Author: Alejandro "anonimotum" Gomis
Many teams applied to become part of Riot Gamesâ upcoming franchised VALORANT circuit in EMEA. With some being on a waiting list, teams have advanced to the next stage of the partnership process.On July 15th, Riot Games communicated to teams their situation regarding the possibility of entering one of the VALORANT franchises. The vast majority of candidates were eliminated, leaving a total of around 20 teams.Some of the teams in the waiting list, with a large fan base, were left in limbo between advancing to the next phase and being disqualified. Finally, their futures were decided and some of them…
Team Heretics has reached an agreement with Misfits to be in Europe’s top League of Legends competition in 2023, sources told BLIX.GG on Tuesday. Eros was the first to advance the sale of the rabbits in the top competition. Team Heretics had negotiations with other LEC teams to enter this competition, but they finally managed to reach an agreement with American organization Misfits. The price for the complete spot was around 45 million dollars in the first negotiations.Although the bids have advanced and the amounts have changed somewhat. Rumors point to Heretics buying a large percentage of the Misfits spot,…
The move is pending approval from Riot Games. Fabian “FEBIVEN” Diepstraten will return to League of Legends competition after not competing since July 2021 in Fnatic’s academy.The midlaner will return to summoners Rift but in a different league, the LFL. The move would come after a bad result for Mirage Elyandra, with a record of 2 wins and 14 losses.The addition of Febiven would not be the only one for this summer split 2022. The Netherland player would join Soaz in the additions, although Soaz will remain in the role of positional Coach for the moment, while Fabian would replace…
Cheng “S0ul” Luo and Tony “Instinct” Ng will be promoted to TSM’s main team in the LCS and will debut in the top competition for the first time, sources told BLIX.GG on Tuesday July 2nd.They will be replacing toplaner Heo “Huni” Seung-hoon and botlaner Edward “Tactical” Ra. According to sources close to the move, the reason for Huni’s change is a wrist problem, while the decision to move up Instinct up is to try and improve results.Also, Jonathan “Chime” Pomponio has reportedly reached an agreement with TSM, but sources close to BLIX.GG cannot confirm whether the player will play for…
Riot Games recently revealed the details of the franchise system that will apply to VALORANT a few days ago to a select groupof organizations (although this group would be quite large, at least in Europe). The deadline to apply for the partnership system in the 3 regions (America, EMEA and APAC) is set for this coming Friday 17th at 11:59 PM. After that, Riot would start discarding teams in the coming days.Riot Games announced to the teams that there would be 8-10 organizations in the franchises, although sources close to BLIX.GG commented that there would be 10 teams in EMEA…
Report done in collaboration between Anonimotum and LEC_Gliscor.Mirage Elyandra, the French-Canadian organization competing in LFL as a collaboration between Mirage Esports from Quebec and Elyandra Esport from France, would have reached an agreement for the acquisition of its spot in LFL for the next 2023 season due to economic struggle from Mirage Esports, as per sources close to BLIX.GG said.They new investor would be Highlight Event and Entertainment AG, a Swiss organization based in Lucern that has no previous involvement with esports. The ownership of Highlight Event traces up to famous Swiss businessman Alexander Studhalter, the corporate group would be…
Former 100 Thieves Academy jungler Shane “Kenvi” Espinoza is set to join Immortals’ LCS team for the upcoming Summer Split. This news come after the departure of former jungler Andrei “Xerxe” Dragomir who recently signed with Astralis. The Filipino jungler would make his debut in LCS for the first time in his three year career.Among the options that were considered for the Immortals jungle was Dennis “Svenskeren” Johnsen, although they finally chose Kenvi.Kenvi comes from 100 Thieves Academy after more than two years between there and its sister team 100 Thieves Next, reaching playoffs spots in LCS Academy League consistently. His…
Close sources confirm that Nicolaj “Jensen” Jensen, the legendary Danish midlaner, has reached an agreement to sign with Cloud9 as a starting midlaner for the Summer Split. If confirmed, this news means the return of one of the most laureated midlaner of North America, after a recent report about Fudge rerolling back to toplane was made by LEC_Wooloo on Upcomer.The return of the kingIt was a surprise for everyone that Jensen was left without a team this year. The midlaner was considered as one of the best in the league, on top of being a European citizen with a resident…
Top laner Noh “Gamsu” Yeong-jin has reached an agreement with Dignitas and will be the new Dignitas toplaner for the next LCS split; sources told BLIX.GG on Wednesday. This move would be preceded by the firing of Aaron “FakeGod” Lee, who was the toplaner of Dignitas in LCS for a year and five months. Dignitas already announced the departure of FakeGod and announced that they would be looking for a new toplaner, which all signs point to Gamsu.Gamsu is a Korean player who already competed with Dignitas for a whole year in 2015. Before that, he debuted in some Korean…
Jørgen “Hatrixx” ElgÃ¥en will join UCAM Tokiers as the new Midlaner for this summer Split and remain in the Superliga until the end of the year; sources told BLIX.GG on Wednesday. With this addition, UCAM would close the League of Legends roster.Hatrixx would leave Ibai Llanos’ team to enter a new chapter with the Murcian organization. KOI’s performance in his first split competing was good, even though his playoff qualification was not decided until the last day of competition. KOI was third in the regular phase and lost in playoffs 3-0 against Bisons, Hatrixx had a determinant role in the…