Tactical

Tactical
Tactical
Background Information
Name	Edward Ra (나문용)
Country of Birth	; United States
Birthday	August 18, 2000 (age 21)
Residency	NANorth America
Competitive
Team	⁠⁠Team Liquid
Contract Expires	2022-11-22
Role	; Bot Laner
Favorite Champs	;
Soloqueue IDs	NA: TL Tactical, Tactical, T4ctical; EUW: UnstoppableForce; CN: avatar1
Social Media & Links

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠Team Exile Surge	≈Dec 2016≈2016-12-10	≈Dec 2016≈2016-12-12	≈2d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Relentless Gaming	Mar 20172017-03-22^[1]	≈Apr 2017≈2017-04-23	≈1mo 1d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Supernova	Aug 20172017-08-11	≈Nov 2017≈2017-11-18	≈3mo 7d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Supernova	≈May 2018≈2018-05-??	Dec 20182018-12-14^[2]	≈7mo 13d ejel
NA	⁠⁠TSM Academy	Dec 20182018-12-14^[5]	Dec 20192019-12-11^[4]	1yr 28d ejel
NA	⁠⁠TL Academy	Dec 20192019-12-13^[8]	Apr 20202020-04-28^[7]	4mo 15d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Liquid	Feb 20202020-02-28^[9]	Present	1yr 6mo ej

	Team	Start	End
NA	⁠⁠Team Exile Surge	≈Dec 2016≈2016-12-10	≈Dec 2016≈2016-12-12	≈2d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Relentless Gaming	Mar 20172017-03-22^[1]	≈Apr 2017≈2017-04-23	≈1mo 1d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Supernova	Aug 20172017-08-11	≈Nov 2017≈2017-11-18	≈3mo 7d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Supernova	≈May 2018≈2018-05-??	Dec 20182018-12-14^[2]	≈7mo 13d ejel
NA	⁠⁠TSM Academy	Dec 20182018-12-14^[5]	Dec 20192019-12-11^[4]	1yr 28d ejel
NA	⁠⁠TL Academy	Dec 20192019-12-13^[8]	Apr 20202020-04-28^[7]	4mo 15d ejel
NA	⁠⁠Team Liquid	Feb 20202020-02-28^[9]	Present	1yr 6mo ej

News

2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021

NA	⁠⁠EX.S	December 10 (approx.), League, You all boosted, Zatsmod, Tactical, and TeeSum join. Serilium, Zyko, and Uzis join as substitutes. e
NA	⁠⁠EX.S	December 12 (approx.), League, You all boosted, Zatsmod, Tactical, TeeSum, Serilium, Zyko, and Uzis leave. e

NA	⁠⁠RLT	March 22, Tactical, Pyrrfect, and Gremmy (Strategic Coach) join. cokes leaves.^[1] e
NA	⁠⁠RLT	April 23 (approx.), League, veng, Zatsmod, Tactical, Pyrrfect, Japanese Import, Dan (Head Coach), and TheMadK1ng (General Manager) leave. e
NA	⁠⁠SN	August 11, Tactical joins. yeniaR leaves for academy roster. e
NA	⁠⁠SN	November 18 (approx.), PieCakeLord, H4xDefender, Soligo, Tactical, and Artemis leave. e

NA	⁠⁠SN	May (approx.), Ic0nic, Sudzzi, and Clyde join. Cavele and Tactical rejoin. e
NA	⁠⁠SN	December 14, Tactical leaves.^[2]^[3] e
NA	⁠⁠TSM.A	December 14, Akaadian, Tactical, and Treatz join. Brandini rejoins. PieCakeLord leaves. MrRallez and Shady's departures are confirmed.^[5]^[6] e

NA	⁠⁠TSM.A	January 5, Brandini, Akaadian, Tactical, and Treatz's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 17 November 2020.^[10] e
NA	⁠⁠TSM.A	December 11, Tactical is removed from the GCD.^[4] e
NA	⁠⁠TSM.A	December 13, Tactical's departure is confirmed.^[11] e
NA	⁠⁠TL.A	December 13, Yusui, Tactical, and Cao join.^[8] Yusui, Tactical, and Cao's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 16 November 2021.^[12] e

NA	⁠⁠TL	February 28, Tactical joins from academy roster.^[9] e
NA	⁠⁠TL.A	April 28, Tactical leaves for main roster.^[7] e
NA	⁠⁠TL	November 4, Tactical's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 15 November 2022.^[13] e

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July 1,
Tactical and
CoreJJ's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 22 November 2022.^[14]

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Biography[]

2018 Season[]

Tactical began his competitive career by competing for various amateur organizations between 2016 and 2017, including Team Exile Surge, Relentless Gaming, and Super Nova. In 2018, Tactical rejoined Super Nova and helped lead it to several 1st- and 2nd-place finishes in amateur tournaments such as the Upsurge Premier League and Alienware Game Arena. During this time, he also performed well in solo queue and received an invitation to the 2018 NA Scouting Grounds, where he was drafted onto Team Infernal Drake. His team placed 2nd at the tournament and Tactical was awarded a trophy for being one of the Top 5 Prospects.

2019 Season[]

At the beginning of the 2019 season, Tactical joined TSM Academy. Although the team had not performed well in the 2018 season, with Tactical and new support Treatz, the team finished 2nd in the regular season and 1st in playoffs. In Summer, the team's jungler Grig was moved to the main roster and Spica was brought on to replace him. Additionally, Tactical split play time with trainee bot laner Johnsun, who replaced Tactical in four regular season games. The team struggled to replicate its Spring success and finished the regular season in 4th place. In playoffs, the team underwent more roster changes as top laner Brandini was benched for disciplinary reasons and Grig swapped roles to replace him. Additionally, in the middle of playoffs Spica was moved to the main roster and Akaadian was moved to academy due to jungler problems on the main team. The team was eliminated in the semifinals.

2020 Season[]

Tactical moved to Team Liquid Academy at the beginning of the 2020 season. However, the main team's jungler problems again caused instability in the academy roster, as Team Liquid jungler Broxah could not play for the first three weeks of the season due to visa issues and academy jungler Shernfire was moved to the main roster to replace him. The academy roster played with last-minute substitution MikeYeung and started with a 5-game losing streak. Once Shernfire returned to the team in the fourth week, the team went on to win six of their next seven games. In Week 6, the main roster's bot laner Doublelift was unable to play due to sickness and Tactical was moved to the main roster to replace him. In his LCS debut, Tactical won both of his games and even put up an exceptional performance against 100 Thieves where he went 5/0/1, gained 72 more CS than his lane opponent Cody Sun, and won player of the game. After the impressive debut, and due to Doublelift's previous poor performance and motivation issues, Tactical was permanently moved to the main roster to split time with Doublelift on a week-by-week basis.

Trivia[]

Has reached Rank 1 on NA.

Tournament Results[]

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

Tactical Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2021-08-29	2	LCS 2021 Championship	0 : 3⁠⁠100	⁠⁠TL	Alphari, Santorin, Jensen, Tactical, CoreJJ, Kold, H4xDefender
2021-08-01	5	LCS 2021 Summer	27 - 18⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TL	Alphari, Jenkins, Santorin, Armao, Jensen, Tactical, CoreJJ, Jatt, Kold, H4xDefender
2021-04-11	2	LCS 2021 Mid-Season Showdown	2 : 3⁠⁠C9	⁠⁠TL	Alphari, Santorin, Armao, Jensen, Tactical, CoreJJ, Jatt, Kold
2021-03-14	3	LCS 2021 Spring	12 - 6⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TL	Alphari, Santorin, Jensen, Tactical, CoreJJ, Jatt, Kold
2021-01-31	1	LCS 2021 Lock In	3 : 2⁠⁠C9	⁠⁠TL	Alphari, Armao, Santorin, Jensen, Tactical, CoreJJ, Jatt, Kold
2020-10-08	9 - 12	Worlds 2020	3 - 3⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TL	Impact, Broxah, Jensen, Tactical, CoreJJ, Jatt, Cain
2020-09-05	3	LCS 2020 Summer Playoffs	2 : 3⁠⁠TSM	⁠⁠TL	Impact, Broxah, Jensen, Tactical, CoreJJ, Jatt, Cain
2020-08-09	1	LCS 2020 Summer	15 - 3⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TL	Impact, Broxah, Jensen, Tactical, CoreJJ, Jatt, Cain
2020-03-29	9	LCS 2020 Spring	7 - 11⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TL	Impact, Shernfire, Broxah, Jensen, Doublelift, Tactical, CoreJJ, Cain, Dodo
2020-03-27	6	NA Academy 2020 Spring	8 - 10⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠TL.A	Jenkins, MikeYeung, Shernfire, Yusui, Tactical, Rikara, Cao, Yaltz

Media[]

2020
2021

April 28, Doublelift’s heir apparent: Breaking down Tactical as Liquid’s starting ADC by Jeremy Culver on Dot Esports
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May 16, Team Liquid Tactical: "Just go 9th place, replace your ADC, and go to Worlds. That's how it works." with Parkes Ousley on Inven Global
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June 14, Liquid Tactical: "Jatt helps align our vision and brings the team together more." with Parkes Ousley on Inven Global
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June 18, Tactical tells the story of his path to the big stage - finding success with Liquid with Travis Gafford on YouTube
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July 8, TL Tactical talks W4 game against FLY, mages bot, and being the rookie on TL with Izento on Esports Heaven
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July 17, A letter from Tactical to Treatz, welcoming him to the LCS: "I'm happy that you have this opportunity, and I know you will do well!" by Parkes Ousley on Inven Global
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August 28, Liquid Tactical on attending Worlds: "Ruler was CoreJJ's previous duo. It would be cool to beat them." with Parkes Ousley on Inven Global
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September 4, From Academy to Worlds: How Tactical became one of NA’s budding stars by Tyler Esguerra on Dot Esports
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September 11, TL Tactical talks receiving Rookie of the Year, wanting to face Ruler at Worlds with Travis Gafford on YouTube
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September 18, Rookies to watch at the 2020 League of Legends World Championship by Michael Kelly on Dot Esports
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September 26, Tactical and Team Liquid are already bringing the heat to League’s Worlds stage with Michael Kelly on Dot Esports
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October 4, Tactical on TL vs Machi, lessons from Team Liquid's first Group Stage game with Ashley Kang on YouTube
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October 6, Tactical: “We came [into the group stage] with the wrong mindset, because in play-ins, we were able to do whatever we want” by Tyler Esguerra on Dot Esports
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February 15, Tactical talks feeling BURNED OUT and why it's lead to some poor performances, how TL is helping with Travis Gafford on YouTube
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July 11, TL Tactical on his split improvement "The Secret Ingredient is... just stop INTING 4head" with dGon (VENN Esports) on YouTube
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August 30, Team Liquid Finals Press Conference - LCS 2021 Summer Championships by Travis Gafford on YouTube
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Post-Match Interviews

Date	Tournament	Match	Link
2021-08-21	LCS 2021 Championship	TL vs 100	Link
2021-06-20	LCS 2021 Summer	GG vs TL	Link
2021-06-11	LCS 2021 Summer	TL vs DIG	Link
2021-02-12	LCS 2021 Spring	CLG vs TL	Link
2021-01-30	LCS 2021 Lock In	EG vs TL	Link
2020-09-26	Worlds 2020 Play-In	TL vs LGC	Link
2020-08-08	LCS 2020 Summer	TL vs IMT	Link
2020-07-18	LCS 2020 Summer	TL vs EG	Link
2020-06-20	LCS 2020 Summer	100 vs TL	Link
2020-02-29	LCS 2020 Spring	TL vs TSM	Link
2019-04-05	NA Academy 2019 Spring Playoffs	C9.A vs TSM.A	Link