Now that 2020 is over and a brand new League of Legends season has begun, it’s again to the core enterprise at hand which is the fantastic return of aggressive LoL within the UK.
With the NLC’s premier system and ecosystem returning to the fold, viewers are blessed with three tiers of competitors as soon as once more: the upper-tier NLC, mid-tier UKLC and lower-tier UKEL. Megalodontus gathers all of the roster reveals for 2021 in a single useful article.
Casters for the NLC, UKLC and UKEL
We see the return of our typical suspects plus one acquainted face in Jamada, who was invited to forged the NLC Fall Open most not too long ago.
Aux introduced that he would be stepping down from casting the UKLC, which suggests Hiprain and Jamada will likely be main the helm as a substitute.
The UKEL has expanded its broadcast group for 2021. With acquainted faces returning, the UKEL has additionally added Godsent head coach Jon Ellis and Guild Esports director of esports Grant Rousseau.
With the casters listing finalised, all that’s left are the groups themselves.
NLC teams, groups and rosters
The 2 teams for 2021 spring are:
Fnatic Rising
They’ve additionally introduced Hugo ‘Lindgarde’ Lindgärde as their subtitute botlaner.
BT Excel
Dusty
Tricked Esport
MNM Gaming
Granit Gaming
Workforce Singularity
Barrage Esports
Godsent
Nordavind
KOVA Esports
Riddle Esports
UKLC groups and rosters
As a result of Phelan Gaming withdrawing from the UKLC for spring the Munster late payments scandal, DreamHack opened their spot to Bulldog Esports and NerdRage, who have been within the UKLC promotion match beforehand.
Bulldog Esports won in a convincing 3-0 yesterday and thus returned to the UKLC, whereas NerdRage stays within the UKEL.
The eight UKLC group rosters are as follows:
NVision Esports
Enclave
Demise
Barrage Academy
MNM Gaming Academy
London Esports
Resolve
Bulldog Esports
UKEL groups and rosters
Whereas many have been initially skeptical, UKEL founder and ops director Alex ‘Synygy’ Winton has confirmed that Munster Rugby Gaming’s software to affix the UKEL was very sturdy, and Munster have joined the UKEL, this time without a partner organisation running their operations.
There are presently six introduced group rosters, with two to observe. We’ll replace this text with their groups as they’re revealed.
Hyve Central
Lucendi Gaming
Lucendi additionally introduced two substitute players.
Mythos Gaming
Viperio Esports
Demise Academy
TBA
LDN UTD
Munster Rugby Gaming
TBA
NerdRage
The NLC gets underway on Twitch on January 19th, the UKLC starts on January 17th (on Twitch and BBC) and the UKEL begins on January 21st
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