We are glad to announce that Gambit Gaming has acquired CIS League of Legends roster. The core of the team consists of three players, who are well-known amongst the fans of the game in this region.

Our first step on our way to expand the organization is an acquisition of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster. We are glad to introduce five players, who are well known among the fans of this game as well as its predecessor.

In this statement we would like to share our plans for 2016 and try to explain why did we make a decision to sell our LCS spot.

There is no easy way to say it, but our organization won't be taking part in the upcoming season of LCS Spring 2016. During this off-season we were considering our further development options and in the end had to settle for a sale of our LCS spot. We ended up signing a deal with Team Vitality, who will assume our spot in LCS Spring 2016. Team Vitality is a French eSports organization, very well-known in the european console scene. This will be their first PC team, we would like to wish them luck in their new venture.

After the conclusion of the current competitive cycle one of our main tasks was to make a decision whether or not we want to continue playing with our current roster. On the one hand, we are overall satisfied with performance and commitment to practice of players individually.  On the other hand, even in the end of the split our results in certain games resumed to be unsatisfactory. Eventually our head coach and management agreed upon removing Konstantinos "FORG1VEN" Tzortziou from our starting line-up and moving him to a substitute position.

Yesterday on 6^th of September our Head Coach Kévin "Shaunz" Ghanbarzadeh conducted an AMA on Reddit. We suggest to get acquainted with his answers if you are interested in his outlook on our players, our performance in the Summer Split of LCS and his experience of coaching our team. Below you can find a preview of his AMA.

Two teams that will come out on top today will qualify for LCS EU Spring 2016. Gambit Gaming and SK Gaming are going up against mousesports and Gamers2 respectively. We would like to remind that Kristoffer "P1noy" Pedersen is replacing Konstantinos "FORG1VEN" Tzortziou in our upcoming match.

Due to the fact that FORG1VEN has to miss two more LCS games, we decided to field a single AD Carry player for our upcoming match against Mousesports. In our view it is better to commit to a practice with a single player instead of splitting the practice time between the two of them.

After a prolonged media silence Danil decided to share his outlook and experiences concerning three previous splits of LCS. It's a very in-depth post and we recommend you to get acquainted with it. It is certainly worth your time!

Today, on July 28^th, our Mid Laner Felix "Betsy" Edling is celebrating his 18^th Birthday. Felix joined our team during the Spring split as a temporary substitute for niQ and over the course of two weeks earned himself a place on our starting line-up. He proved to be a very flexible player and a great teammate, who can work hard and alter his playstyle when our team requires it.

LCS EU Summer'15 is a nine-week long competition (May 28th – July 24^th) that features ten teams from Europe. Competitors face each other twice in a best-of-one format. By the end of the regular part of the split six teams qualify for playoffs and compete for a prize pool as well as Championship Points that they must accrue to qualify for Season 5 Worlds. 10^th place is automatically relegated and replaced by the 1^st place Challenger team. 8^th and 9^th place will battle against 2^nd and 3^rd place Challenger teams to qualify for LCS EU Spring'16.

Today, on July 23rd, our AD Carry Konstantinos "FORG1VEN" Tzortziou is celebrating his 23^rd birthday. While the circumstances might not be the most pleasant, we hope that he will enjoy himself today. We'll do our best over the course of this week to earn a spot in playoffs and thus allow him to redeem himself!

In spite of us having three substitute AD Carries, unfortunately, none of them will be able to replace FORG1VEN this week. The Management of Winterfox insisted on P1noy participating in the final NA CS game and thus making him unable to arrive to Berlin on time. Team Imagine denied our request to borrow Steelback altogether, whereas Genja cannot aid us due to personal reasons.

Acting respectful towards regular players is an integral part of a professional conduct. This kind of conduct not only is perceived as righteous, but is also a part of Riot Games' rule book.

With a victory over Origen and a loss to Unicorns of Love we managed to climb from the 6^th to the 5^th place in the standings. We are tied with Giants Gaming and Roccat: 7 Wins and 9 Losses. With two games left until the end of the regular season, only three teams have secured their spots in playoffs: Fnatic, Origen and H2k. The remaining teams with an exception of Copenhagen Wolves will continue a nail-biting fight for the remaining three spots.