Luminosity Gaming

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Luminosity Gaming
File:Luminosity Gaming logo.jpg
Location Los Angeles
Founded 2015
Manager(s) Steve "Buyaka" Maida
Divisions Call of Duty, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Luminosity Gaming is a professional esports video game team. It has teams competing in Call of Duty, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, World of Warcraft, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The team was founded in Canada by Steve "Buyaka" Maida in 2015 but has since moved its headquarters to Los Angeles, California, United States.

Hearthstone

On January 11, 2015 Luminosity picked up Stanislav Cifka, Nuno "Ignite" Pinho and Josh "Impact" Graham.[1] On July 13, 2015 Christopher "PHONETAP" Huynh left Team Hearthlytics and joined Luminosity.[2]

Counter-Strike

On April 30, 2015 Peter "ptr" Gurney joined the team as an AWPer.[3] On July 29 it was announced that Luminosity dropped its roster and picked up a team based in Brazil that consisted of Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo, Fernando "fer" Alvarenga, Lucas "steel" Lopes, Ricardo "boltz" Prass, and Marcelo "coldzera" David.[4] In November 2015 Luminosity reached the quarterfinals of DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015.[5] Luminosity won MLG Columbus 2016 on April 3, 2016.[6] On May 8, 2016 Luminosity won DreamHack Austin where they beat fellow Brazilian team Tempo Storm 2-0 in the finals.[7] A couple of days later on May 16, 2016 the team won the ESL Pro League Season 3 Finals after beating G2 Esports 3-2 in the finals.[8]

Call of Duty

Luminosity picked up a Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare team in November 2015. They missed qualifying for the Call of Duty World League in the LAN (off-line) qualifiers.[9] They however were able to qualify via the online qualifiers.

Roster

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Nationality ID Name Join date
 Brazil FalleN Gabriel Toledo 2015-07-28
 Brazil fer Fernando Alvarenga 2015-07-28
 Brazil coldzera Marcelo David 2015-07-28
 Brazil fnx Lincoln Lau 2015-11-23
 Brazil TACO Tacio Filho 2015-11-23

Smite

Nationality ID Name Join date
 United States Andinster Andrew Woodward 2016-03-22
 United States BaRRaCCuDDa John Salter 2016-03-22
 United States JeffHindla Rosario Vilardi 2016-03-22
 United States TheBoosh Nicholas Lewis 2016-03-22
 Canada Snoopy Evan Jones 2016-03-22

Overwatch

Nationality ID Name Join date
 United States Harbleu Anthony Ballo 2016-03-25
 United States milo Yomar Toledo 2016-03-25
 United States Pierow Brian Alesandro 2016-03-25
 United States Esper James Southall 2016-03-25
 United States Enigma Carl Yangsheng 2016-03-25
 United States Seagull Brandon Larned 2016-03-25

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Nationality ID Name Join date
 United States SpaceLy Michael Schmaele 2015-11-09
 United States Saints Renato Saints 2015-12-10
 United States TeePee Tyler Polchow 2016-04-20
 United States StuDy Jeremy Astacio 2016-04-20

Hearthstone

Nationality ID Name Join date
 United States PHONETAP Christopher Huynh 2015-07-13
 Sweden Darkwonyx Johan Hansson 2015-11-07

League of Legends

Nationality ID Name Join date
 United States Voyboy Joedat Esfahani 2016-03-08

Former

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Nationality ID Name Join date Leave date
 Brazil boltz Ricardo Prass 2015-07-28 2015-11-23
 Brazil steel Lucas Lopes 2015-07-28 2015-11-23

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Nationality ID Name Join date Leave date
 United States Replays James Crowder 2015-11-09 2016-04-20
 United States J0hn Johnathan Perez 2015-11-09 2016-04-20

Tournament placements

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Bold denotes a CS:GO Major

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Official website