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LCS and Challenger off-season changes thus far

Alex is the name·10/19/2015, 10:12:35 PM·14 votes·4,069 views

LCS

Dignitas

  • Head coach Rico steps down assumed former head coach of Dignitas EU BrokenShard will become permanent head coach of the Dignitas NA team.

Team Liquid

  • Xpecial steps down as starting support Smoothie of former Team Dragon Knights joins as starting support
  • Peter Zhang steps down as Team Liquid's head coach

Team 8 now Immortals

  • Current Roster

PorpoisePops Jg GoldenGlue Mid Nien Adc

Dodo8 moves from support to team manager and CalliTrollz steps down from top

Team Solo Mid

  • Dyrus, Santorin, Lust boy all stepping down from their stating roles, TSM is holding tryouts for Top, Jg, and Support. The team will now have two open foreign roster spots to fill if they so desire.

  • As of 10/16/15 TSM head coach Locodoco via twitter announces he will step down as head coach but will still be staying with the team. TSM has added a search for a new head coach and other coaches to the formation of their new team.

Gambit Gaming

  • Forg1ven moved from starting roster to sub and open discussions for his transfer to a new team, no indication if the team will be sticking with P1noy or looking for a new starting adc.

Natus Vincere

  • Well know eSports organisation have announced their entry into competitive LoL and may look to purchase the newly promoted EU LCS Dignitas EU as the Dignitas organisation now has a team in both EU and NA LCS and will have to sell one.

**Renegades **

  • Maplestreet announces his stepping down from starting adc role on the team but hopes to find a new team to play for. Renegades to hold open tryouts for adc role and have stated they will have a "worldwide" search for their new adc, with only Alex Ich as the teams foreign player RNG could look to other regions for a new adc.

Unicorns of Love

  • Held tryouts for adc role in November no news on roster change or Vardags leaving the team.

Challenger

Team Dragon Knights now Team Arena Online

  • Current Roster

Seraph Top Kez Jg Ninja Mid

Emperor may return as adc but Smoothie has left as starting support to replace Xpecial on Team Liquid. If Emperor does return to play adc the team will need to find a North American support player as both Ninja and Emperor would take up the teams two foreign roster spots.

Cloud 9 Challenger team (no name as of yet)

  • Current Roster

Meteos Jg KEITHMCBRIEF adc

C9 has announced they will be sporting an NA challenger team with Meteos as captain of the team and a recently signed (10/19/15) KEITHMCBRIEF at adc.

Enemy Esports now partnered with Fusion renamed to just Enemy

  • No roster changes as of yet Young Buck former Copenhagen Wolves top laner is the new head coach for the team and it seems the team will be making a go at 2016 NA challenger tournament.

Copenhagen Wolves

  • je suis kaas and Lenny both leave the team

-Current Roster

Soren Mid Freeze Adc

unknown yet if the team will try for 2016 EU challenger series or disband (my guess is disband)

Reason Gaming

EU challenger team disbands after failing to qualify for LCS

Possible Roster Changes (my speculation only)

TSM

  • TSM may look to re-acquire Gleeb at support role or possibly Sheep from Cloud 9 Tempest and have both top and jg positions open to foreign players. Could also possibly look at Meteos from Cloud 9 to play at jungle though C9 is building a challenger team around Meteos but he has said he would be interested in joining a new LCS team.

RNG

  • May look to pick up former Complexity adc RobertxLee who has said on stream he would consider coming back to competitive play on either a decent LCS team or promising challenger team or Forg1ven or Freeze from EU since they showed a heavy adc focus gameplay during the challenger series tournament.

Team Arena Online

  • If Emperor does rejoin as the teams adc it would give them four Korean speaking members (with seraph and kez knowing English) the team may look to pick up Gleeb at support who has LCS experience and has played with a Korean speaking team during his short time on Winter Fox.

Unicorns Of Love

  • May look at acquiring Forg1ven from Gambit Gaming to fill starting adc role in place of Vardags, or possibly Jebus or Freeze.

That's all, feel free to tell me anything I may have left out or your own thoughts on possible off-season roster changes.

30 Comments

Linthe10/19/2015, 10:21:22 PM4 votes

Excellent recap. Thanks for posting.

TSM is in a world of hurt.

Mech0p10/20/2015, 7:01:17 AM3 votes

Why did maplestreet step down from RNG??? He was a huge reason that they made it to the LCS and if not for him we may have seen another team on the stage

Ale non è male10/20/2015, 8:02:11 AM2 votes

Cloud9 Challenger

  • Keith officially joins the new Challenger team captained by Meteos

No official news yet about what C9 will do with the players of their previous Challenger team, namely C9 Tempest

P.S. CW is a pretty big esports organization, and they previously had a Challanger team in EU, they are likely going to play in 2016 EU CS

YCitizenSnipsY10/20/2015, 2:11:05 AM1 votes

What about C9, last I heard both LemonNation and Hai are stepping down. That's pretty big since they will now be down 3 of their original players.

Slappybiscuit10/19/2015, 11:38:59 PM1 votes

Well its good to see C9 absent from this list and Lemonnation and Hai staying on the team and not retiring. They had me going for a bit.

Any word on Slooshi8?

Kal Vas Flam10/20/2015, 1:30:13 AM1 votes

Appreciate you making this list. I am not a die hard esports fan, which makes lists like this sooo much easier for me to keep track of things.

OttoVBismarck10/21/2015, 11:18:52 PM1 votes

You mentioned that TSM had 2 foreign roster slots open, which is incorrect. Moving into S6, Bjerg is still not naturalized, so there's 1 remaining slot. Lustboy was grandfathered in from when the rule was instituted.

I'm not super on top of Renegades' ADC situation. Maple's gone, but do we know what's going on with freeze? (etc.)

TSM has their work cut out for them. They're going to have a rough time at IEM san jose regardless, but do you guys think they'll be able to put together a permanent roster for it, or do they just fill with subs, Bjerg and Turtle? (context: TSM is playing at IEM san jose in 30 days, and there's only two players on their team.)

Anyway, good collection of info. If this board did sticky's, this would be a good candidate. +1

Alex is the name10/22/2015, 6:57:39 PM1 votes

EDIT: TSM Locodoco Head coach steps down as of twitter announcement on 10/16/15 but says he will still be staying with the team.

The Lexer10/23/2015, 11:22:24 PM1 votes

Thanks for the post!