Xiao

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Team Information

Tag:

xiao

Location:

Template:Flag/asia Asia

Team Captain:

AiShou

Game Mode:

6v6

Achievements

History

Created:

2015-09-04

Xiao is a top team from AsiaFortress, and is currently considered the strongest team in Asia.

Founded in AsiaFortress Cup 10, it had consisted of the core of both TURBO9000 and The Homely Hobos from Season 9, creating what would become the strongest team in Asia at the time. After a very dominating performance in Season 10 and winning the Grand Finals against Crescendo, cementing their first ever victory together, they continued their winning streak and established what is known as the Xiao dynasty for many seasons to come. Their dominance of Asian TF2 rivaled that of froyotech's in North America and the late Se7en's in Europe. In AsiaFortress LAN 2018, Xiao was knocked down to the Lower Bracket Finals for the very first time in its history when facing against rivals The Chess Foundation, followed by a Grand Final loss to the same team, ultimately ending their winning streak that lasted for several seasons.

Xiao had experienced many different roster changes throughout the seasons, but their most notable change was during PURE League Season 2 when the late Beyond The Summit TF2 event was announced. Legendary player teejay and former Scout main banana who were both from SVIFT AS joined the roster in preparation for the event. The team also managed to pick up 2 top Australian players from MMGP in the form of Demoman enrith and Medic lock. This version of the roster was widely regarded to be the best iteration of Xiao across its previous rosters, convincingly dominating the highest division while only dropping 2 rounds the entire season. This would have also been the very first time an Asian team is represented at an international TF2 event.

Rosters

AsiaFortress Invite - Fall 2023

Roster
Scout	heria
Scout	ruee
Roamer	banana
Pocket	n4ver
Demoman	teejay
Medic	Konma

hezzy leaves the team to join Hong Hat Buff, ex-McBlurry captain n4ver fills in the pocket role. Banana moves back to roamer

AsiaFortress Invite - Summer 2023

Roster
Scout	heria
Scout	ruee
Roamer	hezzy
Pocket	banana
Demoman	teejay
Medic	Konma

Following the retirement of AiShou and 26, the remains of Xiao have a merger with runner-up team McBlurry Gaming and pick up heria, hezzy and Konma. Banana moves to pocket soldier to accommodate for hezzy

AsiaFortress Cup 19

Roster
Scout	ruee
Scout	AiShou
Roamer	banana
Pocket	26
Demoman	teejay
Medic	Clashe

Former Medic down departs from the team to revert back to an all-asian roster. Xiao moves former flank Scout Clashe to Medic. Ruee joins to replace the now vacant flank Scout slot.

AsiaFortress Cup 18

Roster
Scout	Clashe
Scout	AiShou
Roamer	banana
Pocket	26
Demoman	teejay
Medic	down

Former Demoman Konma departs from the team, moving teejay over to the Demoman role and bringing in down back on Medic. Up-and-coming Scout Clashe makes his debut in Division 1 on the flank Scout role under the guidance of teejay and AiShou.

AsiaFortress Summer Skirmish 2021

Roster
Scout	26
Scout	teejay
Roamer	AiShou
Pocket	banana
Demoman	tommy
Medic	Konma

Xiao opts for a more relaxed playstyle in the summer tournament and performs a roster shuffle involving every single one of their players.

PURE League Season 3 / AsiaFortress Cup 17

Roster
Scout	tommy
Scout	AiShou
Roamer	banana
Pocket	26
Demoman	Konma
Medic	teejay

Xiao reverts back to an all-Asian roster as teejay makes the switch to Medic to accommodate Demoman main Konma who previously played Medic on the team during AsiaFortress Cup 15.

AsiaFortress Cup 16

Roster
Scout	tommy
Scout	AiShou
Roamer	banana
Pocket	26
Demoman	teejay
Medic	down

The roster went through a couple of changes following the cancellation of the Beyond The Summit TF2 event, swapping teejay over to Demoman, replacing enrith, and moving tommy back to his flank Scout role. lock also steps down from the team and is replaced by fellow Australian player down who played with AiShou in ozfortress on happy feet.

PURE League Season 2

Roster
Scout	teejay
Scout	AiShou
Roamer	banana
Pocket	26
Demoman	enrith
Medic	lock

Following the Beyond The Summit TF2 event announcement, the roster faced a drastic change during PURE League Season 2 in preparation for the event, picking up teejay and banana from SVIFT AS on flank Scout and Roamer respectively, along with top Australian Demoman enrith and lock on Medic. This roster is considered by many to be one of the strongest iterations of Xiao to ever exist.

AsiaFortress Cup 15

Roster
Scout	tommy
Scout	AiShou
Roamer	Nasi
Pocket	26
Demoman	floaty
Medic	Konma

Following AsiaFortress LAN 2018, both hsr and fwishy leave to join SVIFT AS. floaty is swapped to Demoman, resulting in former The Chess Foundation Pocket Nasi taking over the Roamer role. tommy also returns to his signature role of Scout, although on flank this time. v4na and Mel from the sub roster initially filled in for Medic throughout the regular season before eventually settling on Konma nearing the playoffs.

AsiaFortress Cup 14 / AsiaFortress LAN 2018

Roster
Scout	fwishy
Scout	AiShou
Roamer	floaty
Pocket	26
Demoman	hsr
Medic	tommy

26 returns to his Pocket role for AsiaFortress Cup 14 and the upcoming AsiaFortress LAN 2018, leaving hsr to take over the Demoman role. This season also marks the return of Xiao veteran tommy, replacing iMauriceiNoob on Medic. cloverella leaves the team as he loses interest in TF2, with renowned jumper floaty taking his place on Roamer.

PURE League Season 1

Roster
Scout	fwishy
Scout	AiShou
Roamer	cloverella
Pocket	hsr
Demoman	26
Medic	iMauriceiNoob

Xiao experienced a roster shuffle during the first season of PURE League. Cuteman departs from the team as he retires from TF2, moving 26 and AiShou to the Demoman and Pocket role respectively. hsr makes the switch to Scout, bringing in iMauriceiNoob to fill in as Medic. However, this roster proved to be fairly ineffective, resulting in hsr moving over to Pocket and AiShou back to combo Scout.

AsiaFortress Cup 13

Roster
Scout	fwishy
Scout	AiShou
Roamer	cloverella
Pocket	26
Demoman	Cuteman
Medic	hsr

Flank Scout and former Demoman jigglesaur retires from TF2, making space for star Scout fwishy who previously played with cloverella on The Homely Hobos back in AsiaFortress Cup 9.

AsiaFortress Cup 12

Roster
Scout	jigglesaur
Scout	AiShou
Roamer	cloverella
Pocket	26
Demoman	Cuteman
Medic	hsr

teejay and kcot both stepped down from the team to pursue a career in Overwatch, resulting in up-and-coming talent AiShou filling in the combo Scout role and moving jigglesaur over to Scout to accommodate veteran Demoman Cuteman who last played in AsiaFortress Cup 7. The Medic mantle is picked up by former Soldier main hsr in place of b4it and himari who have both retired from TF2.

AsiaFortress Cup 11

Roster
Scout	kcot
Scout	teejay
Roamer	cloverella
Pocket	26
Demoman	jigglesaur
Medic	b4it / himari

Following the departure of tommy, the team brought in legendary player teejay to fill in the combo Scout role. Former Crescendo Scout himari who was originally playing combo Scout for the team was swapped to Medic as b4it was unavailable during the playoffs.

AsiaFortress Cup 10

Roster
Scout	kcot
Scout	tommy
Roamer	cloverella
Pocket	26
Demoman	jigglesaur
Medic	b4it

The team came into existence when kcot, 26 and tommy from TURBO9000 merged with cloverella, jigglesaur and b4it from The Homely Hobos, with both teams having participated previously in AsiaFortress Cup 9.

Roster

Current

	ID	Role	League	Join Date
	Clashe	Scout		22-07-2021
	HERTZ	Sub		05-03-2021
	down	Medic		01-02-2020
	enrith	Sub		18-10-2019
	lau	Sub		17-08-2019
	banana	Roamer		17-08-2019
	teejay	Demoman		17-08-2019
	AiShou	Scout		02-07-2017
	tommy	Sub		04-09-2015
	26	Pocket		04-09-2015

Former

	ID	Role	League	Join Date	Leave Date
	slemnish	Sub		01-02-2020	29-07-2021
	Konma	Demoman / Medic		28-05-2019	25-07-2021
	lock	Medic		18-10-2019	16-05-2020
	Mel	Sub		24-03-2019	02-02-2020
	floaty	Roamer / Demoman		07-09-2018	18-10-2019
	v4na	Sub		24-03-2019	17-08-2019
	Hage	Sub		24-03-2019	02-07-2019
	Nasi	Roamer		24-03-2019	02-07-2019
	fwishy	Scout		31-12-2017	16-12-2018
	hsr	Medic / Pocket / Demoman		04-09-2015	16-12-2018
	iMauriceiNoob	Medic		16-05-2018	21-07-2018
	cloverella	Roamer		04-09-2015	21-07-2018
	Cuteman	Demoman		02-07-2017	17-04-2018
	jigglesaur	Demoman / Scout		04-09-2015	01-10-2017
	timo	Sub		11-01-2017	25-06-2017
	himari	Scout / Medic		11-01-2017	25-06-2017
	kcot	Scout		04-09-2015	25-06-2017
	b4it	Medic		04-09-2015	25-06-2017

References

1. Xiao confirmed for BTSTF2
2. AsiaFortress Cup 15: Division 1 Top 3 preview