seang@res
Sgares in November 2017
Personal information
NameSean Gares
Born (1988-06-10) June 10, 1988[1][2]
Metairie, Louisiana[3]
NationalityAmerican
Career information
GamesCounter-Strike: Global Offensive
Playing career2009–2019
RoleIn-game leader
Team history
2009–2010Emazing Gaming
2012Maximum Effort
2013–2014Complexity Gaming
2014–2015Cloud9
2016Echo Fox
2016Team SoloMid
2017–2018Misfits Gaming
2018–2019Old Guys Club

Sean Michael Gares, better known as sgares or Seang@res, is an American professional retired Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player, esports commentator and the former head coach of 100 Thieves' Valorant roster. In December 2016, he was released from TSM over a player rights controversy and played for Misfits between January 2017 and January 2018.[4]

Early life

Gares graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor's degree in medical biochemistry.[5] He joined his first professional team Emazing Gaming in 2009.

Career

Starting from local Arizona teams before 2010, when he joined Ruins, Gares distinguished himself for being one of the most aggressive AWPers in North America. During his tenure in Ruins, the team was undefeated and won ESEA-M, moving up to ESEA-I.

Gares and his mates played at Arbalet Cup in Dallas placing in Group B with SK Gaming, mTw and lions. Ruins began to have internal problems after the tournament, so Gares moved to Loaded in early August of that year, whose captain and in-game leader (IGL) was ex-Evil Geniuses Nazar "steno" Vynnytsky. Vynnytsky's would introduce IGL'ing to Gares's life.

In October of the same year, the roster was acquired by Damage Incorporated (DiNC). Composed by Sean Gares, Steno, Paul "pauLy" Guerboyan, Scott "evolution" Cavallero and Liridon "quas" Ademaj, the team's first challenge was IEM V NYC. The team did great, and finished 3rd losing to EG in the semi-final. In early 2011, Nazar "steno" Vynnytsky left the team and Gares went on to join Full Gaming as an IGL with his former teammate from Ruins Kory "Semphis" Friesen and the new talent in NA, Braxton " swag" Pierce.

They would play together ESEA Invite Season 9 with Full Gaming where they would finish 2nd. Gares then joined Back2Back in 2012, with Kory "Semphis" Friesen, Brennan "ele1Nt" Webster, Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert and Braxton "swag" Pierce. With Gares being the IGL, this team won ESEA Invite Season 10 and would win ESEA Invite Season 11 under the name Maximum Effort.

Gares gained fame when Counter Strike: Global Offensive came out in 2012. He joined Area 51 in early August 2012 with Sam "DaZeD" Marine, former CS: Source player; Spencer "Hiko" Martin, Semphis and Josh "PineKone" O'Connor. They would win the ESWC 2012 Na Qualifier, the first CSGO tournament they played. After swapping Pinekone with Trey "tck" Martin they would play ESWC 2012 where they would lose to VeryGames and finish 3rd. They would later win ESEA Invite Season 12. Gares and his teammates moved to team 4Nothing for 1 month and then to Lurking and Working. After 4 months and some roster changes, in May 2013 they were acquired by Quantic Gaming and in August they moved to Complexity Gaming with a roster including Spencer "Hiko" Martin, Braxton "swag" Pierce, Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert, Kory "Semphis" Frieson. This team had many impressive finishes, including a 3rd-4th-place finish at Dreamhack Winter 2013, the first ever CS:GO Major.[6] Complexity was then considered the best Counter Strike team in North America. However, losing Pierce[7] cost them that title. He was replaced by Todd "anger" Williams. This team remained a close second. In the summer of 2014, Cloud9 acquired the Complexity roster.[8] They dropped Williams and acquired Mike "shroud" Grzesiek. Martin was disappointed with the team's lackluster results and left the team in January 2015, replaced by Shahzeb "ShahZam" Khan.

Things went pretty poorly until iBUYPOWER was banned in March 2015.[9] This left Cloud9 as the best in North America. Cloud9 replaced Khan and Friesen with Ryan "fREAKAZOiD" Abadir and Tyler "Skadoodle" Latham.[10] This was Gares' most famous lineup as in game leader and captain of Cloud9. With his strong ability to read the enemy and anti-strategize, he led his team to the ESL ESEA Pro League Season Finals, Faceit 2015 stage 2 and the Electronic Sports World Cup 2015. Cloud9 then won almost every event in North America, acquiring a huge fan base. The team's performances dropped off over the year until Gares left the team in November 2015,[11] announcing that he would take a break. However, in January 2016 he returned to the game with his new team Echo Fox[12][13] made up of A2z, Moe, Tck, and Ryx. In April the roster would improve by swapping A2z, Moe and Tck for Freakazoid, ShaZham and Roca. This team qualified for the 2 million dollar E-League on TBS. Later that year in October EchoFox showed a poor performance at ELeague Season 2[14] and got offered to leave the organization and pursue other offers.[15] In December 2016 Gares signed with TSM but got kicked from the team just a week later over a players rights movement.[16]

However, in the beginning of 2017, Misfits would acquire Gares, ShaZham, Skyler "Relyks" Weaver, Russel "Twistzz" Dulken and Hunter "SicK" Mims. The team would play a lot of qualifiers and would play DreamHack Las Vegas where they didn't pass the group stage, and IBuypower Invitational 2017- Spring.

In April they swapped Twistzz and Relyks for AmaneK and Devoduvek, 2 players from France, chosen by Gares mainly because of stats in HLTV. The team saw a lot of improvement, finishing 10th in ESL Pro League Season 5, qualifying for the Eleague Boston Major in 2018 and finishing in the top 4 in ESL Pro League Season 6.

In 2018, Gares competed as a member of team Old Guys Club,[17]

Tournament results

compLexity Gaming

Cloud9

Echo Fox

References

  1. ↑ "KateEdge @ PAX on Twitter: "@seangares HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEAN!"". Twitter. 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  2. ↑ "Play - Content - My CS Story - sgares". Archived from the original on 2016-04-26. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  3. ↑ Gares, Sean (2014-01-04). "@WalterLemmon @Saints yes! I was born and raised in Metairie, moved to Arizona a while back for school. :)". @seangares. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  4. ↑ Beck, Kellen (24 December 2016). "'CS:GO' pro kicked off team after complaining about players' rights". Mashable. Retrieved 2016-12-31.
  5. ↑ Gares, Sean (2010-11-04). "My CS Story - sgares". ESEA.
  6. ↑ "seang@res CS:GO Statistics". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  7. ↑ Geller, Eric. "Braxton 'Swag' Pierce traded from Complexity to iBUYPOWER". Dailydot.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  8. ↑ Geller, Eric (2014-07-30). "Cloud9 set to acquire CompLexity's 'CS:GO' team". Dailydot.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-27. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  9. ↑ Te, Zorine (2015-01-26). "Valve Bans Pro Counter-Strike Teams For Match Fixing". GameSpot.com. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  10. ↑ "Cloud9 sign Skadoodle, FREAKAZOID". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  11. ↑ "sgares steps down from Cloud9". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  12. ↑ "Echo Fox sign CS:GO team". HLTV.org. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  13. ↑ Geller, Eric. "Rick Fox: Echo Fox beat several teams in fight to sign Sean Gares—just like with Froggen". Dailydot.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-19. Retrieved 2016-04-21.
  14. ↑ "VIDEO: Echo Fox Trolled at ELEAGUE". 12up.com. 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2016-12-31.
  15. ↑ "Echo Fox gives its CS:GO players the option to leave the team, two take up the offer". MCV UK. Archived from the original on 2017-01-01. Retrieved 2016-12-31.
  16. ↑ "TSM part ways with sgares following release of player-signed open letter". theScore esports. Retrieved 2016-12-31.
  17. ↑ Villanueva, Jamie (May 14, 2018). "Shroud, n0thing, and sgares to play in ESEA Open with Fifflaren and lurppis". Dot Esports. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
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