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2017 NA LCS Spring Split
The 2017 NA LCS season was the fifth year of the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (NA LCS), a professional esports league for the MOBA PC game ''League of Legends''. It was divided into spring and summer splits, each consisting of a regular season and playoff stage, and also included a promotion tournament and a regional qualifiers for the World Championship. To qualify for the World Championship, a team must either be the summer champions, have the most championship points, or win the regional qualifier. The three teams that qualified for the 2017 World Championship in these ways were Team SoloMid, Immortals and Cloud9, respectively. Format Changes The format of the 2017 regular summer season gave every team the opportunity to play a best of three for every match. The first team to win two out of the three games, takes the match. Teams played on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday; every Friday two matches were played, and every Saturday and Sunday there w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends Championship Series
The League Championship Series (LCS) is the top level of professional ''League of Legends'' in the United States and Canada. The esports league is run by Riot Games and has ten franchise teams. Each annual season of competition is divided into two splits, spring and summer, which conclude with a double-elimination tournament between the top eight teams. At the end of the season, the winner, runners-up and third-place team of the summer playoffs qualify for the annual ''League of Legends'' World Championship. With the exception of some touring events, all games of the LCS are played live at Riot Games' studios in Los Angeles, California. In addition to a small studio audience, all games are streamed live in several languages on Twitch and YouTube, with broadcasts regularly attracting over 300,000 viewers. The U.S. government grants athlete visas for foreign LCS competitors. The first LCS player to be awarded a P visa was Danny "Shiphtur" Le. The LCS has attracted sponsorships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counter Logic Gaming
Counter Logic Gaming (CLG) is an American esports organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in April 2010 by George "HotshotGG" Georgallidis and Alexander "Vodoo" Beutel as a ''League of Legends'' team, and has since branched out into other games. CLG fields the oldest ''League of Legends'' team still active, having competed in every split of the North American ''League of Legends'' Championship Series (NA LCS) since it began in Spring 2013. CLG has won two NA LCS splits, the 2015 Summer NA LCS and 2016 Spring NA LCS. The team has also attended the 2012, 2015 and 2016 ''League of Legends'' World Championships, and was eliminated in the group stage on each occasion. The organization also fields ''Smite'', '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' (CS:GO), '' Super Smash Bros.'', ''Fortnite'' and ''H1Z1'' teams, and previously included ''Dota 2'', ''Overwatch'', '' Hearthstone'', ''Rocket League'', ''Halo'', ''Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sneaky (gamer)
Zachary Scuderi, better known as Sneaky, is a professional ''League of Legends'' player, Video game live streaming, streamer, and crossplay (cosplay), crossplayer. He played AD Carry for Cloud9 League of Legends, Cloud9 of the League of Legends Championship Series North America until 2019. He won the 2013 Summer NA LCS and 2014 Spring NA LCS with Cloud9. Scuderi is also known for his cosplays of anime and video game characters. Sneaky became an independent full-time Video game live streaming, streamer on Twitch (service), Twitch, leaving the professional scene in January 2020. However, despite not playing professionally, he has stated that he is not retired. Career Originally a Mid Laner for Ordinance Gaming, he quickly transitioned into an AD Carry and bounced around on several NA teams, one of which included Dignitas (esports), Team Dignitas. Quantic Gaming Sneaky joined Quantic Gaming on April 6, 2013, with the Balls, Meteos, Hai, and LemonNation. Cloud9 2015 season C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jensen (gamer)
Nicolaj Jensen, better known mononymously as Jensen, is a Danish professional ''League of Legends'' player for Cloud9. Earlier in his career, he was known as Veigodx and Incarnati0n. Jensen began as a player for Team Solo Mebdi, a team attempting to enter the European LCS via qualifier. He was banned for toxicity and DDOS attacks against other players. After his ban was lifted, Incarnati0n joined NA LCS team Cloud9 in 2015, replacing founding mid laner and strategist Hai on the roster, who had announced his retirement. In 2019, he joined Doublelift and former teammate Impact on Team Liquid. He was released from Team Liquid after the 2021 season in favor of his rival Bjergsen, who took over his position on Team Liquid. In 2022, he has since rejoined Cloud9. He is considered one of the best mid laners in North America, competing for the spot of best NA mid laner against Bjergsen. A 2022 retrospective by the LCS staff voted Jensen as the 2nd greatest LCS midlaner of all time, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impact (gamer)
Jeong Eon-yeong ( ko, 정언영), better known as Impact, is a South Korean ''League of Legends'' player for FlyQuest of the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS). Impact won the Season 3 League of Legends World Championship as a member of SK Telecom T1 K. He played for both Team Impulse and NRG Esports in the LCS, before transferring to Cloud9 in May 2016. Impact left Cloud9 after the 2017 season and joined Team Liquid, where he won four LCS titles before departing the team for Evil Geniuses after the end of the 2020 season. Career Xenics Storm Impact began his career as a support player for Xenics Storm in 2012, and the team managed to place third in spring. SK Telecom In 2013, Impact joined SK Telecom T1 K along with Bengi, Faker, Piglet and PoohManDo. The team went on to finished third in the spring split, and win the summer finals against KT Rolster Bullets. The team qualified for the 2013 World Championship as Korea's third seed, and subsequently tore thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ssumday
Kim Chan-ho (Hangul: 김찬호) better known as Ssumday, is a South Korean professional ''League of Legends'' player for 100 Thieves of the League Championship Series (LCS). Ssumday began his professional career in Korea on KT Rolster as their toplaner, before moving to North America where he spent a year with Team Dignitas, after which he signed with 100 Thieves in 2018. Ssumday won his first domestic championship in 2021 after eight splits with the team. Professional career KT Rolster Ssumday joined KT Rolster Bullets in early 2013 as their toplaner. The team had moderate success, placing third in Winter and second in Summer of the 2013 season. In 2014, KT Bullets took another third-place finish in Winter, but had no further success. At the end of 2014, after the World Championship concluded, the LCK announced large changes to its structure, which would include the two KT teams, KT Bullets and KT Arrows, merging into a single team, as well as the reduction from 3 splits a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Dignitas
Dignitas, formerly known as Team Dignitas, is a professional esports organization based in Newark, New Jersey Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biofrost
Vincent Wang, better known by his in-game name Biofrost, is a Canadian ''League of Legends'' player who is currently the support for LCS team Dignitas. Career Wang's gaming career began in the NA Challenger Series, playing for teams such as Team Frostbite, Vortex and Dream Team. Following the departure of YellOwStaR after the 2016 NA LCS Spring Split, Wang tried out for Team SoloMid's vacant support position. He would join TSM on their Korean bootcamp, eventually being chosen as their starting support for the 2016 Summer NA LCS Split. Despite his rookie status, TSM finished the split in first place with a 17–1 record, dropping a single match to Phoenix1. In the playoffs, TSM would go on to defeat CLG 3–0 and Cloud9 3–1. Additionally, Wang received the award for Rookie of the Split. After such a dominant Summer Split, expectations for Wang and TSM were high for the 2016 ''League of Legends'' World Championship. The team was placed in Group D, alongside Samsung Galaxy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doublelift
Yiliang "Peter" Peng (), better known as Doublelift, is an American content creator, streamer, and professional ''League of Legends'' player, currently AD Carry for 100 Thieves. He previously played for Counter Logic Gaming, Team Liquid and Team SoloMid. Career Peng comes from California, and started playing console games before jumping to PC titles such as DotA, World of Warcraft, and Heroes of Newerth, eventually moving to League of Legends. In an interview with Machinima in 2013, Peng said his relationship with his parents was strained, because of his dream of being a professional esports player. "I would always struggle with my parents... we would just argue over everything, especially games. When I wanted to play they thought it was just a complete waste of time. It got worse and worse over the years." Peng first entered professional ''League of Legends'' when he gained the attention of George "HotshotGG" Georgallidis, founder of Counter Logic Gaming (CLG), who recruited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svenskeren
Dennis Johnsen (born January 2, 1996), better known as Svenskeren, is a Danish former professional ''League of Legends'' player. He has played for SK Gaming, Supa Hot Crew, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Copenhagen Wolves, Team SoloMid, Cloud9, and Evil Geniuses. During the 2014 League of Legends World Championship group stage in Taiwan, Svenskeren registered an account by the name TaipeiChingChong on the Garena servers and was subsequently fined and suspended by Riot Games for racism. The incident was also criticized by the Taiwanese version of the newspaper ''Apple Daily''. SK Gaming ultimately finished 9–11th. TSM was involved in a dispute with H2k-Gaming over Svenskeren's contract as both sides claimed they had signed him first. Eventually he signed with TSM, replacing Lucas "Santorin" Larsen as their jungler. At his first tournament with the team, they finished 3rd-4th at Intel Extreme Masters Season X - San Jose. Personal life Dennis was born on January 2, 1996, and grew up in Den ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hauntzer
Kevin Yarnell, better known by his in-game name Hauntzer, is a professional ''League of Legends'' player who is currently a free agent, and was most recently a part of TSM Academy as their toplaner. He has also played for Team SoloMid, Golden Guardians, and Gravity Gaming in the League of Legends Championship Series. Career Curse Academy left Team Curse and rebranded as Gravity Gaming in January 2015 upon qualifying for the LCS. In April, Gravity was at the top of the NA LCS rankings in part due to the play of Hauntzer. Gravity finished 5th in the Spring LCS Regular Season, qualifying for the playoffs, where they finished 5-6th after being eliminated by Team Impulse. In the following Summer LCS they finished 4th in the Regular Season and then 5-6th in the playoffs. Yarnell joined Team SoloMid in November, replacing Marcus "Dyrus" Hill at top lane after the latter retired from competitive play. At his first tournament with TSM, Intel Extreme Masters Season X - San Jose, the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aphromoo
Zaqueri Black (born September 8, 1992), better known by his in-game name Aphromoo, is an American professional ''League of Legends'' player who is the support for FlyQuest. Aphromoo won the 2018 Spring Split MVP award, the first time it had gone to a support player. Career Aphromoo played for a number of teams in the early years of professional ''League'' from 2011 to 2012. During this period, he also played the AD Carry bottom lane position. He still rarely subs over to this role, but switched to Support in 2013 when he joined Counter Logic Gaming (CLG), the team he would be closely identified with for a long time. Aphromoo played for CLG in the spring split of 2013 as well as from 2014 to 2017, during which he supported AD Carries Doublelift and later Stixxay. CLG would go on to win the 2015 NALCS Summer Split as well as the 2016 NALCS Spring Split. CLG also attended the League of Legends World Championship in 2015 and 2016, albeit with mixed results. After a weaker perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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