On the 14th of December (KST), Riot Games announced that the NA LCS will be named without its regional abbreviation, 'NA'; now it will be officially called the 'LCS'. This change is due to the
League of Legends Esports will be featured in an upcoming Netflix series called 7 DAYS OUT. The series -- which will air on Netflix on December 21, 2018 -- offers an intimate look at the excitement an
KT Rolster has finished building their roster for the 2019 LCK Spring Split.On the 13th, KT made an announcement through Facebook that they have signed UmTi and Gango. The newly acquired jungler and A
2018 Spring Split all-NA ADC Cody Sun took a step backward and joined Clutch Gaming Academy.On the 12th of December, Clutch Gaming announced that they have acquired Cody “Cody Sun” Sun for
Brazilian mid laner, Rafael “Rakin” Knittel, is parting ways with CNB e-Sports Club and CBLOL this offseason. He is joining up with Team Liquid, making a career change to become a full-time
Schalke 04 signed Odoamne as their new top laner.On December 12th, Schalke 04 announced through their official Twitter that they have signed Andrei “Odoamne” Pascu to their roster.Odoamne
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.
Riot Games has posted a recap in numbers of the 2018 season of League of Legends.The 2018 season has come to an end with Invictus Gaming reigning as the World Champion. At the 2018 World Championship,
IgNar has returned to Europe (LEC) at Schalke 04.On the 11th of December, Schalke 04 announced through their Twitter that they've acquired support Lee “IgNar” Dong-geun.IgNar had played in
On the 11th (KST) APK Prince (owner: Kim Da-nam) announced that they've signed Son "Mickey" Young-min on their LoL team. Mickey debuted in the LCK on 2015 as a member of Rebels Anarchy. On 2017, he
The starting dates for the League of Legends 2019 spring season has been announced.After the 2018 League of Legends All-Stars Event, Riot Games announced the starting dates for each region. Among the
Team Griffin has signed another support to their roster: Kabbie.On the 10th of December (KST), Team Griffin announced through their official Twitter that they've acquired Jeong “Kabbie”
Former spring split MVP Arrow will be again starting in OpTic Gaming's bot lane.On the 10th of December, OpTic Gaming announced that Noh “Arrow” Dong-hyeon will be returning to the bot lan
NA LCS organization FlyQuest announced the resignation of Head Coach Brandon "Saintvicious" DiMarco in a press release on via twitter: Today, we announce the resignation of our League of Legends team
MVP announced their League of Legends team roster for 2019 season on December 7th via their official social media. While ‘Pilot' Na, Jong-Bin ‘Max' Jeong, and Jun-Hyeong ‘Ian' An left the team, Kyu-Seok ‘Yondu' Kim and Se-Hee ‘Motive' Cho stayed and Hyung-Sik ‘MaHa' Oh became the team's coach. MVP has signed Ho-Seong ‘Edge' Lee, a former player for KongDoo Monster, as their mid laner. The team newly signed Byeong-Jun ‘Carrot' Kim and Jeong-Won ‘Garden' Seo as their top and AD Carry. MVP, with their announcement, commented, "Please give a lot of claps to the players who will play in Challengers Korea. We'll see you in LCK once again soon."
The Nexus Blitz was followed by the 2nd round for 1vs1 Tournament in All-Star 2018 Las Vegas. The round began with the match between KR Faker and EU Jiizuké; Faker picked Urgot while Jiizuké picked Jayce. Jiizuké's Jayce closed on Urgot, using Exhaust first. However, Faker's Urgot fought back, using both Exhaust and Ignite. Jiizuké's Barrier could not save him from the damage and was killed eventually.
The 1st round for 1vs1 Tournament in All-Star 2018 Las Vegas took place on December 7th. The tournament began with NA Doublelift and BR brTT; Doublelift picked Neeko and brTT Miss Fortune as they both had most of the AD Carry champions banned. Doublelift's Neeko defeats brTT's Miss Fortune using his R + Q. The following match was between LPL Rookie and LAS Plugo; Plugo picked Jayce while Rookie picked Yasuo. Both players had Ignite, which Rookie uses with his Flash to kill Plugo in the end. The 3rd match was between KR Peanut and BR Rakin. This time, it was a Draven mirror with the mirror Runes and spells; they even had the same skin on. The game began with careful CS farming at first although Peanut managed to push the wave with few hits landing on Rakin.
The 2nd round for the 2vs2 Charity Tournament in All-Star 2018 Las Vegas took place on 7th. The Captian Jack & Faker duo who have made it from the quarterfinals played against the NA Doublelift and Voyboy duo. Both teams mirrored Thresh and Alistar, in which the Doubleboy team wins and gets to donate $100,000 to charity under their names. The first match in the quarterfinals began with Captain Jack & Faker against LEC's Caps & Alexelcapo. Captain Faker, which have displayed impressive performance in the 1st round, got both Lucian and Alistar banned and got to pick Varus and Xerath. AlexelCapso's Lissandra and Morgana got to get the first blood. They were able to eliminate Faker with their CC combo when he didn't have his Cleanse. However, Captain Jack's Varus was able to make up for that 1 kill by calmly blocking enemy's additional attacks. The team that got to laugh at the end was Captain FAker.
Trick has signed with Galakticos of the Turkish Champions League.On the 7th of December, Team Galakticos announced through their official Twitter that they've acquired Kim “Trick” Gang-yun
Expect has joined exceL Esports. On the 7th of December, exceL Esports announced that they have signed Ki “Expect” Dae-han to their roster.Expect is a top laner best known for his
