Status Active Nationality American Games League of Legends Game League of Legends | Hometown Fairfax, Virginia Role Jungler Current team Cloud9 Home town Fairfax | |
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Born June 13, 1993 (age 23) ( 1993 -06-13 ) Championships 2013 Summer NA LCS, 2014 Spring NA LCS Education Christopher Newport University Similar C9 Sneaky, Bjergsen, Doublelift, Hai, Aphromoo Profiles | ||
C9 meteos with the legendary kick fw vs c9 worlds 2016
William Hartman, better known as Meteos, is an American League of Legends player. During his time on C9 Meteos has won two North American League of Legends Championship Series split titles and appeared in the League of Legends Championship Series every year.
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- C9 meteos with the legendary kick fw vs c9 worlds 2016
- Hyperx undercover with c9 meteos tsm theoddone pax prime 2015
- Early life
- Career
- References
Hyperx undercover with c9 meteos tsm theoddone pax prime 2015
Early life
Although he was born in Massachusetts, Meteos grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. He became interested in games when he was five after he used his dad's Game Boy. Before leaving school to play League of Legends, he was a sophomore at Christopher Newport University working towards a degree in Computer Science.
Career
Meteos was introduced to League of Legends by his brother. His first favorite champion was Singed. He played ADC in Season 2, but eventually switched to Jungle in April 2012. He ranked up playing Skarner, a champion that came to be associated with him. He favored Jungle Elise in Season 3.
Meteos played "High Elo" normal games for a long time, earning over 3500 wins. At some point, he and his friends decided to form Team Normal Stars to compete in Go4LoL tournaments. Although they were able to win consistently, they disbanded before the first LCS qualifying games because their top laner was too young to compete. He became friends with WildTurtle, who asked him to be a sub for Cloud9. Since the team hadn't decided on a Jungler, he asked if he could join full-time. Meteos joined Cloud9 in early March after subbing for them in the MLG Rising Stars Invitational and IPL 6 qualifiers.
His original in-game name was "Long Dong" before it was changed to "Short Dog" for being offensive. But after an inactive name sweep, his current account's name became available. "Meteos" was the name he used in WoW for five years—it comes from a Nintendo DS game by the same name that happened to be on his desk at the time he created his WoW account.
On July 3, 2015, Meteos announced that he was stepping down as Cloud9's main jungler and shot caller. Following the announcement, Hai came out of retirement to fill in during the Summer Split Week 6. Meteos extended his thanks for the concern from the community — many wondered if he had a family/health emergency because of some ambiguously worded updates on social media. Meteos said that the team was not playing at its best with him as the shotcaller; he thought that if he stepped back for the rest of the split to let someone else jungle, C9 might avoid relegation. Jack Etienne, the general manager of Cloud9 said, "Meteos is a huge part of Cloud9 and one of the most talented players on our roster." Meteos is still actively involved in the C9 brand and will even sub for the new jungler as needed.
On May 9, 2016 it was announced he would return to the active C9 roster as Jungler.
Meteos returned to Cloud 9 during the 2016 Summer Split as their starting jungler. Playing very well and with help of new members of the team such as C9 Impact and C9 smoothie, Cloud 9 was able to secure a play off spot and making it all the way to the finals eventually losing to TSM. Making it through the gauntlet and defeating Immortals 3-1. Cloud 9 was able to qualify for worlds once again.
Following a Worlds quarterfinals finish with a 0-3 loss to Samsung Galaxy, Meteos once again announced his departure from the main Cloud9 lineup, moving into the substitute position, with the intent to stream full-time again. He was replaced by rookie jungler Contractz.