Ron

Ron
Ron
Background Information
Name	Ryan Ballard
Country of Birth	Canada
Birthday	March 18, 1998 (age 21)
Residency	NA North America
Competitive
Role	Top Laner
Favorite Champs

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team		Start	End
NA	Monster Kittens	S	≈Oct 2014≈2014-10-??	≈Dec 2014≈2014-12-??	≈2mo ejel
NA	COGnitive Gaming		Dec 20142014-12-08	Dec 20142014-12-14	6d ejel
NA	Team 321		≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-08	≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-20	≈12d ejel
NA	Team Confound		≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-20	Feb 20152015-02-16	≈27d ejel
NA	TSM Darkness		Feb 20152015-02-16^[1]	Apr 20152015-04-05	1mo 17d ejel
NA	Team Imagine	S	Apr 20152015-04-05^[2]	≈Jul 2015≈2015-07-22	≈3mo 17d ejel
NA	Stars eSports Club		≈Jan 2016≈2016-01-16	≈Jan 2016≈2016-01-17	≈1d ejel
NA	Apex Gaming	S	Jan 20162016-01-22	May 20162016-05-20^[3]	3mo 29d ejel
NA	Zenith Esports		≈Apr 2016≈2016-04-??	≈May 2016≈2016-05-??	≈23d ejel
NA	TL Academy		≈Apr 2017≈2017-04-??	≈Apr 2017≈2017-04-??	≈1d ejel

	Team		Start	End
NA	Monster Kittens	S	≈Oct 2014≈2014-10-??	≈Dec 2014≈2014-12-??	≈2mo ejel
NA	COGnitive Gaming		Dec 20142014-12-08	Dec 20142014-12-14	6d ejel
NA	Team 321		≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-08	≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-20	≈12d ejel
NA	Team Confound		≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-20	Feb 20152015-02-16	≈27d ejel
NA	TSM Darkness		Feb 20152015-02-16^[1]	Apr 20152015-04-05	1mo 17d ejel
NA	Elomingle		Apr 20152015-04-05^[2]	May 20152015-05-19	1mo 14d ejel
NA	Magnetic		May 20152015-05-19	Jun 20152015-06-17	29d ejel
NA	Team Imagine		Jun 20152015-06-17	Jul 20152015-07-05	18d ejel
NA	Team Imagine	S	Jul 20152015-07-05	≈Jul 2015≈2015-07-22	≈17d ejel
NA	Stars eSports Club		≈Jan 2016≈2016-01-16	≈Jan 2016≈2016-01-17	≈1d ejel
NA	Apex Gaming	S	Jan 20162016-01-22	May 20162016-05-20^[3]	3mo 29d ejel
NA	Zenith Esports		≈Apr 2016≈2016-04-??	≈May 2016≈2016-05-??	≈23d ejel
NA	TL Academy		≈Apr 2017≈2017-04-??	≈Apr 2017≈2017-04-??	≈1d ejel

News

2014
2015
2016
2017

NA	MKZ	October (approx.), ChumpJohn, Arcsecond, and Hanjaro join. S Big ol Ron and S small blue man join as substitutes. e
NA	MKZ	December (approx.), S Big ol Ron leaves. e
NA	COG	December 8, COGnitive Gaming is reformed. Big ol Ron, Grigne, LoveLova, and XerbeK join. TranceTherapy rejoins. S 9JX, Jjayel, and i uzi join as substitutes. e
NA	COG	December 14, Big ol Ron leaves. e

NA	321	January 8 (approx.), Ron, Azingy, Arcsecond, JJackstar, and Indivisible join. e
NA	CONF	January 20 (approx.), Team 321 renames to Team Confound. e
NA	CONF	February 16, Ron, Azingy, Arcsecond, JJackstar, and Indivisible leave. e
NA	TSD	February 16, Ron, Azingy, Arcsecond, t3azer, and Indivisible join. S JJackstar joins as substitute.^[1] e
NA	TSD	April 5, Ron, Inori, Arcsecond, t3azer, Indivisible, S JJackstar, and S xSojin leave. e
NA	ELO	April 5, Ron, ShorterACE, Arcsecond, and Indivisible join.^[2] e
NA	IMG	May 19, Elomingle renames to Magnetic. e
NA	IMG	June 17, Magnetic renames to Team Imagine. e
NA	IMG	July 5, Chunkyfresh, Moon, Intense, and Baby join. mancloud moves to starting roster. S Ron, S Dardoch, S Massacre, and S Indivisible move to substitutes. Wolfe, S xSojin, and S SoJaded leave. e
NA	IMG	July 22 (approx.), S Ron, S Massacre, and S Indivisible leave. e

NA	STAR	January 16 (approx.), ron, Mr Dr Snugglez, wasori, Near8, and Sawyer join. e
NA	STAR	January 17 (approx.), ron, Mr Dr Snugglez, wasori, Near8, and Sawyer leave. e
NA	APX	January 22, S Big ol Ron and S Indivisible join as substitutes. BIG is loaned from Echo Fox. Moon is loaned from NRG Esports. e
NA	ZEN	April (approx.), Ron joins. e
NA	ZEN	May (approx.), Ron, bmxspecks, Ablazeolive, Andybendy, and Lohpally leave. e
NA	APX	May 20, Ray, Diamondprox, Roar, and KonKwon join. Saintvicious (Head Coach) and BlisS (Assistant Coach) are no longer listed on the official roster as substitutes. S Big ol Ron and S BrandonFTW leave.^[3] e

NA	TL.A	April (approx.), Team is reformed. Ron, Chorong, Arcsecond, Youngbin, and KonKwon join. S Saintvicious and S TheOddOrange join as substitutes. e
NA	TL.A	April (approx.), Team is disbanded. Ron, Chorong, Arcsecond, Youngbin, KonKwon, S Saintvicious, and S TheOddOrange leave. e

Biography[edit]

Ryan "Ron" Ballard is from British Columbia, Canada. He is currently in high school, studying computer programming and animation. When he was five, he began to play Mario games on Nintendo before moving on to Zelda and then World of Warcraft.

2015 Preseason[edit]

Originally known as "Big ol Ron", he started out as the substitute toplaner for Monstar Kittenz, one of the teams that qualified for the NA Spring Expansion Tournament via the Ranked 5's ladder. Monstar Kittenz lost to compLexity.White 1-2 in the first round of the tournament. After Monstar Kittenz were eliminated from the Expansion Tournament, Big ol Ron joined COGnitive Gaming as their starting top laner.

2015 Season[edit]

Big ol Ron later COGnitive left to play with Team Confound, a team formed to play in the NACS Spring Qualifier. Under the ranked ladder team 321321321, they reached the qualifier with the 5th-place seed and defeated AffNity in the first round before losing to Cloud9 Tempest in the second round. However, after Cloud9 Tempest were found guilty of using a ringer in their matches, Team Confound were given the spot in the NACS Spring Season. After this ruling was announced, the team was acquired by Team SoloMid to form TSM Darkness. In the announcement, he was listed as Ron, though he continued to compete under the name Big ol Ron.

TSM Darkness finished in fifth place in the NACS spring season after beating CLG Black in a tiebreaker game. After TSM dropped sponsorship of the team due to t3azer's having leaked scrim results to Team Fusion, the team renamed to Elomingle. They retained their seeding into the NACS summer season qualifier. After another namechange to Magnetic, the team qualified for the summer season, and then they renamed once again to Team Imagine. Ron played with Imagine for the first two weeks of the season before the entire roster was replaced.

2016 Season[edit]

Though he had previously announced his intent to retire from competitive play, Ron joined Stars eSpots Club for the Carbon Winter Invitational in January 2016.

Trivia[edit]

The name "Big ol Ron" comes from people at his school calling each other "Ron."

Tournament Results[edit]

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

Ron Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2017-04-23	bbbbbbNQ	NACS 2017 Summer Open Qualifiers	0 : 28.1	TL.A	Ron, Chorong, Arcsecond, Youngbin, KonKwon
2016-05-01	bbbbbbNQ	NACS 2016 Summer Open Qualifier	0 : 2TOVE	ZEN	Ron, bmxspecks, Ablazeolive, Andybendy, Lohpally
2016-02-24	0010001	NACS 2016 Spring	3-2-0RR	APX	Big ol Ron, Cris, Moon, Eve, Shrimp, Keane, Police, Big, Xpecial
2016-01-17	0030043 - 4	Carbon Winter Invitational 2016	1 : 2TDG	STAR	ron, Mr Dr Snugglez, wasori, Near8, Sawyer
2015-07-22	0030003	NACS 2015 Summer	6 - 4RR	IMG	Big ol Ron, Chunkyfresh, Dardoch, Moon, Wolfe, mancloud, TheMassacre8, Intense, Steeelback, Indivisible, Baby, Mozilla
2015-06-16	aaaaaaQ	NACS 2015 Summer Qualifier	2 : 0CLB	IMG	Big ol Ron, Sojin, Dardoch, Wolfe, themassacre8, Indivisible
2015-05-13	0050065 - 6	AlphaDraft Challenger League	FF : WCrew	ELO	Ron, ShorterACE, Zaryabs, Arcsecond, Moonway, Biofrost
2015-03-25	0050005	NACS 2015 Spring	2 - 8RR	TSD	t3azer, Big ol Ron, Azingy, Sojin, Inori, Arcsecond, JJackstar, Indivisible
2015-02-04	aaaaaaQ	NACS 2015 Spring Qualifier	W : DQC9T	CONF	Big ol Ron, Azingy, Arcsecond, JJackstar, Indivisible
2015-01-11	0030043 - 4	ESL Pro Series America 11	1 : 2TDK	321	Ron, Azingy, Arcsecond, JJackstar, Indivisible