After a slightly disappointing 2023 LEC marketing campaign, KOI’s League of Legends crew may need secured a key piece of the puzzle for subsequent 12 months’s try at a championship run.
The group has reportedly re-signed celebrity mid laner Emil “Larssen” Larsson to a whopping four-year contract extension that can final till 2027, according to esports reporter Alejandro Gomis.
This transfer will give KOI a premier expertise to construct round for the upcoming season. He might be one of many few gamers to have signed a four-year cope with an LEC crew because the league allowed long-term contracts to be signed in 2021.
The 23-year-old veteran has performed beneath the Rogue-KOI banner since 2019, when he helped the crew’s Academy squad win the inaugural Ultraliga Playoffs. After becoming a member of Rogue’s major roster that following summer time, he has develop into a staple member of the crew and among the finest gamers within the league.
Larssen has solely received a single LEC trophy however has at all times been a driving drive for Rogue and KOI as they constantly push for a top-three end within the area. This 12 months, nevertheless, his crew struggled to search out success on Summoner’s Rift, stumbling to a number of bottom-five finishes and solely ending as a top-three crew as soon as in the course of the 2023 Winter Playoffs.
This previous summer time was KOI’s worst efficiency but, with the crew bouncing out of rivalry with back-to-back eighth-place finishes. They weren’t in a position to rise to the problem of the league’s new format and have been by no means in a position to preserve their type or string collectively a scorching streak like many different prime squads.
Followers are, nevertheless, a bit skeptical about the way forward for KOI after multiple reports have suggested the organization is suffering from major financial issues which have prevented it from paying salaries for gamers, content material creators, and even its LEC license. Experiences additionally declare that KOI’s present co-owner Ibai Llanos has needed to pay upwards of three million euros of his personal funds to compensate for these reported monetary issues.
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