Korean esports organisation Hanjin BRION has introduced the signing of former Cloud9 mid laner Lee ‘Loki‘ Sang-min for the LCK season.
Introduced on the crew’s social media channels, Loki has signed a two-year contract till the top of 2027, in keeping with the World Contract Database. The participant is anticipated to contest for a beginning place alongside Jo ‘Roamer’ Woo-jin, who has recorded inconsistent performances through the 2026 LCK Cup.
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Loki Returns to After a Temporary Break
The 20-year-old started his skilled profession as a trainee on HLE’s academy crew in 2022, earlier than shortly rising by means of the ranks to earn a beginning place on its Challengers (second division) crew. Coincidentally, each Roamer and Loki had been sharing the mid lane spot between the summer season of 2022 and 2023, earlier than the previous joined the Crew Liquid Challengers crew in North America (NA).
Loki ended up shifting to NA one 12 months later, becoming a member of Cloud9 on a three-year contract. Regardless of having sturdy particular person performances, Loki wasn’t in a position to lead C9 to success, failing to qualify for that 12 months’s League of Legends World Championship.
On the finish of the season, the participant made the choice to half methods with the crew, citing private causes and his want to stay in Seoul together with his household.
Having discovered a brand new vacation spot within the LCK, Loki will lastly get his tier-one debut in South Korea by way of the league’s 2026 Common Season, which is ready to kick off someday in April.
Whereas the transfer probably gained’t make BRION a top-tier crew, Loki’s presence and expertise ought to have the ability convey extra firepower to the crew, which has been primarily counting on ADC participant Park ‘Teddy’ Jin-seong. Within the LCK Cup, the crew completed on the backside of its group standings, failing to win all of its best-of-series performed. The crew was solely saved from ending in final place because of the LCK Cup group format.
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