The Riot Games dev team has been hard at work, and they just announced the next champion VGU - Dr. Mundo - which will go live in 2021. Read more on their efforts and Dr. Mundo's timeline here.
After signing huni earlier this week, Evil Geniuses has released Brandini from their roster for this Summer. Brandini and the rest of the EG Academy squad climbed to 2nd place in the Spring Split Playoffs, losing to C9 in the Finals. Read more on his release here:
Despite being the off-season, it has been a busy week for professional League of Legends. To cap it all off, the final NA event in the Mid-Season Streamathon will give LCS fans a taste of Summer - TSM vs Cloud9! Read about their story here:
Chime placed 1st in the 2019 Scouting Grounds, and has now been signed by Golden Guardians to play as their Academy Support. Keith will take his place back as the Academy AD Carry for the Summer. Read more on the story here:
Right after signing former TSM Jungler, Dardoch, Dignitas finalizes their 10 man roster with former FlyQuest Top Laner, V1per. Dignitas has not announced whether he or Lourlo will be starting for their LCS squad yet, but they have a plan to determine that. Read more on the transfer here:
TSM has released former Jungler, Joshua "Dardoch" Hartnett, a few weeks after leaking that they were searching to find him a new home for the Summer. Dardoch originally signed with TSM last Fall. Read more on his story here:
TSM refused to be satisfied with a top 4 finish in the 2020 LCS Spring Playoffs, and defined the off-season right from the start in bringing Doublelift back into the fold of the baylife banner. The resulting ripple effect has led to a tumultuous couple of weeks for TSM, but if the team can win its first LCS championship since Doublelift was last on the squad - 2017 NA LCS Summer - it may once again solidify itself as the most decorated organization in North American LoL history.
Despite making their return to the LCS with zero assets, players, or staff, Evil Geniuses claimed third place in their opening split. But they aren't satisfied, they want more. Read about their ambitious goals here:
Evil Geniuses announced a return back to their roots, revising the crest to "pay homage to the org's history and look ahead to the future." Additionally, Evil Geniuses is also announcing a partnership with LG UltraGear, one of LG's newest gaming monitors. Read more on their brand update here:
Team Liquid made a few changes to both their LCS and Academy squads this off-season, sending former Academy Bot Laner Tactical to the LCS squad to replace the winningest LCS player of all time, Doublelift. Listen to Tactical's experience and plans for the future here:
This off-season, DAMWON Gaming Mid Laner, ShowMaker, set off to climb to Challenger in Korea by playing only unique champions - meaning he would never play any champion twice. On May 16, he reached his goal, playing 87 games on 87 different champs, boasting a 69% win rate. Read more on his story here:
In yet another off-season change from Team Liquid, Academy Jungler, Shernfire, was released from the org on May 15th. He played with the team only one Split, starting off on the main TL roster during Broxah's visa delay, and then switching to Academy upon his arrival mid-season. Read more on his story here:
On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 13th, FlyQuest released their Academy Support, JayJ, who had played with the org in both their Academy and LCS squads over the past two and a half years. Learn more about his move here:
TSM released former AD Carry, Kobbe, who signed with Misfits Gaming to start for the team in the Summer 2020 League of Legends European Championship. With the transfer, Misfits also announces former AD Carry Bvoy's departure from the team. Read more on the story here.
Despite overwhelming global support for the Polish AD Carry, Łukasz "Puki Style" Zygmunciak, in this week's freshest esports Twitter movement, LDLC and Bora "YellOwStaR" Kim claim the European Masters Championship. Though each game was a battle, they won the series with a clean 3-0 sweep and are your Spring 2020 Champions. All three games saw LDLC on Blue Side and K1ck on Red, and each were incredibly close. While LDLC had solid control for Game 1, K1ck actually had a strong advantage up through the mid game in both Games 2 and 3. In each of the last two games, K1ck secured the first three drakes, but failed to execute in each teamfight around the final drake to secure their Soul. With each lost fight, LDLC was able to claim additional resources to eventually take both games and, consequen
Riot Games has recently been under fire for not taking proper care of their solo queue environment. Even Voyboy made a video earlier this week, and now Riot has responded. Here's their plan to improve the playerbase.
Sam "Kobe" Hartman-Kenzler walks through various stories from his past that helped lead him to his current passion, casting esports. Listen to Kobe's story, how he navigated hardship and worked through the early days of casting. Hear him talk about the pain during the death of his idol this Spring, but his resilience. And hear how his connection to the community drives him.
One of the greatest ADCs of all time, Uzi, is now a Free Agent after his contract expired with Royal Never Give Up yesterday, April 30th. He has played over 400 games with the organization since his start back in 2012, but has been inactive since Worlds 2019. Learn more about his free agency here:
Huni has been dropped from Dignitas in Riot Games' Global Contract Database meaning he is no longer with the team. Grig was also dropped from the database last week. See what this means for both Dignitas and the players, Huni and Grig, here:
In collaboration with Riot Games, FACEIT returns in 2020 to host the Scouting Grounds Circuit, the group of qualifying tournamentsto determine which teams take part in NA Scouting Grounds at the end of the year. Read more on the FACEIT NASG Circuit format here:
