Hai (gamer)

Lâm Du Hải, better known mononymously as Hai, is an American retired League of Legends player. He previously played mid lane for the Golden Guardians of the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS). Hai rose to prominence as the mid laner for Cloud9 (C9), leading them to two NA LCS championships. During a brief retirement due to health issues in 2015, Hai functioned as the Chief Gaming Officer (CGO) of Cloud9. Hai returned to the lineup of Cloud9 as their jungler and support to fill in for the split playoffs. He later became the mid laner for Cloud9 Challenger, which qualified for the LCS and was bought and rebranded as FlyQuest. Hai has won two NA LCS splits with Cloud9, as well as the NA LCS Promotion Tournament with Cloud9 Challenger. He is well known for his shotcalling within the game.

For the Norwegian footballer, see Hai Lam (footballer).

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Lâm. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Hải.
Hai
Lâm Du Hải
Personal information
Born (1992-09-20) September 20, 1992
HometownGrandville, Michigan
NationalityAmerican
Career information
StatusRetired
Current teamGolden Guardians
GamesLeague of Legends
RoleMid Laner, Jungler, Support
Career history
Apr. 2012 – May 2012nFear Gaming
May 2012 – Nov. 2012Orbit Gaming
May 2013 – May 2015Quantic Gaming
Dec. 2012 – Apr. 2013Cloud9
Feb. 2013 – May 2013Team Curse
Apr. 2013 – May 2013Quantic Gaming
May 2013 – Jul. 2016Cloud9
Apr. 2016 – Jan. 2017Cloud9 Tempest
Jan. 2017 – Nov. 2017FlyQuest
Nov. 2017 – Apr. 2018Golden Guardians

Hai announced his retirement from competitive League of Legends on April 23, 2018[1] to pursue a career in streaming and content creation. In Spring 2019, he was part of the North America LCS analyst desk.

Early life

Hai moved to East Lansing, Michigan to attend Michigan State University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media Arts and Technology.[2][3] He was a prominent member of the League of Legends club on campus.

Career

2012

On May 25, 2012, Orbit Gaming announced the acquisition of the roster from Hai's n'Fear Gaming.

Orbit went on and were placed 7th/8th at the 2012 MLG Spring Championship. At the Spring Championship, Orbit defeated vVv Gaming 2-0 in the first round, but lost 1-2 to Counter Logic Gaming Prime in the second round which placed them in the losers bracket. In the losers bracket, Orbit defeated Redact 2-0, Team Legion 2-0, and Team SoloMid Evo 2-0. They eventually lost to Counter Logic Gaming EU 1-2 in the fifth round of the losers bracket.

On June 30, 2012, Orbit Gaming competed in the Leaguepedia North American Invitational. In the two-day online tournament, they were able to finish in first place, most notably defeating Curse Gaming 2-1 in the quarterfinals and sweeping Team Dynamic 2-0 in the finals. On August 26, Orbit took fourth place at the 2012 MLG Summer Championship, losing to Dynamic 1-2 in the third place match.[4] This led to a tie with Monomaniac Ferus for eighth place in the North American Season Two Circuit Rankings. To decide the last spot for Season Two Regional Finals Seattle, a best of three tiebreak match was held. Orbit lost 0-2 to mMe and was denied a spot at the North American Regionals.[5]

2013

Competing under the name Team NomNom and then Cloud9, Nientonsoh, Hai, Yazuki, WildTurtle and LemonNation would secure a spot in the Season 3 North American Offline Qualifier for the inaugural split of the League of Legends Championship Series. However, Cloud9 would be knocked out of the tournament in the group stage after losing to Team MRN and Azure Gaming.[6]

Initially, Nientonsoh said that Cloud9 would disband in light of the loss. The team later decided to stay together, although Nientonsoh and Yazuki would leave the team and a massive roster swap would ensue. Hai shifted from jungle to mid, and new junglers and top laners were actively being tried out in online competitions. With their final roster of Balls, Meteos, Hai, LemonNation, and SnEaKyCaStRoO finally being set, the team set out to qualify for the NA LCS.

2014

Hai was hospitalized after suffering a collapsed lung in June, which prevented him from attending All-Star 2014 in Paris.[7] CLG's Link replaced him on the roster.[8] C9 finished 1st in the 2014 Summer LCS.[9]

2015

Cloud9 finished second in the 2015 NA Spring LCS.[10] In the playoffs, C9 reached the finals, where they were beaten by Team SoloMid.[11] On April 22, 2015, Cloud9 Manager and Founder Jack Etienne posted on the Cloud9 website that Hai was retiring from competitive League of Legends and leaving the team.[12] This followed a post on the League of Legends subreddit that showed Charlie, the coach of Cloud9, chatting with a streamer on how Hai had left the house. Hai mainly blamed his wrist injury in his retirement, saying "My wrist injury is something that I simply cannot ignore. It limits my ability to play as much as I need to and my ability to improve. I cannot keep up with the amount of Solo Queue games my teammates play and it’s not fair to them. At best, my wrist injury would have only allowed me to play for another split and that wasn’t even certain."(Hai Lam) Hai also stated that the team morale was at an all-time low and that his teammates began to lose trust not only in his shotcalling, but his performance as a player.[13] Hai announced that he is now a Chief Gaming Officer of Cloud9.[14][15] He was replaced on the roster by Nicolaj "Incarnation" Jensen.[16] Hai became a temporary substitute for Cloud9 Tempest in June.[17]

Hai came out of retirement in the middle of the Summer 2015 Split and replaced Meteos as Jungler.[18] Hai helped the team rebound safe from relegations but failing to qualify for the playoffs as the team ended the split in 7th place, but due to outstanding championship points from Spring, Cloud9 qualified for the Regional Finals. He helped the team qualify for the 2015 League of Legends World Championship by winning the North American qualifying tournament.[19][20]

Considered an underdog at Worlds, Cloud9 were placed into Group B along with Fnatic, ahq, and Invictus Gaming and expected to place last. Instead, they surprised with an undefeated 3-0 first week. In the second week, Cloud9 needed only one win to advance to the quarterfinals but instead lost four games in a row including a tiebreaker loss to ahq. They placed third in their group, ahead of only Invictus Gaming.[21] On the final day of Group Stages, Hai made an obscene gesture towards an opponent who predicted Hai's team would lose. As a result, Hai was fined €500 as he was expected to behave professionally. [22]

2016

Hai was replaced in the jungle by former Team Impulse jungler Yoon-Jae "Rush" Lee, and shared the role of support with former Gravity support Michael "BunnyFuFuu" Kurlyo.[23] Hai trained BunnyFuFuu to become Cloud9's main shotcaller during the spring split.

The Cloud 9 Challenger team swept through the Challenger Series and won the Promotion Series, earning themselves a spot in the LCS.

2017

Before the start of Season 7, the Cloud 9 Challenger roster, including Hai in the mid lane, was purchased by Wesley Edens and rebranded as FlyQuest.

Tournament results
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References
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  2. Pan, Henry (June 25, 2014). "Video games can be sports, too". The State News. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  3. "C9 Hai Meet and Greet". Facebook. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  4. "Featured Team: Quantic Gaming | LoL Esports". Na.lolesports.com. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
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  6. Goldberg, Harold (October 21, 2014). "Winners, losers, and Legends". Playboy. Playboy Enterprises. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016.
  7. Baker, Gavia (September 2, 2015). "'League of Legends' star plays with a collapsed lung from hospital bed". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  8. Baker, Gavia (September 2, 2015). "Can Link replace Hai? Here's what the stats say". The Daily Dot. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  9. Baker, Gavia (September 2, 2015). "Hai's Yasuo puts Cloud9 1 game away from first place". The Daily Dot. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  10. Baker, Gavia (September 2, 2015). "Is Cloud9 set for another title run?". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on November 19, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  12. Baker, Gavia (September 2, 2015). "Hai steps down from Cloud9 lineup". The Daily Dot. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  13. Baker, Gavia (September 2, 2015). "Hai on wrist injury, IEM failure, and why he's still on cloud nine". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  14. "Thank you Hai — Cloud9". Cloud9.gg. April 22, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  15. "Hai Leaving C9? : leagueoflegends". Reddit.com. April 22, 2015. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  16. Baker, Gavia (September 2, 2015). "Incarnati0n officially joins Cloud9". The Daily Dot. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  17. Baker, Gavia (September 2, 2015). "Yusui permabanned, Jintae and Hai called up to C9T roster". The Daily Dot. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  18. Baker, Gavia (September 2, 2015). "Cloud9's Hai steps in for Meteos". Dailydot.com. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  19. Baker, Gavia (September 2, 2015). "Cloud9 completes Cinderella run, qualifies for Riot World Championship". Dailydot.com. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  20. Chen, James (October 4, 2015). "Worlds turns the League of Legends scene on its head". PC Gamer. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
  21. "2015 Season World Championship". eSportspedia's League of Legends Wiki. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
  22. http://www.lolesports.com/en_US/articles/competitive-ruling-c9-hai
  23. Cocke, Taylor. "Bunny FuFuu and Rush Agree to Terms with Cloud9". www.redbull.com. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
  24. http://eu.lolesports.com/en/team/cloud9-tempest

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