{"id":26866,"date":"2022-12-19T03:02:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T08:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=26866"},"modified":"2022-12-19T03:02:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T08:02:46","slug":"sk-gaming-signs-four-new-players-to-build-2023-lec-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/sk-gaming-signs-four-new-players-to-build-2023-lec-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"SK Gaming signs four new players to build 2023 LEC roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European esports outfit SK Gaming have announced the addition of four players to their 2023 League of Legends European Championship roster.<\/p>\n<p>After having a disappointing run last season, the team is hell-bent on putting up a good fight with a strong team capable of winning the LEC. <\/p>\n<p>Which is why the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/league-of-legends\/\">League of Legends<\/a> team have decided to build a roster around German mid laner Daniel &#8220;Sertuss&#8221; Gamani, who happens to be the only player from the old roster.<\/p>\n<p>The new roster now includes German top laner Joel &#8220;Irrelevant&#8221; Miro Scharoll, Netherlands jungler Mark &#8220;Markoon&#8221; van Woensel, <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/fr\/\">French<\/a> bot laner Thomas &#8220;Exakick&#8221; Foucou, Denmark support player Mads &#8220;Doss&#8221; Schwartz, and Spanish coach David &#8220;OWN3R&#8221; Rodriguez de la Torre.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LEC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LEC<\/a> Roster:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Irrelevanttop?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Irrelevanttop<\/a> <br \/>\ud83c\udf33 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkoonLoL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MarkoonLoL<\/a> <br \/>\ud83e\uddd9\u200d\u2642\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SertussLoL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SertussLoL<\/a><br \/>\ud83c\udff9 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Exakicklol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Exakicklol<\/a> <br \/>\ud83d\ude91 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Doss_lol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Doss_lol<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>*Pending Riot approval <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7mrjct5pCp\">pic.twitter.com\/7mrjct5pCp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SK Gaming (@SKGaming) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SKGaming\/status\/1603419801409527809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sertuss who is the oldest player on the team, joined SK Gaming in December 2021. The German mid laner started playing pro-League of Legends in season 3.<\/p>\n<p>He led SK Gaming to eighth place at the 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/league-of-legends\/championship-series\/\" title=\"League of Legends Championship Series betting guide\">LEC<\/a> Summer. Sertuss has represented other esports outfits such as eMonkeyz, Misfits Premier, and Schalke Evolution, and is known for his two Assassins, LeBlanc and Zed.<\/p>\n<p>Irrelevant will serve as the team\u2019s top laner. The 21-year-old German started his pro career in 2020, and ever since then has played for teams such as Flayn eSports, Misfits Gaming, WAVE Esports and Gameward.<\/p>\n<p>Markoon, who is the team jungler, started his League of Legends career in 2018 while representing the now-disbanded European team KlikTech.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands player has represented a handful of underdog teams such as Excel, UCAM Esports Club, G2 Arctic, Yeam Forge, Ventura Esports and others. <\/p>\n<p>The player also displayed excellent gameplay while representing his former team Excel as he led them to sixth place at the 2020 LEC Summer playoffs, where they lost in a close match against Fnatic, exiting with a 2-3 score. SK Gaming, on the other hand, was unable to make the summer and spring playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Doss will be a support player for the team. The 23-year-old Danish national will be a returning player to the organization as he represented them early in 2018, just months after he launched his pro career. Doss has played for teams such as Misfits Gaming, Cyberground, Izi Dream and most recently LDLC OL.<\/p>\n<p>Exakick is the new bot laner for the team. The player recently represented LDLC OL, and at the 2022 EM Summer Main Event, Exakick and LDLC garnered a third-fourth place. <\/p>\n<p>The French player has also played for other teams such as Dawns Esports, where he debuted his career in 2018, Lunary, Wathox, Fragbox Gaming and French team Omerix.<\/p>\n<p>Their coach OWN3R has also made a resounding coaching profile, with previous teams he had trained. Although a handful has been in the academy roster such as Arctic Academy, Mad Lions Madrid and x6tence Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The new roster will make their LEC debut at the 2023 Winter Split, which is scheduled to commence on January 21. With the newly revamped roster, SK Gaming is hopeful that they will have a better run in the forthcoming year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SK Gaming have announced four new signings on their League of Legends roster for the upcoming 2023 LEC season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":25477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[520,259,153],"class_list":["post-26866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lec","tag-lol","tag-sk-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26866"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26879,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26866\/revisions\/26879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}