CLG left without a starting Jungler after Dexter turned away at US border.

Today Marcel "Dexter" Feldkamp tweeted that he'd been denied entry to the united states including a night in jail.

Visa got cancelled. On my way Home again for nothing
— Marcel Feldkamp (@MarcelFeldkamp) January 3, 2014

I also had the pleasure to spend a night in a cell. Fuck my Life
— Marcel Feldkamp (@MarcelFeldkamp) January 3, 2014

CLG was quick to issue a few tweets to verify the situation.

To confirm, @MarcelFeldkamp got denied entry to the US, unsure at this point what our options are
— Counter Logic Gaming (@clgaming) January 3, 2014

We don't know why he got denied or how long till he can come back yet. His athlete visa needs to be approved before he comes back however
— Counter Logic Gaming (@clgaming) January 3, 2014

This unfortunately means that as of this writing CLG has no starting jungler for the LCS season which starts in only 14 days. With any luck CLG, Riot, and Dexter will be able to work things out with US immigration and get Dexter in the states in time for the LCS, but in case they don't I'm going to go over a few of the likely jungler options for CLG in the meantime.

#1: Brian "Trickz" Ahn. Many will remember Trickz playing for CLG during IEM Cologne 2013 back in November. While Trickz did occasionally seem shaky, likely due to his inexperience at LAN events, during IEM Cologne, his play was a large part in the success of CLG at the event. Gank pressure provided by Trickz helped CLG mid laner Link run rampant over superstar Fnatic Xpeke in two of CLG's three games. Champion picks during IEM also showed Trickz can play the current top tier junglers like Vi and Shyvana. Even as just a temporary fill in Trickz could go a long way to helping CLG start the LCS off strong.

#2. Michael "Bigfatlp" Tang. Bigfatlp has been an off and on staple of the CLG lineup for years, and served as CLG's jungler in the season 3 summer split of the LCS. The level one strategies that all members of CLG credited to Bigfatlp were an enormous factor in several CLG victories including both of those picked against Cloud 9. His immense game knowledge and dedication to research clearly outshine whatever problems the highly underrated Bigfatlp may have. The biggest problem with bringing back Bigfatlp yet again would be the tendency CLG has to fall into bad habits, and they simply do not need a repeat of the underwhelming summer split.

#3. George "HotshotGG" Geogallidis. Team owner and long time fan favorite HotshotGG stepped back from the team at the start of the Season 3 LCS summer split making way for Nientonsoh to take over in the top lane. Despite that HotshotGG has continued to play and stream League of Legends at a high level. HotshotGG has previous played jungle for CLG during season 2 and is well known for his fondness for the tanky farm heavy champions similar to the current strong jungle picks. The farm heavy tanky jungle meta is quite similar to the season 2 jungle HotshotGG was a part of. The return of HotshotGG to jungle could work as a short term stop gap while CLG waits for Dexter's visa to be cleared, and the fan buzz from the move could certainly help drive interest in the early weeks of the LCS.

Obviously these are not CLG's only options, there is the possibility of pulling up someone from the Challenger scene. One of these three options seems the most likely fill in for Dexter however, largely due to a mix of HotshotGG's sentiments on available NA talent and the fact that many players are tied up fighting for a place in the Coke Zero Challenger league. Whatever move CLG makes we'll certainly know soon as they've got to field a team for the first day of LCS on January 17th.

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