Tim Sevenhuysen is the founder and sole developer of Oracle's Elixir and provides a variety of consulting and contracting services throughout the esports industry. He is the former Director of Esports Analytics for 100 Thieves, served as Head of Data Science for Esports One, led Shadow.gg from 2017 to 2019, and was Statistical Consultant for Fnatic in 2015. Follow Tim on Twitter at @TimSevenhuysen.
Speculation is swirling around Adrian Ma, who played Support with Team Impulse in 2015. Here’s why he’s so highly sought after this offseason.
Adrian accomplished his very impressive stat line while playing on a sometimes disorganized Team Impulse, alongside a Jungler who placed the second-fewest wards in the NA LCS. Impulse finished the 2015 Summer regular season with a 13-6 record, good for third place in the region, and was eliminated from the North American Regionals tournament by Cloud9.
Team Roccat announced today that they have re-signed Norwegian Mid laner nukeduck for the 2016 season.
In a region packed with strong Mid laners, nukeduck holds his own, with an impressive 4.9 KDA and stronger laning stats than players like Febiven, Ryu, PePiiNeRO, and PowerOfEvil.
Roccat has now confirmed three returning players from the 2015 roster, with nukeduck joining the team’s Jungler, Jankos, and Support, Vander.
For the first time in League of Legends history, two Korean teams will face off for the Summoners Cup. This Saturday, SK Telecom T1 and the KOO Tigers will take the stage, and when it’s over we will crown the victors, celebrating a third consecutive Korean World Champion.
The Story so Far
The SK Telecom franchise is hunting for its second world title, after Faker and Bengi earned the Summoner’s Cup in Season 3 with a different set of teammates. They’re exceeding that 2013 performance so far, on target for the first ever undefeated World Championships run. But SKT’s 12-0 record at Worlds might not even be their most impressive accomplishment so far this year.
