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Balls (gamer)

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Balls
Le in 2015
Personal information
NameAn Le
NationalityAmerican
Career information
GamesLeague of Legends
Playing career2011–2017
RoleTop-laner
Team history
2011–2012APictureOfAGoose
2012mTw North America
2012Monomaniac Ferus
2012–2013Meat Playground
2013–2016Cloud9
2016Cloud9 Challenger
2017FlyQuest
Career highlights and awards

An Le (Vietnamese: Lê Văn An) better known as Balls, is an American League of Legends player who most recently played professionally as the top laner for FlyQuest. As a member of Cloud9, Balls won the League of Legends Championship Series North America (NA LCS) twice and qualified for the League of Legends World Championship every year he was a part of the team.[1][2][3]

Playing career

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Le began his career in 2011 as a part of North American team APictureOfAGoose.[4] From late 2011 to late 2012, the team was picked up by mTw and renamed mTw.NA and, later, picked up by Monomaniac eSports and renamed to mMe Ferus. Le left the team in October 2012 and subsequently signed with team Meat Playground. Ten days after the 2013 NA LCS Spring Split qualifier, Meat Playground disbanded. Shortly after, Le signed with Cloud9.[5]

On July 17, 2015, Balls was listed as a substituted of C9 Tempest, the Challenger Series team.[6] On April 21, 2016, Cloud9 created its Challenger team headlined by Hai and Balls.[7] In 2017, Le signed with FlyQuest.[8] Although he never announced his retirement, Balls did not sign with another team after the 2017 season.

Tournament results

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Cloud9

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References

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  1. ^ "Balls on the silver lining to missing Katowice and how Cloud9 can beat Immortals". The Daily Dot.
  2. ^ "Balls and his Darius pentakill power Cloud9 to upset victory". The Daily Dot.
  3. ^ "Balls on Group B: 'We know the strength of each team now so it makes it a lot easier to go in to our next game'".
  4. ^ "Living the Dream: Team Vulcun". SK Gaming. 2012. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  5. ^ Shields, Duncan (April 28, 2014). "The history and formation of Cloud 9 - Part 1 of the Cloud 9 story". GameSpot. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  6. ^ "Balls, Incarnati0n and Sneaky listed as subs for Cloud9 Tempest".
  7. ^ "Cloud9 create Challenger squad headlined by Hai and Balls". The Daily Dot.
  8. ^ Wolf, Jacob (January 18, 2017). "League of Legends NA LCS offseason report cards". ESPN. Retrieved May 3, 2021.