Frank

Frank "Frank" Alberto Arias Ayala (born July 28, 2000) is a Peruvian professional Dota 2 offlaner currently playing for PlayTime. Also known throughout his career as Devil, Frank is one of the longest-serving Peruvian offlaners in the scene—a player who started grinding Infamous stacks as a teenager, made it to The International, survived the complete collapse of SA's competitive infrastructure, and ended up at a tier-1 LAN anyway with a group of friends who refused to stop.

Early Career

Frank started competing in December 2016 with Infamous. Black at 16 years old — the classic entry point for Peruvian talent at the time. Infamous was the SA scene's main pipeline, and Frank worked his way through their ranks over the following years alongside players like Wisper, Scofield, and Michael, who would all eventually become names people recognized. The grinding years were exactly that—qualifiers, regional events, and DPC cycles that rarely ended with a direct invite but kept the team in contention. His most significant early result came in 2020, a strong run at DOTA Summit 13, followed by a 17th-place finish at The International 2021 with beastcoast—his first and only TI appearance, earned the hard way through South American qualifiers.

The Wilderness Years

After beastcoast, the SA scene started falling apart in slow motion. Teams that had been pillars of the region—EG LATAM, Alliance LATAM, and beastcoast itself—disbanded one by one. Frank went through Infamous Spells, Team Den, Perrito Panzon, and smaller stacks, staying competitive but never finding a stable platform. By 2025 he was playing under the Peru Rejects tag alongside DarkMago, elmisho, and eventually Scofield and Wits — no org, no resources, just five Peruvian players who had nowhere else to go and kept showing up to qualifiers anyway.

The Turnaround

Peru Rejects started winning. A 13-match win streak in January 2026. Back-to-back CCT SA Series titles. Pain Gaming signed the roster in February 2026. ESL One Birmingham 2026 followed—11th-12th place, not a great result, but they were at a tier-1 LAN. Pain pulled the plug on their Dota division in April 2026; the roster reformed as South America Rejects, won DreamLeague Division 2 Season 4, finished 5th at PGL Wallachia Season 8, and took home $60,000. PlayTime signed them shortly after. Frank has now played over 1,400 maps across his career and earned over $137,000 in prize money — most of it coming in the last twelve months.

Playstyle and Reputation

Frank is a durable, fight-heavy offlaner who builds around teamfight heroes and stays alive long enough to be a problem. He's been the backbone of this Peruvian core for years, the kind of position 3 who doesn't need the spotlight but whose absence you'd notice immediately. In a lineup built around DarkMago's aggression and Scofield's experience, Frank is the structure—the one who holds the frontline while the rest of the team does the flashy stuff.

Fun Facts

Frank has gone by "Devil" for most of his career and also had the alias "大花 FEeDeR" at some point—which is either a self-aware joke or deeply committed trolling.

He has been part of at least four different SA org disbandments across his career.

Frank played his first professional match in 2016. He's still here in 2026, grinding at tier-1 events with the same group of Peruvian players he came up with. That's a decade of loyalty to a scene that gave him very little in return for a very long time.