Star jungler Mingyi “Spica” Lu has been released by TSM after the roster’s loss to Evil Geniuses within the 2022 LCS Championship. The former North American champion and 2021 Spring MVP is now an unrestricted free agent—and a precious one at that—heading into the subsequent League of Legends switch window.
Spica performed 166 games for TSM in the LCS between 2019 and his launch.
The jungler, who continues to be simply 21, introduced the news in a tweet on Sept. 6, confirming he’s now capable of discuss to different League orgs ahead of the 2023 season.
“TSM has terminated my contract, so I’m a free agent, efficient at this time,” he wrote within the update. “Thanks to all of the followers for the 4 years of overwhelming help. I’m excited for what’s coming subsequent.”
The Chinese-born jungler has but to announce if he has discovered a brand new crew.
This roster transfer from TSM brings a four-year relationship between Spica and the heavyweight League org to an in depth. The 21-year-old joined the crew’s Academy roster in April 2019 earlier than becoming a member of the primary lineup for temporary stints in Spring’s common season and a do-or-die playoffs collection within the Summer postseason.
Spica returned to TSM’s improvement roster for Spring 2020, the place his Academy squad ran Third-4th in playoffs. He was moved into the primary squad full-time from the beginning of Summer.
The transfer paid off almost immediately for TSM and Spica alike: the League crew—which additionally included Bjergsen, Doublelift, and Biofrost—managed fourth within the common season earlier than an unimaginable decrease bracket run to win the LCS 2020 Summer Playoffs with a 3–2 grand closing victory over FlyQuest.
The crew then suffered a memorable 0–6 humiliation in Worlds teams and veterans Bjergsen and Doublelift retired from aggressive League of Legends.
Spica and the squad returned in 2021 with recent faces like Huni, PowerOfEvil, and massive money signing SwordArt. The crew had sturdy outcomes, together with third within the Mid-Season Showdown and a top-spot end in Summer common season, the latter of which netted Spica his first All-Pro nomination and the LCS MVP crown.
The crew missed playoffs in Spring 2022 and ran Fifth-Sixth within the Championship.