Purchasing Team 8’s LCS spot in the off season through venture capital investment, Noah Whinston became the CEO and rebranded the team as Immortals. Acquiring what many called “a roster of outcasts”, IMT are currently at the top of the NALCS and one of three professional teams in the world to not drop a game. …
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Thomas "Kirei" Yuen – Team Dignitas First, let’s talk about Kirei. His career started with the Dutch organisation LowLandLions, which managed to upset multiple teams in the 2015 Challenger Series Spring split and finished second overall. They were the only team to successfully take a game off Origen in the entire split. …
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A History of Super Teams: TSM & the Long Road Ahead With the announcement of Yellowstar to Team Solomid, familiar whispers crept back into countless Twitter feeds and Reddit threads throughout the League of Legends community. The question on so many fans’ minds has been debated routinely for over a month: does the trio of …
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The second week (or Round as they call it) of LJL played out a little less exciting than the games last week, but they were more important in terms of fleshing out team standings and where their strengths and weaknesses are at. It’s also interesting to track the draft pick trends from Japan compared to …
SKT vs. RoX promises to be the matchup of the week. RoX vanquished the other two usurpers and now have to face the King before they can claim the throne for themselves. Why the RoX Tigers Have to Win Imagine if SK Telecom T1 had lost all their players in the same way that Samsung …
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The LJL has faced year-long struggles of legitimacy in Japan. Last year they finally were able to launch the first official year of the LJL whereas before the LJL they had purely online tournaments hosted by the JCG, the Japan Competitive Gaming association but those years were hastily and poorly put together. Last year and …
Biggest Question Marks of NA LCS As the first week of NA LCS came to a close, many experts cautioned fans that strong conclusions would be impossible to draw from such a small sample size. If we were to judge 2015 from week one, after all, Coast would look middle of the pack. They went …
The 2016 LMS Spring Season has kicked off and for the most part, there were no surprises to start the season. ahq e-Sports Club is still chugging along, the newly promoted teams aren’t looking the strongest, and the games followed a slow tempo much like Korea’s LCK, with five dragons consistently looming as a win …
I'm joined by the General Manager and Creative Director of the LA Renegades, Rob "Leonyx" Lee. Let’s start with your background- what did you do before esports? I’m from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania- it’s the city of champions- sports culture is integrated throughout that city. It resonated with me growing up. My background is film and television; …
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The announcement by Riot Games to broadcast the revamped uLoL Campus Series was met with a fair amount of criticism on social media. Both fans and professionals alike expressed a number of concerns- most notably that the broadcast would be pulling much needed resources away from the Challenger scene. The move comes at a time …