Riot Games has launched an official CBLOL English broadcast focused on the Brazilian League of Legends region, featuring a host of casters from the unofficial fan broadcast.
This talent line-up features two casters from the UK: Ruski “Roodood” Hamidouche and CJ “Trajan” Macdonald.
The first CBLOL English broadcast started yesterday (June 10th 2023) on the CBLOL English Twitch channel, with the start of the second split, and it will run every weekend until September 9th.
CBLOL English broadcast talent line-up
The full line-up of casters are as follows:
- Benton “Axeman87” Paterson
- Rafael “DiA” Ruizh
- Henrique “FourY4” DaMour
- Ben “Hawk” Hawkins
- Ruski “Roodood” Hamidouche
- Ryan “RMC” Teo
- CJ “Trajan” Macdonald
- JC “Y4SO” McDonough
The LoL community reacted excitedly to the news, with the above CBLOL English caster announcement tweet having generated some half a million impressions.
The project is part of a series of strategies to take the Campeonato Brasileiro de League of Legends (CBLOL) to other regions.
“Like we announced at the start of the year, we are taking another step in the project to globalise CBLOL,” said Carlos Antunes, the Esports Lead at Riot Games Brazil, according to this Reddit post translation of a CBLOL region-locked article on the Riot website.
“This initiative responds to a growing interest we’ve observed from the international public. We believe that the time is right for CBLOL to be shared with this audience and to win it over, showing how we game and entertain in Brazil.”
CBLOL English UK caster Trajan told Esports News UK during MSI last month that Brazilian side Loud would ‘crush G2’, a prediction that did not quite go as planned as G2 won 2-0!
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