Kurtis Lau Wai-kin (), better known as Toyz, is a Hong Kong

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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

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. 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 syndrome. In 2014, he coached for the European team Fnatic during their run in the 2014 World Championship, which ended in the group stage. However, Toyz returned to professional play in 2015, forming the Hong Kong Esports team together with former Taipei Assassins teammate Wang "Stanley" June Tsan. Toyz left Hong Kong Esports on 14 October 2015, after making a lengthy post on his Facebook account accusing the team's CEO, Derek Cheung, of match fixing on September. On 12 September 2016, Toyz founded Raise Gaming to compete in the Elite Challenger Series (ECS), the secondary league of the ''League of Legends'' Master Series (LMS), with the goal of qualifying for the promotion tournament. Under Toyz's coaching the team placed first in the 2017 ECS Spring regular season and second in playoffs. The team qualified for the LMS after defeating Team Yetti in the promotion tournament. When the team rebranded to G-Rex on 15 September 2017, Toyz remained as a coach, before becoming the organisation's Director of Esports in mid-2018. He left G-Rex at the end of 2019.

Notable tournament results

Awards

In 2019, the Hong Kong government awarded Lau with the Medal of Honour for his contributions to esports in Hong Kong.

Arrest

Taiwanese police in Taichung arrested Lau on suspicion of trafficking

on 29 September 2021. He subsequently pled guilty to drug trafficking charges on 16 June 2022 and was later sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Toyz Hong Kong esports players League of Legends coaches Living people League of Legends mid lane players Fnatic coaches Taipei Assassins players Hong Kong emigrants to Taiwan 1992 births