Anders ‘Fittle’ Wind, a Danish League of Legends (LoL) assist participant, has introduced his retirement.
Fittle was most lately with Fløng Esports Elite, a Danish organisation that performed within the Northern League of Legends Championship (NLC) calibration/qualifying event and made it to the Spring 2022 Division 2.
The NLC is the LoL European Regional League (ERL) for the UK, Eire and Nordics.
Fittle introduced his retirement in a Twitlonger publish earlier at this time:
Fittle stated: “To make an extended story quick, I’m going to the navy on April 4th which is able to collide with playoffs for the groups I received a proposal from.
“In addition to that, I merely don’t benefit from the recreation anymore once I play solo. Due to this fact after the elimination of duoQ, I spiralled into despair, since I had little or no contact with different individuals with on a regular basis I spend finding out and taking part in LoL.
“I nonetheless actually get pleasure from taking part in as a group so I’d comeback to that once more someday later.”
Fittle additionally added that it doesn’t make monetary sense to maintain taking part in “since you’re anticipated to do a full-time job for half time pay”.
The participant’s feedback come after Riot Video games eliminated duo queue from excessive elo play (Grasp tier and above) final 12 months.
Earlier this 12 months, Dot Esports reported that a number of professional gamers, akin to Carzzy, Vander and Santorin, needed duo queue introduced again at excessive elo.
Fittle obtained a whole lot of farewell feedback and exhibits of appreciation from individuals within the scene, together with Danish caster Guldborg, who stated he can be missed:
The information comes after NLC introduced the confirmed groups for Divisions 1 and a couple of:
The NLC and different accredited ERLs kick off on January tenth 2022.
See extra NLC information and updates right here
Dom is an award-winning author who graduated from Bournemouth College with a 2:1 diploma in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller within the late ’80s, he has written for a variety of publications together with GamesTM, Nintendo Official Journal, trade publication MCV in addition to Riot Video games and others. He labored as head of content material for the British Esports Affiliation up till February 2021, when he stepped again to work full-time on Esports Information UK and as an esports marketing consultant serving to manufacturers and companies higher perceive the trade.
