21 Facts About Ken Hoang

Ken Hoang possesses the highest major tournament win-to-loss ratio of any Super Smash Bros.

Ken Hoang received minor television coverage in MTV's True Life: I'm a Professional Gamer.

Ken Hoang retired in 2007, however he returned to the Melee scene in 2012, competing sporadically since.

Ken Hoang was a contestant on Survivor: Gabon, which aired in the fall of 2008.

Ken Hoang finished in fifth-place and was the sixth member of the jury.

Melee was released for the GameCube, Ken Hoang initially did not enjoy it, but the game grew on him after a period of a few months.

The other players teamed up against Ken Hoang to eliminate him.

Seven months later, in August 2003, Ken Hoang attended and won TG5.

Ken Hoang traveled to Japan several times and defeated top players such as Aniki, Captain Jack, Masashi, Bombsoldier, Korius, and Mikael in the summer of 2005 and 2006.

Ken Hoang returned to the game in 2012 after a five-year hiatus and placed 33rd in Kings of Cali.

Ken Hoang has since attended several additional tournaments, including EVO 2013, where he placed 49th out of 696 participants, then the Smash tournament with the largest number of entrants in history.

In 2013, Ken Hoang's career was profiled in the documentary series The Smash Brothers.

At EVO 2015 Ken Hoang finished 13th, his highest placing at a major since Super Champ Combo in 2007.

Ken Hoang stated that he believed he was the underdog but hoped that it would garner him popular support.

Ken Hoang was chosen to join the Fang tribe in the first episode when Danny "GC" Brown picked him.

Ken Hoang formed an early bond with fellow Fang castaway Michelle Chase, who ended up being the first person voted off.

Ken Hoang won the first immunity challenge for Fang, in which his puzzle-solving skills were pitted against physics teacher Bob Crowley of the Kota tribe.

Ken Hoang made the merge and was in the merged tribe, named Nobag, a name that he coined himself.

Ken Hoang wanted to seem like a weaker player, when in reality, he was the mastermind of some of the most important votes.

Ken Hoang was the fifth-place finisher, and sixth member of the jury.

Ken Hoang attended California State University, Long Beach where he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration.