COGnitive Gaming

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COGnitive Gaming

Team Information

Org Location:

North America

Region:

North America

Sponsor(s):

Fry's Electronics
Tiermonster.Com

History

Created:

2013-07-22

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History

Founded in July of 2013, COGnitive Gaming (COG) is an eSports Franchise located in California. The franchise pulled together players of Wazabi Gaming to continue their journey through the League of Legends Challenger Circuit, where they hope to gain entrance into the LCS. On August 30th, they traveled to Seattle, Washington to compete in the PAX Promotional Qualifier. They came in 2nd, losing to compLexity Gaming. The team participated in the MOBAFire Challenger Series where they placed 5th in the playoffs.

Their next league would be another new amateur competition they were invited to, the North American Challenger League. They finished 4th in their Conference and didn't qualify for the playoffs. After this loss, COGnitive replaced iDream with Cris on the 2nd December 2013 and competed with this roster in the LCS 2014 Spring Promotion, where they finished 3rd in the Challenger Stage. In the Promotion Stage they faced Team Curse, where they lost 1-3. Cris left the team afterwards to join vVv White and got replaced by Richerich.

Because of qualifying for the Promotion Stage of the LCS 2014 Spring Promotion, the team aquired a spot in the 2014 NA Challenger Series Spring Season, where they face vVv White in the quarterfinals, the team of their former member Cris.

On February 25, 2014, COGnitive's starting roster disbanded. A few days later, they announced that they would be moving their second team, COG.Forge, to their starting lineup.^[1]

2015 Preseason

On December 8th, COGnitive's new roster for the NACL New Year's Kick-off Tournament was announced: Big ol Ron, Grigne, LoveLona, Xerbek, and TranceTherapy was the new starting lineup, with TranceTherapy the only remaining player from the team's previous roster. Jjayel, 9JX, and i uzi joined the team as substitutes.

The team disbanded on December 20th when they found out that neither Gringe or Xerbek could play in the NACS Spring Qualifier due to age restrictions.

Timeline

2014
2013

January 5th, Cris leaves.^[2]
January 17th, RicheRich joins.
February 25th, COGnitive Gaming disbands. RicheRich, Captain Ziploc, Zamphira, nothinghere and Zaineking leave. ^[3]
February 27th, COGnitive Gaming moves COG Forge to starting roster. i KeNNy u, Liquid Inori, nubbypoohbear, Flappy Bearfish and 1onz join.^[4]
April 5th, new roster is revealed. Bee Sin, TruelD, Arthelon, fabbbyyy and Bodydrop join.^[5]
July 7th, COGnitive Gaming acquires the roster of Solo Kill. Guccimanee, ShorterACE, Doppler, Krewl and TranceTherapy join.^[6]
July 12th, DragonRaider replaces Guccimanee.^[7]
July 28th, Tails joins as the head coach.^[8]
October 20th, roster disbands. DragonRaider, ShorterACE, Doppler, Krewl and TranceTherapy leave.
December 8th, roster reforms. Big ol Ron, Grigne, LoveLova, XerbeK, TranceTherapy, Jjayel, 9JX, and i uzi join.
December 14th, Big ol Ron leaves.
December 20th, team disbands. Grigne, LoveLova, XerbeK, TranceTherapy, 9JX, i uzi, and Jjayel leave.

July 22nd, COGnitive Gaming acquires the roster of Wazabi Gaming. iDream, Captain Ziploc, Zamphira, nothinghere and Prophet join.
July 24th, Valkrin replaces Prophet.
October 14th, Zaineking replaces Valkrin.^[9]
December 2nd, Cris replaces iDream.

Player Roster

Former

ID	Name	Role	Next Team	Joined	Left
Grigne	Jonathan Armao	12Jungle	Cloud9 Tempest	2014-12-08	2014-12-20
LoveLova	Sujal Adhikari	13Mid	Team Frostbite	2014-12-08	2014-12-20
XerbeK	Cooper Strand	14AD Carry	None	2014-12-08	2014-12-20
TranceTherapy	Lawrence Amador	15Support	Team Fusion	2014-12-08	2014-12-20
9JX	Tony Barkhovtsev	26Substitute	Cloud9 G2A	2014-12-08	2014-12-20
i uzi	Ritchie Ngo	26Substitute	Cloud9 Tempest	2014-12-08	2014-12-20
Jjayel	Jacky Lee	26Substitute	None	2014-12-08	2014-12-20
Big ol Ron	Ryan Ballard	11Top	Team Confound	2014-12-08	2014-12-14
TranceTherapy	Lawrence Amador	15Support	None	2014-07-07	2014-10-20
DragonRaider	Vartan Davlatian	11Top	None	2014-07-12	2014-10-20
ShorterACE	Ryan Nget	12Jungle	Final Five	2014-07-07	2014-10-20
Doppler	Alan Li	13Mid	None	2014-07-07	2014-10-20
Krewl	Jacob Pelletier	14AD Carry	None	2014-07-07	2014-10-20
Guccimanee	Joshuah Bohman	11Top	None	2014-07-07	2014-07-12
Bee Sin	Keaton Cryer	11Top	Team Fusion	2014-04-05	2014-??-??
TruelD		12Jungle	None	2014-04-05	2014-??-??
Arthelon	Taylor Eder	13Mid	None	2014-04-05	2014-??-??
fabbbyyy	Jovani Guillen	14AD Carry	Team Liquid	2014-04-05	2014-??-??
Bodydrop	Adam Krauthaker	15Support	Enemy	2014-04-05	2014-??-??
i KeNNy u	Kenny Nguyen	11Top	Wazabi Gaming	2014-02-27	2014-03-??
Liquid Inori	Rami Charagh	12Jungle	Denial eSports	2014-02-27	2014-03-??
nubbypoohbear	Nicholas Harlan	13Mid	Denial eSports	2014-02-27	2014-03-??
Flappy Bearfish	Tony Pham	14AD Carry	Team Dignitas	2014-02-27	2014-03-??
1onz	Tom Rahman	15Support	Denial eSports	2014-02-27	2014-03-??
Richerich	Brian Nguyen	11Top	None	2014-01-17	2014-02-25
Captain Ziploc	William Despard	12Jungle	Frank Fang Gaming	2013-07-22	2014-02-25
Zamphira	François Boucher	13Mid	None	2013-07-22	2014-02-25
nothinghere	Gabriel Charbonneau	14AD Carry	None	2013-07-22	2014-02-25
Zaineking	Will Bottrell	15Support	None	2013-10-14	2014-02-25
Cris	Cristian Rosales	11Top	vVv Gaming White	2013-12-02	2014-01-05
iDream	Kun Fang	11Top	None	2013-07-22	2013-12-02
Valkrin	Richard Royer	15Support	None	2013-07-24	2013-10-14
Prophet	Daniel Fetterman	15Support	None	2013-07-22	2013-07-24

Organization

Current

	ID	Name	Position
	ExoticTherapy	Connie Chou	Assistant Manager

Former

ID	Name	Position	Next Team
furiousZORN	Zack Uherek	Analyst	None
Tails	Zixing Jie	80Head Coach	None
Aaatrocx	Sam Taheri	Manager	None
Soloside	Frank Fang	Manager	Denial eSports
theangelvigil	Angel Vigil	Manager	Enemy
	Jesus Causing	Coach	None
Morbuzaan	Zach Kay	Manager	Wazabi Gaming

Tournament Results

COGnitive Gaming Tournament Results
Date	Place	Prize	Event	Last Result	Roster
2014-12-17	A33rd	$ 1,750	BMC North America 2014 Winter	2 : 0 ZEN
2014-10-22	A55 - 8th	$ 375	2014 Black Monster Cup Fall North America	1 : 2 ZEN
2014-08-02	A55 - 8th		NACS 2014 Summer Series 2	1 : 2 LoLPro	DragonRaider, ShorterACE, Doppler, Krewl, Trance
2014-04-20	A22nd	$ 3,000	BMC North America 2014 Spring	1 : 2 T8
2014-03-21	A77 - 10th		NACL Season 2	3 - 19 RR	RichErich, Captain Ziploc, Zamphira, nothinghere, NydusHerMain
2014-02-15	A44th	$ 2,000	NACS 2014 Spring Series 1	1 : 2 coL.Red	Richerich, Adm Ziploc, Zamphira, nothinghere, Zaineking
2013-12-22	I1NQ		NA LCS 2014 Spring Promotion	1 : 3 Crs	Cris, iDream, Captain Ziploc, Zamphira, nothinghere, Zaineking
2013-12-15	A77 - 10th	$ 1,000	North American Challenger League	6 - 20 RR	iDream, Captain Ziploc, Zamphira, nothinghere, Diamond
2013-11-02	I1Q		NA LCS 2014 Spring Prequalifier 1	2 : 1 vVv	iDream, Captain Ziploc, Zamphira, nothinghere, Zaineking
2013-09-09	A55th		MOBAFire Challenger Series	W : FF NWE	iDream, Captain Ziploc, Zamphira, nothinghere, Valkrin
2013-09-01	A22nd	$ 7,500	NA LCS 2014 Spring Prequalifier PAX	0 : 2 coL	iDream, Cpt Ziploc, Zamphira, Nothinghere, Valkrin
2013-08-25	A33rd	$ 150	ggLA Challenger Arena #3	0 : 2 Denial.West	iDream, Captain Ziploc, Zamphira, nothinghere, Valkrin
2013-08-11	A22nd	$ 350	ggLA Challenger Arena #2	0 : 2 TBD	iDream, Umashi, Captain Ziploc, Zamphira, Diamond, Valkrin
2013-08-04	I1Q		PAX Spring Promotional Online Qualifier	2 : 0 coL Acad
Total Prize: USD 16,125