LMQ picks up Jin Air Coach "Fly"
He'll be moving to North America
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Jin Air coach Kim "Fly" Sang-chul will be the new coach for LMQ iBUYPOWER, LMQ's manager Alex Gu confirmed today. Fly has been helping LMQ iBUYPOWER during their League of Legends boot-camp in China. Alex Gu has also told onGamers that Fly will be moving to North America to assist the team during the NA LCS.
Kim Sang-chul is most notably known as former Old Generations Starcraft 2 player Ensnare.
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The following has been kept for transparency. We apologize for the confusion.
UPDATE 2: Alex Gu has stated that there was a mix up between the two Fly's and apologizes.
okay, just talked to our coach fly. There were two "fly"s in Jin Air. One as their mid laner jin air fly, the other is just "fly".[1/2]
— Alex Gu (@LMQ_Alex) September 25, 2014
And the FLY as our coach, he was coach for Jin Air. Sorry for the confusions. [2/2] Enjoy the games guys.
— Alex Gu (@LMQ_Alex) September 25, 2014
UPDATE: We're getting reports from Korea that LMQ's coach is not Fly despite their manager stating that he is, we have reached out to LMQ iBUYPOWER for confirmation on who the coach is and we will update you once we get confirmation. Original unedited article is below.
Jin Air Steath's mid laner Song "Fly" Young-jun will be the new coach for LMQ iBUYPOWER. LMQ's manager Alex Gu confirmed on twitter today.
Fly from the Jin Air Stealths coached LMQ's bootcamp for those of you unaware.
— MonteCristo (@ggCMonteCristo) September 25, 2014
@ggCMonteCristo He is also our coach from now on.
— Alex Gu (@LMQ_Alex) September 25, 2014
@LMQ_Alex Is he going to be your coach and as a starter for Stealths or will he leave his playing position? a playing coach is v.interesting
— Nilu Kulasingham (@dooraven) September 25, 2014
@dooraven He already left Stealths.
— Alex Gu (@LMQ_Alex) September 25, 2014
Fly has been helping LMQ iBUYPOWER during their League of Legends boot-camp in China. Alex Gu has also told onGamers that Fly will be moving to North America to assist the team during the NA LCS.
Nilu Kulasingham is the Head of League of Legends Journalists for onGamers, you can follow him on Twitter.
Image Credits: LMQ iBuyPower
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