Sean Michael Gares (born June 10, 1988), better known as sgares or Seang@res, is an American professional retired Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player, esports commentator, and the former head coach of 100 Thieves' Valorant roster.
Gares and his mates played at Arbalet Cup in Dallas placing in Group B with SK Gaming, mTw and lions.
Ruins began to have internal problems after the tournament, so Gares moved to Loaded in early August of that year, whose captain and in-game leader (IGL) was ex-Evil Geniuses Nazar "steno" Vynnytsky.
Composed by Sean Gares, Steno, Paul "pauLy" Guerboyan, Scott "evolution" Cavallero and Liridon "quas" Ademaj, the team's first challenge was IEM V NYC.
In early 2011, Nazar "steno" Vynnytsky left the team and Gares went on to join Full Gaming as an IGL with his former teammate from Ruins Kory "Semphis" Friesen, and the new talent in NA, Braxton "swag" Pierce.
Gares then joined Back2Back in 2012, with Kory "Semphis" Friesen, Brennan "ele1Nt" Webster, Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert and Braxton "swag" Pierce.
He joined Area 51 in early August 2012 with Sam "DaZeD" Marine, former CS: Source player; Spencer "Hiko" Martin, Semphis, and Josh "PineKone" O'Connor.
With his strong ability to read the enemy and anti-strategize, he led his team to the ESL ESEA Pro League Season Finals, Faceit 2015 stage 2 and the Electronic Sports World Cup 2015.
[16] However, at the beginning of 2017, Misfits would acquire Gares, ShaZham, Skyler "Relyks" Weaver, Russel "Twistzz" Dulken, and Hunter "SicK" Mims.
In April they swapped Twistzz and Relyks for AmaneK and Devoduvek, 2 players from France, chosen by Gares mainly because of stats in HLTV.