Xiao

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[e][h]Xiao
Team Information
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xiao
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Achievements
First Place AsiaFortress Cup 10 Division 1AsiaFortress Cup 12 Division 1AsiaFortress Cup 13 Division 1AsiaFortress Cup 14 Division 1AsiaFortress Cup 15 Division 1AsiaFortress Cup 16 Division 1AsiaFortress Cup 17 Division 1AsiaFortress Summer Skirmish 2021AsiaFortress Cup 18 Division 1AsiaFortress Cup 19 Division 1AsiaFortress Invite Summer 2023AsiaFortress Invite Fall 2023 AsiaFortress Cup 10
Second Place AsiaFortress Cup 11 Division 1AsiaFortress LAN 2018
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.

Following a 3-1 victory in the grand finals of AsiaFortress Cup 19, Xiao opted to skip the next AsiaFortress season for the first time in the team's history. Captain AiShou and mainstays 26 and tommy would all opt to retire after spending many years on top. The remains of Xiao would end up as substitutes for runner-up team McBlurry eSports, where they would subsequently claim first in AsiaFortress Cup 20. This season would be the first where Xiao would not stand atop the podium since 2017.

After the AsiaFortress format was redone from the ground up and the introduction of the new AsiaFortress Invite events, the Xiao moniker would once again be picked up in the hands of former Xiao players Teejay and Banana.

Rosters

AsiaFortress Invite - Spring 2024

Roster
Scouticon.png Scout Thailand heria
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore ruee
Roamericon.png Roamer Malaysia hezzy
Pocketicon.png Pocket Hong Kong banana
Demomanicon.png Demoman Hong Kong Konma
Medicicon.png Medic Singapore n4ver

Following the retirement of Teejay, a role shuffle occurs. Konma moves back in to the vacant demoman slot, n4ver is moved to medic, hezzy returns to the team as roamer, and Banana moves back to pocket.

AsiaFortress Invite - Fall 2023

Roster
Scouticon.png Scout Thailand heria
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore ruee
Roamericon.png Roamer Hong Kong banana
Pocketicon.png Pocket Singapore n4ver
Demomanicon.png Demoman Malaysia teejay
Medicicon.png Medic Hong Kong 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
Scouticon.png Scout Thailand heria
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore ruee
Roamericon.png Roamer Malaysia hezzy
Pocketicon.png Pocket Hong Kong banana
Demomanicon.png Demoman Malaysia teejay
Medicicon.png Medic Hong Kong 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
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore ruee
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore AiShou
Roamericon.png Roamer Hong Kong banana
Pocketicon.png Pocket Singapore 26
Demomanicon.png Demoman Malaysia teejay
Medicicon.png Medic Singapore 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
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore Clashe
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore AiShou
Roamericon.png Roamer Hong Kong banana
Pocketicon.png Pocket Singapore 26
Demomanicon.png Demoman Malaysia teejay
Medicicon.png Medic Australia 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
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore 26
Scouticon.png Scout Malaysia teejay
Roamericon.png Roamer Singapore AiShou
Pocketicon.png Pocket Hong Kong banana
Demomanicon.png Demoman Singapore tommy
Medicicon.png Medic Hong Kong 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
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore tommy
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore AiShou
Roamericon.png Roamer Hong Kong banana
Pocketicon.png Pocket Singapore 26
Demomanicon.png Demoman Hong Kong Konma
Medicicon.png Medic Malaysia 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
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore tommy
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore AiShou
Roamericon.png Roamer Hong Kong banana
Pocketicon.png Pocket Singapore 26
Demomanicon.png Demoman Malaysia teejay
Medicicon.png Medic Australia 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
Scouticon.png Scout Malaysia teejay
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore AiShou
Roamericon.png Roamer Hong Kong banana
Pocketicon.png Pocket Singapore 26
Demomanicon.png Demoman Australia enrith
Medicicon.png Medic Australia 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
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore tommy
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore AiShou
Roamericon.png Roamer Singapore Nasi
Pocketicon.png Pocket Singapore 26
Demomanicon.png Demoman Singapore floaty
Medicicon.png Medic Hong Kong 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
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore fwishy
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore AiShou
Roamericon.png Roamer Singapore floaty
Pocketicon.png Pocket Singapore 26
Demomanicon.png Demoman Singapore hsr
Medicicon.png Medic Singapore 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
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore fwishy
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore AiShou
Roamericon.png Roamer Singapore cloverella
Pocketicon.png Pocket Singapore hsr
Demomanicon.png Demoman Singapore 26
Medicicon.png Medic Hong Kong 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
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore fwishy
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore AiShou
Roamericon.png Roamer Singapore cloverella
Pocketicon.png Pocket Singapore 26
Demomanicon.png Demoman Singapore Cuteman
Medicicon.png Medic Singapore 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
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore jigglesaur
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore AiShou
Roamericon.png Roamer Singapore cloverella
Pocketicon.png Pocket Singapore 26
Demomanicon.png Demoman Singapore Cuteman
Medicicon.png Medic Singapore 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
Scouticon.png Scout India kcot
Scouticon.png Scout Malaysia teejay
Roamericon.png Roamer Singapore cloverella
Pocketicon.png Pocket Singapore 26
Demomanicon.png Demoman Singapore jigglesaur
Medicicon.png Medic Singapore b4it / Singapore 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
Scouticon.png Scout India kcot
Scouticon.png Scout Singapore tommy
Roamericon.png Roamer Singapore cloverella
Pocketicon.png Pocket Singapore 26
Demomanicon.png Demoman Singapore jigglesaur
Medicicon.png Medic Singapore 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
Singapore Clashe Scout AsiaFortress 22-07-2021
Australia HERTZ Sub ozfortress 05-03-2021
Australia down Medic ozfortress 01-02-2020
Australia enrith Sub ozfortress 18-10-2019
Australia lau Sub ozfortress 17-08-2019
Hong Kong banana Roamer AsiaFortress 17-08-2019
Malaysia teejay Demoman AsiaFortress 17-08-2019
Singapore AiShou Scout AsiaFortress 02-07-2017
Singapore tommy Sub AsiaFortress 04-09-2015
Singapore 26 Pocket AsiaFortress 04-09-2015

Former

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

References

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