C9 Meteos
| Meteos | |
|---|---|
| William Hartman | |
| Status | Active |
| Born | June 13, 1993 |
| Hometown | Fairfax, Virginia |
| Nationality | American |
| Current team | Cloud9 |
| Role | Jungler |
| League | NA LCS |
| Games | League of Legends |
| Championships | 2013 Summer NA LCS, 2014 Spring NA LCS |
| Professional career | |
| Sep 2012 - Feb 2013 | Team Normal Stars |
| Feb 2013 - May 2013 | complexity Gaming |
| Mar 2013 - Apr 2013 | Cloud9 |
| Apr 2013 - May 2013 | Quantic Gaming |
| May 2013 - Aug 2015 | Cloud9 |
| Aug 2015 - Dec 2015 | Cloud9 Tempest |
| Dec 2015 - Present | Cloud9 |
William Hartman, better known as Meteos, is an American League of Legends player. During his time on C9 Meteos has won two North American League of Legends Championship Series split titles and appeared in the League of Legends Championship Series every year.[1][2]
Early life
Although he was born in Massachusetts, Meteos grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. He became interested in games when he was five after he used his dad's Game Boy. Before leaving school to play League of Legends, he was a sophomore at Christopher Newport University working towards a degree in Computer Science.
Career
Meteos was introduced to League of Legends by his brother. His first favorite champion was Singed. He played ADC in Season 2, but eventually switched to Jungle in April 2012. He ranked up playing Skarner, a champion that came to be associated with him. He favored Jungle Elise in Season 3.
Meteos played "High Elo" normal games for a long time, earning over 3500 wins. At some point, he and a his friends decided to form Team Normal Stars to compete in Go4LoL tournaments. Although they were able to win consistently, they disbanded before the first LCS qualifying games because their top laner was too young to compete. He became friends with WildTurtle, who asked him to be a sub for Cloud9. Since the team hadn't decided on a Jungler, he asked if he could join full-time. Meteos joined Cloud9 in early March after subbing for them in the MLG Rising Stars Invitational and IPL 6 qualifiers.
His original in-game name was "Long Dong" before it was changed to "Short Dog" for being offensive. But after an inactive name sweep, his current account's name became available. "Meteos" was the name he used in WoW for five years—it comes from a Nintendo DS game by the same name that happened to be on his desk at the time he created his WoW account.
On July 3, 2015, Meteos announced that he was stepping down as Cloud9's main jungler and shot caller.[1] Following the announcement, Hai came out of retirement to fill in during the Summer Split Week 6. Meteos extended his thanks for the concern from the community — many wondered if he had a family/health emergency because of some ambiguously worded updates on social media. Meteos said that the team was not playing at its best with him as the shotcaller; he thought that if he stepped back for the rest of the split to let someone else jungle, C9 might avoid relegation. Jack Etienne, the general manager of Cloud9 said, "Meteos is a huge part of Cloud9 and one of the most talented players on our roster." Meteos is still actively involved in the C9 brand and will even sub for the new jungler as needed.
On May 9, 2016 it was announced he would return to the active C9 roster as Jungler.[3]
Meteos returned to Cloud 9 during the 2016 spring split as their starting jungler. Playing very well and with help of new members of the team such as C9 Impact and C9 smoothie, Cloud 9 was able to secure a play off spot and making it all the way to the finals eventually losing to TSM. Making it through the gauntlet and defeating Immortals 3-1. Cloud 9 was able to qualify for worlds once again.
Tournament results
| 2013-2015 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Placing | Final game | ||
| 2013 | 2013 Summer NA LCS playoffs |  1st |
1 | Cloud9–? | Team SoloMid |
| 2013 | Season 3 World Championship | Cloud9 | ?–? | ? | |
| 2015 | 2015 League of Legends World Championship | Cloud9 | ?–? | ? | |
| 2016 | 2016 Summer NA LCS playoffs |  3rd |
? | Cloud9–? | ? |
References
- 1 2 "Q&A with Meteos: Being on a team is very similar to being in a relationship".
- ↑ "Meteos Shower: The legacy of William".
- ↑ Andrew Ross 4 weeks ago Follow @AJRoss94, (5 June 2016). "NA LCS highlights: Meteos returns with an amazing Elder Dragon steal".