Quas (video game player)
| Quas | |
|---|---|
| Diego Ruiz | |
| Status | Active |
| Hometown | Maracaibo |
| Nationality | Venezuelan, American |
| Current team | Tempo Storm |
| Role | Top laner |
| League | NA LCS |
| Games | League of Legends |
| Professional career | |
| May 2013 - Sep 2013 | New World Eclipse |
| Sep 2013 - Oct 2013 | Gold Gaming LA |
| Oct 2013 - Jan 2015 | Team Curse |
| Jan 2015 - Dec 2015 | Team Liquid |
| Apr 2016 - ? | NRG Esports |
| ? - present | Tempo Storm |
Diego Ruiz, better known as Quas, (born 1991 or 1992) is a Venezuelan League of Legends player who plays top laner for Tempo Storm.[1] He previously played for Team Liquid, Team Curse, and NRG Esports.
Career
Quas is from Maracaibo. He dropped out of engineering school to focus on boosting accounts for money and coaching new players, and in 2013 moved to Los Angeles to take a job with New World Eclipse.[1] He played for them in the top lane from May 2013 to September 2013. On September 14, Quas joined the reformed ggLA, taking the position of top laner with KOR Kez as jungle, Bischu in the mid lane, otter as AD Carry, and NydusHerMain as support. He played with them up until October 14 when he left to take the position of solo laner for Team Curse,[1] to play in the top lane while occasionally switching with Voyboy to play mid.
2015 season
Prior to the start of the spring LCS split, Team Curse merged with the Team Liquid organization and rebranded under the name Team Liquid. After a few swaps between Keith and Piglet as their AD carry, the team ended the season with a 9-9 record and qualified for playoffs with the sixth seed after defeating Team 8 in a tiebreaker game. During the split, Quas showcased his deep champion pool, with 13 different picks and wins on 9 of them. In the playoffs, Liquid beat CLG 3-0 in the quarterfinals before falling to Cloud9 3-2 in the semifinals; in the third-place match, Liquid finally broke the "fourth-place curse" that stopped them from placing higher than fourth place in any event that had persisted since they were Team Curse and took down Team Impulse 3-2.
Team Liquid finished the summer split round robin in first place after winning a tiebreaker match over Counter Logic Gaming—the first team other than TSM or Cloud9 to place first in an NA LCS round robin.[2] However, in the playoffs, they lost immediately in the semifinals to TSM, making them also the first team to finish first in an NA LCS round robin but not make the playoff finals. A CLG victory over TSM in the playoff finals sent Team Liquid to the regional finals instead of giving them a direct seed to Worlds via Championship Points, and in the gauntlet they lost to underdogs Cloud9, ending their post-season abruptly.
2016 preseason
On November 29, 2015, Quas was suspended from Team Liquid in a decision made by team management. Shortly afterwards he announced his retirement from competitive League of Legends.[3] He said he was planning on starting college.[4] However, he later un-retired and was picked up by NRG Esports in their LCS debut and is their top laner.[5]
Tournament results
Team Liquid
- 2nd — 2015 Season North America Regional Finals
- 3rd — 2015 NA LCS Summer Playoffs
- 3rd — 2015 NA LCS Spring Playoffs
NRG Esports
- 5th — 2016 Spring NA LCS
- 5-6th — 2016 Spring NA LCS Playoffs
- 9th — 2016 NA LCS Summer regular season
- lost — 2017 Spring NA LCS promotion
References
- 1 2 3 Jacobs, Harrison (May 23, 2015). "The unlikely story of a 23-year-old Venezuelan who makes 6 figures playing video games in America". Business Insider.
- ↑ Bui, Skye (July 27, 2015). "Quas on Team Liquid's first place finish and who he expects to face in the playoffs". The Score eSports.com.
- ↑ Lingle, Samuel (December 4, 2015) [December 3, 2015]. "Quas retires just days after his suspension by Team Liquid". The Daily Dot.
- ↑ Stubbs, Mike (June 14, 2016). "Quas on returning to the LCS: 'When I left the scene, I wasn't planning on coming back immediately.'". MCV.
- ↑
- Lingle, Samuel (April 26, 2016). "NRG Esports revamps roster, adds Quas, Santorin, KiWiKiD". The Daily Dot.
- Wolf, Jacob (April 26, 2016). "Quas, Santorin and KiWiKiD join NRG Esports". ESPN.
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