Splyce

Splyce was a professional esports organization and media company based in Rochester, New York. Their "League of Legends" team was a franchise member of the LEC, Europe's top professional league for "League of Legends". Splyce announced its rebranding from Follow eSports in November 2015. On November 29, 2019 Splyce's parent company, OverActive Media, announced it had merged Splyce with its other esports subsidiary, MAD Lions, and that all of Splyce's teams would henceforth compete under that name.
"League of Legends".
Follow eSports acquired the "League of Legends" team Dignitas EU after they qualified for the EU LCS (now LEC) on October 29, 2015 for nearly £625,000 ($1 million). At the time of the acquisition the team's roster consisted of Martin "Wunderwear" Hansen, Chres "Sencux" Laursen, Kasper "Kobbe" Kobberup, and Jonas "Nisbeth" Anderson with Daniel Vorborg as Team Manager. Whole roster was sold to MAD Lions.
"Call of Duty".
On January 2, the day that the organization renamed itself, they picked up a "Call of Duty" roster consisting of Jamie "JSey" Sey, JoshuaLee "Joshh" Sheppard, Jordan "Reedy" Reed, James "Dominate" Batz, and Benjamin "Bance" Bance. On May 8, 2 Place at ESWC Zénith 2016. They are participating in the Call of Duty World League.
Over the past three years, Splyce has been one of the most competitively successful "Call of Duty" teams in the world.
In 2016, they finished second in the Call of Duty World League Championship.
In 2017, Splyce won the Call of Duty World League Stage 1 Playoffs, defeating FaZe Clan and Luminosity gaming, among others, on their way to capturing the title and over $200,000 in prize winnings.
In 2018, Splyce were the runners-up in the 2018 CWL Birmingham Open, the fourth Major International offline event for "Call of Duty: World War II".
"Counter-Strike".
On August 19, 2015 Follow eSports announced it had acquired the roster of SapphireKelownaDotCom. Follow eSports dropped SapphireKelownaDotCom and picked up the roster of ex-eLevate on October 25, 2015. Following shortly after the organisation's rebranding from Follow eSports to Splyce, the roster disbanded on December 27, 2015. On December 30, 2015, Splyce picked up four players from the team formerly known as Dogmen and picked up David "DAVEY" Stafford as their fifth player on January 14, 2016. Splyce was invited to the MLG Columbus 2016 qualifiers due to The Mongolz being unable to get visas. They qualified for MLG Columbus 2016 after beating Counter Logic Gaming and Vexed Gaming. Shortly after on June 17, 2016 Abraham "abE" Fazli and Andrew "Professor_Chaos" Heintz departed from the team, though Professor_Chaos was announced as Splyce's new coach on June 21, 2016. Jason "jasonR" Ruchelski additionally departed from the roster on July 7, 2016. On July 12, 2016 Splyce officially announced the signing of Joey "CRUC1AL" Steusel, Asger "AcilioN" Larsen and Enkhtaivan "Machinegun" Lkhagva. In the following 2 years, Splyce made some minor roster adjustments. On April 29, 2018, Splyce announced that they would pull out CS:GO, stating "It is something that is the best for all of us".
"Halo".
On October 11, 2018, Splyce announced that their "Halo" roster consisting of Renegade, Shotzzy, StelluR and Eco would be competing in the Call of Duty World League as well.
"Rocket League".
On May 10, 2017, Splyce announced that they had signed Jaime "Karma" Bickford, a former Hearthstone turned Rocket League player, to their stream team. Three months later, Chandler "HotWheelsSid" Higdon and Braden "Pluto" Schenetzki were brought into the squad to compete in RLCS Season 4. However, this team failed to qualify through the open qualifiers and eventually disbanded. On March 6, 2018, Splyce announced the new roster which retained Karma and brought in Trevor "DudeWithTheNose" Hannah and Jake "JWismont" Wismont. Jimmy "Jimmer" Jordan was also brought in as a coach for the squad. Season 5 saw Splyce make it through the open qualifiers and into the RLRS, but a disappointing sixth-place finish meant they would not be staying in the Rival Series. The team stuck together for Season 6 and again qualified for the RLRS. A first-place finish in the regular season booked Splyce a trip to the Promotional Tournament, where they defeated both Bread and Rogue to gain promotion into the RLCS for Season 7.
Fighting games.
On August 24, 2015 FolloweSports started a Super Smash Bros. division first signing two players. They would later expand into the FGC with the signing of Ryan "Filipino Champ" Ramirez.
"Starcraft II".
On December 1, 2016 Splyce announced the creation of a Starcraft II division first signing Kang "Solar" Min Soo. On December 25, Kim "Stats" Dae Yeob was added to the roster. Jun "TY" Tae Yang, the last player to become part of the team joined on May 11, 2017. Kang "Solar" Min Soo left Splyce on August 1, 2018.
"Overwatch".
In 2018, it was announced that an ownership including Splyce had purchased the Toronto Overwatch League franchise, later named Toronto Defiant. In addition to its ownership percentage, Splyce also operates the team.
Investors.
In 2017, Delaware North, owners of the Boston Bruins, invested in Splyce. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
In 2018, Splyce raised a $2.6 million funding round from The Ledger Group/OverActive Media, an eSports investment group based in Canada, and First Serve Partners, a venture capital firm made up of business leaders, pop-culture influencers, and current/former professional athletes.
The Firebreather Incident.
Alonso "Firebreather" Jonese
born in 1987 and a former Starcraft II pro for team Splyce who was forced into retirement when his wrist spas-med during a high stakes pro league match Splyce vs Team Liquid and never recovered, he was later forced to take up work in a Twizzlers factory to support his wife Yonfriedan and there 2 year old estaban. his marriage between him and his wife was being strained and they were pushed away from each-other and every night after work he would seclude himself to the computer playing Starcraft II trying to relive his glory days, YEARS went by until he discovered a website Twitch.tv and eventually downline came across someone who would change his life a Canadian streamer going by the online alias Supercool42_ and he finally found friends and a online community where he could be himself were nobody would ever find out about his failures in life.
this is a brief history of washed up "Starcraft II" (ᴮˡᶦᶻᶻᵃʳᵈ ᴱⁿᵗᵉʳᵗᵃᶦⁿᵐᵉⁿᵗ ©️ ) Pro Player Alonso "Firebreather" Jonese