According to ESPN reports, Ninjas in Pyjamas has secured an EU LCS spot having purchased the slot previously owned by Fnatic Academy.After Fnatic Academy was promoted, the organisation was forced to sell its slot as Fnatic already compete in the LCS. Under Riot rules, an organisation can not have two teams competing in the same division – hence the need for sale. The same applied to Misfits Academy who also got promoted.The element of surprise is that Ninjas in Pyjamas has decided to keep none of the roster that won promotion to the LCS – meaning that the five that worked so hard to achieve promotion are effectively left without a home. Instead, the team will field SK Telecom T1’s top lane Kim “Profit” Jun-hyung, former Vitality jungler Ilyas “Shook” Hartsema, former KT Rolster mid laner Kim “Nagne” Sang-moon and Giants Gaming AD Carry Martin “HeaQ” Kordmaa. The roster will be rounded off with Hampus “sprattel” Mkael Abrahamsson, according to sources close to Jacob Wolf of ESPN reveal.It seems a bitter pill to swallow for a roster that worked so hard to make its way up to the CS, only to see their spot relinquished due to ownership rules. Meanwhile, Ninjas in Pyjamas will be desperate to achieve success with their League of Legends team. Their Counter-Strike: Global Offensive squad’s struggles have been well documented, with the once imperious roster most recently failing to qualify for even the qualifier for the qualifier of a Major. Similarly, following their re-entry into the Dota 2 scene the brand has seen very little success. Whilst the brand is still strong (especially in CS:GO), the performances on the proverbial pitch are, quite frankly, nothing to write home about. In fact, they’re quite the opposite.Esports Insider: You have to feel for the Fnatic Academy guys, but that’s just the way the cookie crumbles I guess. As we’ve said, NiP will be desperate for this move to work out, as they could do with having success in at least one major title.
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Grassley says child care access a Iowa House GOP priority for 2020
JOHNSTON — The new leader of Republicans in the Iowa House says increasing the options Iowa parents have for child care is likely to be a priority in the next legislative session.Pat Grassley’s GOP peers elevated him to the role of House Speaker-select earlier this month and the House Republican Caucus will reconvene soon to discuss its 2020 agenda. “In the conversations we have had, I can tell the issues that we have before us. It’s going to be things like workforce,” Grassley says. “…Our caucus is going to be interested in issues of child care, not just access, but issued of affordability.”This past spring, the Iowa House sent the Senate a bill that would significantly boost the state tax credit Iowans may claim for child care expenses. There are hundreds of millions of dollars worth of other tax credits already offered to businesses and individual taxpayers. Next Wednesday, Grassley and nine other legislators who are part of a review committee will hold their first meeting to discuss the full range of state tax credits.“We’re not out to try to just dismantle every tax credit. That’s not the intention of what we’re trying to do,” Grassley says. “I think there’s a lot of them that we probably can look at and say: ‘OK, could this money to spent better doing something different? Could we re-purpose it and try to use it in a different manner?’”Grassley made his comments on the Iowa Public Television program “Iowa Press” that aired over the weekend. During Friday’s morning’s taping, Grassley said he has no interest in changing Iowa’s non-partisan process for re-drawing legislative district lines after the next census.“I’ve been very clear that I will not support changing the redistricting,” Grassley said. “I went through probably the most expensive primary as a sitting legislator that anyone’s ever been a part of. If anyone have any problems with it, I think I would qualif for that, but I don’t think we should change the process. We have a good process in the state.”When legislative district lines were reconfigured for the 2012 election, Grassley and fellow House Republican Annette Sweeney of Alden lived in the same district and had to run against one another in a primary, which Grassley won. This January, when the legislature convenes, Grassley’s title will change from Speaker-select to Speaker after he’s formally elected in a public vote on the House floor.