Ibai\u2019s League of Legends team KOI reportedly \u201cclose\u201d to joining LEC KOIIbai and Gerard Piqu\u00e9\u2019s Spanish League of Legends team KOI is reportedly close to joining the LEC after reaching a verbal agreement with Rogue. Founded by Twitch star Ibai Llanos and Barcelona football player Gerard Piqu\u00e9 just last year, KOI currently competes in Valorant and the League of Legends LVP SuperLiga. However, it looks like the new organization is set to join the top-flight competition after reports reveal KOI has reached an agreement with Rogue to acquire part-ownership of their LEC spot. KOI \u201cclose\u201d to finalizing LEC deal with Rogue According to a report from Blix.GG, Rogue opened discussions with several teams about acquiring 40% of their spot in the league for 20 million. Rogue had spoken to organizations such as Karmine Corp \u2014 who\u2019ve shown keen interest in joining the LEC \u2014 alongside Giants and Case Esports about the deal. However, it seems like Rogue is close to finalizing with KOI instead. Sources: @KOI \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 reaches a verbal agreement to join LEC with Rogue \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 \u2014 Alejandro Gomis (@anonimotum) August 20, 2022 Some details remain to be finalized and RIOT must approve the movement, when it happen @IbaiLlanos \u2018 org will compete in LEC. \u2b07\ufe0fhttps:\/\/t.co\/UZo7U72WT0 The potential deal would keep Rogue\u2019s current structure in the LEC. However, the organization\u2019s academy team is expected to be transferred to the LVP SuperLiga where KOI currently competes. The name of the potential merger team is yet to be decided, though everything indicates the name of the team is likely to be KOI or KOI Rogue. In addition, the deal could also include the merger of other games such as Valorant. Ultimately, details remain to be finalized and must be approved by Riot Games first. It looks like we\u2019ll be seeing a few new faces in the LEC next year, with Heretics confirmed to be taking Misfit\u2019s spot, and now KOI potentially partnering with Rogue in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ibai\u2019s League of Legends team KOI reportedly \u201cclose\u201d to joining LEC KOIIbai and Gerard Piqu\u00e9\u2019s Spanish League of Legends team KOI is reportedly close to joining the LEC after reaching a verbal agreement with Rogue. Founded by Twitch star Ibai Llanos and Barcelona football player Gerard Piqu\u00e9 just last year, KOI currently competes in Valorant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}