Alex Ich subbing in for TDK on LCS Summer Promotion Tournament

Alex Ich subbing in for TDK on

LCS Summer Promotion Tournament

Former Gambit Gaming midlaner Alexey “Alex Ich“ Ichetovkin is in talks to be a substitute for Team Dragon Knights in the NA LCS promotion tournament.  He would be replacing korean midlaner Seo “Kyle” Ji-Sun.

This move comes after Kyle’s rather disappointing performance in the Grand Finals of the NACS playoffs against Enemy Esports.  Kyle’s small champion pool  and somewhat unreliable playstyle have been difficult for TDK to work around this split, he played Lissandra all 4 of his final games.  Yet, despite this, TDK managed to land themselves in the finals of the challenger series and it will be exciting to see how they perform with the legendary playmaking mid.

Alex, currently on Team “Misfits” alongside Team Dignitas jungler Alberto “Crumbz“ Rengifo, has subbed for Team Dragon Knights before.  He, along with Misfits support Maria “Yuno” Creveling (playing on ADC) ended the weekend with two best KDA’s in the challenger series.  While Alex’s mechanics seem to be closer to their previous glory than many critics have suggested, he has yet to be truly tested.  TDK is willing to stake their organisation’s future that the Russian still has what it takes to help them get into the LCS in one high-stakes, all-or-nothing, do-or-die best of 5.  I, for one, am eager to see how Alex performs against top-notch Winterfox mid-laner Eugene “Pobelter” Park.

Promotion Tournament on the 25. or 26 April.

I will be interviewing tomorrow Ale Ich and Misfits owner Chris Badawi.

 Written by - Alexandre "DrPuppet" Weber