We've seen plenty of non-traditional strategies in pro play, and especially from Cloud9, who have locked in a brand new pair of champions, Lux and Sona. Get an in-depth look at the strategy here:
TSM won its ninth game of the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Summer Split against Counter Logic Gaming, and in doing so, joined Cloud9 and Team Liquid in post-season qualification. The gold lead swapped between TSM and CLG more than a couple of times, but when the dust settled, TSM remained standing and clinched a position in the 2020 LCS Summer Playoffs.
Jensen has had a fairly long, storied career, coming to the League Championship Series as Cloud9's starting Mid Laner in 2015. In his LCS debut, he beat rival org, TSM, despite trailing behind Bjergsen throughout the game, leaving him with a criticism that he could not keep up with the league's best, one he wouldn't shake for many years. Read his thoughts on his career and perception here:
You have to get creative and take on risk if you spend less than $300k on a Bot Laner. Well, out of all Bots under that threshold, Cody Sun has by far the best opportunity to go 2-0. He has scored over 25 in 3 of his 4 wins on the split and has a great chance to boost up that number this weekend.
We conducted two different interviews with Invert based on Dignitas' off-season changes, mindset, and Summer goals. Check out what Dignitas has been doing this Split, how they operate and function as a ten man unit, and what their hope is for the team by Playoffs here:
The "Week of (LCS) Upsets" is no more and the LEC is back! Things are beginning to seem a bit more normal. Fnatic avoided the Bust list (finally), replaced by G2 instead. Look more into E1 Fantasy's Booms and Busts here:
On the afternoon of July 21st, Team Liquid announced a new addition to their team, signing Pocket Rhino as their Academy Support, replacing Yama. Pocket Rhino is a former collegiate player for Florida State University. Read more about the signing here:
Tuesday afternoon, July 21st, 100 Thieves announced they were mutually parting ways with Jungler William "Meteos" Hartman. Meteos was benched from the main roster and moved to Academy after Week 3 of
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.
WildTurtle just reached 1500 career Regular Season kills after finding a greedy Blaber trying to sneak into a flank position! He trails right behind Doublelift, who reached the 1500 mark earlier this Spring. WildTurtle is just shy of 2000 total kills including Playoffs, and 2225 total including international events. Turtle has one of the longest careers in the LCS,
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.
TSM announced earlier this week that they were starting Treatz for Week 6 of the LCS. Tactical is welcoming Treatz with a friendly letter, offering encouragement, advice, and just a tiny hint of spice. Read it here:
Dardoch spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie at the conclusion of week 5 to discuss starting in the LCS and playing with his old teammates.
After spending a few weeks in Academy, WildTurtle is back in the LCS as FlyQuest's starting Bot Laner, replacing MasH who took over After Week 1 of the 2020 Summer Split. Read more on the change here:
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:
This week in both the League Championship Series and LCS Academy, we saw TSM face off against Immortals. TSM got the Academy win, but Immortals secured the LCS victory. While this type of thing happens all the time - since not every Academy team reflects the strength of their LCS squad - the TSM vs Immortals situation brings a bit of nuance to an otherwise mundane conversation. Before the start of the 2020 LCS Summer Split, Immortals announced a few roster changes, sending three of their Spring
After the victory, Xmithie spoke to Inven Global's Nick Geracie about his success vs Doublelift in 2020, the rise of Ignite Graves in the jungle, and playing with two rookie solo laners in Top Laner Kieran "Allorim" Logue and Mid Laner David "Insanity" Challe.
This past weekend, 100 Thieves became the first team to beat Cloud9 this Summer, beating them in the first game of the second round robin of the Split, and tying up their head to head at 1-1. Just a week before that, 100 Thieves made a roster change, adding Juan "Contractz" Garcia and Philippe "Poome" Lavoie-Giguere to the starting roster, replacing William "Meteos" Hartman and William "Stunt" Che
After a perfect 9-0 round robin in the first half of the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series Summer Split, Cloud9 has been made mortal. 100 Thieves handed the reigning LCS champion its first loss of summer.
FlyQuest have had quite the year, finishing 2nd in Spring, and starting off Summer strong. Through all of it, they've made numerous changes to their roster and staff. We spoke with DLim about all the changes and what FlyQuest's goals are moving forward. Read more here:
