CLG: Voyboy Out, Locodoco In

posted by Camouflage23, 208 days ago

The results of the NA teams at the World Championships a few weeks ago were far worse than the ones from EU and Asian teams. With many people thinking that there will be changes in the NA scene to fix this matter,

CounterLogicGaming Prime is the first team to do so.

CLG.Locodoco

CLG.Prime released a statement saying that

Joe 'Voyboy' Esfahani will be released from his contract and that

Choi 'Locodoco' Yoonsup will be picked up for the support role. With this change,

Steve 'Chauster' Chau will be moving to the jungle and

George 'HotShotGG' Georgallidis will be going back to the top lane. They are also hoping to return to their former dominant strength from Season 1, where they won the World Cyber Games 2010 and the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne.

CLG.Prime moments before winning IEM Cologne

'Chauster's favorite champion is Lee Sin which he plays a lot in the Solo Queue. He also jungled once for CLG.Prime using Lee Sin when they faced their counterpart

CLG.eu during the group stages of the Azubu The Champions Spring 2012. 'HotShotGG' will return to his more familiar Top lane. During Season 1 his Nidalee was a must-ban against CLG.Prime as he would crush enemies who allowed him to have the champion.

Where will Voyboy go?

This is the third time that CLG.Prime has changed their roster. First it was

Cody 'Elementz' Sigfusson who got traded to

Curse Gaming with

Peter 'Doublelift' Peng coming to CLG.Prime in return. Then,

Brandon 'Saintvicious' DiMarco was replaced by 'Voyboy' when the infamous tri-switch happened between Curse Gaming, CLG.Prime and

Dignitas.

CLG.Prime's Line-up:

Choi 'Locodoco' Yoonsup - Support

George 'HotShotGG' Georgallidis - Top lane

Micheal 'bigfatlp' Tang - AP carry

Peter 'Doublelift' Peng - AD carry

Steve 'Chauster' Chau - Jungle

'Locodoco' gave the following statement regarding his arrival to CLG.Prime:

After declining several offers from Korean teams I'm glad to finally settle down with CLG. I see an immense potential within the team and hope to bring my Korean mind-set and work ethic back to North America so that we may perform up to the CLG name in Season 3 and beyond.

-Choi 'Locodoco' Yoonsup, CLG.Prime Support

'Voyboy's post on his FB page:

I am no longer on CLG. I wish them the best of luck in Season 3 and beyond.

I'll be looking to join a new team that can embrace me in the near future.

-Joe 'Voyboy' Esfahani

Sources: CLG announcement, Picture 1, Picture 2

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Griever20 wrote at 23.10.2012, 12:42 CEST:

so again CLG.prime picks up a new player, throw around half of their lineup and kick a stong player :D

gl Voyboy, hope he finds a new team^^

Aasimar wrote at 23.10.2012, 12:45 CEST:

pfff again CLG blame wrong person... imo Hotshot is the biggest problem in CLG atm ;x

klaxX wrote at 23.10.2012, 13:16 CEST:

voyboy for me is the best CLG NA player. blaming him for bad clg plays in the past is out of all reason

Socken Sultan wrote at 23.10.2012, 14:02 CEST:

If they just needed a new Support they could've asked me :D

eduardriz wrote at 23.10.2012, 14:42 CEST:

PR action

DinosaurIRL wrote at 23.10.2012, 14:52 CEST:

Why not include the SV quote or the quotes from Voyboy?

ccCaitSith wrote at 23.10.2012, 15:28 CEST:

best chose they could have made. Voy underperforming for months now

NukeDieWalker GER wrote at 23.10.2012, 15:36 CEST:

ccCaitSith schrieb:
best chose they could have made. Voy underperforming for months now

I agree

also, I've seen HSGG play 1v1 vs voyboy 4 times, and he's won 3/4 or 4/4 can't remember one of the outcomes.

Of course that doesn't necessarily say anything. But as long as HotShotGG wants to play, he will play, and top lane is the best place for him to be at.
just my opinion :)

bananadealer wrote at 23.10.2012, 15:48 CEST:

I might have gotten this whole roster change wrong as well as the article but i dont believe he was kicked, just benched. I think he is a substitute now rather than a lone wolf

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Camouflage23 wrote at 23.10.2012, 15:49 CEST:

bananadealer schrieb:
I might have gotten this whole roster change wrong as well as the article but i dont believe he was kicked, just benched. I think he is a substitute now rather than a lone wolf

He is released from CLG, he also confirmed it on his facebook page.

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hiqhexplosion wrote at 23.10.2012, 16:14 CEST:

they changed their roaster too often thats why they performt sooo bad

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TMA Deviant wrote at 23.10.2012, 17:28 CEST:

hiqhexplosion schrieb:
they changed their roaster too often thats why they performt sooo bad

no the reason is they changed it soo often for no reason

#13

wombat_danGER wrote at 23.10.2012, 21:08 CEST:

lets see if fapmaster loco can convince clg to train 12+ hrs like every asian pro team.

#14

NofLevi wrote at 24.10.2012, 08:22 CEST:

DoubleLift Unskilled anyway
LocoDoco>AD Carry
DoubleLift>Support

#15

bananadealer wrote at 24.10.2012, 18:54 CEST:

Camouflage23 schrieb:

He is released from CLG, he also confirmed it on his facebook page.

I am quite sure i saw on some website that he was being set as sub instead of being plain thrown off, but that website might very well have been completely wrong, idk ;)