A Brief History of the King of Esports Rex Regum Qeon

For readers who follow the world of Indonesian esports, the name Rex Regum Qeon must be familiar. This organization with a name which means ‘King of Kings’ or ‘King of Kings’ has teams in almost all major esports in Indonesia. But how did they start to become the famous name they are now?

Rex Regum Qeon was founded in 2013 as part of Qeon Interactive. Qeon Interactive itself is a game publisher under MidPlaza Holding. As their first team, RRQ founded a Dota 2 team. The first major tournament they participated in was the 2013 Asian Cyber Games, where they lost to defeat in the Lower Bracket against the winning team, Titan.

In the years since, RRQ has maintained its Dota 2 team despite frequent substitutions. But they didn’t enter other games for a number of years. This is because the main purpose of RRQ which is only made ‘for fun’ and privately financed.

Although initially there was no interest in entering other esports, the world of esports has changed in the years to come. In 2017 RRQ decided to start entering other esports. It started with the Point Blank team RRQ Endeavor and the two Mobile Legends teams RRQ O2 (which has changed its name to RRQ Hoshi) and RRQ Sena in 2017.

In the years that followed, RRQ began to acquire more teams. First of all, the PUBG Mobile division which they founded on Indonesia’s independence day in 2018. This division immediately built three different teams. RRQ Ryu is the main Indonesian team, then RRQ Hikari is the Indonesian women’s team, and finally RRQ Athena from Thailand. In addition to the PUBG Mobile division, RRQ also opened a FIFA division with one member, RRQ.Eggsy.

In 2019, RRQ released their oldest team from the Dota 2 division. Although the members are always changing, releasing the team that started RRQ is definitely an important moment in the history of this organization. RRQ tried again to create a Dota 2 team, this time a Malaysian team called RRQ Trust, which immediately changed organization two months later.

They also formed RRQ Hades for their Free Fire team, which still represents them today. Free Fire isn’t RRQ’s only new game in 2019, as they’ve also opened a Fortnite division. They also picked up the RRQ Panda team for PUBG Mobile from Malaysia, but this team disbanded late last year. In addition, the RRQ Endeavor Point Blank team moved from Point Blank to Call of Duty Mobile.

RRQ also acquired three Team Capcorn roster in 2019 – PUBG Mobile, Point Blank, and Mobile Legend – and named them RRQ TCN. Unfortunately it looks like TCN’s RRQ isn’t doomed as all the roster gained from this acquisition have been let go for different reasons. The Point Blank team changed its name to RRQ Epic before being disbanded, the Mobile Legends team was also disbanded, while the PUBG Mobile team moved to BOOM Esports because the tournament rules did not allow two teams from the same organization.

In 2020, a pandemic hit Indonesia and because of that many tournaments were cancelled. Maybe that’s why there hasn’t been too much movement by RRQ this year. In addition to the ever-present member changes, the RRQ Endeavor team has switched games again to Valorant, Riot’s newest FPS game.

Such is the history of Rex Regum Qeon until now. Who is your favorite RRQ team?