Every day is Christmas at the Philadelphia Fusion esports mansion. The team's marketing and content director Hung Tran gestured to the towering decorated pine tree to the right of the front door by way of explaining the joke: The pro gamers who live here get whatever they want and do whatever they want. But Christmas wouldn't seem as exciting if it happened every day.
Immortals has been rejected from North America's League of Legends Championship Series, which comes as a shock, given that the organisation bought in back in 2015 and has since built one of the league's largest support staffs for their LoL team.
That still wasn't quite enough of a commitment in League of Legends for Riot Games, though.
Prominent esports organisation Immortals suffered a major misfire over the weekend when three members of its Counter-Strike team showed up late to a $US70,000 ($87,209) Dreamhack Montreal finals match, forcing them to forfeit the first map in a best of three set, per the tournament's rules.
Nine of the ten players in the PGL Major finals had never made it to a Valve major finals before, with one team having never qualified for a major ever. Only Danylo "Zeus" Teslenko had competed in the finals of a major prior, and he'd been snubbed twice.
Competitive League of Legends has grown past just the five-player line-up. Coaching staff and more people in charge of training, guiding and managing players are becoming necessary for a successful team eyeing a spot at the top of the League Championship Series.
