Garena is a Singaporean game developer and publisher of free online games. It is the digital entertainment arm of parent company Sea Ltd,which was formerly named Garena.
The Garena Premier League (GPL) was a professional League of Legends esports league with teams in Southeast Asia. It was founded in 2012. The opening event took place on May 5 with Riot's CEO Brandon Beck,VP of Gaming Dustin Beck,Taiwanese game designer Jeff Lin,and Nikasaur attending personally. It is the first regional professional esports competition of League of Legends in the world. In last season - 2018 Spring - the league consists of 5 teams who are the champions of 5 national leagues in Southeast Asia. The top four teams of group stage are advanced to the playoff,which are held in a best-of-5 single elimination system.
ahq eSports Club was a Taiwanese esports organization based in New Taipei City. It was best known for its League of Legends team which competed in the League of Legends Masters Series and later the Pacific Championship Series. After winning the 2015 LMS Summer Playoffs,AHQ qualified for the 2015 World Championship,where they placed fifth to eighth after losing to SKT T1 in the quarterfinals.
The Flash Wolves are a Taiwanese esports organization with players competing in Arena of Valor,Hearthstone,and League of Legends:Wild Rift. They formerly had teams competing in League of Legends,Overwatch,Special Force II,StarCraft II,and World of Tanks.
The Season 3 World Championship was an esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. It was the third iteration of the League of Legends World Championship held by Riot Games,and the last iteration not to be formally titled after the year it took place.
Huang Yi-tang,better known as Maple,is a Taiwanese professional League of Legends player for PSG Talon,of the Pacific Championship Series (PCS).
Hung Hao-hsuan,better known as Karsa,is a Taiwanese professional League of Legends player for CTBC Flying Oyster. He is known for his strategic jungle play and found success domestically and internationally during his time as a member of the Flash Wolves,winning several LMS titles and topping many international events. Hung has long been considered by many analysts and other professional players as one of the most mechanically skillful players from Taiwan.
J Team is a Taiwanese professional esports organization owned by JY Entertainment with players competing in League of Legends and StarCraft II. It was founded in April 2016 by Jay Chou after he purchased the League of Legends Master Series spot of Taipei Assassins (TPA),which had won the Season 2 World Championship in 2012. J Team's League of Legends team currently competes in the Pacific Championship Series.
Machi Esports was a professional esports organization founded by Taiwanese hip hop group Machi. Machi previously had a League of Legends team competing in the League of Legends Master Series (LMS) and later the Pacific Championship Series (PCS),as well as an academy team competing in the Elite Challenger Series (ECS) named MachiX.
The 2017 Mid-Season Invitational was the third annual League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) tournament,hosted by Riot Games. The tournament was held from April 28 to May 21,2017,in Brazil. This was the first time MSI had been extended. Each of 13 premier League of Legends leagues had a team that won the Spring Split represent them;Europe,South Korea (LCK),and China (LPL) had their teams automatically admitted into the main event whereas the other 10 leagues competed among each other in a "Play-in Stage" with the top 3 teams advancing to join the main event.
The League of Legends SEA Tour (LST) was a professional League of Legends esports tournament in Southeast Asia that was founded in 2018 by Garena as a replacement for the Garena Premier League (GPL). The competition consisted of teams who qualified through the LST qualifiers of each minor region:Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore,Philippines,and Thailand. Winners of the LST represented Southeast Asia at the Mid-Season Invitational and World Championship.
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.
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.
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.
The Pacific Championship Series (PCS) is a professional esports league for League of Legends teams competing in the Asia-Pacific. Riot Games,the game's developer,created the league on 19 December 2019. This followed an announcement three months prior by Garena –the game's distributor in Taiwan,Hong Kong,Macau,and Southeast Asia –that it planned to merge the League of Legends Master Series (LMS) and League of Legends SEA Tour (LST) into a single tournament jointly run with Riot Games.
Berjaya Dragons was a Malaysian esports organisation which had teams competing in League of Legends and League of Legends:Wild Rift. Its League of Legends team competed in the Pacific Championship Series (PCS),the top-level league for the game in Taiwan,Hong Kong,Macau,and Southeast Asia.
The 2020 PCS season was the first year of the Pacific Championship Series (PCS),a professional esports league for the MOBA PC game League of Legends. The PCS was created in late 2019 as a merger between the League of Legends Master Series (LMS) and League of Legends SEA Tour (LST).
The 2021 Mid-Season Invitational was the sixth Mid-Season Invitational (MSI),a Riot Games-organised tournament for League of Legends,a multiplayer online battle arena video game. The tournament was the culmination of the 2021 Spring Split and the first international competition of Season 11.
SEM9 is a professional esports organisation based in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. It was founded on 14 January 2020 by Kevin Wong Yew Joon,its current CEO. It has teams competing in PUBG Mobile,Garena Free Fire,League of Legends,and Sim Racing. It previously had teams competing in Call of Duty:Mobile and League of Legends:Wild Rift. The organisation also operates SEM9 Senai,an esports-themed hotel located in Senai,Johor,Malaysia.
