After losing Pobelter and Doublelift in the off season, many fans were poised to begin hating on CLG for being unable to keep together the team that won summer 2015 NALCS. There were legitimately enough reasons to not expect much of the line up with Huhi replacing Pobelter and Stixxay replacing Doublelift (who was the …
Not since 2013’s MvP Ozone has there been a scenario quite like G2. This team went from the goal to get into playoffs by the end of the split to ending up winning their first ever EU LCS split entirely. G2 Esports surpassed any expectations viewers had of them as the new team on the …
Brandon “Juves” Defina is the captain and jungler of one of the top four teams in the Oceanic Pro League of Legends Series. Originally starting as a talented soccer player he transitioned to League of Legends and over the last two splits has shown a great capacity to improve and help lead Sin Gaming to …
Continue reading “Juves: From the Soccer Field to Summoner"e;s Rift”
“Even things that are true can be proved.” – Oscar Wilde Turn the clocks back five weeks and no one would dare predict SK Telecom T1 to be the winner of LCK Spring 2016. ROX Tigers had just defeated SKT 2/0 in an extremely one sided best of three and were considered the best team …
Continue reading “Why ROX Tigers Will Defeat SK Telecom T1 and Win LCK Spring 2016”
The career of Austin “Gate” Yu has already been quite prolific. He had a nearly successful run through the North American Challenger Series in 2015 playing Mid for Final Five which renamed to Vortex. After the Spring Split, Gate left Vortex and joined Team Impulse as a secondary support to Adrian “Adrian” Ma. However, …
As I promised, here is my end of regular season awards for the 2015 LCK Spring Split. It follows the same rules, format and categories as LoL Esport’s awards, with one additional category, so it should be easy enough to follow. I’ve decided to go for one winner and two runners up in each category, …
Continue reading “GoSickboy"e;s 2016 LCK Spring Split Award Winners”
Machi E-Sports (also known as M17) placed 4th in the League of Legends Masters Series Spring Season. This was M17’s second split in the LMS after qualifying during the 2015 LMS Summer Promotion tournament. The team has been on an upward trajectory since then and is keeping their goals lofty. We had the opportunity to …
Continue reading “Team Spotlight: Machi E-Sports, an interview with the players”
From Brood War to Starcraft 2 to League of Legends, it’s impossible to escape the insults that fans of one esport throw at one another. Starcraft 2 is too “simplified and for people who are bad at Brood War”. “Go back to League, Dota 2 isn’t for kiddies.” “Heroes of the Storm is built for …
There has been a silence from those who had remained with Huma about the situation and the organization remained focused on trying to find success and support the players to the best of their ability. Following the recent announcement, we had the chance to talk with Behdad Jaafarian. – – – Huma remained silent through …
Continue reading “Behdad Jaafarian Discusses Huma Struggles And Hopes”
SKT and KT have played out an awesome series that goes to show how valuable picking the right champion at the right time can influence later picks during a draft. A must watch series for any League of Legends fan. Coming into this game, there are 2 big things we must keep in mind: …
Continue reading “Picking apart picks and bans, SKT vs KT Rolster Week 13 Game 2”