Following several failures in their recruitment, Team Liquid had shunned South Korean players from his roster for several years. The North American structure had decided to focus on European imports with in particular at the head of the bow, Steven “Hans-sama” Liv last year. Unfortunately, the bitter failure of his roster in 2022 has completely changed the situation and Team Liquid turned in a new direction in this transfer window.
As previously announced, only one player present this year will continue within TL, Jo “CoreJJ” Yong-in. The support of the world champion in 2017 will have the role of accompanying the two rookies who come straight from the TL Academy, Harry “Haeri” Kang on the midlane and his new friend on the botlane, Sean “Yeon” Sung. To accompany this trio, the structure four times winner of the LCS has chosen to take out the checkbook, contrary to what it had announced.
Indeed, Team Liquid has decided to recruit two South Koreans, including the very recent world champion with DRX, Hong “Pyosik” Chang-hyeonand bring back Park “Summit” Woo-tae in North America. The latter, who will take the place of the new Team Liquid streamer, Gabriel “Bwipo” Rauevolved at Cloud9 during the Spring Split 2022 and had even been voted Split MVP before being thanked by the structure.
To coach all these beautiful people, Team Liquid has once again chosen to bring in a world champion in the person of Jang “MaRin” Gyeong-hwan, absent from the competitive League of Legends scene since 2018 and the end of his career. To see if this roster will succeed in performing but given the financial investment to attract the top/jungle duo, it will have to be. Anyway, on paper, Team Liquid is the clear favorite with Evil Geniuses.