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Team Information

Location:

United States
Australia

Region:

 North America

Coaches:

Aleksandar "kassad" Trifunović

Manager:

Chris "GoMeZ" Orfanellis

Sponsor:

Nvidia
HyperX
twitch
Meta Threads

Total Earnings:

$589,098

Games:

Global Offensive

Links

History

Created:

March 9, 2015

Renegades is a professional gaming organization, founded in March 2015 under the name "Misfits". Originally a League of Legends team, the organisation rebranded as Renegades on June 18 2015, and picked up the former Vox Eminor roster for their own CS:GO squad. On August 30 2016, Jonas Jerebko bought the Renegades organization from Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles. He is the third NBA player to publicly acquire a stake in an esports organization after Rick Fox (Echo Fox) and Shaquille O'Neal (NRG Esports).

History

Australian Roster (June 2015 – March 2017)

On the 19th of June 2015 the then LA Renegades, owned by Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles, signed the Australian team Vox Eminor consisting of Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill, Aaron "AZR" Ward, Luke "Havoc" Paton, Justin "jks" Savage and Yaman "yam" Ergenekon. This was the first time an international organisation had purchased an Australian CS:GO team. The team was housed in the Downtown Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada where they would spend most of their time. After less than a month the team qualified for the second major of 2015. They were placed in a group with Danish favourites TSM and Swedish legends NiP and North American up and comers CLG. The team was first beaten by TSM and where then placed in a second group again with NiP and this time Titan. An upset victory over the French gained the team some notoriety. The team which showed promise in Australia never translated overseas as they struggled to achieve results. losses at DreamHack Stockholm and the MLG Columbus qualifier saw the end of their major appearances. The team then had to make their toughest choice, the removal of Havoc. This was the team’s first attempt at rectifying their poor results. With the acquisition of Karlo “USTILO” Pivac from Team Immunity the team made it into ESL Pro League via a wild card invite. The continuing poor results and the failure to make the Cologne Major lead to SPUNJ eventually retiring. In September 2016 the team was acquired by Jonas Jerebko who moved the team from their Las Vegas casino to a gaming house in Detroit. The team once again acquired a Team Immunity player in the form of Ricardo “Rickeh” Mulholland who moved into the new team house. The team came runner up to Gambit Esports at DreamHack Winter 2016. Soon after, the team fell out of favour with Rickeh as his personality didn’t “gel” with the team. Simon “atter” Atterstam was brought in as a stand in for some online qualifiers, leagues and DreamHack Las Vegas where they came last place. Eventually yam would return home to Australia due to personal problems which forced him to come back, after 2 years abroad and the team was left with 3.

The End of an Australian Era (March 2017 – Present)

After the team was left with 3 players a decision was made to bring in some teammates who weren’t from Australia. Noah “Nifty” Francis was bought from Selfless Gaming and would receive the AWPing duties and Nemanja “nexa” Isaković, whom was reportedly expected to join the team shortly after Rickeh was removed. He was brought in to take over IGL under the guidance of coach kassad although Nifty would quickly take over the reigns. With the international flare the team won their first Asia Minor over rivals TyLoo. The team failed to make the Major and other results lead to nexa being released and the team was again looking for a fifth. David "Jayzwalkingz" Kempner was brought in as a stand-in but lasted only 2 weeks before Keith "NAF" Markovic was bought out from OpTic Gaming. The team again won the Asia Minor. The team’s online form and recent victory lead to their success over Virtus.pro in the Grand Final of the StarLadder i-League Invitational marking the organisation’s first international tournament victory. With NAF in peak form he was quickly snapped up by Team Liquid and the Renegades were looking for a new fifth. Joakim “jkaem” Myrbostad joined as a long term stand in and the roster finally started being a force to be reckoned with internationally including a finals run at IEM Sydney where they beat FaZe Clan in the group stage and took mousesports to overtime more than twice in their quarterfinal appearance. In an interview with ex-Renegades player SPUNJ he revealed that the Australian core had finally found a teammate in jkaem that suited their personalities. kassad would leave Renegades at the conclusion of Season 7's ESL Pro league Finals. kassad would go and join his hometown hero's in Valiance. After a string of disappointing results the team new a change needed to occur. This change came in the form of Steve "Ryu" Rattacasa. The former CLG coach who had also formerly coached Nifty joined the team on trial. Results were not far away as the team managed to make it to the Major after beating Tyloo 2-0 during the Asia Minor.

Timeline

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• March 9th - Misfits is formed.
• June 18th - Misfits rebrands as Renegades.
• June 19th - Renegades sign former Vox Eminor roster - Havoc, SPUNJ, jks, AZR, and Yam join.

• February 8th - USTILO joins, replacing Havoc who steps down from the active roster but remains as a substitute player.
• February 21st - Havoc is picked up by Legacy eSports, alongside former teammate topguN.
• April 23rd - Australian caster peekay joins as coach.
• June 17th - SPUNJ retires.
• July 12th - Renegades signs Rickeh from Team Immunity.

• January 4th - kassad replaces peekay as the coach of Renegades.
• February 14th - Rickeh is benched, atter joins the team temporarily for DreamHack Las Vegas and ESL Pro League.
• March 6th - Rickeh officially leaves and joins Counter Logic Gaming.
• March 23rd - yam leaves Renegades and returns to Australia.
• March 31st - Nifty transfers to Renegades from Selfless Gaming.
• April 13th - Renegades announce their completed roster with the inclusion of nexa as their fifth player.
• August 18th - Jayzwalkingz joins Renegades on a trial basis to replace nexa.
• September 1st - Renegades acquire NAF from OpTic Gaming.

• February 5th - NAF departs Renegades for Team Liquid.
• February 7th - jkaem joins Renegades. He later reveals that his initial contract is for six months.
• May 17th - kassad announces his departure from Renegades.
• June 23rd - Ryu announces that he will be joining the team as a coach on trial.
• September 24th - Ryu leaves Renegades.
• September 27th - Nifty leaves to join Team Envy.
• September 29th - USTILO is released from the organisation.
• September 30th - liazz and Gratisfaction join the team.
• October 8th - kassad returns to the team as coach.

Player Roster

Active

Active Squad
	ID	Name	Join Date
	AZR	Aaron Ward	2015-06-19
	jks	Justin Savage	2015-06-19
	jkaem	Joakim Myrbostad	2018-02-08
	liazz	Jay Tregillgas	2018-09-30
	Gratisfaction	Sean Kaiwai	2018-09-30
	kassad (Coach)	Aleksandar Trifunović	2018-10-08

Former

Former Players
	ID	Name	Join Date	Leave Date	New Team
	USTILO	Karlo Pivac	2016-02-08	2018-09-29	Tainted Minds
	Nifty	Noah Francis	2017-03-31	2018-09-27	Team Envy
	Ryu (Trial Coach)	Steve Rattacasa	2018-06-23	2018-09-24
	kassad (Coach)	Aleksandar Trifunović	2017-01-04	2018-05-17	Valiance (Coach)
	NAF	Keith Markovic	2017-09-01	2018-02-05	Team Liquid
	Jayzwalkingz (Trial)	David Kempner	2017-08-18	2017-09-01	Epsilon eSports
	nexa	Nemanja Isaković	2017-04-13	2017-08-18	MANS NOT HOT
	yam	Yaman Ergenekon	2015-06-19	2017-03-23	Tainted Minds
	Rickeh	Ricardo Mulholland	2016-07-12	2017-03-06	Counter Logic Gaming
	peekay (Coach)	Nicholas Wise	2016-04-23	2017-01-04	Inactivity
	SPUNJ	Chad Burchill	2015-06-19	2016-06-17	Retired
	Havoc	Luke Paton	2015-06-19	2016-02-21	Legacy eSports

Temporary stand-ins
	ID	Name	Replacing		ID	Name	Tournament(s)
	Uber	Michael Stapells			nexa	Nemanja Isaković	ECS Season 3 - North America (vs Luminosity)
	kassad	Aleksandar Trifunović			nexa	Nemanja Isaković	ESL Pro League Season 5 - North America (vs Winterfox)
	Uber	Michael Stapells	None				ESL Pro League Season 5 - North America
	atter	Simon Atterstam	None				StarLadder i-League Season 3 - America ECS Season 3 Dev. League - North America
	atter	Simon Atterstam			Rickeh	Ricardo Mulholland	DreamHack Masters Las Vegas 2017 ESL Pro League Season 5 - North America

Organization

Active

Organization
	ID	Name	Position	Join Date
	rebko	Jonas Jerebko	Owner	2016-08-30
	Shark	Shahrukh Panjwani	General Manager	2016-08-30
	GoMeZ	Chris Orfanellis	Manager	2015-06-19
	topguN	Azad Ormani	Streamer	2018-08-16

Former

Former Organization
	ID	Name	Position	Join Date	Leave Date	New Organization
	GBJame^s	James O'Connor	Co-Owner	2016-08-30	2017-03-18	Pittsburgh Knights
	MonteCristo	Christopher Mykles	Co-Owner	2015-06-19	2016-08-30

Team Achievements

Date	Placement	Tier	Tournament		Results		Prize
2018-07-20	A11st	A2Major		Asia Minor Championship - London 2018	2 : 0		$30,000
2017-11-12	A22nd	A2Major		iBUYPOWER Masters 2017	0 : 2		$25,000
2017-11-05	A11st	A2Major		StarLadder i-League Invitational #2	2 : 0		$75,000
2017-10-29	A11st	A2Major		Asia Minor Championship - Boston 2018	2 : 0		$30,000
2017-06-04	A11st	A2Major		Asia Minor Championship - Kraków 2017	2 : 1		$30,000
2016-11-26	A22nd	A1Premier		DreamHack Open Winter 2016	0 : 2		$20,000
2016-10-30	A22nd	A2Major		Asia Minor Championship - Atlanta 2017	0 : 2		$15,000
2016-09-25	A22nd	A2Major		eXTREMESLAND ZOWIE Asia CS:GO 2016	1 : 2		$20,000
2016-05-08	A22nd	A2Major		Asia Minor Championship - Cologne 2016	1 : 2		$15,000
2016-02-01	A22nd	A2Major		Intel Extreme Masters X - Taipei	0 : 2		$15,000
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Gallery

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  Renegades at ESL One: Cologne 2018
  From left to right:
  AZR, Nifty, jkaem, jks, USTILO

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  Renegades at Intel Extreme Masters Season XII - Oakland
  From left to right:
  NAF, AZR, Nifty, jks, USTILO

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  Renegades at DreamHack Stockholm 2015
  From left to right:
  SPUNJ, yam, jks, AZR, Havoc