In a Facebook post, veteran Team Curse member Joedat “Voyboy” Esfahani has made the decision to part ways with the organization. Voyboy has decided to take a break from competitive play, however will not be officially retiring and will not leave the LoL eSports scene. He intends to stay at the top levels of solo queue and continue teaching players about the game on his stream.

 

Storied Career

Dignitas

Voyboy has played for numerous teams during his career, all long-standing North American squads. Voyboy started out on a team called Rock Solid, that was later picked up by Team Dignitas. Joining Dignitas, their roster was:

• Voyboy (Top)
• Jatt (Jungle) – Now an LCS Color Commentator
• scarra (Mid) – Now Head Coach of Counter Logic Gaming‘s LoL team
• Imaqtpie (AD Carry) – Retired, currently a full time streamer
• L0cust (Support) – Most likely retired, no official information on the matter

Dignitas/Rock Solid always placed at NA tournaments, with their biggest rivals being Counter Logic Gaming and Team Solomid. Both CLG and Dig constantly fell to the dominant TSM during Season 2, with both squads always falling short.

 

Counter Logic Gaming

During a legendary roster swap, that saw:

• Dig Voyboy joins CLG
• CLG Saintvicious joins Curse
• Curse Crumbzz joins Dignitas

Out of the three, Crumbzz is the only one to still be on the original team (although Saint is on Curse Academy, Team Curse’s sister team) and the only one still in the LCS.

 

Voyboy joined CLG hoping to truly rise to glory, namely above TSM. CLG tried to accomplish this with their second trip to Korea, where they fell short again due to incessant arguing and lack of preparation. Meanwhile, CLG.EU finished second at OGN’s Champions Summer 2012.

With the amount of conflict that occurred within CLG, and a desperate attempt by HotshotGG, Voyboy and Doublelift to keep their sponsor, Own3d.tv afloat, CLG flopped at the Season 2 World Championship. Despite that, they were the only NA team to win a match at the World Championship that year, with a cheese strategy executed against SK Gaming.

Soon afterward, CLG decided to kick Voyboy from the team, who soon joined Curse.

 

Team Curse

After being benched by CLG, Voyboy joined two other former CLG players on Team Curse: Elementz and Saintvicious. Team Curse came up huge at the 2013 LCS Spring Split, dominating the league. However, just because you kick the player off of CLG doesn’t mean you kick the CLG out of the player. Elementz and Saint could never agree, which led to a late-split move where Elementz was moved to a substitute position, ultimately leading to TSM winning the split.

Voyboy has seen many a roster change on Curse, from Edward to Piglet. Now, he’s made the decision to leave.

We wish Voyboy the best of luck in the future.

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