What year is it? October 2018 was the last time that DL and POB played together on TL roster. The fact that if you squint a little, that a full decade has gone by, makes me want to grab my bottle of advil for my aging knees and back. We might be older, but it is still quite exciting to see the return of these two monolithic League players and personalities back with a horse on their shirt. 

Selfishly, I am excited to get to make a bunch of content with them. I think it is a clear boon for TL and TL adjacent media. It’s exceptionally exciting to be hosting Doublelift’s Retirement Home event later in June. Getting able to transform the office into a studio and invite 20 old pros for a weekend of nostalgic competitive league are the kind of community focused events that get a lot of us here excited. 

If you haven’t seen either of the announcement videos here, you can check them out right now on youtube:

Pobelter:

Doublelift:

In more exciting announcement news, we have kicked off our complain for EWC. Every club program team has some obligations to create media around the event. We put Falcons in our sights for our announcement video to expose what we think is a little bit of negative fan behavior from EWC 2025. While I am happy to shine a spotlight on their fandom feeling a bit fabricated; it was interesting to me that none of their fans took the bait to engage with our post. Can someone point me in the direction of the Falcons fans? I can’t find them. But I will stop thinking about them as we focus in on our first, first place finish at the event. I know that back to back silver is not enough. 

Check out that video here:

The TL;DR tl;dr

• 🏆 MLBB PH Wins MPL PH Season 17

• 🏆 Paulo Neta wins ELibertadores (EA FC) 

• 🏆 Crossfire wins CFBL S1 

• 🏅 Cure on the Podium of GSL 

I never know if I want to do these alphabetically or something. I will choose to embrace full order chaos.

Overwatch: Stage 1 was one heck of a challenge, no two ways around that. Danny and Cas have been cooking with gas during the offseason and we’re proud to announce our Stage 2 roster to you first dearest gentle reader. Team Liquid Overwatch welcomes Flex Support KIVIS, Off-tank Attack, and Coach F4zE to the fold. We are super excited to watch the team during Stage 2!

League of Legends: The LCS Spring Playoffs are ongoing and after the 2-3 loss to Lyons in the upper bracket first round I may or may not have given some people in the office a small bit of side eye. For this team to make it to MSI we need top 2. EWC, a trophy. I still believe they can do it but in order to do so it will be a full lower bracket run. The good news is that step 1 of that run is already done after a clean 3-0 sweep of SR. Now we must beat FQ, C9, and Lyon in the next 3 sets to secure that trophy.

CS2: 9-12th in two events: IEM Atlanta and CS Asia Championships. Losing the first to GamerLegion and the second to The MongolZ.  My fingers remain permanently crossed between now and through our first game at the Major which starts quite soon! 

Dota: It’s a 9-12th finish here too in Dream League season 29 with an ultimate loss to Xtreme Gaming. At Blast Slam 7, the team finished 6th, in groups. They went on to play a do or die LCQ series against Aurora, which they also lost. The boys finish 7-8th and miss playoffs here.

Valorant: 7-8th (which is not awesome news, to be clear) in both VCT EMEA Stage 1 and the EWC EMEA Qualifier. No going to either of those lans. In even less awesome news, nAts was impacted by needing some emergency surgery. The night before our first EWC qualifier game, his appendix went kerflooey. Good news, he’s doing well, and we are excited to look ahead to stage 2. 

PUBG: 2nd place at the PUBG American Series! Another silver medal behind Falcons gold (no trauma here). This finish alco qualifies us for the rest of PGS AND gives the team an EWC 2026 spot too. Yippie! 

Crossfire: As highlighted above, the team took home first place in the CrossFire Brazil League 26 S1. They beat ROC Esports in the finals, and should be a lock for an EWC birth with this performance too. 

MarvelRivals: The Ignite 2026: Americas Stage 1 GS - Day 1 (who names these things I swear) is ongoing with a strong prognosis. The team beat “Yeah we lost” in their first week which is a real sentence because that is the other team’s real name. Might wanna rethink that one the same way TSM and Equinox should have rethunk coming at us in Days 2 and 3. The team is 6-0

MLBB: TL PH Won the grand finals of their league, over Falcons PH, with a near perfect run through the upper bracket. With this win, they also secure their invite to MSC (Mid Season Cup) which will take place as the MLBB EWC event. TL ID finished their league in second, showing them an upper bracket semi finals birth after a first round bye. Aqua, the female team, faired a little worse finishing their playoffs in 3rd and meaning that they did not get a spot at this year’s EWC. 

Starcraft: Clem took first in a few weekly cups (3 to be exact); but it was Cure’s performance at GSL S1, finishing 3/4th that feels like the true standout performance this month. 

Smash: Hbox went to Pat’s house and finished first in doubles but 13th in singles

Apex: ALGS Americas Split 1 is ongoing and will be for a little while longer. Right now the team is sitting in 4th on the leaderboard. We’re sitting just a little bit above the points cutoff for the Split 1 playoffs with regional Match Point finals yet to come. Make sure to give the team an OHHHYEAAAAHHHHH when they go live on June 7th.

Chess: Magnus won something (be surprised) on the 7th against Arjun Erigaisi. It was the Tepe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament. I am told this is a FIDE event and to me any event magnus wins is a… fine? Event. [Note: My editor told me this joke is not funny or even a joke because it’s pronounced fee day, not phy-d.] Fabi also got 2nd at Super Chess Classic in Romania and the Super Rapid & Blitz in Poland. 

Fortnite: Persa finishes 16th in a few Brazilian events

EA FC: eLibertadores 2026, which is the South American EA FC league, was won by our very own Paulo Neto. He grabbed himself a spot at EWC in addition to his trophy. We had four players show up at eChampions League (a collection of every regional league’s best players to cross compete), all of them falling some variation of short. ChrisdeBoer landed in 32nd. Emere Yilmaz and Manuel finished 9-16th. Levi de Weerd landed 17-24. Emre did finish #1 in the group league stage with an impressive 6-0-0 run; but he lost his knockout stage game meaning he did not make playoffs. 

“And that’s all” feels just a tad silly to say because clearly; there is so much going on at all times no matter what. June is looked to be dominated by EWC qualifications, and the CS Major. Both of which are fiscally impactful endeavors!

Let me know what you do, or don’t, like about these org wide athletic breakdowns. Chat me up on /r/teamliquid or direct to my email joey@teamliquid.com