MONDAY NEWS | SPICY RUMORS AND CRAZY LINEUPS FOR 2021

What’s up everyone, I hope your day is going well. Grab your cup of coffee and let’s dig into our Monday News! We have a lot of interesting stuff to discuss.

NEWS — LOL MERCATO ( (X) RUMORS — (V) OFFICIAL )

Fnatic

• Fnatic may have signed former SandBox LCK Coach “YamatoCannon” as their new coach. (X)
• Nemesis will not be playing next year for Fnatic. (X)
• Rekkles and Fnatic reached a verbal agreement about staying for another split. (X)
• Fnatic had reached a verbal agreement with Cloud9 to buy out Nisqy but it’s not confirmed yet. (X)
• Bwipo said: “It’s pretty much confirmed. Something very very strange would have to happen for me not to be playing on Fnatic this [2021] year. That I can guarantee, almost, to 99%”. So this means Bwipo will be playing for Fnatic next year. (V)

SKT T1

• T1 signed former DAMWON Gaming coaches Lee “Zefa” Jaemin and Yang “Daeny” Daein. They also hired a new manager called Choi “Polt” Seonghun. (V)
• T1 signed Bengi as Academy Head Coach. (V)
• Former jungler of SKT T1, Blank leaves Segoku Gaming. (V)

DAMWON Gaming

• DWG signed former VG coach Kk0ma (V)

Team Liquid

• Signed former Origen jungler “Kold” as their next LCS Strategic Coach. His contract will last for one year until 16 November 2021. (V)
• TF Blade is no longer a content creator for Team Liquid. (V)
• Rumors says that Santorin has verbally agreed to sign with Team Liquid for 1 year. (X)

100T & GG

• Golden Guardians and 100T had reached a verbal agreement to transfer the contracts of Closer and FBI to 100T. (X)
• Cody Sun says farewell to 100 Thieves.
• Hauntzer is no longer part of Golden Guardians. (V)

All Stars

• All Stars 2020 rule about limited number of players in each team (2) is no longer effective. (V)

SANDBOX Gaming

• Midlaner of Sandbox gaming “Dove” is no longer part of the team. (V)
• The jungler of Sandbox Gaming “OnFleek” received a penalty (3 million Won ~2700 US$) after inappropriate speech on stream on 6/11. He is also banned from competing during spring 2021. (V)
• Punch says farewell to SANDBOX Gaming & “Joker” extended his contract as a coach. (V)

Vitality

• There is a rumor about Memento going to be a Vitality jungler next year. (X)

Evil Geniuses

• AD Carry Bang is no longer part of Evil Geniuses. (V)
• Evil Geniuses have reached a verbal agreement with FlyQuest about signing IgNar as their support for next year. (X)

Gen.G Esports

• Gen.G says farewell to Changdong “TrAce” Yeo & Jaehyeon “Tom” Im. (V)

Afreeca Freecs

• AF started a rumor about Chovy joigning them. (X)

Cloud9 & G2

• Perkz will be leaving G2 and joigning his old teammate Zven in Cloud9. (X)
• G2 Caps declined the invitation for the All Stars this year and said on his stream that it was a boring tournament. (V)

kt Rolster

• Re-signing with the whole set of coaches of season 10. [Hirai (Head Coach), Acorn & supreme (coach).] (V)
• kt Rolster says farewell to toplaners “Smeb” & “Ray” and jungler “Malrang” (V)
• kt Rolster says farewell to toplaner “SoHwan”, jungler “bonO”, midlaner “Kuro” and their support “TusiN” (V)

CURRENT ALL STARS VOTING RESULTS

LCS

• TOP: TL Impact
• Jungle: TL Broxah
• MID: TL Jensen
• ADC: TL Tactical
• SUPP: TL CoreJJ

LEC

• TOP: FNC Bwipo
• Jungle: FNC Selfmade
• MID: MAD Humanoid
• ADC: RGE Hans Sama
• SUPP: FNC Hylissang

LCK

• Top: T1 Canna
• Jungle: DWG Canyon
• MID: T1 Faker
• ADC: DRX Deft
• SUPP: DWG BeryL

LPL

• TOP: SN Bin
• Jungle: TES Karsa
• MID: FPX DoinB
• ADC: TES JackeyLove
• SUPP: SN SwordArt

LOCAL NEWS

Intel Arabian Cup by LOL Arabia

Things seem to be interesting for the Moroccan community. They secured last week their first place in phase 2 for now. It’s not over yet as they still have another week to play. Let’s take a look at the standings:

1. Fox Gaming: 51 pts (18 Games)
2. eGz Esports: 51 pts (20 Games)
3. Divine Vendetta: 42 pts (19 Games)
4. Anubis Gaming: 39 pts (18 Games)
5. Overminds: 36 pts (19 Games)
6. Galaxy Racer Esports: 36 pts (20 Games)
7. Titans Gaming Center: 24 pts (20 Games)
8. Summon Aery: 24 pts (20 Games)
9. Handless: 21 pts (19 Games)
10. Fatigue Team: 9 pts (19 Games)

After their defeat against eGz the previous week, many doubted FXG coming into last week as they had to face DV & ANB, 2 of the top teams in the IAC. Although, FXG shook all their doubters and confirmed their dominance over the IAC with an incredible one sided performance against the Tunisian and Egyptian squads.

Valorant Arabia

First of all, let’s talk about the new announcement that Valorant Arabia shared with us. I can already see that they are putting a lot of effort toward our community, both for the North African one & the Middle East. Riot Chewbacca made a video explaining their next step and showed us a sneak peek of their plans! I can assure you that things are looking promising for us, let’s keep up our support and have faith in them.

Let’s jump into Strike Arabia. FXG already secured their spot in the grand finals after defeating the Tunisian contenders in the the winner’s bracket finals. Besides that, things seem to be really spicy in the losers bracket:

• KappaMa (Morocco) won against Ruthless54 (Algeria) with a score of 13–9. They are now in the LB 10.1 and they will face “Made in DZ” (Algeria) today. They still have a long way before reaching the final of the LB.
• Meanwhile on the other side of the losers bracket we have Exality (MA) who lost against Exalted Esports (DZ) with a score of 3–13. Team Lightning (TN) will face Exalted Esports tonight.
• The final of the LB will be on November 22nd, and Team majesty are already waiting for their opponent. Meanwhile FXG grand final match will be on November 23rd.

Huge thanks to all of you for supporting me since the start of all of this, keep doing that because it motivates me a lot and I will do my best to make you proud and bring more interesting news! Make sure to follow me on Twitch and see you guys in the next post.

Stay tuned.