OpTic Gaming

OpTic Gaming
OpTic Gaming
Team Information
Org Location	; United States
Region	NANorth America
Head Coach	Lunchbox
Sponsor	Team Razer ; Jack in the box ; Jack Links ; Elgato ; SCUF Gaming ; Oakley ; Predator ;
Affiliated	Envy
History
Created	2006-??-??
Social Media & Links
Current Roster

Overview

Team History

Tournament Results

OpTic Gaming is an American eSports organization. In affiliation with Team Envy, they are an official partnered team of the HCS as of August 30, 2021.

History

Main article: History of OpTic Gaming

Timeline

2012
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2021
2022

November (approx.), MerK, NaDeSHoT, Saintt, and Scump join.
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November (approx.), MerK, NaDeSHoT, Saintt, and Scump leave.
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May 16, Ace, Flamesword, iGotUrPistola, Snip3down, and StrongSide (Coach) join.
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November 15, iGotUrPistola and Snip3down leave.
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November 23, Assault joins.
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December 3, Aries and Elamite (Coach) join.
Enable joins as substitute.
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January (approx.),
Enable leaves.
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January 10, aPG joins. Aries leaves.
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February 5, ContrA joins. aPG leaves.
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February (approx.), Elamite (Coach) leaves.
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March 9, ContrA leaves.
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March 15, MaNiaC joins.
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August 27, Ace leaves.
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December 7, StelluR joins.
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January 22, StelluR leaves.
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January 24, FearItSelf and Posey join. Assault leaves.
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January 25, Posey leaves.
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February 5, Chaser and LifeStyle join. FearItSelf leaves.
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February 10, BigTymeR (Coach) joins.
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March 24, Chaser and LifeStyle leave.
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April 5, Naded joins.
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April 10, Ace joins.
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April 14, Cloud (Coach) joins.
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April 24, Cloud (Coach) leaves.
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April 26, Str8 SicK joins. Flamesword (Player to Coach) changes position.
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May 31, Naded leaves.
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June 13, aPG joins.
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August 16, Str8 SicK leaves.
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August 25, Heinz joins.
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September 14, Frosty, Lethul, Royal2, SnakeBite, and Royal1 (Coach) join. AcE, aPG, Heinz, MaNiaC, and Flamesword (Coach) leave.
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May (approx.), Clutch (Coach) joins.
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August (approx.), Clutch (Coach) leaves.
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March 8, Frosty, LethuL, Royal2, SnakeBite, and Royal1 (Coach) leave.
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August 28, FormaL (Content Creator) joins.^[1]
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November (approx.), Elumnite (General Manager) joins.
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November 15, aPG, iGotUrPistola, Lucid, Trippy, and Lunchbox (Coach) join.^[2]
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February 18, FormaL (Content Creator to Player) changes position.
iGotUrPistola moves to substitute.^[3]
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March 1, Team is sponsored by Razer.^[4]
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August 22,
iGotUrPistola leaves.^[5]
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November 11, Elumnite (General Manager) leaves.^[6]
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Player Roster

Active

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Player		Role	Joined
NA	aPG	Bradley Laws	Player	Nov 20212021-11-15 aPG, iGotUrPistola, Lucid, Trippy, and Lunchbox (Coach) join.^[2]
NA	Lucid	Tommy Wilson	Player	Nov 20212021-11-15 aPG, iGotUrPistola, Lucid, Trippy, and Lunchbox (Coach) join.^[2]
NA	Trippy	Joey Taylor	Player	Nov 20212021-11-15 aPG, iGotUrPistola, Lucid, Trippy, and Lunchbox (Coach) join.^[2]
NA	FormaL	Matt Piper	Player	Feb 20222022-02-18 FormaL (Content Creator to Player) changes position. iGotUrPistola moves to substitute.^[3]

Former

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Player		Role	Joined	Left	Next Team
NA	iGotUrPistola	Justin Deese	Substitute	Nov 20212021-11-15 aPG, iGotUrPistola, Lucid, Trippy, and Lunchbox (Coach) join.^[2]	Aug 20222022-08-22 iGotUrPistola leaves.^[5]	None
NA	Frosty	Bradley Bergstrom	Player	Sep 20162016-09-14	Mar 20182018-03-08	⁠⁠TOX
NA	LethuL	Tony Campbell Jr.	Player	Sep 20162016-09-14 Frosty, Lethul, Royal2, SnakeBite, and Royal1 (Coach) join. AcE, aPG, Heinz, MaNiaC, and Flamesword (Coach) leave.	Mar 20182018-03-08 Frosty, LethuL, Royal2, SnakeBite, and Royal1 (Coach) leave.	⁠⁠TOX
NA	Royal2	Mathew Fiorante	Player	Sep 20162016-09-14	Mar 20182018-03-08	⁠⁠TOX
NA	SnakeBite	Paul Duarte	Player	Sep 20162016-09-14	Mar 20182018-03-08	⁠⁠TOX
NA	Heinz	Richie Heinz	Player	Aug 20162016-08-25 Heinz joins.	Sep 20162016-09-14 Frosty, Lethul, Royal2, SnakeBite, and Royal1 (Coach) join. AcE, aPG, Heinz, MaNiaC, and Flamesword (Coach) leave.	⁠⁠LOL
NA	aPG	Bradley Laws	Player	Jun 20162016-06-13	Sep 20162016-09-14	⁠⁠LOL
NA	AcE	Aaron Elam	Player	Apr 20162016-04-10 Ace joins.	Sep 20162016-09-14 Frosty, Lethul, Royal2, SnakeBite, and Royal1 (Coach) join. AcE, aPG, Heinz, MaNiaC, and Flamesword (Coach) leave.	⁠⁠LOL
NA	MaNiaC	Nick Kershner	Player	Mar 20152015-03-15 MaNiaC joins.	Sep 20162016-09-14 Frosty, Lethul, Royal2, SnakeBite, and Royal1 (Coach) join. AcE, aPG, Heinz, MaNiaC, and Flamesword (Coach) leave.	⁠⁠LOL
NA	Str8 SicK	Cory Sloss	Player	Apr 20162016-04-26	Aug 20162016-08-16	⁠⁠ELIT
NA	Naded	Brett Leonard	Player	Apr 20162016-04-05 Naded joins.	May 20162016-05-31 Naded leaves.	⁠⁠LG
NA	Flamesword	Michael Chaves	Player	May 20142014-05-16 Ace, Flamesword, iGotUrPistola, Snip3down, and StrongSide (Coach) join.	Apr 20162016-04-26 Str8 SicK joins. Flamesword (Player to Coach) changes position.	⁠⁠OG
NA	Chaser	Ian Contorelli	Player	Feb 20162016-02-05 Chaser and LifeStyle join. FearItSelf leaves.	Mar 20162016-03-24 Chaser and LifeStyle leave.	⁠⁠Str8
NA	LifeStyle	Garrett Miller	Player	Feb 20162016-02-05	Mar 20162016-03-24	⁠⁠NEW
NA	FearItSelf	Justin Kats	Player	Jan 20162016-01-24 FearItSelf and Posey join. Assault leaves.	Feb 20162016-02-05 Chaser and LifeStyle join. FearItSelf leaves.	None
NA	Posey	Shane Posey	Player	Jan 20162016-01-24	Jan 20162016-01-25	⁠⁠FTL
NA	Assault	Clete LoRusso	Player	Nov 20142014-11-23 Assault joins.	Jan 20162016-01-24 FearItSelf and Posey join. Assault leaves.	⁠⁠C9
NA	StelluR	Braedon Boettcher	Player	Dec 20152015-12-07 StelluR joins.	Jan 20162016-01-22 StelluR leaves.	⁠⁠RNG
NA	Ace	Aaron Elam	Player	May 20142014-05-16 Ace, Flamesword, iGotUrPistola, Snip3down, and StrongSide (Coach) join.	Aug 20152015-08-27 Ace leaves.	⁠⁠OG
NA	ContrA	Cody Szczodrowski	Player	Feb 20152015-02-05	Mar 20152015-03-09	⁠⁠TR
NA	aPG	Bradley Laws	Player	Jan 20152015-01-10	Feb 20152015-02-05	⁠⁠DNL
NA	Aries	Mason Miller	Player	Dec 20142014-12-03	Jan 20152015-01-10	⁠⁠NBL B
NA	Enable	Ian Wyatt	Substitute	Dec 20142014-12-03 Aries and Elamite (Coach) join. Enable joins as substitute.	≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-?? Enable leaves.	⁠⁠100T
NA	iGotUrPistola	Justin Deese	Player	May 20142014-05-16 Ace, Flamesword, iGotUrPistola, Snip3down, and StrongSide (Coach) join.	Nov 20142014-11-15 iGotUrPistola and Snip3down leave.	⁠⁠EG
NA	Snip3down	Eric Wrona	Player	May 20142014-05-16	Nov 20142014-11-15	⁠⁠EG
NA	NaDeSHoT	Matthew Haag	Player	Nov 20122012-11-01	Nov 20122012-11-10	⁠⁠100T

Organization

Current

ID	Name	Position
cod:H3CZ	Hector Rodriguez	80Co-Owner & President
cod:hastr0	Mike Rufail	80Co-Owner & Chief Gaming Officer
Lunchbox	Jason Brown	80Coach

Former

ID	Name	Position	Next Team
Elumnite	Marcus Lovejoy	80General Manager	⁠⁠Gamers First
J	Ryan Musselman	Founder & COO	None
TUMORS	Pedro Rodriguez	Team Manager	None
Royal1	Chris Fiorante	80Coach	⁠⁠TOX Gaming
Flamesword	Michael Chaves	80Coach	⁠⁠Status Quo
Cloud	Scottie Holste	80Coach	None
BigTymeR	Will Johnson	Coach	None
Clutch	Weston Price	80Coach	⁠⁠Halo Championship Series
Elamite	Kyle Elam	80Coach	⁠⁠Team Liquid
Joe Fries	Joey Pennacchio	Coach	None
StrongSide	Michael Cavanaugh	80Coach	None

Team Achievements

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

OpTic Gaming Tournament Results - Show Prize as (Local • USD • Euros)
	Date	Pl	Prize	Event	Roster
	2024-09-08	2	$60,000$ 60,000$60,000	HCS Major Salt Lake City 2024	Deadzone • FormaL • Lucid • Trippy
	2024-07-28	2	$60,000$ 60,000$60,000	HCS Major Atlanta 2024	deadzone • FormaL • Lucid • Trippy • Lunchbox
	2024-06-02	2	$60,000$ 60,000$60,000	HCS Major London 2024	deadzone • FormaL • Lucid • Trippy • Lunchbox
	2024-03-17	2	$60,000$ 60,000$60,000	HCS Major Arlington 2024
	2023-11-16	3	$4,000$ 4,000$4,000	BoomTV Halo Infinite Community Gauntlet	Lucid • TriPPPeY • FormaL • Lunchbox
	2023-10-15	2	$220,000$ 220,000$220,000	Halo World Championship 2023	aPG • Formal • Lucid • Trippey • Lunchbox
	2023-09-03	1	$100,000$ 100,000$100,000	HCS Major Fort Worth 2023	aPG • FormaL • Lucid • Trippy • Lunchbox
	2023-08-06	4	$10,000$ 10,000$10,000	HCS Global Invitational Salt Lake City 2023	aPG • Formal • Lucid • Trippey • Lunchbox
	2023-07-02	5 - 6	$8,000$ 8,000$8,000	HCS Major Arlington 2023	aPG • Formal • Lucid • Trippey • Lunchbox
	2023-06-04	3	$15,000$ 15,000$15,000	HCS Global Invitational Dallas 2023	aPG • Formal • Lucid • Trippey • Lunchbox
Total Prize:USD 597,000

Media

2014
2021
2022

November 15, OpTic Halo Roster Change by Flamesword on YouTube
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November 16, OpTic's Next Esport | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 50 by OpTic Texas on YouTube
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December 8, Halo Infinite launches with hopes of uniting esports ecosystem with Sean Collins on The Dallas Morning News
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December 13, Who has the most to prove at HCS Raleigh? by Mike Schnitzer on Forerunner
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December 16, OpTic are ready for the HCS Kickoff Major Raleigh 2021 with Joey Carr on Upcomer
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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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December 17, What Shotzzy Misses About Halo | Shotzzy | The Eavesdrop Podcast Ep 118 by HECZ on YouTube
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December 18, It's Lucid's World by HCS on Twitter
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December 18, Right now, OpTic Gaming seems like the best Halo team on the planet. with Hunter Cooke on Forerunner
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December 18, LouisVTitan catches up with OpTic's TriPPPeY after their 3-0 run against PioneersGG. with LVT Productions on Twitter
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December 19, OpTic, C9, KCP & eU set as winners semi-finalists as Sentinels drops to lower bracket by Haydar Ali on Forerunner
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January 3, HCS Raleigh 2021 | LUCID Interview with Halo Esports on YouTube
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February 11, The Official Optic Halo Preshow (HCS Anaheim) by OpTic Nation on YouTube
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February 11, Formal Returns to Fight Against Optic | HCS Raleigh by OpTic Gaming on YouTube
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February 16, OpTic Pistola tells us why he loves Halo - Halo Infinite with Halo Esports on YouTube
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Gallery

OpTic Gaming competing in NA Qualifier #2 (LtR: Assault, Flamesword, StelluR and MaNiaC) .
OpTic Gaming at Gamescom Invitational 2015 (LtR: MaNiaC, Ace, Flamesword and Assault) .
OpTic Gaming in mid-2015 (LtR: Assault, Ace, ContrA and Flamesword) .
OpTic Gaming in late-2014 (LtR: Assault, Ace, Aries and Flamesword) .

External Links

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 FormaL's Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 OpTic's Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 OpTic's Tweet twitter.com
↑ OpTic's Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Optic's Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 Elumnite's Tweet twitter.com

[News/2021-08-22_ref_3-1] 1.0 ^1.1 FormaL's Tweet twitter.com

[News/2021-11-14_ref_2-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 OpTic's Tweet twitter.com

[News/2022-02-13_ref_9-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 OpTic's Tweet twitter.com

[News/2022-02-27_ref_4-4] OpTic's Tweet twitter.com

[News/2022-08-21_ref_1-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Optic's Tweet twitter.com

[News/2022-11-06_ref_4-6] 6.0 ^6.1 Elumnite's Tweet twitter.com

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OpTic Gaming

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