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Sport	League of Legends
League	NACS
Established	7 October 2013
Disbanded	December 2014

Team Curse
Divisions	League of Legends ; Street Fighter ; Super Smash Bros. Melee
Founded	25 August 2011
Location	Los Angeles, California
Manager	Steve "LiQuiD112 Arhancet ; Steve "Jokasteve" Perino ; Christopher “Blevdog” Blevins ; Luke “Felon” Jonason
Partners	Quest Nutrition ; HyperX ; Cooler Master ; Alienware ; Nissan ; LolClass ; Loot Crate ; G2A ; Scuf Gaming
Website	http://www.teamcurse.net/

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Team Curse was a North American eSports organization sponsored by Curse, Inc. and based in Los Angeles. Formed as a League of Legends (LoL) team in 2010 by Steve "LiQuiD112" Arhancet, it was acquired by Curse Inc. in August 2011, and the team renamed to Team Curse.^[1] On 15 April 2014, Arhancet announced that he had purchased the eSports arm of the Curse Inc., which from then on was an organization entire separated from Curse, Inc., although they were still the title sponsor of the new Curse eSports brand.^[2]

On 19 December 2014, Curse, Inc. that it was dropping its title sponsorship of Curse eSports, after Riot Games (Riot) introduced new League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) regulations regarding sponsoring more than one team.^[3] On 6 January 2015, the organization merged with Team Liquid. Team Liquid absorbed Curse eSports' League of Legends, Street Fighter, and Super Smash Bros. Melee rosters, the corresponding management staff, and Arhancet himself.^[4] Curse eSports had also previously fielded Call of Duty, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Guild Wars 2, Heroes of the Storm, Infinite Crisis, and Hearthstone teams.

History

League of Legends

Team Curse

ON PAGE

Curse EU

ON PAGE

Curse Academy

ON PAGE

Team LoLPro (NA)

On 7 October 2013, Team Curse announced the formation of a second League of Legends B-team, called Team LoLPro, alongside changes to the main team's roster. LoL Pro is a League of Legends community site and part of the Curse Network.[71] The team initially consisted of Chenglong "Nyjacky" Wang, David "Cop" Roberson, Cruz "Cruzerthebruzer" Odgen, and Brian "TrickZ" Ahn, with no fifth player announced.^[5] However, by 14 October Cop had moved back to the main League of Legends Championship Series team, and was briefly replaced by Jonathan "Demunlul" McCulloch, before he too left.^[6]^[7] On 1 November, Cruzerthebruzer and TrickZ also left Team LoLPro, the latter to join Counter Logic Gaming, and the team's vacant spots were then filled by Kevin "Hauntzer" Yarnell, Simon "heavenTime" Jeon, Ben "LOD" deMunck, and Leon "Apexy" Tang.^[8] On 6 December, Apexy was replaced by Derek "Lohpally" Abrams.^[9]

In January 2014, Team LoLPro attempted to join Riot Games' newly created North American Challenger Series (NACS), but failed to do so after being knocked out in the first round of the online qualifier.^[10] The team successfully qualified for the second half of the NACS Spring Season, but was eliminated in the quarterfinals by vVv Gaming on 9 March.^[11] This loss meant Team LoLPro missed out on a seed into the Spring Playoffs, and Nyjacky was replaced by Devon "Hoodstomp" Mark two days later.^[12]^[13] In the first half of the NACS Summer Season, the team qualified once again, and progressed to the final before they were beaten by Team Coast at Wembley Arena on 22 June.^[14] This second-place finish meant that Team LoLPro automatically qualified for the second half of the Summer Season. Neither Hoodstomp nor Lohpally played in the team's semifinal defeat against Curse Academy, and were instead replaced by Jordan "Patoy" Blackburn and Peter "Heartbeat" Lim.^[15] Hoodstomp announced his retirement that same day.^[16] The team was then beaten by Team 8 in the third-place-match on 1 August 2014, with Lohpally playing again in place of Heartbeat, giving Team LoLPro the third seed into the NACS Summer Playoffs.^[17]

At the Summer Playoffs, Team LoLPro played with Derek "Zignature" Shao in place of Lohpally, who had been moved to a substitute position. The team beat Denial eSports in the quarterfinals before losing to Curse Academy and Team Coast respectively in the semifinals and the third-place match on 23 August.^[18]^[19]^[20] As a result, LoLPro did not qualify for the Spring Promotion Tournament, and on 27 September 2014, Curse eSports announced that it would be rebuilding Team LoLPro with new talent.^[21] On 16 September 2014, Riot Games released details of the upcoming Expansion Tournament, which would add two additional teams to the NA LCS, expanding it to a ten team league.[137] The new Team LoLPro roster of Cuong "Flaresz" Ta, Thomas "Thinkcard" Slotkin, David "Yusui" Bloomquist, Apollo "WizFujiiN" Price, and Yuri "KEITHMCBRIEF" Jew qualified for the North American iteration of this tournament after finishing in fourth place on the League of Legends team ladder-rankings at the end of the qualifying period.^[22]^[23] The team lost to Team Coast in the second round of the online stage on 23 November 2014, and disbanded shortly afterwards.^[24]^[25]

Team Curse OCE

On 4 April 2014, Team Curse expanded their League of Legends presence into the Oceanic region, and acquired Little Wraith, re-branding them as Team Curse OCE. This team's initial roster was Nikolo "Kolo" Tayag, Bradley "Chelby" Williams, Lae-Young "Keane" Jang, Richard "Perfection" Su and Cameron "Charlie" Thompson.^[26] On 23 April, Charlie announced that he was no longer a member of Team Curse OCE, and was then replaced by Richard "Airy" Cu https://twitter.com/Oce_Charlie/status/458957153701609472

May 2nd, Trashboat joins. Perfection becomes a sub.^[27]
3 May - Fail to Qualify via ACL Online http://challonge.com/ACLOR2_A
9 May - http://forums.oce.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=61218 disqualified from Winter Challenger http://challonge.com/winterchallenger
10 May Qualify through Cybergames Qualifier http://oce.leagueoflegends.com/en/competitive-2014/winter-regional http://au.cybergamer.com/forums/thread/543546/TeamDownTV-Presents-CG-Finals-and-Winter-Qualifers-11am/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtk0TarXzs0
24 May - OCE Winter Begins Curse beat AVR ro8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stc_zHTuil0
1 June - Lose to AVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXrEX7Ipy7A
7 June - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQWXPQNLIT8 beat ava again
16 June, Keane leaves.[129]
21 June - Lose to Avant Garde OCE Semis using Mazui in place of Keane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf79uKs__0c
On 28 July, the organization announced that the Curse OCE roster would be released, as a result of League of Legends Championship Series regulations regarding owning more than one top-tier team.https://web.archive.org/web/20140908075344/http://www.teamcurse.net/?page=2

Call of Duty

http://cod.esportspedia.com/wiki/Team_Curse

http://cod.gamepedia.com/Curse

https://twitter.com/cursecod

Team Curse (LV, NY, Orange and Black)

http://www.teamcurse.net/divisions/call-of-duty/curse-orange

Before MLG Dallas Curse decided to pick up Team Dare, which consisted of Ryan "Fatalize" Bogucki, Alex "Rizma" Lopez, Bryan "Apathy" Zhelyazkov and Aaron "CMPLX" Vetelino. The team then went on to MLG Dallas under the Curse organization. They started off strong beating Dare Rising, however they went on to lose to vVv Gaming and Quantic Gaming, making a disappointed start to Curse’s road in CoD eSports. They went in to the next event, the 2013 Call of Duty Championship, with a point to prove, but they again struggled to make an impact, finishing 17-24th. Following these disappointing finishes there were major team changes, with Apathy, Rizma and Fatalize all gone with the new team being CMPLX, Blfire, LyaR and TwiZz. This team went into MLG Anaheim hoping to turn Curse’s luck around in CoD eSports and managed to do so with a vast improvement finishing 4th, taking away $2,300 and beating Dare, vVv Gaming and UNiTE Gaming in the process. The next tournament they attended was UMG Atlanta where they could only secure a top 8 finish, beating teams such as Fearless Under Fire and FaZe Clan before crashing out at the hands of SoaR Gaming. They managed to finish the Black Ops 2 season strong, taking a new roster with MiRx instead of LyaR to UMG Dallas where the finished 3rd, taking home $2,000. This was arguably against a weakened set of opponents with the MLG Fall Invitational taking place on the same weekend, meaning that none of compLexity, OpTic Gaming, UNiTE Gaming or FaZe Clan were present.

Before the first event of Call of Duty ghosts there were many roster changes that took place within Team Curse. Two teams were formed, Curse Las Vegas and Curse New York. Curse LV consisted of Parasite, MiRx, NameLeSs and StaiNViLLe while Curse NY consisted of John, ASSASS1N, Blfire and TwiZz. Both teams, particularly Curse LV went into MLG Columbus with very high hopes. However, Curse LV lost to Team KaLiBeR to put them in the losers bracket before being knocked out by Strictly Business while Curse NY also crashed out leaving both teams placing outside of the Top 8. Following this Curse LV dropped StaiNViLLe to pick up Parasite and MiRx’s former teammate on Fariko.Impact, KiLLa. This team went into UMG Philadelphia with even higher hopes than MLG Columbus and came through with a 3rd place finish, taking home $3,000 after losing to Team KaLiBeR. However, the team remained dominant online, taking 1st place in the online MLG Winter Championship, but struggled to put those finishing touches into their LAN performance. They then had another roster shuffle, with Parasite leaving for OpTic Gaming and the acquisition of StuDyy to take his place. Within a few days, Parasite and Ricky rejoined Curse LV in the place of NameLeSs and StuDyy. Curse NY also made some major changes, ending up with a team of Burnsoff, Mochila, Revan and Blfire.

Both teams then went into the Call of Duty Championship Regional LAN Qualifiers to qualify for the $1,000,000 prize pool better known as the Call of Duty Championship. Curse LV had suffered major turmoil in the run up to his event, with Parasite and KiLLa constantly arguing, which many people speculated would cost them at the Call of Duty Championships. Curse LV were up against Rise Nation in round 1 of the winners bracket, but suffered a shock defeat that put them down into the losers bracket. Curse NY then suffered defeat at the hands of Team JusTus, meaning that the two Curse teams would face off in a family feud with the loser not qualifying for the Call of Duty Championships. The match went to a game 5, with Curse NY coming out on top. However, they would still have to beat OpTic Gaming for the chance to compete in LA for their share of the $1,000,000. They lost 3-1 leaving the Curse organization with no teams in the Call of Duty Championships. This obviously led to a massive roster shake up with Season 2 of the online CoD league coming up. Eventually, Curse became two teams - Curse Black and Curse Orange.

The roster of Curse Black was Tipsy, Burnsoff, Mochila and Enable while the roster of Curse Orange was Muddawg, Crowster, Miyagi and Attach. Both teams went on to UGC Niagara; however, both teams had very poor events. Curse Orange lost both of their matches against VexX Gaming and OpTic Nation while Curse Black beat JusTus in the losers bracket, but lost to Team EnVyUs and OpTic Gaming leaving both teams out of the Top 8. Curse Orange managed to qualify for the MLG X Games invitational via pro points but had a disappointing event, coming 6th out of 8. The teams had mixed results in Season 2 of the Online CoD league. Curse Black found success and qualified for the MLG Anaheim Championship bracket while Curse Orange did not and found themselves in the Open Bracket fighting for their share of $10,000 and a place in Season 3.

At Anaheim the teams once again had very mixed fortunes. Curse Black had an excellent event, finishing 4th after making an excellent losers bracket run beating FaZe Red, Epsilon eSports and Team EnVyUs before losing to TCM Gaming. Curse Orange on the other hand failed to place in the Top 4, meaning that they did not qualify for Season 3 of the MLG Online League, leading to the whole team being dropped. https://twitter.com/LingLingMiyagi/status/481820600998973444 Curse Black, now just known as Curse, suffered some complications leading up to Gfinity 3. Tipsy had passport issues, which meant that the team had to play with Crowster as a fill in. This led to a very disappointing finish at G3, after scraping through the group and losing their quarterfinal 3-0 to eventual winners Team EnVyUs. They then went in to UMG Dallas hoping to replicate their MLG Anaheim performance, but could only come away with a 7th-8th finish, after being knocked out by OpTic Nation.

Prior to the new Call of Duty Advanced Warfare season, Team Curse and Most Wanted have decided to merge their organizations and compete under the Team Curse banner moving forward. The purpose of this move is to combine two of the top Call of Duty organizations in an effort to produce higher quality competition in Advanced Warfare and to help grow Call of Duty eSports as a whole.

Most Wanted’s current group of managers will be moving over and collaborating with the current Team Curse infrastructure. Team Curse is happy to welcome back Crs Blevdog, as well as welcome Crs Felon and Crs Grayzilla to the team.

Currently the roster for the new team is undecided and more details will be coming at a later time. Team Curse would like to thank all of the fans that continue to support us, and management promises to continue to strive for the ultimate goal of a world championship.

Br0cco claims they left after Curse made the switch to twitch as the players could no longer stream their games on mlg.tv https://www.reddit.com/r/CoDCompetitive/comments/2plwib/team_curse/cmyb67z https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldelbrocco

Team Curse Youth

12 January 2014

Curse Call of Duty is excited to announce that they will be creating a brand new team, Curse Youth. Curse Youth is being formed to provide a home to top players that are younger than the required age of eighteen.

"I understand Activision's basis for making the age restrictions for Call of Duty Champs. These players are some of the best players in the world and they need a chance to compete at the highest level while working in a solid organization."

https://twitter.com/eSportsNation/status/422582679624617984

Anthony “CrsMethodz” Zinni, Derrek “Crs_Realize” Jordan, Martin “Crs_Chino” Chino, and Dillon “CrsAttach” Price.

21 March 2014 Chino Leaves https://twitter.com/dT_Chino/status/447121991489699840

Methodz --> Miyagi https://twitter.com/CurseCoD/status/451075720081448960 https://twitter.com/dT_Diabolic/status/451118833303310336 1st April 2014

Diabolic https://twitter.com/CurseCoD/status/447813629174632448 23rd March 2014

Realize and Diabolic replaced by Crowster and Muddawg, team rebrands to Curse Orange, no longer a youth team. 14 April 2014

https://twitter.com/CurseCoD/status/455894569075228673 https://twitter.com/eSportsNation/status/456165526252048384

Team Curse Call of Duty EU

http://www.curse.com/news/black-ops-2/47797-curse-announces-signing-of-european-call-of-duty

7 March 2013

Scott ‘Mak’ Brass, Ellis ‘Blackk’ Strouthos, Jordan ‘Vapez’ Haydney , and Sam ‘Bissell’ Bissell

27 May 2013 http://www.millenium.org/cod-black-ops-2/accueil/esport/wonder-remplace-vapez-chez-curse-eu-woner-vapez-curse-mcgee-mak-blackk-bissell-black-ops-2-call-of-duty-esport-86946 Wonder replaces Vapez

Team Curse AU

Iskatuu, Chilean, Denz and Damage. In April 2014, the team was picked up by the Curse organisation, leaving TRIDENT behind. They became the third Curse team along with Curse Black and Curse Orange.At ACL Brisbane 2014, the team finished second to Immunity. Having lost in the Grand Final, it meant that Immunity earned a spot for the upcoming MLG Anaheim event a few weeks later. However, Immunity were unable to attend the event, which meant that the Curse squad were now invited to the event in Anaheim, CA.The team did not perform well at the event. They lost their first round match against FaZe Black 3-0. They then dropped into the loser's bracket where they faced Epsilon eSports. The team didn't play to their usually high standards as they lost 3-0 to Epsilon. They placed 9th-11th at MLG Anaheim, taking home $3,000. In August 2014, the team released Chilean. They cited team conduct rules as the reason why he was released. The team picked up Louqa, who won the previous ACL event with Team Storm.

17 November 2014 https://www.reddit.com/r/CoDCompetitive/comments/2mlnyu/curse_release_their_australian_team/cm5db1x Curse AU released

Guild Wars 2

http://www.teamcurse.net/divisions/guild-wars-2/team-curse

18 October 2012 - Picked up #1 http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/71991-interview-with-team-curses-guild-wars-2-spvp-team/

Hein

Redek

Cry

Ex Force

Neuro

Crs Neuro ‏@CrsNeuro 9 Nov 2012

Curse GW2 (Revised) has secured its 4th member. Welcome back Crs Cry!

1 December 2012 Team Curse (Guild Wars 2) has revamped and completed their main roster! https://www.facebook.com/CrsNeuro/posts/289692214485616

• Neuro (Team Captain) - Mesmer

• Zoose - Elementalist / Warrior

• Ayra - Guardian / Thief / Necromancer

• Tokyo - Engineer / Necromancer

• Naito - Guardian

Arya and Neuro stop playing, rest of team disband ~ early February - facebook messages

4 August 2013 - Picked up #2 https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1joxhh/curse_signs_guild_wars_2_team_former_team/

Saeed "Xeph" Al Neaimi

John "Symbolic" Sampson

Seth "Phantaram" Summerlin

Sascha "Teldo" Busch

Kasper "Azshene" Lindskov

9 August 2013 - Curse disqualified from PAX qualifiers in favour of Car Crash - Xeph not eligible to play. https://www.reddit.com/r/gw2esports/comments/1k1d4a/team_curse_disqualified_from_eu_pax_qualifier/cbkdygt

1 September 2013 - Xeph retires. https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1lih1t/xeph_team_curse_formerly_tp_quits_gw2_for_good/cbzrhri

TEAM BREAKS UP AT SOME POINT - twitter messages

Counter Strike: Global Offensive

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/counterstrike/Team_Curse

9 November 2012 - '''Curse.NA''' squad formed. Consists of [[Michael3D]], [[frozt]], [[anger]], [[Juv3nile]], and [[Skadoodle]].

25 September 2013 - '''Curse.NA''' loses squad. [[Michael3D]], [[frozt]], [[anger]], [[Juv3nile]], and [[Skadoodle]] leave.

4 December 2012 - '''Curse.EU''' squad acquires players of [[Hawks]]. [[natu]], [[allu]], [[naSu]], [[reflx]], and [[scurK]] join.<ref>[http://www.fpsgeneral.com/news/counter-strike-global-offensive/22571-curse-adds-counter-strike-global-offensive Curse Adds Counter-Strike: Global Offensive European Team] ''fpsgeneral.com''</ref>

11 January 2013 - '''Curse.EU''' [[naSu]] steps down to backup, [[aslak]] makes a return to the scene after his military service finally ends.<ref>[http://www.hltv.org/news/9846-aslak-replaces-nasu-in-curse aslak replaces naSu in Curse] ''HLTV.org''</ref>

25 February 2013 - '''Curse.EU''' [[aslak]] leaves and is replaced by [[KHRN]].

26 April 2013 - '''Curse.EU''' is no longer part of the organization and is known as [[Hawks]] again. [[natu]]. [[allu]], [[reflx]], [[scurK]], and [[KHRN]] leave.

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

2014

April 6th, Team Curse starts a four-man Hearthstone division with Savjz as the first player.^[28]
April 29th - Alchemixt joins.^[29]
May 7th - Kitkatz and Darkwonyx are the final two players on the team.^[30]
June 20th - Kitkatz departs.^[31]
July 26th - Savjz leaves Curse.^[32]
September 30th - Darkwonyx leaves the team.^[33]
October 13th - Alchemixt leaves the team.^[34]

http://www.teamcurse.net/divisions/hearthstone/team-curse-hearthstone

Super Smash Bros. Melee

2014

April 11 - Curse signs Chillindude.^[35]
April 17 - Curse signs Hungrybox.^[36]

2015

January 6 - Curse merges with Team Liquid. Curse players from all games are now under the Team Liquid banner.^[37]

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/smash/Team_Curse

http://www.teamcurse.net/divisions/super-smash-brothers/team-curse-super-smash-brothers

Infinite Crisis

http://content.azubu.tv/moba/league-of-legends/curse-expands-acquires-infinite-crisis-roster/

15 May 2014

Joey “Bluefreeze” Moore

Johnny “Mischkit” Haren

Shawn “koN” Porter

Joey “Juk3d” Smith

Alex “FatalUno” Cuccovillo

Cow (Achiri) and ImGoingPro (Donut) replace Juk3d and Mischkit. https://www.reddit.com/r/infinitecrisis/comments/2c0ahl/c_curse_changes_cow/

AlmightyTick and Mal then replace them on Curse https://www.reddit.com/r/infinitecrisis/comments/2ddmlj/oops_we_did_it_again/

Disband on 6 November 2014, remnants rebrand as Dolphin Chasers - http://play.eslgaming.com/infinitecrisis/global/major/go4infinitecrisis-northamerica/cup-19/team/log/8413022/ https://www.reddit.com/r/infinitecrisis/comments/2lsfyg/spoiler_go4infinitecrisis_north_america_season_2/ https://twitter.com/FatalUno/status/530418385465917440

Heroes of The Storm

http://www.teamcurse.net/divisions/heroes-of-the-storm/team-curse-heroes-of-the-storm

August 7th 2014, Team Curse starts a Heroes division with Sneaky, Sev, Grim, Fury and Gazwaz.
December 1st 2014 - The team officially disbands, and players moved onto new teams.

Street Fighter

http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2014/nov/28/team-curse-gaming-launches-street-fighter-esports-division-enlists-nuckle-du/

Final Roster

As of the merger between Team Curse and Team Liquid on 6 January 2015.

Team Curse's League of Legends, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Street Fighter rosters moved over to Team Liquid.

League of Legends

Diego "Quas" Ruiz
Christian "IWDominate" Rivera
Jae-Hun "Fenix" Kim
Gwang-Jin "Piglet" Chae
Alex "Xpecial" Chu

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Juan "Hungrybox" Debiedma
Kashan "Chillindude" Khan

Street Fighter

Du "NuckleDu" Dang

Selected Achievements

The following is a list of major, primarily offline, events at which any roster or player under the Team Curse brand has placed third or better.

League of Legends

Team Curse

2nd IGN ProLeague Face Off

Team Curse EU

1st Elite of Europe

Team Curse OCE

3rd 2014 Oceanic Regional Tournament Winter

Call of Duty

Team Curse

3rd UMG Dallas 2013

3rd UMG Philadelphia 2013 (Curse LV)

1st Call of Duty Winter Invitational (Curse LV)

3rd MLG Call of Duty League Playoffs (Curse LV)

Team Curse AU

1st ACL Brisbane 2014

Counter Strike: Global Offensive

Curse.NA

3rd ESEA Season 14

Curse.EU

2nd THOR Open 2012

Hearthstone

1st OGN Invitational - Janne "Savjz" Mikkone

3rd ESL Legendary Series Season 2 Finals - Andrew "Kitkatz" Deschanel

Super Smash Bros. Melee

2nd Get On My Level 2014 - Juan "Hungrybox" Debiedma

3rd CEO 2014 - Hungrybox

2nd EVO 2014 - Hungrybox

1st Smash the Record - Hungrybox

1st Tipped Off 10 - Hungrybox

Notable Alumni

Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng (League of Legends)
Steve "LiQuiD112" Arhancet (League of Legends)
Aleksi "allu" Jalli (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
Dillon "Attach" Price (Call of Duty)
Kevin "Hauntzer" Yarnell (League of Legends)

Notable Tournament Results

The following is a list of major, primarily offline, events at which any roster or player under the Counter Logic Gaming brand has placed third or better.^[why?]