Team Larssen – the remnants of 2016’s League of Legends ESL UK Premiership summer champions MnM Gaming – have exited the Challenger Series this evening.
The European dream for the team is over, after they were defeated by Team Kinguin.
Team Larssen actually won their first match in the qualifiers earlier this week, comfortably beating Alientech Esports. However they went on to lose their next three matches to Team Forge (4G), Tricked Esport and Team Kinguin.
Team Larssen consisted of UK Prem winners Larssen, Hadow and XDSmiley, as well as Pridestalker and Arin1.
The team have now disbanded and are looking for other opportunities.
Larssen tweeted:
Thats it for Team Larssen in CSQ, wanna give a big thanks to my teammates @XDSMILEYs6 @Hadowlol @Arin1LoL @PridestalkerLoL for playing 1/
— lars (@Larssen00) January 13, 2017
in the though situation we got in the few days before CSQ, and also biggest thank to @MichaelSchorr3 for helping us out for so long for 1/
— lars (@Larssen00) January 13, 2017
basically no gain for himself, he did so much work every day for us for nothing, HUGE respect to Michael and highly recomend him! 3/3
— lars (@Larssen00) January 13, 2017
For me now i will revaluate my options and see what future holds, thanks for supporting us to the people that has 4/4
— lars (@Larssen00) January 13, 2017
Other team members tweeted the following:
@Larssen00 aww thx for staying professionala nd full tryhard despite the hard consditions we faced 🙂 upcoming lcs midlaner , recommend!
— Michael Schorr (@MichaelSchorr3) January 13, 2017
sucks that we lost, the situation was unlucky from the start. thanks to @MichaelSchorr3 for trying his best what looked a hopeless situation
— Mantas Sukevicius (@Hadowlol) January 13, 2017
We are out of csq, went kinda as expected considering lack of practice! GL to the remaining teams 😀
— XDSMILEY (@XDSMILEYs6) January 13, 2017
I’m free agent and open for offers
All retweets are appreciated
DMs are open— Arin (@Arin1LoL) January 13, 2017
MnM/Team Larssen went through a series of unfortunate events after winning ESL’s UK/IRE Premiership last year.
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