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My Retirement ♥️ :
Today, I officially announce that I’m retiring from competitive league of legends for good, and moving on to other things. What an amazing journey it's been for me in Esports, some of the memories I’ve made and people I’ve met will stay with me for life.
Around November, I didn’t find an LCS team for the spring split, and it left me asking myself really important questions. Will I be happy enough to potentially wait a full year or more for an LCS team to decide to sign me? The uncertainty surrounding job security, even what my salary might be in the coming year, was starting to cause me a lot of anxiety. The LCS going through financial turmoil; even cutting out two teams from the league with no real plan in place moving forward to replace them, also felt awful. I really hope for everyone continuing in the LCS and dedicating their lives to it, that there is a more promising future. I’ll always be rooting for you guys.
Coming off a very successful split on EG, where I felt like I had really proven my worth as a LCS top laner, my jobs/place in the league was not secure. I’m aware things like this could happen to any player though. Even someone like Licorice who was voted 1st all pro was left without a spot in the league this split. However, the waiting game for me, giving away a year of my life or more potentially, doesn’t really sit right with me and align with my life goals.
When I left school to become an LCS player, I told myself that I would do this until I felt like my career wasn’t going on an upward trajectory anymore. The reason for this was I had sacrificed a lot leaving university and pursuing my goal of becoming a doctor. I was two years into my degree in neuroscience, and had only one year remaining to complete it and apply to medical school. Leaving school meant also leaving all my scholarships, where I had a full ride to my university. I always had plans some day to return and complete this journey. To this day, I have no regrets doing that despite how tumultuous my career has been. I know I still had more to show competing in LCS, and still wanted to reach my goal of making worlds some day, but my decision and timing to retire still feels right to me and makes me happy. I really look forward to announcing some exciting things soon in the future about my life/journey going back to university, and hope that you guys will support that too.
I especially want to thank all my fans and friends in the LCS who supported me throughout my career. If it wasn’t for you guys, I definitely could not have stuck through it this long, especially through the hard times. Special thank you to coach @AndreGuilhoto94 , who took a chance on me to put me in LCS 4 years ago when no one else believed in me. Understandably, my first year in academy was awful, so people didn’t think I was ready for LCS yet. However, he spawned in from Europe, opened the NA soloQ ladder, saw I was rank 1 and 2 at the time, and decided he wanted me as his top laner. Despite so many people telling him not to take me, he still decided to, and that is why I was able to break into the LCS.
An interview with @AshleyKang about my retirement where I go more in depth about things will be released soon, so look forward to that too! Thank you for reading :D
Today, I officially announce that I’m retiring from competitive league of legends for good, and moving on to other things. What an amazing journey it's been for me in Esports, some of the memories I’ve made and people I’ve met will stay with me for life.
Around November, I didn’t find an LCS team for the spring split, and it left me asking myself really important questions. Will I be happy enough to potentially wait a full year or more for an LCS team to decide to sign me? The uncertainty surrounding job security, even what my salary might be in the coming year, was starting to cause me a lot of anxiety. The LCS going through financial turmoil; even cutting out two teams from the league with no real plan in place moving forward to replace them, also felt awful. I really hope for everyone continuing in the LCS and dedicating their lives to it, that there is a more promising future. I’ll always be rooting for you guys.
Coming off a very successful split on EG, where I felt like I had really proven my worth as a LCS top laner, my jobs/place in the league was not secure. I’m aware things like this could happen to any player though. Even someone like Licorice who was voted 1st all pro was left without a spot in the league this split. However, the waiting game for me, giving away a year of my life or more potentially, doesn’t really sit right with me and align with my life goals.
When I left school to become an LCS player, I told myself that I would do this until I felt like my career wasn’t going on an upward trajectory anymore. The reason for this was I had sacrificed a lot leaving university and pursuing my goal of becoming a doctor. I was two years into my degree in neuroscience, and had only one year remaining to complete it and apply to medical school. Leaving school meant also leaving all my scholarships, where I had a full ride to my university. I always had plans some day to return and complete this journey. To this day, I have no regrets doing that despite how tumultuous my career has been. I know I still had more to show competing in LCS, and still wanted to reach my goal of making worlds some day, but my decision and timing to retire still feels right to me and makes me happy. I really look forward to announcing some exciting things soon in the future about my life/journey going back to university, and hope that you guys will support that too.
I especially want to thank all my fans and friends in the LCS who supported me throughout my career. If it wasn’t for you guys, I definitely could not have stuck through it this long, especially through the hard times. Special thank you to coach @AndreGuilhoto94 , who took a chance on me to put me in LCS 4 years ago when no one else believed in me. Understandably, my first year in academy was awful, so people didn’t think I was ready for LCS yet. However, he spawned in from Europe, opened the NA soloQ ladder, saw I was rank 1 and 2 at the time, and decided he wanted me as his top laner. Despite so many people telling him not to take me, he still decided to, and that is why I was able to break into the LCS.
An interview with @AshleyKang about my retirement where I go more in depth about things will be released soon, so look forward to that too! Thank you for reading :D
