After Empire won Game 4, the series went to a decisive Game 5 that lasted over an hour and despite Quinn's exceptional performance on Lina, in which he accounted for over half of OpTic's kills, Empire ultimately emerged victorious. OpTic went undefeated during the group stage at the ROG Masters 2017 and advanced to the Grand Finals, where they took a 2-1 series lead over Team Empire. The squad was signed by OpTic Gaming, however their qualifier woes continued and they did not qualify for any DPC events for the remainder of the year ( Galaxy Battles II had it's Major status revoked by Valve). The team experienced initial success by winning the King's Cup to qualify for The Summit 8 and continued to rack up victories in subsequent qualifiers, but they ultimately fell short of qualifying for PGL Open Bucharest and the third StarLadder i-League Invitational after losing to Immortals and compLexity Gaming, respectively. He was a mainstay on the panel throughout the group stage and after the event concluded, he joined fellow analysts Pajkatt and ppd on The Dire in addition to European veterans MiSeRy and zai.
Quinn ultimately ended up attending TI7 after he was invited as an analyst by Valve. Freedom handily defeated compLexity in the opening round and advanced past Digital Chaos to move to the Grand Finals, however, DC ultimately defeated Freedom 3-0 to advance to TI7, a defeat that was likely especially painful for Quinn due to his personal rivalry with mason (see Trivia). Freedom was defeated and thus would have to battle compLexity Gaming, Planet Odd and Digital Chaos in the playoffs for the final North American slot. In the TI7 North American Qualifier, Freedom had an extremely successful group stage and managed to defeat every team except for Team Red which forced them into a tiebreaker with Team NP where the winner would advance directly to The International 2017. Quinn eventually joined is GG (which was later signed by Team Freedom) and went on to win Season 8 of the BEAT Invitational (formerly known as the Canada Cup). While the team had some success in regional tournaments, including top 3 finishes in Season 7 of the Canada Cup and the 6th ProDotA American Cup, they struggled against international teams at events such as The Summit 7 and the Northern Arena BEAT Invitational. Quinn began playing Dota 2 in December 2012 and initially gained notoriety for his stints with FDL.
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