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Splyce (SPY) was a professional esports organization and media company based in Rochester, New York. Their League of Legends team was a franchise member of the LEC, Europe's top professional league for League of Legends. Splyce announced its rebranding from Follow eSports in November 2015. On November 29, 2019, Splyce's parent company, OverActive Media, announced it had merged Splyce with its other esports subsidiary, MAD Lions, and that all of Splyce's teams would henceforth compete under that name.

Follow eSports acquired the League of Legends team Dignitas EU after they qualified for the EU LCS (now LEC) on October 29, 2015, for nearly £625,000 ($1 million). At the time of the acquisition the team's roster consisted of Martin "Wunderwear" Hansen, Chres "Sencux" Laursen, Kasper "Kobbe" Kobberup, and Jonas "Nisbeth" Anderson with Daniel Vorborg as Team Manager.

On January 2, the day that the organization renamed itself, they picked up a Call of Duty roster consisting of JoshuaLee "Joshh" Sheppard, Jordan "Reedy" Reed, James "Dominate" Batz, and Benjamin "Bance" Bance. On May 8, 2 Place at ESWC Zénith 2016. They are participating in the Call of Duty World League.

Over the past years, Splyce has been one of the most competitively successful Call of Duty teams in the world.[opinion]

In 2016, they finished second in the Call of Duty World League Championship.

In 2017, Splyce won the Call of Duty World League Stage 1 Playoffs, defeating FaZe Clan and Luminosity gaming, among others, on their way to capturing the title and over $200,000 in prize winnings.

In 2018, Splyce were the runners-up in the 2018 CWL Birmingham Open, the fourth Major International offline event for Call of Duty: World War II.

On August 19, 2015, Follow eSports announced it had acquired the roster of SapphireKelownaDotCom. Follow eSports dropped SapphireKelownaDotCom and picked up the roster of ex-eLevate on October 25, 2015. Following shortly after the organisation's rebranding from Follow eSports to Splyce, the roster disbanded on December 27, 2015. On December 30, 2015, Splyce picked up four players from the team formerly known as Dogmen and picked up David "DAVEY" Stafford as their fifth player on January 14, 2016. Splyce was invited to the MLG Columbus 2016 qualifiers due to The Mongolz being unable to get visas. They qualified for MLG Columbus 2016 after beating Counter Logic Gaming and Vexed Gaming. Shortly after on June 17, 2016, Abraham "abE" Fazli and Andrew "Professor_Chaos" Heintz departed from the team, though Professor_Chaos was announced as Splyce's new coach on June 21, 2016. Jason "jasonR" Ruchelski additionally departed from the roster on July 7, 2016. On July 12, 2016, Splyce officially announced the signing of Joey "CRUC1AL" Steusel, Asger "AcilioN" Larsen and Enkhtaivan "Machinegun" Lkhagva. In the following 2 years, Splyce made some minor roster adjustments. On April 29, 2018, Splyce announced that they would pull out CS:GO, stating "It is something that is the best for all of us".

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