Tempo Storm

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Tempo Storm is an American esports professional video game team that has teams competing in Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Heroes of the Storm, World of Warcraft, fighting games, Counter-Strike and FIFA. The TempoStorm website is also a prominent research for learning how to play the game. The website launched by Hearthstone player and streamer Andrey "Reynad" Yanyuk on May 25, 2014. On February 12, 2016 TempoStorm picked up the Brazilian CS:GO roster of Games Academy.[1]

Reynad

Andrey "Reynad" Yanyuk is the owner and founder of TempoStorm. Andrey frequently streams on Twitch.TV where he plays Hearthstone, CS:GO and other games. His bright personality and gaming expertise have made him a popular destination for viewers.

Hearthstone

On January 27, 2015 Andrew "Kitkatz" Vargas left the team after disagreements over website content and his inability to "fulfill [sic] his duties". Hyerim "MagicAmy" Lee left TempoStorm February 17, 2015 following accusations of being a fake identity and account boosting and win trading.[2][3]

Heroes

On June 2, 2015 TempoStorm HoTS team sweeps Cloud9 Maelstrom in WCA NA final.[4] Tempo got 7-8th at the 2015 Heroes of the Storm World Championship in November. On November 9, 2015, TempoStorm dropped Zuna and Arthelon.[5]

Counter-Strike

On February 16, 2016 the newly signed Tempo Storm team upset several top North American teams to qualify for Intel Extreme Masters Season X - Katowice.[6] Tempo Storm won the CEVO Gfinity Season 9 Finals on May 3, 2016 where they beat Virtus.pro in the semi-finals and SK Gaming in the finals.[7] On May 8, 2016 the team placed second at DreamHack Austin 2016, losing to fellow Brazilian team Luminosity Gaming in the finals.[8] Tempo Storm went on to sell the roster to Immortals on June 1, 2016.[9]

Former

Nationality ID Name Joined Left
 United States ShahZaM Shahzeb Khan 2015-05-11 2015-08-13
 Brazil HEN1 Henrique Teles 2016-02-10 2016-06-01
 Brazil LUCAS1 Lucas Teles 2016-02-10 2016-06-01
 Brazil SHOOWTiME Gustavo Gonçalves 2016-02-10 2016-06-01
 Brazil felps João Vasconcellos 2016-02-10 2016-06-01
 Brazil boltz Ricardo Prass 2016-02-10 2016-06-01

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