Ascent
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Ascent
Team Information
Location:
Region:
Team Captain:
skeez
Total Earnings:
$32,825
Links
Player Breakdown
Number of Players
7
History
Created:
2015-04-19
Ascent is an American Team Fortress 2 team which was originally the core of the ex-eLevate roster formed in mid-2015 with the intention of playing at i55. The team won an ESEA-Invite title in Season 20 before eventually being acquired by North American organisation RONIN.
In late 2017 team leader Ma3laa reformed Ascent with his intentions of turning the brand into a fully-fledged eSports organisation acquiring North American and European rosters as well as branching into Quake Champions.
Timeline[edit]
- April 19th - The former roster of eLevate form Ascent.
- September 9th - TheFragile goes on an indefinite break and is replaced by phorofor. yomps joins at a stand-in. [1]
- July 12th - Ascent is reformed by Ma3laa and acquires the roster of EVL Gaming.[3]
- September 13th - corsa is moved to backup.[4]
- September 14th - paddie rejoins from the EVL Gaming roster.[5]
- October 7th - rando steps down due to real life commitments.[6]
- October 10th - showstopper joins.[7]
- November 20th - Ma3laa steps down to focus on growing Ascent.[8]
- November 21st - sandblast joins. [9]
- December 21st - yomps departs from the team.[10]
- January 8th - Ascent shuffles its roster, bringing in marmaloo, slemnish, and corsa.[11]
- March 16th - paddie steps down from the active roster. Ma3laa returns to the active squad in his place.[12]
- May 8th - Ascent shuffles its roster for ESEA Season 28, with corsa, slemnish, Ma3laa, and Bdonski leaving the active roster. In their place, highfive, yight, aim, and xaler join. [13]
- July 18th - Highfive leaves and is replaced by phlps. [14]
- September 2nd - Ascent acquires the recently reformed Street Hoops eSports roster. alec, ash, showstopper, sighguy, duwatna and cozen join the organisation. [15]
- September 19th - duwatna leaves and is replaced by marmadukeGRYLLS. [16]
- November 22nd - sighguy has been acquired by Velocity eSports.[17]
Player Roster[edit]
Active[edit]
| Active Squad | ||||
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| ID | Name | Role | Join Date | |
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botmode | Ian DeMartinis | Scout | 2019-01-08[18] |
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yight | Brandon Bristoe | Scout | 2019-01-08[18] |
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laz | Roaming Soldier | 2019-01-08[18] | |
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jayhyunpae | Pocket Soldier | 2019-01-08[18] | |
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xaler | Demoman | 2019-01-08[18] | |
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skeez 
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Medic | 2019-01-08[18] | |
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zilly | Coach | 2019-01-08[18] | |
Former[edit]
| Former Players | ||||||
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| ID | Name | Role | Join Date | Leave Date | New Team | |
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alec | Scout | 2018-09-02 [15] | 2019-01-08[18] | ||
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ash | Carter Paccione | Scout | 2018-09-02 [15] | 2019-01-08[18] | |
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showstopper | Alex Idanjian | Roaming Soldier | 2018-09-02 [15] | 2019-01-08[18] | |
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marmadukeGRYLLS | Pocket Soldier | 2018-09-19 [16] | 2019-01-08[18] | ||
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cozen | Jan Lasota | Medic | 2018-09-02 [15] | 2019-01-08[18] | |
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sighguy | Demoman | 2018-09-02 [15] | 2018-11-22[17] |  Velocity eSports
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duwatna | Stephen Taylor | Demoman | 2018-09-02 [15] | 2018-09-19[16] | |
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yight | Brandon Bristoe | Scout | 2018-05-08 [13] | 2018-09-02[15] |  Faint Gaming
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phlps | Scout | 2018-07-18[14] | 2018-09-02[15] | Faint Gaming
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marmaloo | Roaming Soldier | 2018-01-08 [11] | 2018-09-02[15] |  FROYO BLACK
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aim | Pocket Soldier | 2018-05-08 [13] | 2018-09-02[15] |  froyotech
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xaler | Demoman | 2018-01-08 [11] | 2018-09-02[15] | Faint Gaming
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Nursey | Jenny Tempalski | Medic | 2017-07-12 [3] | 2018-09-02[15] | froyotech
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highfive | Kyle Bishop | Scout | 2018-05-08 [13] | 2018-07-18[14] |  Fin
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Bdonski | Cyrus Dahm | Demoman | 2017-07-12 [3] | 2018-05-08 [13] | FROYO BLACK
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Ma3laa | Wyatt River | Pocket Soldier | 2018-03-16 [12] | 2018-05-08 [13] |  Ascent
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slemnish | Scout | 2018-01-08 [11] | 2018-05-08 [13] | Faint Gaming
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corsa | Scout | 2018-01-08 [11] | 2018-05-08 [13] | FROYO BLACK
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paddie | Michael Simonetta | Pocket Soldier | 2017-09-14 [5] | 2018-03-16 [12] | New God Flow
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showstopper | Alex Idanjian | Roaming Soldier | 2017-10-10 [7] | 2018-01-08 [11] | Velocity eSports
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sandblast | Scout | 2017-11-21 [9] | 2018-01-08 [11] | Running with Scizors
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yomps | Justin Swilpa | Scout | 2017-07-12 [3] | 2017-12-21 [10] | froyotech
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Ma3laa | Wyatt Rivers | Roaming Soldier | 2017-07-12 [3] | 2017-11-20 [8] | Ascent
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rando | Matt Sorando | Pocket Soldier | 2017-07-12 [3] | 2017-10-07 [6] | Retired
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corsa | Scout | 2017-07-12 [3] | 2017-09-13 [4] | Ascent
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| ESEA Season 21 Squad | ||||||
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| ID | Name | Role | Join Date | Leave Date | New Team | |
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yomps | Justin Swilpa | Scout | 2015-09-09[1] | 2016-03-03 [2] |  RONIN
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shrugger | Canaan Carman | Scout | 2015-04-19 | 2016-03-03 [2] | RONIN
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Ma3laa | Wyatt Rivers | Roaming Soldier | 2015-04-19 | 2016-03-03 [2] | RONIN
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rando | Matt Sorando | Pocket Soldier | 2015-04-19 | 2016-03-03 [2] | RONIN
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Bdonski | Cyrus Dahm | Demoman | 2015-04-19 | 2016-03-03 [2] | RONIN
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phorofor | Nicholas Johnson | Medic | 2015-09-09[1] | 2016-03-03 [2] | RONIN
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| Former Players | ||||||
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| ID | Name | Role | Join Date | Leave Date | New Team | |
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Decimate | Christian Lomeli | Scout | 2015-04-19 | 2015-12-23 | froyotech
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TheFragile | Nick Leon | Medic | 2015-04-19 | 2015-09-09 [1] | RONIN
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| Temporary stand-ins | ||||||||
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| ID | Name | Replacing | ID | Name | Tournament(s) | |||
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sighguy | Cyrus G |  |
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slemnish | Esports Arena Rewind II | ||
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bo4r | Alexander Pistoletov | |
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corsa | Esports Arena Rewind II | ||
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enigma | Carl Yangsheng | |
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Decimate | Christian Lomeli | Insomnia 55 | |
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cozen | Jan Lasota | GXL LAN 2015 Razer Monthly Mayhem - Nov '15 | |||||
Organization[edit]
Active[edit]
Achievements[edit]
| Date | Placement | Tier | Tournament | Results | Prize | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-19 | 2nd | Major |  |
ESEA Season 28: North America Invite Division | 0 : 2 |
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$3,000 |
| 2018-04-19 | 2nd | Major | |
ESEA Season 27: North America Invite Division | 0 : 2 |
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$3,500 |
| 2018-02-18 | 2nd | Premier |  |
Esports Arena Rewind II | 0 : 3 |
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$4,399.61 |
| 2017-12-08 | 3rd | Major | |
ESEA Season 26: North America Invite Division | 0 : 2 | 
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$2,800 |
| 2017-08-31 | 2nd | Major | |
ESEA Season 25: North America Invite Division | 0 : 2 |
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$3,500 |
| 2015-12-16 | 1st | Major | |
ESEA Season 20: North America Invite Division | 2 : 0 | 
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$6,360 |
| 2015-12-05 | 1st | Minor |  |
Razer Arena Monthly Mayhem - November 2015 - NA | 2 : 1 |
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$1,000 |
| 2015-10-17 | 2nd | Major |  |
GXL LAN 2015 | 0 : 2 |
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$786 |
| 2015-08-30 | 4th | Premier |  |
Insomnia 55 | 1 : 2 | 
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$1,385.24 |
| 2015-07-19 | 2nd | Major | |
ESEA Season 19: North America Invite Division | 0 : 2 |
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$3,660 |
| About achievementsComplete Results in any Tournament | |||||||
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 tsc (2015-09-09). "Ascent finalizes roster". teamfortress.tv.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "Ronin acquires Ascent". 2016-03-03.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 "Our roster is now...". 2017-07-12.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "@Ascent_corsa will now be a backup for @ESEA.". 2017-09-13.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Welcome back to the starting lineup @Ascent_Paddie.". 2017-09-13.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "After nearly 10 seasons, @Ascent_rando will be stepping down from the starting roster due to other life commitments.". 2017-10-07.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Excited to announce our new pocket soldier will be @showstopperk1ng.". 2017-10-10.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Our owner [Ma3laa will be stepping down from playing with our NA TeamFortress team to focus on Ascent as a whole."]. 2017-11-20.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "We're excited to announce that the new 6th for our NA @TeamFortress team will be [sandblast."]. 2017-11-21.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Sadly, @zombyomps will no longer be playing with us.". 2017-12-21.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 "We're excited to finally announce our new NA TF2 roster.". 2018-01-08.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "Ma3laa @wyattriver_ will be stepping in as pocket soldier for @Ascent_paddie throughout the remainder of @ESEA Season 27.". 2018-03-16.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 Ascent (2018-05-08). "Been a long off-season, we're excited to announce our new NA TF2 roster.".
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Gritoma (2018-07-18). "highfive waves goodbye to Ascent, phlps joins.".
- ↑ 15.00 15.01 15.02 15.03 15.04 15.05 15.06 15.07 15.08 15.09 15.10 15.11 15.12 Ascent (2018-07-18). "OUR NEW NA TF2 ROSTER...".
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Ascent (2018-09-19). "duwatna leaves".
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Recurse (2018-11-22). "Velocity snip off Jarrett; glue on sighguy".
- ↑ 18.00 18.01 18.02 18.03 18.04 18.05 18.06 18.07 18.08 18.09 18.10 18.11 18.12 bleghfarec (2019-01-08). "Ascent put a new Invite roster in their pocket".
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