American professional esports player and Survivor contestant
Ken Hoang
At the Survivor finale showing, at CBS Studios, Los Angeles, California, December 14, 2008
Current team
Team
Team Liquid
Games
Super Smash Bros. Melee Project M
Personal information
Nickname(s)
SephirothKen
LiquidKen
The King of Smash
Born
(1985-10-10) October 10, 1985 (age 38)[1]
Career information
Playing career
2003–present
Career highlights and awards
MLG champion (2005)
EVO champion 2007
Ken Hoang (born October 10, 1985), also known as Kenny, SephirothKen, or Liquid`Ken, is an American professional Super Smash Bros. Melee player and television personality. Hoang was widely considered the most dominant Melee player in the world during the early years of the game's competitive scene in the early to mid-2000s. Hoang primarily plays Marth in Melee and is credited for pioneering several gameplay techniques integral to the game's competitive play, including the "dash dancing" movement technique and the "Ken Combo", an effective Marth combo for which he is the namesake.[2] Hoang's dominance in the game earned him the nickname "The King of Smash".[2]
Hoang was the 2004–2005 national champion of Major League Gaming, the 2007 international champion of Evolution Championship Series (EVO) World Finals,[3][4] and was the highest ranked Super Smash Bros. Melee player in the United States, having also defeated reputable players from around the globe, including top Japanese players.
Hoang possesses the highest major tournament win-to-loss ratio of any Super Smash Bros. Melee player from 2003 to 2007.[5] He received minor television coverage in MTV's True Life: I'm a Professional Gamer.[6] Hoang retired in 2007, however he returned to the Melee scene in 2012, competing sporadically since. In 2014 he and fellow Melee veteran Daniel "KoreanDJ" Jung joined Team Liquid as the team's first Smash Bros. players.[7] A 2021 list compiled by PGstats ranked Hoang as the fourth-greatest Melee player of all time.[8]
Hoang was a contestant on Survivor: Gabon, which aired in the fall of 2008. He finished in fifth-place and was the sixth member of the jury.
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^Campbell, Sean (2006-05-29). "Are they worth fighting for?". Got Frag. Archived from the original on 2012-02-10.
^CAMILLE DODERO (2006-11-21). "The next action sport". The Phoenix. Archived from the original on 2007-10-21. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
^"Pro video gaming comes to cable TV". NBC News. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
^We're Team Liquid's Ken and KDJ, and we've been playing Super Smash Bros Melee competitively for the better half of a decade. Ask us anything! : Games
^"The Melee Stats Top 100: The Top 10". PGstats. November 22, 2021. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
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