Phil Jackson, Gregg Popovich, Alex Ferguson, Tony La Russa. In all traditional sports, there are coaches (or managers) that are widely respected by both players and fans. They have the charisma,
Years after winning three back to back EU LCS titles and attending two Worlds, former G2 Esports trio Perkz, Zven, and Mithy rejoined forces on Cloud9, this time with Mithy as a coach rather than a support. Read Mithy's expectations and reflections here:
Before the LCS Lock-In, we spoke with Jatt about his first off-season as a coach and how he prepared the team with a new roster, coaching staff, and mentality to help them level up in 2021. Read his thoughts here:
In a conversation with Inven Global, Caedrel shared more about his private coaching experience, and what aspiring players can get out of his time.
Ahead of the 2021 season, Goldenglue took off his player hat and donned a coaching hat in its place, becoming the new head coach for the 100 Thieves Academy roster. We spoke with Goldenglue about his player career, his new role, and his expectations. Read and watch the interview here:
Among Liquid's off-season changes was the addition of Kold to the LCS coaching staff. Kold spoke with us about his time with Liquid at Worlds and how he hopes to power up the team in 2021. Read his interview here:
“When I first started playing, I was just a depressed kid in Denmark. League of Legends was just an escape…” To many of us, video games — and League of Legends, specifically — are an escape. Whether it be simply just to unwind from work, a search for an adventure, a desire for a challenge, or to forget about the hardships and pain from everyday life. From the lowest
Cloud9 has released yet another interview with recent addition to the org, streamer IWDominate, speaking to their new LCS head coach, Reignover, and Founder and CEO, Jack Etienne. See the interview here and catch why the team made the changes they made:
Monday, November 2, Cloud9 officially announced that former pro player, Reignover, would take the helm as the team's head coach going into 2021. Reignover replaces former Cloud9 head coach, Reapered. Read more on the announcement here:
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:
Former ahq eSports jungler, Mountain, spoke with us about what it was like coming to Worlds as a coach for the first time as well as how the PCS is different from the LMS and what it needs to improve. Read the interview here:
Immortals just announced a departure of four of their players and one coach. We spoke with General Manager, Mike Schwartz, to get more context on the mass drop. Read about their decision making here:
Everyone knows not to take the LCS All-Pro Team, Coach of the Split, and MVP votes as perfect signifiers of the region's strongest. However, there were three major snubs this year... Read more here:
After failing to qualify for LCS playoffs in both spring and summer, CLG has parted ways with both of their coaches, SSONG and Weldon. Read more about the change here:
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:
Late Wednesday, June 24th, Immortals announced they'd released head coach, Thomas "Zaboutine" Si-Hassen, and GM, Keaton Cryer. They've been temporarily replaced by LA Valiant GM, Mike Schwartz, and IMT assistant coach and analyst, GoToOne and Malaclypse, respectively.
Golden Guardians have signed Damonte to start as their LCS Mid Laner, with Goldenglue and Ablazeolive competing for the Academy slot. Olleh also joins the org as positional coach. Read more on their roster moves here:
Team Liquid made a few changes to both their LCS and Academy squads this off-season, sending former Academy Bot Laner Tactical to the LCS squad to replace the winningest LCS player of all time, Doublelift. Listen to Tactical's experience and plans for the future here:
On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 13th, FlyQuest released their Academy Support, JayJ, who had played with the org in both their Academy and LCS squads over the past two and a half years. Learn more about his move here:
Reapered is really proud of himself and the team, however, he didn't expect this Spring to work out as well as it did. "At the beginning, we were not that insane of a team... We had a lot of problems." Read more on how Reapered and Cloud9 overcame those issues here:
