Effectively-known for its notable achievements in Dota 2, OG Esports has joined a brand new Enviornment: Rocket League!
Right now, OG Esports has introduced that they’re becoming a member of a 3rd Esport (Alongside Dota 2 and Counter-Strike, after disbanding their Valorant workforce in 2022), Rocket League. For his or her Rocket League debut, OG Esports has recruited a formidable workforce.
Say howdy to OG Rocket League:
Joseph “noly” Kidd
Jacob “JKnaps” Knapman
“Robert “comm” Kyser
“Kyle “torment” Storer
Relating to his group’s becoming a member of the Rocket League scene, Johan “N0tail” Sundstein, Founding father of OG Esports, stated, “The time has lastly come for us to enterprise into one other esport basic! It has been a very long time coming, however I am tremendous enthusiastic about stepping into one other aggressive scene, and to work with wonderful expertise to attain our greatest selves.”
Your new favourite RLCS workforce pic.twitter.com/Er1dTtnrMf
— OG Rocket League (@OGesportsRL) January 18, 2024
Based on the announcement, OG Esports constructed their Rocket League workforce round noly. Not too long ago turning into Pink Bull UK’s first Rocket League athlete, noly has improved rather a lot over time and has lots of potentials to grow to be a dominant, lasting identify in Rocket League.
As a member of Gen.G Mobil1 Racing, noly contributed to back-to-back Fifth-Eighth place finishes at RLCS 2021-2022 and RLCS 2022-2023- World Championships, a Fifth-Eighth place end ultimately 12 months’s Gamers8, and a 1st place end at RLCS 2022-2023 – Fall Break up Main. Final November, Gen.G Mobil1 Racing managed to defeat RLCS 2022-2023 champions, Workforce Vitality, 4-1 on the Flip & Spin- Finals.
comm has spent the previous a number of years as a member of Version1, most notably a part of the Version1 workforce that positioned 1st on the Players With out Borders: North America Qualifier in opposition to Koi, adopted by a first-place end at Gamers8 with a robust 4-0 victory over Rule One.
JKnaps spent most of his profession since 2017 as a member of a formidable G2 Esports workforce, with a few of his most notable latest wins together with a 2nd place end at RLCS 2021-2022 and a Fifth-Eighth place end at RLCS 2022-23.
comm’s former Version1 teammate, torment, will function OG Esports’ head coach. Earlier than becoming a member of Version1, torment had a incredible run with Cloud9, racking up first-place finishes at DreamHack Atlanta 2017, RLCS Season 4- North America, RLCS Season 6- Finals, and DreamHack Professional Circuit: Dallas 2019. After retiring from lively play in April 2023, torment took up a training job for the impartial workforce of noly, comm, and JKnaps. Renamed Torment’s Minions, OG Esports signed the whole roster to their group.
noly and comm each rank within the high 10 of many Greatest Rocket League Gamers of 2023, and JKnaps isn’t any slouch both. Having already perfected their workforce chemistry as Torment’s Minions, OG Esports will certainly be a workforce to look at in RLCS 2024.
OG Esports will debut later this month because the Open Qualifiers for RLCS Main 1 kick off on January 26.