On April 26th, 2016, FlamesworD announced his retirement from competing in professional Halo. They finished in 3rd place out of four teams. OpTic started off well as they 3-1 Enigma6, who was suppose to beat OpTic according to many in the community, but then lost eight straight maps to Evil Geniuses and then Team EnVyUs. Cloud joined as OpTic's new coach a few days after they were invited to PAX. OpTic was then invited to PAX East 2016 where the HCS Pro League Invitational 2016 was being held to have all four former Allegiance members battle it out for the second spot in the Halo Championship Series Pro League 2016. After Worlds ended, OpTic Gaming released Chaser and LifeStyle to ultimately end up with Naded Leonard and a returning AcE to replace the. At Regionals, OpTic finished top 16, failing to qualify for Worlds. The new roster qualified for the HWC 2016 NA Regional Finals as the 16th seed, with Flamesword's Twitch stream of the Last Chance Qualifier gaining over 20,000 viewers. After four online qualifiers with StelluR, he and Assault left the team and were replaced by Chaser and LifeStyle. Ace left OpTic soon after to join Team Liquid, leaving OpTic to pick up StelluR in his place. They were defeated in the first round by Supremacy, finishing in the bottom two. They improved slightly on their placing at HCS Indianapolis, finishing 5th, but closed out the season with another 6th place finish at the HCS Season 2 Finals.įlamesworD and OpTic were the only North American team invited to compete at the Gamescom Invitational 2015 four-team event. The new roster's first event together was Iron Games Atlanta 2015, where they finished 6th. OpTic underwent a roster change in the offseason, replacing ContrA with Maniac. OpTic then competed in the season finals at PAX East 2015 as the #4 seed, taking a disappointing 7-8th place finish. Louis, Aries was replaced with ContrA and OpTic placed 2nd in HCS Online Cups #6 and #7 before taking 3rd place at Gamers For Giving 2015. They placed 3rd at Iron Games Columbus 2014, and 4th at UGC St. For the inaugural HCS season, Flamesword remained on OpTic, with a new roster of himself, Ace, Assault and Aries. This roster attended the ESL MCC Launch Invitational and placed 5-6th. On December 10, 2014, OpTic Gaming announced its official "OpTic Halo" roster of Flamesword, Ace, iGotUrPistola and Snipedown. 2012 would see Ace and Assault depart, in favor of Snakebite and Royal 2 for MLG Columbus 2012 where Flamesword would net his second tournament victory. The group managed a 5th place showing in Raleigh and 4th in Orlando before ending the year with a 7th place finish in Providence. The roster then came in 7th at MLG Columbus 2011 before securing 2nd place in Anaheim. The same roster played at MLG Dallas 2011 and won, netting Flamesword his first tournament victory. They would end the year with a 2nd place performance in Dallas. They came in 4th at Orlando, Columbus and Raleigh before placing 7th in D.C. 2010 saw Totz leave for Team Enable and LegendPimps being swapped for Assault, to create a team that would last two full years. They played the final two tournaments of the year in Anaheim and Orlando with LegendPimps, finishing top 8 and then 9th respectively. He was swapped for Clutch heading into Dallas where they finished 10th. They attended both Meadowlands and Columbus with Strongside placing 7th in both events. He and Totz then picked up Ace to form the unchanging core of Status Quo for 2009. Toronto and Dallas would be played with Totz in place of Prolific and the squad would secure a 12th place, followed by a top 8 finish. The two would be swapped again for Orlando and Brake would be replaced with Elumnite for a 21st place finish. S1y Fox was then swapped for Pilez before San Diego where the team managed a 20th place finish. Michael "Flamesword" Chavez started his career on Status Quo attending MLG Meadowlands 2008 with Brake, Prolific and S1y Fox, finishing 18th. He is a former coach of the main OpTic Gaming Call of Duty and Halo roster. Outside of Halo, Flamesword is well known in the Call of Duty community for his involvement with OpTic Gaming. Michael Chaves was born on October 25, 1989.
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