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News
'The gap between the East and the West': T1 and EDG moves on to quarters, C9 and Fnatic knocked out
Day 5 of the 2022 LoL World Championship group stages saw four teams from group A fighting for two tickets into the quarterfinals of the tournament. Cloud9 was coming into day 5 with a 0-3 record, whi
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Feature
Inven Global Awards: The biggest controversy of 2021 (nominees)
While we do like for Awards to be generally positive, we can't bypass the dark side of the scene. Today in the Inven Global Awards, we acknowledge the latter: the controversies that negatively shook the scene or tainted it to a bigger or smaller extent.
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Interview
FNC Bwipo: "I want my team to feel that the game is easier to win because I’m playing with them. Being the best is the byproduct of that."
In the 2021 Spring split, Fnatic had what one may argue to be their worst split yet. From finishing at least top 2 alongside G2 Esports, Fnatic finished 5th place in the Spring. As a household name in
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Column
The most likely replacements for G2 Perkz
Perkz and G2 Esports accomplished many things together, and finding a suitable replacement for the former franchise face is an unenviable task. However, there are a few options that stand out from other available players who are best suited to take Perkz’s place. Let’s take a look at a few of these potential options and evaluate the potential value and likelihood of G2 Esports signing one of these three players.
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Interview
[Worlds 2020] JDG LvMao: "We changed our team's history this year, so maybe we will come back even stronger next year."
In what was considered an upset by many, Suning Gaming took down JD Gaming in the League World Championship quarterfinals. This was Suning's first series victory against JDG in almost 800 days: See the press conference here:
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Interview
Origen Upset: "My team supports me if I need it, and I will support them. It's a great environment"
Origen’s bumpy 1-2 Summer Split start was not what they had envisioned in Week 1, with defeats against the revamped SK Gaming and the Kobbe-empowered Misfits Gaming serving as early stumbling blocks in a new meta. However, their victory against G2 Esports on Saturday, June 13 was cause for relief – especially for German AD carry Elias “Upset” Lipp.
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[UPDATED 04/29] TSM President Leena Xu responds to Discord messages that showed the org approached players under contract
Leena Xu, President of esports organization TSM, faces controversy after screenshots from the team's Discord were used in a video by Duncan "Thorin" Shields. In one screenshot, Xu claims to have attempted to approach many players from Europe on behalf of TSM, and that the players she approached were under contract at the time of her reaching out. Inven Global has confirmed with a source close to the situation that organizations across the globe often go unpunished for the ways in which they circumnavigate certain rules when seeking to sign a player.
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'Better bot lane wins?' Zven and the other bot laners across the major four are leaders of the KDA
The bot laners of each region took their spots as the leaders of KDA in their respective regions. In the LCK, LPL, LCS, and the LEC, there’s an interesting trend in data (gathered up to the 17th), which is similar across all four regions. Bot laners of each region were in 1st place in KDA, and currently, there are two players that have a perfect KDA. In the LCK, All iN, the mid laner for Afreeca Freecs is a player that currently holds a perfect KDA. Previously known as SSUN, he only played two games in the league, so this data may not hold too much meaning. Even still, All iN played Pantheon in both of his games and with a total score of 5/0/13, he holds a perfect KDA.
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Upset leaves FC Schalke 04; hints at potential future in LCS
Sports/esports organization FC Schalke 04 has made a change to its League of Legends roster. Star AD Carry Elias "Upset" Lipp is vacating the Bot Lane for the LEC squad as the org decided not to renew the 19-year old's contract past the originally agreed-upon period.
