eSports Weekly 01/10/16

This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for LoL, CS:GO, and Dota 2. Expect spoilers!

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League of Legends 

LCS Final Rosters Overview

NA and EU LCS start this week! With all rosters finalized, here's an overview of all the rosters.

North America LCS Teams

Team	Top	Jungle	Mid	ADC	Support
Cloud9	Balls	Rush	Jensen	Sneaky	Hai
Counter Logic Gaming	Darshan	Xmithie	HuHi	Stixxay	Aphromoo
Echo Fox	kfo	Hard	Froggen	Keith	Big
Immortals	Huni	Reignover	Pobelter	WildTurtle	Adrian
NRG Esports	Impact	Moon	GBM	Altec	KonKwon
Renegades	RF Legendary	Crumbz	Alex Ich	Freeze	Remi
Team Dignitas	SmittyJ	Kirei	Shiphtur	Apollo	KiWiKiD
Team Impulse	Feng	Procxin	Pirean	Mash	Gate
Team Liquid	Lourlo	IWillDominate	FeniX	Piglet	Smoothie
Team SoloMid	Hauntzer	Svenskeren	Bjregsen	Doublelift	YellOwStaR

The games to check out are Fnatic vs. Origen on Thursday, Vitality vs. Fnatic on Friday, and H2k vs. Origen also on Friday.

To see the schedule of games that will start on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, click here.

LCK and LPL Schedules

If you can't wait until Thursday, the best region in the world, LoL Champions Korea, will be kicking off the new season on Wednesday, Jan. 13. The games I am looking forward to is CJ vs. SKT T1 on Wednesday, Longzhu vs. Jin Air on Thursday, and ROX Tigers vs. CJ on Friday.
Click here to see their schedule for this week.

The LoL Pro League will also be starting this week. Tune in starting Thursday, Jan. 14 to see Chinese professional League of Legends. The standout games should be Edward Gaming vs. Royal Never Give Up on Thursday and LGD vs. QG on Friday.
Click here to see their schedule for this week.

LoL eSports' hype video for the start of the 2016 EU LCS Spring Split.

CLG Stixxay - 1v5 Insane Ezreal Pentakill

With Doublelift leaving CLG, many people have concerns if CLG's new ADC can fill Doublelift's shoes. Watch this insane pentakill to restore your #faith.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

OpTic Gaming wins ELEAGUE's Road to Vegas

OpTic Gaming won 2-0 against Lounge Gaming in a convincing fashion to win ELEAGUE's Road to Vegas. The two maps that were picked were Train and Cobblestone, with Lounge Gaming being
strong in Train and OpTic being strong in Cobblestone. Thanks to a strong performance by OpTic's ShahZaM, OpTic Gaming was able to take Train, the map they were weak in, and dominate in Cobblestone. OpTic won $35,000 and, more importantly, entered into the opening season roster of ELEAGUE which boasts a prize pool of $1.2 million.

Some of the highlights of the finals between OpTic and Lounge. Go to 19:27 if you would like to watch when the game starts!

Thorin and Shaq Banter

Thorin and Shaq have a legendary banter as NBA and CS:GO analysts collide.

Dota 2

The Shanghai Major Regional Qualifiers

While eight teams have already been invited to the anticipated Shanghai Major, teams have been fighting to qualify for the eight remaining spots. With the qualifiers finally done, here are all of the teams that will be participating:

Invited Teams

• OG
• Evil Geniuses
• Team Secret
• Virtus Pro
• CDEC
• EHOME
• Vici Gaming
• Alliance

Qualified Teams

• Fnatic
• MVP Phoenix
• Team Liquid
• Team Spirit
• LGD
• Newbee
• Team Archon
• compLexity Gaming

With so many games that went on thanks to 4 different qualifier tournaments and a large open qualifier tournament, there are an enormous amount of exciting games to catch up on. Some of the more sensational runs were Team Spirit's fantastic run over Team Empire and Complexity Gaming's victory over Digital Chaos.

Mirana Ultra Kill during compLexity Gaming vs. Digital Chaos

Sources:
The Score eSports-

• The Shanghai Major: The Invites
• OpTic win Road to Vegas; claim spot in ELEAGUE