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LMQ was a Chinese competitive League of Legends team, previously a sister teams to Royal Club. The team moved to North America on December 15, 2013 and competed in the North American scene.[1] The team previously competed under the name LMQ iBUYPOWER in representation of their former sponsor iBUYPOWER.[1] On December 26, the team rebranded to Team Impulse.
History[]
LMQ was formed in July 2013 after merging portions of the rosters of Team Livemore and Royal Club Tian Ci: Dreams, F1sh, andWayoff from the former; Mor, NoName, TS, XiaoWeiXiao, and PandaB from the latter. LMQ competed in the summer split of the 2013 LPL; despite taking a game off the Season 3 runner-up Royal Club, LMQ finished with a disappointing 8-13 record in sixth place.
In November 2013, after the Season 3 World Championship, F1sh and PandaB moved to LMQ's sister team, Royal Club. At that month's National Electronic Sports Tournament, LMQ went 2-1 in the tournament's group stage after downing CC Club and Team WE Academy while falling to the parent Team WE. In the bracket stage, LMQ lost 1-2 to the tournament favorite and eventual winner OMG, but rebounded in a 2-0 victory against Royal Club in the third place match.
On December 15, 2013, LMQ left its parent organization Tian Ci and obtained a new sponsor in iBUYPOWER. With the assistance of its new sponsor, LMQ moved to North America to take advantage of the superior esports infrastructure. At this point, Dreams and Wayoff left the team, to be replaced by Royal Club top laner GoDlike, who renamed to ackerman.
In January 2014, LMQ made their way atop the North American 5v5 Challenger tier and earned an invite to the official Riot-sponsored Challenger Series, also known as the Coke League. In their North American debut, LMQ went 8-0 and beat compLexity.Black 2-0 in the finals. By finishing first, LMQ received 9 Challenger Series Points and earned a berth in the second series. There, in March, LMQ went 4-1 on their way to a 2-0 win in the finals against Cloud 9 Tempest, thus clinching the top overall seed in the Challenger Series playoffs to be held later in the season.
While competing in the second Challenger Series, LMQ was also offered an invite to the North American Challenger League (NACL) Season 2 Qualifiers, where they went undefeated and secured a spot in the league. During the league's regular season, LMQ went 18-4 without a losing record against any team. During the March playoffs, LMQ defeated Cloud 9 Tempest 2-1 in the semifinals and moved on to face Team 8 in the tournament's grand finals. LMQ won the final series 3-1 and became NACL champions.
After having secured a spot in the semi-finals of the Challenger Series playoffs due to their tremendous amount of points accumulated from both Challenger Series, LMQ went on to defeatCurse Academy in a 2-0 victory sending them to the finals against the tough Cloud 9 Tempest. After an initial loss in the best of five series, LMQ came back winning two in a row to make the series 2-1. Cloud 9 Tempest however, bounced back in game four to tie up the series 2-2. After a very low-kill game game five, Cloud 9 Tempest attempt to make a pick, but instead gets nearly aced and losing the game to LMQ. LMQ left the Challenger Series playoffs with a 5-2 record and went home with the grand prize of $16,000.
In April 2014, LMQ secured a spot for the 2014 NA LCS Summer Split after beating XDG Gaming 3-0 in the 2014 Season Summer Promotion Tournament.
2015 Preseason[]
On November 24, 2014 Alex Gu announced that LMQ's 2015 would include XiaoWeiXiao once again and that Popstar Adrian had signed with the team as their new support player.[2]
On December 26, LMQ announced a rebranding as Team Impulse. See the team's following history there.
Trivia[]
- Rumor has it that "LMQ" means "Lan Mei Qi", which is the name of the mistress of LMQ's founder, entrepreneur Tian Ci.
Timeline[]
- 2013
- 2014
- July 5, Tian Ci acquires the Team Livemore and Royal Club Tian Ci rosters and forms LMQ.
Dreams,
NoName,
XiaoWeiXiao,
F1sh,
TS,
Mor, and
PandaB join.
Wayoff joins as substitute. - November 2,
F1sh and
PandaB leave. - December 15, LMQ moves to North America.
GoDlike joins.
Dreams and
Wayoff leave.[3] GoDlike renames to ackerman. - December 17, iBUYPOWER becomes a sponsor.
- January (approx.), PtotheD (Head Coach) joins.
LanJJ joins as substitute. - July 25, Sharon (Manager) leaves.[4]
- July 30, PtotheD (Head Coach) leaves.[5]
- September (approx.), XiaoWeiXiao changes residency from China to North America.
- September 25, Fly (Head Coach) joins.[6]
- October 22,
ackerman and
Vasilii leave.[7]
NoName retires.[8] - November 24,
Popstar Adrian joins.[9] Popstar Adrian renames to Adrian. - November 26,
Rush joins.[10] - December 26, LMQ rebrands as Team Impulse.
Rush,
XiaoWeiXiao,
Adrian,
Mor,
LanJJ, and Fly (Head Coach) leave.
Player Roster[]
Former[]
Players are shown for the entire duration of their tenure on the team, with the role and substitute/trainee status they had upon their departure.
Player | Name | Role | Joined | Left | Next Team | ||
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Rush | Lee Yoon-jae (이윤재) | Jungler | Nov 20142014-11-26 | Dec 20142014-12-26 | TIP | ||
XiaoWeiXiao | Yu Xian (余显) | Mid Laner | Jul 20132013-07-05 | Dec 20142014-12-26 | TIP | ||
Adrian | Adrian Ma | Support | Nov 20142014-11-24 | Dec 20142014-12-26 | TIP | ||
Mor | Zhang Hong-Wei (张宏伟) | Support | Jul 20132013-07-05 | Dec 20142014-12-26 | QG | ||
LanJJ | Liao Zi-Jun (廖梓俊) | Sub/Mid | ≈Jan 2014≈2014-01-?? | Dec 20142014-12-26 | Retired | ||
ackerman | Xiao Wang (肖旺) | Top Laner | Dec 20132013-12-15 | Oct 20142014-10-22 | SHR | ||
NoName | Zhou Qi-Lin (周祺琳) | Jungler | Jul 20132013-07-05 | Oct 20142014-10-22 | KNG | ||
Vasilii | Li Wei-Jun (李威俊) | Bot Laner | Jul 20132013-07-05 | Oct 20142014-10-22 | VG.S | ||
PtotheD | Zhang "Peter" Yi (張藝) | Head Coach (+) (–) Also Sub | ≈Jan 2014≈2014-01-?? | Jul 20142014-07-30 | CRS | ||
Dreams | Yao Yuan (姚远) | Top Laner | Jul 20132013-07-05 | Dec 20132013-12-15 | SHR | ||
Wayoff | Song Lei (宋磊) | Sub/Mid | Jul 20132013-07-05 | Dec 20132013-12-15 | GFY | ||
F1sh | Yu Rui (喻瑞) | Bot Laner | Jul 20132013-07-05 | Nov 20132013-11-02 | RYL | ||
PandaB | Zhang Jia-Zhi (张家志) | Support | Jul 20132013-07-05 | Nov 20132013-11-02 | RYL |
Player League Participation[]
Organization[]
Former[]
C | ID | Name | Position | Next Team |
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Superrrman | Xiang 'Alex' Gu | General Manager | Team Impulse | |
Fly | Kim Sang-chul (김상철) | Head Coach | Team Impulse | |
eNO | Li Yande | Chief Executive Officer | DetonatioN FocusMe | |
impulsive_st | Derrick Truong | Marketing Manager | None | |
ZhuangPeng | Zhuang Peng (庄鹏) | Manager | None | |
PtotheD | Zhang Yi (張藝) | Head Coach | Team Curse | |
Sharon | Xiaowei Li | Team Manager | None |
Tournaments[]
This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
Highlight Videos[]
Interviews[]
- 2014
- 2013
- April 29 - LMQ辟谣:不存在财政问题 欲引进Uzi (Chinese) (English) with duowan
- May 25 - Sharon Li, LMQ Manager, talks about LMQ's transition to the NA scene (video) with onGamers
- May 25 - Interview with CEO of LMQ and Royal: "I would like to bring two more Chinese pros to LMQ" with onGamers
- December 23 - We are team LMQ iBUYPOWER AMA! with Reddit
Articles[]
- 2014
- September 12 - Breaking down Group C - from LoL Esports
- September 13 - World Championship Preview: LMQ – The American Dream (Group C) - from Cloth5
- September 23 - League of Legends World Championship Preview – Group C - from Azubu
- October 2 - Worlds Group C Statistics: The Numbers Behind the Group of Death - from Cloth5
External Links[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chinese professional LoL team LMQ Tian Ci moves to NA with new title sponsor iBUYPOWER ongamers.com
- ↑ Alex Gu's tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Chinese professional LoL team LMQ Tian Ci moves to NA with new title sponsor iBUYPOWER ongamers.com
- ↑ LMQ iBuyPower Parts Ways with Sharon and LoLClass ongamers.com
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 LMQ PtotheD's Reddit post reddit.com
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 LMQ picks up Jin Air Coach "Fly" ongamers.com
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 LMQ announces departure of Vasilii, ackerman, NoName; negotiations ongoing with Mor ongamers.com
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 LMQ announces departure of Vasilii, ackerman, NoName; negotiations ongoing with Mor ongamers.com
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Alex Gu's Tweet twitter.com
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Alex Gu's Tweet twitter.com