Into the Breach to field League of Legends team for the first time at Insomnia 69, players confident of reaching the LAN finals

UK esports organisation Into the Breach have targeted a top-two finish in the League of Legends BYOC Open at Insomnia 69 this weekend.

It’s the org’s first move into League of Legends, with Into the Breach more known for competing in CSGO (they won the i68 finals).

They’ve picked up a mostly-UK roster just for Insomnia Gaming Festival featuring a few players who competed at i68 under the name ‘Team Solo Milk’.

Jungler Tyrin, support player Snuggli, coach SMEAG (aka Smeagol) and manager Rellie (aka Rae/Rachel) return, with Akkers (who recently played with mYinsanity) joining in the top-lane, Yusa in the bot lane and Danish mid-laner Coing completing the roster.

Previous Team Solo Milk players Admawodo and Syn are playing under another team name – UK painkillers – this time around. And UK LoL OG WaWa doesn’t appear to be playing this time.

Other teams include Brod & Friends (with Governor returning again, joined by Whitey, Willows, Joy Pls and Gnemly) and Grey Warwick, who won the i68 LoL Open. They look to be playing under the name Grey Cabbage for i69.

Last time, Team Solo Milk were one game away from reaching the lower-bracket finals.

You can see more teams taking part in the LoL i69 BYOC Open on Battlefy here. Also, Into the Breach are looking to sponsor players in other games at i69.

‘Winning is the goal, but it’ll be important for us to respect the competition’ – ITB i69 LoL team

We caught up with some of the Into the Breach League of Legends team ahead of i69 to see how they feel they’ll get on.

Jungler Tyrin said: “When Snuggli and I joined up to form a team for i68, we weren’t entering with the belief we would win. Mainly it was for the fun of it. Myself and our top Admawodo, had both barely played for months, Snuggli was playing off-role and Wawa had barely touched the game since 2015!

“It was my first LAN since 2016 and it really reignited my passion for competitive League of Legends. We took a game off Verdant which was a huge highlight for us. Over the summer I’ve been playing a lot more.

“Smeag has helped Snuggli and I form a roster of solid players with experienced competitive backgrounds where we hope to give a challenge to other teams. Into The Breach has generously helped fund our entry and we hope to have a good showing.

“Will we win? We’ve seen some really strong rosters. It’s definitely the goal, but it’ll be important for us to respect the competition. Something about LAN really ignites a feeling in competing you just don’t get from online tournaments, so I hope we can use that passion to push us to the top!”

Support player Snuggli added: “I think our chances going into Insomnia69 are looking pretty solid! We’re going with a strong roster made up of a few UK veterans and a few younger players who themselves have a lot of competitive experience behind them.

“There are a few very strong teams going which will definitely be obstacles to us getting to the finals, last year’s winners are returning as is a team containing a few players from the second-place team.

Sam Cook, Into the Breach founder, commented: “This [League of Legends move] is just for Insomnia, as we were approached by Smeagol and it sounded like a cool thing to do – again in line with trying to support great UK players across the board. They’ll just be repping us for this event, but we’ll see about the future.”

We’ll leave the final word with the manager of the team, Rellie.

She said: “My only quote is that I believe in each and every member of our team and that they will perform their absolute best ????.”

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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.