n0ne spoke to Inven Global about the formation of the Golden Guardians Melee roster, the importance of content in the Smash ecosystem, and how Slippi rollback saved Melee during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
What started as an outbreak in Wuhan and the delay of the LPL in China led to a plethora of canceled and reformatted events around the globe. The Coronavirus outbreak has affected many aspects of esports, here is the list so far:
UPDATED 4/19: Due to complications surrounding the global COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam representative GAM Esports will not be able to travel to Iceland to compete in MSI 2021. The format for the event has been adjusted as a result.
Abbedagge will be able to start for the team as one of two imports alongside jungler Can "Closer" Çelik now that top laner Kim "Ssumday" Chan-ho has declared NA residency after acquiring his green card.
Turkish esports publication Esporin has reported that 100 Thieves is in talks to acquire mid laner Yasin "Nisqy" Dincer from Fnatic.
UPDATED 4/18: 100 Thieves Academy has eliminated Evil Geniuses Prodigies from the lower bracket of the 2021 LCS Spring Proving Grounds in a 3-0 sweep. After 100 Thieves win, teams from the LCS Academy League boast an 8-5 record against amateur teams throughout Proving Grounds.
The South Korean AD carry has been inactive since playing for OpTic Gaming in the 2019 League of Legends Championship Series season, and his new role with Wildcard Gaming will mark the first coaching role of his career.
100 Thieves has made the first big move in the break between the Spring Split and the Summer Split of the 2021 League of Legends Championship Series.
On Sunday, April 18 at 5:00pm local time, FunPlus Phoenix and Royal Never Give Up will face off in a best-of-five final to deicde who represents China at MSI 2021. Let's take a look at what to expect from the finals this weekend based on what is known about FPX and RNG in context of this season and beyond.
The statement comes in response to multiple members of the European League of Legends community taking online to post screenshots telling other players to 'get cancer' as well as threats to intentionally feed in ranked games from the League of Legends European Championship veteran.
Voyboy sat down with Inven Global to talk about joining FlyQuest, his role in creating and carrying out #MeQuest, and the bigger picture of his shared goals with his new organization.
UPDATE 4/1: On Tuesday, March 30th, Riot Games published an Abilities Rundown for Gwen the Hallowed Seamstress. At the end of the post, a splash art for Gwen's Space Groove skin is included, which will be available upon the Hallowed Seamstress' release.
Both the Global Head of Live Action TV and the Global Head of Live Action film positions are looking to hire in Los Angeles, CA, and both mention the planned development of a cinematic universe for Riot's flagship multiplayer online battle arena.
C9's game 5 level 1 was all it needed to pull away from TL and win the series, and with it, it's second LCS championship in three splits. It was without a doubt the most pivotal moment of the series, as well as the smartest play executed by any LCS team in recent memory, so let's go in-depth on the brilliance of this play and the conditions that were met to allow it to happen in the moment C9 wanted to execute upon it.
Cloud9 are once again LCS champions and will be heading to the org's first-ever Mid-Season Invitational appearance — a tournament they should've been at, only denied by the COVID-19 pandemic that canceled MSI 2020.
After its 2-3 loss to Cloud9 in the finals of the 2021 League of Legends Championship Series Mid-Season Showdown, Team Liquid addressed the media in a press conference following the conclusion of the LCS post-season.
In becoming the LCS champion, Cloud9 has also punched its ticket to the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational as the North American representative.
MAD Lions has won its first LEC title as an organization and will represent Europe at the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational.
UPDATE 4/11: Team Liquid has provided an update on Santorin's health, which includes the fact that Armao will continue to start in the upcoming finals match against Cloud9 as he did for the entirety of TL's 3-1 win yesterday over TSM.
The first round of the 2021 LCS Mid-Season Showdown took place last weekend and featured the first 'in-house' broadcast for the league in over a year. For safety, host and caster James "Dash" Patterson ran a one-man show in the new LCS studio that featured a jumbotron-like media panel for the analysts to participate remotely as the broadcast was produced in the 2021 LCS Spring Split.
