015). "Luminosity drops its CS:GO team, picks up top Brazilian side". The Daily Dot. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  7. ↑ Park, Paul (Oct 29, 2015). "Luminosity Gaming and Team SoloMid advance to DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca Quarterfinals". TheScore eSports. TheScore Inc.
  8. ↑ Švejda, Milan. "Luminosity win MLG Columbus 2016". HLTV. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  9. 1 2 Mira, Luis. "Luminosity beat TS to win DH Austin". HLTV. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  10. 1 2 Guevarra, Earl. "Luminosity Gaming Wins ESL CS:GO Pro League Season 3 in Nailbiter Series". Inquirer.net. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  11. ↑ Wundenberg, Berg. "SK and Luminosity Gaming Agree to Settle Dispute". SK Gaming. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  12. ↑ "LG & SK agree to settle CS:GO dispute". luminosity.gg. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  13. 1 2 Mira, Luis. "G2 beat Luminosity to win ECS S1". HLTV. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  14. ↑ Mira, Luis. "Luminosity sign WinOut's team". HLTV.org. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  15. ↑ Sawant, Seth. "bit and nak out of Luminosity". GosuGamers. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  16. ↑ Fischer, Annabelle. "Luminosity sign SHOOWTiME and shz". theScore eSports. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  17. ↑ Lingle, Samuel (December 17, 2015). "Cloud9 misses cut, CLG and Dream Team through in last CoD World League qualifier". The Daily Dot. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  18. 1 2 3 "LG Hearthstone is back, add Chakki, Fr0zen, Muzzy". Luminosity. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
  19. ↑ "LG strengthen Hearthstone team, add Zalae!". Luminosity. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  20. ↑ Rosen, Daniel. "Luminosity sign Abadango". The Score eSports. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
  21. ↑ Khan, Imad. "Luminosity enters Smash Melee by signing Ice". ESPN. Retrieved 21 October 2016.

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