After CLG's win over FlyQuest, Golden Guardians AD carry Trevor "Stixxay" Hayes, spoke to Gabriella “LeTigress” Devia-Allen on the LCS broadcast about his team's outlook and playoff goals following narrowly qualifying for the post-season.
CLG may be out of the post-season, but if GG can finish strong and win its last match of the split against IMT, then CLG has a chance to play spoiler and deny FlyQuest the post-season with a win to finish 2021.
One spot in the post-season remains, and throughout the final week of the Summer Split, FlyQuest, Golden Guardians and Counter Logic Gaming will fight for a chance to extend their respective seasons beyond this Sunday.
After defeating Dignitas, Licorice spoke to Inven Global about Golden Guardians debuting post-rework Tahm Kench in the LCS, the team's current power level relative to its competition, and how his experiences on FlyQuest are contributing to his recent success.
Last week, FlyQuest made an abrupt mid-season transfer of top laner Eric "Licorice" Ritchie to Golden Guardians, and subsequently, started the entirety of the FLY Academy roster in week 6 of the LCS Summer Split.
"One day I woke up on FlyQuest and I had no plans of moving," Licorice told Inven Global the evening after his transfer. "The next day, I woke up and went to scrim at the Golden Guardians office."
Mid laner Nick "Ablazeolive" Abbott will retain his starting position alongside jungler Ethan "Iconic" Wilkinson and AD carry Trevor "Stixxay" Hayes, but two new faces will be joining the LCS roster for the Summer Split.
Stixxay sat down with Inven Global to talk about his 2020 season on Counter Logic Gaming, his reasons for joining Golden Guardians, and the various nuances of the team and its performance throughout the 2021 LCS Lock In.
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.
With the 2021 preseason in full swing, Golden Guardians will need to make big moves to improve on their recurring status of a middle-of-the-pack LCS team. They've finally announced their whole squad, check the 2021 roster here:
After the NASG Finals came the Scouting Grounds Draft. The draft allows each team to pick up one NASG talent for exclusive negotiation rights for that player for ten days after getting drafted. This allows them a decent period of time to negotiate a contract with that player before they hit free agency (which starts Monday, November 16 otherwise). Teams get draft pi
After a few shaky openings dictated by Golden Guardians' explosive early games, Team Liquid closed out all three games of the series to win in a clean 3-0, becoming the second NA team to qualify for W
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:
We spoke with Hauntzer after his series against TSM, breaking down Golden Guardians' win and performance as a team, detailing how they prepared and then dismantled their counterparts. Read the full interview 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
AD Carry Victor "FBI" Huang spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie after Golden Guardians' last game in the Summer Split to discuss the team's improvements, both as individuals and as a unit, and look towards the post-season.
Golden Guardians locked Playoffs after their win over Cloud9 in Week 8 of the LCS Summer Split. We spoke with Damonte about his playstyle and how Golden Guardians leveled up to get to this point and what it might mean for them in the Playoff format. Read that here:
With Dignitas' loss to Golden Guardians in the last game of Week 6 of the LCS Summer Split, Cloud9 and Team Liquid have secured their spot in the Playoffs. Both teams sit at 10-2. Read more on the standings here.
Golden Guardians' win over Evil Geniuses in week 5 of the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Summer Split was far from perfect from other side, but featured the best individual performance of the split thus far. GG Jungler Can "Closer" Çelik hard-carried on Lee Sin to an incredible 12/3/11 KDA. After the match, Closer spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie about Lee Sin's place in the meta and the changes in his LCS experience from spring to summer.
The two most important questions when building your E1 Fantasy Lineup: Who do I pick? Who do I not pick? Look through the list of who is best to sign to your E1 Fantasy team for Week 6 of the LEC and LCS:
