SofM
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SofM | ||||||||||||||
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![]() SofM in 2021 | ||||||||||||||
Current team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Suning | |||||||||||||
Games | League of Legends | |||||||||||||
Role | Jungler | |||||||||||||
League | LPL | |||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
Name | Lê Quang Duy | |||||||||||||
Born | Cầu Giấy, Hanoi, Vietnam | February 5, 1998|||||||||||||
Nationality | Vietnamese | |||||||||||||
Team history | ||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | GameTV | |||||||||||||
2013–2016 | Full Louis | |||||||||||||
2017–2019 | Snake Esports | |||||||||||||
2019 | LNG Esports | |||||||||||||
2020–present | Weibo Gaming[a] | |||||||||||||
Honors
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Lê Quang Duy (born February 5, 1998), better known as SofM (short for Style of Me), is a Vietnamese professional League of Legends player for Weibo Gaming.[1][2][3][4]
SofM is widely known in the Vietnamese League of Legends community for his skills, tactics, and unique playstyle. He is regarded as one of Vietnam's best esports players in League of Legends.[5]
Career[]
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Lê "SofM" Quang Duy is considered by some to be the most talented player in Vietnam. Although he started to play League of Legends early, because of the age limit implemented by Riot worldwide, SofM had to temporarily leave competitive play.
He became the first Vietnamese player to reach Challenger Tier and top 10 Challengers on the Korean Server despite regularly playing with 100 or more ping and was the GPL All-Star starting jungler at International Wildcard All-Star Melbourne 2015. Following MSI 2016, he joined Snake eSports as a trainee, becoming the first Vietnamese player to make an LPL roster. He made his LPL debut in Week 2 against Newbee and won the MVP award for his very first game - recording 4/1/6 playing Graves against Swift's Kindred - and then helped Snake complete a 2–0 sweep. Snake finished 2nd in their group. Qualifying for the playoffs, they finished 5th-6th after a 1–3 loss to I May. Earning the right to attend the China Regional Finals 2016 for China, Snake would play two brutal five game Bo5s in one day. Despite their 3–2 win over Vici Gaming, they fell 2–3 to Team WE and could not qualify for Worlds. During the off-season, they also earned a 3rd-4th-place finish at the finals of the 2016 Demacia Cup. They lost 2–3 to I May in the semifinals. They also finished 3rd at NEST 2016 after a 1–2 loss to LGD Gaming.
Snake's 2017 Season was even worse than the previous year. They finished the 2017 LPL Spring Season 5th place in their group and had to attend the Promotion Tournament. They defeated Vici Gaming 3–0 to keep their LPL spot. Their 2017 Demacia Cup performance wasn't very good as well and they finished 13th-20th after a 1–2 loss to Red Wolf Gaming. In the Summer Season Snake finished 4th in their group and barely made the playoffs. They however lost 0–3 to Newbee in the first round and were quickly eliminated which ended their 2017 season.
SofM's first season with Suning in 2020 did not start off well. They finished 2020 LPL Spring Season in 11th place and did not qualify for Playoffs. However, the team synergy gets better during the 2020 LPL Summer Season. Suning finished the Summer Split in 4th place and finished the season in 3rd place after the Playoffs. SofM and Suning came to the LPL 2020 Regional Finals as the highest seed, defeating China's soon-to-be 4th seed LGD to give Sofm his first appearance at the World Championship.
At the 2020 Season World Championship, SofM and Suning were drawn into Group A. They finished the group stage 4–2, tied with G2 Esports. Suning won the tiebreaker, giving them 1st seed out of the group and setting up for a quarterfinal against JD Gaming. SofM and the team came out on top, winning 3-1 and advancing to the semifinals, where they faced LPL champions Top Esports. Another 3–1 victory meant that Suning would advance to the final, along with [DAMWON]. The fairytale ended here, with SofM and the team losing 3–1.
Notes[]
- ^ Known as Suning until late 2021.
References[]
- ^ "Suning evolve into 2020 League of Legends World Championship dark horse". ESPN. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ "'My goal at this Worlds is to play well so more people will know me,' says Suning's SofM". Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ "League of Legends: [Worlds 2020] Why SofM is the most influential player at this year's Worlds". Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ "Suning's SofM and SwordArt reach long-awaited League of Legends World Championship final". ESPN. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
- ^ "Loạt lý do khiến SofM - 'thần rừng' Việt kiếm 5,5 tỷ/tháng là mẫu bạn trai trong mơ của mọi cô gái". Retrieved 29 October 2020.
External links[]
- Living people
- Vietnamese esports players
- Sportspeople from Hanoi
- 1998 births
- League of Legends jungle players