

This tournament differed from most later Super Smash Bros. By the time he attended his first tournament, he already built up a reputation in his town as the best Smash player. Melee was released for the Nintendo GameCube, Ken initially did not enjoy it, but the game grew on him after a period of a few months. when it was released for the Nintendo 64, but never competed in an organized tournament for the game, due to a lack of a widespread competitive scene at the time. He finished in fifth-place and was the sixth member of the jury.

Hoang was a contestant on Survivor: Gabon, which aired in the fall of 2008. A 2021 list compiled by PGstats ranked Hoang as the fourth-greatest Melee player of all time. In 2014 he and fellow Melee veteran Daniel "KoreanDJ" Jung joined Team Liquid as the team's first Smash Bros. Hoang retired in 2007, however he returned to the Melee scene in 2012, competing sporadically since.
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He received minor television coverage in MTV's True Life: I'm a Professional Gamer. Hoang possesses the highest major tournament win-to-loss ratio of any Super Smash Bros. Melee player in the United States, having also defeated reputable players from around the globe, including top Japanese players. Hoang was the 2004–2005 national champion of Major League Gaming, the 2007 international champion of Evolution Championship Series (EVO) World Finals, and was the highest ranked Super Smash Bros. Hoang's dominance in the game earned him the nickname "The King of Smash". Hoang primarily plays Marth in Melee and is credited for pioneering several gameplay techniques integral to the game's competitive play, including the "dash dancing" movement technique and the "Ken Combo", an effective Marth combo for which he is the namesake. Hoang was widely considered the most dominant Melee player in the world during the early years of the game's competitive scene in the early to mid-2000s. Ken Hoang (born October 10, 1985), also known as Ken, SephirothKen, or Liquid`Ken, is an American professional Super Smash Bros.
