Kenny

Kenny
Kenny
Background Information
Name	Kenny Williams
Country of Birth	; United States
Nationality	; Philippines
Birthday	September 2, 1999 (age 21)
Residency	NANorth America
Competitive
Team	⁠⁠LA Thieves
Role	; AR Slayer
Previous Role(s)	; SMG Slayer
Competitive IDs	Kenny
PSN ID	KuavoKenny
Social Media & Links

Overview

Tournament Results

Kenny "Kenny" Williams is a Call of Duty esports player, currently a player for Los Angeles Thieves. He was previously known as Kuavo during the 2020 season.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠WiLD Gaming	Apr 20152015-04-17	Aug 20152015-08-10^[1]	3mo 23d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Epsilon Esports	Aug 20152015-08-04^[3]	Aug 20152015-08-10^[2]	6d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team JusTus	Aug 20152015-08-10^[4]	≈Oct 2015≈2015-10-??	≈2mo 9d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Kaliber	Oct 20172017-10-24^[7]	Aug 20182018-08-28^[5]	10mo 4d ejel
NA	⁠⁠100 Thieves	Aug 20182018-08-28^[9]	Oct 20192019-10-24^[8]	1yr 1mo ejel
CDL	⁠⁠OpTic Gaming LA	Oct 20192019-10-24^[14]	Nov 20202020-11-06^[10]	1yr 13d ejel
CDL	⁠⁠LA Thieves	Nov 20202020-11-06^[15]	Present	2mo 5d ej

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠WiLD Gaming	Apr 20152015-04-17	Aug 20152015-08-10^[1]	3mo 23d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Epsilon Esports	Aug 20152015-08-04^[3]	Aug 20152015-08-10^[2]	6d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team JusTus	Aug 20152015-08-10^[4]	≈Oct 2015≈2015-10-??	≈2mo 9d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Kaliber	Oct 20172017-10-24^[7]	Aug 20182018-08-28^[5]	10mo 4d ejel
NA	⁠⁠100 Thieves	Aug 20182018-08-28^[9]	Oct 20192019-10-24^[8]	1yr 1mo ejel
CDL	⁠⁠OpTic Gaming LA	Oct 20192019-10-24^[14]	Nov 20202020-11-06^[10]	1yr 13d ejel
CDL	⁠⁠LA Thieves	Nov 20202020-11-06^[15]	Present	2mo 5d ej

News

2014
2015
2017
2018
2019
2020

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⁠Crs

July 11, Crowster, Kenny, Tommey and ZyBacK are drafted.

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NA	⁠⁠WiLD	April 17, Chance, Kenny, and Nihill join. e
NA	⁠⁠EPSI	August 4, Kenny joins as substitute.^[3] e
NA	⁠⁠WiLD	August 10, Kenny leaves.^[1] e
NA	⁠⁠EPSI	August 10, Kenny leaves.^[2] e
NA	⁠⁠Jus	August 10, Assault, Kenny, Spacely, and StuDyy join.^[4] e
NA	⁠⁠Jus	October (approx.), Assault, Envoy, Kenny, and Spacely leave. e

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⁠tK

October 24, Chino and Kenny join. Goonjar leaves.^[7]

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NA	⁠⁠tK	August 28, Fero and Kenny leave.^[5]^[6] e
NA	⁠⁠100T	August 28, Fero and Kenny join.^[9] e

NA	⁠⁠100T	October 24, Kenny and SlasheR leave.^[8] e
CDL	⁠⁠OGLA	October 24, Team reveals branding as ⁠⁠OpTic Gaming Los Angeles. Dashy, JKap, Kenny, SlasheR, and TJHaLy join.^[14] e

CDL	⁠⁠OGLA	January 24, Kenny renames to Kuavo. e
CDL	⁠⁠OGLA	September 9, Drazah, Kuavo, and SlasheR's contracts are extended.^[19] e
CDL	⁠⁠OGLA	November 6, Drazah, Kuavo, SlasheR, TJHaLy, Muddawg (General Manager), and Katie Bedford (Streamer) leave.^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13] e
CDL	⁠⁠F/A	November 6, Kuavo renames to Kenny. e
CDL	⁠⁠LAT	November 6, Kenny, SlasheR, TJHaLy, Muddawg (General Manager), and Nadeshot (Founder,CEO) join. Drazah joins as substitute.^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18] e

Biography[edit]

Advanced Warfare[edit]

Kenny made his debut LAN appearance at UMG Dallas 2015 as apart of ROD Squad alongside Assault, Wolf, and Nelson where they secured 9-12th. A month later, Kenny, alongside Assault, joined Team JusTus to join Spacely and Envoy. They found mediocre initial success, placing 9-12th at UMG Washington DC 2015, however showed significant improvement placing 5-6th at MLG World Finals 2015. Unfortunately, due to the 18+ age restriction set in place prior to Black Ops 3, Kenny would not be able to compete until the World War II season.

World War II[edit]

Prior to the release of World War II, Kenny was picked up alongside Chino and Accuracy to join Theory on the new Team Kaliber lineup. Fans were initially skeptical, however were quickly convinced as the newly formed squad took CWL Dallas 2018 by storm, taking home the first place trophy without dropping a single series. Skeptics were still vocal, writing off the victory as a fluke. CWL New Orleans 2018 proved that Team Kaliber will remain being a top contending team, as they earned another first place victory.

Modern Warfare[edit]

On October 24, the OpTic Gaming Los Angeles announced their full starting roster, with TJHaLy, Dashy, Kenny, SlasheR and JKap joining. On December 11, Chino and Goonjar joined as substitutes. Pacman joined as head coach on January 8, 2020. Before the season began, Kenny changed his gamertag to "Kuavo".

OpTic opened their 2020 season by losing to both Paris Legion and "old OpTic" Chicago Huntsmen at Launch Weekend. After supposedly fixing their mistakes while not attending London, OpTic lost both of their matches in Week 3. Despite the poor start of the season, OpTic did not make any roster changes for their inaugural home series. Instead, SlasheR moved to Main AR and Dashy to SMG. The switch started slow but they reverse swept Los Angeles Guerrillas in the Battle of LA and then upset Minnesota RØKKR to win their first ever matches and advance out of groups for the first time. In a closely contested series OpTic fell to Dallas Empire 3-1 in the semifinals. After an extended break due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, OpTic returned in Week 6. Dallas defeated them in match one with the Guerrillas getting revenge in the elimination game and knocking OpTic out of the tournament. Chino came off the bench to replace JKap going into Week 7. Despite not preforming much better in terms of stats, Chino's positivity and teamwork skills immediately gave OpTic a boost and they made it out of the group stage for the second time after defeating Paris Legion and London Royal Ravens in the losers bracket. They beat Toronto Ultra in the semifinal and nearly beat Atlanta FaZe in the final but lost 3-1 in a very closely contested series. Despite making the team's first final, head coach Pacman was released from the team the following day and claims he was given no warning beforehand.

OpTic made it out of groups again in Week 8 after getting revenge against Minnesota RØKKR, who beat them in their first match, in the qualifier game. London beat them 3-2 in the semifinals but the team, especially SlasheR, continued to look very good throughout the whole event. In Week 10, the team returned to their earlier form and went out 0-2, with a particularly embarrassing series against Toronto Ultra who took map 1 by a score of 250-49. Kuavo said afterwards that the team had practiced terribly all season and that is to blame for their poor performances. On July 10, Chino was moved back to the bench with Dashy joining him. They were replaced by Drazah and Hollow from top challenger team UYU. Despite only winning one series in their first event with the new team in Week 12, they impressed and showed off their new talent in two tough series vs Florida Mutineers. They rounded out their regular season with a semifinal appearance in Week 13 that included a win over Chicago Huntsmen before losing 0-3 to Atlanta FaZe. OpTic finished the season in 9th place with 100 CDL Points.

OpTic Gaming started in Losers Round 1 at the Call of Duty League Championship 2020. They started off by defeating Los Angeles Guerrillas 3-2, with Dashy subbing in for Kuavo in Game 5 due to connection issues. OGLA then beat Minnesota RØKKR and Florida Mutineers 3-0 before losing to Chicago Huntsmen 2-3 in Losers Round 4 in one of the best series of the whole season. They finished the tournament Top 6.

Trivia[edit]

Kenny was the MVP of the 2018 CWL Pro League Stage 2
Named Esports Console Rookie of the Year 2018.
Kenny was a 2018 CWL Pro League All-Star.
He changed his in-game ID going into the Call of Duty League 2020 Season from Kenny to Kuavo.
He changed his in-game ID back to Kenny at the start of the Call of Duty League 2021 Season.

Achievements[edit]

This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.

Kenny Tournament Results
Game	Date	Pl	Prize	Event		Roster
	2020-11-18	3 - 4	$ 2,500$ 2,500$ 2,500	Florida Mutineers Release the Kraken Invitational	⁠⁠CENS	Censor • ACHES • Kenny • SlasheR
	2020-11-14	3 - 4		GameBattles Premium $2,500 4v4 S&D Kickoff 2020-11-14	⁠⁠LAT	SlasheR • Kenny • TJHaLy • Temp
	2020-11-14	3 - 4		CheckMate Gaming Elite $720 4v4 S&D Kickoff 2020-11-14	⁠⁠LAT	SlasheR • Kenny • TJHaLy • Temp
	2020-11-13	3 - 4		GameBattles $600 4v4 S&D Kickoff 2020-11-13	⁠⁠LAT	SlasheR • Kenny • TJHaLy • Temp
	2020-10-25	13 - 16		Atlanta FaZe Black Ops 4 Invitational	⁠⁠OGLA	SlasheR • TJHaLy • Kuavo • Accuracy
	2020-10-07	2		Elgato Off-Season Series 2020 Ghosts	⁠⁠KUAV	Kuavo • Temp • Classic • Huke
	2020-10-02	7 - 8		Elgato Off-Season Series 2020 Modern Warfare 2	⁠⁠NELS	Nelson • Kenny • Johnny • Deluxe
	2020-09-21	13 - 16		CheckMate Gaming TST Invitational	⁠⁠3	Kenny • Octane • MentaL • Enable
	2020-09-13	17 - 32		Call of Duty League 2020 - All-Star Weekend 1v1	⁠⁠OGLA	Kuavo
	2020-08-30	5 - 6	$ 300,000$ 300,000$ 300,000	Call of Duty League Championship 2020	⁠⁠OGLA	TJHaLy • Kuavo • SlasheR • Hollow • Drazah • Dashy

Media[edit]

2017
2018
2019
2020

November 23, Team Kaliber’s Kenny: “Just know that you’ll be hearing more about tK” by Justin Binkowski on Dot Esports
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December 10, Kenny tK Interview at MLG CWL Dallas Open 2017 with Dexerto on YouTube
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February 19, MLG Hot Mic with Crimsix, Kenny, Rated & TJ HaLy | CWL Pro League with Call of Duty World League on YouTube
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April 9, SCUF Team of the Week | CWL Stage 1 Playoffs by Call of Duty World League on YouTube
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May 17, SCUF Gaming Team of the Week | CWL Pro League | Stage 2 | Week 1 by Call of Duty World League on YouTube
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May 30, ACHES, Kenny, Chino, and Skrapz will represent Division A in the CoD Endowment All-Star game at CWL Anaheim 2018 by Justin Binkowski on Dot Esports
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June 28, Faccento, Decemate, Priestahh & Kenny | SCUF Team of the Week by Call of Duty World League on YouTube
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August 8, Kenny plays for his grandma and wants to be honest: Behind the Controller by Scuf Gaming on MajorLeagueGaming
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August 28, 100 Thieves returns to Call of Duty, signs Kenny and Fero by Preston Byers on Dot Esports
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September 1, Nadeshot Apparently Knows Nothing About the Career of New 100 Thieves CoD Pro 'Kenny' by Albert Petrosyan on Dexerto
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September 28, Kenny on 100T: I hope this is a team that'll turn into a Dynasty | The Esports Dispatch by LandO on UMG Gaming
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October 24, CoD Blast Podcast w/ Kenny with CoDBlast on PodBean
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December 10, Call of Duty: 100 Thieves players reflect on disappointing CWL Las Vegas performance by Connor Bennett on Dexerto
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January 29, Kenny takes shots at Clayster as CoD pros weigh in on 100 Thieves' roster moves by Alert Petrosyan on Dexerto
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April 18, Kenny: “Crowder has helped a ton by just getting the team on the same page and helping out with strategies.” with myst on Real Sport
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May 1, Nadeshot defends Kenny's 'arrogance': "That's the mindset Crimsix has" by Calum Patterson on Dexerto
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July 8, Should Call of Duty change its MVP criteria? Pros debate by Conner Bennett on Dexerto
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September 27, Dashy, Simp among 9 CoD pros named finalists for Esports Awards by Brad Norton on Dexerto
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September 28, How Has the Comp Scene Grown Since BO2 Six Years Ago? with Esports Stadium on Twitch
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September 28, Which Team Are You Most Worried About Playing? with Esports Stadium on Twitch
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September 28, Why Did You Chose Your Team for This Event? (Charlie's Angels) with Esports Stadium on Twitch
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October 24, OpTic Gaming LA - Team Announcement by OpTic Gaming Los Angeles on YouTube
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October 24, OpTic Gaming Los Angeles reveals 2020 Call of Duty League roster by Justin Binkowski on Dot Esports
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October 24, How good is OpTic LA? | The Esports Dispatch by LandO on YouTube
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November 2, Kenny Interview: The new OpTic and their rivalry with the Chicago Huntsmen | The Esports Dispatch with LandO on YouTube
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January 8, The missing piece of #OGLA by OpTic Gaming on YouTube
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January 17, The Road to Minnesota: Players and Coaches Dish on the Competition by Katie Bedford on Call of Duty League
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February 7, Foundation - Ep 1. Minnesota by OpTic Gaming Los Angeles on YouTube
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March 3, Foundation - Ep 2. Atlanta by OpTic Gaming LA on YouTube
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March 16, Foundation - Ep 3. Los Angeles by OpTic Gaming LA on YouTube
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April 14, What I Wish I Knew Going into Professional Cod | OpTic Chooses with OpTic Gaming on YouTube
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May 9, INCREDIBLE Triple Cap Starts Comeback and Ends With OGLA Dominating by Call of Duty League on YouTube
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May 17, The Chino Effect | OpTic Recap by OpTic Gaming on YouTube
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May 30, Seattle Home Series Look Back | OpTic Recap by OpTic Gaming LA on YouTube
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July 31, "I've been way more confident in these last two events" - Kuavo | OpTic Recap by OpTic Gaming LA on YouTube
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August 22, TJ & Kenny POP OFF (8 Snipes & 12-1) as OpTic STEAMROLL Røkkr on S&D by Call of Duty League on YouTube
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August 22, OpTic Gaming's Kuavo savagely slams ROKKR pro after CDL Champs sweep by , and on Dexerto
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September 3, TURNING OUR SEASON AROUND | CDL Playoffs 2020 Recap by OpTic Gaming on YouTube
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September 11, Kenny CALLS OUT Dashy's Attitude Issues?!.. Dashy Responds! by TacticalRab on YouTube
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October 15, OpTic Gaming and a Rollercoaster Career | the Bricecast Ep14 W/ @Kuavo by Bricetacular on YouTube
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October 25, Kuavo Interview - Wiretap #2 with Easy Mac on Breaking Point
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October 28, Temp to LA Thieves?!.. Kenny Hints at Final Rostermania Moves? by TacticalRab on YouTube
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November 7, Crimsix Big Brain "C6" Name Change EXPLAINED?!.. Kuavo Returns to Kenny! by TacticalRab on YouTube
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November 9, Revealing the LA THIEVES ROSTER! by LA Thieves on YouTube
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December 11, Kenny for 2021 MVP?! — TEMP JOINS @LA Thieves | Rostermania Ft. SlasheR, Temp, Kenny & TJHaLy by Call of Duty League on YouTube
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Post-Match Interviews

Date	Tournament	Match	Link
2020-08-23	Call of Duty League Championship 2020	FLA⁠⁠ vs ⁠⁠OGLA	Link
2020-08-22	Call of Duty League Championship 2020	MIN⁠⁠ vs ⁠⁠OGLA	Link
2020-07-25	Call of Duty League 2020 Week 13 - Toronto	SEA⁠⁠ vs ⁠⁠OGLA	Link
2020-07-18	Call of Duty League 2020 Week 12 - London	SEA⁠⁠ vs ⁠⁠OGLA	Link
2020-03-08	Call of Duty League 2020 Week 4 - Los Angeles	MIN⁠⁠ vs ⁠⁠OGLA	Link
2019-08-18	Call of Duty World League Championship 2019	REC⁠⁠ vs ⁠⁠100T	Link
2019-05-29	CWL Pro League 2019	100T⁠⁠ vs ⁠⁠ENVY	Link
2019-05-05	CWL London 2019	OG⁠⁠ vs ⁠⁠100T	Link
2019-02-27	CWL Pro League 2019	HTCS⁠⁠ vs ⁠⁠100T	Link