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Team Liquid is has launched a new academy team to take a shot at the League of Legends<\/em> Challenger Series, according to a Tweet<\/a> today from Steve Arhancet, the company\u2019s co-CEO.<\/p>

The team consists of two former players from Australian side Tainted Minds, which was recently fined by Riot Games<\/a> for mistreatment of its players and staff. Both Ryan \u201c ShorterACE<\/a>\u201d Nget and Tristan \u201cCake\u201d C\u00f4t\u00e9-Lalumi\u00e8re have joined the new Team Liquid Academy alongside teammates from Team 8.1, another Challenger team that both Cake and ShorterACE played on. Kenneth “ExecutionerKen” Tang, Omran “Viper” Shoura, and Andrew “Slooshi” Pham will be joining them at support, top, and mid respectively.<\/p> <\/p>

Members of the former Team Liquid Challenger team have all mostly moved up into professional LCS teams of their own, and some even made it through to Team Liquid\u2019s starting lineup in the NA LCS.<\/p> <\/p>

The new team is being flown out to Los Angeles to take part in a bootcamp to prepare for upcoming matches.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"