Fans of UK esports organisation Excel Esports will be going up against fans of other teams in a community-made charity competition.
Master Fans will feature 19 fan teams and take place this week from Friday May 13th to Sunday May 15th 2022.
It’s the second version of the League of Legends tournament, which previously saw Solari fan team Royals 212 win in the debut competition. Other fan teams taking part include Misfits, Karmine Corp, Mad Lions, Team Vitality, Astralis and more.
Organisers will be raising funds for the crisis in Ukraine. Master Fans will donate all funds to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctor Without Borders). Donations can be made through the Streamlabs charity page.
The full list of 19 fan teams is as follows:
- Astralis Discord (Astralis)
- Beticos Del Universo (Real Betis)
- Bisoners (Bisons Eclub)
- Fnatic TQ (fan team sharing the same name as the actual team)
- Golden Hornets (Team Vitality)
- Guasones Pamplonicas (Guasones)
- Koi Andaluz (Koi)
- Le Blue Wall (Karmine Corp)
- Little Giants (Giants Gaming)
- Love Hurts Crew (Unicorns of Love)
- Mad Fidgets (Misfits)
- Mad Roar (Mad Lions)
- Night Foxes (LDLC)
- Red Eagles Spandau (Eintracht Spandau)
- Roaring Bears (Big Clan)
- Royals 212 (Solari)
- SK Ultras (SK Gaming)
- Spartans (Team Oplon)
- XS Esports (Excel Esports)
The Master Fans event will be broadcast on the Streamcast Twitch channel in English, Spanish and German, and the group stage will get underway on Friday and Saturday, with the knockout phase on Sunday.
All the action will be taking place during the evening, starting at 5pm BST on Friday and 4pm BST on the other days.
The English stream will be hosted by MisfitsGG. Spanish speaking viewers can watch the event on the Master Fans Spanish channel, while German viewers will be able to follow all the action at the StreamCast Network channel.
In addition, some channels will co-stream parts of the event, for instance SolaryTV who will be streaming Solary Ultras’ games and Le Blue Wall, who will be doing the same for their games. Other teams and members of the community are welcome to contact organisers if they want to stream some matches.
The Excel fan team announcement was made recently:
The roster will feature Henry ‘Spuds’ Clarke, a free agent coach from the UK/Ireland/Nordics League of Legends scene, who has worked with teams including Bifrost Academy, Absolved and NVision.
Spuds told Esports News UK: “I’ve been part of the Excel community since summer 2020, I took part in an LEC community tournament after Nathan Edmonds (Tinder League of Legends maestro) reached out to me to take part with iTzSTU4RT and other community members. It was a fantastic experience and I have been a fan ever since really.
“I feel really excited to be selected to represent them again in another tournament, hopefully I’ll do the community proud again.”
Spuds is sending us more details on the roster – we’ll aim to update this article later today when we hear more.
Aforementioned Stuart ‘iTzSTU4RT’ Gilson started out as an Excel superfan before going on to become a content creator for the organisation. He is also a Wild Rift caster and was recently part of the broadcast talent for the Wild Rift EMEA Championship finals in Barcelona.
More info including the Master Fans schedule and format can be found on this tournament page.
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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.
