Los Angeles, September 2, 2012 – Today, Infinity Seven is proud to announce the addition of its newest player, Brandon “KoMA” Spinosa.
Representing Canada, the 15-year-old Terran has been playing games ever since he was a young child. In June we saw him qualify for WCS Canada in Toronto, where he made it to the round of 24.
The passion and dedication we saw in Brandon made us believe that he will fit the team perfectly, having the motivation to succeed and the potential to do so. Expect to see him make waves in the scene in the upcoming months as he evolves. Below you can find a few words from KoMA on joining the team.
Brandon ‘KoMA’ Spinosa
Hey guys, thanks for allowing me to join such an awesome team, I am truly excited to be a member of Infinity Seven. You guys were so welcoming, I already feel like part of the family. I’m looking forward to practicing very hard and showing good results in the near future. I really appreciate being given this oppurtunity and I promise I will impress!
Zhang ‘zemotion’ Jingna
Brandon has shown himself to be an extremely dedicated and passionate player ever since the beginning of our conversations, and it is no surprise that players on the team were quick to grow fond of him after watching his stream and playing together.
We are very excited about his potential and you will definitely be seeing him in future tournaments and events. Do join me in welcoming our new Terran to the team, we’re happy to have you Brandon!
Brandon has shown himself to be an extremely dedicated and passionate player ever since the beginning of our conversations, and it is no surprise that players on the team were quick to grow fond of him after watching his stream and playing together.
Adding Brandon to our roster is part of our continued efforts in developing North American talents. We are very excited about his potential and you will definitely be seeing him in future tournaments and events. Do join me in welcoming our new Terran to the team, we’re happy to have you Brandon!
With that being said, we hope you will join us in welcoming KoMA as a new member of the Infinity Seven family. Stay tuned for an interview with him in the near future, going over what exactly he plans on achieving and how he really became a hardcore fan of gaming. Stay tuned!
For last weekend’s MLG, Infinity Seven sent Axslav, Insur and Pyre to Raleigh. We saw Insur put up quite a show during his WCS NA matches, finishing 5th place in the tournament.
As we’ve seen in the past, Insur’s known for his more macro-oriented style, specializing in PvZ. Despite falling to Scarlett and IdrA on the Main Stage, Insur managed to put up some great games and took home a very respectable 5th place finish along with a cool $1,300, as well as a seed in the WCS Global Finals which will be held later this year in Shanghai.
Insur interviewed by HotBid
Our young Terran, Pyre, fell 2-1 to Minigun in Winners Round 4 in MLG and then 2-1 to Maker later in the Losers bracket. But the learning experience that he’s engaged in and continues to engage in will no doubt stick with him. He’s an extremely talented 17 year old with enormous potential and we have our hopes high for his next LAN appearance.
Pyre interviewed by ESFI
Axslav had a solid weekend at MLG, tearing through the open bracket. After defeating Slush 2-0, Axslav met Evil Geniuses’ new player Suppy and fell in Winners Round 4 to him 2-1. In the Losers Bracket he took a decisive 2-0 over Drewbie, but unfortunately lost 2-1 to up and coming player Fuzzy. Although he didn’t make the championships bracket this MLG, he’s since qualified for PAX this weekend, and just yesterday defeated qxc and Suppy 2-0 in the IEM Guangzhou Stage 2 Qualifiers. With practice and focus, we’re definitely watching Axslav for good results later this year.
Axslav interviewed by Gwin
With dedication and passion, we feel as an organization it is possible to achieve beyond what is expected of us in the coming months, so stay tuned for future updates and announcements regarding where we’re headed, as we’ve got a lot planned!
Over 150 players signed up and checked-in for ESWC’s US qualifiers, only two made it out. Our very own Axslav is one of those two and after enduring days on end of a variety of skilled opponents; he’s made it on top while knocking out It’s Gosu’s dde, Complexity’s Goswer and 4Not’s latest addition: Xenocider.
Nick ‘Axslav’ Ranish will go on to face against the other qualifying player: rtz, who managed to take out Complexity’s Trimaster, as well as the invited: Suppy, IdrA, HuK, Ranged, Hawk, daisuki. With the lack of significant Terrans amongst the invited, Axslav’s focus will need to be on his Zerg match-up as well as checking into his most confident type of opponents: Protosses.
Though this is only an offline US qualifier to the ultimate world ESWC finals in France, this has been the second recent tournament Axslav has qualified for, the first being IPL5. ESWC World Finals is set to kick off on October 31st to November 4th, with ESWC’s North American Path at PAX Prime to commence on August 31st to September 2nd.
It’s been a little over a year since we welcomed jEcho to our team. Previously with LagTT, Joseph Lopez showed a new kind of potential and atmospheric confidence that we had never seen before as he came aboard.
During his run in the recent ESEA season, he performed the most out of the entire team with a record of 10 wins and 1 loss. Beyond that, he was invited recently to participate in WCS Canada, coming close to defeating HuK in the lower bracket and is a constant participant in Playhem Opens coming in second place three times, only to have lost to some of the best Zergs around: TSL4 qualifying player, Hyun, and TSL player Revival.
jEcho has represented both Canada and Infinity Seven in the best way possible during his time on the team, his stream was a constant source of calm and tactile play, but also displayed knowledge and strategy before, during and after every match whether he was winning or losing.
About leaving the team jEcho had the following to say:
“I’ve been with Infinity Seven since the start and loved every second of my time there. As time progressed some players left and new players joined but no matter what it always felt like a family, B teamers and management included. I’m proud to have been a part of the journey to becoming a top 5 North American team. Unfortunately with my final year of school coming up goals for the future had to be changed. I’ll miss everyone on the team and wish them the best of luck in the future.”
It’s with a heavy heart that we say farewell to jEcho as he moves on to bolder endeavors and wish him the best of luck in whatever he does.
This Saturday, the High School Starleague will face off against the Collegiate Starleague. From each league, they have hand-selected players who have the potential to become the new rising stars of StarCraft 2 to face each other in this showmatch.
In this King of the Hill best-of-nine series, cheer on iS.Sanddbox who will be facing off against Protoss player: Eifer. Sanddbox will be supported by his HSL peers: GoSuPokeBunny, Xenocider, vVvEzalb, and other young fearsome players!
The Collegiate Starleague will try and prove why they are better than their younger counterparts. They have PZSniXSniPe, NrGDime, and Boonrebu to name a few who will be representing CSL. Although the big names such as KawaiiRice and Ostojiy will not appear, HSL should not go into this match carelessly. The showmatch will follow the GSTL format and map pool and the broadcast time is yet to be determined. Which league will you cheer for!? Let us know on Twitter if you’re rooting for HSL!
Cheer on Sanddbox this weekend and show your support by following him on Twitter!
Season 11 for the Starcraft 2 League was a great success. We had an action-packed season with an exciting playoffs, and a team who for the first time ever in ESEA SC2 history, managed to go completely undefeated. Congratulations to Infinity Seven, who achieved a perfect 20-0 record this season and has become the new ESEA SC2 Champions! We took the time to interview the new champions after their 3-1 victory over the runner-up, CheckSix Gaming.
Final Standings:
1st Place – Infinity Seven ($2,800)
2nd Place – CheckSix Gaming ($1,200)
3rd Place – It’s Gosu eSports ($600)
4th Place – LighT eSports ($200)
5/6th Place – Team Legion ($100)
5/6th Place – Team Nightmares ($100)
Congratulations on becoming the ESEA Season 11 Champions! How do you guys feel?
Freaking awesome! It’s an amazing feeling to know that we’ve done what no other team has done so far in ESEA and that is to go undefeated in the season.
This is your third season participating in ESEA. Previously Infinity Seven achieved 3rd and 4th place. What was the big factor in Infinity Seven’s success and first place finish this time around?
Mmm… Infinity Seven as a team changed much over the past few seasons. At first we were a group of young players who wanted to prove that we were the best. The team chemistry was raw and powerful which was one of the reasons why we were able to beat EG during the regular season last year.
The following season, we were going through a lot of shifts in our roster as we were trying to become a more stable team. We were finding out that, although we had some of the best players in the league, we weren’t able to clinch the necessary wins.
It wasn’t until this season did our team chemistry really mature. Our players trusted each other and with that confidence they were able to play more solid. We joked earlier in MLG Columbus that we were going to win ESEA, but we didn’t realize that we would do so in dominating fashion. I would have to say that in the end it was because of the team bond that we have. It was something that took time to grow though.
How did you guys prepare for the matches in playoffs? How did you prepare for the match versus CheckSix?
It’s a mixture of timing, luck, and confidence in our players. Our players are familiar with CheckSix roster so we knew what kind of team we were facing. It was definitely troubling to see an all-zerg line-up, especially with CrazyMoviNG unable to play ZvZ cross-region. Most of our players actually struggle against zerg currently.
In our first match against Check Six, Insur ended up losing the 4th match against Sleep which ended up tying the series; we had the choice of sending in either jEcho or Sanddbox. We knew Check6 would send out the expected pick: Sleep, thus a ZvZ match-up would be inevitable. In the end we sent Sanddbox; because, he had confidence in his ability to snipe Sleep. He came through beyond…
Infinity Seven’s Axslav will be attending MLG Summer Arena as the official Protoss Analyst. This time around, there will be Alicia, Oz, Grubby, Sase, Hero, and four other Protosses that Axslav will pick at and analyze. Look forward to see a total of 32 of some of the best players around the world compete in a prize pool of 26.4k this weekend!
This marks Axslav’s 3rd consecutive appearance as the Protoss analyst for MLG. He has attended all the MLG Arena’s up-to-date, being a competitor for the first MLG Arena earlier this year. Known for his in-depth analysis on his thought process real-time, he quickly became an authoritative Protoss figure in North America while streaming on a daily basis.
Axslav will be assisting the casters: Artosis, djWheat, Day9, Apollo, and Mr Bitter with his insight. Look forward to see him analyze some of the best Protosses at MLG Summer Arena.
Make sure to show your support by following Axslav on Twitter, Facebook, and Twitch!
With an incredible win-streak of 20-0, Infinity Seven is proud to be announced as the champion of ESEA StarCraft II Open Season 11.
We completed the regular season with a perfect 16-0, defeating names such as Quantic Gaming, LighT eSports, vVv Gaming, compLexity Academy, and It’s GoSu, the former ESEA Champion.
In the playoffs, we continued the win-streak by defeating vVv Gaming in the Round of 8 and LighT eSports in the semi-finals. We then took CheckSix Gaming twice in the Winner’s and Grand finals, emerging victorious.
Infinity Seven will take home the first place prize of $2,800 from the $5,000 prize pool.
jEcho, Axslav, Sanddbox
With the perfect season now at an end, we would like to recognize and award jEcho as MVP for the team in the 11th ESEA Season, who went 12-1 in his matches including an ace match win against LighT eSports in the playoffs!
Honorable mention goes to Axslav who completed the season with an 11-3 record including two playoff wins against CheckSix. But we definitely cannot forgo mentioning Sanddbox and his clutch 2-1 win vs xSixSleep for the team’s ace match in the Winner’s Finals.
We would also like to thank all our players for a great season with good games and our fans and supporters who followed us throughout the league! We’re so very happy to have you guys cheer us on and will continue to do our best to show you more great matches!
The last time we spoke, we were swept up in the eye of an E-Sports storm. MLG being one of the largest E-Sports events of this year was a checkmark in our team’s achievements and expectations. With MLG and WCS gone with the wind, we now set our eyes for the GIGABYTE ESPORTS LAN Invitational with an $11,000 prize-pool.
On June 15th to the 17th, thanks to GIGABYTE, Intel and the SoCal LANFest, 24 of some the best players around the world will be competing for top prize of 5,000 dollars. We are also sporting our finest gems with both open-bracket MLG warrior Axslav coming in to represent the best that Protoss has to show as well as our very own prodigy and third-place Blizzard’s World Championship series: USA nationals player Insur. Thundertoss will be joining the casting crew for GESL and will do his best to capture the excitement of the games!
Despite a large number of Koreans coming in to steal the show, such as SlayerS Alicia, MVP Tails and TSL’s Inori, Infinity Seven will be amongst the top contender for first place given Insur’s versatility in all match-ups and Axslav’s valuable experience and knowledge of a lot of the opponents’ playstyle for his advantage. Axslav, having taken second place in the MSi Battlegrounds, took out Quantic’s Agh, B2B’s Siphonn and EG’s IdrA, it’s clear he hasn’t lost his A-Game and capable of still contending among the elite. Insur, having lost to Golden fairly early at MLG, will be looking for revenge on LighT’s star, which will also serve as a preview for our match against LighT Esports for the ESEA playoffs.
One thing is for certain, when noon strikes in Southern California on Friday, the SC2 community will be watching some of the best Koreans and foreigners duke it out for top-prizes and exciting matches.
It is day two of the one of the biggest live events in the world for StarCraft II. In addition to the exhibition matches for the Brood War professional players, it is also the biggest live championship for both MLG as well as Blizzard’s US World Championship Series regionals featuring some of the best and most prominent players in the world.
As day one rolled out, our players were ready to hit the floors with Friday opening with the World Championships. Pyre fell into the losers brackets in round one losing to future finalist of the whole regional championship: NITRIX Daisuki. He tried his hardest once more defeating ROOT pUCK in round one of the losers brackets, but soon met his local area rival: It’s Gosu Pokebunny and lost 2-1. This is the second time Pyre has lost to Pokebunny in recent times, having lost to himand claiming second place before at a Local LAN (NJ Power Overwhelming #03).
Against recent CSL Scholarship winner and CheckSix player, Suppy, Axslav falls as well into the losers bracket and ending his short run losing to Sonata. While his WCS story was cut hastily here, his MLG Championship tale would prove to be even more exciting and exceptional than one could foresee.
The true story of WCS here in Anaheim would be fromour Insur. Decisively taking out LighT’s Heavens, he soon makes work of players like SirRobin, HelloKitty and Checksix’s Perfect. Whether he wins or loses against Checksix’s Mystik would not change his qualification into the continental World Championship Series of the Americas (Canada, USA, Mexico) given his extensive run in the winners brackets. However, he ties Mystik up before losing to current finalist and ROOT player ViBe. Day two would be his chance to prove he has earned his right for a rematch against ViBe, but did not seem to overcome against NITRIX Daisuki, making that two Infinity Seven players taken out by the Zerg. Insur folds up camp for WCS taking third out all of North America and with only the MLG Spring Championship on his plate.
Now onto the main event! Anaheim proved to be our biggest presence in recent times! With the majority of staff there to root the players on, Sanddbox, Pyre, Insur, Axslav, CrazyMoviNG and jEcho were all fitting themselves for the battlegrounds. Within the span of Friday and Saturday, Pyre tries his hand at the open bracket but gets walled by EG JYP and against by Quantic’s State in round three of the losers bracket.
jEcho sets off in his corner of the brackets striking vVv Rocker decisively similar to his confident win over him during our ESEA match against vVv. Some things do not seem to change as jEcho plays against the match-up he despises the most: Zerg. More specifically; Fuzzy of Team Dynamic who, coincidentally, has also qualified for the World Championships Canadian Regionals (jEcho has been invited to WCS of Canada). Down in the losers bracket, jEcho’s luck runs out as he taps out against Team Liquid’s formidable Korean Zerg: Zenio.
While a similar fate seemed likely for Sanddbox, losing to vVv glon in the first round, Sanddbox was not counted out just yet as he takes major names all the way to round five of the losers bracket. Quantic Flo, Checksix Future, EG DeMuslim, EG LzGamer are all names eliminated by Sanddbox the bounty hunter. It was not until Ostojiy stepped into the ring that Sanddbox met his match and gets eliminated. Ostojiy was also an unstoppable force in our ESEA match against It’s Gosu where jEcho loses to Ostojiy 2-1.
However, revenge was served to Axslav as he later takes out Ostojiy in the finals of the losers bracket. With better luck than in WCS, Axslav progressed passed Quantic’s Agh, Siphonn (Axslav recently lost to Siphonn in a showmatch back in March) and the day after: EG idrA. Though idrA proved to be no longer a threat, a return of favour after losing to idrA in the IPL Team Arena Challenge, Axslav falls to JYP similarly like Pyre in round two.
The quiet CrazyMoviNG took his wins with carefulness and confidence. LighT’s Knight, Gatored and current WCS finalist, ViBe, all fell into CrazyMoviNG’s pocket as he out-macroed and maneuvered his way to Oz. Oz, now with Fnatic, shoved CrazyMoviNG into the losers bracket against It’s Gosu YaTa and soon after LighT’s KawaiiRice. He was however stopped short against Dignitas SelecT at the losers bracket finals, just missing the championship series after a close back-and-forth three-game series against the Terran player.
As for Insur, he takes a second-helping of SirRobin, knocking him down to the losers bracket similarly as he did at WCS. However, Insur was no match for LighT’s Golden as he goes underground to the losers bracket collecting names such as Ruff and BoYo before STX cut his winning streak short.
Axslav ends on a high note reaching the rim of the championship bracket before FXO’s Lucky comes into play. After two fierce games, Axslav bows out and so conclude Infinity Seven’s run for MLG’s 2012 Spring Championship at Anaheim, California! All the players played formidably and showed a remarkable amount of strength, perseverance and reach! Despite their conclusions, they did not go down without a fight and without eliminating some of the most powerful foes of recent times! With Insur taking third place at WCS, Axslav reaching the championship bracket and Sanddbox, eliminating a large chunk of EG players, Infinity Seven is looking nothing but up to a reach higher than before!
The last time we spoke, we were swept up in the eye of an E-Sports storm. MLG being one of the largest E-Sports events of this year was a checkmark in our team’s achievements and expectations. With MLG and WCS gone with the wind, we now set our eyes for the GIGABYTE ESPORTS LAN Invitational with an $11,000 prize-pool.
