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Legacy Esports, who are owned by the Adelaide Football Club, has welcomed the news that the Australian Football League (AFL) is entering the Australian esports industry. The AFL has partnered with Riot Games, the creator of League of Legends, to bring League of Legends: League of Origin, a premier stadium tournament to Melbourne in November this year. The competition will have a State of Origin-style format, with Oceania’s best League of Legends players set to step outside their regular season teams to represent their home state. The Adelaide Football Club was the first professional sporting team in Australia to invest in esports when they purchased Legacy Esports in May, 2017. The Club has also recently partnered with Bastion Live and UniSA to create a High School Esports League, where students around Australia will compete against each other in the League of Legends game. Students and teachers from South Australia, Victoria, Western…

On Tuesday night, Legacy Esports’ Rocket League team joined forces with the Australian Red Cross in part of a campaign to #beatloneliness. One in four of all Australians report feeling lonely most or all of the time, and nearly all Australians suffer from loneliness at various points in their lives. Therefore, at an event at GGEZ bar in Melbourne, Legacy became the first team in Australia to re-name themselves ‘Loneliness’ so other teams had the chance to #beatloneliness. Rocket League team members Cyrix and Delusion competed hard against Team Red Cross, which at one point featured Legacy Starcraft II player Probe, to show that coming together is a good step to take in order to #beatloneliness. Cyrix said that it was great being a part of such a good cause. “It felt great to be involved in the Red Cross event, it felt like i was giving back to the…

Legacy’s CS:GO team and two Starcraft II players, Probe and Azure, have qualified for IEM Sydney Our CS:GO team of BL1TZ, Stat, Yellow, soju_j and LONS earned a late call up to IEM, after visa issues forced Space Soldiers and Natus Vincere to withdraw from the event. After just missing out on qualifying for IEM by finishing fourth in the ANZ Closed Qualifiers, this is great news for Legacy and Australian esports fans, who will now be able to watch and cheer on four local teams at the event; Grayhound Gaming, Chiefs Esports, ORDER and Legacy. French side G2 Esports was the other late inclusion to IEM Sydney. Group stages get underway on Tuesday, May 1, and Legacy’s first match is against US-based Australian team Renegades at 12pm AEST tomorrow. The Starcraft II competition will give Probe and Azure the chance to qualify for WCS Austin, Texas later this year….

Legacy’s Rocket League team has earned a top-two place finish in Throwdown’s OCE Championships, getting themselves a step closer towards qualifying for the Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS). Every Sunday since March 18, Legacy’s team made up of cyrix, Siki and delusion have been competing against Oceania’s other top Rocket League teams, fighting for the chance to represent Oceania at the RLCS. In the best of five games, Legacy was undefeated in the first two weeks, beating Legs are Silly 3-0, Retirement Home 3-1 and Love Decks 3-1. In week three, Legacy came unstuck against the Chiefs 1-3 in what was a very close game. They bounced back against JAM Gaming in week four 3-1, before winning again 3-1 against Tainted Minds. Legacy stumbled at their final hurdle, losing to Dark Sided 1-3 in week five, but their earlier good form in the competition was enough to secure them second…

On the back of the fourth season of “The Crows Show”, featured on Channel 7 and screening weekly on Sundays, the AFC has now launched a second TV show, Footy Plus, with a wider focus on South Australian sport. It features sports other than AFL with the local Soccer, Netball, NBL and Athletics all getting a run, and pertinent to Legacy fans even Esports! The show launched last Friday straight after the AFL broadcast for the SA audience, and the inaugural show featured an indepth look at the Legacy Esports gaming house in Sydney as well as a focus on the life of our League of Legends players. The show will continue to run weekly and we are excited for more esports segments to feature, so that we are able to bring you more of an insight into our club and players lives as the show progresses. For now we…

With the first Split of the Oceanic Pro League wrapping up over the weekend with a Dire Wolves victory, it’s a great chance to look at how Legacy’s League of Legends team fared in Split One. Over the nine weeks, Legacy had some great wins and tight losses, finishing middle of the table in fourth position. That guaranteed their place in the gauntlet, with their first match against Avant Gaming. Despite two losses to Avant over the course of the split, our team managed to step up their game in the Gauntlet. After losing the first game, Legacy bounced back to take games two and three, with captain Claire standing up. Avant tied up the series in the fourth game before Legacy took out a 27-minute win in game five decider. The highlight of the Gauntlet weekend was Legacy’s series against Order. Order were huge favourites to win and after…