FormaL

Overview

Tournament Results

FormaL
Background Information
Name	Matt Piper
Country of Birth	United States
Birthday	December 19, 1994 (age 27)
Residency	NA North America
Competitive
Team	⁠⁠Sentinels ⁠⁠OpTic Gaming
Role	Player
Input	Controller
Social Media & Links

Matt "FormaL" Piper is a Halo esports player, currently a player for Sentinels and a content creator for OpTic Gaming. During his Halo retirement from 2013-2021, FormaL became a successful Call of Duty player including multiple years on the OpTic Gaming dynasty.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team		Start	End		Notes
NA	⁠⁠Soul		≈Apr 2011≈2011-04-??	≈Jun 2011≈2011-06-??	≈2mo	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Believe the Hype		≈Jul 2011≈2011-07-??	≈Sep 2011≈2011-09-??	≈2mo	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Dynasty		≈Sep 2011≈2011-09-??	≈Feb 2012≈2012-02-??	≈5mo	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Ambush		≈Mar 2012≈2012-03-??	≈Aug 2013≈2013-08-??	≈1yr 5mo	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Dynasty		≈Apr 2012≈2012-04-??	Oct 20122012-10-??	≈6mo 14d	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Believe the Hype		≈Oct 2014≈2014-10-??	≈Dec 2014≈2014-12-??	≈2mo	ejel
NA	⁠⁠OpTic Gaming		Aug 20212021-08-28	Present	4mo 15d	ej
NA	⁠⁠Inconceivable		Nov 20212021-11-17	Nov 20212021-11-19	2d	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Sentinels		Dec 20212021-12-12	Present	1mo	Temp Sub ej

	Team		Start	End		Notes
NA	⁠⁠Soul		≈Apr 2011≈2011-04-??	≈Jun 2011≈2011-06-??	≈2mo	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Believe the Hype		≈Jul 2011≈2011-07-??	≈Sep 2011≈2011-09-??	≈2mo	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Dynasty		≈Sep 2011≈2011-09-??	≈Feb 2012≈2012-02-??	≈5mo	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Ambush		≈Mar 2012≈2012-03-??	≈Aug 2013≈2013-08-??	≈1yr 5mo	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Dynasty		≈Apr 2012≈2012-04-??	Oct 20122012-10-??	≈6mo 14d	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Believe the Hype		≈Oct 2014≈2014-10-??	≈Dec 2014≈2014-12-??	≈2mo	ejel
NA	⁠⁠OpTic Gaming		Aug 20212021-08-28	Present	4mo 15d	ej
NA	⁠⁠Inconceivable		Nov 20212021-11-17	Nov 20212021-11-19	2d	ejel
NA	⁠⁠Sentinels		Dec 20212021-12-12	Present	1mo	Temp Sub ej

News

• 2011
• 2012
• 2013
• 2014
• 2021

NA	⁠⁠Soul	April (approx.), Blaze, Brake, FormaL, and RyaNoob join. e
NA	⁠⁠Soul	June (approx.), Blaze, Brake, FormaL, and Goofy leave. e
NA	⁠⁠BtH	July (approx.), Blaze, FormaL, and RyaNoob join. Cloud, Clutch, and Neighbor leave. e
NA	⁠⁠Dyn	September (approx.), Destin and FormaL join. Cloud and Snip3down leave. e
NA	⁠⁠BtH	September (approx.), Cloud and Snip3down join. Destin and FormaL leave. e

NA	⁠⁠Dyn	February (approx.), Dersky and LethuL join. FormaL and Heinz leave. e
NA	⁠⁠Amb	March (approx.), APG, Cloud, FormaL, and Heinz join. e
NA	⁠⁠Dyn	April (approx.), FormaL and Heinz join. Dersky and LethuL leave. e
NA	⁠⁠Dyn	October, AcE, Dersky, and Reliable join. FormaL, Heinz, and TiZoXiC leave. e

NA	⁠⁠Amb	August (approx.), Enable, FormaL, Heinz, and iGotUrPistola leave. e
NA	⁠⁠F/A	October 30, FormaL retires. e

NA	⁠⁠BtH	October (approx.), aPG, FormaL, LethuL, and MaNiaC join. e
NA	⁠⁠BtH	December (approx.), Legit joins. FormaL leaves. e

NA	⁠⁠OG	August 28, FormaL (Content Creator) joins. e
NA	⁠⁠ICE	November 17, FormaL comes out of retirement and joins ⁠⁠Inconceivable. e
NA	⁠⁠ICE	November 19, Snip3down joins. FormaL leaves. e
NA	⁠⁠SEN	December 12, FormaL joins as temporary substitute for HCS Raleigh 2021, replacing Royal2. Royal2 becomes inactive. e

Biography

Matthew Piper was born on December 19, 1994. He is from southern California.

Halo 3

Formal began his Halo career at MLG Anaheim 2009, as a member of Chilled Reality alongside AoW, Frogan and Shyre. They placed 30th. Formal's next event was MLG Columbus 2010 as a member of The A-Team with HaloKnight. They placed outside the top 32. Formal's last documented Halo 3 event was MLG Raleigh 2010, where he again placed outside of the top 32 as a member of Far From Home alongside Aptix, Gregor and MuNoZ.

Halo: Reach

Formal first made a name for himself in Halo: Reach by placing 5th at MLG Dallas 2011. His team, Soul, included Blaze, Brake and Ryanoob. Ryanoob was replaced with Goofy for Columbus, where Formal and Soul took 6th place. Formal and Blaze then left Soul to join Believe the Hype alongside Maniac and Ryanoob. BtH took 5th place in Anaheim. Blaze and Ryanoob then left BtH to join Infamous, and were replaced by Destin and Reliable. The new squad placed 3rd in Raleigh. Formal and Destin then left BtH to join Dynasty alongside Heinz and TiZoXiC. On Dynasty, Formal finally found success, winning his first event in Orlando. Unfortunately, Dynasty did not perform as well at the Providence National Championships, taking 5th place. In 2012, Formal and Heinz left Dynasty to form Ambush with APG and Cloud. The new squad placed 3rd at the MLG Winter Championship 2012. After MLG dropped Halo, Formal and APG joined team Avengers with Clutch and Lethul and placed 3rd at AGL 1. The 2011 Dynasty lineup then reformed for AGL 2, where Formal again placed 3rd.

Halo 4

In late 2012, Formal and Heinz reformed Ambush again, this time with APG and Snip3down. The new squad took 2nd at the MLG Fall Championship 2012. The Ambush squad stuck together for AGL 3 Chicago where they placed 1st. APG was then replaced with iGotUrPistola, and the new squad proceeded to dominate the competition, winning three straight events (AGL 5, AGL 7, UMG Chicago) before placing 4th at AGL 8. They then attended AGL 9 with Enable in place of Snip3down and won the event. In 2014, Formal and Heinz formed Reign 812 with APG and Lethul, and the squad placed 3rd at RTX 2014.

Halo 2: Annivesary

Formal, APG and Lethul started off H2A by joining Believe the Hype. This squad took 1st place at the ESL MCC Launch Invitational. Formal retired from Halo after this to fully pursue a Call of Duty career.

Trivia

• Formal is the first player to win a major event in both Halo and Call of Duty. He earned this distinction on August 3, 2014 when he won Gfinity 3 as a member of Team EnVyUs.

Achievements

This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.

Minimum place
Premier Only Major Only Minor Only Tournament tier

FormaL Tournament Results
	Date	Pl	Prize	Event		Roster
	2022-01-06	4		HCS North America Pro Series 2022-01-06	⁠⁠SEN	SnakeBite •  Frosty •  LethuL •  FormaL •  Royal1
	2021-12-19	4	$19,600$ 19,600$19,600	HCS Kickoff Major Raleigh 2021	⁠⁠SEN	SnakeBite •  Frosty •  LethuL •  FormaL •  Royal1
	2021-12-11	7 - 8		Esports Arena 25K Series E Launch Invitational	⁠⁠SSG	Ace •  Tylenul •  Deciting •  FormaL •  Elamite
	2021-12-03	4 - 8		BoomTV Game Pass Has PC Games Invitational	⁠⁠TOMM	Tommey •  FormaL •  Eco •  HotShotGhost
	2021-11-28	5 - 6		HCS North America Open Series 2021-11-28	⁠⁠SSG	Ace •  Tylenul •  Deciting •  FormaL •  Elamite
	2014-11-09	1	$20,000$ 20,000$20,000	Halo MCC Launch Invitational	⁠⁠BtH	FormaL •  LethuL •  aPG •  MaNiaC
	2014-07-06	3	$500$ 500$500	RTX 2014	⁠⁠REIG	FormaL •  aPG •  LethuL •  Heinz
	2013-09-01	7	$2,000$ 2,000$2,000	Halo 4 Global Championship	⁠⁠FORM	FormaL
	2013-08-11	1	$3,500$ 3,500$3,500	AGL 9 Atlanta	⁠⁠Amb	FormaL •  iGotUrPistola •  Heinz •  Enable •  Kalvin
	2013-08-11	2		AGL 9 Atlanta 2v2	⁠⁠THE	Enable •  FormaL
Total Prize:USD 45,600

Media

• 2021

• December 12, A brief look into FormaL's Halo Career by Mike Schnitzer on Forerunner
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• December 17, The Official OpTic Halo Pre-Show (ft. Scump, FormaL, Lucid, MaNiaC) by OpTic Gaming on YouTube
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Post-Match Interviews

Date	Tournament	Match	Link
2021-12-19	HCS Kickoff Major Raleigh 2021	OG⁠⁠ vs ⁠⁠SEN	Link

Gallery

Images

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  FormaL
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  OPTI FormaL

Rosters

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  Sentinels, HCS Raleigh 2021, Left to Right: Frosty, FormaL, SnakeBite, LethuL

Redirects

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