RosterRumors - Issue 5

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The last few days have been pretty slow for news about the pre-2015 season shake up. It's looking to pick up steam today and likely ride that wave through the weekend.

Global

dade to China, Cloud9 in talks for new mid?

According to DailyDot sources, Bae "dade" Eo-jin has made the jump to China for an absurdly large, $250,000 USD per year contract. The destination team is unknown and Eo-jin has made it clear that nothing is set in stone. The Korean player stated that he is still in negotiations and could even possibly stay with Samsung. Sources say that Eo-jin was also in brief talks with Cloud9 before deciding to take the route to China. The big question that this brings up is if Cloud9 are looking to make roster changes for the first time in their history after explicitly stating they would likely keep the same roster this season? Unless Cloud9 was looking to start up a second team around Eo-jin, the squad could be looking at possible replacements for the team captain and shot caller, Hai "Hai" Du Lam.

Europe

Gambit Gaming swaps and rumors.

Gambit has been a host of a number of announcements and rumors with-in the last few days. Yesterday, Gambit Gaming announced that AD carry Kristoffer "Krislund" Albao Lund Pedersen would be an official part of the 2015 roster. Pedersen joined the squad in the middle of the Summer season to replace long-time Gambit player, Evgeny "Genja" Andryushin. Today, Polish top laner Jakub "Kubon" Turewicz was announced to have left the team, leaving a gap in the top lane that Alexey "Alex Ich" Ichetovkin said he would be willing to fill if Gambit was interested. The seasoned Russian player stated today he is much more comfortable in the top lane and could see himself playing the role with-in Gambit.

China

Gogoing back to top, san on OMG.

Gao "Gogoing" Di-Ping had a brief stint as AD Carry over the last week, but the Chinese player is back in the top lane according to reports. Guo "san" Jun-Liang is also back on the starting line-up for OMG at the AD carry position. The team has been trying out a number of possible changes over the last few weeks as China has had multiple national tournaments.

FZZF not retiring, and EDG not looking for Koreans.

EDward Gaming's Feng "FZZF" Zhuojun mention in an interview that he will not be retiring before the 2015 season and that EDG will not be signing any Korean players any time soon. EDG is one of the few LPL teams that plans to not take a stab at getting a piece of the Korean exodus. We likely won't be hearing much out of the squad for most of the off-season.

Korea

Four leave NaJin e-mFire.

NaJin announced this morning that four players have left the organization. Kang "GorillA" Beom-hyeon from White Shield and Lee "kurO" Seo-haeng, Lee "Lee" Ho-Jin, and Kim "Guger" Do-yeop from Black Sword. Contracts likely ended this week and the organization is revamping their roster for the upcoming 10-man Champions & Reserve leagues which start in 2015. The organization currently has 8 players under their name. Beom-hyeon is the only big surprise out of the lot, but I'm becoming desensitized to roster changes being surprises.

Samsung lose Deft, DanDy, and PawN.

Samsung contracts expired today leading to an onslaught of Facebook announcements from Samsung players. Kim "Deft" Hyuk-kyu, Choi "DanDy" In-kyu, and Heo "PawN" Won-seok have announced they will be leaving the organization. Hyuk-kyu and Won-seok are looking to go to China, but no details are known about possible teams. It looks like Korean contracts are all ending around this time and the next week should be filled with constant updates.