KT Rolster has confirmed via its official Facebook page that its League of Legends team has parted ways with seven players. Top laners Song "Smeb" Kyung-ho, Kim "SoHwan" Jun-yeong , and Jeon "Ray" Ji-won, as well as junglers Kim "Malrang" Geun-seong and Kim "BonO" Gi-beom, will be leaving KT alongside mid laner Lee "Kuro" Seo-haeng and support Park "TusiN" Jong-ik.
On the 16th (KST), SANDBOX Gaming announced that they've extended the contract with their bot laner, Moon “Route” Geom-su. Route had been playing as SANDBOX Gaming's starting bot laner
On the 16th (KST), SANDBOX Gaming announced that they have parted ways with their veteran support, Kang “GorillA” Beom-hyun. He first debuted under Najin Shield in 2013, and his days of pr
Call of Duty esports star Seth "Scump" Abner tweeted regarding a fine he had received recently during a sponsored stream of Raid: Shadow Legends. According to Scump, he was fined for the sponsored stream on his channel by Activision Blizzard, who runs the Call of Duty League Scump competes in, and that this fine also came during the league's off-season.
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
UPDATED 11/14: Travis Gafford reported via Twitter that Lucas "Santorin" Larsen has verbally agreed to a one year contract with Team Liquid.
UPDATE 11/14: Evil Geniuses has announced it is parting ways with three of its players. AD carry Bae "Bang" Jun-sik, mid laner Greyson "Goldenglue" Gilmer and top laner Colin "Kumo" Zhao will all be wearing a different jersey in 2021.
With a massive cast of beautiful anime-styled characters set in a fantastical world, it’s no surprise that the art community has taken a shine to Genshin Impact.
Take a look at the first actions Riot is taking to improve Academy and Amateur - they won't be their last. Over the long term, Riot will continue listening to the community's feedback and adapting, but check out all of the upcoming plans for developing NA talent here:
After the 2020 season, Team Liquid announced the departure of much of their coaching staff. Now they're announcing two new members to their staff, Spawn and Kold, with Yaltz moving up to head analyst. Check out their completed staff here:
SANDBOX Gaming announced through their Twitter that they've extended the contract with coach Jo “Joker” Jae-eup. SANDBOX Gaming gave Joker high evaluations that his strategies and analyses
Off-season roster shuffles are happening all around the world, and the 2020 World champions are also making big changes for their next season. Via their official Twitter, DAMWON Gaming announced their
T1 announced that they have signed the coaches of the World Champions, DAMWON Gaming, Lee “Zefa” Jae-min and Yang “Daeny” Dae-in. The roles of the two coaches have changed for
Riot Games has launched their players straight into the pre-season with Patch 10.23. Not even two days have passed since the pre-season went live and Riot is already updating the game, launching a hotfix for items and champs. Read about the changes here:
On Thursday, November 11, Twitter user @step_nie published a statement via Medium, claiming Riot Games had created Seraphine in her likeness. Seraphine is the most recent League of Legends champion released by Riot in 2020, and is the first to have an entire online persona that lives through a Twitter account, @seradotwav.
UPDATE 11/12: Cloud9 has reportedly agreed to buyout G2 Esports mid laner Luka "Perkz" Perković. The agreement is only verbal as a deal cannot be finalized in writing until the start of the free agency window on Monday, November 16th at 7:00pm ET. G2 Esports will now look for a new AD carry to replace Perkz, and since Perkz will be returning to the mid lane with C9 should the report hold true, it would mean current C9 mid laner Yasin "Nisqy" Dincer would be placed on a buyout.
As first reported by Bloomberg, Immortals Gaming Club, who owns the Los Angeles Valiant of the Overwatch League is seeking to sell its spot in OWL. According to the report, this is one of the possible options for the future of the organization. This move comes off the heels for the Valiant as they finished 8th in the regular season and 5th-6th in the North American playoffs in the 2020 season.
According to a report by ESPN Esports' Jacob Wolf, Fnatic is tapping Jakob "YamatoCannon" Mebdi as its head coach for the 2021 League of Legends European Championship season.
The leading British competitive gaming brand unveils ambitious manifesto and vision of The Power of Better, incorporating purpose into its brand identity to help improve the gaming and esports industry and looking beyond the esports “lifestyle brand”
Taiwanese cosplayer Nori, also known as lovernori, has released an entire set of images portraying Kai'Sa in her latest skin, photographed by Daniel Park.