Taipei assassins

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Taipei assassins
Taipei Assassins.jpg
Abbreviation TPA
Place of foundation TaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) Taiwan
founding year 2012
resolution 2016
Homepage taipeiassassins.tw
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The Taipei Assassins (briefly TPA ) is a company founded in March 2012 e-sports team from Taiwan. You were active in the League of Legends discipline until April 2016 and were best known for winning the Riot Season 2 World Championship (2012), the esports tournament of all time with the highest endowment at the time at two million dollars.

history

Taipei Assassins at the Season 2 World Championship

The team was founded in March 2012 and emerged from Team For the Win , which took part in the World Cyber ​​Games in 2011 and finished in 9th place. In September 2012, the team qualified for the Riot Season 2 World Championship via the Taiwanese Regional Finals . In only their second tournament outside of Asia, the Taipei Assassins surprisingly won the top prize of one million dollars. The tournament was watched live by millions of viewers worldwide.

Shortly thereafter, the team also won the first season of the Southeast Asian professional league ( Garena Premier League - GPL) and took third place in the high-class IGN ProLeague Season 5, where they were defeated in the semifinals by the European team from Fnatic .

During 2013, some players were exchanged for various reasons, so that of the five players who won the 2012 World Cup, only Cheng “bebe” Bo-wei remained. A sister team was founded in 2013 with the Taipei Snipers . The media company Azubu became the main sponsor of both teams in March 2013.

The Taipei Assassins won the GPL again in the spring of 2013; in the following summer season, however, only third place could be achieved. The team also missed qualifying for the Season 3 World Championship and was therefore unable to defend the World Championship. With the successes in the GPL winter season 2013/14 and the GPL spring season 2014, the team then showed rising form again. At international tournaments such as the IEM finals in Katowice and the Riot Allstar Invitational 2014 in Paris, however, the team finished behind.

Although the team succeeded in qualifying for the Riot Season 4 World Championship after winning another GPL season , in front of their home crowd the team was eliminated as bottom of the group.

In April 2016, the organization was bought by singer Jay Chou and renamed J Gaming .

player

Former players (selection)

successes

date space competition Prize money
Oct. 2012 1. Riot World Championship - Season 2 $ 1,000,000
Nov. 2012 1. Garena Premier League - Season 1 000$ 10,000
Dec 2012 3. IGN ProLeague - Season 5 0000$ 7,500
Apr. 2013 1. Garena Premier League - Spring 2013 000$ 50,000
Aug 2013 3. Garena Premier League - Summer 2013 000$ 10,000
Nov 2013 5th-6th Intel Extreme Masters - Season VIII - Singapore 0000$ 2,500
Jan. 2014 1. Garena Premier League - Winter 2013-14 000$ 80,000
March 2014 5th-6th Intel Extreme Masters - Season VIII Finals - Katowice 0000$ 8,500
Apr. 2014 1. Garena Premier League - Spring 2014 000$ 80,000
Aug. 2014 1. Garena Premier League - Summer 2014 000$ 80,000
Sep 2014 13-16 Riot World Championship - Season 4 000$ 25,000
Jan. 2015 2. Intel Extreme Masters - Season IX - Taipei 000$ 11,000
Apr. 2015 3. LoL Masters Series - Spring 2015 000$ 15,600
Apr. 2016 4th LoL Masters Series - Spring 2016 0000$ 6,200

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Riot Season 2 World Championship Tournament Preview ign.com
  2. ↑ Season 2 World Championship Preview sk-gaming.com
  3. ↑ Taiwanese online game team bags US $ 1m prize taipeitimes.com
  4. ↑ 8 million saw the final of the "League of Legends" world championship derstandard.at
  5. ^ League of Legends Championship Proves Riot Is On Top of the World forbes.com
  6. ↑ IGN ProLeague Season 5 lol.esportspedia.com
  7. ^ Taipei Assassins, German game media company sign sponsorship deal focustaiwan.tw
  8. ↑ Why Taiwanese megastar Jay Chou just bought a League of Legends team techinasia.com