Kiaya

Kiaya
Kiaya
Background Information
Name	Trần Duy Sang
Country of Birth	; Vietnam
Birthday	May 17, 2001 (age 23)
Residency	VNVietnam
Prev Residencies	SEASEA
Competitive
Team	⁠⁠GAM Esports
Contract Expires	2024-11-18
Role	; Top Laner
Favorite Champs	; ; ; ; ;
Soloqueue IDs	KR: Hakunaa Matata ; NA: HelloAmericaa ; EUW: nganloituchoi, cokhinaocokhinao
Social Media & Links

Overview

Tournament Results

Stats

Match History

Trần "Kiaya" (▶️ listen) Duy Sang is a League of Legends esports player, currently top laner for GAM Esports.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
SEA	⁠⁠e.Hub United	Dec 20162016-12-16^[1]	≈Feb 2017≈2017-02-08	≈1mo 23d ejel
VN	⁠⁠Ultimate	≈Nov 2017≈2017-11-??	May 20182018-05-03^[2]	≈6mo 2d ejel
VN	⁠⁠GAM Esports	May 20182018-05-24^[3]	Present	6yr 4mo ej

	Team	Start	End
SEA	⁠⁠e.Hub United	Dec 20162016-12-16^[1]	≈Feb 2017≈2017-02-08	≈1mo 23d ejel
VN	⁠⁠Ultimate	≈Nov 2017≈2017-11-??	May 20182018-05-03^[2]	≈6mo 2d ejel
VN	⁠⁠GIGABYTE Marines	May 20182018-05-24^[3]	Jun 20182018-06-14^[4]	21d ejel
VN	⁠⁠GAM Esports	Jun 20182018-06-14^[4]	May 20192019-05-31^[5]	11mo 17d ejel
VN	⁠⁠GAM Esports	May 20192019-05-31^[5]	Jan 20202020-01-05^[7]	7mo 5d ejel
VN	⁠⁠GAM Esports	Jan 20202020-01-05^[7]	Present	4yr 9mo ej

News

2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023

SEA

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⁠EHU

December 16,
Kiaya,
Shin,
Ciel,
Victory,
Slayder,
Zin, and
Keiko join.^[1]

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SEA	⁠⁠EHU	February 8 (approx.), CombatLao joins. Keiko (Support to Top) and Shin (Top to Jungle) change positions. Kiaya, Ciel, and Slayder leave. e
SEA	⁠⁠UTM	November (approx.), Kiaya joins as trainee. e

VN	⁠⁠UTM	February 24, Kiaya changes residency from SEA SEA to VN Vietnam. e
VN	⁠⁠UTM	May 3, Calm, Spot, Blazes, Zin, CBL, Tear, Kiaya, and Hope (Coach) leave.^[2] e
VN	⁠⁠GAM	May 24, Calm and Kiaya join.^[3] e
VN	⁠⁠GAM	June 14, ⁠⁠GIGABYTE Marines renames to ⁠⁠GAM Esports.^[4] e

VN	⁠⁠GAM	May 29, Kiaya and Blazes' contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 31 December 2020.^[8] e
VN	⁠⁠GAM	May 31, Yuna (Head Coach) joins. Zeros rejoins. Cacon and Hieu3's joining as substitutes is confirmed. Kiaya (Top to Mid) changes position. Police, Milano, and Yin's departures are confirmed.^[5]^[6] e
VN	⁠⁠GAM	June 4, Yoshino, Zeros, Levi, Minas, Slay, and Cacon's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 30 June 2022. Kiaya's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 31 December 2022.^[9] e

VN	⁠⁠GAM	January 5, Dia1 and Palette join. Easylove rejoins. Kiaya (Mid to Top), Blazes (Mid to Bot), and Slay (Support to Bot) change positions. Levi, Hieu3, and Yuna (Head Coach) will remain with the team for 2020. Zeros and Zin leave.^[7] e
VN	⁠⁠GAM	January 15, Kiaya, Zeros, Hieu3, and Slay's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 5 February 2022. Levi and Palette's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 15 November 2021. Dia1, Blazes, Easylove, Yuna (Head Coach), Iris (Coach), Tinikun (Assistant Coach), and Arik (Manager)'s contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2020.^[10] e
VN	⁠⁠GAM	December 22, Kiaya's contract is extended.^[11] e

VN

⁠

⁠GAM

January 6,
Kiaya's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 21 November 2022.
Kati,
Easylove, and Scary (Analyst)'s contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 15 November 2021.^[12]

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VN	⁠⁠GAM	November 20, Kiaya, Levi, Kati, Sty1e, and Bie's contracts expire but departure is not confirmed.^[13] e
VN	⁠⁠GAM	December 15, Kiaya's contract is extended.^[14] e

VN

⁠

⁠GAM

February 20,
Kiaya,
Sty1e, and
playcool's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 18 November 2024.
Levi's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 28 November 2024.
Kati and
Zin's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 20 November 2023. Rei (Strategic Coach), Hankay (Tactical Coach), and
Warzone (Mental Coach)'s contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 21 November 2023.^[15]

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Biography[]

2017 Season[]

Trần Kiaya Duy Sang joined E.Hub United as a trainee top laner, as both Taurus and Keiko played top lane for the team Kiaya did not play a game for the team. As E.Hub United finished fourth in the Summer Playoffs

2018 Season[]

Kiaya joined Ultimate, who had defeated his previous team in the VCS A/2017 Season/Spring Playoffs, again he joined as a trainee top laner and he did not play a game for the team as Ultimate finished 2nd in the domestic league, and lost to GIGABYTE Marines in playoffs to finish 3rd.

Kiaya continued the trend of joining a team that defeated his previous team in playoffs by joining GAM Esports in the regions largest roster change with Eighteen roster changes in the VCS/2018 Season/Summer Season alone, with the large roster instability Kiaya shared time with Blazes and Calm and played seventeen games domestically and four games at Rift Rivals,where he mostly playing carries such as Ryze and Kennen.

The Split would be disappointing for GAM Esports, finishing 3rd at Rift Rivals and missing the playoffs of VCS finishing 5th in the VCS/2018 Season/Summer Season

2019 Season[]

Due to the disappointment of the Summer Season GAM Esports would again make widescale changes, VCS rookie Top laner Yoshino joined the team. However, Calm and Blazes would only play Mid lane. Therefore Kiaya played all but three games in the VCS Spring Season, however the team would finish 5th again.

After a second failure to make playoffs GAM Esports again made large roster changes, acquiring Zeros and making Kiaya roleswap to mid lane, Kiaya would again play most games of GAM Esports' 1st place finish in the Summer Season and unbeaten run in the Playoffs.

At the 2019 Season World Championship Despite being in a difficult group including eventual winners FPX Kiaya would make one of the highlight plays of the tournament, using Kled to solokill J-Teams's FoFo's Lucian in the teams only win of the tournament. Where he would achieve a 5/1/10 scorline.

2020 Season[]

As both Zeros and Yoshino left the team and while despite Zeros returning due to the 2019–20_Coronavirus_Pandemic, Kiaya returned to toplane and would play most games in GAM Esports domination of the split, finishing 1st and only losing one series. The team had a 27-5 and Kiaya had an record of 20-4 and only losing more than one game to Yoshino's Team Flash.

Due to the teams domination, and Yoshino being unable to play due to illness GAM Esports was expected to win the Spring Playoffs, however after GAM became 2-1 behind after Kiaya performed poorly with a 1/5/5 KDA he would be substituted out and the team would lose Game 5 despite having a 5.6k gold lead at 18 minutes.

Trivia[]

Consistently maintains Challenger on the Korean server.
He was awarded the title of National Sports Master by the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Tourism of Vietnam after winning the Gold Medal with the Vietnam National Team at the 31st SEA Games at the end of 2022.
He was awarded the title of National Esports Grandmaster by VIRESA (Vietnam Esports Federation) after achieving good results with GAM Esports at Worlds 2023 and with Vietnam National Team at 2022 Asian Games on January 21, 2024.
He was nominated and won "ZFace - Gương mặt GenZ nổi bật (Outstanding GenZ Face)" category of the major annual award WeChoice Award.^[16]

Titles[]

VCS x8 (Summer 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2024, Summer 2024)

Pentakills

Date	Region	Tournament	Team	Vs	Champion	Pos	W/L	KDA	SB	VOD
2023-03-18	VN Vietnam	VCS 2023 Spring			Fiora	Top	W	7/0/3	Link	Link

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Tournament Results[]

This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.

Kiaya Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2024-08-18	1	VCS 2024 Summer Playoffs	3 : 0⁠⁠VKE	⁠⁠GAM	Kiaya, Levi, Emo, EasyLove, Elio, Archie, Hype
2024-08-04	2	VCS 2024 Summer	10 - 2⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠GAM	Kiaya, Levi, Emo, EasyLove, Neo, Elio, Archie, Hype
2024-05-05	9 - 10	MSI 2024	0 : 2⁠⁠FNC	⁠⁠GAM	Kiaya, Levi, Emo, EasyLove, Elio, Archie, Hype
2024-04-07	1	VCS 2024 Spring Playoffs	3 : 1⁠⁠VKE	⁠⁠GAM	Kiaya, Levi, Emo, EasyLove, Elio, Archie, Hype
2024-03-10	2	VCS 2024 Spring	9 - 3⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠GAM	Kiaya, Levi, Blazes, Emo, Pyshiro, Elio, Archie, Bigkoro, Hype
2023-10-27	12 - 14	Worlds 2023	1 - 3⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠GAM	Kiaya, Levi, Kati, Slayder, Palette, Hankay, Rei
2023-09-29	4	Asian Games 2022	1 : 2⁠⁠CHN	⁠⁠VIE	TRANlDS, DO, DANG, LE, TRANlQH, TRANlDH, SofM
2023-09-11	2	Asian Games 2022 KOREA Pre Evaluation - VIE x KOR	0 : 2⁠⁠KOR	⁠⁠VIE	Kiaya, Levi, Glory, Artemis, Kati, SofM
2023-09-09	1	VCS 2023 Summer Playoffs	3 : 1⁠⁠TW	⁠⁠GAM	Kiaya, Levi, Kati, Slayder, Palette, Hankay, Rei
2023-08-06	1	VCS 2023 Summer	9 - 3⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠GAM	Kiaya, Levi, Kati, playcool, Slayder, Zin, Palette, Hankay, Rei

Media[]

2022
2023

October 16, GAM Kiaya on the INSANE Nexus defense against TES | Worlds 2022 with Ashley Kang on YouTube
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October 12, GAM Kiaya: "They Gave Us PAINFUL Memories During MSI, We Will TRY Even More to Beat R7" with dGon on YouTube
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Post-Match Interviews

Date	Tournament	Match	Link
2024-09-27	Worlds 2024 Play-In	GAM vs R7	Link
2024-08-18	VCS 2024 Summer Playoffs	GAM vs VKE
2024-08-01	VCS 2024 Summer	TF vs GAM
2024-07-12	VCS 2024 Summer	GAM vs CES
2024-05-04	MSI 2024	LLL vs GAM	Link
2024-04-07	VCS 2024 Spring Playoffs	VKE vs GAM
2024-04-05	VCS 2024 Spring Playoffs	GAM vs TW
2024-03-02	VCS 2024 Spring	TF vs GAM
2024-02-17	VCS 2024 Spring	RW vs GAM	Link
2024-01-21	VCS 2024 Spring	TW vs GAM	Link
2023-10-23	Worlds 2023 Main Event	TL vs GAM	Link
2023-10-14	Worlds 2023 Play-In	LLL vs GAM	Link
2023-09-11	Asian Games 2022 KOREA Pre Evaluation	KOR vs VIE	Link
2023-08-19	VCS 2023 Summer Playoffs	GAM vs SGB	Link
2023-08-04	VCS 2023 Summer	SGB vs GAM
2023-07-01	VCS 2023 Summer	MBE vs GAM
2023-04-23	VCS 2023 Spring Playoffs	GAM vs SE	Link
2023-04-09	VCS 2023 Spring	GAM vs SGB
2023-03-10	VCS 2023 Spring	TS vs GAM	Link
2022-09-04	VCS 2022 Summer Playoffs	SGB vs GAM
2022-09-02	VCS 2022 Summer Playoffs	TS vs GAM
2022-08-19	VCS 2022 Summer	TS vs GAM
2022-07-16	VCS 2022 Summer	GE vs GAM	Link
2022-04-24	VCS 2022 Spring Playoffs	GAM vs SGB	Link
2022-03-20	VCS 2022 Spring	CES vs GAM	Link
2022-02-19	VCS 2022 Spring	TF vs GAM	Link
2021-12-04	VCS 2021 Winter	SKY vs GAM	Link
2021-11-23	VCS 2021 Winter	GAM vs TF	Link
2021-04-11	VCS 2021 Spring Playoffs	GAM vs TS	Link
2021-03-14	VCS 2021 Spring	GAM vs TS	Link
2021-01-29	VCS 2021 Spring	SGB vs GAM	Link
2020-08-19	VCS 2020 Summer Playoffs	GAM vs CES	Link
2020-07-24	VCS 2020 Summer	EVS vs GAM	Link
2020-06-20	VCS 2020 Summer	GAM vs EVS	Link
2020-03-01	VCS 2020 Spring	CES vs GAM	Link
2019-07-21	VCS 2019 Summer	GAM vs LK	Link
2019-03-09	VCS 2019 Spring	GAM vs PVB	Link