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The Ruddy Sack, the NLC team led by League of Legends personalities IWillDominate, YamatoCannon, DonJake and more, have sent out some fighting talk to Los Ratones, the all-star team run by Caedrel.
They were speaking to Esports News UK following day four of the Winter 2025 seeding stage, where they went 2-0 with wins over DMG and Venomcrest (the team that beat Ruddy in the NLC Summer 2024 finals).
This puts them at 3-1 so far, second in Group B behind Rich Gang, and means Ruddy reach the playoffs as second seed.
In Group A, Los Ratones and Nord Esports have topped their group to reach the NLC Winter 2025 playoffs.
While this means The Ruddy Sack won’t face Los Ratones straight away in the playoffs, they could face one another as the playoffs progress.
The Ruddy Sack issue fighting talk to Los Ratones in IWillDominate press conference
In the evening press conference hosted on IWillDominate’s stream, we asked them about potentially facing Los Ratones. Big-name team vs big-name team.
Ruddy’s roster has Croatian top-laner Perkz, Polish jungler Jankos, Norwegian mid-laner LIDER, American bot laner Humzh and Swedish support player Hustlin, while the Rats have Swedish top-laner Thebausffs, Serbian jungler Velja, Slovenian mid-laner Nemesis and bot-laner Crownie, plus Swedish star support Rekkles.
Here’s The Ruddy Sack’s answers to our question in full:
IWD:
“Firstly, we were considering losing on purpose today just so we could match against Caedrel in the first round [of playoffs]. But we decided to just have a strong showing instead, so they should be very grateful that they dodged us in the first round.”
IWillDominate, The Ruddy Sack
“Secondly, Caedrel was in my chat during the last game [versus Venomcrest] and he said he was paying [The Ruddy Sack support player] Hustlin to run it down in the game. So I think this should be probably investigated by some of the authorities, I mean you’re a journalist yourself, you should probably ask him about this, because I was wondering why our support was win-trading, and it’s probably because Caedrel is the richest man in the NLC.”
LIDER: “I personally am actually looking forward to Perkz vs Thebausffs and what is going to happen up there [in the top lane], because Perkz has been shit talking Thebausffs for so long that I want to see baus stomp his head in!
IWD: You realise you’re playing with Perkz on our team?
LIDER: I know.
YamatoCannon: You’re in the Sack, bro!
Perkz: I’m getting win traded in games and in Discord right now, this is crazy.
LIDER: Jokes aside, I think the match-up is gonna be fun. It looks like [Los Ratones] were struggling a lot against actual teams, they were like behind in gold yesterday, I saw. So it’s going to be nice when we’re actually stomping every early game really easily, no contest. Our mid game needs some work, so it looks like they’re a mid-game-centric team rather than an early-game-centric team, so it’s gonna be a nice match-up to see who ends up on top.
Humzh:
“I got nothing to say, but their bot lane will always get gapped by me. I never get gapped bot, so that’s about it. I can’t say much about the other players, I do my job, I’ll always do my job. Best in the West. I’ll beat Faker in three years. That’s all I’m gonna say. I’m the best on the team, that’s a fact.”
Humzh, The Ruddy Sack
Coach YamatoCannon spoke about hoping and praying his team sticks together and does well, and when asked about how the scrims are going, he said: “What scrims?”
Also, jungler Jankos also told host Archarom on the NLC official broadcast that The Ruddy Sack will win the NLC!
His comments come after Ruddy co-founder DonJake last week said that he wants to win a trophy this split.
Elsewhere in the press conference, UK LEC caster Nymaera asked what it would take for the Ruddy Sack to be more than a flash in the pan, some players said money! Armand Luque of Sheep Esports also asked about EMEA Masters – there’s more in IWD’s stream vod.
And later on, when asked by DonJake’s mum what his favourite food is, IWillDominate replied: “Rat meat.”
You’ve been warned, Los Ratones.
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.
