Counter Logic Gaming will reportedly shut its doorways as an esports group within the very close to future, with mass layoffs set to hit the corporate later this week, in accordance with League of Legends reporter Travis Gafford. The shock April shuttering may also see CLG dump all esports groups, notably its League roster.
Workers on the North American esports firm have reportedly been knowledgeable that layoffs will start at CLG as early as this Thursday.
CLG will preserve its 2023 League workforce in place and competing in the intervening time, though a sale of the franchise’s long-held LCS slot is reportedly within the works. The lead candidate to buy CLG presently is Los Angeles-based group NRG Esports. NRG beforehand competed within the LCS in the course of the 2016 season, and at the moment holds a franchised slot within the Riot Video games-organized VCT Americas VALORANT league.
This information comes days after a report surrounding fellow foundational LCS group TSM, and the way it will be trying to transfer out of esports and likewise look to sell its LCS franchise slot. CLG and TSM are two of the oldest organizations in League historical past, and are the one two groups to compete in each single cut up of the LCS in each the pre-franchised and present eras of the league’s existence.
Though it’s unclear presently the place this choice is coming from, it’s doubtless that transfer is being made by CLG’s dad or mum firm, the New York-based Madison Sq. Backyard firm, in accordance with Gafford’s report.
Dot Esports has reached out to each CLG and MSG for remark.
