COGnitive Gaming

COGnitive Gaming
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COGnitive Gaming
Team Information
Org Location	United States
Region	NA North America
History
Created	2013-12
Disbanded	2016-01-23
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Overview

Match History

COGnitive Gaming was an American eSports organization. It was one of the first organizations venturing into SMITE by picking up their first team in July 2013. It has since been home to several European, American, and Oceanic SMITE lineups, most notably the lineups of COGnitive Prime and COGnitive Red, which were leading teams in Season 1 before disbanding leading into Season 2. The organization shut its doors on 31 December 2016.

This article describes its main lineup, which has been dubbed COGnitive Prime. For the other teams, see COGnitive Gaming Xbox, COGnitive Red, COGnitive Forge and COGnitive EU.

History

Pre Launch

COGnitive Gaming was originally comprised of Shing, MLCst3alth, Allied, Kaeyoh and 0mega. MLCst3alth was eventually benched for not playing the game enough by Shing, and was replaced by Incontinentia. Kaeyoh later retired from competitive Smite. Allied, Incontinentia and Shing then founded SNIPE Gaming, with 0mega leaving at the same time.

Andinster then invited 0mega and MLCst3alth to his new team, whose other members were BaRRaCCuDDa and DaretoCare. For the remainder of pre-launch, COGnitive Gaming almost went undefeated, only losing to DownToFrag.

Season 1

COGnitive Gaming placed third during the Smite Launch Tournament, being defeated by Team Dignitas in the semifinals. They were almost defeated by SNIPE Gaming earlier in the tournament, but due to an unfortunate misplay, COGnitive Gaming eventually won that matchup.

Season 2

Spring Split

On February 15, COGnitive Gaming signed their new roster, comprised of What's Kraken members.

Summer Split

On July 23, Meerkat and bchm parted ways with COGnitive. Meanwhile, Homiefe returned to the jungle, while Wubbn and Baskintodaface join as the new support and solo laner, respectively.^[1]

In the Fall Relegations, COGnitive successfully defended their SPL spot against a freshly sponsored Noble eSports in a convincing 3-0 series, qualifying for the Fall Split.

Fall Split

On August 13, only days before the start of the split, FaymousHate announced the team had been released by COGnitive Gaming.^[2] It was later clarified by COGnitive's DeamonMachine that the roster had disbanded instead, leading to the contract release of the players.^[3]

On the same day, a new roster was seen joining the in-game clan. It was then confirmed by COGnitive owner David Fry that this would be the new lineup.^[4] This new roster, comprised of former Fat Chunks Assemble members Aror and Cabom, and veterans Meerkat, djpernicus, and TheBest. The season was spearheaded by djpernicus' Guan Yu and Ratatoskr picks, as well as TheBest's Hel. Finishing with a final record of 13-15, they qualified for the NA Super Regionals. Facing off against Cloud 9 in their first set, they were defeated 0:3, although all were very close games. In the months following, Meerkat and Cabom both left the team citing poor team chemistry, as well as their desires to play other roles. On January 23, 2016, the organization wound up without a roster and SPL spot as TheBest, Aror, and djpernicus joined Team Eager.

Timeline

2016
2015
2013

January 23, roster merges with Team Eager. djpernicus, TheBest, and Aror leave.^[5]

January 28, COGnitive Prime and COGnitive Red released. MLCSt3alth, Omega, Andinster, BaRRaCCuDDa, and JeffHindla leave.^[6]
February 15, What's Kraken roster acquired. Jigz, FaymousHate, Hurriwind, Mask, and Meerkat join.^[7]
April 7, Mask is banned from competitive play for one year.
April 8, Homiefe joins as the team's new Jungler.
May 20, Jigz leaves.^[8] bchm joins. Hurriwind to solo, Meerkat to mid, Homiefe to support.
May 27, Hurriwind to mid, Meerkat to solo.
July 23, Meerkat and bchm leave. Homiefe moves to jungle. Baskintodaface joins as solo and Wubbn joins as support.^[1]
August 13, Roster disbands. Baskinrobin, Homiefe, Hurriwind, FaymousHate, and Wubbn leave.^[3]
August 14, Roster formed. Meerkat, djpernicus, TheBest, Cabom, and Aror join.^[4]
November 23, Cabom and Meerkat leave.^[9]^[10]

July, COGnitive Gaming is formed.

Player Roster

Former

ID	Name	Role	Next Team
djpernicus	Cody Tyson	Jungler	Team Eager
TheBest	Jeremy Dailey	Mid Laner	Team Eager
Aror	Max Jackson	Support	Team Eager
Meerkat	Tyler Jensen	Solo Laner	Problem Solved
Cabom	Christian Dura	Hunter	Team EnVyUs
Baskintodaface	Kim Woon-young (김운용)	Solo Laner	Cloud9
Homiefe	Alexander D'Souza	Jungler	Denial eSports
Hurriwind	Tyler Whitney	Mid Laner	Cloud9
FaymousHate	Damian Gudel	Hunter	Risky Behavior
Wubbn	Derek M. Gibson Jr.	Support	Risky Behavior
bchm	Benjamin Chmura	Jungler	Team SoloMid
ScaryD	Ronald Belair	Solo Laner	Fat Chunks
Jigz	Connor Echols	Support	Team SoloMid
Mask	Suharab Askarzada	Jungler	Enemy
BaRRaCCuDDa	John Salter	Hunter	Cloud9
MLCst3alth	Brett Felley	Mid Laner	Cloud9
andinster	Andrew Woodward	Jungler	Cloud9
JeffHindla	Rosario Vilardi	Support	Cloud9
Omegatron	Ryan Johnson	Solo Laner	Cloud9
DaretoCare	Brendan Daniels	Support	Dignitas
Eonic	Sinjin Thorpe	Support	COGnitive Red
Shing	Alexander Rosa	Jungler	SNIPE Gaming
Allied	David Hance	Hunter	SNIPE Gaming
Kaeyoh	Kurt Ocher	Hunter	Retired
Jjaja		Support	Retired
Incontinentia	Riley Unzelman	Mid Laner	SNIPE Gaming