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Hans Sama | ||
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Background Information | ||
Name | Steven Liv | |
Country of Birth | France | |
Birthday | September 2, 1999 (age 25) | |
Residency | EMEA | |
Prev Residencies | Europe | |
Competitive | ||
Team | G2 Esports | |
Contract Expires | 2025-11-17 | |
Role | Bot Laner | |
Favorite Champs | ||
Soloqueue IDs | EUW: Dr Mango KR: TrackingTheWeebs, MSF GoHan G2 Zoro NA: FZQFSFSF | |
Social Media & Links | ||
Steven "Hans Sama" (▶️ listen) Liv is a League of Legends esports player, currently bot laner for G2 Esports.
Team History
Team | Start | End | |||
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The Gentle Team | ≈Nov 2014≈2014-11-?? | Jan 20152015-01-15[1] | ≈2mo 14d ejel | ||
E-corp Gentle | Jan 20152015-01-15[2] | ≈Nov 2015≈2015-11-?? | ≈9mo 17d ejel | ||
Millenium | Nov 20152015-11-17[4] | Jun 20162016-06-02[3] | 6mo 15d ejel | ||
Misfits Gaming | Jun 20162016-06-02[6] | Nov 20192019-11-18[5] | 3yr 5mo ejel | ||
Misfits Premier | Jul 20192019-07-23[8] | Nov 20192019-11-18[7] | 3mo 26d ejel | ||
Rogue | Nov 20192019-11-18[10] | Nov 20212021-11-23[9] | 2yr 5d ejel | ||
Team Liquid | Nov 20212021-11-23[12] | Sep 20222022-09-19[11] | 9mo 26d ejel | ||
G2 Esports | Dec 20222022-12-22[13] | Present | 2yr 22d ej |
Team | Start | End | |||
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The Gentle Team | ≈Nov 2014≈2014-11-?? | Jan 20152015-01-15[1] | ≈2mo 14d ejel | ||
E-corp Gentle | Jan 20152015-01-15[2] | ≈Nov 2015≈2015-11-?? | ≈9mo 17d ejel | ||
Millenium | Nov 20152015-11-17[4] | Jun 20162016-06-02[3] | 6mo 15d ejel | ||
Misfits Gaming | Jun 20162016-06-02[6] | Nov 20192019-11-18[5] | 3yr 5mo ejel | ||
Misfits Premier | Jul 20192019-07-23[8] | Nov 20192019-11-18[7] | 3mo 26d ejel | ||
Rogue | Nov 20192019-11-18[10] | Nov 20212021-11-23[9] | 2yr 5d ejel | ||
Team Liquid | Nov 20212021-11-23[12] | Sep 20222022-09-19[11] | 9mo 26d ejel | ||
G2 Esports | Dec 20222022-12-22[13] | Present | 2yr 22d ej |
News
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
GENT | January 15, Brosak, Taour, The Sage, Hans sama, and Broua leave.[1] | |
ECG | January 15, Brosak, Taour, The Sage, Hans sama, and Broua join.[2] | |
ECG | November (approx.), Malayä, Hans sama, Broua, and Bloodshed (Manager) leave. | |
MIL | November 17, Pretty and Hans sama's joining is confirmed. Bloos and Myw leave.[4] |
MIL | June 2, Tabzz joins. Hans sama leaves.[3] | |
MSF | June 2, Hans sama joins. Yuuki60 moves to substitute.[6] |
MSF | May 28, Hans sama's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2020. Obsess and Special's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 18 November 2019.[14] |
MSFP | July 23, Crazycaps' joining from main roster is confirmed. Hans Sama joins from main roster. Zvene's joining is confirmed. Vichen moves to starting roster.[8] | |
MSF | November 18, Hans Sama leaves.[5] | |
MSFP | November 18, Hans Sama leaves.[7] | |
RGE | November 18, Hans Sama joins. Vander's contract is extended through 2021.[10] Hans sama and VandeR's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 15 November 2021.[15] |
RGE | January 12, Hans sama's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 21 November 2022.[17] | |
RGE | November 23, Hans sama leaves.[9] | |
TL | November 23, Hans sama joins.[12] Hans sama's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 19 November 2024.[18] |
TL | September 19, Hans sama leaves.[11] | |
F/A | November 18, Hans sama changes residency from Europe to EMEA. | |
G2 | December 22, Yike and Hans sama join. Mikyx rejoins.[13] |
Biography[]
Steven "Hans Sama" Liv was born in Paris, France on September 2, 1999. He started playing League of Legends when he was eleven years old, and he reached Challenger ranking three seasons later[22]. In Season 2, while climbing the ladder with his brother, Andy, he started to meet professional players such as ocelote, Nyph, Krepo, ElOjeteNinja, YoungBuck, HawkDon, Haydal, Djoko, Yuuki60, and Rekkles in ranked games. He became known as a high-Elo player in the French scene under the ID "Hans von Melzer", and eventually joined The Gentle Team, a French amateur team. The same roster joined E-corp Gaming shortly after.
2016 Season[]
Hans Sama's professional career started when he joined Millenium along with Pretty in November 2015 for the 2016 EU Challenger Series Spring Split. They replaced twin brothers Myw and Bloos, and joined Kaze, Djoko and Masterwork to complete the roster[23]. They won multiple French tournaments including Challenge France 2016 Spring. During the EUCS Open Qualifier semifinals and final, Hans sama went deathless with Miss Fortune and Kalista picks against K1ck Black and Huma and achieved a 54 KDA (24/0/30) over four games. Millenium lost only one series during the EUCS Regular Season, to Inspire eSports, but that record didn't translate to the playoffs, and they lost 0-3 to Copenhagen Wolves in semifinals, missing out on the Promotion Tournament[24].
After being replaced by Tabzz on Millenium's botlane, Hans Sama joined the new European team Misfits in June 2016 to compete in the EUCS Summer Season, replacing Yuuki60[25]. Using strong Caitlyn, Lucian and Ezreal picks on Hans sama, they dominate everyone during the regular season by only losing one single game against Team Forge (1-1). In Playoffs, they beat 3-0 Epsilon eSports in semifinals and 3-0 Millenium in final. They manage to qualify for the League Championship Series 2017 by beating 3-1 FC Schalke 04 during the last best-of-five of the 2016 Up & Down Summer Split Tournament after a though match versus Origen lost 2-3. Meanwhile, Misfits re-signed Hans sama as the team's starting AD carry for two complete seasons[26].
2017 Season[]
In January, after the departure of Wisdom and Selfie, Hans Sama makes his debut in the LCS Spring Split 2017, along with his teammates Alphari, KaKAO, PowerOfEvil and IgNar. They started this split with good results in six weeks with seven victories and one defeat against G2 Esports. Usually picking Jhin, a champion on which he obtains his best results, Hans sama becomes the first player and the only one in Europe to play Draven throughout this split, winning against Splyce in Week 4 and against Team Vitality in Week 5. Then from Week 7 to Week 10, Misfits lost its regularity by being dominated by H2k-Gaming (Week 7), G2 Esports (Week 8), Team ROCCAT (Week 9) and Fnatic (Week 10). They only took the win over Giants Gaming in Week 10. To justify these defeats, many observed that Team Misfits wasn't as pro-active as it was in the beginning of the split.
Despite this decrease of performance, Hans Sama qualifies with his team for the Playoffs by ending second of Group A with a 8-5 record, behind G2 Esports and over Fnatic. In quarter-finals, Misfits faces Splyce and successfully takes the best-of-five after making an unexpected reverse sweep thanks to Hans Sama on his Kalista and PowerOfEvil on his LeBlanc[27]. In semi-finals, Misfits plays versus the Unicorns Of Love and loses 1-3[28]. During their last match of Spring Split for the third place, Hans sama and his teammates are dominated (0-3) by Fnatic, led by an excellent Rekkles. Eventually, Misfits ends up taking the fourth place of the League Championship Series 2017 along with 30 Championship Points and 20,000 Euros[29].
Trivia[]
- His dream is to win a World Championship.
- Reached 1000 kills in the LEC on August 13th, 2021.
- Reached 1500 kills in the LEC on February 5th, 2024.
Playstyle[]
- Has played League of Legends since Season 1 (March 2011).
- His first main champion was Tryndamere, played with Heal and Teleport.
- Moved from 900 elo (Bronze tier) to 1520 elo (Gold tier), ending Silver in the end of Season 1.
- Was a great jungler (main Nocturne and Lee Sin) and toplaner (main Jax and Mordekaiser) before moving to botlane as AD carry (main Vayne and Graves).
- Used to duo queue with his brother, who was a one trick Taric.
- Hates supporting because he easily gets bored. Favorite support champions are Alistar and Karma.
- Started to one-trick Draven after watching Rekkles playing it.
- Considered as one of the best Draven players on EUW server, with Freeze and Pornstar Zilean.
- Reached Challenger for the first time at 14 years old (Season 4)[30].
- Faced Soaz's Zed as Draven in a 1v1 middlelane duel near Disneyland Paris (Auchan Val d'Europe) in May 2014. The duel was really close but Soaz won it[31].
- Enjoyed playing Rengar in Season 5 ranked games because of his capability to one-shot enemy AD carries.
- Favorite ADC players are Bang, Deft, PraY, Rekkles and Zven.
- Played duo queue ranked games with support players such as Edward, Masterwork, Moopz, je suis kaas, Hiiva, Mikyx, YellOwStaR, Krepo, kaSing, Jesiz and IgNar but still prefers solo queue.
- Had a total of five Challenger accounts simultaneously in April 2016 (M Hans sama, Holydai, M MasterHans, Hans von Melzer and Hans S0L0)[32].
- Reached Challenger rank 1 for the first time in May 2016 (Season 6)[33].
- Entered in the Challenger top 40 in Korea while boot-camping with his team Misfits (pre-season 7).
Personal Trivia[]
- Is 1m78 tall[34].
- Only speaks French and English.
- Has Cambodian and Chinese roots.
- Favorite dishes are cheese & beef Yakitori skewer, Spaghetti bolognese, McDonald's food, Bún bò, Bò lúc lắc rice and Sake Maki.
- Dislikes seafood, spicy food, chili pepper and kimchi.
- Enjoyed playing Star Wars: Jedi Outcast II, Warcraft III, Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror, Titan Quest, 4Story, StarCraft II, CS:GO, osu!, Warframe, Left 4 Dead 2, Black Desert Online and Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom.
- Is very interested in Japanese and Korean cultures.
- Enjoys reading manga, watching anime, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy movies.
- Favorite anime are Steins;Gate, Your Name, Sword Art Online, Fullmetal Alchemist, Attack on Titan, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Akame ga Kill!.
- Uses a Wacom Cintiq 22HD to draw digital art manga.
- Shows off his drawing skills while streaming.
- Is not very talkative while streaming.
- Aimed to become a professional tennis player before discovering League of Legends. His idols were Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.
- Stopped both tennis and school at early age of 16 to dedicate his time to League of Legends.
- Wants to be a manga artist after retiring from League of Legends.
Equipment[]
- His first gaming mouse was a Razer Imperator 2012.
- Currently playing with a Logitech G402 mouse and a Logitech G910 keyboard.
- Mouse DPI : 1500
- Mouse sensibility : 60
- Uses a Razer Kraken headset.
Other[]
- Hans sama is the final name he picked after playing few years as "Hans von Melzer", which came from his brother who likes Austrian tennis player Jürgen Melzer. He just kept "Hans" and added "sama" because of his passion for Japanese animation.
- Has chosen Bang Bang Management in 2016 as personal management agency which works with talents such as YellOwStaR and Nisqy[35].
- Won the Coca-Cola Gaming Awards 2016 during the Paris Games Week in the category "Esport Revelation of the Year"[36].
- Has made an emblematic appearance in a video advertising from 2016 to promote a famous Japanese watch brand named G-SHOCK[37].
Individual Awards[]
- x1 LCS 1st All-Pro Team (2022 Spring)
- x3 LEC 1st All-Pro Team (2023 Winter, 2023 Summer, 2024 Winter)
- x3 LEC 2nd All-Pro Team (2020 Summer, 2021 Spring, 2021 Summer)
- x4 LEC 3rd All-Pro Team (2017 Spring, 2018 Spring, 2018 Summer, 2023 Spring)
- x1 LEC Finals MVP (2024 Season Finals)
Pentakills
Date | Region | Tournament | Team | Vs | Champion | Pos | W/L | KDA | SB | VOD |
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2024-04-14 | EMEA | LEC 2024 Spring Playoffs | Jinx | Bot | W | 17/2/5 | Link | Link | ||
2024-03-09 | EMEA | LEC 2024 Spring | Smolder | Bot | W | 11/2/2 | Link | Link | ||
2024-01-28 | EMEA | LEC 2024 Winter | Varus | Bot | W | 10/3/12 | Link | Link | ||
2023-03-11 | EMEA | LEC 2023 Spring Season | Draven | Bot | W | 9/0/2 | Link | Link | ||
2017-08-19 | Europe | EU LCS 2017 Summer Playoffs | Tristana | Bot | W | 12/0/1 | Link | Link |
- Click here for a full list of pentakills by all players.
Tournament Results[]
This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
Hans Sama 1v1 Tournament Results | |||||
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Date | Pl | Event | Prize | Team | Last Result |
2022-04-11 | 30 - 32 | CQ 2022 Spring Split 2 | TL | ||
2022-03-07 | 21 - 22 | CQ 2022 Spring Split 1 | TL |
Media[]
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
- December 18, «J'étais Challenger à 14 ans !» Interview de Hans, adc de l'équipe Millenium League of Legends ! (French) with Millenium on YouTube
- March 1, Interview des Millenium à la fin de la Lyon e-Sport #9 ! (French) with , and on Millenium
- October 25, Steven 'Hans sama' Liv - The Newcomer (ADC from Misfits) by , and on Hans sama
- November 3, Révélation E-sport #CCGA2016 by , and on CokeTV France
- November 3, Interview de Hans sama - Comme Chez Toi #2 (French with English subtitles) with , and on Eclypsia
- November 17, G-SHOCK x Hans Sama : NEVER GIVE UP by , and on G-Shock France
- December 20, Misfits: Ready for LCS by , and on Team Misfits
- January 2, Preview 2017 - L'année Hans sama (French) with , and on beIN eSports
- January 17, Steven 'Hans sama' Liv - A Korean journey (montage) by , and on Hans sama
- January 26, Steven 'Hans sama' Liv - VLOG #1 by , and on Hans sama
- February 4, Hans Sama & Ignar Interview with , and on Liquid Legends
- February 10, Hans sama: "With us there is not just a shot caller" with , and on Sport1
- March 14, DRIVE: The Hans Sama Story by , and on LoL Esports
- March 24, Player Spotlight: Hans Sama and Ignar with Jeff Latham on LoL Esports
- April 10, Hans Sama talks about how he grew in his League career with support from his family and fans with , and on Blitz Esports
- April 12, Misfits vs Splyce - Behind the Reverse Sweep by , and on Team Misfits
- April 12, Misfits' Hans sama: In season 3, I started watching anime and I really didn't want to start playing LoL again with , and on theScore esports
- April 19, Misfits vs Unicorns of Love Behind the Scenes - Love Hurts by , and on Team Misfits
- April 27, Behind the Scenes - Misfits v Fnatic Third-Place Match by , and on Team Misfits
- May 24, DON'T STRESS, HERE'S YOUR MIDSEASON SURVIVAL GUIDE by , and on James O'Leary (eu.lolesports.com)
- May 25, A Day in the Life: Hans Sama by , and on Team Misfits
- June 9, Misfits LoL - Back to LCS by , and on Team Misfits
- August 25, Misfits Gaming - RISE: Episode 1 (Summer Quarterfinals) by , and on Team Misfits
- August 31, Passport to Paris - 2017 EU LCS Summer Final by , and on LoL Esports
- September 1, Misfits Gaming - RISE: Episode 2 (Summer Semifinals) by , and on Team Misfits
- September 4, Interview Hans Sama - Finales LCS EUROPE Paris with , and on Millenium
- September 11, ENTREVUE AVEC HANS SAMA - SA TEAM DE RÊVE ! with , and on Eclypsia
- September 12, Misfits Gaming - RISE: Episode 3 (Summer Finals) by , and on Team Misfits
- October 14, Misfits Hans Sama, Maxlore: "I just want to go home and enjoy my nuggets." with , and on Inven Global
- May 8, Misfits Hans Sama on Uzi: “He’s almost impossible to win against.” with Joonkyu "Lasso" Seok, Jaehoon "Laffa" Jeong, , and Yudae "Akiin" Oak on Inven Global
- July 23, Hans Sama: "I've had a lot less impact in recent weeks. If the meta stays, I will pick up Mages too" with Darius Matuschak on The Shotcaller
- June 26, Hans Sama: “We’re not on the same page, and that means everyone plays worse.” by Isaac McIntyre on Upcomer
- August 18, Hans Sama reflects on himself, 2019 Misfits, and what 2020 Misfits will deliver with Darius Matuschak on The Shotcaller
- September 2, Push To Talk Ep01S01 - Hans Sama (French) with Krok on YouTube
- November 22, Hans sama on JOINING ROGUE, expectations for LEC Spring, playing with Vander with Darius Matuschak on The Shotcaller
- April 28, Changing Tempo by Hans Sama and Adel Chouadria on The Players' Lobby
- June 19, Hans sama: “I don’t think there is any limit for us” with Tom Matthiesen on Hotspawn
- October 2, Hans Sama looks to lead underdogs Rogue through Group of Death at Worlds 2020 by Eva Martinello on Dot Esports
- October 3, Hans sama talks big win to kick off Worlds run, being underrated, and returning with POE and Ignar with Travis Gafford on YouTube
- October 9, Hans Sama talks about his own growth, Worlds, the "awesome" year that is 2020 with Ashley Kang on YouTube
- February 23, HANS SAMA : "Je vise la régularité de Rekkles" with Laure Valée on YouTube
- March 19, RGE Hans Sama on meditation, personal growth, Draven with Ashley Kang on YouTube
- April 24, Hans Sama, une semaine après la finale du LEC - Esport talk by Laure Valée on YouTube
- August 8, Hans sama: "The most practice I receive is just visualizing League the whole day" with Tom Matthiesen on Hotspawn
- February 23, Hans Sama reveals the ADVANTAGE NA has over EU this year with Travis Gafford on YouTube
- March 28, Hans Sama compares himself to C9 Berserker and who is stronger with Travis Gafford on YouTube
- June 23, Hans Sama: 'I believe we are the best right now' with Travis Gafford on YouTube
- January 20, HANS SAMA : Last year was a nightmare, I really wanna prove what I'm capable of with G2 with Laure Valée on YouTube
- February 16, League and Anime (ft. Mikyx & Hans Sama) | EUphoria | 2023 LEC Winter S11 EP6 with Drakos and Caedrel on YouTube
- June 26, Hans sama: W tym splicie będziemy silniejsi niż kiedykolwiek with Dawid Laskowski on Cybersport.pl
- September 6, [LEC FINALS 2023] G2 Hans Sama on Mickey Mouse to MikyX, Mayan Prophecies and Becoming a Bladee Fan with DonJake on YouTube
- October 31, How Hans Sama's SMASHED in SKILL and STYLE in less than a year with Travis Gafford on YouTube
- April 11, Hans Sama Talks G2 Lane-Swaps, Draven, and Rates Solo Leveling with Armand Luque on YouTube
- September 1, G2 Hans Sama: "In Europe, we are the team that defines how the game is played" with Armand Luque on Sheep Esports
- October 1, Takeshi visita a G2 e conversa com Hans Sama - #Worlds2024 with CBLOL on YouTube
- October 4, Hans Sama reacts to G2's Day 2 Opponent Draw live in an interview with Travis Gafford on YouTube
Post-Match Interviews
Images[]
External Links[]
- Hans sama on plays.tv
- Hans sama on deviantart.com
- Hans sama on myanimelist.net
- Hans sama on esportsearnings.com
Name Pronunciation
Hans Ssama | |
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Accuracy | Player |
Voiced By | Hans sama |
Hans Sama | |
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Accuracy | Riot |
Voiced By | Raafaa |
Redirects
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Gentle Team's Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Gentle Team's Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 M accueille Tabzz dans son équipe LoL (French) millenium.org
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Nouvelle line-up Millenium LoL (French) millenium.org
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Rogue's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 M accueille Tabzz dans son équipe LoL (French) millenium.org
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Rogue's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Misfits Gaming's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Rogue's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Rogue's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Team Liquid's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Team Liquid's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 G2 Esports' Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ Archive Pages: before change - EU - 2018-05-11; after change - EU - 2018-05-28
- ↑ Archive Pages: before change - EU - 2019-11-15; after change - EU - 2019-11-18
- ↑ Rogue's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ Archive Pages: before change - EU - 2021-01-11; after change - EU - 2021-01-12
- ↑ Archive Pages: before change - NA - 2021-11-22; after change - NA - 2021-11-23
- ↑ Archive Pages: before change - EMEA - 2023-01-03; after change - EMEA - 2023-01-04
- ↑ G2 Esports' Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ G2 Esports' X Post x.com
- ↑ eSport : sur League of Legends, Steven «Hans sama» Liv poursuit son ascension lequipe.fr
- ↑ Nouvelle line-up Millenium LoL millenium.org
- ↑ The 2016 Copenhagen Wolves: LCS-bound? dotesports.com
- ↑ Millenium officialise son nouvel ADC team-aaa.com
- ↑ Misfits renew contracts with Alphari and Hans sama espn.com
- ↑ Misfits complete reverse-sweep of Splyce espn.com
- ↑ Unicorns of Love drop Misfits to head to the EU LCS final espn.com
- ↑ Fnatic cruises to third in EU LCS spring playoffs espn.com
- ↑ Millenium, interview Hans sama millenium.org
- ↑ Paris viens me défier ! twitter.com
- ↑ Five accounts in Challenger by Hans sama twitter.com
- ↑ Hans sama, first time Challenger rank 1 twitter.com
- ↑ Steven 'Hans sama' Liv - VLOG #1 - Last question youtube.com
- ↑ Hans joins Bang Bang Management millenium.org
- ↑ Révélation E-sport #CCGA2016 youtube.com
- ↑ G-SHOCK x Hans Sama : NEVER GIVE UP youtube.com