Don’t look now, however FlyQuest’s 2023 LCS roster has simply gotten even scarier.
According to League reporter Brieuc Seeger, Kim “Ssong” Sang-soo, the pinnacle coach of reigning world champions DRX, will signal with FlyQuest within the LCS for the 2023 season. Based on the esport’s international contract database, Ssong’s settlement with DRX, like these of the remainder of the workforce’s roster and workers, expired in late November of this yr.
Ssong, together with assistant coach Lee “Mowgli” Jae-ha, led the world champions by the unlikeliest of triumphs in 2022, capped off with a five-game win over Faker and T1 within the finals in San Francisco.
This isn’t Ssong’s first foray into the LCS. The 33-year-old veteran performed as a mid laner means again in 2012, attending Worlds that yr with NaJin Sword. Since then, he helped coach the 2016 ROX Tigers to a Summer time title within the LCK earlier than main Immortals in Summer time 2017 to a Worlds berth. He stayed in North America and coached TSM, Echo Fox, and CLG earlier than returning to South Korea and becoming a member of DRX’s workers earlier than the 2021 LCK Spring Break up.
FlyQuest’s new-look roster is being constructed from the bottom up on all fronts. New president and chief gaming officer PapaSmithy not too long ago joined the org after a three-year stint as the overall supervisor of LCS heavyweights 100 Thieves.
Beneath new management, FlyQuest is taking no prisoners this yr, spending a lot of the newfound money from its current acquisition by the proprietor of the Nationwide Hockey League’s Florida Panthers proper out of the gate. In a transfer that shocked some given its fame as a likable, middling LCS workforce, cut its entire 2022 roster, which put collectively a decent marketing campaign with group favorites Josedeodo within the jungle and Toucouille within the mid lane, amongst others.
For the upcoming season, FlyQuest has signed help Eyla from Group Liquid Academy, a participant who many take into account the area’s finest prospect after repeated splits of domination in North America’s beginner ranks. Within the mid lane, 2022 LCK Rookie of the Yr Lee “VicLa” Dae-Kwang can be donning the inexperienced together with AD carry Lee “Prince” Chae-hwan, who simply completed his second skilled season on Liiv SANDBOX, choosing up LCK second and third-team All-Professional honors in two of his final three splits. Within the prime lane and jungle, Affect and Spica, respectively, are reportedly becoming a member of FlyQuest to spherical out a formidable roster.
