CLG Black is Back

Ares[Effort]

DEMACIA6550 Posts

January 28 2015 00:30 GMT

Counter Logic Black is back and entering the North American Challenger scene immediately. Tonight they will be competing against Rock Bottom Gorillaz in their first qualifying match. Leading the team is multiple CLG main roster substitute jungler Thomas “Thinkcard” Slotkin. After showing off his abilities at the final week of summer LCS 2014 and during IEM Cologne this past December CLG was happy to pick up and construct a team of talented challenger scene players around him to break into the 2015 season. Anchoring the top lane is long time veteran Jonathan “Westrice” Nguyen and in Mid is former Zenith eSports player Brandon “Easy” Doyle. Rounding out the roster at bot lane is Trevor “Stixxay” Hayes, formerly of Cloud 9 G2A, on AD and Kenny “KeNNy” Nguyen, formerly known as “I KeNNy U” playing support.
Team Captain Thomas “Thinkcard” Slotkin had this to say about the teams formation and hopes for its Challenger series run:

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EsanLOL

479 Posts

January 28 2015 00:37 GMT

From most of the NA challenger managers/players I've talked to, they look like pretty good favorites to qualify for NACS. Hearing lots of mostly positive things about them, which kinda surprised me. Wasn't sold on the Westrice acquisition, especially when you are moving Kenny to support to accommodate it. But Easy and Stixxay are easily top 2 in their role in NACS and Thinkcard is actually really great (particularly at the challenger level) when he doesn't get banned out.

infinitestory

United States4053 Posts

January 28 2015 00:46 GMT

Is westrice still on the way to school?

AlterKot

Poland7525 Posts

January 28 2015 02:07 GMT

Godbless Westrice is still playing.

Purge

Canada372 Posts

January 28 2015 04:15 GMT

Westrice is one of my favourite personalities but you can just see that he is stagnant as a player. I mean I love the guy, but if he's playing like he always has I swear to god man its going to drive me nuts. Wasting oppurtunity for himself and other players.

Sihalanick

Canada4 Posts

January 28 2015 04:33 GMT

I love West, just hope that he performs well against his opponents and alongside his teammates... I can't recall the last time he was in LCS... CompLexity Spring season of last year?

ParadeofMadness

United Kingdom1027 Posts

January 28 2015 05:57 GMT

Whos easy? How good is he??

EsanLOL

479 Posts

January 28 2015 06:29 GMT

On January 28 2015 14:57 ParadeofMadness wrote:
Whos easy? How good is he??

Most people consider him to be a top 3 NA challenger mid. He used to play on ggLA way back in like early S3 with BunnyFufu, but he took like 6 months off and came back halfway through last season and has been getting more hype lately. If you watched the expansion tournament, he played for Zenith, the team that lost a close 1-2 series to Final Five.

Here is one of his more famous plays in a challenger tournament:

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