{"id":11264,"date":"2020-05-05T00:42:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T00:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=11264"},"modified":"2020-05-05T00:42:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T00:42:03","slug":"team-liquid-appoint-jatt-as-new-lol-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/team-liquid-appoint-jatt-as-new-lol-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Liquid appoint Jatt as new LoL head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua &#8220;Jatt&#8221; Leesman will take over as head coach of Team Liquid for the <a href=\"\/league-of-legends\/championship-series\/\" title=\"LCS betting sites\">2020 League of Legends Championship Series<\/a> (LCS) Summer Split, the North American esports organisation announced this week.<\/p>\n<p>The coaching change comes as no surprise after a disastrous first half of the 2020 season. However, many in the <a href=\"\/league-of-legends\/\" title=\"League of Legends betting sites\">LoL esports<\/a> community will have been shocked that TL opted to appoint a popular caster as their new lead strategist.<\/p>\n<p>Jatt is one of the most recognisable figures in the North American LoL scene. He began his journey as a professional player for Rock Solid in 2011 before moving to Dignitas, where he competed alongside three prominent figures in William &#8220;scarra&#8221; Li, Joedat &#8220;Voyboy&#8221; Esfahani and Michael &#8220;Imaqtpie&#8221; Santana.<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From the desk to the stage &#8211; please welcome our new coach, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RiotJatt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RiotJatt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LetsGoLiquid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LetsGoLiquid<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MUhN68M5vp\">pic.twitter.com\/MUhN68M5vp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Team Liquid LoL (@TeamLiquidLoL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamLiquidLoL\/status\/1257369399973089286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>After leaving pro play, Jatt spent many years working for Riot Games as an analyst, designer and caster. While the 32-year-old Canadian has no prior coaching experience, he said the transition is &#8220;actually something that feels somewhat natural, even if it is such a big change&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Jatt expressed his excitement about joining an esports organisation who have won four out of the last five LCS splits, and who field a &#8220;very stacked roster&#8221; with two former world champions in Jo &#8220;CoreJJ&#8221; Young-in and Jung &#8220;Impact&#8221; Eon-yeong, 2018 Worlds finalist Mads &#8220;Broxah&#8221; Brock-Pedersen, 2019 Mid-Season Invitational finalist Nicolaj &#8220;Jensen&#8221; Jensen, and the young and talented ADC Edward &#8220;Tactical&#8221; Ra.<\/p>\n<p>Jatt will make his debut as Team Liquid&#8217;s head coach on June 13, when the 2020 LCS Summer Split is scheduled to begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua &#8220;Jatt&#8221; Leesman will take over as head coach of Team Liquid for the 2020 League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) Summer Split, the North American esports organisation announced this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,1214,261,24,745,128],"class_list":["post-11264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-joshua-jatt-leesman","tag-lcs","tag-league-of-legends","tag-north-america","tag-team-liquid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11268,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11264\/revisions\/11268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}