Looking to downsize some of league memoribilia collection, jacket is signed by the 2013 CLG team. was wondering what you guys think this is worth?

Just redid our basement and got my gear set up. Spouse made me the diamond painting and printed out pictures of historical moments we glued to sides. Get hype for the CLG showmatch!

I did at one point have a CLG mouse and mouse pad but they are long dead :(

I dont have Twitter so missed this announcement but we're hyped to beat FreeSM again right folks?

https://www.twitch.tv/doublelift

https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Doublelift's_Retirement_Home_Tournament

A lot of CLG alumni in this tournament!

VODs

Day 1

Day 2

Team Stixxay

• Darshan
• Xmithie
• Bigfatlp
• Stixxay
• Link

Team Pobelter

• HotshotGG
• Akaadian
• Pobelter
• Keith
• Smoothie

Team Sneaky

• Voyboy
• Svenskeren
• Froggen
• Sneaky
• LemonNation

Team Meteos

• Hauntzer
• Meteos
• Hai
• Maplestreet
• Xpecial

As far as I am aware, MSG still owns the CLG brand name. Now we need them to come back and save the LCS!

I am deciding to sell my csgo skins that are worth something so i can buy games for free for a bit. As an old clg fan I have skins with clg stickers on them it is an awp manowar https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/730/G1809208B033004 i also have a m4a1 s guardian that isnt up right now and i also have a cutler signature sticker.

Ps if this isnt allowed mods feel free to delete this and if you are interested in the m4 or the cutler sticker feel free to inbox or comment here and ill adjust the price

Hi everyone!

Is anyone selling CLG LoL merch (preferably a jersey)? I'm looking for a Large but would also consider an XL. I'm planning on going to Worlds this year and would love to represent my all time favorite team!

Thanks!

EDIT: Saw this on eBay for anyone looking to buy a jersey. Can anyone who owns a jersey from this era comment on how the sizing fit (true to size, size up, size down, etc.) Thanks again!

2021 Jersey

found this screen shot on an old hard drive. thought id share for the nostalgia. these truly were the good ol' days.

CLGWIN FOREVER

^(\TSM also blows forever*)*

My wife is really into league now, shes a big fan of Los Ratones, but i want to show her why CLG was the team to love, specifically 2015 onwards. I remember watching the series weekly when it came out, any episodes or old CLG content on YouTube that is there you'd recommend?

Caption was "all is right in the world"

From 3 years ago to the day. Think Greg just stepped in as Head

whyyyy nunu whyyyy

My damn dryer destroyed my favorite shirt today... absolutely devastated. Praying I can find one used I guess lol

Timestamp TLDR: https://youtu.be/7NgEuvolEBk?t=3045

In the latest LFN episode they talk about how NRG’s acquisition of CLG was really a short term scheme to increase the their esports departments valuation before selling off completely. They also guess that this is what caused the abrupt brand transition. They also allude that this could have been hidden from various parties like Riot, MSG, etc. Also after selling the spot they used Riots team agreement to terminate all their staff likely with no severance.

Additionally, the players after winning the championship in 2023 were forced into new contracts for this past year that likely stripped them of protections from this exact termination.

Sucks for the players and not a good sign for the league health economics. Hilarious they did this and still got a championship out of CLGs corpse. Hope these players can find new teams. Sad to see my favorite org used so dirty like this.

Hi CLG community,

Random Redditor here, I don't know much about the gaming community but in a truly random way I've come across several lightly used gaming chairs from Team CLG. I can't give any specifics other than I personally know that these chairs have been used by members of the CLG team, and I wanted to offer them to those in this community who would appreciate having and using them going forward.

I've included photos of the three chairs, so I'd like to offer three different folks the opportunity to take a chair home.

The caveat is that you MUST be able to pick up the chair on either Sunday Sept 22nd in the afternoon after 3pm, or sometime Monday Sept 23nd, using your own transportation to get to El Segundo, CA. No deliveries.

If there are more than a few comments in the next 24 hours, I'll use RedditRaffler to pick the recipients and contact them asap. If I don't hear back within 12 hours of reaching out, I will contact the next person.

Thanks and good luck!

UPDATE:

congrats to u/AureliusAmbrose u/GrazingCrow and u/Blood_Diet! Because I'm a brand new account, it seems I can't reach out to folks directly, so please DM me directly so we can work out the logistics for you to come by and get a chair ASAP.

Thank you all for posting and reaching out, the CLG community out there is still very strong and supportive!

Hey y'all! Wanted to share this letter that I got a few years back. I sure miss CLG 🥲 hope you all are doing well!

This will end up being a long ass post. In it I hope to convey my thoughts, as a fan of a dead team, about the news of NRG leaving LCS after a year.

I started watching league around season 1/2, I mostly played dota(not 2, the first one, on garena), people on the brazilian dota forum at the time started talking about league one day, everyone, me and my friends included, mocked the game at first(dota for kids yada yada lmao) and then without fail transitioned to playing league eventually.

I remember catching the 1st Worlds finals on Phreak's basement by coincidence when it was streaming and thinking it was cool that there were championships for a game like this. "esports'' was barely a word at the time, chances were people would think you made a typo trying to write 'sports'. Around the same time I, in highschool at the time, heard of the player considered the best at the time, ''hotshotgg'', memes about his nidalee and stuff like that, and also heard about Doublelift. By the end of season 2, when I felt like watching worlds and had to choose a team, the choice was clear.

So, like any rational person at the time, I chose to cheer for Moscow 5 and CLG.EU.

CLG was a team I sympathized with, but I didn't really follow the scene or anything like that so all I knew were a couple player names, and I also had caught on to the developing rivalry between TSM and CLG.

Then along came season 3. By that time, league was my main game and I was already familiar with the main faces in the pro scene. CLG, TSM, M5, CLG.EU, the iconic c9 roster with Meteos, Curse, Dig, Vulcun, etc. Those teams were making NA really interesting and entertaining meanwhile, if I wanted to watch the highest level league I could just tune into OGN. It felt like the game just wouldn't stop growing, a feeling that went on for a couple years with league if I'm being honest.

I knew the NA teams rosters and watched their games, CLG in NA had become my favorite team due to DL/Aphro's personality and HSGG's legacy. I was also interested in MonteCristo's work in OGN from before he started coaching, so when he came to CLG it felt like the perfect combination to make me an invested fan. From that point on, I was doomed.

I watched CLG's absolute disaster bootcamp in korea, I watched as CLG kept on changing rosters throughout 2014 into 2015 bringing iconic people like Scarra, Zionspartan, Xmithie, POB, Zikz, etc. And after that whole rollercoaster ride the eventual glorious win against TSM to win the LCS. The following split win as well.

Then I watched, alongside what felt like an honestly desperate fanbase, the fall off. Absurdly bad management decisions, despite the fans best efforts into conveying support, kept on bringing on changes and faces that made no sense for a team that was supposedly being built to be a contender.

Together with this fall off came what felt to me like a slower, but still gradual fall off of the LCS as a whole. NA as a region started to feel too much like a punching bad internationally, and little by little the scene started to feel dominated by single teams(first TSM with Bjergsen for a long time, then TL and C9). China had risen to rival Korea internationally, meanwhile EU solidified it's place as the west's best shot. The game as a whole naturally changed, and by 2019 it was already completely different from the times that got me into it. Around the time the pandemic hit, I had stopped playing the game already and was just following the pro scene.

When the news of NRG buying CLG came out, it shouldn't have been surprising. CLG, at the time, was already a broke brand. News of the money struggles in league teams in general and CLG specifically were around for a long ass time, MSG's management had been beyond shit for years. It still felt like quite a gut punch however, since the team had started to finally, after years of mediocrity, start to show structural improvement. It wasn't shocking to a lot of us CLG fans when that roster managed to win in the following year carrying NRG's banner.

The part that stung the most about NRG's aquisition however was how blatant it was to CLG fans how much NRG didn't give a shit about what CLG had been. They changed pretty much everything they could the faster they could, fired people who were doing a great job, making practically no actual attempts at even referencing CLG. It was disheartening to see, as a fan, media figures and a lot of people from the fanbase buying into what was clearly a desperate narrative due to the LCS's declining viewership that "NRG could bring a new fanbase to league'', about how they were huge in other games, etc. Meanwhile, those same figures completely shrugged off the fact that one of the teams that starred in some of the league they were trying to save best moments had been completely erased by what was a soul-less org. From the perspective of someone looking into what it meant for the LCS, the whole thing reeked of desperation in the face of the economic decline, a stench that any CLG fan that followed the team in that 2015-2020 stretch knows very well.

Now, a year later, Riot has made drastic decisions regarding the LCS, changing it's whole structure, and the NRG brand is leaving the league just a year after completely erasing the CLG brand. As a CLG fan, it feels like a gut punch and also bitter validation of a lot of criticisms that were silenced a year ago by people who felt either bitter against the CLG brand or desperate for some magic solution to the LCS's decline. I'm not saying CLG not being bought by NRG would have saved the LCS, it obviously wouldn't and CLG was already a completely broke brand at the time, but I do think this abrupt leaving of NRG should make people reflect on what is actually lost in sacrificing these iconic team identities in what's supposed to be a competitive team league. I read somewhere that most fans that watch the LCS now aren't watching it because they cheer for a team and mostly just watch for the whole product, and as someone who still enjoys international league and experienced those great years, that just feels so lame. This year had an insane ending to the final series and a great opening that made me recall a lot of faces from the years I enjoyed the LCS, and yet, to me it can't keep up in comparison to most iconic finals in the league's history. It's a bit of a shame.

I hope, in the following years with the new league format and stuff, that Riot carries on with the understanding that what will actually bind people to watching these leagues and actually manage to take it to insane heights, while obviously not reliant solely on that, is the passion fans have for specific teams. I hope Riot tries to protect it a bit more in the years that come, having learned from what happened with CLG and even TSM. It's no fun without the notion that these teams are building a legacy.

https://youtu.be/fnmUpizpg6k?si=hMJ-K3aNjhei2ajE Bro....