SexyBamboe

Alaan "SexyBamboe" Faraj, 1992–2021

Player Information

Name:

Alaan Faraj

Nationality:

Netherlands

Born:

January 20, 1992

Died:

December 10, 2021 (aged 29)

Region:

Europe

Years Active (Player):

2012 - 2019,
2021

Roles:

Offlaner
Support

Alternate IDs:

Bamboe, kid

Approx. Total Winnings:

$84,429

Signature Hero:

Links

History

DotA

2009 — 2011

GoD

2011 — Present

DCcom

Dota 2

2011-12-15 — 2012-01-13

LowLandLions

2012-01-13 — 2012-10-16

mousesports

2012-10-17 — 2012-10-21

The GD B-Team

2012-10-24 — 2012-11-13

Team Zero

2012-11-13 — 2012-12-12

Absolute Legends

2013-05-01 — 2013-09-01

Evil Geniuses

2013-09-05 — 2013-11-15

SSD

2014-01-03 — 2014-09-28

Zephyr

2014-12-01 — 2015-01-05

hehe united

2015-01-05 — 2015-0?-??

Basically Unknown

2015-02-21 — 2015-03-10

Burden United

2015-03-?? — 2016-01-02

4C&L

2016-01-02 — 2016-02-01

Mamas Boys

2016-04-28 — 2016-10-28

Kaipi

2017-05-24 — 2017-09-06

Geek Fam

2017-09-06 — 2017-11-30

HellRaisers

2018-01-08 — 2018-??-??

Kingdra

2019-07-01 — 2019-07-??

Team Bald

Recent Matches

Bald	0:2 (Bo2)	NBH
January 10, 2021 - 17:07 CET DreamLeague S14 EU OQ #2

Bald	2:0 (Bo2)	Mnsp
January 9, 2021 - 18:55 CET DreamLeague S14 EU OQ #2

Bald	1:0 (Bo1)	Belali
January 9, 2021 - 18:07 CET DreamLeague S14 EU OQ #2

Sadim	3:0 (Bo3)	[A]
September 29, 2019 - 18:00 CEST Midas Mode 2

Sadim	2:0 (Bo2)	Na`Vi
September 28, 2019 - 19:00 CEST Midas Mode 2

Upcoming Tournaments

No Upcoming Tournaments

Alaan "SexyBamboe" Faraj (also known as Bamboe) (January 20, 1992 – December 10, 2021) was a Dutch player who last played for Team Bald Reborn.

He passed away on December 10, 2021.^[1]

Biography

Early career and mousesports

SexyBamboe started his Dota 2 career playing for LowLandLions, a Dutch team formerly known as GoD in DotA. He then moved to mousesports in January 2012, eventually playing in The International 2012 through the Wildcard qualifiers. mousesports later dropped their roster, who played as Team Zero, before Mousesports signed them back. However, SexyBamboe was nort part of this team, as he joined Absolute Legends and was replaced by paS.

After not getting much traction on Absolute Legends, he later joined Evil Geniuses in April 2013. With the North American giants, Tier 1 glory eluded him, often losing to former team mousesports and upstarts Kaipi. He was eventually replaced by Universe, and Bamboe joined Super Strong Dinosaurs for the rest of the year.

Zephyr

In February 2014, he joined Zephyr, a western team looking to take part in the South Korean scene. Zephyr initially found success in South Korea, but failed to qualify for The International 2014 through the Southeast Asia qualifiers, and the Korean scene eventually petered out. On September 2014, SexyBamboe announced that he would be leaving Zephyr and Korea, citing that the Korean scene had not developed as he had hoped.^[2]

Various European stacks

In April 2015, he joined 4 Clover & Lepricon, a loose stack of players in the European and CIS regions, although he was consistently the team's offlaner throughout. The team, however, failed to qualify to The International 2015 through the Europe Open Qualifiers, won by Yellow Submarine. They did, however, manage to secure second at Game Show Global eSports Cup Season 1.

In April 2016, he joined Kaipi, reuniting himself with former mousesports teammate SingSing, and switching to soft support. Playing alongside the likes of zai and 33, Kaipi became a favourite of many, but success was hard to come by, failing to qualify for any major tournament, and losing to the Lebanese team E-LAB in The International 2016 Open Qualifiers.

Later career and streaming

In September 2017, he joined HellRaisers as their offlaner, with 33 shifting to carry. However, this experiment did not work, and he later left the team and 33 returned to his offlane role. He later played for Kingdra on and off, as well as for the Netherlands for WESG.

Around this time, he began his streaming career, eventually becoming a full-time streamer. He frequently played alongside former teammate SingSing and popular streamer Gorgc.

Death

Alaan was known as a passionate Dota scene veteran, legendary player, and content creator. He touched the lives of many people, with his positive energy, joy, and when you knew that you needed a break, Alaan was there to bring smiles, with his unique way of throwing unthrowable games.
Bamboe's brother on Reddit (^[3])

Bamboe passed away on December 10, 2021.^[4] Multiple Dota 2 players, talent and viewers expressed their shock and condolences, including former Zephyr teammates Purge^[5] and Blitz,^[6] close friend and stream collaborator Gorgc,^[7] and his former team HellRaisers.^[8] Figures from the wider esports and streaming community also expressed their condolences, such as Salome "Soe" Gschwind-Repp,^[9] Team Liquid CEO Victor Goossens,^[10] ESL,^[11] and Liquipedia.^[12]

On December 16, Bamboe's brother posted a thank you message on the Dota 2 subreddit,^[3] and a fundraiser for his funeral.^[13]

A list of messages and tributes to Bamboe from notable figures can be found here.

Trivia

Had the highest average deaths per game (8.13) at The International 2012.

Achievements

Date	Place	Tier		Result		Prize

2019-09-29	1st	Tier 2	Midas Mode 2 - Europe	3 : 0		$22,000
2017-10-09	1st	Tier 3	World Cyber Arena 2017 Europe Finals	3 : 2		$30,178
2016-12-15	4th	Tier 1	World Cyber Arena 2016	0 : 2		$28,844
2016-09-01	1st	Tier 2	WCA2016 EU Main Qualifier	3 : 2		$27,140
2015-12-06	2nd	Tier 1	Game Show Global eSports Cup Season 1	1 : 3		$65,000
2015-11-28	3rd	Tier 2	DreamLeague Season 4	1 : 3		$20,000
2014-04-12	1st	Tier 2	Korean Dota League	3 : 0		$14,435
2014-03-26	1st	Tier 2	Korean Dota League Tier 1	6/-/0	Grp S.	$33,387
2014-02-15	1st	Tier 1	Nexon Sponsorship League Season 3	3 : 0		$56,400
2013-07-14	2nd	Tier 1	RaidCall EMS One Summer Season	1 : 3		$7,000
Extended list of results