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British Twitch streaming celebrity and new Crimson Bull athlete Marc ‘Caedrel’ Lamont believes there’s an opportunity his League of Legends staff, Los Ratones, might not exist come the tip of the yr.
Caedrel has beforehand acknowledged that the staff gained’t be paying €20m for an LEC spot and had beforehand talked about transferring areas.
Whereas reacting to the information of great office allegations towards the LEC’s Movistar Koi, Caedrel stated “shedding Ibai can be a horror” for LoL’s esports scene.
After which, whereas on the subject of LoL esports’ present struggles, Caedrel revealed Los Ratones might solely be a one-year mission:
“Chat, I don’t know what’s going to occur to Los Ratones on the finish of the yr.
“I don’t know if Los Ratones goes to exist by the tip of the yr, I don’t know if we’re going to be in a Tier 1 area, I don’t know if we’re going to be in f**king Korea. I don’t know what the f*ck goes to occur to Los Ratones. The panorama ain’t simple man.”
As chat started to panic and Los Ratones assist Martin ‘Rekkles’ Larsson joked he was going to get fired, Caedrel reassured his viewers: ” It’s nothing to fret about but. I’m looking for methods to make the staff work.”
After which he confirmed that Los Ratones are in talks to vary league and even area: “If we will’t discover methods to make the staff work it’s going to suck. Perhaps the staff shuts down, possibly the staff doesn’t shut down, possibly the staff could make it right into a Tier 1 area, there’s talks about stuff proper now.”
“Pay attention… I don’t assume we need to sit right here and grind ERLs for years,” he then added.
Having grow to be the primary UK-registered staff to win the LoL EMEA Masters and shattering viewership information for the occasion, Los Ratones have already reached their ceiling.
Due to that, Caedrel then went on to lament the shortage of tournaments that Los Ratones can compete in:
“What I’m attempting to say right here is, if there have been a great deal of third-party tournaments or there was a approach to qualify into a significant area, the LEC for instance, it will be very easy for Los Ratones to have a purpose. Then we’re really taking part in for one thing.
“Or if there’s a approach to qualify into leagues that may make it a lot simpler. I’m not attempting to complain, I’m simply saying the way in which the staff is structured round content material and competing, with out these choices, it makes it very tough to do something.”
Presently, the one third-party occasion Los Ratones may compete in is that if Crimson Bull hosts one other League of Their Personal occasion, although the final featured showmatches relatively than a aggressive format.
There may be additionally the Esports World Cup which can have a $2m (£1.5m) prize pool for LoL this summer time. However groups must qualify for this yr’s version by the Tier 1 tournaments in order that’s additionally not an possibility for the staff.
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