Short name | TT Gaming, TT |
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Game | League of Legends Honor of Kings PUBG Mobile Wild Rift |
Founded | 25 December 2017 |
League | League of Legends Pro League Honor of Kings Pro League Peacekeeper Elite League Wild Rift League |
Team history | SinoDragon Gaming (2017–2019) Dominus Esports (2019–2020) TT Esports (2020–) |
Based in | Guangzhou |
Location | China |
General manager | Yifei Liu |
TT Esports Club, abbreviated as TT Esports, is a Chinese esports organization. It is one of the core business divisions of the Quwan Group. The club has multiple divisions, including teams for Honor of Kings, League of Legends, PUBG Mobile, and League of Legends: Wild Rift.
Short name | TTG |
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Founded | 2016/9/16 |
League | Honor of Kings Pro League |
Team history | XQ(2016–2020) |
Based in | People's Republic of China Guangzhou |
Head coach | Liyang Song(ID:Fengjun) |
Championships | Honor of Kings Pro League Summer 2023 Champion |
The Guangzhou TTG team is the Honor of Kings division of TT Esports Club, established on September 16, 2016, and has since participated in the Honor of Kings Pro League (KPL).
ID | Name | Position | Nationality |
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Fengjun | Liyang Song | Head Coach | People's Republic of China |
Dgc | Xu Chen | Assistant Coach | |
Chenyu | Xingyu Gao | Assistant Coach | |
Fuxiao | Fusheng Liu | Data Analyst | |
Kunkun | Yuhang Zhong | Team Manager |
ID | Name | Position | Nationality |
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Qingqing (Captain) | Jinxiang Wu | Top Laner | People's Republic of China |
Xianyu | Lei Yang | Top Laner | |
Xiaoai | Yajie Luo | Top Laner | |
Xiaobaixiong | Jiahui Cheng | Jungle | |
Qingtian | Mingwei Zou | Jungle | |
Zihuan | Guangshun Huang | Mid Laner | |
Fengxiao | Xiangren Yu | ADC | |
Fanfan | Fan Yang | Support | |
Jiuxin | Weixin Zou | Support |
(The above roster is as of the 2024 KPL Summer Split.)
ThunderTalk Gaming (commonly shortened to TT Esports or TT) is a professional League of Legends team competing in the League of Legends Pro League (LPL), the top level of professional League of Legends in China. [1] [2]
It was founded on 25 December 2017 as SinoDragon Gaming (SDG) and was one of two teams (the other being Victory Five) accepted into the LPL as part of the league's 2019 expansion. [3] The team rebranded as Dominus Esports (DMO) on 22 May 2019. On September 16, 2020, TT Voice announced the acquisition of DMO Esports Club and rebranded it as the TT League of Legends Division . [4]
Location | ID | Name | Nationality | Coach |
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Top | HOYA | Yoon Yong-ho | South Korea | Head Coach Zhou Zhengting (AFei) |
Jungle | Beichuan | Ling Yang | China | |
Mid | Ucal | Son Yoon-hyun | South Korea | |
ADC | 1xn | Xiunan Li | China | |
Support | QiuQiu | Ming Zhang | China | |
Support | Feather | Tiancifu Wang | China |
(The above roster is as of the 2024 LPL Summer Split.)
On October 19, 2021, the PeaceElite team TMG Esports Club officially joined the TT Esports and was rebranded as the TT PUBG Mobile Division, continuing to compete in the Game for Peacekeeper Elite League (PEL).
ID | Name | Position | Nationality |
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King | Yi'en Lin | Commander | People's Republic of China |
Ajie | Wenjie Cao | Assault | |
Wangzi | Wei Wu | Freelancer | |
Wushen | Zhiyao He | Freelancer | |
Xiaoming | Jinhao Jiang | Assault |
(The above roster is as of June 2024.)
In 2021, TT Esports established its League of Legends: Wild Rift Division. In the same year, they won the Wild Rift League 2021: LPL Qualifier, Champion with a 4:0 victory over OMG, securing the title in the LoL: Wild Rift Professional Qualifier - LPL Track. [5]
ID | Name | Location | Nationality |
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Xin | Shuo Cheng | Top Laner | People's Republic of China |
Xbai | Junshuai Wang | Jungle | |
Z | Tianhua Zhou | Mid Laner | |
Soil | Han Wang | ADC | |
SMY | Mingyou Su | Support | |
ChenXi | Cheng Li | Support |
(The above roster is as of the second season of the Asian League)
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