The summer promotion tournament provided a lot of excitement
for the fans who were treated to great games from all the teams competing. Although
this idea is really awesome there is one thing that does worry me. It was
hinted at by some of the teams that if they were knocked out of the LCS they
might disband. I couldn’t think of a world without teams like CLG, Dignitas,
Evil Geniuses, or really any of the teams the LoL Community has become to
accustomed too. Although this is a result of a system like this I hope that any
team who gets knocked out of the LCS sticks with it and continues to play
together. The amateur scene is slowly gaining more and more traction and
hopefully falling out of the LCS will not end the careers of these teams.
Although nothing official has been announced in a blog
written by team owner Martin Pham Team MRN is over. The players will be
splitting up the members will either find new teams, become full time
streamers, or even go back to school. The team had very solid players but never
seemed to be able to close games out consistently, although they had some epic
comebacks as well as some games where they just dominated. MRNs problem was
consistency, they started rough but by the end of the season they seemed to
slowly be putting it together. Hopefully team MRN will continue if not all of
these players have bright futures and most likely will be picked up by a team.
They might not be picked up as a full time player but at least as a sub is
pretty likely.
Yamotocannon and Malunoo announced in a post they will be leaving
Dragonborns saying the team just isn’t working out. There are issues that make
them feel like hinder the team’s longterm viability and they just aren’t
willing to take that chance. The post also said they will be starting their own
team with the two other members being Extinkt and Freeze with the support role
currently undecided. For those unfamiliar with the other two names they both
played on Samurai in Jeans during the Promotion tournament. Extinkt is the mid
for the team as well as a sub for Dragonborns. Freeze is the AD player and will
most likely be the one choosing the support.
This also leaves a question of what is the future of Dragonborns?
They can’t just switch to their subs one of them is Extinkt, who will be going
to the team mentioned above, and the other is dexter1 who just was signed by
Mousesports. The future for Dragonborns looks very hazy and the community will
have the wait for an official announcement.
It’s really hard to see this happen to teams and is one of
the issues with Esports right now. The amateur scene is still growing and the
money just isn’t there for these teams who are without big time sponsors. Teams
like Complexity, Against All Authority, and Giants will most likely survive,
although might have roster changes, to compete again in a future LCS season. But what about these smaller teams,
Dragonborns is now three fifths of a team and the future of MRN at this time
doesn’t exist, not to mention these other teams who didn’t make it in. Many of
these teams went all in to become professional gamers and now what are they
going to do?
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