LPL Spring 2023: Full roster of every team competing

LPL Spring 2023: Full roster of every team competing

Updated on February 9, 7:55 p.m. (GMT+8): Ming has rejoined Royal Never Give Up.

Updated on January 16, 8:47 p.m. (GMT+8): Added more information on Top Esports.

The LPL region had a relatively successful year in 2022 when Royal Never Give Up won MSI for the second time in a row. At Worlds, JD Gaming finished in 3rd-4th place after bowing out in the semifinals.

After another turbulent offseason, LPL Spring 2023 resets the board. Neither RNG nor JDG has retained the same roster, so expect new organizations to rise.

The first match will kick off on January 14, 2023. The season will officially end on March 26.

Here’s the full roster of every team competing in LPL Spring 2023.


LPL Spring 2023 rosters of all teams competing

Anyone’s Legend

Anyone's Legend roster for LPL Spring 2023
Credit: LPL

Former Flash Wolves stars Hu “SwordArt” Shuo-Chieh and Lu “Betty” Yu-Hung reunite in the bot lane on Anyone’s Legend.

The Worlds 2020 finalist went to TSM in 2021, and spent a year with Weibo Gaming in 2022 before moving over to join Betty to lead this relatively inexperienced roster.

PLAYER ROSTER ROLE
Zhu “Zdz” De-Zhang Top laner
Peng “Xiaohao” Hao Jungler
Lin “pinz” Li-Pin Mid laner
Lu “Betty” Yu-Hung Bot laner
Hu “SwordArt” Shuo-Chieh Support
Zhou “Harder” Shi-Hao Mid laner (substitute)

Bilibili Gaming

Bilibili Gaming's roster for LPL Spring 2023
Credit: L

Competing with JD Gaming since 2018, mid laner Zeng “Yagao” Qi left the nest to join Bilibili Gaming for LPL Spring 2023. He won two domestic titles with JDG and competed at Worlds twice in 2020 and 2022 during his four-year tenure.

Jungler Peng “Xun” Li-Xun was groomed on Invictus Gaming, succeeding on its academy team before earning a starter spot.

Top laner Chen “Bin” Ze-Bin needs no introduction. Clinching second place at Worlds 2020 with Suning, he went on to

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Excel Esports aims for ‘top 3’ in LEC 2023 with new roster

Excel Esports aims for ‘top 3’ in LEC 2023 with new roster

“Fifth, huh? Not this time.”

Excel Esports has formally disclosed its player roster for the upcoming League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC) period.

The LEC workforce has signed 4 new gamers — Andrei “Odoamne” Pascu, Andrei “Xerxe” Dragomir, Vincent “Vetheo” Berrié, and Raphaël “Targamas” Crabbé — to join its longtime bot laner, Patrik “Patrik” Jírů.

When Excel competent for the LEC Spring and Summer months 2022 playoffs, they under no circumstances really managed to split into the prime tier of competition, ending in sixth put in both equally splits.

For the forthcoming time, the group wants to shoot increased, placing its sights on a prime-three complete with its brand new roster.



Excel Esports indications Odoamne, Xerxe, Vetheo, and Targamas for LEC 2023

“Whilst we are happy of how we done this yr, we feel that this new roster has what it requires to help satisfy our vision of being a leading three position team in the 2023 time,” Excel Esports Chief Running Officer Tim Reichert claimed in an official assertion.

“Players this kind of as Vetheo and Odoamne characterize these a numerous mix of talent, and we can’t wait to see how the workforce will accomplish when unified with each other less than the Excel model starting off with the Winter Time early future 12 months.”

Excel’s new roster has championship practical experience. Prime laner Odoamne previously played with Rogue (afterwards renamed KOI) and helped the crew assert its 1st LEC championship title in LEC Summer time 2022 with a massive 3- upset towards G2 Esports.

With about a decade of competitiveness below his belt, he is also the most experienced participant on the roster, having played in a whole of 478 video games across his profession.

Odoamnne reunites with his former teammate from Splyce (later renamed MAD Lions), Xerxe,

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Antonio Brown nevertheless on Buccaneers roster, but why?

Antonio Brown nevertheless on Buccaneers roster, but why?

That Bruce Arians line about Antonio Brown “no longer” being a Tampa Bay Buccaneer? It has however to arrive to fruition, and there is a likelihood it won’t right until immediately after the season is completed.

Two sources acquainted with ongoing conversations between the NFL, the Buccaneers and the NFL Gamers Association explained there has been dialogue about Brown’s outright release vs . an wounded reserve designation. The distinction in between the two centers on Brown’s opportunity availability to other teams. If he ended up to be launched, he would be matter to getting claimed off waivers by one more team for the remainder of this period, or turning into a cost-free agent if he were to move by waivers. 

On the other hand, if Brown were put on hurt reserve — most possible in reaction to his camp’s claim of an ankle issue — it would primarily set him aside for the remainder of the season and out of access of other teams. Tampa Bay could also look for to suspend Brown underneath the “Conduct Harmful to the Club” penalty.

If the Bucs do slash Brown fairly than positioning him on injured reserve, it appears unlikely (but not entirely extremely hard) that an additional staff will assert him on waivers. A number of large receiver-needy playoff groups strongly stated to Yahoo Sporting activities that they wouldn’t think about professing Brown soon after he stripped off his tools and shirt just before leaving the industry throughout the third quarter of Sunday’s video game between the Bucs and New York Jets.

The induce of that bizarre minute continues to be in some dispute, although it is obvious that Brown declined to enter the game when questioned by the coaching team. The purpose why now appears to be forming, with Brown’s camp

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Team Secret adds iceiceice to revamped Dota 2 roster

Team Secret adds iceiceice to revamped Dota 2 roster

Given that dropping equally zai and MATUMBAMAN in the article-Worldwide roster shuffle, Crew Secret has retained quiet and began producing moves to fill the void those departures left in what was a person of the most successful rosters in group background.

As a result of the use of a multi-portion comedian series themed around its Dota 2 players, Secret slowly but surely gave enthusiasts far more to search forward far too, in advance of at last confirming portion of the rumors and saying that veteran iceiceice is signing up for the roster.

Led by the mix of Puppey and YapzOr, Key established about generating its modifications internally—annoucing Nisha would make the swap absent from the mid lane and back again to playing protected lane in the upcoming period. And, even though this singular adjust does not signify considerably right now mainly because Solution performs a very fluid and adaptive fashion of Dota, it opens the door for a further addition a lot of believe is coming next. 

The Singaporean star iceiceice has been at the forefront of DotA given that 2005, generating the soar to Dota 2 in 2011, in which he aided Scythe.SG put third at the original TI—an party that his now captain won.

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From there, he has constantly jumped amongst groups, only remaining with the identical corporation for extra than a person year twice in his job, expending 2014 to 2016 with Vici Gaming and 2018 to 2020 on Fnatic. He is 1 of only two gamers to have attended a TI with seven different groups, and is tied with both equally KuroKy and LaNm for the second-most appearances at TI overall at 9, surpassed only by Puppey, who is the only participant

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