In yet another off-season change from Team Liquid, Academy Jungler, Shernfire, was released from the org on May 15th. He played with the team only one Split, starting off on the main TL roster during Broxah's visa delay, and then switching to Academy upon his arrival mid-season. Read more on his story here:
Big will be taking the place of Juan "JayJ" Guibert, who spent the last year of his 2.5 year tenure with the organization as the starting Support for FLY Academy.
While someone won the championship in both EU and NA, there was Lee “IgNar” Dong-geun who was runner-up in both of those regions. Last season, IgNar was reunited with his former teammate,
On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 13th, FlyQuest released their Academy Support, JayJ, who had played with the org in both their Academy and LCS squads over the past two and a half years. Learn more about his move here:
TSM released former AD Carry, Kobbe, who signed with Misfits Gaming to start for the team in the Summer 2020 League of Legends European Championship. With the transfer, Misfits also announces former AD Carry Bvoy's departure from the team. Read more on the story here.
Team Liquid has made changes to the Team Liquid Academy roster ahead of the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Academy League Summer Split.
Tomo will start for the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Academy League Spring champion in place of Calvin 'K1ng' Truong while K1ng is in his home country of Australia for visa purposes.
Moon most recently debuted as Head Coach for Radiance, an esports organization founded by former League of Legends professional player Hai "Hai" Lam.
Leena Xu, President of esports organization TSM, faces controversy after screenshots from the team's Discord were used in a video by Duncan "Thorin" Shields. In one screenshot, Xu claims to have attempted to approach many players from Europe on behalf of TSM, and that the players she approached were under contract at the time of her reaching out. Inven Global has confirmed with a source close to the situation that organizations across the globe often go unpunished for the ways in which they circumnavigate certain rules when seeking to sign a player.
Today's cartoon is about the passing of Spring, and a look into the Summer season in LoL esports. This year's Spring season, which was full of various incidents around the world, has finally passed. T
Huni has been dropped from Dignitas in Riot Games' Global Contract Database meaning he is no longer with the team. Grig was also dropped from the database last week. See what this means for both Dignitas and the players, Huni and Grig, here:
In collaboration with Riot Games, FACEIT returns in 2020 to host the Scouting Grounds Circuit, the group of qualifying tournamentsto determine which teams take part in NA Scouting Grounds at the end of the year. Read more on the FACEIT NASG Circuit format here:
Due to the global pandemic caused by the outbreak of COVID-19, the 2020 LCS Summer Split will be played online until it is deemed safe by state officials to gather at the LCS studios in Los Angeles, CA.
Concerns regarding conflicts of interest were brought up regarding the trade due to the Doublelift's history with TSM, but an LCS investigation led to the acquisition's approval when no conflicts of interest were discovered in the AD Carry's most recent move.
After a rocky early start to his career followed by him leaving the LCS and taking a break for a couple years, Rami "Inori" Charagh returned to professional League of Legends, winning his first split
ESPN Esports' Jacob Wolf has reported that Team Liquid AD Carry Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng will be heading back to his former organization TSM. TL put Doublelift on the trading block last week after the team finished in 9th place this spring after four consecutive League of Legends Championship Series championships.
Reapered is really proud of himself and the team, however, he didn't expect this Spring to work out as well as it did. "At the beginning, we were not that insane of a team... We had a lot of problems." Read more on how Reapered and Cloud9 overcame those issues here:
Dropping only two games in the entirety of the 2020 Spring Split, through both the regular season and the playoffs, Cloud9 have the most dominant season in LCS history, and claim their first title since 2014. Read more on their dominant 3-0 run here:
FLY has less than 24 hours to prepare for C9, but AD Carry Jason "WildTurtle" Tran took the time to have a brief conversation with Inven Global's Nick Geracie about defeating EG, the upcoming match against C9, and what this Finals appearance means in context of his career.
FlyQuest has defeated Evil Geniuses 3-1 in the Semifinals of the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Spring Playoffs, and will move on to the first Finals match in the organization's history against Cloud9.
