COGnitive Gaming

COGnitive Gaming was a professional esports team based in the United States. They had teams in Smite, League of Legends, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Heroes of the Storm.^[1]

COGnitive Gaming

Divisions	Smite, League of Legends, Super Smash Bros., Guilty Gear Xrd Heroes of the Storm
Founded	July 22, 2013
Folded	December 31, 2016
Location	California

COGnitive Prime won the first Smite World Championship.^[2]

COGnitive sponsored Super Smash Bros. Melee players Jason "Mew2King" Zimmerman and Justin "Wizzrobe" Hallett.^[3] COGnitive also signed David "Dacidbro" Broweleit for Guilty Gear Xrd.^[4]

COG's League team competed in the League of Legends Challenger Series North America, the second highest level of LoL play after the League of Legends Championship Series North America.

Glaurung and Hospital left the HotS team on December 24, 2015.^[5]

On December 12, COGnitive announced that they will be ceasing operations on December 31, 2016,^[6] shortly after Super Smash Bros. Melee player, Justin "Wizzrobe" Hallett confirmed to ESPN via Daniel "Tafokints" Lee that he would not be renewing his contract with the team.^[7]

Fighting game roster

Former

ID	Name	Game(s)	Main character(s)	Join date	Leave date
Mew2King	Jason Zimmerman	Super Smash Bros. Melee Super Smash Bros. for Wii U	Sheik, Marth, Fox Cloud	April 16, 2015[8]	May 17, 2016[9]
Wizzrobe	Justin Hallett	Super Smash Bros. Melee Super Smash Bros. 64 Super Smash Bros. for Wii U	Captain Falcon Yoshi Sheik	October 20, 2014[10]	December 31, 2016
Dacidbro	David Broweleit	Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-	Leo	February 19, 2016[11]	December 31, 2016
Kid Viper	Jason Srouji	Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-	Johnny	July 8, 2016[12]	December 31, 2016

References

1. "Zamphira discusses his First Lan Experience and Playing with COG". GameSpot.
2. "StackPath". esports-news.co.uk. 13 January 2015. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
3. Barker, Ian J. (Apr 17, 2015). "Mew2King joins Cognitive Gaming". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on August 1, 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
4. "Round 3 : Heaven or Hell, Let's ROCK!!! - Articles - Cognitive Gaming". Archived from the original on 2016-06-25. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
5. Mueller, Saira (2015-12-24). "Glaurung and Hospital leave COGnitive Gaming's Heroes team". Dot Esports. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
6. Erfanian, Sasha. "COGnitive Gaming to close its doors on Dec. 31". The Score eSports. Retrieved 2016-12-12.
7. Lee, Daniel (12 December 2016). "Wizzrobe will not re-sign with COGnitive Gaming in 2017". ESPN. Retrieved 2016-12-12.
8. Juillet, Jacob. "COGnitive Gaming sign M2K and Wizzrobe". The Score eSports. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
9. Steve Jurek, Saira Mueller. "Echo Fox expands into Smash, signs Mew2King". Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2016-10-11. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
10. Barker, Ian. "Smash prodigy Wizzrobe signs with Cognitive Gaming". Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2016-10-11. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
11. Dacid @ Jan26 DBFZ [@Dacidbro] (19 February 2016). "Proud to announce I am officially sponsored by @CognitiveGG for Guilty Gear -Xrd- Sign" (Tweet) – via Twitter.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
12. "Kid Viper joins Cognitive Gaming". iPlayWinner. Retrieved 2016-10-10.