Fear (video game player)

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Fear
Clinton Loomis
Personal information
Born (1988-02-19) February 19, 1988 (age 32)
Hometown Medford, Oregon
Nationality American
Career information
StatusActive
Current team J Storm
Games Defense of the Ancients
Dota 2
Career history
As player:
2005 - 2006PluG Pullers Inc.
2006 - 2007 CompLexity Gaming
2007 - 2008PluG Pullers V2
2008 - 2009 Meet Your Makers
2009 Evil Geniuses
2009 - 2010Blight.int
2010Nirvana.int
2010 - 2011Lost.eu
2011Browned Potatoes
2011Online Kingdom
2011 - 2016Evil Geniuses
2017 - 2018Evil Geniuses
As coach:
2016 - 2017Evil Geniuses
Career highlights and awards

Clinton Loomis (born February 19, 1988 in Lancaster, California), more commonly known as Fear, is an American professional Dota 2 player and former coach. With a career spanning a decade, Fear is one of the oldest Dota players in the scene. [1] He was featured alongside Danil "Dendi" Ishutin and Benedict Lim "hyhy" Han Long in the documentary Free to Play . With Evil Geniuses, he won over a million dollars as the winners of The International 2015.

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History

Dota

Fear's first team was called PluG Pullers Inc., and they were picked up by CompLexity Gaming in 2006. After the compLexity Dota division was shut down in 2007, Fear reformed PluG Pullers, but left the team when he was asked to join Meet Your Makers. [2] Fear was a member of MYM for a year, and he left the team a few weeks before the organization went bankrupt. [3]

His next stop was Evil Geniuses, which lasted from March to December 2009 before the Dota division was disbanded. [4] Fear then joined a star-studded Blight.int team, which changed sponsors before disbanding over salary issues. This led to a period of inactivity for Fear, as real-life commitments limited his ability to play competitively.

Dota 2

2011

Fear's team Online Kingdom.Nirvana.int was one of the teams invited to The International 2011, where after an impressive 3-0 record in their group, finished a respectable 7th-8th place, the team taking home $25,000.

A few months after The International, Fear returned to Evil Geniuses.

2014

In January 2014, Fear and EG teammate Saahil "UNiVeRsE" Arora were seen as stand-ins for the team S A D B O Y S in addition to Sahan "KaTana" Gamage who was later dropped due to visa issues, consisting of Artour "Arteezy" Babaev, Peter "ppd" Dager, and Ludwig "zai" Wåhlberg. With an impressive 16-2 record in their 3 weeks of playing together, the team was picked up by Evil Geniuses as the new Dota team. [5] After receiving an invite to The International 2014, Fear's arm problems became too much to handle, [6] and he became the team's coach while Mason "mason" Venne joined the team in Fear's place in the "carry" position. [7] Despite the setback, EG managed to finish 3rd place.

After recovering, Fear rejoined EG in August. [8]

EG took first place at the Dota 2 Asia Championships in February 2015. Later that year, Fear and the team won The International 2015, winning over six million dollars in prize money. [9] After TI5, he transitioned from the "carry" to the "support" position to accommodate the return of his former teammate Arteezy. [10] This new EG roster finished in third place in Frankfurt Major 2015 despite a strong showing early in the tournament.

Fear and Evil Geniuses took third place at the Shanghai Major 2016. On June 26, Fear qualified with Evil Geniuses to The International 2016 by coming first in the Americas Qualifier Group Stage with a 5-1 record (and after defeating compLexity Gaming in a first place tiebreaker.) Fear and Evil Geniuses eventually finished third place in the event. After the tournament, Fear retired as a player, citing health issues, to focus on being the team's coach. [11]

After The International 2017, Fear rejoined the active roster of EG and assumed the captain role after the departures of zai and ppd. [12] In May 2018, following a string of bad placements in Dota Pro Circuit tournaments, EG announced that Fear had been released but would remain a part of the organization in an undisclosed role. [13] On December 14th 2018, Fear joined North American team J.Storm. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "DotA 2: The Rocky Balboa of video games just won a million dollars" . Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  2. ↑ FearDarkness and ezy join MYM
  3. ↑ MYM closes all teams
  4. ↑ EG.DotA disbands
  5. ↑ Evil Geniuses Welcomes New Dota 2 Team
  6. ↑ Clinton "Fear" Loomis Sidelined by Injury
  7. ↑ https://twitter.com/EvilGeniuses/statuses/473545849973522432
  8. ↑
  9. ↑ Tassi, Paul (August 9, 2015). "Evil Geniuses Take Home Record $6.6M First Prize In Valve's 'Dota 2' International". Forbes . Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  10. ↑ https://twitter.com/Faceit_Mikey/status/632376798001635328
  11. ↑ "EG Day 1 - Fear Retires". evilgeniuses.gg. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  12. ↑ "EG Day 1 - Fear Retires". facebook.com. Retrieved 6 October 2017.[ better source needed ]
  13. ↑ "Roster Update: Evil Geniuses Dota 2 arrivals and Supermajor roster". Facebook. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  14. ↑ "J.Storm Dota 2 Team Update" . Retrieved 20 June 2019.
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