History

Rex Regum Qeon (RRQ) was founded in October 2013 by Adrian Pauline, the CEO of RRQ, and Riki K. Suliawan, founder of RRQ. Began as a gaming hobby of both founders, their interest in Dota 2 championship eventually made its way into the formation of the organization.^[2]

From 2013 to 2017, RRQ had only one division team, which was Dota 2. Adrian Pauline stated that, in the beginning, the organization was only run as a hobby and side job, and wasn't focused on their business. In 2014, Esports gained popularity growth, Andrian Pauline, who was originally a Product Director at QEON Interactive, resigned from the office and shifted his focus to the team, since then RRQ started to focus on their businesses. In 2017 RRQ had recruited another three new esports divisions, the new divisions are RRQ Endeavour in Point Blank, RRQ2 in Mobile Legends, and one division team in PUBG that were relatively short serving period.^[3][2] At the end of 2019, Adrian Pauline decided to move RRQ Endeavor to the Call of Duty Mobile division from Point Blank.^[3]

RRQ had expanded its international branches to Japan, Thailand, and Malaysia.^[2] Today, the only remaining international branch of RRQ is Thailand.^[3]

In February 2019, the organization had previously signed a partnership with a European football club, Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (PSG), It was announced in a Press Conference held at The Dharmawangsa Hotel, Jakarta. Through its esports division, PSG esports had officially collaborated with Team RRQ for the 3rd Season of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League Indonesia on 16 February 2019.^[4] Their partnership had ended in July 2019.^[5]

In 2020, RRQ is ranked third as the most popular esport organization in the world in terms of activity on social media. A report released by Shareable, a data monitoring company based in New York. In a report titled "The State of Social Media 2020", RRQ's fan activity on social media throughout 2020 was 26.5 million activities. This number is only behind Faze Clan with 142.9 million activities and G2 Esports with 38.1 million activities.^[1][6]

Salary

Adrian Pauline, CEO of RRQ, during an interview with Kompas TV in 2021, stated that his Esport organization paid team players a monthly income, roughly around 1 to 3 million Rupiahs per months.^[2]

Expansion

After concluding in the MLBB M3 World Championship, Brazilian Representatives VIVO Keyd Stars' roster disbanded. This was later confirmed by one of its roster members. However, during the eve of the ninth season of MPL Indonesia, RRQ announced their expansion to MPL Brazil, to form RRQ Akira. The roster mainly comprised most of the players of Keyd Stars.^[7]

Windah Basudara

Windah Basudara is an Indonesian YouTuber, known for his gameplay live streams on YouTube. He was appointed as the Brand Ambassador of RRQ on 8 June 2021, which was announced on RRQ's Instagram account.^[10]

Mega Dwi Cahyani

Mega Dwi Cahyani (born, Purwodadi, 1 September 1999.), professionally known under the nickname Cahyaniryn, is an Indonesian YouTuber and Tiktoker known for her PUBG gameplay content. She received an award of the Popular Creator of The Year in the 2020 TikTok Awards Indonesia. She was appointed as the Brand Ambassador of RRQ on 23 October 2021.^[11]

Syalma Nabillah

Syalma Nabillah Ulayya (born Bandung, 2001) is an Indonesian Tiktoker, she was appointed as the Brand Ambassador of RRQ on 8 December 2021.^[12]

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang World Championship

Year	Series	Venue	Place	Last Match	Results
2019	M1	Axiata Arena, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2nd	RRQ Hoshi vs EVOS Legends	3–4
2021	M2	Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore	3rd	RRQ Hoshi vs Bren Esports	1–3
	M3	Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore	5th–6th	RRQ Hoshi vs Blacklist International	0–3
2023	M4	Istora Gelora Bung Karno, Indonesia	3rd	RRQ Hoshi vs. ECHO Philippines	1–3

Reference:^[13][14][15]

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup

Year	Series	Venue	Place	Last Match	Results
2018	MSC 2018	Jakarta, Indonesia	3rd	RRQ Hoshi vs Digital Devils Pro	2–0
2019	MSC 2019	Manila, Philippines	Did not Qualify
2020	MSC 2020	Cancelled
2021	MSC 2021	n/a	Did not Qualify
2022	MSC 2022	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2nd	RRQ Hoshi vs RSG Philippines	0–4
2023	MSC 2023	Phnom Penh, Cambodia	Did not Qualify

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

RRQ Hoshi was initially named as "RRQ O2" during MPL Indonesia Season 2 in August 2017.

Hoshi

Rex Regum Qeon Hoshi Mobile Legends: Bang Bang roster
Players	Coaches
Handle Name Nationality R7  (I) Rivaldi Fatah Indonesia Banana Ande Raymond Putra Indonesia Clayyy Deden Muhammad Nurhasan Indonesia Skylar Schevenko David Tendean Indonesia Lemon M. Ikshan Indonesia RENBO Deven Mark Indonesia	Head coach Michael Angelo "Arcadia" Bocado Assistant coach(es) Petra "Fiel" Giovanni
Legend: (I) Inactive (S) Suspended Substitute Injury / Illness	Latest roster transaction: January 25, 2023.

Sena

Mika

Former

PUBG Mobile

Formerly, RRQ had a Thailand Roster of PUBG: Mobile named RRQ Athena that was officially disbanded and was released by the organisation in 2021. RRQ would keep RRQ Ryu, the Indonesian Division to compete further in the game PUBG Mobile.^[19]

Free Fire

Kazu

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VALORANT

FIFA

League of Legends: Wild Rift

Sausage Man