After his recent addition to the Cloud9 team, IWillDominate interviewed the Cloud9 LCS roster about their failure to qualify for Worlds and what it means for the team, confirming they'll be sticking as a five-man unit going into 2021. Read more here:
Wednesday morning, July 15, TSM announced that they were promoting Treatz to their League Championship Series squad, moving Biofrost to Academy. TSM is coming off their first 0-2 weekend of the Split and looks to bounce back with a fresh face. Read more here:
This past weekend, 100 Thieves became the first team to beat Cloud9 this Summer, beating them in the first game of the second round robin of the Split, and tying up their head to head at 1-1. Just a week before that, 100 Thieves made a roster change, adding Juan "Contractz" Garcia and Philippe "Poome" Lavoie-Giguere to the starting roster, replacing William "Meteos" Hartman and William "Stunt" Che
After the Week 3 League of LCS Summer Split games, 100 Thieves Jungler, Meteos, tweeted out that he was being benched from the starting squad and his teammates weren't aware. See his Tweets and read more here:
Coming into the second week of the LCS, MasH replaced WildTurtle as FlyQuest's starting AD Carry for their matches against TSM and Dignitas. MasH details his storied career and his approach to this year, and what he hopes to accomplish moving forward in his career.
FlyQuest announced that their Academy ADC, Mash, would move up to start for their LCS team this weekend, replacing longtime veteran, WildTurtle. Read about Mash's history here:
Golden Guardians' head coach, Inero, spoke with us about GG's season and their roster swap between Keith and huhi. He details what makes the OCE and other minor region players special, and how he approaches coaching in a unique manner that helps players learn more about themselves and the game. Watch the video interview on our YouTube channel or read the transcript here:
The LCS has boasted many roster swaps in Weeks 6 and 7, with CLG having their second of the Split, announcing Friday afternoon that Wind would be starting over longtime veteran, Stixxay. Read more here:
Golden Guardians have decided to promote huhi to their main roster for the League of Legends Championship Series this weekend in hopes to "improve the team's communication," likely in an effort to push to playoffs. Huhi replaces Keith, who has had a somewhat rocky season after role-swapping to support this past off-season. Read more on the story here:
After an incredible start followed by a harsh recoil, Dignitas has swapped their League of Legends Championship Series starting jungler, Grig, for Academy jungler, Akaadian. Dignitas Academy team looked nearly invincible early in the split, but have also faltered recently. Read more on the change here:
Even his teachers call him ZionSpartan. Darshan "ZionSpartan" Upadhyaya returns to his roots, announcing a change to his gamertag from irl name, Darshan, to his original tag, ZionSpartan. Read more here:
Dignitas fills in their final Academy spot, signing former IMT, TL, and GG support, Olleh. This completes the DIG Academy squad with 5 former LCS veterans, giving them a stacked roster and a lot of places for substitutions and swap-outs for the LCS.
Change can be good, but NA proves change can also be bad. Here is each team's relative strength with their new roster. Who won, and who declined this off-season? And will someone be able to take down Team Liquid? Find out more here:
CLG had their best split since 2017 this past Summer, but it wasn't enough to send them to Worlds. As is NA tradition, they looked to make some upgrades this off-season, signing Crown and Smoothie so far! Here's a look at the new squad.
With every off-season brings Free Agency - a wild scramble after Worlds where players and teams look to upgrade themselves. Here is a list of the best players available this year. Among them fall Uzi and Ming, Faker and Mata, Zven and mithy, Bjergsen and brTT, and many more.
