Ron

Ron
Retired
Ron
Background Information
Name	Ryan Ballard
Country of Birth	; Canada
Birthday	March 18, 1998 (age 22)
Residency	NANorth America
Competitive
Role	; Top Laner
Favorite Champs	; ; ;

Overview

Tournament Results

Stats

Match History

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠Monster Kittens	≈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	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	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≈2017-04-14	≈Apr 2017≈2017-04-16	≈2d ejel

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠Monster Kittens	≈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	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	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≈2017-04-14	≈Apr 2017≈2017-04-16	≈2d ejel

News

2014
2015
2016
2017

NA	⁠⁠MKZ	October (approx.), ChumpJohn, Arcsecond, and Hanjaro join. Big ol Ron and small blue man join as substitutes. e
NA	⁠⁠MKZ	December (approx.), Big ol Ron leaves. e
NA	⁠⁠COG	December 8, COGnitive Gaming is reformed. Big ol Ron, Grigne, LoveLova, and XerbeK join. TranceTherapy rejoins. 9JX, i uzi, and Jjayel 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. JJackstar joins as substitute.^[1] e
NA	⁠⁠TSD	April 5, Ron, Inori, Arcsecond, Indivisible, JJackstar, and xSojin leave. e
NA	⁠⁠ELO	April 5, Ron, ShorterACE, Arcsecond, and Indivisible join. xSojin joins as substitute.^[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. Ron, Dardoch, Massacre, and Indivisible move to substitutes. Wolfe, xSojin, and SoJaded leave. e
NA	⁠⁠IMG	July 22 (approx.), Ron, Massacre, and 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, Big ol Ron and 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, Lohpally, and Surza (Head Coach) leave. e
NA	⁠⁠APX	May 20, Ray, Diamondprox, Roar, and KonKwon join. Saintvicious (Head Coach/Sub/Jungle to Head Coach) and BlisS (Assistant Coach/Sub/Mid to Assistant Coach) change positions. Big ol Ron and BrandonFTW leave.^[3] e

NA	⁠⁠TL.A	April 14 (approx.), ⁠⁠Team Liquid Academy is formed. Ron, Chorong, Arcsecond, Youngbin, and KonKwon join. Saintvicious and TheOddOrange join as substitutes. e
NA	⁠⁠TL.A	April 16 (approx.), ⁠⁠Team Liquid Academy is disbanded. Ron, Chorong, Arcsecond, Youngbin, KonKwon, Saintvicious, and 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		Roster
2017-04-23	NQ	NACS 2017 Summer Open Qualifiers	0 : 2⁠⁠8.1	⁠⁠TL.A	Ron, Chorong, Arcsecond, Youngbin, KonKwon
2016-05-01	NQ	NACS 2016 Summer Open Qualifier	0 : 2⁠⁠TOVE	⁠⁠ZEN	Ron, bmxspecks, Ablazeolive, Andybendy, Lohpally
2016-02-24	1	NACS 2016 Spring	3-2-0⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠APX	Big ol Ron, Cris, Moon, Eve, Shrimp, Keane, Police, Big, Xpecial
2016-01-17	3 - 4	Carbon Winter Invitational 2016	1 : 2⁠⁠TDG	⁠⁠STAR	ron, Mr Dr Snugglez, wasori, Near8, Sawyer
2015-07-22	3	NACS 2015 Summer	6 - 4⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠IMG	Big ol Ron, Chunkyfresh, Dardoch, Moon, Wolfe, mancloud, TheMassacre8, Intense, Steeelback, Indivisible, Baby, Mozilla
2015-06-16	Q	NACS 2015 Summer Qualifier	2 : 0⁠⁠CLB	⁠⁠IMG	Big ol Ron, Sojin, Dardoch, Wolfe, themassacre8, Indivisible
2015-05-13	5 - 6	AlphaDraft Challenger League	FF : W⁠⁠Crew	⁠⁠ELO	Ron, ShorterACE, Zaryabs, Arcsecond, Moonway, Biofrost
2015-03-25	5	NACS 2015 Spring	2 - 8⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TSD	t3azer, Big ol Ron, Azingy, Sojin, Inori, Arcsecond, JJackstar, Indivisible
2015-02-04	Q	NACS 2015 Spring Qualifier	W : DQ⁠⁠C9T	⁠⁠CONF	Big ol Ron, Azingy, Arcsecond, JJackstar, Indivisible
2015-01-11	3 - 4	ESL Pro Series America 11	1 : 2⁠⁠TDK	⁠⁠321	Ron, Azingy, Arcsecond, JJackstar, Indivisible