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C9 Licorice: "Coming into NA LCS, I just didn't want to play scared, but I definitely didn't think I would have as much success as I did throughout the year...I thought I would be C9 Maokai."
Throughout the history of League of Legends esports, North America has been subject to criticism for a lack of talent development when compared to other major regions. To date, North America has impor
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Fan on taking a break: "Every day was basically 10 to 12 hours of commitment to playing HotS."
Last Tuesday, the “best Heroes of the Storm player in North America” abruptly announced his retirement from the competitive scene after spending the last four years making a name for himself. Fan “Fan” Yang, a member of the first Heroes of the Storm World Championship team for Cloud9 issued a statement through his current team, Tempo Storm, regarding his decision to step down. His full statement can be found here. When Fan was approached by InvenGlobal to talk about his decision to move on from competing in the Heroes Global Championship (HGC) in 2019, he opened up a bit more.
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Coach NoFe Joins Afreeca Freecs
Afreeca Freecs made an official announcement that Coach No-Chul ‘NoFe' Jung will be joining them via their official social media on December 12th. NoFe was formerly the head coach for EDward Gaming prior to joining Afreeca Freecs; he was himself a pro gamer for 2 years in MVP Blue and NaJin White Sword before he changed his path and became a coach for HUYA TIGERS (former name for ROX Tigers). Under his guidance, the team has become the top team in the LCK, having made it to 1st place several times. They were placed 2nd in the World Championship 2015 and 3rd in 2016 after they lost to SKT T1 by 3-2. Afterward, NoFe joined EDG, which has placed 1st in China Regional Finals 2018 and qualified for World Championship 2018 with him. Now that NoFe has joined Afreeca Freecs, many League of Legends fans are looking forward to seeing how far Afreeca Freecs will make it under NoFe's guidance.
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Interview with Flowervin, Mother of the Titans, Who Guided Team RunAway to Vancouver
The Overwatch franchise team for Vancouver made their official announcement on December 1st and will be joining the Overwatch League in 2019. The team's name is ‘Vancouver Titans', and as many fans in the Overwatch community anticipated, the players are from RunAway, the team that swept the Overwatch Contenders KR. It is quite significant how every member of RunAway, the team that dominated the KR Contenders, got to join the 2019 Overwatch League. As the Overwatch League and regional Contenders were systemized in 2018, it was also the first year the players from the Contenders got to officially join the League. During this period, they had to test how smoothly the process of the Contenders players joining the League would go and how the Overwatch esports ecosystem would function around both the League and Contenders. During that process, every single member of RunAway made it to a League team, living up to their name as ‘the best regional Contenders team in KR'.