{"id":27261,"date":"2023-01-05T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T17:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=27261"},"modified":"2023-01-05T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T17:55:35","slug":"excel-esports-reportedly-signs-league-of-legend-prodigy-abbedagge-as-substitute-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/excel-esports-reportedly-signs-league-of-legend-prodigy-abbedagge-as-substitute-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Esports reportedly signs League of Legend prodigy Abbedagge as substitute player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European esports outfit Excel Esports have reportedly signed Felix &#8220;Abbedagge&#8221; Braun as a substitute for their 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/league-of-legends\/\" title=\"LoL betting guide\" >League of Legends<\/a> roster.<\/p>\n<p>Abbedagge will be serving as a backup for the team\u2019s French Mid laner Vincent &#8220;Vetheo&#8221; Berri\u00e9, who recently got signed to the team in December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to the sources, the German player will still be available for teams to sign him as he is only serving as a substitute. However, his contract expiration with Excel Esports, as updated with GCD, is set to expire on April 30th of this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Excel Esports have acquired Abbedagge as substitute player. The player will also be free to have offers from other teams,&#8221; League of Legends reporter Brieuc Seeger tweeted.<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">[Sources] Excel Esports have acquired Abbedagge \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea as substitute player. The player will also be free to have offers from other teams. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZHJFWyqHQ9\">pic.twitter.com\/ZHJFWyqHQ9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LEC Wooloo \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa (@LEC_Wooloo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LEC_Wooloo\/status\/1610649633432141824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Abeedagge has spent the last couple of months playing for the North American team, 100 Thieves; hence, the player is now making a return to the League of Legends European Championship circuit to replicate his successful run in the previous season.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old German mid laner can be regarded as a League of Legends prodigy and veteran, having been in the scene since 2016. Abeedagge has signed with esports brands such as the Victorious Ace, Mysterious Monkeys, Royal Bandits, EURONICS Gaming, Schalke 04, MyMo.ESLM, and one of the most renowned esports teams, 100 Thieves, which he recently parted ways with after spending a period of one year and seven months with them.<\/p>\n<p>The player\u2019s recent matches with 100 Thieves include the 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/league-of-legends\/championship-series\/\" title=\"LCS betting guide\" >League of Legends Championship Series<\/a> Spring and Summer playoffs, where they came out in second place in both tournaments. And I\u2019m the League of Legends World Championship Abeedagge, and 100 Thieves had a declining 11th\u201314th place finish.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Excel Esports&#8217; European League of Legends roster consists of bot laner Patrik &#8220;Patrik&#8221; J\u00edr\u016f , Belgium support player Rapha\u00ebl &#8220;Targamas&#8221; Crabb\u00e9, and the two new junglers, Andrei &#8220;Odoamne&#8221; Pascu and Andrei &#8220;Xerxe&#8221; Dragomir, who joined the team in December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>While the player and Excel Esports are yet to make an official statement about the addition of the player, it is likely that in the coming days the team will publish a formal release disclosing the terms of the agreement they have with Abbedagge.<\/p>\n<p>The LEC Winter Spilt is scheduled to kick off on January 21 of this year. The league will introduce its updated format for the 2023 season, which includes an additional split at the start of 2023 and a best-of-one round-robin format, which means each squad in the 10-team league will compete with each other once, with the top eight squads advancing to a double-elimination group stage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European esports outfit Excel Esports have reportedly signed Felix &#8220;Abbedagge&#8221; Braun as a substitute for their 2023 League of Legends roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":19647,"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":[652,4,2930,24,259],"class_list":["post-27261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-excel-esports","tag-featured","tag-felix-abbedagge-braun","tag-league-of-legends","tag-lol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27261"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27262,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27261\/revisions\/27262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}