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G-Rex
Full nameG-Rex Gaming
DivisionsLeague of Legends
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Founded15 September 2017 (2017-09-15)
LeagueLeague of Legends Master Series (LMS)
Based inHong Kong
Parent groupEmperor Esports Stars

G-Rex, officially G-Rex Gaming and formerly Raise Gaming, is a professional esports organisation based in Hong Kong. Its parent company is Emperor Esports Stars, a subsidary of Emperor Entertainment Group.

G-Rex's League of Legends team participates in the League of Legends Master Series (LMS), the highest level of competitive play in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. The team qualified for the 2018 World Championship after winning that year's LMS Regional Finals.

League of Legends

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 10–4–0 record, placing 1st and qualifying for the 2017 ECS Spring Playoffs.[1] The team defeated ahq Fighter 2–0 in the first round of playoffs, but lost to Team Yetti 2–3 in the finals.[2] However, Raise Gaming's placement still qualified them for the 2017 LMS Summer Promotion tournament, where they defeated eXtreme Gamers 2–0 in the first round but lost to Wayi Spider in the second qualifying round, putting them in the losers bracket. The team faced Team Yetti once again in the bracket's final qualifying round and defeated them with a 3–0 sweep, qualifying for the 2017 LMS Summer Split.[3]

Raise Gaming proved to be a domestic powerhouse during the 2017 LMS Summer Split, placing 2nd (after losing a tiebreaker match for 1st against Flash Wolves) in their inaugral season with a record of 10 wins to 4 losses.[4] However, the team lost 1–3 to ahq e-Sports Club in the first round of playoffs[5] and were forced to play in the LMS Regional Finals in order to qualify for that year's World Championship. Unfortunately, Raise Gaming were unable to qualify for the World Championship after losing 0–3 to Hong Kong Attitude in the final qualifying round.[6]

On 15 September 2017, Raise Gaming was purchased by Hong Kong business company Emperor Entertainment Group and renamed to G-Rex.[7]

As G-Rex

G-Rex retained every player from the starting roster of Raise Gaming except for LilV, who decided to join J Team. On 29 September 2017, G-Rex acquired mid laner Kim "Candy" Seung-ju and bot laner Lee "Stitch" Seung-ju from CJ Entus and Samsung Galaxy respectively. Junglers Anson "Empt2y" Leung Tsz Ho and Wang "baybay" You-Chun joined the team to complete the starting roster for the 2018 LMS Spring Split.

G-Rex ended the 2018 LMS Spring Split in 2nd place, with a record of 12 wins to 2 losses.[8] This placement qualified the team for playoffs, where they defeated MAD Team 3–0 in the second round but lost to Flash Wolves 0–3 in the finals.[9]

G-Rex participated in the 2018 Rift Rivals tournament as a representative of the LMS, against teams from China's League of Legends Pro League (LPL) and South Korea's League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK).[10]

In preparation for the 2018 LMS Summer Split, G-Rex replaced inactive jungler Laba with Oh "Raise" Ji-hwan. The team ended the split in 5th place, with a record of 6 wins to 8 losses.[11] This placement qualified G-Rex for the 2018 LMS Regional Finals, where they defeated Hong Kong Attitude 3–1 in the semifinals and J Team 3–0 in the finals,[12] qualifying them for the 2018 World Championship.[13]

G-Rex was placed in Group D of the 2018 World Championship play-in stage, along with Russian team Gambit Esports and Chilean team Kaos Latin Gamers.[14] The team placed 1st in their group with a record of 4–0, and later qualfied for the main event after defeating Turkish team SuperMassive eSports 3–1 in the play-in knockout stage.[15][16] For the main event, G-Rex was placed in Group D, along with Chinese team Invictus Gaming, European team Fnatic, and North American team 100 Thieves. After failing to win a single game, G-Rex ended last in Group D with a 0–6 record.[17]

Following their disappointing performance at the World Championship, G-Rex confirmed the departure of Raise and Stitch on 20 November 2018; two days later, Candy's departure was confirmed. On 27 December 2018, G-Rex revised their starting roster in preperation for the 2019 LMS Spring Split; Empt2y moved to a coaching position, baybay moved to G-Rex Infinite, Koala departed, and Raise rejoined. Jungler Wu "Epic" Chun Hin, support Yin "Eason" Yi-Shen, and bot laners Sung "Atlen" Ya-Lun and Chiu "Bruce" Chih-Chun also joined the team on the same day to complete the roster.[18]

After a weak start to the 2019 LMS Spring Split, Empt2y and Candy rejoined the roster in the latter half, but failed to improve the team enough to make playoffs. G-Rex ended the split in 6th place, with 6 wins to 8 losses.[19]

Rosters

League of Legends

Nat. ID Name Role Joined
Taiwan PK Hsieh Yu-Ting Top Laner 16 September 2017
Hong Kong Empt2y Anson Leung Jungler 16 September 2017
Hong Kong Epic Wu Chun Hin Jungler 27 September 2018
South Korea Raise Oh Ji-hwan Jungler 29 June 2018
South Korea Candy Kim Seung-ju Mid Laner 29 November 2017
Taiwan Wuji Yang Chia-Yu Mid Laner 16 September 2017
Taiwan Atlen Sung Ya-Lun Bot Laner 27 December 2018
Taiwan Bruce Chiu Chih-Chun Bot Laner 27 December 2018
Taiwan Eason Yin Yi-Shen Support 27 December 2018
Taiwan Yoon Kim Byung-yoon Support 23 January 2019

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

Nat. ID Name Joined
Hong Kong Noel Ho Chun Cheung March 2019
Hong Kong Sing Ho Wai Sing December 2018
Hong Kong Siufat Pong Ka Hei 18 April 2018
Hong Kong UW Lee Kwok Sing February 2019

References

  1. ^ "ECS/2017 Season/Spring Season". Leaguepedia. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  2. ^ "ECS/2017 Season/Spring Playoffs". Leaguepedia. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  3. ^ "LMS/2017 Season/Summer Promotion". Leaguepedia. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  4. ^ "LMS/2017 Season/Summer Season". Leaguepedia. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  5. ^ "LMS/2017 Season/Summer Playoffs". Leaguepedia. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  6. ^ "2017 Season Taiwan Regional Finals". Leaguepedia. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  7. ^ "聯盟公告：英皇電競動力接手 RG 2018 春季賽經營權". Garena, Riot Games (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 15 September 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  8. ^ "LMS/2018 Season/Spring Season". Leaguepedia. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  9. ^ "LMS/2018 Season/Spring Playoffs". Leaguepedia. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  10. ^ "Rift Rivals 2018/LCK-LPL-LMS". Leaguepedia. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  11. ^ "LMS/2018 Season/Summer Season". Leaguepedia. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  12. ^ "LMS/2018 Season/Regional Finals". Leaguepedia. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  13. ^ Torres, Xander (22 September 2018). "G-Rex Qualifies for the 2018 World Championship". VPEsports. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  14. ^ "2018 Season World Championship/Play-In". Leaguepedia. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  15. ^ "G-Rex, Cloud9, Detonation FocusMe and Gambit advance at Worlds". ESPN. 3 October 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  16. ^ Mickunas, Aaron (7 October 2018). "G-Rex become the fourth and final qualifier for the Worlds main event, ending the play-in stage". Dot Esports. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  17. ^ "2018 Season World Championship/Main Event". Leaguepedia. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  18. ^ Torres, Xander (27 December 2018). "G-Rex announce 2019 lineup featuring Epic and a brand new bot lane". VPEsports. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
  19. ^ "LMS/2019 Season/Spring Season". Leaguepedia. Retrieved 31 March 2019.

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