{"id":5200,"date":"2018-04-26T07:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T07:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2018-04-26T07:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T07:42:21","slug":"former-cloud9-captain-hai-retires-from-league-of-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/former-cloud9-captain-hai-retires-from-league-of-legends\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Cloud9 captain &#8216;Hai&#8217; retires from League of Legends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 23, \u201cHai\u201d Du Lam announced his retirement from competitive <a href=\"\/league-of-legends\/\" title=\"League of Legends esports sites\">League of Legends<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The American made his name during four years as captain of Cloud9. He began his professional <a href=\"\/games\/\" title=\"Esports games\">esports<\/a> career in 2012 and took on several roles, starting as a jungler and finishing as a mid-laner.<\/p>\n<p>Hai was an assertive leader with great shot-calling skills. He was a key contributor to Cloud9\u2019s success in the early years of the NA LCS, but decided to leave due to a lack of international titles. It was a similar story at FlyQuest and then Golden Guardians, who finished last in the 2018 Spring Split with four wins and 14 loses.<\/p>\n<p>The player made the announcement on Reddit. When fans asked the reason behind his retirement, Hai said his playing style was at odds with the team&#8217;s vision. <\/p>\n<p>On April 24, Golden Guardians released a video where they announced the roster changes. Son \u201cMickey\u201d Young-min will take Hai\u2019s place after making the switch from the Team Liquid Academy.<\/p>\n<p>About his next career step, Hai said he would focus on streaming, content creation and being a brand ambassador. <\/p>\n<p>Hai\u2019s replacement is not the only major roster change in the NA LCS. <\/p>\n<p>OpTic Gaming has released both its top-laner and support after ending the season in ninth place. Derek \u201czig\u201d Shao will now play for the Golden Guardians Academy, while Daerek \u201cLemonNation\u201d Hart has not yet signed with a new team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hai Du Lam has ended his six-year esports career after a disappointing season with Golden Guardians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5201,"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":[172,170,24,259,167],"class_list":["post-5200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cloud9","tag-golden-guardians","tag-league-of-legends","tag-lol","tag-na-lcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5204,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5200\/revisions\/5204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}