Misfits Gaming
Misfits Gaming is a professional esports organisation based in the United Kingdom that currently has players competing in League of Legends and . It originally began as a League of Legends team and was founded on 18 May 2016.
Misfits' League of Legends team competes in Europe's top professional league, the LEC, which they qualified for in 2016 and became a franchise partner of in 2019. In 2017 the team qualified for that year's World Championship, where they made it to the knockout stage but lost 2–3 to SK Telecom T1 in the quarterfinals.
''League of Legends''
Misfits' League of Legends team was formed on 18 May 2016 to compete in the European Challenger Series Summer Qualifiers after their original parent organisation, Renegades, was given a competitive ruling which banned them from the competitive League of Legends scene. Their inaugural roster consisted of top laner Barney "Alphari" Morris, jungler Kim "Wisdom" Tae-wan, mid laner Marcin "SELFIE" Wolski, AD carry Florent "Yuuki60" Soler and support Han "Dreams" Min-kook.After defeating EURONICS Gaming 3–1 in the finals, Misfits qualified for the European Challenger Series. Misfits finished first in the 2016 EU CS Summer Split and qualified for the 2017 EU LCS Spring promotion tournament, where they defeated FC Schalke 04 3–1 to advance to the EU LCS.
Misfits' academy team qualified for the 2017 EU LCS Summer Split on 13 April 2017, after defeating Origen 3–0 and Fnatic Academy 3–2. On 19 May 2017, Misfits then sold its academy team's LCS spot to German esports organisation Mysterious Monkeys for around $400,000 USD. The entire academy roster, excluding their jungler Milo "Pridestalker" Wehnes, was then transferred to Mysterious Monkeys.
Current roster
Former players
Tournament results
''Overwatch''
In late June 2016, Misfits acquired the roster of Graviton Surge, consisting of Swedish players Nicholas "Skipjack" Rosada, Jonathan "Kryw" Nobre, Andreas "Nevix" Karlsson, Terrence "SoOn" Tarlier, Sebastian "Zebbosai" Olsson and Nikolaj "Zaprey" Ian Moyes. On 12 July 2017, Overwatch developer Activision Blizzard officially announced that Misfits had acquired an Overwatch League franchise for the Miami–Orlando area. On 2 November, the organization revealed that the franchise would be named the Florida Mayhem and announced the transfer of the existing Misfits Overwatch roster to the Mayhem.''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive''
In January 2017 Misfits acquired the ex-TSM CS:GO roster, composed of Sean "seang@res" Gares, Russel "Twistzz" Van Dulken, Skylar "Relyks" Weaver, Shazeb "ShahZaM" Khan and Hunter "SicK" Mims. As part of their acquisition of the roster, Misfits gained a spot in the ESL Pro League due to their players having already qualified while representing TSM.Russel "Twistzz" Van Dulken departed from the team on 14 April 2017, and on the same day it was announced that they had signed the French duo of David "devoduvek" Dobrosavljevic and François "AmaNEk" Delaunay. Shortly after joining Misfits, Skylar "Relyks" Weaver was released from the roster on 25 July 2017. Following the release of Relyks, Twistzz was transferred to Team Liquid after spending time on loan at the team for just under a week.
In the following months, the team was able to qualify for the, but had a poor showing due to the team's French Canadians being unable to get proper U.S. visas. They were only able to earn a single win and were subsequently eliminated from the tournament with a 1–3 record. Following the tournament, the contracts of seang@res, ShahZaM, and SicK expired, leaving devoduvek and AmaNEk as the only players remaining on the roster. On 14 February 2018, Misfits announced their departure from the professional CS:GO scene, releasing devoduvek and AmaNEk from their contracts.
Final roster
| ID | Name | Role | Join date | |
 | sgares | Sean Gares | IGL | 14 January 2017 |
| SicK | Hunter Mims | Rifler | 14 January 2017 |
| ShahZaM | Shahzeb Khan | AWP | 14 January 2017 |
 | AmaNEk | François Delauney | Rifler | 14 April 2017 |
| devoduvek | David Dobrosavljevic | Rifler | 14 April 2017 |
 | peacemaker | Luis Tadeu | Coach | 18 April 2017 |
Tournament results
- 3rd–4th — DreamHack Open Tours 2017
- 1st — CyberPowerPC Extreme Gaming Series - Fall 2017
- 3rd–4th — ESL Pro League Season 6
- 19th–21st —
Fighting games
| Alias | Full Name | Game | Character | Joined |
| La Luna | Ryan Coker-Welch | Super Smash Bros. Melee | Marth | 29 November 2016 |
| Larry Lurr | Larry Holland | Super Smash Bros. for Wii U | Fox | 13 January 2017 |
| Angelic | Armando Mejia | Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 | Wolverine, Dormammu, Shuma-Gorath | 7 April 2017 |