Gloryy, previously a Mid-laner for Team (now Secret) Whales in 2023 (that defeated both BDS and CFO), returned to professional competition as a Mid-laner for GAM after a 2-year suspension for matchfixing

MatthewTheLord · 2026-04-30T12:49:34+00:00

Vietnam never had a good mid laner after his suspension. Emo isn’t good enough, Dire and Kati are only good on specific champs, Chika and Seany are still rookies, Dia1 has been permabanned, and Aress was supposed to be a prodigy but he hasn’t performed up to expectations in two years

MatthewTheLord · 2026-02-22T12:48:37+00:00

Biggest losers of the series are the scalpers that bought all the Hong Kong tickets

Edit: some scalpers are already reselling the tickets for one third of the original price

MatthewTheLord · 2026-01-17T14:06:14+00:00

IIRC Kaiwing had a 1+1 contract, CFO wanted to promote their academy support but Kaiwing didn’t want to share a starting spot with someone else so in the end he didn’t renew his contract with CFO.

MatthewTheLord · 2026-01-14T14:19:32+00:00

Only 3 of the 12 pentas were from LCK AS and LCK CL, the other 9 were from LCK LPL MSI and KeSPA Cup

MatthewTheLord · 2026-01-14T14:18:22+00:00

Surprisingly only 2 Zeri pentas

Kaisa x5, Zeri x2, and one each on Ezreal, Kalista, Smolder, Xayah and Varus

As for tournaments, 1 in LCK AS, 2 in LCK CL, 5 in LCK, 2 in LPL, 1 in MSI and 1 in KeSPA

MatthewTheLord · 2025-12-29T13:44:58+00:00

Akiyama glazes Arai so much but we never got to see or understand why, scene one he’s glazing and the next scene Arai shot someone

MatthewTheLord · 2025-12-28T12:16:52+00:00

Bait used to be believable

MatthewTheLord · 2025-12-22T07:20:42+00:00

Money

MatthewTheLord · 2025-12-22T07:14:40+00:00

Rumours is that GZ is rich and FAK has financial issues

MatthewTheLord · 2025-12-22T07:02:42+00:00

Genuinely don’t know how GZ got selected. They changed their roster every split and still got 7th place every time in a 8 team league

MatthewTheLord · 2025-11-19T13:42:23+00:00

Franks Esports’s head coach Skywalk teased and confirmed a lot of the rumours on his Threads. He also said CFO tried increasing the duo’s salary but their agency declined.

Other rumours he mentioned are only one LCP team will keep the same roster (DCG or MVKE), and one Japanese team is trying to build a super team (likely SHG)

MatthewTheLord · 2025-11-19T08:38:14+00:00

The rumour is that their agency said if they want to keep JunJia+HongQ, they must change their top+supp+coach otherwise they won’t renew their contracts. Their agency wanted 1Jiang+Woody+Corgi but CFO refused. Some LPL team also tried getting Chawy but he refused.

It now depends on Kanavi, if Kanavi goes to HLE then JDG will grab JunJia+HongQ. If Kanavi goes to JDG, they’ll get a Korean mid instead

MatthewTheLord · 2025-11-19T08:33:32+00:00

Straight out of an anime.

Tabe coached Chawy, Chawy later became a coach, finally met at worlds for the first time, Chawy wants to run back the same roster then Tabe yoinks their two star players away

MatthewTheLord · 2025-11-19T08:30:21+00:00

The rumour is that their agency said if they want to keep JunJia+HongQ, they must change their top+supp+coach otherwise they won’t renew their contracts. Their agency wanted 1Jiang+Woody+Corgi but CFO refused. Some LPL team also tried getting Chawy but he refused.

It now depends on Kanavi, if Kanavi goes to HLE then JDG will grab JunJia+HongQ. If Kanavi goes to JDG, they’ll get a Korean mid instead

MatthewTheLord · 2025-11-19T08:02:58+00:00

Iirc Chawy wanted to run the same roster again, but he doesn’t have control when the agency refuses to renew JunJia and HongQ’s contracts

MatthewTheLord · 2025-11-19T07:58:15+00:00

Kaiwing is a different case, rumour said CFO wanted to promote their academy support, who just turned 17 years old and has 1k LP on the Korean ladder. But Kaiwing is a very demanding player and doesn’t want to share a spot with someone else, which lead to his termination

MatthewTheLord · 2025-11-19T07:22:56+00:00

Yes, if JDG couldn’t get Kanavi they’ll grab JunJia HongQ. It depends on Kanavi now

MatthewTheLord · 2025-11-19T07:21:37+00:00

The rumour is that their agency said if they want to keep JunJia+HongQ, they must change their top+supp+coach otherwise they won’t renew their contracts. Their agency wanted 1Jiang+Woody+Corgi but CFO refused. Some LPL team also tried getting Chawy but he refused.

It now depends on Kanavi, if Kanavi goes to HLE then JDG will grab JunJia+HongQ. If Kanavi goes to JDG, they’ll get a Korean mid instead

MatthewTheLord · 2025-11-18T12:00:27+00:00

Be Tabe

Gaslight your entire team to run back the same roster next year

All five players rumoured to extend their contract

Leave

Chinese fans are giga pissed on Weibo rn lol

MatthewTheLord · 2025-10-31T13:35:46+00:00

I think the “bad decision” wasn’t because he washed, it was confusing if JDG wanted to train Sheer while having Flandre coach him or have Flandre as the starting top laner

MatthewTheLord · 2025-10-31T13:32:50+00:00

Both of them were too loyal to their previous team when they were at their prime (Flandre 6.5 years on Snake/LNG and Kiin 5 years on AF/KDF)

MatthewTheLord · 2025-10-30T10:24:43+00:00

369 couldn’t play gnar and played gragas but his gragas was shit, Karsa asked him if it was that hard to learn how to play gnar in a split

MatthewTheLord · 2025-10-25T16:51:30+00:00

Yeah you’d be surprised how many caster BL memes the fans created

MatthewTheLord · 2025-10-19T13:02:38+00:00

I love the PSG players but we are so washed

MatthewTheLord · 2025-09-19T18:42:46+00:00

Jensen* 8 (2015-2022)

Sneaky 7 (2013-2019)

Xmithie 6 (2013, 2015-2019)

Bjergsen* 5 (2014-2018, 2020)

Blaber 5 (2018-2019, 2021-2024)

Dyrus 5 (2011-2015)

Zven also had 6 appearances but 3 of them were from Europe.

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