VGJ. Storm
VGJ.Storm belongs to the large US-American VGJ franchise; maybe better known is the big brother VGJ.Thunder. Thanks to Vici Gaming (China Digital Culture Group – Limited) and professional basketball player Jeremy Lin, there is VGJ – advertised – Vici Gaming Jeremy. The team was formed after the departure of veteran players from GG on September 6th, 2017 and overseeing large financial donations from the franchise VGJ. The calculation didn’t work out and after it was announced that there would be no major financial support after all, many players returned to GG or turned away altogether. However, the dead team surprised with a completely new roster in February of the current year. 3 players from the USA and support from Ukraine/Pakistan should complete the new squad. So far, the team has shown passable performance and convinced in its GESC victory: Thailand Dota2 Minor and second place for the MDL Changsha Major. If the team gets the team rotation problems that were evident at the Changsha Major under control by TI8, VGJ.Storm also has a chance in this tournament.
Greatest success: Winner of the GESC: Thailand Dota2 Minor, 2nd in the MDL Changsha Major
Team Roster:
Carry: YawaR
Mid: Resolut1on
Offlane: Sneyking
Roamers/Support: MSS
Hard Support: svg (captain)
League of Legends explained – LoL for Dummies
The name of probably the most influential eSports title of the last few years – “League of Legends” – has been heard quickly; but what exactly it is all about is rather difficult to grasp, especially for the layman. Therefore, this complex game is broken down here to simple basic elements, understandable for everyone.
League of Legends or “LoL” is a video game published by Riot Games and belongs to the genre (game category) “MOBA”. MOBA is a sub-genre of strategy games and stands for “Multiplayer Online Battle Arena” – so it is an online team game that is played on a closed map that is always the same.
On this map, usually the so-called “Summoner’s Rift”, the teams compete in a five-against-five match with the goal of destroying the enemy base, the winner being the team that destroys the enemy’s main building, the “Nexus”. This usually takes between 25 and 35 minutes, but can also take an hour.
Each player controls one of over 140 available champions. These are selected before the start of each game and matched with the team. Each of these champions has its own skillset – i.e. abilities – and thus differs fundamentally from the others. Therefore, on the one hand it is important to perfect these champions as much as possible, but at the same time to know the skills of all champions in order to be able to compete effectively against them. This is also a long-term task, since new champions are added to the game all the time.