After his first weekend in the LCS, Cloud9 top laner Park "Summit" Woo-tae spoke to Inven Global about adapting to his new team's unique approach, keeping in touch with his former teammates, and which top laners he is looking forward to facing this season.
After Golden Guardians' first loss of the season to Cloud9, GG AD carry Lawrence "Lost" Hui spoke to Inven Global about how he joined his new team, his time on TSM in 2021, and how Hu "SwordArt" Shuo-Chieh helped him grow as a player last season.
Since coming to the LCS, PowerOfEvil has played a pivotal part in any success his teams have enjoyed, but the off-season has always resulted in him opening a new chapter in the book of his career.
True to the 'for game, for work' approach of the Jungle Series, the chair allows multiple options for seat level and reclination for whatever may be on the screen, be it a video call for work-from-home types, an intense gaming session, or even to kick back, relax, and watch one's favorite streamer.
Let's take a look at which players' competitive stocks rose and which fell following the conclusion of the 2022 LCS Lock In.
Tyler1 was under contract with T1 for the past year, but the popular League of Legends streamer mentioned on a stream the day of the announcement that both parties mutually agreed to part ways amicably.
After a hard-fought 3-1 loss to Team Liquid in the semifinals of the Lock In, Blue spoke to Inven Global and shared his thoughts on why he felt people had seemingly underestimated Dignitas QNTMPAY ahead of the start of the season and what about the team had led to them exceeding the majority of expectations from outsiders.
C9 played the Lock In with only two of their starting players, but was still able to topple Counter Logic Gaming 2-1, which accounted for the only wins for a Group A team against a Group B team.
After TL won the 2022 LCS Lock In, top laner Gabriël "Bwipo" Rau spoke to Inven Global about sweeping EG out of the finals, his own level of play across the weekend, returning to his original of top lane after jungling for Fnatic last year, and the current state of top lane in the competitive meta.
There have been two Lock In tournaments in the history of LCS, and both of their trophies belong to TL.
After sweeping Cloud9, Evil Geniuses AD carry Kyle "Danny" Sakamaki spoke to Inven Global about EG's form in the 2022 LCS Lock In, the impact of his own success on rookie mid laner Joseph "jojopyun" Joon-pyun's debut, and what he thinks makes EG an organization that can develop North American talent.
As a result of the 3-0 victory, EG have qualified for the organization's first ever LCS final, where they will face off against defending Lock In champion Team Liquid.
In a 3-1 semifinals victory, Team Liquid have eliminated Dignitas from the 2022 LCS Lock In. Dignitas took the first game after a back and forth start to the series, but Team Liquid was able to stabil
DIG, a team projected to be a bottom 2 by many an analyst was able to topple the defending LCS champion in 100 Thieves, but how did they do it?
Wunder is the new starting top laner for Fnatic, Rekkles was acquired by Karmine Corp after multiple reductions to his initial buyout price. Grabbz is the new head coach for Team BDS, and earlier today, Nelson was signed by Excel Esports.
After Dignitas QNTMPAY's big win in the quarterfinals of the 2022 LCS Lock In, River joined Inven Global to speak about the game plan against 100 Thieves and how he was able to mesh well with his teammates despite only two days of practice.
On one side of the bracket, Dignitas QNTMPAY will face off against Team Liquid on one side of the bracket while Evil Geniuses and Cloud9 will go toe-to-toe on the other side of the bracket. The winners of the two best-of-five series' will advance to the finals of the Lock In.
Golden Guardians, who started the entirety of the GG Academy roster in the Lock In due to visa issues delaying the arrival of certain members of the starting roster, is the fifth team to be eliminated from the tournament, leaving only five teams in the competition.
After Evil Geniuses' third win in Group B of the 2022 LCS Lock In, support Philippe "Vulcan" Laflamme spoke with Inven Global about his two years on Cloud9, how he ended up joining EG, and his first impressions of his new teammates.
TL will move onto the semifinals to face Dignitas, who upset defending LCS champion 100 Thieves 2-0 in the first quarterfinal match of the knockout stage.
