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Young gun Euan “sterling” Moore is joining Legacy Esports’ Counter-Strike roster, after Chris “Yellow” McGillivray departed the team due to other commitments. After being at the Chiefs Esports Club for four months, New Zealander sterling has joined Legacy’s CS:GO team as their Primary AWPer. Having played for both DarkSided and the Chiefs, sterling has competed at top-level in the Oceanic region for a while and will bring extra firepower to the improving Legacy squad. Legacy Esports thanks Yellow for his contribution over the past four months, including helping us qualify for IEM Sydney. We welcome sterling and look forward to him competing for Legacy in the CyberGamer Premier League and ESEA Mountain Dew League, as well as other upcoming tournaments.

Legacy’s League of Legends team focused on integrating their new Jungler, Jordan “Only” Middleton, into the team in their preseason ahead of Split Two of the 2018 Oceanic Pro League which gets underway on Friday. Legacy had an exciting first Split, finishing fourth in the regular season, before knocking out Avant Gaming and ORDER in the finals. Unfortunately, Legacy came up short against long time rivals The Chiefs in the preliminary final and was eliminated, finishing third. The team quickly switched their focus to Split Two, and with a blockbuster opening game against The Chiefs coming up on Friday night, the squad has been hard at work preparing for the season to come. Claire, Raid, Mimic, Decoy and Only have been working on building team synergy around Only’s aggressive playstyle. Legacy’s Head of Esports, Tim Wendel, said that the Jungler synergy is particularly important to the squad’s game plan. “For…

Legacy’s newest StarCraft II recruit, Ryan “NXZ” Jones, may be hard at work preparing for the upcoming tournament at WCS Austin, but he’s also still coming to terms with it after a sizzling run through the OCE and SEA qualifier at IEM Sydney. Despite only signing with Legacy two days before the competition began, NXZ went on to finish second in IEM which earned him a spot in WCS Austin. “It hasn’t really sunk in yet I don’t think,” NXZ said. “I don’t think it’s really going to hit me until I’m there, even in my head right now I’m just telling myself that I’m the same guy I was a month ago, but no, I’m actually going to play against the best players in the world.” In the lead up to such an important international tournament, NXZ is hard at work preparing for the competition. “It’s a three-day tournament,…

Daniel “Cinderella” van Twest Main Tank Cinderella has been gaming his whole life and going to local LAN events since he was 14 years old. The first game Cinderella played was Warcraft III, before moving to Defense of the Ancients and then onto Team Fortress II which he played competitively for a long time and got to the highest level in Australia. Cinderella then switched his focus to Overwatch, playing for many teams around Australia including Loveshack, Nemesis, Woodkeks, Pandaeye Coordination, 1018 and finally Stunner Meal with Caramel Sundae which was picked up by Legacy. He has been ranked as high as 80 in an Overwatch season. Cinderella works hard on his game, sometimes playing for 13 hours straight trying to improve. He has an upbeat attitude and is always building hype in games for his teammates. Samuel “CaramelKoala” Wood DPS role CaramelKoala started playing video games with his older…