The last great UK Masters qualifier banter: Joekerism shuts down egos with savage memes

Another day in the UK League of Legends Masters Qualifiers, another ego flaming the UK scene, another Twitter meme and a savage response from a UK ADC.
In the words of Alan Partridge, it’s great banter, it really is.
Tonight’s UK LoL banter is courtesy of MacroManiacs, a team that entered the final UK Masters qualifier, and were one game away from qualifying.
Their opponents? Enclave Gaming. Enclave really wanted this, it was their last chance to qualify and they wouldn’t go down without a fight.
Ahead of the match, MacroManiacs players MonkWillCarry and Turkinator took to Twitter to thump their chests and generate some hype on Twitter.

Gonna make UK scene my bitch real soon ?

— Joosep Kivilaan (@MonkWillCarry) June 13, 2017

Turkinator, who was also apparently trash-talking in the Twitch chat/pre-game lobby, later deleted his tweets. Here are a couple of them:


Enclave won the match.
In 21 minutes.
Enclave ADC and UK scene veteran Joekerism didn’t let his memes remain dreams. He responded with a couple of savage tweets:

hm ??? gg @MacroManiacsLoL pic.twitter.com/Pdw9TXncJc

— Joe Kent (@Joekerism) June 13, 2017

XD! pic.twitter.com/YZFM0CqgLd

— Joe Kent (@Joekerism) June 13, 2017

 
We even got involved.

Another ego flattened by the UK scene ? https://t.co/Nm79mvxhDp

— Esports News UK (@Esports_News_UK) June 13, 2017

 
Fair play to MonkWillCarry, he back-tracked afterwards and admitted he was trashtalking for hype.

I always just trashtalk for hype , I didnt have high expectations actually considering my team

— Joosep Kivilaan (@MonkWillCarry) June 13, 2017

well I kind of dug myself a hole being so outspoken as a coinflip player when in reality I hate slow losing so I try my best to just carry

— Joosep Kivilaan (@MonkWillCarry) June 13, 2017

!! pic.twitter.com/k83HtthADt

— Joe Kent (@Joekerism) June 13, 2017

Well that’s enough banter for one set of qualifiers. Now we look forward to the actual tournament itself.
In case you missed it, give yourself a rewind and read up on last night’s UK scene banter.
Here are the final eight qualified teams for the LoL UK Masters.

Dom Sacco

Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.

As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.