Retired | ||
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Adrian | ||
Background Information | ||
Name | Adrian Ma | |
Country of Birth | United States | |
Birthday | February 18, 1997 (age 27) | |
Residency | North America | |
Competitive | ||
Role | Support | |
Favorite Champs | ||
Soloqueue IDs | catrific rules, tempname0626, Adrian Ma, 10q, Popstar Adrian, LMQ Adrian, Immortal Adrian, crow5 | |
Social Media & Links | ||
Adrian "Adrian" Ma is a retired League of Legends esports player, previously support for Echo Fox.
Team History
Team | Start | End | |||
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Team Gyrations | ≈May 2014≈2014-05-?? | ≈Jul 2014≈2014-07-?? | ≈2mo ejel | ||
Wazabi Gaming | Jul 20142014-07-06 | Aug 20142014-08-17[1] | 1mo 11d ejel | ||
XDG Gaming | Aug 20142014-08-17[2] | ≈Oct 2014≈2014-10-22 | ≈2mo 5d ejel | ||
Robert Morris Uni. | Oct 20142014-10-18[3] | Nov 20142014-11-24 | 1mo 6d ejel | ||
LMQ | Nov 20142014-11-24[4] | Dec 20142014-12-26 | 1mo 2d ejel | ||
Team Impulse | Dec 20142014-12-26 | Nov 20152015-11-16 | 10mo 21d ejel | ||
Immortals | Dec 20152015-12-08[6] | Nov 20162016-11-22[5] | 11mo 14d ejel | ||
Phoenix1 | Nov 20162016-11-22[9] | Mar 20172017-03-08[7] | 3mo 16d ejel | ||
Team Liquid | Mar 20172017-03-08[11] | Apr 20172017-04-03[10] | 26d ejel | ||
Dignitas | Jun 20172017-06-15 | Dec 20172017-12-08[12] | 5mo 23d ejel | ||
Echo Fox | Dec 20172017-12-08[12] | Jul 20182018-07-29[13] | 7mo 21d ejel | ||
FOX Academy | Jun 20182018-06-14 | Jul 20182018-07-29[14] | 1mo 15d ejel |
Team | Start | End | |||
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Team Gyrations | ≈May 2014≈2014-05-?? | ≈Jul 2014≈2014-07-?? | ≈2mo ejel | ||
Wazabi Gaming | Jul 20142014-07-06 | Aug 20142014-08-17[1] | 1mo 11d ejel | ||
XDG Gaming | Aug 20142014-08-17[2] | ≈Oct 2014≈2014-10-22 | ≈2mo 5d ejel | ||
Robert Morris Uni. | Oct 20142014-10-18[3] | Nov 20142014-11-24 | 1mo 6d ejel | ||
LMQ | Nov 20142014-11-24[4] | Dec 20142014-12-26 | 1mo 2d ejel | ||
Team Impulse | Dec 20142014-12-26 | Jul 20152015-07-18[15] | 6mo 23d ejel | ||
Team Impulse | Jul 20152015-07-18[15] | Jul 20152015-07-23 | 5d ejel | ||
Team Impulse | Jul 20152015-07-23 | Nov 20152015-11-16 | 3mo 24d ejel | ||
Immortals | Dec 20152015-12-08[6] | Nov 20162016-11-22[5] | 11mo 14d ejel | ||
Phoenix1 | Nov 20162016-11-22[9] | Mar 20172017-03-08[7] | 3mo 16d ejel | ||
Team Liquid | Mar 20172017-03-08[11] | Apr 20172017-04-03[10] | 26d ejel | ||
Dignitas | Jun 20172017-06-15 | Dec 20172017-12-08[12] | 5mo 23d ejel | ||
Echo Fox | Dec 20172017-12-08[12] | Jul 20182018-07-29[13] | 7mo 21d ejel | ||
FOX Academy | Jun 20182018-06-14 | Jul 20182018-07-29[14] | 1mo 15d ejel |
News
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
GYRA | May (approx.), Bee Sin, NintendudeX, Yusui, KEITHMCBRIEF, and 10q join. | |
GYRA | July (approx.), Bee Sin, NintendudeX, Yusui, KEITHMCBRIEF, and 10q leave. | |
WZG | July 6, 10q joins. babyeator leaves. | |
WZG | August 17, i KeNNy u, NintendudeX, Xmithie, BabyZeus, LattmaN, and 10q leave.[1] | |
XDG | August 17, i KeNNy u, BabyZeus, LattmaN, and 10q join. Xmithie rejoins.[2] | |
RMU | October 18, zig, Oberan, Leo, Tails, and Popstar Adrian join.[3] | |
XDG | October 22 (approx.), XDG Gaming is disbanded. i KeNNy u, Xmithie, BabyZeus, LattmaN, 10q, and Daydreamin leave. | |
RMU | November 24, Clyde joins from academy roster. Popstar Adrian leaves. | |
LMQ | November 24, Popstar Adrian joins.[4] Popstar Adrian renames to Adrian. | |
LMQ | December 26, Rush, XiaoWeiXiao, Adrian, Mor, LanJJ, and Fly (Head Coach) leave. | |
TIP | December 26, Rush, XiaoWeiXiao, Adrian, and Fly (Head Coach) join. |
TIP | July 18, Adrian moves to substitute.[15] | |
TIP | July 23, Gate (Support to Mid) changes position. Adrian moves to starting roster. | |
TIP | November 16, Impact, Rush, XiaoWeiXiao, Apollo, and Adrian's contracts expire. | |
IMT | December 8, Huni, Reignover, Pobelter, WildTurtle, and Adrian join.[6] |
Biography[]
Adrian "Adrian" Ma is from Houston, Texas, United States. He started playing League of Legends in season 1, focusing on botlane so that he could play with friends and becoming a support main.
2014 Season[]
Initially known as 10q, Adrian climbed to Challenger rank and joined Team Gyrations with NintendudeX, Bee Sin, Yusui, and KEITHMCBRIEF in May 2014. The team lasted until July 2014. When it disbanded, 10q joined Wazabi Gaming, replacing babyeator as the support. Wazabi's roster, then 10q, i KeNNy u, Xmithie, BabyZeus, and LattmaN was acquired by XDG Gaming and competed in the NACS Summer Playoffs but lost in the quarterfinals to Team 8 1-2.
After XDG failed to qualify for LCS, 10q, then known as Popstar Adrian, accepted an athletic scholarship to attend Robert Morris University as a League of Legends player.[16]
2015 Preseason[]
On November 24, LMQ's manager Alex Gu announced that Adrian was to be LMQ's new support player, replacing Mor.[17] A month later, when LMQ rebranded to Team Impulse, Adrian stayed with the team.
2015 Season[]
After using Rhux as a substitute for Impact in the first week, Team Impulse finished the round robin with an 11-7 record, in fourth place. In the playoffs, they defeated Gravity before losing to Team SoloMid and then Team Liquid, placing fourth overall. In the summer season, Team Impulse started shakily, placing no higher than sixth through the end of the fifth week. Starting in the sixth week, the team went on a massive winning streak, which was almost able to continue through two roster changes: first, Adrian sat out one game and was replaced by Gate; and second, mid laner XiaoWeiXiao was suspended pending an investigation into Elo boosting prior to the ninth week, prompting Adrian to return and Gate to move back to his primary role of mid lane to replace XiaoWeiXiao. This temporary suspension was eventually lengthened to a competitive ban until February 2016. Regardless, Team Impulse finished the last week tied for third place with Gravity and then won their tiebreaker game.
In the summer playoffs, the team beat Dignitas 3-0 before losing to both Counter Logic Gaming and Team Liquid to finish fourth, leaving them with the second-place spot in the Regional Final due to Championship Points. There, they became the second team in a row to fall to underdogs Cloud9 in a reverse sweep and so fell short of the World Championship.
2016 Season[]
Adrian joined the new team Immortals in December 2015, along with former Fnatic players Huni and Reignover, CLG mid laner Pobelter, and TSM AD carry WildTurtle. Expected to be a top team in the LCS, Immortals initially exceeded all expectations as they went undefeated for the first six weeks of the season before losing one game to reigning champions Counter Logic Gaming in week 7. They won the rest of their regular season games, but as the season progressed further they looked weaker and weaker as a team, and even seemed to falter against the last-place Team Dignitas, needing to come back against them to pull out a win. Over the course of the season, Adrian became infamous for primarily picking two support champions with similar playstyles -- Soraka and Janna. His only game on Braum came when Cloud9 banned both of his favored champions, and in the final week of the split he played Karma against Team SoloMid when they did the same and again in their final game against Team Impulse despite their only having banned Janna.
With a top seed clinched into the playoffs, Immortals were guaranteed to face the lowest-seed team that won in the quarterfinals. That team ended up being Team Solomid, who were on a strong upswing after a sixth-place regular season finish. With questionable drafts including a Lucian top for Huni in game 1, Urgot mid for Pobelter in game 2, and not a single contest of the strongly-in-meta Ekko, Immortals lost 3-0 to TSM. Adrian's three Karma picks were also called into question, especially in light of his claim earlier on in the season that he was able to play Soraka and Janna due to having a large champion pool.[18] Immortals were however able to come back the following week to beat out Team Liquid for the third-place seed, with Adrian returning to Janna for the series.
Expectations for Immortals going into the Summer Season were again high, after they were one of only three NA teams not to change any players in the mid-season break, and while they nearly repeated their spring split record - this time dropping only two series in the new best of 3 format as opposed to 1 best of 1 - they were indisputably the second-best team in the league. TSM with new rookie star support Biofrost went 17-1 in series, and they bested Immortals in both of their head-to-head series. Immortals still had a playoff bye, and so they were able to avoid TSM in the semis, instead facing the third-place Cloud9. For the playoffs, Adrian shifted his champion pool from his signature ranged supports to melee champions, primarily Trundle and Taric. In a back-and-forth five-game series, Immortals were upset and faced CLG in the third-place match, which they came back from a disastrous game 1 to win 3-2. Unfortunately, despite their combined 33-3 regular season record, Immortals only had 120 Championship Points compared to CLG's 130, and so it was CLG who won the automatic second-place 2016 Season World Championship seed from North America. And even though Immortals had the top seed in the Regional Finals, they were upset once again by Cloud9, and their season ended short of Worlds. In November of 2016, Adrian left Immortals and joined Phoenix1
2017 Season[]
Although P1's 2017 Spring Season started off well, within several weeks there were internal issues. This led to Adrian abruptly leaving the team in March and joining Team Liquid. His stay with TL was brief as he left the team the next month. In June Adrian joined Team Dignitas. The Summer Season was much better for the team after he joined and they finished 5th place. In the playoffs Team Dignitas defeated Cloud9 3-1 in the Quarterfinals. Their playoff run was however put to a halt when they lost 1-3 to Team SoloMid in the Semifinals and 0-3 to Counter Logic Gaming in the third place match. In the 2017 Season North America Regional Finals Team Dignitas were swiftly eliminated after an 0-3 loss to FlyQuest. In December 2017 Adrian left the team after they were not accepted in the NA LCS franchising and joined Echo Fox.
2018 Season[]
In December 2017, Adrian left Dignitas after they were not accepted in the NA LCS franchising and joined Echo Fox along with his Dignitas teammate Altec. Echo Fox started the spring split looking like one of the best teams in the league but declined as the season went on. Adrian was replaced by rookie academy support PapaChau for the final week of the split, as Echo Fox lost to 100 Thieves in the final game of the season to fall into a tie with them for first, then lost to them again the tiebreaker match to fall into second place.
Adrian returned to the lineup for the playoffs. Due to their regular-season finish, Echo Fox had a bye into the playoff semifinals, where they faced off against Team Liquid. Despite Echo Fox having the superior seeding, Liquid's veteran lineup was favored and they summarily beat Echo Fox 3-1. This sent the team to the third-place match against Clutch Gaming, and Echo Fox regained some dignity by quickly sweeping the lower-seeded team.
Echo Fox didn't announce any roster changes going into the summer season, but after Adrian played in the first two games of the split, both wins, he was demoted to Echo Fox Academy and replaced by academy support Feng. Adrian played all of the first four weeks of the summer academy split for Echo Fox Academy, but the team only managed a single win. In July, Adrian was released by Echo Fox, along with Altec and mid laner Fenix. These moves, which happened just before the roster lock deadline, were controversial, and eventually led to a new rule prohibiting such last-second changes. Adrian did not join another competitive team for the rest of 2018.
Trivia[]
Champion Pool[]
- Across the NA LCS 2016 Spring Season and Playoffs, he played only four champions total: Soraka, Janna, Karma, and Braum. Of these, he played Braum in only one game total and Karma only in five consecutive games - the final two games of the split and then their three losses in a row to Team SoloMid in the semifinals.
- In the NA LCS 2016 Spring Season (not counting playoffs), he played Soraka 7 times. The only other player in the NA LCS to play Soraka was Hai, who played her once.
Other[]
- Chose the name 10q because it sounds like "thank you."
- Is a fan of K-Pop girl group Twice and especially of Taiwan-born member Tzuyu (Chou Tzu-yu). He once met her at KCON 2016 in Los Angeles, where Immortals were invited for a panel and Twice was performing.[19]
Tournament Results[]
This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
Media[]
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- August 19, The varsity gamer: Esports go to college with , and on The Daily Dot
- November 25, From RMU to LCS: Popstar Adrian by , and on LoL Esports
- December 7, Travis interviews Adrian - LMQ's new support - at IEM San Jose (video) with , and on onGamers
- December 30, eSports Explosion with , and on ESPN
- January 23, Rift Rant Ep. 1: Team Impulse's Apollo Price & Adrian Ma (video) with , and on SK Gaming
- February 7, NA LCS 2015: Adrian "[Impact] brings a lot of experience to the team." (video) with , and on SK Gaming
- April 8, TiP Adrian – "CLG Stole Our Strat" with , and on Liquid Legends
- July 19, NA LCS 2015: Adrian - "I think in a best of 5 setting TSM will beat everyone" with , and on SK Gaming
- July 26, Adrian on coming back to TiP: 'they had no one that they could use so I came back for them' with , and on The Score
- January 19, Adrian: 'My signing bonus was my last year’s salary' by Samuel Lingle on The Daily Dot
- January 20, Adrian: I'm just gonna keep going up and up with , and on Team Liquid
- January 27, Adrian on Turtle, Pobelter, and Him: "We Were All the Outcasts on Our Teams, Feels Good to Prove … with , and on G|League
- January 31, Adrian on staying humble: 'Being a little cocky is fine, but you have to know your place' with , and on The Score
- February 7, Adrian on facing Team Liquid: 'I think Reignover can control Dardoch' with , and on The Score
- February 15, WildTurtle and Adrian on Sneaky's Jhin and the bond between carry and support with , and on The Score
- March 23, IMT Adrian: It's really hard to play against me with , and on Yahoo
- June 8, Immortal Reminder - Adrian: "It can only be CLG and us Immortals, no other team is up there yet" with , and on The Score
- June 8, Adrian: Immortals' first week win 'doesn't feel good' with , and on Yahoo!
- July 7, Adrian on destroying C9, why Huni is the world’s best Rumble and staying level-headed this split with , and on The Score
- July 8, Immortals' Adrian broke the support meta, and plans on doing it again by Taylor Cocke on Yahoo!
- January 24, Adrian on how he went from having a poor relationship with Coach Fly on TIP to wanting him for P1 with , and on Yahoo Esports
- February 5, Adrian on the strength of NA: "I think NA as a region got weaker" with , and on GAMURS
- February 14, Adrian: "You can tone down aggressive players, but you can't make a passive player a playmaker." with , and on Blitz Esports
- July 17, Adrian: “When I played on my other teams, everyone else was trying hard and I was the one falling behind, I guess. Now on Dignitas, I’m the one who wants to try really hard.” with , and on Emily Rand for Slingshot Esports
- July 24, Adrian on his transition to Dignitas and his expectations for the team with , and on Travis Gafford
- August 22, Adrian on Cloud9 match: “In Game 4, they blinded Alistar, so they disrespected the fact that I could play Janna.” with , and on Emily Rand for Slingshot Esports
- January 19, Adrian and Altec: 'Top 4 is the goal, I wouldn't be surprised if we make finals' with Travis Gafford on YouTube
- February 22, Adrian's parents talk about visiting their son at LCS, accepting his decision to compete with Travis Gafford on YouTube
- February 24, Adrian Believes Team SoloMid is Echo Fox's Biggest Competition in the NA LCS with DBLTAP on YouTube
- February 27, Echo Fox Adrian: "Echo Fox promised us that if we win Miami, they would get each player a Rolex or any watch they want." with James "Bick" Hong on Inven Global
- April 8, Adrian on why he thinks Liquid will beat 100T in the finals: “They’re willing to sacrifice so much to come back… Other teams just roll over and die” with Aaron Mickunas on Dot Esports
Post-Match Interviews
Date | Tournament | Match | Link |
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2018-03-04 | NA LCS 2018 Spring | OPT vs FOX | Link |
2018-02-18 | NA LCS 2018 Spring | FOX vs C9 | Link |
2018-01-28 | NA LCS 2018 Spring | FOX vs TSM | Link |
Images[]
Redirects
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 XDG fait son retour sur la scène Challenger (French) thunderbot.gg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 XDG fait son retour sur la scène Challenger (French) thunderbot.gg
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 League of Legends Teams to Play First Ever Matches on Saturday, October 18th rmueagles.com
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Alex Gu's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Adrian leaves Immortals, signs with Phoenix1 espn.com
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Huni, Pobelter, WildTurtle headline star-studded Immortals roster dailydot.com
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Team Dignitas' Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Phoenix1's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Adrian leaves Immortals, signs with Phoenix1 espn.com
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Adrian departs Team Liquid, will "fully explore" his options espn.com
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Team Liquid's Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 Echo Fox Announces Full 2018 League of Legends Roster echofox.gg
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Archive Pages: before change - NA - 2018-07-28; after change - NA - 2018-07-29
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Archive Pages: before change - NA - 2018-07-28; after change - NA - 2018-07-29
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Adrian's Tweet twitlonger.com
- ↑ The varsity gamer: Esports go to college dailydot.com
- ↑ Alex Gu's tweet twitter.com
- ↑ Adrian's post-game interview youtube.com
- ↑ @IMTAdrian: "AHHHHH MY LIFE IS COMPLETE" (with Twice's Tzuyu) Twitter