Flash Wolves

Flash Wolves
Location Taipei, Taiwan
Taichung (SF2)
Founded 2013
Sponsors yoe
Wanin International
Iron Forum
Benq
MSI
jian-pin
huya
Divisions League of Legends
StarCraft II
World of Tanks
Special Force II
Website http://www.flashwolves.com/

Flash Wolves (Chinese: 閃電狼; pinyin: shǎn diàn láng), formerly known as the yoe Ironmen and 7-11/yoe Flash Wolves, is an eSports organization based in Taiwan that supports League of Legends,StarCraft II, World of Tanks, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Special Force II, and female League of Legends teams. Their League of Legends team first formed after the draft of Taiwan eSports League Draft Season. The it currently competes in the League of Legends Masters Series (LMS) and is one of the best teams in the region. The team reached the Quarter-Finals of the League of Legends World Championship for the first time in 2015.

League of Legends history

Flash Wolves
Sport League of Legends
Founded 2012
League League of Legends Masters Series (LMS)
Team history 7-11 Ironmen
7-11 Flash Wolves
yoe Flash Wolves
Based in Taipei
Arena Garena E-Sports Stadium
Colors Blue and yellow
Head coach Chen "WarHorse" Ju-Chih
Manager Zhang "4Leaf" Yu
Website http://flashwolves.com

2013

Flash Wolves was originally a participant in Taiwan e-Sports League, formed after the draft of TeSL Draft Season.[1] After finished at sixth place in TeSL, they struggled in Season 3 Taiwan Regional Finals group stage and got the last slot in group B, but four of the players still decided to leave the team. The team announced to forfeit all the major tournaments and went into reform. On October 21, the team adopted nearly full rosters of Gamania Bears and automatically qualified for 2014 LNL Winter and 2014 GPL Winter, but they gave up the latter due to Riot Games' player's age limit.[2]

They made an impressive return in 2013 WCG Taiwan Qualifiers as they beaten two Taiwanese powerhouses Taipei Assassins and ahq e-Sports Club, winning the seed in 2013 World Cyber Games Grand Finals.[3][4]

April 15, yoe IRONMEN was formed by AsSen, WuYan, Chopper, Beat, REAL1RON, bonbon and Clurnus. May, AsSen becomes a coach. May 23, Clurnus left.[5] May 29, ulRD, president and Jackson join.[6] June, WuYan left. July 16, Vac, Real1ron, BonBon and president leave. July 18, Jackson and ulRD leave.[7] August 22, team rebranded to yoe Flash Wolves. Steak, Maooo, Maple, Dee and SwordArt joined. October 22, NL and HueiYun joined. December 15, REFRA1N joined.

Flash Wolves placed first in the Taiwan Riot Regionals and then participated in the Season 3 World Championship.[2]

2014

On January 13, Dee left.[8] On January 24, Mountain joined as new starting jungle, REFRA1N moved to mid lane, Maple moved to substitute, and HueiYun left. February 21, Maooo and Maple moved to the academy team yoe Flash Wolves Junior. April 30, Mountain left. yoe Flash Wolves finished 4th in the LNL Winter.[2]

2015

On January 30 they finished first at IEM Season IX - Taipei by beating the Taipei Assassins 2 - 1.[2][9][10][11] In March at IEM Season XIII Katowice they defeated SK Gaming.[12] They were then defeated by Team SoloMid 2-1 in the semi-finals.[13][14]

The Flash Wolves finished 2nd in the LMS Spring playoffs.[15]

In May Flash Wolves announced the formation of a female LoL team.[16]

Flash Wolves finished 2nd in the LMS Summer season, and then placed 3rd in the playoffs.[2]

On October 11 Kaohsiung mayor Kiku Chen made a surprise visit to Paris to meet with the Flash Wolves and ahq e-Sports Club and wished them good luck on worlds.[17][18]

They were the 2nd seed in the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau region in the 2015 League of Legends World Championship.[19] The team won their preliminary group.[20][21] Flash Wolves finished in 5-8 place after losing to Origen three games to one.[22][23]

Roster

Nationality ID Name Age Role Join date Hometown
 Taiwan Steak Chou Lu-Hsi (周律希) August 15, 1992 Top October 2013
 Taiwan Karsa Hung Hau-Hsuan (洪浩軒) unknown Jungle January 2015 Taichung
 Taiwan Maple Huang Yi-Tang (黃熠棠) August 10, 1997 Mid October 2013
 Taiwan NL Hsiung Wen-An (熊汶銨) unknown AD carry October 2013
 Taiwan SwordArt Hu Shuo-Jie (胡碩傑) December 21, 1996 Support October 2013
 Taiwan MMD Lihong Yu (游立宏) unknown Top 2014/2015?

Management

Tournament results

Premier tournaments

2014

2015

StarCraft II

The current roster consists of PartinG, Leenock, San, Has, and Ian.[24]

World of Tanks

Flash Wolves had a World of Tanks squad.[25]

Special Force II

The Taichung Flash Wolves are one of the best Special Force II teams in Taiwan and began competing in the inaugural Special Force II Pro League that began in October 2015.[26][27][28]

References

  1. ↑ "台灣電競協會 施文彬一手促成". Taiwan Times. 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2015-10-23.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Doucet, Nic (September 20, 2015). "The Road to Worlds: an in-depth look at the Flash Wolves". TheScore eSports. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  3. ↑ "yoe-flash-wolves". MSI. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  4. ↑ "【專訪】「yoeFlash Wolves閃電狼」英雄聯盟戰隊重生的推手！教練「Assen」專訪！". Garena. November 17, 2013. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
  5. ↑ 《聯盟》LOL第二輪選秀選秀會將於5/29舉行，各戰隊釋出名單公布 esports.com.tw
  6. ↑ 《聯盟》第二輪選秀結果出爐，yoe IRONMEN猛拉三夫！ esports.com.tw
  7. ↑ 《聯盟》第三輪選秀會鋼鐵軍團全數釋出，ulRD重回華義SPIDER esports.com.tw
  8. ↑ 【綜合】Nerver surrender ！來勢洶洶的電競新血《Machi 職業電競隊》(Chinese) garena.tw
  9. ↑ "《FlashWolves閃電狼》IEM 9世界冠軍賽落幕， 閃電狼力奪四強展望世界國際賽事！". gamedb. March 16, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  10. ↑ "AHQ 以2:1擊敗閃電狼奪《英雄聯盟》IEM台北站首張門票". ETtoday. December 10, 2014. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
  11. ↑ "〈電競〉《IEM9台北站資格賽》yoe閃電狼2：1破TPA". Yahoo Sports Taiwan. November 29, 2014. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
  12. ↑ Jessica (March 12, 2015). "PC線上遊戲《英雄聯盟》台灣隊伍 yoe 閃電狼抵達波蘭 即將迎戰 IEM 9 總決賽". 巴哈姆特電玩資訊站 (gamer.com.tw). Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  13. ↑ Fischer, Annabelle (March 14, 2015). "Team SoloMid defeat yoe Flash Wolves 2-1; advance to IEM Katowice Finals". The Score eSports. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  14. ↑ "yoe閃電狼接受Garena懲處並向粉絲致歉：不會解散". ETtoday. March 25, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  15. ↑ ERSO (July 25, 2015). "【隊伍分析】堅定不移的狼群 ─ Flash Wolves". Hong Kong Esports Limited. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  16. ↑ "六名選手全數公佈，《英雄聯盟》女子戰隊正式成軍！". yoe Flash Wolves. May 20, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  17. ↑ "花媽抵法挺閃電狼　合照變成「母子團圓」". Apple Daily. October 11, 2015. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
  18. ↑ "電競閃電狼回訪高雄市　捲捲頭大小花媽相見歡". NOWNews. October 19, 2015. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
  19. ↑ Chen, James (August 20, 2015). "Get ready for the League of Legends 2015 World Championship". PC Gamer. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  20. ↑ Lingle, Samuel (October 8, 2015). "Flash Wolves top group after NL's pentakill dooms CLG". The Daily Dot. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  21. ↑ "閃電狼闖進LOL世界賽8強 最想打ahq[影]". Central News Agency. October 9, 2015. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  22. ↑ "LOL八強賽 閃電狼止步". United Daily News. October 16, 2015. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  23. ↑ "閃電狼英雄聯盟世界賽1勝3敗 八強止步". Central News Agency. October 16, 2015. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
  24. ↑ "閃電狼FlashWolves官方網站". Flash Wolves. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  25. ↑ "[台灣] yoe 閃電狼（Flash Wolves）投身Wargaming.net League". World of Tanks. August 27, 2013. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  26. ↑ "《yoe FlashWolves》史上最堅強陣容，《Special Force 2》閃電狼戰隊！". Taiwan eSports League. November 19, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  27. ↑ Jessica (2015-11-02). "《Special Force 2》PL 例行賽第 13 場回顧 高雄海洋星擊敗台中閃電狼躍居第二名". Gamer.com.tv. Retrieved 2015-11-04.
  28. ↑ "〈電競〉海中霸主撕裂狼魂　高雄海洋星躍居第2". TSNA. 2 November 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
ahq e-Sports Club		 League of Legends Master Series winner
Spring 2016 		Succeeded by
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