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Sneaky
Milestone (age 19)
Won the 2013 Summer NA LCS championship with Cloud9 at age 19, and won the 2014 Spring NA LCS with Cloud9, reaching the World Championship semifinals with Cloud9 in 2016.
Sneaky started as a Mid Laner for Ordinance Gaming before transitioning to AD Carry and bouncing around several NA teams including Team Dignitas and Quantic Gaming. He joined Cloud9 in 2013 alongside Balls, Meteos, Hai, and LemonNation, quickly becoming a cornerstone of one of NA's most dominant teams.
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Am I the next Sneaky? →How this path compounded
01 Starting advantages
7/24 starting-position score
Strongest documented signals: Exceptional peer / cofounder, Direct domain exposure, Elite institution pipeline.
Describes the starting position, not what the person later made of it.
Cohort percentile: 59
02 Built or converted leverage
14/25 multiplying-capacity score
Strongest observed levers:Complementary team, Domain proximity, Started serious reps before 20.
Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.
Cohort percentile: 80
03 Compounding trajectory
5 documented steps
The timeline below shows the sequence of work and transitions around the selected early milestone. It is evidence of a path, not proof that every step was necessary.
Milestone at age 19
04 Observed career standing
T3 · Domain-recognized
Notable and widely recognized within the domain. The tier summarizes documented career recognition through the data cutoff—not Sneaky's worth or future potential.
Question four · where did the leverage come from?
Sneaky's leverage provenance
Each non-zero lever gets a best-supported origin, evidence signals, and confidence. Unresolved is the honest default when the biography cannot distinguish self-built, advantage-enabled, earned, external, or mixed.
Started serious reps before 201/1
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Elite institution pipeline (1/2)Early online platform (1/2)
Complementary team2/2
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Exceptional peer / cofounder (2/2)Elite institution pipeline (1/2)Early online platform (1/2)
Domain proximity2/2
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Direct domain exposure (2/2)Frontier geography (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (1/2)
Elite ecosystem network2/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Elite institution pipeline (1/2)Frontier geography (1/2)Exceptional peer / cofounder (2/2)
Structural wave / timing2/3
Externalmedium confidence
A structural wave is external to the person, even when their position improved access to it.
Frontier geography (1/2)Early online platform (1/2)
Concentration intensity2/3
Unresolvedlow confidence
No current annotation distinguishes self-built, enabled, or earned origins for this lever.
No decisive linked signal
Prior reps1/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Elite institution pipeline (1/2)Early online platform (1/2)
Scarce skill depth1/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Elite institution pipeline (1/2)Early online platform (1/2)
Native distribution1/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Early online platform (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (1/2)
This is a bounded inference from the current annotations—not a claim about private effort, merit, or the percentage of Sneaky's outcome attributable to any origin.
Luck is not a leftover score.Structural luck, Encounter luck, Event luck, Outcome variance can change every arrow in the path. This successful-only dataset cannot observe the near-identical paths that did not break through, so luck stays visible and unscored.
Within Creators / artists, Sneaky's starting-advantage total is at the 59th percentile. Separately, their built or converted leverage total is at the 80th percentile. Other T3 profiles average 7.0 / 24 starting advantage and 11.7 / 25 leverage. Similar scores appear in other tiers, so these figures describe positioning—not a cause.
Trajectory
- 2013 · age 19
Joined Cloud9 and won the 2013 Summer NA LCS championship
The team's inaugural split.
- 2014 · age 20
Won the 2014 Spring NA LCS championship with Cloud9.
- 2016 · age 22
Reached the League of Legends World Championship semifinals with Cloud9.
- 2018 · age 24
Reached the World Championship quarterfinals with Cloud9.
- 2020 · age 26
Left the professional League of Legends scene to
Become an independent full-time Twitch streamer.
Primary leverage engine
High-trust peer team
Execution / operations
Secondary engine
Early specialization
Built/converted leverage
14 / 25
evidence: Medium
Built or converted leverage
Multiplying capacity documented later in the path. Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.
Started serious reps before 20
1/1
Elite ecosystem network
2/3
Structural wave / timing
2/3
Concentration intensity
2/3
Starting-advantage scores (0–2 each)
Access or conditions documented near the beginning of the path. Zero means "no clear evidence in reviewed sources," not "advantage was absent."
Family financial platform
0/2
Parent / family domain
0/2
Inherited audience / network
0/2
Elite institution pipeline
1/2
Dedicated mentor / coach
0/2
Exceptional peer / cofounder
2/2
Direct domain exposure
2/2
Prodigy / innate ability
0/2
Adversity / constraint catalyst
0/2
Family context
Not documented in reviewed sources.
Parent / family domain
Not documented in reviewed sources.
Archetype & tags
High-trust peer teamCloud9 rosterHai leadershipearly LCS dominanceIEM San Jose win
Evidence summary
Sneaky joined Cloud9 in 2013 as part of the original roster with Hai, Meteos, Balls, and LemonNation, forming one of the most cohesive teams in NA LCS history. The team won the 2013 Summer NA LCS and 2014 Spring NA LCS in dominant fashion. Sneaky became known for consistent ADC play and later for his cosplays and streaming. No early life or family background information is available in reviewed sources.
advantage confidence: Low · source count: 2 · audit: not_independently_audited · status: subagent_researched_beta
Sources
Related — same primary engine