Tag Archives: Echo Fox

New York Yankees enter esports with Echo Fox deal

Baseball giants the New York Yankees announced Thursday that they are making a move in the world of esports as they enter an investment partnership with Vision Esports, the largest shareholder of three esports companies, including Echo Fox. Vision Esports are the largest shareholder of Echo Fox, Twin Galaxies and …

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Echo Fox appoints NBA veteran Jared Jeffries as president

Jared Jeffries, a former NBA player, has been appointed as the president of esports organisation Echo Fox, headed up by three-time NBA champion Rick Fox Jeffries will be responsible for all of Echo Fox’s operations, and the appointment was confirmed by a private equity firm Vision Venture Partners, headed up by …

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Echo Fox picks up 80% of Team EnVyUs’s Gears of War roster

Echo Fox, the esports organisation owned by retired NBA star Rick Fox, has swooped in for four fifths of Team EnVyUs’ Gears of War roster. Jose ‘FraNChiS’ Mavo, Jamie ‘ToySxldier’ Rivera, Arody ‘Praized’ Dipre and Brian ‘Solurs’ Valenzuela are all leaving Team EnVyUs and joining Echo Fox, where they will play with Kyle Mason, the …

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Fnatic, Echo Fox, NRG, Rogue and Immortals all sign Vainglory teams

Fnatic, Echo Fox, NRG, Rogue and Immortals have all signed Vainglory teams and will debut in the new spring season.  To celebrate the arrival of these new professional organizations, Super Evil Megacorp will be hosting all five teams at the company’s Super Evil Lair in San Mateo for a Run …

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Echo Fox forfeit ESL Pro League spot after failing to get a roster in time

Echo Fox has forfeited its spot in the North American division of the ESL Pro League after failing to submit a roster for the upcoming season.  The team disbanded its CS:GO team late last year, leaving just two players on its roster currently. Obviously without a team of five they …

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Echo Fox go big on fighting games, sign Justin Wong, Tokido and Sonic Fox

Echo Fox, the eSports organisation founded by NBA legend Rick Fox, has signed a ton of top fighting game players.  The organisation has acquired Taniguchi "Tokido" Hajime, Momochi "Momochi" Yusuke, Justin Wong and Momochi "ChocoBlanka" Yuko, who are some of the best Street Fighter V players in the world. These …

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Echo Fox signs Looper

North American LCS team Echo Fox has signed former League of Legends world champion Jang “Looper” Hyeong-seok for its 2017 roster.  The announcement was made over on Yahoo eSports, where they revealed that the former member of the world championship winning Samsung White team would be heading to the NA …

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Riot releases documentary on Rick Fox and his son’s eSports journey

Riot has released a 20 minute documentary that shows Rick Fox’s journey from first attending a League of Legends event with his son, through to starting up his own team. The documentary, which can be seen at the bottom of this post, starts with Rick and his son Kyle heading …

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Echo Fox out, Muffin Lightning in at the ELEAGUE Americas Minor Championship

After news broke yesterday that the Echo Fox CS:GO team had broken up, ELEAGUE has now announced that the team has been replaced in the Americas Minor Championship.  With both Shahzeb “ShahZam” Khan and Ronny “ryx” Bylicki officially leaving the Echo Fox organisation, and only Ryan “Freakazoid” Abadir confirming that …

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Echo Fox gives it’s CS:GO players the option to leave the team, two take up the offer

In a somewhat unprecedented move the Echo Fox organisation has told all of its CS:GO players that they are free to pursue opportunities with other teams if they so wish. Two players have taken up the offer.  "Echo Fox remains committed to its players’ futures — supporting opportunity both inside …

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