The compLexity Gaming family would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Chris “Confire” Luong as he turns 23 today!
Chris joined compLexity over one year ago in order to assist with the live coverage of events, as well as player marketing and managment. Chris has proven himself to be a reliable, determined member of our family and his work for the organization has proven to be invaluable.
Once again, we’d like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Chris “Confire” Luong!
Today, after much deliberation and consideration, we have decided to close our venerated Heroes of Newerth division. The squad’s annual contracts expire this month and disagreements on roster issues combined with a shifting gaming demographic lead to our decision.
We’d like to thank the wonderful players who dedicated themselves to making coL.HoN one of the most successful teams in history. Their dedication and hard work was appreciated and will not be forgotten.
Thanks as always for your support of our gaming organization.
HOUSTON, TEXAS – July 05, 2013 – Today compLexity Gaming is pleased to announce another addition to our Fighting Game roster: Long “ShadyK” Tran. Long will operate as the Media Manager for our fighting game division.
ShadyK is often considered San Diego’s best fighting game player and an innovator of abusive strategies early on in a game’s life span. He’s known for pioneering many of the top techniques and strategies for Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 and Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. His current role as an FGTV member as Filipino Champ would put it, is the “sensei”, acting as a collaborative coach and training partner. His accomplishments include top 8 in Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 at Evo2k3 and a top 5 finish in Street Fighter 4 at Evo2k9.
Hello and welcome to compLexity! What are some of your goals going forward?
Thanks! My goal going forward is pretty simple; to follow, grow, and learn more about Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. The game is still young and expanding as far as strategies and knowledge goes and I just need to be on top of things. As a Media Manager and player for compLexity, it’ll be my responsibility to stay on top of my game, sharing what I know with the team, all while creating quality media content for the public.
The tournament you’re going to next is EVO 2013. Do you have any specific goals for this event?
The only thing I want to do at EVO 2013 is to do my best. Wherever that takes me, that’s my goal. I don’t have a specific goal of a placing or anything like that. I just want to be able to apply my fundamentals, knowledge, and skills of the game the best I can and hope it’s enough! I’ll also be commentating some of the matches, so that’ll be really exciting since I’ve never commentated a huge tournament like EVO before.
How do you feel about joining compLexity?
What can I say? It’s awesome. I finally get to travel to tournaments with my roomie, Filipino Champ, which will make our gameplay a bit stronger at the actual event. We’ll be able to coach each other and help each other strategize for particular matchups. compLexity has treated Ryan extremely well since I’ve known him and I’m just happy to be able to join the family that supports him!
Any shoutouts you’d like to give?
Shoutouts to compLexity and all of its sponsors, of course! And a special shoutouts to my FGTVLive viewers who have stayed with us the past two years and have supported me especially! Love you guys and we owe a lot of FGTV’s success to you all!
Join us in welcoming Long here!
The compLexity Gaming family would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Tyler “TeePee” Polchow as he turns 21 today!
Tyler has been synonymous in teaming up with his longtime friend and teammate, Patrick ‘ACHES’ Price. With his latest MLG Summer Championship victory, he has won three MLG championships in Call of Duty: Black Ops. His past teams have also taken first place at the 2011 BLOPS GameStop tournament and the PlayStation 25K online tournament. Individually, he competed in and won GameStop’s Ultimate Combat. While a part of compLexity, he has been a major contributor to many of the team’s top placements.
Once again, we’d like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Tyler “TeePee” Polchow!
Starting tonight, compLexity’s Ryan “FilipinoChamp” Ramirez will be in Orlando, Florida participating in Community Effort Orlando 2013. FChamp will be competing in UMvC3. The event is scheduled to begin tonight, and will run throughout this weekend until June 30th.
CEO 2013 will feature 8 of the 9 official Evo 2013 titles, 11 games total.
The Prizes will be paid out using the Ultimate Payout System.
The top 3 players will be paid out of the main tournament pot as usual. 4th and under will take a flat amount from the UPS Bonus Pool.
1st Place – 60% of the pot
2nd Place – 25% of the pot
3rd Place – 15% of the pot
For more information on the prizes available visit this page.
The schedule for the event can be found here.
Team Spooky will be running one stream, and the other is the Official CEO Gaming stream.
Professional Gamer Samuel “Chuuper” Chu discusses MLG Anaheim 2013 prior to the event on June 28-30th in Anaheim, California.
This weekend, Air coL takes to the skies once again as the compLexity Gaming crew heads to Anaheim, California for the Major League Gaming Spring Championship at the Anaheim Convention Center.
We will have a small army on the ground for this event as around 20 players and staff from the compLexity organization will be on hand providing you with the latest in scores, photos, videos and entertainment.
The following will be competing in the MLG Spring Championship event:
Accompanying these players will be the following management and staff:
In addition to Anaheim, California, compLexity will be in Orlando, Florida this weekend as Ryan “FilipinoChamp” Ramirez competes in CEO 2013.
We’d like to wish the best of luck to everyone travelling today. If you’re in the Anaheim area, be sure to stop by the venue and meet the crew.
Professional Gamer Patrick “Aches” Price discusses the upcoming MLG event in Anaheim, California on June 28-30th.
This past week the compLexity Academy held an internal tournament to determine which player would receive an all expenses paid trip to MLG Anaheim this weekend. We at the Academy are pleased to announce that the winner of the trip to Anaheim is Sam “Firezerg” Prowse. In celebration of this victory, compLexity Academy commishoner Michael “Twixz” Shane sat down with Sam to discuss his history and the tournament.
Sam, first off congratulations on your win! You have been part of compLexity for a while now, but for those unaware why don’t you tell us about your journey with compLexity?
Thanks! I’ve been involved with compLexity since their first ever StarCraft II roster, and was fortunate enough to be sent to two MLG events back in 2010; Anaheim and Columbus. I guess looking back, it really has been a long time since I was able to represent compLexity at a major event and I’m very happy to have that opportunity again!
You have played in the Academy Qualifiers before but failed to qualify, what has kept you motivated to improve and compete in these events?
To be honest, I had very long on-again-off-again streak on Wings of Liberty as far as activity goes, I think at least in some part due to my enjoyment of the game. My ‘e-sports’ background, if you could call it that, is in Brood War (StarCraft 1), which was a game I got a lot of enjoyment out of and was subsequently very active in. I’m personally of the opinion that Heart of the Swarm is a major improvement over Wings of Liberty, and in the last couple of months since the expansion’s release, I’ve found myself putting in the 9 hour practice days that I used to back in Brood War.
What are you looking forward to the most about getting the chance to compete at MLG?
Unfortunately I don’t think many people will look at the notable players list for MLG Anaheim, see my name, and get excited about me competing in this event. I’m looking forward to the opportunity that a major competition like this allows for me to fix this problem.
Is there anyone attending that you would like to play against in open bracket?
Anybody playing Zerg, Protoss or Terran; I don’t practice against Random ;D.
What are your goals for MLG?
I think back in 2010 I didn’t get any farther than round 7 in the loser’s bracket. There isn’t a group stage at this event as far as I know, but to make it to that level in the open bracket would be a big win for me. I think the equivalent in this tournament would be top 16 or so (this is also the cutoff for WCS points).
Where can we follow you/ track your experience at MLG?
I don’t have access to my twitter account at the moment, but it’s @coLFireZergSC2— hopefully I have this problem fixed before I leave Thursday. I’ll try and take as many pictures and videos as I can while I’m in Anaheim and hopefully post them somewhere on the complexity website when I get back ^^!
Any thank you/shoutouts?
Shoutout to compLexity Academy for giving me this opportunity to travel for e-sports and compete in this event, and to Soundblaster, Q-pad, PNY, Creative, Origin, Twitch, 1337 Gaming and Newegg. Cheers!
Be sure to tune into MLG Anaheim this weekend and cheer for Firezerg as he represents the compLexity Academy.