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 Loomis in 2015 | |
| Personal information | |
| Name | Clinton Loomis |
| Born | 1987 or 1988 (age 36–37)[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Career information | |
| Games | Defense of the Ancients Dota 2 |
| Playing career | 2005–2021 |
| Coaching career | 2014–2021 |
| Team history | |
| As player: | |
| 2005–2006 | PluG Pullers Inc. |
| 2006–2007 | CompLexity Gaming |
| 2007–2008 | PluG Pullers V2 |
| 2008–2009 | Meet Your Makers |
| 2009 | Evil Geniuses |
| 2009–2010 | Blight.int |
| 2010 | Nirvana.int |
| 2010–2011 | Lost.eu |
| 2011 | Browned Potatoes |
| 2011 | Online Kingdom |
| 2011–2018 | Evil Geniuses |
| 2018–2020 | J.Storm |
| 2020 | Business associates |
| 2020–2021 | Sadboys |
| As coach: | |
| 2014 | Evil Geniuses |
| 2016-2017 | Evil Geniuses |
| 2021 | Thunder Predator |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Clinton Loomis, better known asFear, is an American professionalDota 2 caster and former player. With a career spanning a decade, Fear is one of the oldestDota players in the scene.[2] He was featured alongsideDanil "Dendi" Ishutin and Benedict Lim "hyhy" Han Yong in the documentaryFree to Play. WithEvil Geniuses, he won over a million dollars as the winners ofThe International 2015.
Fear's first team was called PluG Pullers Inc., and they were picked up byCompLexity Gaming in 2006. After the compLexity Dota division was shut down in 2007, Fear reformed PluG Pullers, but left the team when he was asked to joinMeet Your Makers.[3] Fear was a member of MYM for a year, and he left the team a few weeks before the organization went bankrupt.[4]
His next stop wasEvil Geniuses, which lasted from March to December 2009 before the Dota division was disbanded.[5] Fear then joined a star-studded Blight.int team, which changed sponsors before disbanding over salary issues. This led to a period of inactivity for Fear, as real-life commitments limited his ability to play competitively.
Fear's team Online Kingdom.Nirvana.int was one of the teams invited toThe International 2011, where after an impressive 3–0 record in their group, finished a respectable 7th-8th place, the team taking home $25,000.
A few months after The International, Fear returned toEvil Geniuses.
In January 2014, Fear and EG teammateSaahil "UNiVeRsE" Arora were seen as stand-ins for the team S A D B O Y S in addition to Sahan "KaTana" Gamage who was later dropped due to visa issues, consisting ofArtour "Arteezy" Babaev,Peter "ppd" Dager, and Ludwig "zai" Wåhlberg. With an impressive 16–2 record in their 3 weeks of playing together, the team was picked up by Evil Geniuses as the new Dota team.[6] After receiving an invite toThe International 2014, Fear's arm problems became too much to handle,[7] and he became the team's coach while Mason "mason" Venne joined the team in Fear's place in the "carry" position.[8] Despite the setback, EG managed to finish 3rd place.
After recovering, Fear rejoined EG in August.[9]
2015
With the addition of their youngest roster,Syed "Sumail" Hassan, Evil Geniuses took first place at theDota 2 Asia Championships in February 2015. Later that year, Fear and Evil Geniuses wonThe International 2015, winning over six million dollars in prize money.[10] After The International 2015, he transitioned from the "carry" to the "support" position to accommodate the return of his former teammateArteezy.[11] This new EG roster finished in third place inFrankfurt Major 2015 despite a strong showing early in the tournament.
2016
Fear and Evil Geniuses took third place at theShanghai Major 2016. On June 26, Fear qualified with Evil Geniuses toThe International 2016 by coming first in the Americas Qualifier Group Stage with a 5–1 record (and after defeatingcompLexity Gaming in a first place tiebreaker.) Fear and Evil Geniuses eventually finished third place in the event. After the tournament, Fear retired as a player, citing health issues, to focus on being the team's coach.[12]
2017
AtThe International 2017, Fear participated as the coach of Evil Geniuses and finished 9th-12th at the tournament. After The International 2017, Fear rejoined the active roster of EG and assumed the captain role after the departures of zai andppd.[13]
2018
In May 2018, following a string of bad placements inDota Pro Circuit tournaments, EG announced that Fear had been released but would remain a part of the organization in an undisclosed role.[14] On December 14, 2018, Fear joined North American team J.Storm.[15]
2019
With J.Storm, Fear became the Americas Champions of Betway Midas Mode 2.0.[16]
2020
In the beginning of 2020, J.Storm disbanded its Dota team and its rosters including Fear are listed under a new Dota team called Business Associates.[17] Fear held the captain position at Business Associate.
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