Kuala Lumpur (25 June 2016) — ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) in collaboration with Garena, held the first ever ROG Champions Cup (League of Legends) on 25th June 2016 at Sunway Pyramid Ice Rink. The event was an incredible success with great turn-out and support from about 1,500 passionate ROG and League of Legends fans that registered.
After 2 months of qualifying rounds for participating 149 teams, the grand final was the best of 5 rounds for the final 2 teams, “Missing in Action” and “Raiding Squad”, where both battled for the top spot in the League of Legends (LoL). Throughout the game, there were plenty of exciting moments of in-game champions slaughtering each other, and certainly the crowd got a powerful game performance from the teams.
In the end, team “Missing in Action” won the grand final with a leading score of 3 – 1 and walked away with the tournament grand prize – RM 5,000 cash and 5 units of ROG G752VT Gaming Laptop for the winning team members. As for the runner-up, team “Raiding Squad”, the team members each won RM 3,000 cash and Nomad Gaming Backpack, GX1000 Gaming Mouse + GM50 Gaming Mouse Pad.
About ASUS ROG
For years since its establishment, ASUS aimed to put an ever-greater emphasis on PC gaming. This process resulted in the 2006 founding of the Republic of Gamers brand (ROG), formed for the sole purpose of delivering the most innovative hardcore hardware for truly dedicated gamers. Since then, the efforts of the ROG team have led to a constant flow of PC gaming technology that has become legendary among enthusiasts for its performance.
ROG is more than just hardware, though – we take an active part in the global gaming community, helping develop the industry by sponsoring events such as PAX, BlizzCon and Dreamhack. Worldwide media have recognized ROG as a leader in PC gaming and overclocking performance, with many of our products winning awards and gaining very positive feedback from hardware pros. With this great response from gamers and the industry, ROG has all the resources it needs to keep working on enabling even better experiences – technology never sleeps, nor should the action!
