Rise Nation

Rise Nation
Rise Nation
Team Information
Sponsor	Scuf Gaming ; GFUEL ; Kontrol Freaks
History
Created	2014
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Overview

Tournament Results

Schedule History

Rise Nation is a professional Call of Duty organization located in the United States.

History[]

Ghosts[]

Rise came into existence when the team was created to compete in the 2014 Call of Duty Championship. At this time their roster consisted of FEARS, Pacman, and Whea7s, Loony. During the online regional qualifiers they were named “Livin’ the Dream” but they changed this name to their current name Rise for the US Regional Finals where they successfully qualified for the 2014 Call of Duty Championship.

At Call of Duty Championship 2014, the team would be placed in Group F with Vitality.Rises, Wizards e-Sports Club and Brazil 5 Stars. They made easy work of these three international teams by winning all three series with a map count of 9-2. In WBR1, Rise took down VexX Revenge 3-1 before losing to Trident T1 Dotters in game 5 round 10. In the Loser's Bracket, Rise would defeat TCM-Gaming 3-2 but ultimately fall to Strictly Business 3-1 in LBR3 to be eliminated from the tournament. They took home a 7th Place finish and $35,000.

After Champs, FEARS left the roster and was replaced by Saint. This only lasted for MLG Championship Anaheim: Open Bracket where they placed second and qualifed for a spot in MLG CoD League Season 3 Regular Season. Saint was replaced by Attach for the rest of Ghosts.

Despite a weak 13-16th Place finish at UMG Dallas 2014, the team stayed together and managed a 2nd Place finish in MLG CoD League Season 3 Regular Season. The team rounded out the year with a 4th and a 7-8th Place finish at UMG Nashville 2014 and MLG CoD League Season 3 Playoffs respectively. Attach and Loony were then released before Advanced Warfare.

Advanced Warfare[]

Going into the first event, MLG Columbus 2014, Rise picked up Chino and Diabolic. Chino will remain on the team for the rest of the year but he will end up playing with twelve other players total in Advanced Warfare. Two 17-20th finishes resulted in Whea7s moving to Substitute for Sender. A 7-8th Place finish at MLG Pro League Season 1 Playoffs and Whea7s was traded to Automatic Reload for Miyagi who would only be on the team for event where Rise failed to qualify for Call of Duty Championship 2015. The team only managed two top five finishes for the rest of the year including 2nd Place at MES Detroit 25k, which was a small tournament which most major teams didn't attend. Rise would drop all four remaining players after they finished 13-16th at MLG World Finals 2015.

Black Ops III[]

With less than two weeks remaining before the release of Black Ops III, Rise Nation picked up Slacked, Classic, and rising star Octane. Loony also rejoined the team as captain. At Totino's Invitational 2015, Rise Nation would finally do somethings they've been trying to do for nearly two years - win an event. The team defeated both Luminosity Gaming and Team Kaliber 2-1 to set up the first meeting of the year's top two teams. OpTic Gaming had just come off of a dominating win at MLG World Finals and were looking to continue that trend but Rise had other plans. In game 5 round 11, Slacked held down the B Bomb site with two Annihilator kills and dethroned Optic. This marked the first time a team not name OpTic Gaming or FaZe Clan won a major event since 2014.

Following the win, Rise Nation was invited to the 2016 NA CWL Stage 1 Pro Division Qualifying Invitational Tournament where they defeated 3sUP and Team eLevate to claim their spot in 2016 NA CWL Stage 1 Regular Season. Two months later at the first LAN since Totino's, Rise would solidify themselves as a top team as they defeated Luminosity Gaming 4-1 in the UMG South Carolina 2016 Champion Tournament Finals. Over the next four weeks, Rise would finish 2nd Place in two of the four online CWL Challenger Division tournaments. Rise was one of three North American teams invited to ESWC 2016.

In the 2016 NA CWL Stage 1 Regular Season, Rise Nation would finish 2nd Place with a 16-6 record. In the 2016 NA CWL Stage 1 Playoffs Finals, Rise would once again face up against OpTic Gaming. But this time, OpTic would get the best of Rise and take home the championship.

Timeline[]

2017
2016
2015
2014

April 5th, Pacman rejoins as Coach/Team Manager. ^[1]

October 28th, Classic, Octane, and Slacked leave. ^[2]
November 6th, Faccento, Aqua and FeLonY join. ^[3]

January 7th, Whea7s moves to substitute.
January 9th, Perplexed (Substitute) traded to Aware Gaming.NA for Sender.
January 12th, Whea7s traded to Automatic Reload for Miyagi.
March 8th, Roster disbands. Chino, VeXeD, PRPLXD and Legal join.
April 8th, LlamaGod (Substitute) traded to FaZe Clan for Theory.
April 10th, PRPLXD traded to Automatic Reload for Whea7s. VeXeD leaves. Neslo joins.
June 29th, Theory and Neslo traded to Team Kaliber for Goonjar and TJHaLy.
July 5th, Goonjar leaves. TcM joins.
July 14th, TJHaLy traded to Elevate for Apathy.
July 20th, Invited to Gfinity Summer Championship. TcM traded to Team Orbit NA for Burns.
September 20th, Apathy leaves.
September 24th, ACHES joins.
October 25th, Whea7s, Chino, Burns, and ACHES leave. Classic, Slacked, and Octane join.
October 26th, Loony rejoins.

Winter, Rise Nation acquires Livin the Dream.
May 10th, FEARS leaves.
May 19th, Saint joins.
July 1st, Saint released.
July 11th, Attach drafted in MLG CoD League Season 3 Draft.
October 28th, Loony released.
October 30th, Attach released.
Fall, Diabolic and Chino join.

Player Roster[]

Active[]

ID	Name	Primary Role
Loony	Daniel Loza	75Objective
AquA	Ulysses Silva	62AR Slayer
Faccento	Brice Faccento	65Support
FeLonY	Tyler Johnson	64SMG Slayer

Former[]

ID	Name	Role	Next Team
Slacked	Josiah Berry	61Slayer	⁠⁠Luminosity Gaming
Classic	Nicholas Di Costanzo	65Support	⁠⁠Luminosity Gaming
Octane	Sam Larew	62AR Slayer	⁠⁠Luminosity Gaming
ACHES	Patrick Price	61Slayer	⁠⁠Team Envy
Burns	Matthew Potthoff	75Objective	⁠⁠Enigma6 Gold
Chino	Martin J. Chino	65Support	⁠⁠Dream Team
Whea7s	Jamal Lee	65Support	⁠⁠Orbit eSport
Apathy	Bryan Zhelyazkov	61Slayer	⁠⁠Team Kaliber
TcM	Teegan McCarthy	61Slayer	⁠⁠Orbit eSport
TJHaLy	Thomas Haly	61Slayer	⁠⁠Elevate
Goonjar	Jevon Gooljar-Lim	65Support	⁠⁠XGN Competitive
Theory	Dylan McGee	75Objective	⁠⁠Team Kaliber
Neslo	Jeremy Olsen	61Slayer	⁠⁠Team Kaliber
Saint	Brian Baroska	65Support	⁠⁠Radius Gaming
Attach	Dillon Price	61Slayer	⁠⁠Denial eSports
FEARS	Damod Abney	61Slayer	⁠⁠Prophecy
Miyagi	Danny Ho	61Slayer	⁠⁠Team Ignite
Diabolic	Steven Rivero	61Slayer	⁠⁠3sUP
Sender	Troy Michaels	61Slayer	⁠⁠3sUP
Pacman	Jonathan Tucker	75Objective	⁠⁠Orbit eSport
LegaL	Tyree Glover	61Slayer	⁠⁠SYNRGY Gaming
Perplexed	Brian Ladd	75Objective	⁠⁠Automatic Reload
VeXeD	Hamza Pirzada	65Support	⁠⁠FaZe Clan
Image			None
Brev			None
Ghoster	Brandon Mestas		⁠⁠eLevate.Black
BombeR	Kahreem Horsley		⁠⁠Manager