A mix team formed of top League of Legends talent have won the Twitch Rivals Rift Series Spirit Blossom European Showdown.
The tournament included three games: League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics and Legends of Runeterra.
Winners Team Sologesang featured:
- BT Excel top-laner Rosendo ‘Send0o’ Fuentes Bóveda
- Cream Real Betis jungler David ‘DahVys’ Casco Ortega
- Euronics Gaming streamer Sologesang, who plays in the mid-lane
- Bot-laner Daniel ‘Broeki’ Broekmann
- Spandauer Inferno support player Philipp ‘Kutcher’ Traub
Send0o is an experienced League of Legends player in the UK scene, having been with London-based Excel Esports for more than two years now.
Team Sologesang finished last in Legends of Runeterra, fourth in Teamfight Tactics but top in League of Legends by quite some margin, to emerge as overall victors of the latest Twitch Rivals EU tournament.
They beat Team General_HS in the semi-final and Team Solary in the final to win the League of Legends tournament.
You can see the final standings and other teams that took part here:
The Twitch Rivals Rift Series was themed around Riot Games’ new Spirit Blossom in-game event, which, like the tournament, is also running across League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics and Legends of Runeterra.
There was also a North American equivalent of the tournament.
There’s a more comprehensive breakdown of the Twitch Rivals Spirit Blossom tournament on the Dot Esports website.
Streaming platform Twitch has held several Twitch Rivals tournaments in recent years. Here are some that have featured talent from the UK League of Legends scene:
- UK League of Legends streamers team up with YamatoCannon to form TeamHuzzyGames in latest Twitch Rivals tournament
- Vicksy wins Twitch Rivals UK Teamfight Tactics tournament
- Team UK fall short at Twitch Rivals League of Legends streamer tournament
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