Date founded 2015 | Owner Rick Fox | |
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Sport League of Legends
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Super Smash Bros.
Fighting games
Call of Duty Profiles | ||
Echo Fox is a professional eSports organization which fields teams in League of Legends, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 , Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Street Fighter V, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Mortal Kombat X. The organization was founded after Rick Fox bought the LCS spot of Gravity Gaming for around US$1 million. The organization expanded into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive by signing a team called Torqued on January 26, 2016. Jace Hall is the team's co-owner and manager.
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League of Legends
On 1/23/2016, due to some concerns over player work-eligibility, Echo Fox was unable to submit a roster and was required to forfeit their match against NRG eSports. Echo Fox finished last in the 2016 Summer NA LCS, forcing a relegation match. They defeated NRG eSports 3-0 in relegations and qualified for the 2017 NA LCS Spring Split.
Disbandment
While no official reason has been given for Echo Fox allowing its players to leave, many cite it due to bad performances at both Eleague Season 2 and IBUYPOWER Masters 2016. At Eleague, Echo Fox suffered humiliating losses versus Virtus.pro(where they won only a single round on nuke) and versus G2 Esports(where Echo Eox lost 16-3 and 16-2 on Nuke and Dust 2 respectively). At IBUYPOWER Masters 2016 Echo Fox finished a disappointing 5th-6th place.
Fighting games
Echo Fox entered the fighting game community on April 29, 2016 by signing Street Fighter V player Julio Fuentes. A month later, they would sign Super Smash Bros. pro Jason "Mew2King" Zimmerman.
In 2017, Echo Fox would make one of the biggest signings in eSports history by signing seven FGC players all at once, three of which were previously being from Evil Geniuses. In addition to this Echo Fox signed former EG manager Antonio "CoolGrayAJ" Javier as the team's new manager. The signing of said superteam was met with mixed reception from the fighting game community. Evil Geniuses player Kenneth "K-Brad" Bradley vowed for the team to fall especially his former teammate, Justin Wong. Team Liquid's NuckleDu acknowledged the signing and feels anticipated as to what the new team can do, complimenting each player as a Top 10 player in each of their main games. Echo Fox would continue growing their team with the signing of Korean Tekken pros Saint and JDCR; this would bring their roster up to eleven players.
Call of Duty
On May 13, 2016 Echo Fox added a Call of Duty team with a roster of Jeremy "Neslo" Olsen, Jordan "Proof" Cannon, Jonathan "SinfuL" Baez, and Josh "Cyborg" Kimpson.