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G-Rex
G-Rex, officially G-Rex Gaming and previously Raise Gaming, was a professional esports organisation based in Hong Kong. Its parent company was Emperor Esports Stars, a subsidiary of Emperor Entertainment Group. It had a ''League of Legends'' team competing in the LMS, the highest level of professional ''League of Legends'' in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. The team qualified for the 2018 World Championship after winning that year's LMS Regional Finals. History As Raise Gaming On 12 September 2016, Dream Catcher Gaming was acquired by former World Champion Kurtis "Toyz" Lau Wai-kin and renamed to Raise Gaming. Details regarding the team were kept secret until February 2017, when top laner Hsieh "PK" Yu-ting, jungler Huang "Laba" Zhen-yang, mid laner Yang "Wuji" Chia-yu, bot laner Chen "LilV" Chin-han, and support Lin "Koala" Chih-chiang were announced as the starting roster for the 2017 ECS Spring Split. Raise Gaming ended the 2017 ECS Spring Split with a dominant 10–4â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 League Of Legends World Championship
The 2018 ''League of Legends'' World Championship was an esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game ''League of Legends''. It was the eighth iteration of the ''League of Legends'' World Championship, an annual international tournament organized by the game's developer, Riot Games. It was held from October 1 to November 3, 2018, in cities across South Korea. Twenty four teams qualified for the tournament based on their placement in regional circuits such as those in China, South Korea, Europe, and North America, with twelve of those teams having to reach the group stage via a play-in round. The tournament became known for its very surprising results, numerous upsets, and has often been considered the most unpredictable worlds in League of Legends' history. The tournament also became the most watched esports event in history, reaching a peak of over 200 million concurrent viewers during the finals. It surpassed the viewership of the 2017 League of Legen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Attitude
Hong Kong Attitude (HKA) is a professional esports organisation based in Hong Kong. Its parent company is Hong Kong Esports, and all of its teams were previously known by that name from October 2014 to 16 May 2017. Hong Kong Attitude previously had a ''League of Legends'' team which competed in the Pacific Championship Series, the top level of professional competition for the game in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia. The team qualified for the League of Legends World Championship, ''League of Legends'' World Championship in 2017 League of Legends World Championship, 2017 and 2019 League of Legends World Championship, 2019 after winning those years' League of Legends Master Series, LMS regional finals. ''League of Legends'' History 2013–2014 Hong Kong Attitude (HKA) was founded on 22 March 2013 with a tentative roster consisting of top laner Kan "MyticQ" Ho-man (now known as Kabe), jungler Cheng "Fai" Hiu-fai, and bot laner Lee "Owl" Yiu-shin. They were la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyz (video Game Player)
Kurtis Lau Wai-kin (), better known as Toyz, is a Hong Kong esports personality and YouTuber. He is a former professional ''League of Legends'' player, best known for winning the Season 2 World Championship as the mid laner for Taipei Assassins. Following his retirement in late 2015, he transitioned to several coaching and managerial roles for esports teams in Taiwan before switching focus to his YouTube channel. In late 2021 he was arrested by Taiwanese police on suspicion of trafficking marijuana. He pled guilty to drug trafficking charges the following year and was sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison. Career After starting his competitive career by playing for the amateur team CrossGaming in 2011, Toyz was recruited by Taipei Assassins in April 2012, with whom he went on to win the Season 2 World Championship. Although he was successful while playing for Taipei Assassins, in June 2013 he was forced to retire from professional play because of carpal tunnel syndro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MAD Team
MAD Team is a Taiwanese esports organization founded on 28 November 2017 by Hong Kong actor Shawn Yue. The organization formerly had a ''League of Legends'' team competing in the ''League of Legends'' Master Series (LMS), the top level of professional ''League of Legends'' in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. ''Arena of Valor'' History On 29 November 2017, it was announced that the roster and Garena Challenger Series (GCS) spot of ahq White had been acquired by MAD Team. MAD Team placed sixth in the 2018 GCS Spring Series and fifth in the 2018 GCS Summer Series. After winning the 2019 GCS Spring Series, MAD Team qualified for the 2019 ''Arena of Valor'' World Cup as Taiwan's representative. Roster ''League of Legends'' History On 28 November 2017, it was announced that the LMS spot of ahq Fighter had been acquired and rebranded to MAD Team. Top laners Wu "Liang" Liang-Te and Tsai "Rock" Chung-Ting, junglers Lien "Benny" Hsiu-Chi and Hsiao "Kongyue" Jen-Tso, and mid l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gambit Esports
Gambit Esports, formerly Gambit Gaming, is a Russian esports organization owned by telecommunications company MTS. It was established in January 2013 after the acquisition of the former ''League of Legends'' roster of Moscow Five. Gambit has teams competing in ''Apex Legends'', ''Dota 2'', ''Fortnite Battle Royale'', and ''Valorant''. It previously had a ''League of Legends'' team competing in the European ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (EU LCS), and later the ''League of Legends'' Continental League (LCL). ''Counter-Strike:Global Offensive'' History On 8 January 2016, Gambit acquired a ''CS:GO'' roster consisting mostly of former HellRaisers players. The players were Mikhail "Dosia" Stolyarov, Dauren "AdreN" Kystaubayev, Rustem "mou" Telepov, Dmitry "hooch" Bogdanov, and Jan "wayLander" Rahkonen. Gambit qualified for MLG Columbus 2016, beating Renegades and Cloud9 in the offline qualifier and later placed 9–12th at the main event. Gambit announced the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J Team
J Team is a Taiwanese professional esports organization owned by JY Entertainment with players competing in ''League of Legends'' and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, ''StarCraft II''. Its ''League of Legends'' team competes in the Pacific Championship Series, the highest level of professional ''League of Legends'' in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia. J Team was founded in April 2016 by Jay Chou after he purchased the League of Legends Master Series, ''League of Legends'' Master Series spot of Taipei Assassins (TPA), which had won the League of Legends: Season 2 World Championship, Season 2 World Championship in 2012. ''League of Legends'' Origins as For The Win Support player "MiSTakE" met top laner "Stanley" while playing in the ''League of Legends'' ranked solo queue ladder. Shortly after connecting, their mutual friend "colalin" introduced them to "NeXAbc" and former Counter Logic Gaming player "Lilballz". Together with mid laner "A8000", they formed their t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends Master Series
The ''League of Legends'' Master Series (LMS) was a professional ''League of Legends'' league with teams from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau from 2015 to 2019. Eight teams competed over two seasons to qualify for the League of Legends World Championship. In September 2019, Riot announced that the LMS would merge with the ''League of Legends'' SEA Tour (LST) to create a new professional league for all Garena-affiliated regions except Vietnam, the Pacific Championship Series (PCS). History An announcement was made by Garena in October 2014 about plans of creating a new league to separate Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau from the rest of the Garena Premier League (GPL) of Southeast Asia. The league would have two seasons per year, spring and summer. The regional quota of two slots in the GPL and a single seed in the World Championship every year temporarily offset the dominance of the Taiwanese teams, but these conditions were not enough as the slots of the Southeast Asia in the Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
100 Thieves
100 Thieves, LLC is an American lifestyle brand and gaming organization based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2017 by Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag and Dan Gilbert. The organization competes in several video games, including ''Apex Legends'', ''Call of Duty'', ''Fortnite Battle Royale'', ''League of Legends'' and ''Valorant''. They currently own two franchise teams: 100 Thieves of the League of Legends Championship Series and the Los Angeles Thieves of the Call of Duty League. History 100 Thieves was founded in 2017 by Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag, a former OpTic Gaming ''Call of Duty'' team captain, (MLG) X Games gold medalist, and 2014 Esports Athlete of the year. In November 2017, 100 Thieves received a multimillion-dollar investment from Cleveland Cavaliers and Quicken Loans owner Dan Gilbert allowing the company to expand into a full-fledged esports organization. On October 23, 2018, 100 Thieves announced that they finished their Series A funding round co-led by Scooter Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends Rift Rivals
Rift Rivals (RR) was a series of cross-regional ''League of Legends'' tournaments organized by Riot Games from 2017–2019. Rift Rivals was five concurrent tournaments where related regions would be pitted against each other. Teams who placed the best in the Spring Split (or other opening season) of the year were invited to a tournament against another region's top teams. In 2019 Rift Rivals, the event was narrowed to only the two largest tournaments: the LCS (NALCS) vs. the LEC (EULCS) for North America vs. Europe, and the LPL vs. LCK vs. LMS-VCS for South Korea / China / Taiwan / Vietnam. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 Rift Rivals was canceled by Riot, as the originally scheduled timeslot in July 2020 was replaced by a delayed Mid-Season Invitational (MSI). Riot additionally announced it would "sunset" the tournaments. Blue Rift * Europe - EU LCS (2017–2018) / LEC (2019) * North America - NA LCS (2017–2018) / LCS (2019) Red Rift *China ( LPL) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. South Korea claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and List of islands of South Korea, adjacent islands. It has a Demographics of South Korea, population of 51.75 million, of which roughly half live in the Seoul Capital Area, the List of metropolitan areas by population, fourth most populous metropolitan area in the world. Other major cities include Incheon, Busan, and Daegu. The Korean Peninsula was inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Its Gojoseon, first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early 7th century BCE. Following the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea into Unified Silla, Silla and Balhae in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fnatic
Fnatic (pronounced "fanatic"; also stylized as fnatic or FNATIC) is a professional esports organization headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Founded 23 July 2004, the team has players from around the world, across a variety of games, such as ''Apex Legends'', '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', ''Dota 2'', ''FIFA'', ''Heroes of the Storm'', ''League of Legends'', ''Valorant'', and ''Rainbow Six Siege''. Fnatic's ''League of Legends'' team won the first-ever League of Legends World Championship in 2011, and also held the record for the most League of Legends Championship Series split titles in the LEC—totalling seven of the 19 played so far ()—until G2 Esports won their eighth title in the 2020 LEC Summer Split. With the 2015 EU LCS Summer Split they became the first LCS team to finish a split undefeated. Fnatic's ''CS:GO'' team, which has traditionally been located in Sweden, won the first ever ''CS:GO'' Major in 2013 and two more between 2013 and 2015. After a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esports Teams Established In 2017
Esports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams. Although organized competitions have long been a part of video game culture, these were largely between amateurs until the late 2000s, when participation by professional gamers and spectatorship in these events through live streaming saw a large surge in popularity. By the 2010s, esports was a significant factor in the video game industry, with many game developers actively designing and providing funding for tournaments and other events. The most common video game genres associated with esports are multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), first-person shooter (FPS), fighting, card, battle royale and real-time strategy (RTS) games. Popular esports franchises include ''League of Legends'', ''Dota'', ''Counter-Strike'', ''Valorant'', ''Overwatch'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
