Only a few minutes ahead of a League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) game, the Cloud9 Twitter announced that Nick “LS” De Cesare has been released from the esports organization. The tweet reads:

LS has been released from Cloud9 and Max Waldo has been promoted to the LCS Head Coach position. We would like to thank LS for his contributions to the team and wish him the best.

The odd timing aside, LS himself was quick to take to social media his side of the situation. In a tweet, he says “I was informed four hours ago of my release. So for now I'll figure out whats [sic] next shortly.”

LS is well known for his strong polarizing opinions on League of Legends, from his time as an analyst and broadcast talent on League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK). Since then, he has become a content creator for T1. As of the time of writing, Cloud9 has yet to issue a formal reason for the decision. Aside from the above quoted tweet, LS hasn't commented on the move either.

Max Waldo, who was previously Cloud9's Positional and Strategic Coach has been promoted to Head Coach.

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