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shad0w

LGD Shad0w 2021 Split 2.png

Background Information

Name

Zhiqiang Zhao (赵志强)

Country of Birth

Italy

Nationality

Italy

China

Birthday

February 25, 2001 (age 20)

Residency

CN

China

Competitive

Team

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Contract Expires

2022-11-22

Role

Jungler

Favorite Champs

Competitive IDs

Shadow

Soloqueue IDs

EUW: The Qiaang
CN: 在线中翻

Social Media & Links

Contents

1 Team History
2 News
3 Biography
4 Trivia
5 Tournament Results
6 Media

Zhiqiang "shad0w" Zhao (Hanzi: 赵志强) is a League of Legends esports player, currently jungler for LGD Gaming. His name was previously stylized Shadow.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team		Start	End
EU	⁠⁠Element Team 1		≈Oct 2016≈2016-10-??	≈Apr 2017≈2017-04-??	≈6mo 23d ejel
EU	⁠⁠Outplayed Black		Feb 20172017-02-17^[1]	Present	4yr 7mo ej
EU	⁠⁠Outplayed WAR		Jun 20172017-06-25^[2]	Present	4yr 2mo ej
EU	⁠⁠Outplayed		Dec 20172017-12-20	May 20182018-05-10^[3]	4mo 21d ejel
EU	⁠⁠Team Atlantis		Sep 20182018-09-14^[4]	≈Oct 2018≈2018-10-??	≈1mo 3d ejel
EU	⁠⁠mousesports		≈May 2019≈2019-05-??	Oct 20192019-10-01^[5]	≈5mo ejel
EU	⁠⁠MAD Lions		Nov 20192019-11-29^[7]	Dec 20202020-12-18^[6]	1yr 19d ejel
CN	⁠⁠LGD Gaming		Jun 20212021-06-05^[9]	Present	3mo 14d ej

	Team		Start	End
EU	⁠⁠Element Team 1		≈Oct 2016≈2016-10-??	≈Apr 2017≈2017-04-??	≈6mo 23d ejel
EU	⁠⁠Outplayed Black		Feb 20172017-02-17^[1]	Jun 20172017-06-25^[2]	4mo 8d ejel
EU	⁠⁠Outplayed WAR		Jun 20172017-06-25^[2]	Dec 20172017-12-20	5mo 25d ejel
EU	⁠⁠Outplayed		Dec 20172017-12-20	May 20182018-05-10^[3]	4mo 21d ejel
EU	⁠⁠Team Atlantis		Sep 20182018-09-14^[4]	≈Oct 2018≈2018-10-??	≈1mo 3d ejel
EU	⁠⁠mousesports		≈May 2019≈2019-05-??	Oct 20192019-10-01^[5]	≈5mo ejel
EU	⁠⁠MAD Lions		Nov 20192019-11-29^[7]	Dec 20202020-12-18^[6]	1yr 19d ejel
CN	⁠⁠LGD Gaming		Jun 20212021-06-05^[9]	Present	3mo 14d ej

News

2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021

EU

⁠

⁠EMT1

October (approx.),
Shadow joins.

e

EU	⁠⁠OP.B	February 17, Shadow joins.^[1] e
EU	⁠⁠EMT1	April (approx.), Shadow leaves. e
EU	⁠⁠OP WAR	June 25, ⁠⁠Outplayed Black partners with ⁠⁠Wind and Rain and renames to ⁠⁠Outplayed WAR^[2] e
EU	⁠⁠OP	December 20, ⁠⁠Outplayed WAR renames to ⁠⁠Outplayed. e

EU	⁠⁠OP	May 10, Shadow leaves.^[3] e
EU	⁠⁠ATL	September 14, Shadow joins.^[4] e
EU	⁠⁠ATL	October (approx.), Shadow leaves. e

EU	⁠⁠MOUZ	May (approx.), Shadow joins. Reeker leaves. e
EU	⁠⁠MOUZ	October 1, Shadow leaves.^[5] e
EU	⁠⁠MAD	November 29, Orome, Shadow, Humanoid, Carzzy, and Gistick join.^[7]^[8] e
EU	⁠⁠MAD	December 6, Shadow and Carzzy's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 15 November 2021.^[10] e

EU	⁠⁠MAD	March 20, Shadow renames to Shad0w.^[11] e
EU	⁠⁠DCTI	May 27, Roster for the EU Face-Off is announced to be Terenas, Shadow, KenRhen, Noodlez, Paolocannon, EddieNoise, and Moonboy.^[12] e
EU	⁠⁠MAD	December 18, Shad0w leaves.^[6] e

CN	⁠⁠LGD	June 5, shad0w joins. Kui moves to substitute.^[9] e
CN	⁠⁠LGD	June 22, fearness and shad0w's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 22 November 2022. xiye, Kramer, Mark, Garvey, and Kui's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2021.^[13] e

Biography[]

Trivia[]

Was born in Milan, Italy to a family of Chinese origin.
Started playing in Season 3.
Reached Challenger in Season 7, hitting EU West rank 1 in April 2018.
Dropped out of high school at age 16 to become a pro player.
Plays mid and bot in addition to jungle.
Was offered a spot on EDward Gaming in 2019, but declined due to disliking how hands-on the team was with their players.
He's the brother of Chinese streamer pigff.

Tournament Results[]

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

Shad0w Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2021-08-08	11	LPL 2021 Summer	7 - 9⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠LGD	Garvey, fearness, shad0w, xiye, Kramer, Mark, Maizijian, Eimy
2020-09-29	19 - 20	Worlds 2020	2 : 3⁠⁠SUP	⁠⁠MAD	Orome, Shad0w, Humanoid, Carzzy, Kaiser, Mac, Kaas
2020-08-30	4	LEC 2020 Summer Playoffs	0 : 3⁠⁠RGE	⁠⁠MAD	Orome, Shad0w, Humanoid, Carzzy, Kaiser, Mac, Kaas
2020-08-09	2	LEC 2020 Summer	12 - 6⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠MAD	Orome, Shad0w, Humanoid, Carzzy, Kaiser, Mac, Kaas
2020-05-30	5 - 6	EU Face-Off 2020	0 - 2⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠DCTI	Terenas, Shad0w, KenRhen, Noodlez, Paulcannon
2020-04-18	3	LEC 2020 Spring Playoffs	1 : 3⁠⁠G2	⁠⁠MAD	Orome, Shad0w, Humanoid, Carzzy, Kaiser, Mac, Kaas
2020-03-28	4	LEC 2020 Spring	11 - 7⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠MAD	Orome, Shad0w, Humanoid, Carzzy, Kaiser, Mac, Kaas
2019-09-28	3 - 4	EM 2019 Summer Main Event	0 : 3⁠⁠BIG	⁠⁠MOUZ	Tolkin, shadow, nite, Conjo, Gistick, Candyfloss
2019-08-23	1	Premier Tour 2019 Summer	3 : 2⁠⁠BIG	⁠⁠MOUZ	Tolkin, shadow, nite, Conjo, Gistick, Candyfloss
2019-08-04	3 - 4	ESLM 2019 Summer Playoffs	0 : 2⁠⁠S04E	⁠⁠MOUZ	Tolkin, Shadow, nite, Conjo, Gistick

Media[]

2020

March 28, Shad0w's road to the LEC: dropping out of school to pursue esports stardom by Lara Lunardi on Inven Global
e
May 20, I’m Coming Up by Zhiqiang "Shad0w" Zhao & Adel Chouadria on The Players' Lobby
e
June 12, Shad0w: “We Need to Develop and Become Comfortable with More Playstyles” with Tom Matthiesen on Hotspawn
e
June 29, MAD Lions Shad0w "G2 and us both experiment a lot, and enjoy the game", NA trashtalk with Ashley Kang on Korizon Esports
e
August 28, MAD Lions’ Shad0w: “I was happy and relieved to make [Worlds], because we messed up a lot of chances before” by Tyler Esguerra on Dot Esports
e
September 18, Rookies to watch at the 2020 League of Legends World Championship by Michael Kelly on Dot Esports
e
September 26, [Worlds 2020] MAD Shad0w jokes about quarantine: "We played Among Us, and now nobody trusts each other." with Lara Lunardi on Inven Global
e
September 27, MAD Lions’ Shad0w: “If we fix our issues and just start playing like ourselves again, we are for sure the best team in play-ins” by Megan Kay on Dot Esports
e

Post-Match Interviews

Date	Tournament	Match	Link
2020-08-28	LEC 2020 Summer Playoffs	MAD vs S04	Link
2020-04-03	LEC 2020 Spring Playoffs	G2 vs MAD	Link
2020-03-28	LEC 2020 Spring	OG vs MAD	Link

Images[]

OP Shadow, PG Nationals 2018 Spring
MAD Shad0w, LEC 2020 Spring
MAD Shad0w, LEC 2020 Summer
LGD shad0w, LPL 2021 Summer

Redirects

The following pages redirect here:

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Gli Outplayed acquistano Zhi Qiang "Shadow" Zhao dagli Element Gaming (Italian) outplayed.it
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Outplayed si porta a livello europeo con i Wind and Rain (Italian) esports.thegamesmachine.it
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Outplayed's Facebook Post (Italian) facebook.com
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Team Atlantis' Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 Shadow's Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 MAD Lions' Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 MAD LIONS ENTER LEAGUE OF LEGENDS EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS overactive-media-group.prezly.com
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 MAD Lions' Tweet twitter.com
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 LGD Gaming's Weibo post weibo.com
↑ GCD Archive Pages: before change - EU - 2019-12-05; after change - EU - 2019-12-06
↑ MAD Lions' Tweet twitter.com
↑ LEC's Tweet twitter.com
↑ GCD Archive Pages: before change - CN - 2021-06-21; after change - CN - 2021-06-22

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