Echo Fox, the eSports organization owned by former NBA player and actor Rick Fox, has signed Torqued's lineup, led by ex-Cloud9 player Sean "sgares" Gares and well known CS:GO personality Mohamad "m0E" Assad.

Speaking to ESPN's Darin Kwilinski, Rick Fox said that he has been wanting to expand his organization past League of Legends and into more games.

"My vision for Echo Fox has always been much larger than League of Legends," he said. "League is clearly a key component and a great starting point as the most played PC game in the world, but I am building what I intend to be the preeminent eSports empire."

Fox also told ESPN that he wanted to have a team in Turner's upcoming ELEAGUE, a CS:GO league set to be broadcast on TBS. Torqued was already invited to compete in ELEAGUE, according to ESPN.

As part of Cloud9, sgares helped the team to a second place finish at the ESL ESEA Pro League Season 1 Finals and first at iBUYPOWERCUP. m0E is best known as a streamer, but has played for 3sUP Enterprises, and stood in for Team Liquid at the ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2 Finals.

Aside from sgares and m0e, Echo Fox's lineup also features Armeen "a2z" Toussi , Try "tck" Martin, and ex-Conquest player Ronnie "ryx" Bylicki.

As Torqued, the team competed in the MLG Columbus 2016 - Americas Last Chance Qualifiers, but were knocked out by Games Academy in the quarterfinals.

Echo Fox made their debut as an organization by purchasing Gravity's spot in the North American League of Legends Championship Series in December. At that time, no plans for a CS:GO team were formally announced.

Daniel Rosen is a news editor for theScore eSports. You can follow him on Twitter.