EMEA Masters 2023 play-ins group draw and casters confirmed as LoL tournament gets underway

Dom Sacco, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 17/06/2025

The Summer EMEA Masters 2023 play-ins are starting today, as some of the best League of Legends teams from across Europe and MEA prepare to compete.

EMEA Masters 2023 play-ins group draw includes NLC team Nord and UK org 7am

The EMEA Masters 2023 play-ins group draw has concluded, and the four groups have been revealed.

The official EMEA Masters account on X published this yesterday:

The group draw features one team from the UK, Ireland and Nordics’ Northern League of Legends Championship (NLC): Nord Esports.

Ireland’s Nativz won the recent NLC 2023 Summer Playoffs to reach EMEA Masters Main Event, however runners-up Nord made it to the EMEA Masters 2023 play-ins. They’ve been placed into group A, along with GTZ Esports, KRC Genk Esports and WLGaming Esports.

UK esports organisation Team 7am – who compete in the Benelux Elite Series – are also in the play-ins. 7am are in group C with FUT Esports, Entropiq and White Dragons.

Update (August 17th): Unfortunately both Nord and Team 7am didn’t progress to the main stage, however they put up a good fight, going 3-3 and 2-4 respectively.

EUniverse to broadcast English EMEA Masters 2023 play-ins with several UK casters on board

EUniverse, a caster collective set up in early 2021 to promote the EMEA Regional Leagues, will once again be broadcasting the English language stream for the EMEA Masters 2023 play-ins.

This kicks off today (August 14th 2023) on the EUniverse_TV Twitch channel, with Awesome Streamers helping with the broadcasts on the 14th, 15th and 17th.

Many UK casters are on board, including Jreal, Middlecott, Milky Cereal, Trajan, Veteran, DocDa, Roodood and Temporal.

The EUniverse EMEA Masters 2023 play-ins caster line-up is as follows:

• Jreal
• Lythi
• Solari
• Middlecott
• Orchideuz
• Duckling
• Milky Cereal
• Trajan
• Noa
• Neeko’s Help
• Veteran
• DocDa
• Roodood
• Josef Kolisang
• Magvayer
• Halpern
• Rev
• Temporal
• KenRhen
• Charlie

EMEA Masters Summer 2023 schedule and Main Event teams

The Summer EMEA Masters 2023 play-ins matches get underway today (August 14th) from around 4pm BST, and will also run throughout August 15th. The knockout stage will then take place on August 17th.

Then, the EMEA Masters Summer 2023 Main Event begins on Monday August 21st with the group stage.

The quarter finals will conclude on August 28th and 29th, while the semi-finals will on August 31st and September 1st.

The grand finals are due to take place on Friday September 8th.

Teams in the EMEA Masters Main Event for Summer 2023 include:

• Istanbul Wildcats
• Karmine Corp
• SK Gaming Prime
• Movistar Riders
• Nativz
• Orbit Anonymo
• NASR Turkey
• BK ROG Esports
• Bisons Eclub
• UOL Sexy Edition
• AliorBank Team
• Macko Esports

UK players include top-laner Shikari at Nativz and jungler NoName at Bisons. UK coaches include Rnglol at Nativz and Jarge at BK ROG Esports.

We’ll be back with more coverage of the EMEA Masters over the coming weeks.

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Dom Sacco, Senior Editor

Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He has almost two decades of experience in journalism, and left Esports News UK in June 2025. 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 also previously worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation.

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