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After a poor first year in League of Legends NRG Esports has sold its spot in the North American Challenger Series. J2K Esports and Technology is the party buying the spot, and they will be fielding a team known as Gold Coin United in the Challenger Series Spring Split. J2K …
Read More »Riot removes LAS casters from All Star cast after racist comment
This past weekend saw the annual League of Legends All Star event take place. Players from each of the major regions headed to Barcelona to fight for regional pride and for their team of Ice or Fire. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing. During segment discussing the performance of Bae …
Read More »LoL Worlds had 43 million viewers
The League of Legends world championship again broke its own viewership records by bringing in 43 million unique viewers for the final. When SK Telecom T1 faced off against Samsung Galaxy in the grand final more than 43 million unique viewers tuned in, with a total of 14.7 million concurrent …
Read More »Longzhu Gaming sign PraY and GorillA
Longzhu Gaming has signed both Kim "PraY" Jong-in and Kang "GorillA" Beom-hyeon, who formerly played for the ROX Tigers. Both players have joined the organisation, which comes as somewhat of a surprise after Longzhu had a disappointing 2016. However just last week the team was purchased by one of the …
Read More »Echo Fox signs Looper
North American LCS team Echo Fox has signed former League of Legends world champion Jang “Looper” Hyeong-seok for its 2017 roster. The announcement was made over on Yahoo eSports, where they revealed that the former member of the world championship winning Samsung White team would be heading to the NA …
Read More »Febiven heads to H2K for 2017
Former Fnatic player Fabien "Febiven" Diepstraten has signed for H2K, pending Riot’s approval. Febiven has replaced former H2K player Yoo "Ryu" Sang-wook, who was part of the team that made it to the semifinals of the World Championships. The news was announced on The Bridge, the daily three hour talk …
Read More »NA LCS sister teams will not be able to gain LCS promotion from Challenger Series
Riot Games has announced that NA LCS sister teams that qualify for the promotion tournament in the Challenger Series will not be allowed to play in it. Over recent splits many teams have had one team in the LCS and one team in the Challenger Series. Some teams have seen …
Read More »New Fnatic LoL roster all signed to multiyear contracts
Last night Fnatic announced its new League of Legends roster at its new pop up store in London. We were in attendance and spoke to Patrik “cArn” Sättermon, CGO at Fnatic, about the team, when he revealed that they are all on multi year contracts. “The ambition with these guys …
Read More »Fnatic announces new League of Legends rosters
Last night Fnatic announced the 2017 rosters for both its LCS League of Legends team and its Challenger Series team. The flagship LCS team sees Martin "Rekkles" Larssen as the only returning member from 2016, with former Origen players Paul "sOAZ" Boyer Maurice "Amazing" Stukenschneider being the two other players …
Read More »Afreeca Freecs and CJ Entus release LoL rosters
Both Afreeca Freecs and CJ Entus have released their League of Legends teams after disappointing years. CJ Entus have released all nine of their players while all five of Afreeca Freecs’ players have also been let go. The former CJ Entus roster consisted of Mingi "MadLife" Hong, Sangmyeon "Shy" Park, …
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