ESPN：Splyce和PSG.H2K的EULCS永久席位申请已被拒绝

ESPN援引消息人士的透露，随着拳头游戏开始挑选EULCS联盟伙伴，Splyce和PSG.H2K在EULCS联赛中永久席位的申请已被拒绝。

EULCS将欢迎许多新的战队和投资者加入联盟，自7月份以来，该联盟已经开展了特许经营申请程序。7月、8月和9月期间，大约24名申请者应邀到柏林与EULCS联盟所有者和游戏开发者拳头游戏见面。EULCS紧随其姊妹联赛——NALCS的脚步，北美NALCS联赛在2017年也经历了类似的过程。拳头游戏，Splyce和H2K战队均没有回应记者的置评请求。

SPLYCE和H2K将在2014年底和2015赛季分别进入英雄联盟职业联赛。两支战队都没有降级，而且在历史比赛的大部分时间里，他们都在季后赛中占据一席之地。

SPLYCE和H2K在退出联盟后，都将根据在联赛中征战的赛季数量得到补偿。这些数字将根据新战队进入EULCS联盟的数量而有所不同，每个新战队将比留在联盟中的现有战队多支付250万欧元(290万美元)。NALCS的补偿金额从171万美元到286万美元不等。

消息人士说，H2K和巴黎圣日耳曼PSG在九月初达成合作后，H2K向联盟提交了初始申请。合伙战队PSG.LGD将以H2K作为该团队的主要运营商，并以巴黎圣日耳曼PSG冠名，类似于其在Dota 2中与LGD Gaming的合作。

H2K在2011年进入英雄联盟职业联赛，并在增加两个新战队名额的2014年末时，晋级到EULCS。在2017年年中，H2K战队及其高管公开反对拳头游戏，威胁说，如果拳头不作出使其战队盈利的改变，他们将离开EULCS联赛。H2K联合UOL，还写了一封关于EULCS联赛生态缺陷的公开信。

2015年底，Splyce收购了Team Dignitas在EULCS的席位，后者由于在北美拥有另一支战队而被要求出售其席位。2017年2月，Splyce从Delaware North获得了投资。Delaware North是一家非常知名的美国酒店集团，也是Boston Bruins 和TD Garden的母公司。同年晚些时候，Splyce和EULCS的G2 Esports、Fnatic和Misfits一起申请了NALCS席位，但是都被拒绝。

Applications from Splyce and a joint venture between H2K Gaming and Paris Saint-Germain have been declined for permanent slots in the European League Championship Series as Riot begins to select franchise partners, league sources told ESPN.

The league will welcome a number of new teams and investors into the league, which has conducted its franchise application process since July. Around 24 applicants were invited to Berlin to meet with league owner and game dev Riot Games over the course of July, August and September. The EU LCS is following in the footsteps of its sister league, the North American League Championship Series, which went through a similar process in 2017. Riot Games, Splyce and H2K Gaming did not respond to requests for comment.

Splyce and H2K will exit from League of Legends for the first time since the teams entered in late 2014 and 2015, respectively. Both have remained in the league without being relegated, and for the greater part of their competitive history they have fielded rosters that placed within the playoffs throughout a number of seasons.

Splyce and H2K will both be compensated with an exit payment based off the number of splits they've competed in the league. Those numbers will differ depending on the number of new teams welcomed into the league, each of whom will pay an additional 2.5 million euros ($2.9 million) more than their existing peers who will remain in the league. Exit payments in the North American League Championship Series ranged from $1.71 million to $2.86 million.

H2K and Paris Saint-Germain partnered in early September after H2K filed its initial application with the league, sources said. The partnership would have seen H2K work as the main operator for the team, which would have Paris Saint-Germain branding, similar to its partnership with LGD Gaming in Dota 2.

H2K entered League of Legends in 2011 and qualified for the European League Championship Series in late 2014 during the league's expansion tournament, which added two new teams to the league. In mid-2017, H2K Gaming and its executives spoke out against Riot Games, threatening to leave the league if Riot did not make changes that would allow its teams to make profits. H2K was joined by Unicorns of Love, who also wrote an open letter about flaws within the European League of Legends ecosystem.

In late 2015, Splyce acquired the European slot owned by Team Dignitas, who were required to sell its spot as a result of owning another team in North America. In February 2017, Splyce received investment from Delaware North, a well-known American hospitality company and the parent group of the Boston Bruins and TD Garden. Later that year, Splyce, alongside its peers G2 Esports, Fnatic and Misfits, applied for the North American League Championship Series but were declined from that league as well.