Zz1tai

Zz1tai
Retired
Zz1tai
Background Information
Name	Liu Zhi-Hao (刘志豪)
Country of Birth	; China
Birthday	August 25, 1997 (age 27)
Residency	CNChina
Competitive
Role	; Top Laner
Favorite Champs	; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Competitive IDs	Zzitai
Soloqueue IDs	iG Zz1tai, RedZz1tai, SworDance (KR)
Social Media & Links

Overview

Tournament Results

Stats

Match History

Liu "Zz1tai" Zhi-Hao (Hanzi: 刘志豪) is a retired League of Legends esports player, previously top laner for Royal Never Give Up. His name was previously stylized Zzitai.

Team History

Combine Role Swaps:No|Yes

Dates:Approx|Exact

	Team	Start	End
CN	⁠⁠TM.Origin	Oct 20112011-10-17	Oct 20112011-10-26	9d ejel
CN	⁠⁠AgFox	??? 2012≈2012-??-??	??? 2012≈2012-??-??	≈1mo ejel
CN	⁠⁠Invictus Gaming	Apr 20122012-04-08^[2]	Dec 20162016-12-15^[1]	4yr 8mo ejel
CN	⁠⁠Snake Esports	Dec 20162016-12-15^[5]	Dec 20172017-12-21^[3]	1yr 6d ejel
CN	⁠⁠RNG	Jan 20182018-01-14^[7]	Dec 20182018-12-21^[6]	11mo 7d ejel
CN	⁠⁠RNG	Mar 20192019-03-21^[9]	May 20192019-05-28^[8]	2mo 7d ejel

	Team	Start	End
CN	⁠⁠TM.Origin	Oct 20112011-10-17	Oct 20112011-10-26	9d ejel
CN	⁠⁠AgFox	??? 2012≈2012-??-??	??? 2012≈2012-??-??	≈1mo ejel
CN	⁠⁠Invictus Gaming	Apr 20122012-04-08^[2]	≈Feb 2015≈2015-02-??	≈2yr 10mo ejel
CN	⁠⁠Invictus Gaming	≈Feb 2015≈2015-02-??	Dec 20162016-12-15^[1]	≈1yr 9mo ejel
CN	⁠⁠Snake Esports	Dec 20162016-12-15^[5]	Dec 20172017-12-21^[3]	1yr 6d ejel
CN	⁠⁠RNG	Jan 20182018-01-14^[7]	Dec 20182018-12-21^[6]	11mo 7d ejel
CN	⁠⁠RNG	Mar 20192019-03-21^[9]	May 20192019-05-28^[8]	2mo 7d ejel

News

2011
2012
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

CN	⁠⁠TMO	October 17, Senou, Bug, Zzitai, Ayaya, and 酒囊飯袋 join. e
CN	⁠⁠TMO	October 26, Senou, Bug, Zzitai, Ayaya, and 酒囊飯袋 leave. e

CN	⁠⁠AgFox	2012 (approx.), Zzitai joins. e
CN	⁠⁠AgFox	2012 (approx.), Zzitai leaves. e
CN	⁠⁠iG	April 8, Zz1tai joins.^[2] e

CN

⁠

⁠iG

February (approx.), Zz1tai (Mid to Top) changes position.

e

CN	⁠⁠iG	December 15, Zzitai leaves.^[1] e
CN	⁠⁠SS	December 15, Zzitai joins.^[5] Zzitai renames to Zz1tai. e

CN

⁠

⁠SS

December 21,
Zz1tai and
Mint leave.
Mo leaves for academy roster.^[3]^[4]

e

CN	⁠⁠RNG	January 14, Zz1tai joins.^[7] e
CN	⁠⁠RNG	November 19, Letme's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 1 August 2020. Zz1tai, Able, and Ming's contracts are updated in the GCD, expiring on 18 November 2019. Karsa's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 17 November 2019. Mlxg's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 1 June 2020. Xiaohu's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 7 February 2019. Uzi's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 24 February 2019.^[10] e
CN	⁠⁠RNG	December 21, Zz1tai is removed from the GCD.^[6] e
CN	⁠⁠F/A	December 28, Zz1tai retires.^[11] e

CN	⁠⁠RNG	March 21, Zz1tai rejoins.^[9] e
CN	⁠⁠RNG	April 8, Zz1tai's contract is updated in the GCD, expiring on 19 November 2019.^[12] e
CN	⁠⁠RNG	May 28, Zz1tai leaves.^[8] e

Biography[]

Season 2[]

Liu "Zzitai" Zhi-Hao originally played in Season 2 for TM.Origin and AgFox before joining Invictus Gaming in April of 2012. Zzitai played for IG in the Season 2 China Regional Finals where they qualified for the Season 2 World Championship as the second seed from China by beating Noah's Ark 2-0 in the finals. At worlds, they made it through the group stage, only to fall 2-0 to Moscow Five in the quarterfinals.

Season 3[]

IG participated in the 2013 LPL Spring Regular Season and managed to place first overall. However in the 2013 LPL Spring Playoffs, they placed third after losing 2-0 to Positive Energy but beating Team WE 2-1 in the third place match. Next, they attended IEM Season VIII - Shanghai and finished in second after they lost 2-0 in the finals to WE. In the 2013 LPL Summer Regular Season, they ended in fifth place and missed the playoffs. Their result in the Spring Season still qualified them for the Season 3 China Regional Finals. They ended in third after losing 2-1 to Royal Club Huang Zu in the second round of the loser's bracket. Their last tournament of the year was IEM Season VIII - Singapore and they actually managed to win the tournament by beating CJ Entus Frost 2-0 in the finals.

2014 Season[]

The new season began for Zzitai and IG at Demacia Cup Season 1. They made it to the finals and placed first after beating WE 3-2. A few months later, they attended the IEM Season VIII - World Championship but failed to make it past groups after losing to the KT Rolster Bullets and Fnatic. The 2014 LPL Spring Regular Season ended shortly afterwards with IG in fourth place. IG qualified for the 2014 LPL Spring Playoffs and even made it to the finals but they lost 3-0 to EDward Gaming. They later lost 2-0 in Demacia Cup Season 2 in the round of 16 to Star Horn Royal Club. IG faired very poorly in the 2014 LPL Summer Regular Season, finishing in sixth place. They still qualified for the 2014 Season China Regional Finals but they finished in last after losing 2-0 to OMG and 2-1 to LGD Gaming.

2015 Season[]

With Rookie joining as the new mid laner for IG and Pokemon underperforming heavily, Zzitai was moved to top lane as the new starter. Zzitai played in his new position in the 2015 Demacia Cup Spring Season where IG managed to make it to the finals but they lost 3-0 to EDG. A few weeks later, they finished in fifth place in the 2015 LPL Spring Regular Season and qualified for the 2015 LPL Spring Playoffs. Here, IG ended in third place after losing 3-0 to EDG in the semifinals but beating Snake eSports 3-1 in the third place match. IG participated in the 2015 Demacia Cup Summer Season and ended in fourth after losing 3-1 to EDG and 3-2 to Snake. Back in the 2015 LPL Summer Regular Season, IG ended in third place to qualify for the 2015 LPL Summer Playoffs. Here, IG finished in third place again after losing 3-2 to the Qiao Gu Reapers but beating EDG 3-1. IG qualified for the 2015 Season China Regional Finals and managed to qualify for the 2015 Season World Championship by beating Qiao Gu 3-0. IG was placed in a group alongside Cloud9, Fnatic, and AHQ e-Sports Club. Despite being favorites to advance, they ended with a 2-4 record and were knocked out of the tournament in last place in their group.

2016 Season[]

The 2016 season was fairly straightforward for IG. The team placed 4th in the 2016 LPL Spring Season with an 8-8 record. They were quickly knocked out of playoffs in the first round after getting swept 0-3 by Snake Esports. The summer season was identical to the spring one for IG since they finished in 4th again with a 5-11 record. The summer playoffs also had the same result and IG were knocked out in the first round again by getting swept by I May. Zzitai left IG after being on the team since 2012 and joined Snake Esports in December of 2016.

2017 Season[]

Snake's 2017 Season was even worse than the previous year. They finished the 2017 LPL Spring Season 5th place in their group and had to attend the Promotion Tournament. They defeated Vici Gaming 3-0 to keep their LPL spot. Their 2017 Demacia Cup performance wasn't very good as well and they finished 13th-20th after a 1-2 loss to Red Wolf Gaming. In the Summer Season Snake finished 4th in their group and barely made the playoffs. They however lost 0-3 to Newbee in the first round and were quickly eliminated which ended their 2017 season.

Trivia[]

Known for playing unorthodox middle lane champions, including bruisers such as Jayce and Lee Sin.
His favorite champion is Mordekaiser.^[13]
A very versatile player. He often switches roles with Kid while also maintaining a very diverse champion pool in the mid lane.
Due to there being no minimum age for a professional player at the beginning of his career, he was only 15 years old when he played at Worlds 2012.
He and Kid was the duo had played most games together in the LPL (279 games) (stats provided in April 2017).
- On January 26th, 2018, this stat got surpassed by Xiye and Mystic.
Reached 1,000 kills in the LPL in June 2016.
- The 5th player to reach 1,000 kills in the LPL, after Uzi, Cool, Kid, and NaMei.

Pentakills

Date	Region	Tournament	Champion	Pos	W/L	KDA	SB	VOD
2024-09-07	CN China	LoL Caster & Host Championship 2024	Aurelion Sol	Mid	W	18/2/11
2018-07-13	CN China	LPL 2018 Summer	Darius	Bot	W	8/0/1	Link	Link
2014-11-06	CN China	G-League 2014	Xerath	Mid	W	20/3/14		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.

Zz1tai Tournament Results
Date	Pl	Event	Last Result	Team	Roster
2024-11-23	9	Legend Cup Season 2	4 - 7⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠ZT	AmazingJ, Eimy, Zz1tai, Vasilii, Lpc, Xiaobai
2024-09-13	7	LoL Caster & Host Championship 2024	3 - 5⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠INA	TheYu, Tainsiu, Zz1tai, KKlove, 11, Crescent, TheShy
2024-05-30	5 - 6	Legend Cup Season 1	1 : 3⁠⁠LAP	⁠⁠ZT	957, XLB, Zz1tai, Vas1lii, Yuyanjia, KenZhu
2023-12-27	21 - 22	Demacia Cup 2023	0 - 4⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠RST	Muses, AmazingJ, Ruo, Wuming, Zz1tai, Mint, Wednesday
2022-09-01	2	LPL 2022 Regional Finals Showmatch	0 : 1⁠⁠地表最强	⁠⁠峡谷之巅	Misaya, Zz1tai, Zzr, kRYST4L, Kid, Ning
2020-12-06	3 - 4	China Streamer Cup 2020	1 : 2⁠⁠DYU	⁠⁠GNR	Letme, Mlxg, Zz1tai, kRYST4L, QingWa
2019-04-06	5 - 6	LPL 2019 Spring Playoffs	2 : 3⁠⁠JDG	⁠⁠RNG	Zz1tai, Karsa, Xiaohu, Uzi, Ming, Kezman
2019-03-31	4	LPL 2019 Spring	10 - 5⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠RNG	Tianci, AmazingJ, Zz1tai, Karsa, Xiaohu, Wink, Uzi, Ming, GreenTea
2018-09-14	1	LPL 2018 Summer Playoffs	3 : 2⁠⁠iG	⁠⁠RNG	Zz1tai, Letme, Mlxg, Karsa, Xiaohu, Able, Uzi, Ming, Heart
2018-09-02	2	LPL 2018 Summer - East	14 - 5⁠⁠RR	⁠⁠RNG	Zz1tai, Letme, Mlxg, Karsa, Xiaohu, Uzi, Able, Ming, Heart