Abed

Player Information

Name:

Abed Azel Limpasan Yusop

Nationality:

Philippines

Born:

August 2, 2000 (age 24)

Region:

Southeast Asia

Years Active (Player):

2015 - Present

Current Role:

Solo Middle
Captain

Approx. Total Winnings:

$904,047

Signature Hero:

Links

History

2015-??-?? — 2015-??-??

MSI-EvoGT

2015-03-09 — 2015-0?-??

Trackmate

2016-02-10 — 2016-12-30	Execration
2017-01-06 — 2017-04-14	Team Onyx
2017-04-14 — 2017-10-27	Digital Chaos
2017-11-08 — 2019-09-04	Fnatic
2019-09-16 — 2022-11-15	Evil Geniuses
2022-12-09 — 2023-11-07	Shopify Rebellion
2023-11-10 — 2024-09-18	BLCK
2024-09-22 — 2025-02-05	Aurora Gaming
2025-02-05 — 2025-02-24	Aurora Gaming(Ia.)

Upcoming Matches

No Upcoming Matches

Upcoming Tournaments

No upcoming tournaments

Abed "Abed" Yusop (born August 2, 2000) is a Filipino player who last played for Aurora Gaming.

Biography[edit]

Abed was born and raised in Dasmarinas in the province of Cavite, Philippines. His parents own a small internet cafe close to their home. Abed has one older brother, Ahmed Rheeza.

Dota 2[edit]

Abed started playing Dota 2 in 2014 and became known through the Southeast Asia MMR leaderboards with his signature heroes Meepo and Invoker.

In early 2015 he joined his first professional team MSI-EvoGT, shortly after rebranded to Trackmate, where he competed in MPGL Season 7 in March 2015 and later played alongside the Australian-based squad, Can't Say Wips.^[1] RR scouted him as a potential player and invited him to join Execration in 2015 but Abed denied the request to due to school commitments. Execration contacted Abed in January 2016 and with the support from his father he joined the organisation.^[1]^[2]

After failing to qualify for premier events during mid-2016, he later competed at The International 2016 Wild Card and produced a 18-0 on Meepo against compLexity Gaming, exhibiting his mechanical skill reaching 1200 XPM and 900 GPM, sending compLexity to an early exit in the tournament.^[3] In the following round, he lost to Escape Gaming and during the post-TI6 shuffle, he won his first premier tournament, beating MVP Phoenix 2-0 in the grand finals of the MPGL Southeast Asian Championship on September 11, 2016. He left the organization on December 30th.^[4]

Abed and Team Onyx qualified for The Kiev Major, winning the North America Qualifier by defeating complexity Gaming, with Abed's signature Meepo.^[5]

In June 2017 Abed qualified for The International 2017 with Digital Chaos, by winning the North America qualifier finals against Team Freedom 3-0.

Trivia[edit]

Abed reached 8000 MMR on August 6, 2016.^[6]
Abed reached 9000 MMR on March 19, 2017, becoming the first Filipino to reach the milestone.^[7]

On June 25, 2017, Abed became the first player to reach 10,000 solo MMR.^[8]
On June 18, 2019, Abed became the first player to reach 10,000 solo MMR under Valve's new Medal system.^[9]
On May 13, 2020, Abed became the first player to reach 11,000.^[10]

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Statistics[edit]

Had the highest average kills per game (10.42) at ESL One Katowice 2018.

Achievements[edit]

Date	Place	Tier		Result	Prize
2023-09-24	2nd	Tier 1	DreamLeague Season 21	0 : 3	$175,000
2022-10-21	9th - 12th	Tier 1	The International 2022	0 : 2	$378,612
2021-10-14	9th - 12th	Tier 1	The International 2021	1 : 2	$800,400
2021-06-13	2nd	Tier 1	WePlay AniMajor	0 : 3	$100,000
2021-04-04	2nd	Tier 1	ONE Esports Singapore Major 2021	2 : 3	$100,000
2020-01-26	2nd	Tier 1	DreamLeague Season 13	2 : 3	$160,000
2019-12-22	2nd	Tier 1	ONE Esports Invitational Singapore 2019	0 : 3	$100,000
2019-08-20	13th - 16th	Tier 1	The International 2019	0 : 1	$514,951
2019-03-24	3rd	Tier 1	DreamLeague Season 11	1 : 2	$100,000
2017-08-09	9th - 12th	Tier 1	The International 2017	0 : 2	$370,319
Extended list of results