| Arslan Ash | |
|---|---|
 Siddique in 2019 | |
| Personal information | |
| Name | ارسلان صدیقی (Arslan Siddique) |
| Born | 20 August 1995 Lahore, Pakistan |
| Career information | |
| Games | |
| Playing career | 2010–present |
| Team history | |
| 2018–2020 | vSlash eSports |
| 2019–present | Red Bull eSports |
| 2021–2023 | FATE eSports |
| 2023–present | Twisted Minds |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| |
Arslan Siddique (Urdu: ارسلان صدیقی; born 20 August 1995), better known as Arslan Ash, is a Pakistani professional esports player. He is a five-time EVO champion, having emerged victorious in EVO Las Vegas 2019, 2023, 2024 as well as EVO Japan 2019 and 2023.[1] He also won the Tekken World Tour Finals 2023.[2]
Personal life
[edit]Arslan was born in Lahore, Pakistan, on 20 August 1995.[3]
Career
[edit]Arslan's first major tournament win was in 2010, when he won the Tekken 6 Grand Masters Championship.[3]
Arslan won the EVO Japan 2019 championship[4] and Evolution Championship Series 2019, making him the sole individual to achieve success in both tournaments at the time. Additionally, he also won the WePlay Ultimate Fighting League title for Tekken 7.[5] He was awarded the Best E-Player of 2019 by ESPN.[6]
He is the CEO 2021 champion. He won the Combo Breaker 2022 Tekken 7 tournament by defeating all ten of his opponents.[7]
He secured third position in the Evolution Championship Series 2022 Tekken 7 competition.[8]
He won the Tekken 7 competition at EVO Japan 2023 after beating South Korea’s Meo-IL.[9]
In 2023, he represented Pakistan in the Tekken 7 Nations Cup, where his team emerged as the champions, defeating South Korea in the final and claiming the trophy as well as $500,000 in prize money.[10]
Arslan won his fourth EVO title in Tekken 7 on 6 August 2023. He defeated Japanese player Akihiro "Ao" Abe in the grand final, 3-0. This is Ash's second time as the unified EVO champion, having won both EVO Las Vegas and EVO Japan in the same year. He is the only player to have won four EVO titles in Tekken 7.[11]
By winning both the EVO titles and Tekken World Tour Finals in the same season, he became the first ever "Triple Crown" champion in competitive Tekken history.[12]
Arslan became an EVO champion for the fifth time by winning the title in Tekken 8 on 21 July 2024.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Arslan Ash – Bringing the Pakistani Tekken Scene to Main Steam Attention". 8 April 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
- ^ "Pakistan's Arslan Ash bags Tekken World Tour Finals 2023 in US". 15 January 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
- ^ a b "Arslan Ash | Red Bull Athlete". Red Bull. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
- ^ Luke Winkie (16 August 2019). "How an unknown 23-year-old from Pakistan became the talk of the esports world". The Washington Post.
- ^ "Arslan Ash: Tekken Ukraine by storm with a big win". Redbull. 15 April 2021.
- ^ "2019 ESPN Esports awards". ESPN. 19 December 2019.
- ^ "Combo Breaker 2022".
- ^ "Pakistan's Imran Khan, Arslan Ash secure podium finishes in Esports competition for Tekken". DAWN.COM. 8 August 2022.
- ^ "Pakistani gamer Arslan Ash wins Tekken 7 competition at EVO Japan 2023". DAWN.COM. 2 April 2023.
- ^ "Pakistan Tekken 7 Team Wins $500,000 At Nations Cup, Defeating South Korea". ProPakistani. 10 July 2023.
- ^ "Pakistan's Tekken star Arslan Ash becomes four-time EVO champion". www.geosuper.tv. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- ^ "Arslan Ash claims Tekken World Tour Crown, cements GOAT status". www.bolnews.com. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
- ^ "Arslan Ash claims fifth EVO title in Tekken". www.geosuper.tv. Retrieved 22 July 2024.