ROOT Gaming

Overview

Team Results

ROOT Gaming [help] [edit]
Team Information
Team Captain:	Paulo "CatZ" Vizcarra Andrew "Drewbie" Moysey
Website:	Root Gaming Facebook YouTube Official Stream
Sponsor:	TwitchTV Das Keyboard AVerMedia MYGAMER.INFO/
TLPD:	International Korean
Twitter:	ROOT4ROOT
Player Breakdown
Number of Players:	18
9  3  6
History
Created:	2010-03-22
Recent Player Trades:	2013-04-20 - Kane joins 2013-03-13 - Caliber joins

To read about this organization's Dota 2 team, see: ROOT Gaming.

Overview

ROOT Gaming is a North America StarCraft II team that was created March 22nd 2010. ROOT Gaming started off their StarCraft II team with four StarCraft II players: Drewbie, JiYan, CatZ, and qxc.

On June 11th, 2011, compLexity Gaming announced that they had acquired ROOT Gaming and the majority of their roster: CatZ, Drewbie, Minigun and DdoRo. KiWiKaKi and SLush decided not to join compLexity and became part of the newly formed Team ReIGN. Destiny initially signed with compLexity but then changed his mind about joining the team.

However, on May 15th 2012, CatZ announced that after his contract expired with compLexity Gaming, he and Drewbie reformed ROOT Gaming.

Since its rebirth, it has expanded considerably, doubling its roster and recruiting new players, reuniting with former players (Minigun, SLush, KiWiKaKi), and acquiring entire new squads.

It currently houses teams for the following games:

• StarCraft II
• Dota 2
• Smite

History

2010

• March 22nd, ROOT Gaming is formed.

2011

• April 30th, ROOT Gaming is invited to participate in the Evil Geniuses Master's Cup Series V.
• June 12th, compLexity Gaming announces its acquisition of ROOT Gaming. CatZ, Drewbie, Minigun, DdoRo, and Destiny join compLexity, while KiWiKaKi and SLush join Team ReIGN.

2012

• May 15th, CatZ announces the rebirth of ROOT Gaming with himself, Drewbie, KiWiKaKi, Destiny, Slush, and Fayth.
• May 16th, ViBE joins ROOT Gaming.
• May 18th, CatZ announces ROOT Gaming expanding to DotA 2 by announcing its first team squad. additionally, he announced that RotterdaM joined ROOT Gaming, not as a caster, but as a player.
• June 2nd, puCK and Fitzyhere join ROOT Gaming.
• June 15th, TT1 joins the team.
• June 24th, Axeltoss joins the team as their official caster.
• July 12th, MaSa joins the team.
• August 6th, MajOr joins the team.
• August 10th, ToD joins.
• August 28th, ROOT part ways with Destiny after receiving negative feedback about him.
• October 16th, ROOT Gaming announces that LeiYa (formerly puCK) will be leaving the team to focus on personal issues related to her gender transformation. While the initial announcement hints at eventually returning, LeiYa does not plan to rejoin ROOT.
• October 25th, ROOT announces a sponsorhip deal with Das Keyboard.
• November 25th, ROOT announces that MajOr has left ROOT Gaming and that LeiYa is returning
• December 6th, ToD leaves the team and returns to France.
• December 8th, DdoRo rejoins the team following Quantic Gaming's disbandment.
• December 15th, Another former Quantic Gaming player, theognis, joins Root.
• December 21st, MajOr returns.

2013

• January 2nd, MajOr departs to join Team 8.
• January 15th, ROOT announces that Minigun has rejoined the team.
• January 27th, YugiOh joins the team.
• February 1st, Sage joins the team.
• February 9th, ROOT announces new Swedish Protoss, Succeed, who will move to Peru to live with CatZ.
• March 13th, it was announced that Caliber had joined the team.
• April 20th, Kane joins.
• May 19th, Nathanias joins as a caster.

Player Roster

Active

Best Yearly Result:

		ID	Name	2010	2011	2012	2013
us	P	Caliber	Patrick Coury	Y-	Y-	C121 - 24th	Y-
Peru	Z	CatZ ()	Paulo Vizcarra	B717th	D2Ro32	D737 - 44th	Y-
ca	p	DdoRo	Moon Jung Ho	Y-	C020th	C525 - 32nd	Y-
Canada	T	Drewbie ()	Andrew Moysey	A44th	B111th	C525 - 32nd	Y-
us	z	Fitzyhere	Connor Fitzpatric	Y-	Y-	E545 - 60th	Y-
ca	z	Kane	Sam Morrissette	Y-	Y-	Y-	Y-
Canada	T	MaSa	Maru Kim	Y-	Y-	Y-	Y-
USA	P	Minigun	Chad Jones	Y-	B717 - 24th	C121 - 24th	D2 Ro32
us	P	puCK	Brandon Qual	Y-	Y-	Y-	D2a Ro32
kr	P	Sage	Woo Kyung Chul	G4Ro64	LA4 Ro4	A8Ro8	D2Ro32
se	P	Succeed	Dennis Schmuck	Y-	Y-	Y-	Y-
us	T	theognis	Michael McClelland	Y-	D737 - 44th	E949+	D2a Ro32
ca	P	TT1	Payam Toghyan	A22nd	A8Ro8	B6Ro16	Y-
us	Z	ViBE	Dan Scherlong	C525th	B313 - 16th	D2Ro32	D2a Ro32
Korea	Z	YugiOh	Jung Seung Il	D2Ro32	LA8 Ro8	A55 - 8th	D2 Ro32

Inactive

Best Yearly Result:

		ID	Name	2010	2011	2012	2013
Canada	P	KiWiKaKi	Jonathan Garneau	A22nd	A22nd	E545 - 60th	Y-
nl	p	RotterdaM	Kevin van der Kooi	Y-	Y-	Y-	Y-
Canada	Z	SLush	Paul-David Pagé	A77th	A55th	Y-	Y-

Former

		ID	Name	New Team
us	t	CauthonLuck	Rori Bryant-Raible	N/A
us	z	Bubba	Royce Newcomb	N/A
us	p	JiYan	Jordan Lee	N/A
ca	p	SUGGY	Ryan Hrycznski	compLexity Gaming
us	z	Sheth	Shawn Simon	FXOpen e-Sports
us	t	qxc	Kevin Riley	FXOpen e-Sports
us	Z	Destiny	Steven Bonnell II	N/A
France	P	ToD	Yoan Merlo	XMG
ca	p	Fayth	Josué Sauvageau
mx	t	MajOr	Juan Lopez	8th Team

Organization

		ID	Name	Position
US	P	Axeltoss	Alex Rodriguez	Official Caster
	T	ChoseN	Brad Erickson	Player Manager
AU	P	Sunset	Amelia Savery	Editor in Chief
US	R	Kavik	Rob Collins	Content Director
CA		Alexsr	Alex-Andric Cloutier	Business & Sponsorship Coordinator
Peru			Diego Acosta	Managing Director
US		tifapriori	Tiffany Chia	Marketing Manager
UK		babybowler	Siân Morgan	Social Media Manager
US	R	alundra	Alicia Hall	Community Development
USA	T	Nathanias	Nathan Fabrikant	Caster

Team Achievements

2013

Date	Event	Result
2013-03-24	Acer Teamstory Cup US Qualifiers	ROOT Gaming  5 : 1 FXOpen North America
2013-02-20	IPTL Season 1 Up and Down	ROOT Gaming  5 : 4  FXOpen e-Sports

Gallery

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  ROOT Gaming's logo from the creation of the team to May 2012.

Interviews

2012

• CatZ & Drewbie (Caliber cameo) Interviewed by Lani at IPL 5