Mickey Renews with Excel Esports

Excel Esports is extremely excited to announce that Son ‘Mickey’ Young-Min is renewing his contract with Excel for the 2020 season, pending Riot Games approval. Mickey is an extremely storied player, having competed in every major League of Legends region.

For the 2019 Summer Split, Mickey joined Excel as its Midlaner and showed both a fantastic level of game knowledge, but also an extremely positive attitude when working with the team. Excel hopes the highlight plays delivered by Mickey week-on-week in Summer are proof of his incredibly high skill ceiling and the team are extremely excited for their preseason training together at Excel’s London-based HQ (#XLHQ) ahead of the 2020 League of Legends European Championship (LEC) season.

Asked about the upcoming season, Son ‘Mickey’ Young-Min had the following to say:

“I can’t wait to come back to Europe and compete with Excel again. It was great working with Caedrel and Expect last split, and I believe we can reach our goal of play-offs this split.”

Last season was a season of great learning and heading into 2020 Excel has ambitions of claiming itself a spot in play-offs, taking Britain, its first-in-class partners and its global community with it. The focus of the 2019/2020 off-season for the organisation has been that of building on Excel’s strong base for performance and investing in its future, with talented players such as Mickey.

Asked to comment on Mickey’s renewal, Grant Rousseau, Head of Operations at Excel Esports, had the following to say:

“We’re so happy to have Mickey back with us for the 2020 season and we can’t wait to see his ability back on the Rift. I’m so glad to see how much the community warmed to him last split we can’t wait for him to give the fans at home even more reasons to cheer his name!”

Kieran Holmes-Darby, CEO of Excel Esports also wished to make the following comment:

“At Excel, we’re only interested in talent which we know we can develop into the best of the best. Mickey showed he’s an exceptional player last split and we have been working with him, to turn him into one of the best Midlaners in Europe. I’m delighted that he’s chosen to stay with us as we develop him even further.”

For any interview requests, please email alex@excelesports.com