Get to know Tommy Hermawan Lo, Owner of Dewa United Esports!

The name Tommy Hermawan Lo is already familiar to Dewa United fans, because he is the owner of Dewa United Esports.

Tommy Hermawan Lo is a figure who plays a very important role and contributes to the Dewa United Club, both Dewa United and Dewa United Esports.

Since a year ago, in MPL Indonesia announced a new team for Season 12, namely Dewa United Esports, which debuted for the first time on the MPL Indonesia stage, owned by Tommy Hermawan Lo.

Well, since then, many Esports fans have become curious about Dewa United Esports and the team owner Esports this one. Maybe for those of you who are still curious about the founder of Dewa United Esports, you can read this article until the end!

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History of Dewa United

Before getting to know the owner of Dewa United Esports, it would be good to first get to know the teams he has built, whether football clubs or esports.

Dewa United FC

Dewa United FC is an Indonesian football club founded in 2009 with the initial name Martapura FC.

On February 22 2021, Martapura officially changed hands after being acquired by Garibaldi Thohir, Rendra Soedjono and Kevin Hardiman who changed the club's name to Dewa United FC.

Dewa United itself competed in Liga 2 2021 as its first debut after acquiring shares in Martapura FC by changing the club's name to Martapura Dewa United FC.

Then, at the PSSI Congress in May 2022, the name Dewa United itself officially removed the name "Martapura" from its club name. So, since that Congress, to be precise on May 30 2022, this club has formalized its name as Dewa United.

Dewa United FC itself is located in the South Tangerang area, Banten, to be precise at the Indomilk Arena which is located in Kelapa Dua District, South Tangerang.

Since its founding under the name Dewa United FC, this football club has succeeded in entering the promotion of the highest caste of football in Indonesia.

Dewa United Esports

Meanwhile, Dewa United Esports is a professional electronic sports organization founded by Tommy Hermawan Lo and David as CEO since February 18 2021, located in South Tangerang, Banten.

Dewa United Esports consists of the gaming division PUBG Mobile, Free Fire, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Arena of Valor, Lokapala, Valorant, FIFA, Apex Legends, Pokemon TCG and e-football.

As its first debut, Dewa United Esports held the Battle of Gods tournament in several big cities such as Jakarta, Tangerang, Solo, Denpasar, Bandung, Palembang, Makasar and Balikpapan.

The mission of Dewa United Esports is to take part in developing E-Sports (electronic sports) and finding new players throughout Indonesia.

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Dewa United Esports Owner Profile

As previously explained, the sports club was previously called Martapura Dewa United and is now better known as Dewa United.

After Tommy Hermawan Lo acquired this club, the name changed to Dewa United. Behind that, of course Tommy Hermawan Lo as the owner of Dewa United Esports played a very important role in the name of this team.

He is also quite ambitious to advance the world of sports in Indonesia, apart from acquiring the Esports branch, he has also previously acquired Basketball and Football clubs.

As of now, he has acquired three sports clubs, namely Dewa United Football Club (Soccer), Louvre Dewa United Basketball Club (Basketball) and Dewa United Esports (Esports/Electronic Sports).

The figure of Tommy Hermawan Lo is one of the people who has played an important role in the progress of Dewa United's development. Where, he had time to promote Dewa United to compete in League 1 for the 2021/2022 season, which was ranked third at that time and they also held tickets to debut in League 1 for the 2022/2023 season.

The Dewa United club managed to perform optimally on their first debut in the Indonesian League 2, where they won 1 – 0 and obtained third place in the 2021 League 2 at the Pakansari Stadium, Bogor. Then, in December 2021, Dewa United received a promotion ticket to the highest caste, namely Premier League Division 1.

Last year, before the implementation of MPL Indonesia Season 12 on July 13 2023, Dewa United Esports participated as a new team that would compete with 8 other Mobile Legends Esports teams on the MPL stage.

To continue his mission and plans, he has also built a training center as a training center for all Dewa United athletes located in Padegangan, Tangerang and in Megamendung, Bogor.

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Ambitious to Go International

After taking over the three clubs, namely Dewa United Football Club, Louvre Dewa United Basketball Club and Dewa United Esports, Tommy Hermawan Lo, who is now the owner or founder, immediately had the ambition for his sports club to be able to scale up to the National and International class.

Quoting from bola.com, Tommy Hermawan Lo said that he wants the three teams to go fast and produce achievements in every field.

Apart from that, as a founder, he really wants his three sports clubs to be more classy and able to go international. He is also very confident that Dewa United can compete with other international clubs that have existed before.

Therefore, to make this happen, Tommy Hermawan Lo has evaluated the performance of all divisions and determined the next target direction. The vision and mission that must be present in all club divisions is "Come, Compete and Win".

For this reason, in order to comply with the vision and mission set out by Tommy Hermawan Lo, he is always present to evaluate the three teams and he hopes that his team can go even further and make a contribution to the world of national and international sports.

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So, that's information about Tommy Hermawan Lo, the owner of Dewa United Esports. So, what do you think about the founder of Dewa United?

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