100 Thieves has signed popular streamer Moe "Yassuo" Abdalrhman as the organization's first League of Legends Creator. Yassuo began streaming League of Legends in 2015 and has grown to one the largest personalities in League of Legends, maintaining both a popular Twitch stream as well as a Youtube channel with nearly 1.3 million subscribers.
Svenskeren's performance in the summer was so otherworldly that the Danish veteran won the award, as well as being named to the 2019 LCS Summer All-Pro Team, despite playing only 79% of the split.
Both summer finalists will qualify for the 2019 League of Legends World Championship — the winner through auto-qualification and the runner-up through circuit points.
The professional Jungler, who was last seen starting for Echo Fox midway through the 2019 LCS Summer Split, is the newest member of the CLG Stream Team.
SNAPS, a company that creates limited-edition accessories for snapback baseball caps and works with the NBA, is partnering with Riot to sell 3 different LCS-themed products at the 2019 LCS Summer Finals for fans. The total run is just 200 units of each, 600 in all, and will be featured on the new LCS official snapbacks that will be available at the Summer Finals event.
Before the 2019 LCS Summer Playoffs, Team Liquid Jungler Jake "Xmithie" Puchero sat down with Inven Global's Lara Lunardi to reflect upon gaming in his childhood and look back at the origins of his professional gamer career.
Following Flávio "Jukes" Fernandes' debut in the LCS earlier this summer, the Cloud9 Top Laner joined Inven Global's Lara Lunardi for an interview — fully in Portuguese — about the differences between Brazil and the United States, playing for C9 Academy, and his professional League of Legends career up until this point.
Before the conclusion of the 2019 LCS Summer Split, 100 Thieves AD Carry Bae "Bang" Jun-sik sat down with Inven Global's Lara Lunardi to discuss his team's recent improvements, his personal LCS routine, and closed the conversation with a message to his former team SK Telecom T1.
Cloud9 Head Coach Bok "Reapered" Han-gyu joined Inven Global's Lara Lunardi before the 2019 LCS Summer Playoffs to talk about his interest in game development, his professional gaming career, and transitioning from player to coach.
LCS Commissioner Chris "GRZA" Greeley has confirmed in a statement that the LCS and Echo Fox had reached an agreemnt to terminate the latter's involvement in the former. However, if a recent report via Upcomer proves true, that process may be much more convoluted than originally thought.
In a joint statement by head of KSE Esports Josh Kroenke and P1/Sentinels CEO Rob Moore, it was announced that Kroenke Sports & Entertainment no longer had any intention of potentially purchasing Echo Fox's franchised spot in the LCS.
In the final third of the 2019 LCS Summer Split, OpTic Gaming Bot Laner Noh "Arrow" Dong-hyeon spoke to Lara Lunardi about the team's improvements since the Spring Split, playing with Jungler William "Meteos" Hartman, and the secret to Mid Laner Lee "Crown" Min-ho's success in North America: Postmates.
Counter Logic Gaming League of Legends Head Coach Weldon Green sat down with Inven Global's Nick Geracie to discuss CLG's improvements from spring to summer, integrating Top Laner Kim "Ruin" Hyeong-min into the team, and Jungler Raymond "Wiggily" Griffin's comeback split.
Following the conclusion of the 2019 LCS Summer Split, Inven Global's Lara Lunardi spoke to Team Liquid's Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng, Cloud9's Eric "Licorice" Ritchie, and Tanner "Damonte" Damonte and Philippe "Vulcan" Laflamme from Clutch Gaming to discuss their respective teams' approach to the 2019 LCS Summer Playoffs.
At launch, live data from three regional leagues LCK (Korea), LEC (Europe), and LCS (North America), as well as the League of Legends World Championship and Mid-Season Invitational will be included in the deal.
For the first time in franchise history, OpTic Gaming has qualified for the LCS post-season. Entering the final day of the 2019 LCS Summer Split in a 3-way tie for 5th place with a record of 8-9, OpTic Gaming played three games in a single day to qualify for hhe 2019 LCS Summer Playoffs as the 6th seed.
Huni sat down with Inven Global's Nick Geracie to talk about Clutch Gaming's new Dignitas hybrid jerseys, his responsibilities as a team leader, and his confidence against Golden Guardians on the final day of the 2019 LCS Summer Split.
A few weeks after IGEC 2019, Inven Global's Lara Lunardi sat down with Portilho for a full Portuguese interview. The discussion centered around moving from Brazil to the United States to pursue a career in esports, the cultural differences between both countries and how it affects competition, and the key steps to getting a social media career off the ground.
Riot Games wasted no time after its Mordekaiser rework, unveiling Pantheon, the Unbreakeable Spear as League of Legends' most recent reworked champion. Pantheon's visual and gameplay update will be available on Patch 9.16 and is currently live on the PBE.
Amazing joined Inven Global's Lara Lunardi to discuss 100 Thieves' turnaround, the comparisons between League of Legends and basketball, his gaming background before League of Legends, his favorite NBA team, the origin of his gamertag, and give a glimpse into his music taste.
