
The team recently signed former KT Rolster support player Ha “ Hachani” Seung-chan for the 2017 season.Īccording to LCS insiders, KaSing tried out with several European teams this offseason, but was not able to reach an agreement. In the past year, KaSing has played for Team Vitality, who made playoffs in the 2016 EU LCS Spring Split but only secured seventh place in the Summer Split. He tried out with Team SoloMid at IEM San Jose 2015, where the team made the semifinals.

KaSing first gained notoriety with Supa Hot Crew, then moved on to H2k-Gaming, with whom he attended the 2015 World Championship. It’s not clear if Gold Coin were unable to find a Korean support, or if they had one lined up but negotiations fell through. However, currently FeniX is the only Korean signed to the team, leaving one import slot open.

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The team, which is backed by J2K Esports and Technology, purchased NRG eSports’ spot in the NA Challenger Series earlier this month.Īccording to an interview with Locodoco ahead of Gold Coin’s roster announcement, the team intended to field two Korean players in the Spring 2017 Challenger Series. The support position is the only remaining vacancy on Gold Coin’s roster after they announced the acquisition of top laner Colin “ Solo” Earnest, jungler Lucas “ Santorin” Larssen, mid laner Kim “ FeniX” Jae-hun, AD Carry Richard “ Rikara” Samuel Oh, and head coach Choi “ Locodoco” Yoon-sub on Dec. Though KaSing has not yet signed with Gold Coin, talks between the British player and the NA team are expected to conclude this week. ↑ GAM x NRG OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT youtube.Veteran support Raymond “ KaSing” Tsang is in contract negotiations with new Challenger Series team Gold Coin United, theScore esports has learned from multiple sources close to the player and team.↑ NRG sells Challenger spot to J2K Esports and Technology.↑ NRG appoints new CEO, former head of Apple iAd publisher relations espn.go.com.↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Sacramento Kings co-owners buy LCS spot, recruit GBM, Impact.↑ NRG terminates League of Legends team's contracts.This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. Playoff games are NOT included, but regular-season tiebreaker games ARE. It was confirmed the next day that the team had let all of their players go to pursue other options, but they were still "working on a plan" to stay in League of Legends.

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Soon after relegation, multiple players announced their free agency, and it was reported that NRG were closing down their team. In the promotion tournament, they lost first to Cloud9 Challenger and then to Echo Fox in back-to-back 3-0 sweeps and were relegated to the NACS. Ultimately, the changes did not work out, and NRG were consistently in eighth place week after week in the summer split until they fell to ninth in week 9. The community's reception to these changes were mixed while ohq was seen as a solid pickup, Quas had just come off of a split away from competition, and KiWiKiD was seen as one of the weaker supports in the league. In the midseason break, NRG traded out nearly their entire roster, keeping only GBM and adding Quas, Santorin, ohq and KiWiKiD. NRG sells Challenger spot to J2K Esports and Technology NRG to sell LCS Slot nrg.gg.

They were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. They were previously known as NRG eSports. NRG started the LCS strong, tied for either first or second place through the first four weeks, but after the fifth week they fell down to fifth place and remained there for the rest of the season. Altec officially joined the team's roster later on in the day. Former Origen head coach Hermit and Cloud9 coach Charlie formed the team's coaching staff. Their initial line-up included top laner Impact from Team Impulse, jungler Moon from Imagine, mid laner GBM from Jin Air, and support KonKwon, the only player to move over from Coast. They formed when two co-owners of NBA team Sacramento Kings purchased Team Coast's NA LCS slot for the 2016 Spring Season. NRG eSports was announced on November 16, 2015. They were previously known as NRG eSports.
