{{short description|American professional eSports player (born 1994)}} {{Infobox Pro Gaming player | ID = ACHES | name = Patrick Price | name_trans = | image = Aches interview 2013 (cropped).jpg | caption = Price in 2013 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1994|07|18}} | birth_place = | nationality = American | team = | league = Call of Duty League | games = ''Call of Duty'' series | nickname = | career_start = 2010 | career_end = 2022 | years1 = 2010–2011 | team1 = Leverage | years2 = 2012–2014 | team2 = compLexity Gaming | years3 = 2014 | team3 = Evil Geniuses | years4 = 2014–2015 | team4 = FaZe Clan | years5 = 2015–2016 | team5 = Team EnVyUs | years6 = 2016 | team6 = compLexity | years8 = 2016–2017 | team8 = Cloud9 | team9 = Evil Geniuses | years9 = 2017–2018 | team10 = Team EnVyUs | years10 = 2018–2019 | team11 = Los Angeles Guerrillas | years11 = 2019–2020 | highlights = * 2× World League champion (2014, 2018)
}} '''Patrick Price''' (born July 18, 1994) known by his video game moniker '''ACHES''', is an American former professional esports player. Price is best known for playing ''Call of Duty''.
==Career== Price won the Call of Duty Championship 2014 with compLexity Gaming and the Call of Duty Championship 2018 with Evil Geniuses, making him one of only nine players to have won two or more Call of Duty Championships.<ref name="foxsports">{{cite web|url=http://www.foxsports.com/buzzer/story/blood-sweat-and-cheers-how-aches-became-g-o-a-t-of-call-of-duty-120814|title=Patrick 'Aches' Price greatest of all time in Call of Duty - FOX Sports|author=Fox Sports|work=foxsports.com|accessdate=2016-02-10|date=2014-12-08}}</ref>
Price was suspended from MLG events for "repeated harassment" and prohibited from attending four games of the Call of Duty Pro League starting on August 6, and from participating in the July 27 ''MLG 2K Tournament''.<ref name="pcgamer">{{cite web|url=http://www.pcgamer.com/mlg-suspends-call-of-duty-star-patrick-aches-price-due-to-repeated-harrassment/|title=MLG suspends Call of Duty star Patrick 'Aches' Price due to 'repeated harassment' - PC Gamer|publisher=pcgamer.com|accessdate=2016-02-10|date=2014-07-28}}</ref><ref name="dailydot">{{cite web|url=http://www.dailydot.com/esports/mlg-suspends-aches/|title=MLG suspends Aches, one of its biggest 'Call of Duty' stars|publisher=dailydot.com|accessdate=2016-02-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804014806/http://www.dailydot.com/esports/mlg-suspends-aches/|archive-date=2016-08-04|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="readyupgaming">{{cite web|url=http://readyupgaming.com/2014/09/mlg-suspends-evil-geniuses-patrick-aches-price/|title=MLG Suspends Evil Geniuses' Patrick "Aches" Price - READYUP GAMING|publisher=readyupgaming.com|accessdate=2016-02-10}}</ref>
Price officially retired from competitive Call of Duty on January 27, 2022. Along with his retirement, he announced that he was consulting with a studio for a new AAA video game, in addition to joining two Call of Duty League-based series, The Flank and Dexerto's Reverse Sweep.<ref>Price, P. (January 27, 2022) [https://twitter.com/ACHES/status/1486885211229114370/photo/1 "Chapter 1: ✅, Chapter 2 begins now."]. twitter.com. Retrieved August 2, 2022.</ref> On March 2, 2022, Price announced that he had joined the Ubisoft San Francisco Studio to work on their new title, XDefiant.<ref>Price, P. (March 2, 2022) [https://twitter.com/ACHES/status/1499114990598504451/photo/1 "Let's talk a little about Chapter 2: ⬇️"]. twitter.com. Retrieved August 2, 2022.</ref>
==Personal life== Price was born on July 18, 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://complexitygaming.com/articles/news/general/4141/happy-birthday-aches|title=Happy Birthday Aches! - Articles - compLexity Gaming|publisher=complexitygaming.com|accessdate=2016-02-10|date=2013-07-18}}</ref> He is the son of BJ and Lesa Price and grew up in Sanford, North Carolina, where he was a 2012 graduate of Southern Lee High School.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Anna |title=Professional player |url=https://www.sanfordherald.com/archives/professional-player/article_e385fe7a-ee5a-5c07-9ea7-cb19ce6b9005.html |access-date=May 2, 2021 |work=The Sanford Herald |date=October 5, 2013}}</ref>
==Controversy== At UMG Chicago 2012, held in late December 2012 during the Call of Duty: Black Ops II competitive season, a heated moment unfolded between professional players Patrick "Aches" Price and Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag. During the Grand Final of the tournament, OpTic Gaming defeated Aches' team in a high-stakes match. As the game concluded, Nadeshot celebrated the victory energetically and reportedly stepped toward Aches’ side of the stage in the heat of the moment. In response, Aches physically shoved Nadeshot in a brief but tense altercation that quickly drew attention from event staff and other players. Though the push was minor and did not escalate further, the incident became one of the most talked-about moments in early Call of Duty esports history, symbolizing the intense rivalry between Aches' teams and OpTic Gaming. The event also helped solidify Aches’ role as a polarizing figure in the scene and added fuel to the ongoing feud between the two players.
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