A team of predominantly UK League of Legends streamers will be taking part in the latest Twitch Rivals tournament.
The side, led by British team captain and top-laner HuzzyGames, features fellow UK streamers Foxdrop (jungle), Vicksy (mid-lane) and Bizzleberry (support), plus well-known Swedish host and former pro player Yamatocannon (ADC).
The team roster was drafted by HuzzyGames in a ‘snake-style draft’ live on the Twitch Rivals stream, from a pool of 130 different League of Legends streamers.
Some other UK and Ireland personalities and streamers sadly didn’t get picked up by other teams, for example RossBoomSocks, Medic, RezoneGames and more.
TeamHuzzyGames will go up against seven other sides led by team captains iamdiamond, adamkissak, Wickd, Teamless, Thaldrinlol, Solary and noway4u_sir. You can see the full team line-ups and other details here.
Teams don’t technically need to be nationality-based but some end up going that way.
Twitch Rivals will consist of an NA tournament and an EU one. Each competition will have a $75,000 prize pool, with the winners taking home $25,000, second place receiving $15,000, and third and fourth place claiming $5,500.
Teams will also take home $1,000 per win in the round robin stage.
Matches take place on March 31st, April 1st and April 2nd, with the EU games starting from 2pm GMT each day.
This year’s UK-heavy team is similar to last year’s, with HuzzyGames, Vicksy and Bizzleberry returning, with Foxdrop in the jungle instead of VaporaDark, plus Yamatocannon playing as ADC instead of Snitch.
Last year, Team UK unfortunately fell short in the LoL Twitch Rivals tournament, despite a promising start and some very good early-game performances.
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.
