Why clg go to korea

Following this World Championship, and due to contracts not really being a thing at the time, massive roster shuffles swept every team in the world - including CLG. The team quickly realized that they were a big fish in a small pond, and as such after a fair few more rude awakenings in international competitions, they decided to relocate to South Korea. CLG would bootcamp in Seoul around this time — a first in League history — in order to compete against the best of the best, entering what would now come to be known as the LCK.

To this day, TSM and CLG are still considered to be rivals, despite the latter finding almost no success in comparison to the former. However, once upon a time, CLG was on top — and gave that away for a chance to make NA proud internationally. Yes, they had a world-class bottom lane who were constantly evolving and growing together, but playing around one lane can only get you so far.

The team had dominated pre-season, with Chauster swapping to jungle after being dissatisfied with every player that the team brought into the position HotshotGG himself moving to the role for a brief period of time.

A decent showing throughout the regular season saw CLG make it into playoffs, though given the caliber of their players their performance left a lot to be desired and the team quickly bowed out in 5th-6th place. HotshotGG would go on record midway through this series stating that, if they were to be relegated, then CLG as an organization would be finished. Season 4 would prove especially disappointing for CLG fans, as - even with HotshotGG stepping away to allow for new blood in the toplane - the team failed to make an international appearance.

The team would return from their bootcamp ready to go on a tear through the standings but ultimately fell flat in their first match back with a quick finish against Curse.

What nobody could have expected, however, was what would come next. Spring would be decidedly average for the organization, a good start marred by a disappointing playoffs performance, the only improvement being that they were not relegated to the Promotion Tournament this time around. The crowning achievement of this season would be a victory over TSM in Madison Square Garden the parent company of which would purchase CLG ahead of franchising to secure a first-place finish for the first time since This would, at present, be the last time CLG played at Worlds, as the team gradually fell off.

While the organization certainly seemed to be on a downward trend over the past few years, the roster that they assembled this off-season should have been a shoo-in for at least a middle-of-the-pack finish.

Going into the group, CLG and G2 were seen as contenders for the second seed, while Tigers and Albus NoX were expected to finish first and last, respectively. Instead, CLG dropped both of their games to the wildcard team, and ANX skyrocketed to a second-place group stage finish while G2 collapsed into last place; CLG ended their Worlds run in third with a record.

They were inconsistent to begin the split, fluctuating between 5th and 7th place over the first half of the season before stabilizing with a week 5. CLG remained in the playoffs after that, and a record down the stretch put them in fourth behind TSM , Cloud9 and a much improved Phoenix1. Expected to win due to FlyQuest's late season struggles, CLG seemed to prove that prediction right by winning the first two games.

However, FlyQuest came back to win the next two. With a game 5 draft consisting mainly of comfort picks on both sides, including Evelynn for Moon and Kalista for Stixxay , CLG seemed likely to win simply by outscaling FlyQuest. However, some questionable aggressive calls around Baron would allow FlyQuest to complete the reverse sweep, ending CLG's season. In the mideason, CLG swapped junglers with Immortals , sending Xmithie , one of their longest tenured players, to the team for Dardoch. However, before the start of week 8, the team announced that Dardoch would be leaving for Team Liquid due to irreconcilable conflicts with his teammates, and would be replaced by rookie OmarGod , who had just spent his first professional season with CLG Academy in the NACS.

CLG continued to play fairly well over the final two weeks, going , but fell into 3rd place due to TSM and Immortals posting better records, meaning they would miss out on a playoff bye. In the quarterfinals, CLG matched up against 6th place Team EnVyUs , who had lost their last four games and were considered the weakest playoff team.

CLG's veteran leadership won out in the end, and they managed to come back to take the series, but the weakened team was immediately swept by Immortals in the semi-finals.

Sent to the third place match against Team Dignitas , CLG managed to eke out a shred of hope for themselves by summarily sweeping them, in part due to them catching Dignitas jungler Shrimp out in the jungle in all three games. There, they defeated FlyQuest , setting up a match with Cloud9 to make Worlds. After dropping the first two games, CLG managed to win the third and make it a series, but dropped the fourth, ending their season. Expectations were high for this new roster, due to Biofrost's three consecutive split championships with TSM and the hope that Reignover would return to his old form and replicate his previous successful tenures with Immortals and Fnatic.

However, the team was unable to live up to expectations, which resulted in an inconsistent Spring Split. A week 3 made it seem as though the team had turned a corner after a poor start, but they proceeded to lose their next six games to fall to a tie for dead last going into week 7. As their playoff hopes diminished, CLG seemed to have turned a corner and experienced a resurgence, winning their next four games straight.

However, they were not able to finish strongly, being eliminated from playoff contention by TSM and Team Liquid in the final week. This marked the first time in franchise history that CLG had failed to make playoffs. CLG elected to run the same roster from Spring for the Summer Split , despite the disappointing performance and poor finish. The team experienced more of the same inconsistencies they experienced in Spring, resulting in another sub-optimal split and placement.

They placed generally evenly through the first four weeks, with an inspiring week four, with outstanding performances from the bot lane of Stixxay and Biofrost, earning them spots on the OP 5 for that week. At this point, CLG was thought of as a lock for playoffs with how strong they appeared. However, they once again failed to live up to expectations, going four weeks without winning a single game.

On August 7th, following the organization's sixth consecutive loss, long-time head coach Zikz was fired after a four-year tenure with the team. The move was met with a wave of criticism both for the timing of the move as well as the move itself of departing with one of the greatest and most decorated coaches in NALCS history.

This was thought of to be the first sign of the team transitioning into a rebuilding phase. The team was officially eliminated from playoff contention for the Summer Split by FlyQuest in week 8. Because it was then impossible for them to make playoffs, CLG decided to substitute academy jungler Wiggily in for Reignover and academy top laner FallenBandit in for Darshan going into week 9, in order to observe how they played at the LCS level.

The move proved successful, as Wiggily played exceptionally well with huhi in their first win since week 4 against Clutch Gaming. CLG then subbed Darshan back in for FallenBandit for their final game of the split to see how Wiggily would play with the entire starting roster, and Wiggily only managed to improve.

CLG decisively won their final game of the Summer Split against Golden Guardians for a week off the back of Wiggily, who also received his first career Player of the Game award in his second game as a pro. Although they finished the split with another record, spirits were high going into the offseason, as they seemed to have found their franchise jungler in Wiggily. This table shows up to the 10 most recent results.

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Therefore, more players are eligible to start than are listed on this page - we will only list those that do play. Pobelter rejoins. Pobelter is removed from the GCD. Griffin rejoins from academy roster. Solo 's joining is confirmed. Griffin leaves for academy roster. Solo is added to the GCD. Solo 's contract expires. Wiggily joins from academy roster. FallenBandit rejoins from academy roster. Wiggily leaves for academy roster. Draft Pick. Yeon 's draft window expires. Stixxay joins as substitute.

Stixxay leaves. Ruin joins. Ruin leaves. Fragas joins from academy roster. Tuesday rejoins from academy roster. Fragas leaves for academy roster. Tuesday leaves for academy roster.

Deus joins from academy roster. Deus leaves for academy roster. Wind joins from academy roster. Wind leaves for academy roster. Crown joins. Crown leaves. PowerOfEvil joins. PowerOfEvil leaves. Reignover and Biofrost join.

OmarGod leaves for academy roster. Biofrost leaves. FallenBandit , Moon , and Auto leave. Moon joins from academy roster. Auto rejoins from academy roster.

ZionSpartan joins. Seraph leaves. Darshan leaves. Reignover leaves. Pobelter joins. Huhi joins as substitute. Link leaves.

OmarGod rejoins from academy roster. Dardoch leaves. TrickZ joins. Aphromoo rejoins. Dardoch joins. Xmithie leaves. BillyBoss leaves. Xmithie joins. Fragnat1c joins as substitute. YoonA joins as substitute. YoonA leaves. KeNNy u joins as substitute.

Thinkcard and bigfatlp leave. KeNNy u leaves. Thinkcard joins as substitute. Pobelter leaves. Doublelift rejoins. Chauster Bot to Support changes position. Elementz moves to substitute. Doublelift leaves. Aphromoo and sayocean General Manager join. LiNk joins as substitute. Temp Sub. Benny temporary substitute leaves. Thinkcard temporary substitute leaves. Seraph joins.

TrickZ leaves. Nientonsoh joins. Aphromoo leaves. Nien leaves. Thinkcard , Chaox , and babyeator temporary substitutes leave. Chauster temporary substitute leaves. Chauster retires. NydusHerMain joins as substitute.

NydusHerMain leaves. Balls joins as substitute. Balls leaves. BloodWater joins as substitute. BloodWater leaves. Locodoco joins. Voyboy leaves. Locodoco leaves. Voyboy joins.