Tan Qi Ming

2017 IICP Tournament

Expeditionary Service Ribbon

Expeditionary Forces Tab

**Tan Qi Ming** is the current Executive Officer of Night Owls NERF Community.

## Biography

Qi Ming joined the Night Owls in 2012, together with his brothers Marshall Tan and Tan Ryun Wen. Being continually active, he played an important role in the development of the Night Owls into a capable fighting force.

He played with The Razor 3 during the 2013 Christmas NERF Championship with teammate Goh Kenn Shern. Though losing early in the grouping matches, they went on to pull off an unbroken win streak through the Group B eliminations, semi-finals and finals to win the tournament. The most iconic photo of the tournament was when Qi Ming jumped from behind a barricade to fire at his brother Tan Ryun Wen, who was on the opposing team Hell's Destruction.

Qi Ming was elected as Second Officer in the Team2014 elections, the first person to hold that position.

### Jade Hills II

Qi Ming served as contingent second officer, as well as primary logistics coordinator for both the Battle of Jade Hills II & III. He played in a support role at mid-hill, using a Stampede ECS. During the second match he was placed in command of Red Team's forces at mid-hill, and when the Yellow Team broke through his lines he counterattacked into their rear, linking up with Francis Nyeo's team at the Yellow base.

During the third match, Qi Ming was again in command of mid-hill. Since David Ooi's plan was to have the bulk of Red Team's forces at the hill top for an armoured spearhead, Qi Ming staggered his players a few paces behind David's to avoid overextending as well as guarding the spearhead's flank. Among those at mid-hill were the capable Roughnecks players Sidewinder Neo and Syarizan. They took up strongpoints behind the trees and dug in to prevent the opposing players from crossing the clearings, playing a mostly defensive role save for some instances where they counterattacked Yellow players who were threatening the spearhead's advancing flank.

### Jade Hills III

Serving again as logistics coordinator, Qi Ming was again assigned to mid-hill, this time without a command and was given the freedom to conduct probing attacks. He also wore a GoPro on his helmet, capturing valuable first person combat footage of the battle, including the iconic moment where victory was declared for round 1.

He wielded a Retaliator at Jade Hills III, and at one point was teamed up with Bryan Ng. The duo conducted a daring attack on an unguarded Red Team flank at mid-hill.

He retired from exhaustion in the later rounds and served as a marshal, remaining the only person to be awarded both the Jade Hills III Expeditionary Ribbon and Service Ribbon.

### 2017 IICP NERF Tournament

Qi Ming served in Combined Task Force Alpha during the 2017 IICP NERF Tournament, along with fellow Jade Hills veterans David Ooi, Ang Wooi Loon, Sunny Chan, his brother Tan Ryun Wen and pointman Maximus Lee.

He again fielded a Retaliator during this tournament. CTF Alpha went on to win silver in the tournament.

## Trivia

Qi Ming is also a member of IICP NERF Club. He's also one of the Night Owls' drone pilots, flying a DJI Phantom 3 for aerial photography during games.