Luminosity Gaming
Luminosity Gaming is a professional esports organization based in North America. It has teams competing in Call of Duty, Overwatch, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege, Super [Smash Bros.], Fortnite, ''Apex Legends, Rocket League, Pokémon Unite, Brawl Stars and League of Legends''. The team was founded in Canada by Steve "Buyaka" Maida in 2015, and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
Current divisions
''Super Smash Bros. ''
In October 8, 2016, Luminosity Gaming signed their first Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Wii U representative being the Japanese Mewtwo player Abadango. Shortly after, they signed their first Super Smash Bros. Melee player being European Fox main Ice. Both players left shortly before the start of 2018 ending their Smash Division. This was until Melee player Ginger was signed in February 2021.In October 9, 2022, they announced Enrique Hernández as their first Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player. The following year on March 23, 2023, they announced they had signed two more Ultimate players, being Gavin Dempsey and Leonardo López. In May 2024, they announced that they had signed the Smash Ultimate player and content creator Tyler Martins. The following month, Luminosity announced they would be returning to the Melee scene, by signing Miles Foster and Justin Hallett as players.
''League of Legends''
On November 26, 2024, Luminosity announced their entry into League of Legends by entering the North American Challengers League. The NACL is the second-tier league for teams in North America, with its best teams earning a shot to be promoted to the League of Legends Championship of The Americas North Conference as guests.Former divisions
''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive''
On April 30, 2015, Peter "ptr" Gurney joined the team as an AWPer. On July 29 it was announced that Luminosity dropped its roster and picked up a team based in Brazil that consisted of Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo, Fernando "fer" Alvarenga, Lucas "steel" Lopes, Ricardo "boltz" Prass, and Marcelo "coldzera" David. In November 2015 Luminosity reached the quarterfinals of DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015. Luminosity won MLG Columbus 2016 on April 3, 2016. On May 8, 2016, Luminosity won DreamHack Austin where they beat fellow Brazilian team Tempo Storm 2–0 in the finals. A couple of days later on May 16, 2016, the team won the ESL Pro League Season 3 Finals after beating G2 Esports 3–2 in the finals. On June 24, 2016, it was officially announced that the Brazilian roster would be joining SK Gaming on July 1, 2016. The roster's final tournament with Luminosity was the Esports Championship Series Season 1 Finals where they placed second, losing to G2 Esports in the finals.Luminosity signed the Brazilian team WinOut on July 30, 2016. Its roster consisted of Renato "nak" Nakano, Bruno "bit" Lima, Lucas "destinyy" Bullo, Vinicios "PKL" Coelho, Gustavo "yeL" Knittel and is coached by Alessandro "apoka" Marcucci. Renato "nak" Nakano and Bruno "bit" Lima were kicked on the team on September 8, 2016. Gustavo "SHOOWTiME" Gonçalves and Bruno "shz" Martinelli joined Luminosity on September 11.
On September 12, 2019, Luminosity dropped its second Brazilian roster.