Berlin International Gaming (BIG) have today announced their women’s League of Legends (LoL) team, known as BIG Chroma.
The org says BIG Chroma is a new project focusing on scouting female and non-binary talent in League of Legends and aiding their development as professional athletes. It’s BIG’s second LoL team.
Winning the Equal Esports Festival in Cologne this September, BIG Chroma already have a title under their belt while representing the BIG colours.
Their development as a team and individual players will be assisted by the same structure and staff who helped BIG’s League of Legends department bring home numerous Prime League trophies and the European Masters title in 2019 as well.
The BIG Chroma roster is as follows:
- Top-laner: Madison ‘CrowMac’ Coutelet (France)
- Jungler: Georgia ‘Trez’ Wheeler (UK)
- Mid-laner Miki ‘Nugget’ Maurer (Germany)
- Bot-laner and captain: Luna ‘Zavee’ Lochmann (Germany)
- Support: Gina ‘Lumi’ Kircher (Germany)
UK jungler Trez said:
BIG says ‘to follow up on our success with BIG Equipa – our women’s team in CSGO – we are committed to continue supporting underrepresented groups in esports, and to provide them with the same structure and facilities our other teams receive’.
The news comes just over a week after Riot Games, NUEL and GGTech announced a Rising Stars women’s League of Legends tournament for Europe, with G2 Gozen set to take part.
BIG chief gaming officer Christian Lenz said: “I’m super excited to see our LoL family grow. We had the chance to work with five awesome individuals during the last Equal Esports event in Cologne and ended up signing them immediately after. Female and non-binary talents are massively underrated and deserve their spot in the esports eco system like everyone else. Together with our partners and the Esports Player Foundation we will take care of all their needs. Let’s go BIG Chroma!”
Statement Team Captain Luna ‘Zavee’ Lochmann added:
“The opportunity to join an organisation with such great success and experience in developing talents is an incredible honour for all of us. We want to continue developing ourselves and become the greatest version of ourselves, reaching new heights in our gameplay all together while representing BIG’s colours. Securing our first title at the Equal Esports Event was only the beginning. Thanks for having us and thanks for cheering for us!”
Zavee, BIG Chroma
BIG chief marketing officer Philipp Neubauer commented: “Building up role models for young, aspiring female and non-binary gamers plays a key role in how we want to build BIG in the next few years. Being an underrepresented group, particularly in the esports scene, is a huge loss for our community as a whole.
“With the formation of BIG Chroma we are looking to create a precedent for all female and non-binary gamers by providing them with the same world-class facilities as we provide to our other teams. #GOBIG
Berlin International Gaming – known worldwide as BIG – is a well-known European esports organisation. Currently, the German organisation employs professional teams and players in eight different titles, including League of Legends, CSGO, Quake Champions, Tekken, Trackmania and StarCraft 2. In total, BIG’s professional teams have won over $2.4m in prize money to date.
Besides acquiring a Blast Premier Partner Slot in January 2021, BIG was able to purchase a partner slot within the ESL Pro League in October 2021 after a competitive bidding process.
Since 2020, the BIG League of Legends team has also been playing in the Prime League, the highest league for League of Legends in the GSA region. They have secured a total of eight championships since 2019, in addition to two Prime League titles in 2021, three Premier Tour victories, winning the SINN League, they also managed to finish the last ESL Championship season in 2019 in first place. The highlight of the League of Legends team is their victory at the European Masters Summer 2019 in Katowice.
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.
