Daniel, rise. and zen have been the biggest changes this transfer window. But these changes are often followed by a chain of further changes. Who is going where, who is starting from scratch — all information about Europe and North America can be found here in this article.
In Europe, 82 points disappear from the RLCS overall standings, which cannot be compared to previous seasons due to the change in points. But even in recent seasons, big names like FC Barcelona or the Vodafone Giants have suddenly disappeared from the tableau and have not reappeared, but for most teams this season it will continue.
North America
The top transfer in North America is clearly Daniel’s move to Version1. In the RLCS ranking, this means only a small jump of two points for the young star, but above all that Version1 gets a player from the direct competition. While the young star comes, the torment stops. Another world champion leaves the RLCS stage.
🗣️ DANIEL DANIEL DANIEL 🗣️ pic.twitter.com/JTjt1CflVV
— Version1 (@version1gg) May 3, 2023
The replacement for Daniel Spacestation Gaming is hockser, who joins the team as a coach along with Sadjunior. Also on the SSG bench is Lethamyr, a well-known name on the scene.
Due to the change from hockser, the Ghost Gaming roster also falls apart, money and xpurt form the sup roster together with ayjacks. The team manages to make it into the main event right away.
Ayjacks joins and was fired from Team AXLE, adding Taroco to the AXLE roster.
It is the season when world champions retire, including Turbopolsa. A restart was actually planned with DarkZero, but this did not go as planned and the roster dissolved. For creamz, this gave the opportunity to try something new with aris and hockE (reigning university world champion with Northwood Blue). The hey bro team made it into the main event right away.
There was also a new formation and Gyro at KOI. may now sosa, CHEESE. and welcome S5-Chosmic(as a sub) to his side.
Join us in giving a warm welcome to our new Rocket League players @sosacrdbl and @CheeseRL_ 🥳
We're very excited to see what this roster will accomplish in the #RLCS Spring Split#SOMOSKOI | #KOIUnited pic.twitter.com/TuonaVmTNU
— KOI English (@KOIxENG) April 20, 2023
While the three new ones are Aqua and night. switched to the G-League together and form a new team with Zineel. A team with a lot of potential that didn’t make it directly into the main event at the first attempt.
While there have been team rotations for some teams, Dignitas rotates the coaching bench. ViolentPanda joins Dignitas as the new coach, replacing Nick, who helped Team Queso jump and achieve success in the RLCS.
Europe
While in North America the top four teams remain the same and there were changes only afterwards, it is once again more chaotic in Europe. The exit from the Major has prompted Oxygen Esports (3rd place in the season ranking in Europe) to change, eekso comes as a player and replaces rise., who stayed at Oxygen only one split. At the same time, a new coach comes with Snaski, who replaces billy.
A new era has arrived 😈
Welcome to OXG Rocket League @eekso2 and @Snaski10 💚 pic.twitter.com/xolkaKMvMf
— Oxygen Esports (@OXG_Esports) April 24, 2023
But rise. does not remain without a team for long, he changes to Team BDS and should help to make the title defense possible. Due to the change, Extra ends up on the bench and thus a long time together with M0nkey M00n.
What a run for @Extra_RL 👏
In his almost 3-year run under @TeamBDS, Extra has won:
– The 2022 World Championship
– The 2021 Fall Major
– 3 European Online Majors (RLCS X)
– 8 RLCS Regionals@RLEsports #RLCS pic.twitter.com/4bUIxOCcUL— Liquipedia RL (@LiquipediaRL) April 27, 2023
But even with Moist Esports, the fourth-best team in Europe, there is a change. AztraL is relegated to the bench, with Kash joining the main team.
Kash comes from Quadrant dropping almost their entire roster. Therefore, the way for the change from eekso to Oxygen was clear. Only Relatingwave remains in Quadrant, but has to settle for the role of sub there. As a result, Quadrant loses all RLCS points for the season and is likely out of the race for World Spots.
The new quadrant roster consists of two former Vertigo Esports players, TxMpeR and CharlieB, giving the team five points in the overall standings. The roster is supplemented by Kassio, who comes from the dissolved Tundra roster.
Statement on the Tundra Rocket League roster 👇 pic.twitter.com/cyWT53FNrp
— TUNDRA (@TundraEsports) April 12, 2023
Another transfer emerges from this Tundra roster, Rezears forms the Monkeys roster along with Mittaen and Smokez. The roster has already played well at the Gamers8 tournament, it remains to be seen whether this can also work in the RLCS.
The third player in the Tundra Roster Rizex45 has to make his way through the Open Qualifier together with Speed and Toxiic as Two and A Half Men.
Toxiic comes from the suhhh roster and is replaced there by hibbs.
Tundra’s new roster consists of Catalysm, ivn. and Tox, the former German Amigos are now competing for the titles under the team name PSG TUNDRA.
At Team Vitality, zen moves into the starting lineup and immediately wins the first two tournaments in this formation. In the RLCS, the roster will start without saizen in the future, but for the first open qualifier there will not be a new team.
After oaly’s surprising exit from Oxygen Esports, he has now found a new home with G1. Due to the change, MaRc_By_8 is overtaken. again the fate of being relegated to the bench after two-thirds of the season. In the end, Team BDS became world champions, whether G1 will also be able to do that is rather questionable…
After the winter split, VKSailen went looking for a team at Monaco Esports and found what he was looking for in Aogiri. For him, the Spaniard Dying is new, who took a break after the Turboclappers were eliminated in January.
parka leaves the team at the table neighbor FUXADOP and plays the spring split together with the aforementioned VKSailen. Lasa joins the team for parka and brings RLCS experience with MuchDelight.
This statistic also shows how often the rosters in the RLCS change:
With no transfer windows left for the RLCS 2022-23 Season, only 3 out of 24 teams from the RLCS 2022 World Championship will finish this current season with an identical starting line-up! 😲
– @G2esports
– @NRGgg
– @FalconsEsport @RLEsports #RLCS— Liquipedia RL (@LiquipediaRL) May 3, 2023
Header: Oxygen Esports