Keith

Keith
Retired
Keith
Background Information
Name	Yuri Jew
Country of Birth	; United States
Birthday	November 23, 1997 (age 27)
Residency	NANorth America
Competitive
Role	; Bot Laner
Favorite Champs	;
Soloqueue IDs	imp imp imp imp, Crs KEITHMCBRIEF, Liquid KEITH, TLA KEITH, MILTANK (KR), 릭 폭스 (KR)
Social Media & Links

Overview

Tournament Results

Stats

Match History

Yuri "Keith" (▶️ listen) Jew is a retired League of Legends esports player, previously bot laner for Immortals Academy.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠Team Gyrations	≈May 2014≈2014-05-??	≈Jul 2014≈2014-07-??	≈2mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team LoLPro	≈Nov 2014≈2014-11-??	≈Dec 2014≈2014-12-??	≈1mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠TL Academy	Jan 20152015-01-16^[2]	Jul 20152015-07-01^[1]	5mo 16d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Liquid	Jan 20152015-01-16	Jul 20152015-07-01^[3]	5mo 16d ejel
NA	⁠⁠TSM	Jul 20152015-07-01^[6]	Oct 20152015-10-19^[5]	3mo 18d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9 Challenger	Oct 20152015-10-19^[8]	Dec 20152015-12-04	1mo 16d ejel
NA	⁠⁠CLG Black	Dec 20152015-12-09^[10]	Jan 20162016-01-05^[9]	27d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Echo Fox	Jan 20162016-01-05^[11]	Nov 20172017-11-20	1yr 10mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠C9 Academy	Dec 20172017-12-18^[14]	Jul 20192019-07-17^[12]	1yr 6mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9	Jun 20182018-06-13^[15]	Jun 20182018-06-30	17d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9	Mar 20192019-03-23^[16]	Apr 20192019-04-06	14d ejel
NA	⁠⁠GG Academy	Jul 20192019-07-17^[18]	Nov 20192019-11-22^[17]	4mo 5d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Golden Guardians	Nov 20192019-11-22^[21]	May 20202020-05-28^[20]	6mo 6d ejel
NA	⁠⁠GG Academy	Mar 20202020-03-06^[23]	Nov 20202020-11-23^[22]	8mo 17d ejel
NA	⁠⁠IMT Academy	Dec 20202020-12-08^[25]	Nov 20212021-11-17^[24]	11mo 9d ejel

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠Team Gyrations	≈May 2014≈2014-05-??	≈Jul 2014≈2014-07-??	≈2mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team LoLPro	≈Nov 2014≈2014-11-??	≈Dec 2014≈2014-12-??	≈1mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠TL Academy	Jan 20152015-01-16^[2]	Jul 20152015-07-01^[1]	5mo 16d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Liquid	Jan 20152015-01-16	Feb 20152015-02-16^[26]	1mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Liquid	Feb 20152015-02-16^[26]	Mar 20152015-03-04^[27]	16d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Liquid	Mar 20152015-03-04^[27]	Jul 20152015-07-01^[3]	3mo 28d ejel
NA	⁠⁠TSM	Jul 20152015-07-01^[6]	Oct 20152015-10-19^[5]	3mo 18d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9 Challenger	Oct 20152015-10-19^[8]	Dec 20152015-12-04	1mo 16d ejel
NA	⁠⁠CLG Black	Dec 20152015-12-09^[10]	Jan 20162016-01-05^[9]	27d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Echo Fox	Jan 20162016-01-05^[11]	Nov 20172017-11-20	1yr 10mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠C9 Academy	Dec 20172017-12-18^[14]	Jul 20192019-07-17^[12]	1yr 6mo ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9	Jun 20182018-06-13^[15]	Jun 20182018-06-30	17d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9	Mar 20192019-03-23^[16]	Apr 20192019-04-06	14d ejel
NA	⁠⁠GG Academy	Jul 20192019-07-17^[18]	Nov 20192019-11-22^[17]	4mo 5d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Golden Guardians	Nov 20192019-11-22^[21]	May 20202020-05-28^[20]	6mo 6d ejel
NA	⁠⁠GG Academy	Mar 20202020-03-06^[23]	May 20202020-05-28^[28]	2mo 22d ejel
NA	⁠⁠GG Academy	May 20202020-05-28^[28]	Nov 20202020-11-23^[22]	5mo 26d ejel
NA	⁠⁠IMT Academy	Dec 20202020-12-08^[25]	Nov 20212021-11-17^[24]	11mo 9d ejel

News

2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021

NA	⁠⁠GYRA	May (approx.), Bee Sin, NintendudeX, Yusui, KEITHMCBRIEF, and 10q join. e
NA	⁠⁠GYRA	July (approx.), Bee Sin, NintendudeX, Yusui, KEITHMCBRIEF, and 10q leave. e
NA	⁠⁠PRO	November (approx.), KEITHMCBRIEF joins. e
NA	⁠⁠PRO	December (approx.), ⁠⁠Team LoLPro is disbanded. Flaresz, Thinkcard, Yusui, WizFujiiN, and KEITHMCBRIEF leave. e

NA	⁠⁠TL.A	January 16, ⁠⁠Team Liquid Academy is formed. zig, beibei, Ennui, KEITHMCBRIEF, and JoJo join. Nyjacky joins as substitute.^[2] e
NA	⁠⁠TL	January 16, Saeca and KEITHMCBRIEF join as substitutes. e
NA	⁠⁠TL	February 16, Keith moves to starting roster.^[26] e
NA	⁠⁠TL	March 4, Keith moves to substitute.^[27] e
NA	⁠⁠TL.A	July 1, KEITH leaves.^[1] e
NA	⁠⁠TL	July 1, KEITHMCBRIEF leaves.^[3]^[4] e
NA	⁠⁠TSM	July 1, KEITH joins as substitute.^[6]^[7] e
NA	⁠⁠TSM	October 19, KEITH leaves.^[5] e
NA	⁠⁠C9C	October 19, Solo and KEITH join.^[8] e
NA	⁠⁠C9C	December 4, ⁠⁠Cloud9 Challenger is disbanded. Solo, ktsmurf, KEITH, Trance, Yami, and Innox leave. e
NA	⁠⁠CLB	December 9, InnoX, KEITHMCBRIEF, and Unlimited join. KeNNy rejoins.^[10] e

NA	⁠⁠CLB	January 5, KEITHMCBRIEF leaves.^[9] e
NA	⁠⁠FOX	January 5, kfo, Hard, Froggen, KEITH, and Baby join.^[11] e

NA	⁠⁠FOX	November 20, Looper, Froggen, and Keith's contracts expire. e
NA	⁠⁠C9.A	December 18, Shiro, Wiggily, Goldenglue, Keith, and Zeyzal join.^[14] e

NA	⁠⁠C9	June 13, Goldenglue, Keith, and Zeyzal join from academy roster.^[15] e
NA	⁠⁠C9	June 30, Keith leaves for academy roster. e

NA	⁠⁠C9	March 23, Kumo and Diamond join from academy roster. Keith rejoins from academy roster.^[16] e
NA	⁠⁠C9	April 6, Goldenglue, Keith, and Diamond leave for academy roster. e
NA	⁠⁠GG.A	July 17, Keith joins. Deftly leaves.^[18]^[19] Keith's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 17 November 2020.^[29] e
NA	⁠⁠C9.A	July 17, Deftly joins. Keith leaves.^[12]^[13] e
NA	⁠⁠GG.A	November 22, Keith and Inero (Head Coach) leave for main roster.^[17] e
NA	⁠⁠GG	November 22, Keith joins from academy roster. Inero (Assistant Coach to Head Coach) and Jimmy (Head Coach to Player Performance Coach) change positions. Hauntzer and FBI will remain with the team for 2020.^[21] e
NA	⁠⁠GG	December 11, Keith's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 17 November 2020.^[30] e

NA	⁠⁠GG.A	March 6, Keith joins from main roster.^[23] e
NA	⁠⁠GG	May 28, Keith leaves for academy roster.^[20] e
NA	⁠⁠GG.A	May 28, Chime joins. Keith (Support to Bot) changes position.^[28] e
NA	⁠⁠GG.A	November 23, ZionSpartan and Keith leave. Hard and Gorica's departures are confirmed.^[22] e
NA	⁠⁠IMT.A	December 8, Topoon, Pretty, Keith, Joey, and Nightshare (Coach) join.^[25] e
NA	⁠⁠IMT.A	December 29, Topoon, Pretty, Keith, and Joey's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 22 November 2022. Nightshare (Coach)'s contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 1 November 2022.^[31] e

NA	⁠⁠IMT.A	October 29, Keith's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2021.^[32] e
NA	⁠⁠IMT.A	November 12, Keith's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 22 November 2022.^[33] e
NA	⁠⁠IMT.A	November 17, Keith and Jensen (Head Coach) leave.^[24] e

Biography

Yuri "KEITHMCBRIEF" Jew is from San Leandro, California, in the United States. He played Defense of the Ancients, Heroes of Newerth, and Starcraft II prior to starting League of Legends. KEITHMCBRIEF's first team was Team Gyrations, where he played with NintendudeX, Bee Sin, Yusui, and Adrian until its disbanding in July 2014.

He joined Team LoLPro in November 2014, to play in the Expansion Tournament. LoLPro qualified for the tournament via the Challenger ladder under the name Thomas and the Slotkins. They defeated Fission in the first round but then lost to Team Coast in round 2 and were eliminated from the tournament. Though his primary role is AD carry, KEITHMCBRIEF played support with LoLPro.

2015 Season

KEITHMCBRIEF joined Team Liquid Academy as part of their initial starting roster in January 2015, moving back to AD carry from support. He was joined by zig, beibei, Ennui, and JoJo.^[34] In the first week of the Spring 2015 NA LCS season, starting AD carry Piglet had not yet entered the country, and so Keith substituted for him. After Piglet arrived, Keith and Piglet switched in and out for the next several weeks, until Piglet finally became the starting AD carry full time.^[35]^[36] Keith played with Team Liquid Academy in the NACS Summer Qualifier, but they were eliminated in the second round to tournament-favorites Misfits.

Four weeks into the Summer Season, Keith began a tryout with Team SoloMid for their AD carry position.^[37] After the fifth week, his contract was transferred from Team Liquid to TSM.^[38] He played in one game in week 6, but the team returned to WildTurtle as their starting AD carry for the rest of the season.^[39]

2016 Preseason

In October 2015, Keith joined a new Challenger team being built by Cloud9.^[40] The team disbanded in early December after a fifth-place HTC Ascension placement. Later that month, he joined CLG Black for the NACS Spring Open Qualifier, but after facing Liquid Academy in round 2, the team was eliminated and also disbanded.

2016 Season

After the two failed Challenger teams, Keith joined Echo Fox for the NA LCS Spring Season. Multiple weeks of visa problems keeping Hard, kfo, and Froggen out of competition resulted in a seventh place finish, with an overall 6-12 record including 5 losses with substitutes and a forfeit prior to finding a substitute roster in week 2.

In the Summer Season, Echo Fox had almost no roster problems at all - they substituted Grigne in for two games in week 3, and switched Froggen to top lane for one game while kfo played mid lane, but other than that they had a completely stable roster. With stability did not come an improvement over their spring performance; while they picked up several individual game wins (including handing Team SoloMid their only game 1 defeat of the entire split), the team lost every single series after the first week and finished in last place, three series behind the ninth-place NRG Esports. In the 2017 Spring Promotion Tournament, Echo Fox turned their season around and took advantage of NRG's weakness, beating Team Liquid Academy in the elimination round, losing to the much-improved Phoenix1, and then sweeping NRG in the final series to return to the LCS for 2017.

Trivia

Chose the name "KEITHMCBRIEF" and put it in all caps to be memorable.
Picked Ashe in fourteen of his last eighteen games of the NA LCS 2017 Spring, a fact that was frequently mentioned on broadcast.
- In all of the other four games, he picked Ezreal.

Pentakills

Date	Region	Tournament	Team	Vs	Champion	Pos	W/L	KDA	SB	VOD
2019-04-05	NA North America	NA Academy 2019 Spring Playoffs			Jinx	Bot	W	11/3/3	Link	Link

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Trivia Statistics

List of Games with Players Going 0/0/0 on the Winning Team

Tournament Results

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

Keith Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2021-09-24	4	LCS Proving Grounds 2021 Summer	1 : 3⁠⁠GG.A	⁠⁠IMT.A	V1per, AnDa, Pretty, Keith, Joey, Jensen
2021-08-05	5 - 6	NA Academy 2021 Summer Playoffs	1 : 3⁠⁠100.A	⁠⁠IMT.A	V1per, AnDa, Pretty, Keith, Joey, Jensen
2021-07-29	6	NA Academy 2021 Summer	4-9-5⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠IMT.A	V1per, AnDa, Pretty, Keith, Joey, Jensen
2021-04-14	9 - 12	LCS Proving Grounds 2021 Spring	1 : 2⁠⁠100.A	⁠⁠IMT.A	Topoon, Potluck, Pretty, Keith, Joey, Jensen
2021-03-19	7 - 8	Arena of Legends 2021	1 : 2⁠⁠TL.A	⁠⁠IMT.A	Topoon, Potluck, Pretty, Keith, Joey, Jensen
2021-02-17	5	NA Academy 2021 Spring	5 - 4⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠IMT.A	Topoon, Potluck, Pretty, Keith, Joey, Jensen
2021-01-23	5 - 8	LCS 2021 Lock In	0 : 2⁠⁠100	⁠⁠IMT	Revenge, Topoon, Potluck, Insanity, Pretty, Keith, Joey, Guilhoto, Malaclypse
2020-08-13	5 - 6	NA Academy 2020 Summer Playoffs	2 : 3⁠⁠CLG.A	⁠⁠GG.A	ZionSpartan, Hard, Ablazeolive, Keith, Chime, Raz
2020-08-07	4	NA Academy 2020 Summer	10 - 8⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠GG.A	ZionSpartan, Hard, Ablazeolive, Keith, Chime, Raz
2020-03-29	6	LCS 2020 Spring	8 - 10⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠GG	Hauntzer, Closer, Goldenglue, FBI, Keith, huhi, Inero, ChuChuZ

Keith 1v1 Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Prize	Team	Last Result
2022-04-11	16 - 17	CQ 2022 Spring Split 2		⁠⁠F/A
2015-01-11	16 - 32	Best Zed NA Tournament			FF : FF The Sike

Media

2015
2016
2017
2019
2020

January 26, Keith shares his thoughts about playing in the LCS (video) with , and on onGamers
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January 28, LCS Week 1 OP Liquid KEITHMCBRIEF AMA with , and on Reddit
e
February 21, TL Keith on returning to LCS, thoughts on WFX game, and facing TSM (video) with , and on onGamers
e
June 23, Keith and the Turtle: a look at the battle for TSM's starting AD Carry by , and on The Score
e
August 20, Rank 1 KEITH AMA with , and on reddit
e

February 21, Keith on Echo Fox's victory: 'We didn't think we could end it until we we're at their nexus towers' with , and on The Score
e
March 14, Froggen and Keith Discuss Setting New Records against Dignitas with , and on Yahoo
e
June 5, KEITH on Froggen: 'It's good to know that a damn good mid laner is going to help me out' with , and on The Score
e
June 6, Unleash the Keith - Echo Fox's AD Carry on bootcamp, dynamic queue and his new friend, Gorilla by Tyler Erzberger on ESPN
e
June 27, Keith says heavenTime is joining Echo Fox coaching staff, believes the team can bounce back with , and on Yahoo!
e
August 9, Keith: 'This is one of my worst splits… but I want to keep improving and I still have that drive' with , and on Yahoo!
e

February 1, KEITH on Echo Fox’s first win of the season and why Akaadian is so effective with , and on Slingshot
e
February 2, Keith on becoming more serious about competition: ‘there’s not a lot of time for memes’ with , and on Yahoo Esports
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February 15, Echo Fox Keith 20 Questions with , and on HyperX
e
March 8, Keith on how LoL hurt his performance in school, and his thoughts on Rick Fox and Midlet by , and on Blitz Esports
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March 26, Keith on the struggles he’s faced: ‘The negative feedback I received impacted me a lot as a player’ with , and on Yahoo! Esports
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March 26, C9 Keith on his best selling point: “I’ve been through four supports in Academy with Zeyzal, Smoothie, Feng and Diamond, and I’ve done well with all of them,[…] like no matter what support I play with I can do really well with them. with Izento on Esports Heaven
e

January 26, GG Goldenglue & GG Keith issue a challenge to their former teammate, C9 Blaber with Nick Geracie and Parkes Ousley on Inven Global
e
February 21, Keith on community flak: "we're doing really well in lane if you look at our stats with Travis Gafford on YouTube
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Post-Match Interviews

Date	Tournament	Match	Link
2021-09-11	LCS Proving Grounds 2021 Summer	IMT.A vs ZOO	Link
2021-02-11	NA Academy 2021 Spring	TSM.A vs IMT.A
2020-06-12	NA Academy 2020 Summer	GG.A vs DIG.A	Link
2019-07-06	NA Academy 2019 Summer	TL.A vs C9.A	Link
2019-06-10	NA Academy 2019 Summer	C9.A vs FOX.A	Link
2019-03-24	LCS 2019 Spring	C9 vs CG	Link
2018-08-31	NA Academy 2018 Summer Playoffs	CLG.A vs C9.A	Link
2018-06-29	NA Academy 2018 Summer	C9.A vs TL.A	Link