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[Official] Afreeca Freecs Renews Their Contract with Coach iloveoov and Signs on Vinylcat & Yeon
Coach iloveoov will be with Afreeca Freecs for 2019 as well. Afreeca Freecs announced their contract renewal with Coach Yeon-Sung “iloveoov” Choi on their official social media on December 5th. They also announced that Woo-Cheol “viNylCat” Chae and Gwang-Pyo Yang will be joining the team as new coaches. Coach iloveoov joined the League of Legends esports team after the StarCraft2 Pro League was disbanded in 2016. Ever since then, he has been with Afreeca Freecs for the 2017 and 2018 seasons, guiding the team to the 2018 League of Legends World Championship by winning the 2nd place in the LCK 2018. He will be taking on this new year with the two new coaches, viNylCat and Gwang-Pyo Yang, who recently returned to South Korea from China. Afreeca Freecs has also completed their 9-man team roster by adding Ucal, Twinkle, and Proud after they parted with Kuro, Mowgli, Kramer, and TusiN.
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Echo Fox Get Solo, Apollo, and Hakuho as Part of Their Roster
Colin “Solo” Earnest, Apollo “Apollo” Price, and Nickolas “Hakuho” Surgent will be joining Echo Fox as their top, AD Carry, and support respectively. On December 5th, Echo Fox announced on their official Twitter that Solo, Apollo, and Hakuho will be joining the team. All three players have been a part of the League of Legends esports scene for a long time. Apollo, who has been in LoL esports the longest, began his pro gaming career in 2013 with Team Summon back when he went by the name of WizFujiiN. He played for several different teams, including Team Impulse, Team Dignitas, Team EnVyUs, and Clutch Gaming. It was with Team Impulse where he renamed himself to Apollo, using his first name. He has managed to get moderate results during his stay with these teams, placing 4th in the 2018 NA Regional Finals.
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[Official] OpTic Gaming Aquires Dardoch
Former Echo Fox's jungler, Joshua "Dardoch" Hartnett will play for OpTic Gaming. On the 5th of November (KST), OpTic Gaming announced the signing of jungler, Dardoch through their Twitter account. Optic Gaming posted a tweet saying "The jungle is a dangerous place, even more so now that the former Rookie of the Split and 2nd NA LCS All-Pro Team Joshua “Dardoch” Hartnett has joined our roster." In December 2014, Dardoch joined affNity as a top laner but later switched to jungle and played in the 2015 NA Challenger Series Spring. He switched back to top when he later moved to Escalate Legion Gaming and Storm; he switched back to playing jungle in NACS 2015 Summer Qualifier and has been playing jungle ever since then.
