"It puts a ton of stress on the player."
Unlike his previous two stints with TSM, Doublelift will be streaming full time following his retirement from competitive play at the end of the 2020 season.
At first glance, the promotion of TSM Academy AD carry Lawrence “Lost” Sze Yuy Hui to the organization’s LCS roster looks underwhelming, especially after the retirement of franchise legend Yiliang “Doublelift” Peng. However, Lost is not some young gun getting a shot out of nowhere as it may seem. He has held his own in the LCS before, and after a year on TSM Academy, is ready to step into the spotlight on a completely re-tooled roster for the defending North American champion.
TSM and Biofrost announced he would be taking a break from professional League to stream. Biofrost entered the LCS on TSM in 2016, playing with the org for two and a half years throughout his career, winning four titles with the team and attending Worlds three times. read more on his break here:
Reigning LCS champions TSM has signed former Suning support Hu “SwordArt” Shuo-Chieh after all. According to earlier reports, TSM has been eyeballing the player for some time now, but the
About a month after Bjergsen announced his retirement from professional League of Legends, Doublelift announced his own retirement as well. Read more about his career and retirement here:
After the first round-robin of the Worlds Group Stage, TSMS sits at 0-3. in the weakest group as the NA first seed. Their problems are glaring - from draft to in-game decision making. And frankly, they look like a shell of their former NA title-winning team. Here's what's going wrong and what they need to fix if they're going to turn it around and make it to the knockout stage.
We have rated the top five tops, junglers, mids, and supports, and now finally, the top five AD carries at Worlds 2020.
Let's take a look at the adjustments TSM made on its way to crowning itself 2020 LCS Summer champion to qualify for Worlds as the 1st North American seed.
After two back to back years of TSM missing Worlds, they make their return, climbing through the losers bracket of the LCS playoffs, defeating Cloud9 in four games. Read more on the series and playoffs here:
Everyone knows not to take the LCS All-Pro Team, Coach of the Split, and MVP votes as perfect signifiers of the region's strongest. However, there were three major snubs this year... Read more here:
Golden Guardians started off the Playoffs with an upset over TSM, sweeping them in a clean and quick three games. Golden Guardians finished the League Championship Series Summer Split at 9-9, three ga
Wednesday morning, July 15, TSM announced that they were promoting Treatz to their League Championship Series squad, moving Biofrost to Academy. TSM is coming off their first 0-2 weekend of the Split and looks to bounce back with a fresh face. Read more here:
TSM Top Laner Sergen "Broken Blade" Çelik spoke about the team's changes from spring to summer and the test of its upcoming match against reigning LCS champion Cloud9.
There are quite a few copycats from last week's Booms and Busts lists. You might want to take note and draft accordingly moving forward. Check out some of the highest value picks from the LCS and LEC this past week here:
Last week, Kim “Olleh” Joo-sung announced that he'll be returning to Korea. When I first met Olleh, he was in Immortals. With a bright face, he greeted all the reporters and it seemed that
Take a look at the big - and not so big - scorers from Week 2 of the LCS and LEC 2020 Summer Split. These players either gave the most bang for their buck or the least. Here are the E1 Fantasy Week 2 Booms and Busts:
Coming into the second week of the LCS, MasH replaced WildTurtle as FlyQuest's starting AD Carry for their matches against TSM and Dignitas. MasH details his storied career and his approach to this year, and what he hopes to accomplish moving forward in his career.
Despite most of the focus this off-season revolving around Doublelift and TSM's side of the big roster swaps, Liquid may have won out on the deal, with Tactical ending 7/0/6 in the opening matchup against the two teams.
Jatt has been with Riot Games for the past eight years, most often as an analyst and color caster, but he recently joined Team Liquid as their new head coach. With the recent loss of Doublelift and a 9th place finish, Jatt and TL have a lot of work to do. Read more on his mission here:
