Team Liquid made a few changes to both their LCS and Academy squads this off-season, sending former Academy Bot Laner Tactical to the LCS squad to replace the winningest LCS player of all time, Doublelift. Listen to Tactical's experience and plans for the future here:
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:
TSM refused to be satisfied with a top 4 finish in the 2020 LCS Spring Playoffs, and defined the off-season right from the start in bringing Doublelift back into the fold of the baylife banner. The resulting ripple effect has led to a tumultuous couple of weeks for TSM, but if the team can win its first LCS championship since Doublelift was last on the squad - 2017 NA LCS Summer - it may once again solidify itself as the most decorated organization in North American LoL history.
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.
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
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.
According to a tweet made by Travis Gafford, Team Liquid has placed Doublelift's contract is up for trade. Doublelift had an underwhelming split thsi Spring after winning his fifth title in a row last year from Summer 2017 to Summer 2019. He tweeted his lack of motivation and loss of trust from his teammates earlier this year. Read more on his potential trade here:
Doublelift reached his 1500th kill in the LCS after playing professional League of Legends for the last eight years. He was the first player in the LCS to reach the 1,000 kill mark and the first to reach 1500. He has almost 2800 kills overall. Read more on the LCS kill leader here:
Due to sickness, Doublelift will not be playing in Team Liquid's Saturday game against TSM. Tactical will take his place on stage, playing against his former org, TSM. Read more on Tactical and Team Liquid here:
Jensen spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie after TL's win over DIG to provide insight on the team's early-split issues, improvements in play since Broxah's arrival, and the team's current form relative to its floor and its ceiling.
Doublelift spoke with Inven Global’s Nick Geracie about Team Liquid’s morale after four weeks of play, gave his opinions on changes to the LCS format, and opened up about his recent struggles with motivation.
Team Liquid Support Jo "CoreJJ" Yong-in joined Inven Global's Nick Geracie to discuss developing synergy with Shern "Shernfire" Cherng Tai in light of Mads "Broxah" Brock-Pedersen's visa issues, the differences between support play in LCS and the League of Legends European Championship, and gave some perspective on Yuri "Keith" Jew's roleswap to support for Golden Guardians.
Wednesday afternoon, Riot announced an expansion of their Co-Streaming Pilot Program, allowing their entire NA and OCE LPP to co-stream the LCS broadcast. Read here for more details:
Team Liquid has had multiple visa problems this year, but the team has kept positive and worked out a solution for the time being. Here's what Pobelter and Broxah have to say about Liquid's current predicament:
Even his teachers call him ZionSpartan. Darshan "ZionSpartan" Upadhyaya returns to his roots, announcing a change to his gamertag from irl name, Darshan, to his original tag, ZionSpartan. Read more here:
2020 has an incredible ring to it, and it coincides with League's 10th Season, another great milestone. Not only are there a bunch of new games to be released by Riot and Riot Forge, Summoner's Rif
Change can be good, but NA proves change can also be bad. Here is each team's relative strength with their new roster. Who won, and who declined this off-season? And will someone be able to take down Team Liquid? Find out more here:
How have you been after Worlds? I was having a break, having some quality rest. I was looking at the team's situation and taking care of my wrist. I recently moved, so I've been furnishing the new
League of Legends esports fans across the globe are voting for their favorite players from their respective regions to compete in the 2019 All-Star Event in Las Vegas, but it has already been confirmed that North America will be missing its two most decorated stars.
It's the beginning of the 2020 season and after winning four consecutive titles, Liquid looks to make some upgrades to continue the streak and perform better internationally. Here is what their roster looks like now:
