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Smoothie
| Name | Andy Ta |
|---|---|
| Country of Birth | Canada |
| Birthday | February 10, 1997 |
| Team | Team SoloMid |
|---|---|
| Role | Support |
| Peak League | Challenger I |
| Team | Start Date | End Date | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
 TDK | 2/2015 | 9/2015 |
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 TL | 0/2015 | 1/2016 |
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| TL | 1/2016 | 3/2016 |
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 TLA | 1/2016 | 4/2016 |
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 C9 | 5/2016 | 7/2018 |
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 C9C | 6/2016 | 1/2017 |
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 C9A | 6/2018 | 7/2018 |
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 EFX | 7/2018 | 11/2018 |
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 TSM | 11/2018 | Present |
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Biography
Smoothie is from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Being underrated quite a bit while part of Team Dragon Knights and Team Liquid, Smoothie's talents were finally noticed when he joined Cloud9. His addition to the team made them noticeably better, as the team managed to reach the NA LCS finals twice, losing both times to Team SoloMid. C9 was also the only NA team to advance past the Group Stage at both the 2016 and 2017 World Championships. Following some problems with his shotcalling, Smoothie left C9 in the Summer of 2018 and joined Echo Fox.
Career History
2015 Season
Smoothie joined Team Dragon Knights in February 2015, replacing former support player KonKwon on the team just before the start of the NACS Spring Season. The team finished second in the regular season with a 7-3 record. In the playoffs, they beat Team Fusion 2-1 before losing to Enemy 1-3, sending them to the Summer Promotion Tournament. Despite the fact that they had placed higher than Fusion, Winterfox chose to play against them. TDK used substitute mid laner Alex Ich in their promotional matches and won 3-1, successfully qualifying for the NA LCS Summer Split.
Due to visa issues, Team Dragon Knights were unable to use their full roster for the first four weeks of the summer split, as Emperor and Ninja were unable to travel to the United States to play with the team; Smoothie was also substituted out for the first three games, with Baby playing in his place. The substitute rosters went a combined 0-9, but when Emperor and Ninja finally joined the team for the second day of the fifth week, the team defeated first-place Team Dignitas. Despite that initial success, Team Dragon Knights were only able to secure two more victories over the next four weeks, and they finished in last place with a 3-15 record, one game behind Enemy. As a result, they were automatically relegated to the 2016 NA Challenger Series Spring Season.
2016 Season
In September 2015, Team Dragon Knights renamed to Team Arena Online, and Smoothie and Emperor left.[1] On October 16th, Smoothie was announced as Team Liquid's new support, replacing Xpecial.[2] However, after only one game in the LCS, Smoothie was swapped to the organization's Challenger team Team Liquid Academy, to play in the NACS, as the first of several roster changes on the Academy team. The total of the roster changes proved detrimental to Team Liquid Academy, and despite initially being favorites to do well in the NACS, they only barely made playoffs, winning a fourth-place tiebreaker with Dream Team due to having 2-0'd them while IWDominate was temporarily substituting in the first week. They were eliminated in the semifinals by Apex Gaming. After the split ended, Team Liquid Academy rebuilt their roster, and Smoothie left.
Trivia
Achievements
| Date | Event | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-03-10 | 2016 NACS Spring Playoffs |  TLA 1 : 3  Apex Gaming
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| Date | Event | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-08 | 2015 NA Challenger Series Spring Playoffs |  TDK 1 : 3  Enemy
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| 2015-03-25 | 2015 NA Challenger Series Spring Season | TDK 7 : 3  Not found
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Media
Interviews
2015
- March 19th - TDK vs F5 | NA Challenger Series - W4D2 | TDK vs Final Five - post-game interview
- July 27th - Smoothie on Team Dragon Knight's future, supporting Emperor and playing with nothing to lose with theScore
- August 3rd - AMA - TDK Smoothie with reddit
- December 17th - Smoothie to Fans: "Keep Watching: I Have a Lot to Prove This Season" with onGamers
2016
- June 5th - Smoothie: 'I won’t make the same mistake I made...with TL. I'm definitely going to improve a lot' with theScore
- October 1st - Smoothie talks Cloud9's crazy match against Flash Wolves with YAHOO! Esports
- October 3rd - C9 SMOOTHIE: "JENSEN GETS A BUFF FROM ALL THIS HATE" with Esports Heaven
- October 9th - Smoothie on the quarterfinals draw: 'I think the brackets couldn't be better for us' with theScore Esports
2017
- February 3rd - Smoothie on his champion pool: ‘Playing melee supports right now is kind of a pocket pick’ with YAHOO! Esports
- March 23rd - C9 Smoothie on Reapered’s coaching method, watching foreign regions and international tournaments with Slingshot Esports
- June 14th - C9 Smoothie: ‘We can’t duo queue in Challenger and that’s annoying for me’ with YAHOO! Esports
- June 21st - Smoothie: "Right now is the funnest meta I’ve ever played in. Right now is the time that supports can really shine and perhaps contend for MVP." with Blitz Esports
- June 28th - C9 Smoothie: “I just want to be in the best form possible to take that championship.” with Slingshot Esports
- July 6th - Smoothie on Rift Rivals expectations: “Our team is affected by jet lag pretty hard.” with Slingshot Esports
- July 18th - Smoothie: “Us not playing well is our fault. I can blame jet lag or whatever all I want, but at the end of the day it’s our fault, and we need to fix those problems ourselves.” with Slingshot Esports
Articles & Videos
2015
- August 4th - Smoothie on auto-relegation, playing in LCS and his favorite team in NA by Daniel Rosen (thescoreesports.com)
2016
- June 1st - Meet C9 Smoothie by Cloud9
- October 2nd - C9 Smoothie: We'll Have Our Issues Fixed Next Week by Xander Torres & Cass Marshall (redbull.com)
- October 13th - We Don't Turn on Each Other: Smoothie Faces Defeat by Rob Zacny & Cass Marshall (redbull.com)
2017
- January 23rd - Smoothie Speaks on the Early NA LCS Support Meta by Xander Torres & Cass Marshall (redbull.com)
- September 21st - Cloud9's Smoothie Is Looking Forward to Worlds by Xander Torres (redbull.com)
- September 23rd - C9 Smoothie: "I got punished for being too confident" by Kyeongbeom Kim & James Hong (invenglobal.com)
Gallery
C9 Smoothie
NA LCS Summer 2018
C9 Smoothie
NA LCS Spring 2018
C9 Smoothie
NA LCS 2017
TDK Smoothie
NA LCS Summer 2015
TDK Smoothie
External Links
References
- ↑ Team Dragon Knights is now Team Arena Online, retains Seraph, Kez, and Ninja dailydot.com
- ↑ Team Liquid Smoothie Challenge youtube.com
