{"id":9822,"date":"2019-12-19T23:53:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=9822"},"modified":"2019-12-19T23:53:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:53:48","slug":"golden-guardians-move-into-apex-legends-teamfight-tactics-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/golden-guardians-move-into-apex-legends-teamfight-tactics-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Guardians move into Apex Legends, Teamfight Tactics &#038; WoW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of a rebrand which introduced a new logo and new team colours, Golden Guardians have announced they will extend their portfolio of esports teams and branch out into Apex Legends, Teamfight Tactics and World of Warcraft.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Guardians&#8217; first appearance in the esports scene came in late 2017 when they joined the <a href=\"\/league-of-legends\/championship-series\/\" title=\"LCS betting guide\">League of Legends Championship Series<\/a> (LCS) along with 100 Thieves, Clutch Gaming and OpTic Gaming. Their inaugural roster consisted of Samson &#8220;Lourlo&#8221; Jackson, Juan &#8220;Contractz&#8221; Arturo Garcia, Hai &#8220;Hai&#8221; Du Lam, Matthew &#8220;Deftly&#8221; Chen and Matthew &#8220;Matt&#8221; Elento, with Choi &#8220;Locodoco&#8221; Yoon-seop as head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The newly established team failed to achieve much success in their LCS debut, finishing both 2018 splits dead-last with an aggregate score of 9-27. Those poor results led to several changes and a roster reshuffle, which saw GGS improve to finish fifth-sixth in the 2019 LCS Spring Split and seventh in the Summer Split.<\/p>\n<p>After a rather underwhelming venture in the <a href=\"\/league-of-legends\/\" title=\"LoL esports betting\">League of Legends esports<\/a> scene, Golden Guardians announced on Wednesday they will be expanding their brand into Apex Legends, World of Warcraft and Teamfight Tactics.<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our first expansion. Welcome to the Golden Guardians<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeccaTILTS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BeccaTILTS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TidesofTime?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TidesofTime<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeliciousMilkGG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DeliciousMilkGG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tempo_Pikaboo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tempo_Pikaboo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stergey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@stergey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wizkxd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wizkxd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JellybeansTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JellybeansTV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bronzeys?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bronzeys<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pfitter_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pfitter_<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iiTzTimmylol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iiTzTimmylol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sWVaIxAuwf\">pic.twitter.com\/sWVaIxAuwf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Golden Guardians (@GoldenGuardians) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoldenGuardians\/status\/1207317389777367040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Rebecca \u201cBecca\u201d Cho, Jeffrey \u201cDeliciousMilkGG\u201d Pan and Andrew \u201cTidesofTime\u201d Biessener will from now on play Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra and Hearthstone under the GGS banner.<\/p>\n<p>GGS&#8217;s <a href=\"\/apex-legends\/\" title=\"Apex Legends esports betting\">Apex Legends esports<\/a> team will consist of Timothy \u201ciiTzTimmy\u201d An, Devon \u201cPfitter\u201d Self and Deston \u201cBronzey\u201d Nguyen. They will also make appearances in other battle royale games.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, Jason \u201cPikaboo\u201d Smith, Conner \u201cWizk\u201d Torrence, Vincent \u201cJellybeans\u201d Tran and Carlos \u201cAbsterge\u201d Correa will form Golden Guardians&#8217; <a href=\"\/world-of-warcraft\/\" title=\"WoW esports betting\">World of Warcraft esports<\/a> team. These four once played together at The Goshu Crew, where they clinched a silver medal at the 2018 Arena World Championship before leaving to form their own squad, The Move.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Guardians are the esports arm of the Golden State Warriors NBA team. According to Kirk Lacob, GSW Sports Ventures Vice President, the franchise is eager to make a lasting impact beyond the boards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpanding our esports portfolio is an integral part of growing the Warriors brand from just a basketball team to a sports and entertainment company,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are always looking for innovative ways to strengthen the footprint of our organization, and growing the Golden Guardians brand is a major aspect of that growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New logo. New colors. New games. New Golden Guardians. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yQWQr4IR9k\">pic.twitter.com\/yQWQr4IR9k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Golden Guardians (@GoldenGuardians) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoldenGuardians\/status\/1207314736175386625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Golden Guardians also revealed a new logo, which will move away from the yellow and blue colour scheme of the Warriors to a more modern-looking black and gold logo. The new branding has received fairly positive feedback so far, which is quite the opposite of what Evil Geniuses experienced <a href=\"\/evil-geniuses-unveil-new-logo-for-esports-teams\/\" title=\"EG unveil new logo for esports teams\">after unveiling their new logo earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With that move, Golden Guardians will spread their reach into three growing esports titles. Auto-battler games are slowly but surely finding their feet in the competitive gaming scene, <a href=\"\/respawn-and-ea-announce-3m-apex-legends-esports-tournament\/\" title=\"Latest Apex Legends news\">while EA and Respawn recently announced the Apex Legends Global Series<\/a> &#8211; a new multi-tournament esports event which is set to kick off in January 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of a rebrand which introduced a new logo and new team colours, Golden Guardians have announced they will extend their portfolio of esports teams and branch out into Apex Legends, Teamfight Tactics and World of Warcraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":9823,"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":[90],"tags":[681,4,170,745,705,5,44],"class_list":["post-9822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-apex-legends","tag-featured","tag-golden-guardians","tag-north-america","tag-teamfight-tactics","tag-us","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822"}],"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=9822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9824,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822\/revisions\/9824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}