Ahq eSports Club
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| Location | Zhonghe District, New Taipei City, Taiwan |
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| Divisions | League of Legends A.V.A Heroes of the Storm |
| Website | http://www.ahq.com.tw/ahq/ |
| Founded | 2012 |
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| League | League of Legends Masters Series |
| Based in | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Arena | Garena E-Sports Stadium |
| Colors | Red |
| Conference titles | LMS: 2015 Spring, 2015 Summer |
ahq e-Sports Club is an eSports organization based in Taiwan with teams competing in League of Legends, A.V.A, and Heroes of the Storm. Their League of Legends team formed in September 2012. Team formerly competed in the Garena Premier League (GPL) until the League of Legends Masters Series (LMS) was started for teams in Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong. AHQ won the 2015 Summer LMS and qualified for the 2015 League of Legends World Championship, where they ended up placing 5-8th.
History
Formation of ahq e-Sports Club
In September 2012, after Corsair failed to travel to Season 2 World Championship, ahq was forced to merged both Corsair and SSWIE and renames to ahq e-Sports Club. UDJ, ArTie, Prydz, Mralbis from Corsair and GreenTea from SSWIE are the first line-up of ahq.
Pre-Season 3
In 2013, the captain UDJ retires and GarnetDevil joined. ahq e-Sports Club was invited to join Garena Premier League 2013 Spring Season to face 2 of the, Taipei Assassins and Singapore Sentinels. In March, westdoor and Lantyr both joined ahq and become the main players of ahq. They finish GPL Spring Season in 3rd place.
Dominance in GPL
In GPL Summer, improved from the previous year, beating TPA and SGS time after time and winning GPL Summer with a 24-4 record. They make it to the GPL Finals to face the winner of Spring Season, Taipei Assassins. At the same time, ahq also join TeSL and faced the other strong team in Taiwan, Taipei Snipers. ahq finish the tournament in 2nd place.
They beat TPA in 2013 GPL Finals. At the Season 3 World Championship, they are beaten by the TeSL team Gamania Bears.
Pre-Season 4
After Season 3, ahq acquired Naz from Wayi Spider while Lantyr move to ahq Fighter, ahq won20 matches and only lost 1 game in the 2014 LNL Winter. However, in 2014 GPL Winter they lost to Taipei Snipers and only got the 3rd place.
Season 4
Ahq had a successful run in 2014 GPL Spring group stages, where they achieved a record of 9 wins and 1 loss. In the playoffs, they dominated the Singapore Sentinels 3-0 before dispatching the Saigon Jokers 3-1 in Quarterfinals and Semifinals, respectively. In the finals, however they lost to Taipei Assassins 2-3, and ended playoffs in 2nd place.
2014 GPL Summer, starting in June 2014, featured another successful run in the group stages by Ahq, achieving a record of 8 wins and 2 losses. In the playoffs, they won 3-0 against Bangkok Titans in Quarterfinals, won 3-1 of Logitech G Fighter (Full Louis got disqualified from GPL this season due to using players who are not having 17 full years, SofM and Jeff. Logitech G Fighter replaced them to play Semi-Finals.) in Semifinals, mirroring their performance earlier in the year. Unfortunately, they went on to lose to the Taipei Assassins 0-3 in the Finals, achieving another 2nd place record in the playoffs.
While they are unable to become the champions of 2014 GPL Summer, their dominating performance in the 2014 Season Garena Regional Finals where they emerged as the #1 Seed in the Taiwan and SEA region by beating the Saigon Fantastic Five in the finals, allowed them to participate in the 2014 Season World Championship.
Seeded into Group A of the 2014 Season World Championship in Taiwan, they play against EDward Gaming, Samsung White and Dark Passage.[1]
Their three wins and loss record qualified them for the bracket, where they lost to EDward Gaming.
Pre-Season 5
After a disappointing run in the 2014 Season World Championship, ahq acquired Mountain and OhReaL from Logitech Snipers, Ziv (Chen Yi)|Ziv from HK Attitude Mage, MrAlbis from Logitech G Fighter, while Naz and GarnetDevil leave. Prydz became the analyst.
The new roster qualified for IEM Season IX - Taipei in IEM Season IX, where they won 2-0 against the Logitech Snipers, 2-0 against Hong Kong Esports, and 2-1 against the Yoe Flash Wolves in the winner's bracket finals. At IEM Season IX - Taipei, Ahq would receive a quarterfinal bye for winning the winner's breacket finals, but would then be defeated 0-2 against the Yoe Flash Wolves.
Season 5
Season 5 marked the start of the League of Legends Masters Series, a new league exclusive to teams from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao. ahq were invited to its qualifiers, where they went 3-0 in their group to earn a berth in the regular season. They finished in fourth place in the round robin, with a 13-8 record, but went on to win then playoffs with 3-0 victories over Hong Kong Esports and Taipei Assassins followed by a 3-1 finals victory over Flash Wolves.
Due to their spring split victory, ahq were invited to play at the 2015 Mid-Season Invitational.[2] Finishing 3-2 in the group stage, ahq advanced to the bracket but were knocked out immediately by eventual tournament winners EDG.
After the Mid-Season Invitational, ahq went on to sweep their way through the Summer Season, with a win-tie-loss record of 11-3-0. Placed directly into the finals of the gauntlet-style playoffs, they once again won the season, this time beating Hong Kong Esports 3-0 and automatically qualifying for the 2015 Season World Championship.[3]
At Worlds, ahq were seeded into Group B, along with Fnatic, Invictus Gaming, and Cloud9 and went 3-3, advancing to the playoffs after a tiebreaker victory over Cloud9 (giving the North American team their fourth loss in a row that day). Their World Championship run ended in the quarterfinals, where they were drawn against tournament favorites SK Telecom, earning a top 8 finish.[4][5]
Roster
Chen "Ziv" Yi (陳奕) Top- "Mountain" Hsue Chao-Hong (薛兆鴻) Jungle
- "Westdoor" Liu Shu-Wei (劉書瑋) Mid
- Chou "An" Chun-An (周俊諳) AD
- "Albis" Kang Chia-Wei (康家維) Support
AHQ Korea
Ahq created a lol team based in South Korea. The team was allegedly created specifically to throw games, which ultimately led to player Cheon "Promise" Min-Ki attempting suicide after making an online post detailing the team's matchfixing.[6]
References
- ^ Nam, Yun-seong (2014-09-21). "[롤드컵] ahq, EDG 상대로 대역전극!". Retrieved 2015-10-22.
- ^ Lingle, Samuel (May 8, 2015). "TSM on the brink of elimination after loss to AHQ". The Daily Dot. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
- ^ TVBS世界翻轉中 第十六集 20150830 日練12小時! 電競選手年薪百萬顛覆職場. August 30, 2015.
{{cite AV media}}: Unknown parameter|network=ignored (help) - ^ Warr, Philippa (October 17, 2015). "LoL Worlds 2015: The Second Quarter-Final Winner". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
- ^ "LOL世界大賽 台灣ahq敗陣無緣晉級四強". Apple Daily. October 17, 2015. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
- ^ http://kotaku.com/league-of-legends-pro-attempted-suicide-after-tournamen-1542880793
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