Renegades (eSports)
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| Divisions |
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Overwatch Call of Duty Super Smash Bros. |
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| Founded | 2015 |
| Location | Detroit, Michigan |
| Manager | Jonas Jerebko |
| Partners |
5-hour Energy HyperX Twitch.tv DXRacer Meta Threads |
| Website | www |
| Full name | Detroit Renegades |
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| Nicknames | RNG, REN |
| League | League of Legends Championship Series |
| Team history | Misfits (2014–2015) |
| Based in | Detroit |
| Arena | Riot NA LCS Studios |
| Colors | Red and black |
| Owner(s) | Jonas Jerebko |
| Head coach | Anthony Andrews |
| Broadcasters | Riot Games, Twitch.tv |
| Website | http://renegades.pro/ |
The Renegades, also known as the Detroit Renegades and previously LA Renegades, is a professional eSports organization that fields teams in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, Call of Duty and Super Smash Bros. It previously had a League of Legends team that qualified for the 2016 North American League of Legends Championship Series (LCS), but it was sold to Team EnVyUs after the owners were banned from NA LCS ownership.
In September 2016, Boston Celtics forward Jonas Jerebko purchased the rights to the Renegades franchise.
Renegades acquired the Australian CS:GO team Vox Eminor on June 19, 2015. The Renegades were the first team announced to be participating in the ELeague. After placing second at IEM Taipei 2016, Renegades announced that Karlo "USTILO" Pivac would be replacing Luke "Havoc" Paton in their starting roster. On June 17, 2016 Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill announced his retirement from competitive Counter-Strike. Ricky "Rickeh" Mulholland was announced as SPUNJ's replacement on July 12, 2016.
Renegades acquired the team "Leftovers" on January 18th, 2016. Following the Halo World Championship, Spartan and StelluR left Renegades for Team Liquid.
Renegades was initially announced as an unnamed Challenger team in early March 2015 by Chris Badawi. The team's first roster included mid laner Alex Ich and jungler Crumbzz, along with solo queue star support Remilia. After tryouts for the remaining two positions, top laner RF Legendary and AD carry Intense joined the team, and they named themselves Misfits. In April, Misfits participated in the AlphaDraft Challenger League (ADCL) and dropped only a single game during the regular season round robin, finishing 11-1 in first place. After the ADCL regular season ended, Intense left the team. Stixxay joined as a substitute AD carry and played with the team for the bracket stage of the ADCL, and they won the tournament, beating Frank Fang Gaming in the finals.
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