SEM9 is a professional esports organisation based in

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Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

. It was founded on 14 January 2020 by Kevin Wong Yew Joon, its current CEO. It has teams competing in ''

PUBG Mobile ''PUBG Mobile'' ( Chinese: 和平精英; pinyin: Hé Píng Jīng Yīng) is a free-to-play battle royale video game developed by LightSpeed & Quantum Studio, a division of Tencent Games. It is a mobile game adaptation of '' PUBG: Battleground ...

'', ''Garena Free Fire'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. It previously had teams competing in '' Call of Duty: Mobile'' and '' League of Legends: Wild Rift''. The organisation also operates SEM9 Senai, an esports-themed hotel located in

Senai :For the Malaysian town with the same name, see Senai.'' Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial (SENAI), Portuguese language for ''National Service for Industrial Training'' is a network of profitable secondary level professional schools e ...

Johor Johor (; ), also spelled as Johore, is a state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. Johor has land borders with the Malaysian states of Pahang to the north and Malacca and Negeri Sembilan to the northwest. Johor shares maritime b ...

, Malaysia.

''Call of Duty: Mobile''

SEM9 finished third at the COD Mobile Championship 2021: Garena qualifier.

''PUBG Mobile''

SEM9's ''PUBG Mobile'' team is known as SEM9.GANK. Its current roster consists of ManParang (in-game leader), Draxx (sniper), Bravo (fragger), Putra (rusher) and the youngest member Dep (rusher).

''League of Legends''

History

SEM9 acquired Berjaya Dragons' spot in the

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(PCS) on 16 November 2021. SEM9's inaugural roster was the first all-Malaysian team to compete in the PCS. SEM9 finished last (tenth) in the 2022 PCS Spring regular season with a 0–18 record, becoming the first team in PCS history to end a split winless.

Final roster

''League of Legends: Wild Rift''

Current roster

Other ventures

SEM9 operates SEM9 Senai, an esports-themed hotel located near

Senai International Airport Senai International Airport, formerly known as Sultan Ismail International Airport ( is an international airport in the town of Senai, Kulai District, Johor, Malaysia, serving Johor Bahru and the southernmost region of Peninsular Malaysia. The a ...

, in

, Malaysia. It is Southeast Asia's first esports-themed hotel. On 16 March 2022, SEM9 introduced 99LIVES, a collection of cat-themed

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