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Sgares
Sean Gares
Date of birth (1988-06-10) June 10, 1988 (age 36)[1][2]
Hometown Phoenix, Arizona
Nationality American
Current team Echo Fox
Games Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Professional career
2009-2010 Emazing Gaming
May 2012-December 2012 Maximum Effort
August 2013-August 2014 Complexity Gaming
August 2014-November 2015 Cloud9
September 2016-present Echofox

Sean Gares, better known as Sgares or Seang@res, is an American professional video gamer. He plays Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for the team Echo Fox. He has previously played for teams such as Cloud9 and compLexity.

Early life

Gares completed college and earned a bachelor's degree in medical biochemistry from Arizona State University before joining his first team Emazing Gaming in 2009.

Career

Gares had his first major Counter-Strike team in 2012, joining Kory "Semphis" Friesen, Brennan "ele1Nt" Webster, Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert and Braxon "swag" Pierce. This team won ESEA Invite Season 11.

Gares gained fame when Counter Strike: Global Offensive came out in 2012. He 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.[3] Complexity was then considered the best Counter Strike team in North America. However, losing Pierce[4] 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.[5] 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 Shazeeb "ShahZam" Khan.

Things went pretty poorly until iBUYPOWER was banned in March 2015.[6] This left Cloud9 as the best in North America. Cloud9 replaced Khan and Frieson with Ryan "fREAKAZOiD" Abadir and Tylar "Skadoodle" Latham.[7] This was Gares' most famous lineup as in game leader and captain of Cloud9. 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,[8] announcing that he would take a break. However in January 2016 he returned to the game with his new team Echo Fox[9][10] made up of A2z, Moe, Tck, and Ryx. This team qualified for the 2 million dollar E-League on TBS.

Tournament results

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References

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