Flipside Tactics

Flipside Tactics
Divisions	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, CrossFire, Rocket League, and fighting games
Location	United States (HQ); Ukraine (CS:GO); Europe (Rocket League)
Partners	Sennheiser; BenQ; Twitch
Website	www.flipsidetactics.com

Flipside Tactics (stylized as FlipSid3 Tactics) is an esports organization based in the United States, with teams competing in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive,^[1] Halo, CrossFire, fighting games, and StarCraft II. The organization formerly had teams competing in NASCAR Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Rocket League, and Dota 2.^[2] Former professional football player Ricky Lumpkin is a co-owner of the team.^[3]

Counter-Strike[]

The team had a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive based in Ukraine. They have previously hosted three Swedish squads, as well as a South African "academy".^{[citation needed]}

Roster[]

ID	Name	Join date
B1ad3	Andrey Gorodensky	2015-02-01
WorldEdit	Georgi Yaskin
markeloff	Yegor Markelov
wayLander	Jan Peter Rahkonen	2016-06-20
lollipop21k	Igor Solodkov	2018-04-20

Tournament results[]

Bold denotes a CS:GO Major

9–12th — DreamHack Winter 2014
13–16th — ESL One Katowice 2015
1st — CIS Championship Voronezh^{[citation needed]}
9–12th — ESL One Cologne 2015
3rd-4th — Electronic Sports World Cup 2015
13–16th — DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015
13–16th — MLG Major Championship: Columbus
5-8th — ESL One Cologne 2016
11-14th — ELEAGUE Season 1
5-8th — StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 2^{[citation needed]}
5-6th — DreamHack Winter 2016^[4]
1st — DreamHack Leipzig 2017^[5]
15-16th — ELEAGUE Major 2017 ^[6]
9-11th — PGL 2017 Kraków Major Championship ^[7]

Rocket League[]

In 2015, Flipside acquired the roster from the team Teamy Weamy. On August 7, 2016, Flipside lost to iBUYPOWER Cosmic in the very first Rocket League Championship Series finals, placing second. Shortly after Michael "M1k3Rules" Costello left the team and was subsequently replaced by Marius "gReazymeister" Ranheim from Northern Gaming. On December 4, 2016, Flipside defeated Mockit Aces to win the Rocket League Championship Series for Season 2.

On February 28, 2019, it was announced that the roster that had won WSOE 4 a month prior had chosen to not re-sign with Flipside. With the departure of the roster, it was also announced that Flipside would not be participating in RLCS Season 7, ending the reign of the longest standing organization within Rocket League.^[8]

Former roster[]

ID	Name	Joined	Left
Speed	Jack Packwood-Clarke	2019-02-24	2019-02-28
kuxir97	Francesco Cinquemani	2015-08-25	2019-02-28
miztik	David Lawrie	2017-07-10	2019-02-28

Tournament results (majors)[]

1st - Rocket League MLG Championship Series Season 1 Final
2nd — Rocket League Championship Series Season 1 Final
1st — Rocket League Championship Series Season 2 Final
5th — Rocket League Championship Series Season 3 Final
1st - DreamHack Summer 2017
5-6th — Rocket League Championship Series Season 4 Final
5-8th — DreamHack Open Leipzig
5-6th — Rocket League Championship Series Season 6 Final
1st - WSOE 4: The Rocket League Showdown

Fighting games[]

The Flipside Tactics FGC team was founded in August 2015 by Chris "NinjaCW" Harris. NinjaCW died on October 9, 2016.^[9]^[10] He was replaced by Matthew "Glitch" Testini as the new manager on October 28, 2016.^[11]

ID	Name	Game(s)	Joined
alucarD	Antwan Ortiz	Street Fighter V	2015-07-18
LuCkyL0oPz	Allan Paris	Dead or Alive 5: Last Round	2015-08-05
Sleep	Darnell Waller	Killer Instinct	2015-08-15
Brolynho	Thomas Proença	Street Fighter V	2016-10-28

References[]

^ "Counter-Strike: Flipside Tactics". Archived from the original on June 3, 2016. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
^ "FlipSid3 Tactics Releases Rainbow Six Siege Squad". FlipSide Tactics. January 23, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
^ "Flipside Tactics add NFL pro Ricky Lumpkin to lead". Archived from the original on July 7, 2017. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
^ "HLTV.org: dreamhack zowie open winter 2016".
^ "HLTV.org: FLIPSID3 WIN DREAMHACK LEIPZIG".
^ "HLTV.org: OpTic see off FlipSid3 in Atlanta".
^ "HLTV.org: PGL Major Krakow 2017".
^ "Flipside departs Rocket League". Flipsid3 Tactics. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^ Bahn, Chris. "FGC Mourns Death of F3 Manager Christopher 'NInjaCW' Harris". PVP Live. Retrieved October 9, 2016.
^ Alambeigi, Alena. "Game community mourns death of Christopher 'NinjaCW' Harris". Mashable. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
^ Fischer, Annabelle. "Flipsid3 Tactics sign Brolynho, add new FGC manager". TheScore eSports. Retrieved October 29, 2016.

[1] "Counter-Strike: Flipside Tactics". Archived from the original on June 3, 2016. Retrieved May 9, 2019.

[:0-2] "FlipSid3 Tactics Releases Rainbow Six Siege Squad". FlipSide Tactics. January 23, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2018.

[3] "Flipside Tactics add NFL pro Ricky Lumpkin to lead". Archived from the original on July 7, 2017. Retrieved May 9, 2019.

[4] "HLTV.org: dreamhack zowie open winter 2016".

[5] "HLTV.org: FLIPSID3 WIN DREAMHACK LEIPZIG".

[6] "HLTV.org: OpTic see off FlipSid3 in Atlanta".

[7] "HLTV.org: PGL Major Krakow 2017".

[8] "Flipside departs Rocket League". Flipsid3 Tactics. Retrieved March 4, 2019.

[9] Bahn, Chris. "FGC Mourns Death of F3 Manager Christopher 'NInjaCW' Harris". PVP Live. Retrieved October 9, 2016.

[10] Alambeigi, Alena. "Game community mourns death of Christopher 'NinjaCW' Harris". Mashable. Retrieved October 23, 2016.

[11] Fischer, Annabelle. "Flipsid3 Tactics sign Brolynho, add new FGC manager". TheScore eSports. Retrieved October 29, 2016.

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Divisions	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, CrossFire, Rocket League, and fighting games
Location	United States (HQ) Ukraine (CS:GO) Europe (Rocket League)
Partners	Sennheiser BenQ Twitch
Website	www.flipsidetactics.com