At the end of the interview, Dash asked Damonte if he, as someone who now has a few years of LCS experience under his belt, had any advice or insights to pass onto any rookies making their LCS debut in 2021. Damonte laughed before saying: "For all the new rookies: Definitely lay off of the cringe, cocky comments. It's pretty weird if you come into the LCS not proven at all and ****-talk everyone...probably prove yourself before saying stuff like that."
One week before the official start of the 2021 NA season, Riot announced the groups for the LCS Lock In, the tournament that will kick off the season on Friday, Jan 15. Check the groups and read more about the lock in here:
Ahead of the 2021 season, Goldenglue took off his player hat and donned a coaching hat in its place, becoming the new head coach for the 100 Thieves Academy roster. We spoke with Goldenglue about his player career, his new role, and his expectations. Read and watch the interview here:
This off-season, 100 is reportedly keeping only one player, their star top laner, Kim "Ssumday" Chan-ho. Beyond him, they're rumored to fill the rest of the team with the four Golden Guardians players from each role. Here is their current rumored roster, based on reports and official announcements from the team and players.
According to a recent report by ESPN's Jacob Wolf, 100 Thieves is in conversation with their AD Carry, Cody sun, that would have him exit the team before the 2021 season, halfway through his contract. Read more on the report here:
100 Thieves may have closed their doors to their multi-purposed Cash App Compound this year due to COVID-19, but they opened up their parking lot in the off-season as a polling place in the 2020 presidential election. See how it went here:
100 Thieves, the premium lifestyle brand and gaming organization, will host an L.A. County voting center for the Presidential General Election in the parking lot of the 100 Thieves Cash App Compound. Read here for more details:
Coming into Week 9 of the LCS Summer Split, not a single team was eliminated from the Playoffs, with 100 Thieves, CLG, Dignitas, and Immortals all vying for the final two spots. Dignitas secured it with a tiebreaker victory, and complete the playoff bracket. Read more on the LCS playoffs here:
We spoke with 100 Theives Support, Poome, about his playstyle, his history throughout amateur, orgs' scouting abilities, and the problems the amateur scene has and how they can be fixed and further developed. Read it here:
During Week 6 of the League Championship Series, following a week of heavy upsets and multiple roster changes, we spoke with nine of the LCS teams to hear their opinion on the top teams through the league. Here is who they say leads the league:
Tuesday afternoon, July 21st, 100 Thieves announced they were mutually parting ways with Jungler William "Meteos" Hartman. Meteos was benched from the main roster and moved to Academy after Week 3 of
At last! Fnatic is saved from finding a home on the Busts list; the LEC didn't have any games in Week 5 of the Summer Split. Read all about your E1 Fantasy Booms and Busts here!
This past weekend, 100 Thieves became the first team to beat Cloud9 this Summer, beating them in the first game of the second round robin of the Split, and tying up their head to head at 1-1. Just a week before that, 100 Thieves made a roster change, adding Juan "Contractz" Garcia and Philippe "Poome" Lavoie-Giguere to the starting roster, replacing William "Meteos" Hartman and William "Stunt" Che
In Week 4 of the LCS Summer Split, 100 Thieves made two roster adjustments, adding Contractz and Poome to the main squad. Contractz has some things to say about their play and how the team will advance to be sure to claim a spot in playoffs. Read more here:
After the Week 3 League of LCS Summer Split games, 100 Thieves Jungler, Meteos, tweeted out that he was being benched from the starting squad and his teammates weren't aware. See his Tweets and read more here:
At the end of last month, 100 Thieves top laner Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho extended his contract until 2022. Ssumday had a great season in 2020 LCS Spring Split, getting the most votes in the
The 100 Thieves Valorant team will be captained by Hiko, a former professional CS:GO player who has been a professional esports athlete for over 10 years. Hiko previously played for teams such as Cloud9 and Team Liquid. In addition to being a professional Valorant player, Hiko is one of the top 5 most watched Valorant streamers on Twitch as of June 2020.
After signing huni earlier this week, Evil Geniuses has released Brandini from their roster for this Summer. Brandini and the rest of the EG Academy squad climbed to 2nd place in the Spring Split Playoffs, losing to C9 in the Finals. Read more on his release here:
The bracket has been set! Cloud9 takes 1st, and chooses 100 Thieves as their opponent, and Evil Geniuses takes 2nd and will battle FlyQuest. TSM and Golden Guardians await in the Loser's Bracket, ready to face the ones who falter. Read more on the LCS playoffs here:
Cody Sun spoke with parqueso of Inven Global about his decision to rejoin 100 Thieves and how the year has gone so far. Cody explains that the overall dynamic is much different, especially thanks to PapaSmithy. Read more on his experience here:
