Renegades (esports)

American esports organization active from 2016 to 2022.

Renegades was an American esports organization that fielded teams in numerous competitive titles, including Call of Duty, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Fortnite, Overwatch, Super Smash Bros., Rocket League, iRacing, and Valorant. It began as a League of Legends team called Misfits that qualified for the 2016 North American League of Legends Championship Series, but its slot was sold to Team EnVyUs after its owners were banned from NA LCS team ownership. In September 2016, professional basketball player Jonas Jerebko purchased the rights to the Renegades franchise, and the organization suspended operations indefinitely in October 2022 after releasing its last team.

Quick Facts

Founded: 9 March 2015
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Owner: Jonas Jerebko
Disbanded: 2022, 10 (de facto)

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Former divisions

On August 30, 2016, Renegades signed the former Dream Team members known as Ground Zero, consisting of KiLLa, Chino, Sender, and Diabolic, who had already qualified for the 2016 Call of Duty World League Championship through CWL Championship Points from Stage 1 and Stage 2. At the championship, the team lost their first two Group D matches to Epsilon eSports and Team Allegiance, then forfeited against PuLse Gaming after KiLLa failed to appear for the series, finishing 25th–32nd. KiLLa was dropped less than a week later and replaced by Ivy the following day.

Renegades acquired the Australian CS:GO team Vox Eminor on June 19, 2015, and were the first team announced for ELeague. After placing second at IEM Taipei 2016, Karlo "USTILO" Pivac replaced Luke "Havoc" Paton in the starting roster. On June 17, 2016, Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill retired from competitive Counter-Strike, and Ricky "Rickeh" Mulholland was announced as his replacement on July 12, 2016. Following Rickeh's departure to Counter Logic Gaming, Renegades added Nemanja "nexa" Isaković for a four-month stint before releasing him, then acquired David "Jayzwalkingz" Kempner on trial from Fnatic's academy team, releasing him after a month. On September 1, 2017, Keith "NAF" Markovic joined from OpTic Gaming, transferring to Team Liquid on February 5, 2018; Joakim "jkaem" Myrbostad replaced him three days later as a long-term stand-in. On October 31, 2019, the then-current Renegades team—containing AZR, jks, Gratisfaction, jkaem, Liazz, and kassad—was transferred to 100 Thieves.

In December 2019, Renegades signed the Grayhound Gaming roster: Chris "dexter" Nong, Oliver "DickStacy" Tierney, Liam "malta" Schembri, Simon "Sico" Williams, and Joshua "INS" Potter. DickStacy departed on January 8, 2020, and Jordan "Hatz" Bajic replaced him three days later. On February 11, 2021, dexter left for mousesports, and Alistair "aliStair" Johnston joined from ORDER, with IGL duties going to INS. David "Kingfisher" Kingsford became head coach on June 29, 2021.