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Team Information

Location:

United States

Region:

 North America

Coaches:

Eley

CEO:

Mike Rufail

Sponsor:

Monster Energy
HyperX
Scuf Gaming
NZXT
Twitch

Total Earnings:

$2,088,132

Games:

Global Offensive

Links

History

Created:

Organization: 2007
2015-02-01

Team Envy (formerly known as Team EnVyUs, often abbreviated to Envy, EnVy or nV) is an American eSports organization founded in 2007 who used to be mainly known for their competitive Call of Duty background. They were also known as the "Boys in Blue".

History

On February 1st, 2015, the French Squad of LDLC, Vincent "Happy" Cervoni, Nathan "NBK-" Schmitt, Edouard "SmithZz" Dubourdeaux, Fabien "kioShiMa" Fiey and Richard "shox" Papillon left their organization to sign with Team EnVyUs, a North American organization mostly known for its ‘’”Call of Duty”’’ team.

After winning the MLG X-Games Aspen invitational, then signing with the new organization, the team continued to prove that they were among the best in the world, most of the time staying right behind Fnatic, the best team in CS:GO’s history, in world rankings across the community.

In February, EnVyUs participated in the Inferno Online Pantamera Challenge, where they managed to find a 3rd place finish after losing to Fnatic 2-1 in the consolation final. Just over a month later, the team travelled to Katowice, Poland to attend CS:GO’s 5th major, ESL One: Katowice 2015. After placing first in their group, they faced Natus Vincere in the quarterfinals and won the series reasonably comfortably, with score-lines ending at 16-12, 14-16 and 16-3. They then went on to face the Ninjas in Pyjamas, and weren’t quite prepared for what GeT_RiGhT’s squad had awaiting for them, and lost the Bo3 series 0-2. Even despite this, losing in the semifinals to a team who were top 4 at the time was nothing to be ashamed of, and EnVy left Poland with a top 4 placing.

It wasn’t long until EnVy had once again found their form, winning titles at Gfinity Spring Masters 1 and the StarLadder StarSeries XII LAN final, with both tournaments seeing EnVy destroy NiP in Best of 5 series, 3-1 and 3-0, respectively. At StarSeries, they proved that they were still a top team and still worthy of fear, winning Best of 3s against TSM, Natus Vincere, and NiP before reaching the final.

These victories were short-lived, however, as EnVyUs began a slow, roller-coaster-esque decline after winning the StarSeries XII final. This period saw EnVy fail to reach the top 4 of offline events for the first time in 2015, placing 5th-6th at Gfinity Masters Spring 2 and Fragbite Masters Season 4. On the seemingly lone upswing of this lineup’s decline, they won the Gfinity Masters Summer 1 after placing top in their group, followed by a close Best of 3 victory against Team Dignitas, and another blowout Bo5 final against NiP, where the Swedish side failed to acquire more than 10 rounds in any of the 3 maps played against France’s best team.

In July, after 2 more disappointing placements in events (5-6th at ESL ESEA Season 1 Finals, and Top 4 in ESWC 2015 after losing to Cloud9) internal problems with the roster finally were made known to the world, and soon after, a second “French Shuffle” occurred where EnVyUs would trade their Star Player, shox, and support player, SmithZz, to Titan, while the former signed Titan’s own Kenny "kennyS" Schrub and Dan "apEX" Madesclaire.

The community originally held the consensus that the new EnVy lineup would be worse than the original one, and that at best they could be a top 4-6 level team. However, the world was left slightly in shock as EnVy came out swinging at their first offline event with their new roster, the IEM Gamescom event in Cologne. The tournament ended with EnVy destroying TSM over 3 maps and claiming the title, seemingly without breaking a sweat.

The real test for the new EnVyUs lineup was yet to come, as the world’s elite gathered at Cologne 2 weeks later to play in the ESL One: Cologne 2015 Tournament, CS:GO’s 6th major and the 2nd held in the German city. Nay-sayers of the new lineup were quickly silenced as EnVy placed 1st in their group and made an incredibly impressive run to the finals, winning Best of 3s against Natus Vincere and TSM, before losing 0-2 in the final to Fnatic. Even if the end of the tournament was disappointing for the French side, they had already proved that they were a world-class team, less than a month after changing their roster.

Since their finals run at Cologne, EnVyUs have won 2 more titles at Dreamhack Open London 2015 and the Gfinity Champion of Champions, boasting a Bo3 win against TSM and Bo5 victories against an on-fire Virtus.Pro and Fnatic.

Those last results put Team EnVyUs as favorites for the last major of 2015 Dreamhack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015, which they won while top teams Fnatic, Virtus.pro and TSM were all eliminated in quarterfinals.

Post-Cluj-Napoca, their results would stagnate and would eventually lead to Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquerez' acquisition as a coach and kioShiMa's departure, being replaced by Team LDLC.com White player, Timothée "DEVIL" Démolon. Shortly after, they would attend the next major, MLG Columbus 2016 with this lineup but their journey would fall very short. The French team would fall to Counter Logic Gaming and then Gambit Gaming, resulting in a group stage exit also resulting in Happy not making it to playoffs for the first time. The journey would fall even further as their results later weren't very optimal and they would also face another group stage exit at the next major, ESL One: Cologne 2016 with losses against Team Liquid and mousesports.

After both of the 2016 majors concluded, EnVyUs decided to replace their weakest performer DEVIL for Christophe "SIXER" Xia, formerly of Millenium and DEVIL was traded to SIXER's old team as a result. Their results still remained fairly the same and they would also succumb another group stage exit at ELEAGUE Atlanta 2017 being eliminated by kioShiMa's new team, FaZe Clan. After this, the third “French Shuffle” began, NBK-, kennyS and apEX would all be transferred to fellow team G2 Esports with EnVyUs acquiring Cédric "RpK" Guipouy, Alexandre "xms" Forté and David "devoduvek" Dobrosavljevic as well as Damien "maLeK" Marcel as their coach, before finalising their roster by replacing the latter with Belgian player Adil "ScreaM" Benrlitom. Considering that G2 Esports had acquired EnVy's former trio, this team would be considered a much worse team and their results also showed for it including losing their major qualifier spot and being unable to retain it. This would see Happy miss his first major in addition, but it wouldn't be too long before he returned at ELEAGUE Boston 2018 with the first 24 team major although the French side would place themselves in the bottom 8.

Going into 2018, Team Envy decided to make some serious changes, firstly benching xms and reacquiring kioShiMa whom was benched on FaZe Clan, and later swapping SIXER for their academy player, Ali "hAdji" Haïnouss. Following disappointing results and enduring management issues, Envy released all of their CS:GO players from their primary and academy roster. Following the release of their French players, Team Envy announced that they will not be completely exiting the scene and will be shifting their focus over to North America.

Timeline

• 2015
• 2016
• 2017
• 2018
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• February 1st - Team EnVyUs recruits the players from LDLC.com.
• March 22nd - Team EnVyUs wins Gfinity Spring Masters I after beating Ninjas in Pyjamas 3 - 1 in the finals.
• March 29th - Team EnVyUs wins Star Ladder Star Series - Season 12 after beating Ninjas in Pyjamas 3 - 0 in the finals.
• July 20th - Team EnVyUs and Titan swap players, kennyS and apEX join the team, while shox and SmithZz leave.
• August 23rd - Team EnVyUs places 2nd at ESL One: Cologne 2015 after losing against fnatic 0-2.
• November 1st - Team EnVyUs wins Dreamhack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015 after beating Natus Vincere 2-0 in the finals.

• January 10th - Maniac is officially announced as the new coach of Team EnVyUs.
• March 8th - DEVIL is acquired from Team LDLC.com White to replace kioShiMa in the active roster. The organization will honor kioShiMa's contract until a transfer to another organization is agreed upon, or he returns to the starting lineup . The same day, kioShiMa issued a statement saying that communication within the team had been an issue, and that he felt he did not have the respect of the other members - leaving doubts as to whether he would ever return to the main roster
• April 10th - kioShiMa is bought out by FaZe Clan as a replacement for Maikelele.
• June 5th - Maniac leaves Team EnVyUs as he plans to go back to playing actively.
• June 13th - enkay J joins Team EnVyUs as an analyst.
• October 5th - Team EnVyUs and Millenium swap players, DEVIL and SIXER.

• February 3rd - NBK-, kennyS, apEX and enkay J are acquired by rival team, G2 Esports to form the 'French Superteam'.
• February 4th - To complete its roster, Team EnVyUs announce arrivals of RpK, xms and devoduvek. maLeK joins as coach.
• February 8th - devoduvek moves to a backup position.
• February 21st - Team EnVyUs complete the signing of ScreaM
• April 14th - devoduvek transfers to Misfits.

• February 3rd - kioShiMa returns while xms is benched.
• February 6th - hAdji is promoted to the main team from EnVyUs Academy replacing SIXER who is benched.
• February 13th - SIXER joins EnVyUs Academy.
• May 7th - Team Envy part ways with maLeK.
• June 20th - Team Envy parts away with all of their CS:GO rosters.
• September 27th - Team Envy sign the core of ex-Splyce, consisting of Drone, SEMPHIS, reltuC, & coach Eley; as well as Nifty and jdm64.
• October 13th - Next stands down as manager.
• October 30th - Team Envy bench SEMPHIS. Pollo joins as a stand-in for the remainder of EPL Season 8 season.

Player Roster

Active

Active Squad
	ID	Name	Join Date
	Drone	Tayler Johnson	2018-09-27
	reltuC	Steven Cutler	2018-09-27
	Nifty	Noah Francis	2018-09-27
	jdm64	Josh Marzano	2018-09-27
	Pollo (Stand-in)	Matt Wilson	2018-10-30
	Eley (Coach)	Zachary Stauffer	2018-09-27

Inactive Players
	ID	Name	Join Date	Inactive Date
	SEMPHIS	Kory Friesen	2018-09-27	2018-10-30

Former

2015-2018 French Squad
	ID	Name	Join Date	Leave Date	New Team
	Happy	Vincent Cervoni	2015-02-01	2018-06-20	Team Vitality
	RpK	Cédric Guipouy	2017-02-04	2018-06-20	Team Vitality
	ScreaM	Adil Benrlitom	2017-02-21	2018-06-20	Fnatic (Stand-in)
	kioShiMa	Fabien Fiey	2018-02-03	2018-06-20	Cloud9
	hAdji	Ali Haïnouss	2018-02-06	2018-06-20	The Imperial

Former Players
	ID	Name	Join Date	Inactive Date	Leave Date	New Team
	xms	Alexandre Forté	2017-02-04	2018-02-07	2018-06-20	Retired
	maLeK (Coach)	Damien Marcel	2017-02-04		2018-05-07
	SIXER	Christophe Xia	2016-10-05	2018-02-06	2018-02-13	EnVyUs Academy
	devoduvek	David Dobrosavljevic	2017-02-04	2017-02-08	2017-04-14	Misfits Gaming
	kennyS	Kenny Schrub	2015-07-20		2017-02-03	G2 Esports
	apEX	Dan Madesclaire	2015-07-20		2017-02-03	G2 Esports
	NBK	Nathan Schmitt	2015-02-01		2017-02-03	G2 Esports
	DEVIL	Timothée Démolon	2016-03-08		2016-10-05	Millenium
	Maniac (Coach)	Mathieu Quiquerez	2016-01-10		2016-06-05	Unity
	kioShiMa	Fabien Fiey	2015-02-01		2016-04-10	FaZe Clan
	SmithZz	Edouard Dubourdeaux	2015-02-01		2015-07-20	Titan
	shox	Richard Papillon	2015-02-01		2015-07-20	Titan

Temporary stand-ins
	ID	Name	Replacing		ID	Name	Tournament(s)
	SIXER	Christophe Xia			ScreaM	Adil Benrlitom	WESG 2017
	kioShiMa	Fabien Fiey			ScreaM	Adil Benrlitom	WESG 2017 France and Monaco WESG 2017 Europe Finals
	maLeK	Damien Marcel			RpK	Cédric Guipouy	ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 - New Challengers Stage (Round 4 Low Matches)
	ScreaM	Adil Benrlitom			xms	Alexandre Forté	IEM Season XI World Championship - EU Closed Qualifier
	ScreaM	Adil Benrlitom			devoduvek	David Dobrosavljevic	IEM Season XI World Championship - EU Closed Qualifier
	SIXER	Christophe Xia			NBK-	Nathan Schmitt	SL i-League Season 2 Finals
	SIXER	Christophe Xia			DEVIL	Timothée Démolon	ESL Pro League Season 4
	YOUNS	Younes Ait-lalla			kennyS	Kenny Schrub	FACEIT League 2015 Stage 3
	ScreaM	Adil Benrlitom			kioShiMa	Fabien Fiey	FACEIT League 2015

Organization

Active

Organization
	ID	Name	Position	Join Date
	Hastr0	Mike Rufail	Founder
	TmarTn	Trevor Martin	Co-Owner
	Loop	Adam Bahriz	Streamer
	tailored	Taylor Broomall	Analyst	2018-09-27

Former

Former Organization
	ID	Name	Position	Join Date	Leave Date	New Organization
	Next	Jordan Savelli	Manager	2015	2018-10-13
	enkay J	Niclas Krumhorn	Analyst	2016-06-13	2017-02-03	G2 Esports

Team Achievements

Date	Placement	Tier	Tournament		Results		Prize
2017-07-23	A11st	A2Major		DreamHack Open Atlanta 2017	2 : 1		$50,000
2017-01-15	A11st	A1Premier		World Electronic Sports Games 2016	2 : 0		$800,000
2016-09-25	A11st	A2Major		Gfinity CS:GO Invitational	3 : 0		$50,000
2016-02-07	A11st	A1Premier		Global eSports Cup - Season 1	3 : 0		$80,000
2015-11-01	A11st	A1Premier		DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015	2 : 0		$100,000
2015-09-27	A11st	A1Premier		Gfinity Champion of Champions	3 : 2		$50,000
2015-08-23	A22nd	A1Premier		ESL One: Cologne 2015	0 : 2		$50,000
2015-08-08	A11st	A1Premier		Intel Extreme Masters Season X - gamescom	8/-/1	Grp. S.	$45,500
2015-06-28	A11st	A1Premier		Gfinity Masters Summer 1	3 : 0		$40,000
2015-03-22	A11st	A1Premier		Gfinity Spring Masters 1	3 : 1		$25,000
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Trivia

• Team EnVyUs is the first official CS:GO team to have a player stand in for a player, to later on have the player who is stood in for stand in for that player. That being ScreaM standing in for kioShiMa, then kioShiMa standing in for ScreaM.
• devoduvek was originally set to play for Team EnVyUs in their 2017 lineup after the third French shuffle, but was benched 4 days after being signed to later be replaced by ScreaM.
  • This situation was later brought to light on November 16th 2018 by devoduvek. Team EnVyUs at first acquired RpK, ScreaM and devoduvek though the Belgian was also trying out for FaZe Clan at the time. Due to ScreaM's addition not being certain, the other two players and xms' additions were announced. Following ScreaM's decision not to join FaZe Clan, EnVyUs decided whether to remove devoduvek or xms for ScreaM and the former was benched as a result, with ScreaM's addition being announced at a later date.

Gallery

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  Team EnVyUs at DreamHack Tours 2017
  From left to right: RpK, SIXER, Happy, xms, ScreaM

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  Team EnVyUs at DH Masters Malmö 2016
  From left to right: DEVIL, NBK, Happy, apEX, kennyS

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  Team EnVyUs at DH Cluj 2015
  From left to right: kioShiMa, apEX, Happy, NBK, kennyS

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  The first EnVyUs squad at DreamHack Tours 2015
  From left to right: NBK, SmithZz, Happy, kioShiMa, shox

Logos

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  Alternate logo