This Week in eSports - Week 5 wrap up, NA/EU CS Finals, & more

Competitions

• [NA] The fifth week of NA LCS wrapped up earlier this evening and here's the standings: 

• The NA LCS returns for week 6 on SATURDAY, June 28th! 

• [EU] The fifth week of EU LCS wrapped up Friday and here's the current standings:

• The EU LCS  returns for week 6 on THURSDAY, June 26th

• [NA CS] Team Coast wraps up the NA Challenger Series - Summer 1 by beating Team LolPro 2-0. 

• [EU CS] H2K Gaming wraps up the EU Challenger Series - Summer 1 by beating Ninjas in Pyjamas. Alex Ich was unable to attend the games with NiP due to visa issues between Russia and Europe. 

• [OCE] The Oceanic Regional Tournament - Winter wrapped up this weekend! In first place is Avant Garde Ascension, followed by Team Immunity and Team Nv in second!

Team News & Roster Changes

•  [NA/EU] LCS team summoner icons were made available earlier tihs week, including the new LMQ and CompLexity icons! More information and pricing can be found over on the LoL website. Remember: 20% of the icon price goes directly to the team! 

• [NA] Robert Morris University has started a program designed to make an official league of legends team along with two practice teams with all the support structure of a regular sport. This includes a support staff, tutoring, scholarships, etc. More information can be found on the main site! 

• [NA] Brokenshard was permanently replaced as the jungler on CompLexity by Kez. Brokenshard will be pursuing challenger options in Europe instead.

• [EU] Fnatic recruited Aranea (formerly of Millenium) as their new coach. Full announcement over on Fnatic's website.

• [EU] In regards to Gambit Gaming and NiP, essentially what happened is that Riot alerted them about the need to obtain a visa slightly late (combined with a slow visa office) which resulted in 4/5ths of Gambit not being able to attend the LCS event in London and led to Alex Ich not being able to attend with NiP. Riot put out a statement with all of the behind the scene details over on Lolesports.

• [China] PDD announced his retirement from League of Legends this week, and his former team Invictus Gaming will be recruiting a top laner from Korea. More information can be found over on Paravine. 

• [China] World Elite picked up some new players  this week including MingB, Actsin, and ninja.