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Method, Echo and Liquid, the three big competitive raiding guilds in World of Warcraft, have announced plans around the latest Race to World First: Liberation of Undermine.
The new raid opens on March 4th 2025 on normal, heroic and mythic difficulty, so expect guilds to have a crack at normal and heroic before diving into mythic right away. It’s of course set in the latest War Within expansion.
Method announce raiders, casters and partners for RWF Liberation of Undermine broadcast
First up, let’s look at UK esports organisation Method. The holder of many former world-firsts who are working hard to try and claim their first in six years (their last world-first kill was of Queen Azshara in 2019, if our records are correct).
They are always believing they can do it, as emphasised in this trailer below, announcing they will be competing live from 1337 Camp in Germany from March 5th 2025.
Casters include DarkMech, Krista, Lorgokz, Purke, Roiben, Shejkin and Brits MrGM and RageDarling.
Partners include SteelSeries, Holy, Arozzi, Fateless, Noda, Scan, Surfshark and Movember.
Method’s player line-up consists of tanks Nate and Skövte, healers FTM, Crystallize, Surarn, Thaner and Skånerost, and DPS Kina, Bangerz, Huntoper, Jaerv, Koltra, Kwepp, Raime, Matteo, Spen, Uggz, Verb, Wildi, Nalle, Heleni, Pricey, Uniq, Moet, Danwarr, Faithy, Fragnance, Nurseos, Insi and Sjeletyven.
Analysts include Cayna, Dana, Morana, Nnoggie, Noukky (formerly of London Spitfire), Permok, Tom, Turttle, Biff and Dragnio, plus support staff Heregellas, Rinald and Kian.
Brits on the team are Nate, Bangerz, Kina, Kwepp, Uggz, Pricey, Danwarr, Tom, Biff and Method founder Sco. More from him below.
14 of Method’s raiders this time around will be playing at 1337 Camp live. These are:
Method founder and CEO Scott ‘Sco’ McMillan said in a video: “This could be a really big one for us, so preparation from the guild side of things has been really good, the behind-the-scenes team and analysts have been really solid, and our roster has got even stronger from last time.
“We had some big pickups. Thaner rejoined us from Echo, our healing roster is looking really good, and we also got Skövte and other strong recruits. So the guild is looking super solid and I’m really excited to see what we can do in this Race to World First, it could be the turning point for us between four and a half years of building the guild up until this point.
“I think everyone is really excited to get into this one and see how we perform. It could be a tipping point for us. This Race to World First could be a monumental one for us.”
Sco also spoke about the broadcast levelling up, showing raidframes on the caster ident, ‘which will help show important things and make it a better viewing experience’, and how Method are growing their website to cover other games.
Method are also undergoing their first fundraising round.
“It’s the first time we’re looking to accept investment into Method. It’s to bolster our current operations but it’s also to take Method down an exciting new avenue as well.”
Scott ‘Sco’ McMillan, Method
“We’re having some good conversations and we have several angel investors that are committed as well, so things are shaping up to be really good.”
“I think 2025 is going to be a great year for Method. It’s my lifelong passion to get Method back to competing for that world first title. And I think we’re really close now.
“It’s been a lot of work from a lot of people rebuilding the [Method] guild. I want to take this moment to thank you all for your continued support.”
This latest RWF event comes after Method finished third in the Race to World First for Nerub’ar Palace, the most recent race.
Medic, Preach and more return to cast Echo’s RWF broadcast for Liberation of Undermine
Echo, the European guild that was formed by raiders from Method in 2020, are also competing from Germany for the latest Race to World First. Specifically, at SK Gaming’s Magenta Facility in Cologne.
They will have 15 players and seven casters at the facility.
Echo are partnered with NordVPN, Corsair, Displate, Secret Lab, Gains For Gamers, G2A, Maxroll and StarForge Systems.
Their raid team includes Scripe, Rogerbrown, Justwait, Meeres, Rycn, Gingi, Perfecto, Revves, Xerwo, Fléks, Narcolies, Fraggo, Canexx, Mini, Velo, Clickz, Sol, Dota, Swag, Zhatzi, Kush, Andybrew, Saltad, Nicememes, Hank, Arty, Tief, Wexi, Maystine, Sho, Stove, Hopeful, Wallife and Soda.
Their raiders in Germany will be the following:
Echo also has another big caster line-up for the broadcast, including Brits Preach Gaming, Jordan (aka Okaymage) and LEC caster Medic.
Others include Rook, Alex, Jeath and Cruella.
Echo finished second at the most recent race.
Liquid look for another world-first in Liberation of Undermine
Last but by no means least, current Race to World First winners, Liquid, have announced their plans around the Liberation of Undermine raid.
The US guild will start their broadcast on March 4th:
Their raiders include Maximum, Bubbadub, Tagzz, Scott, Nick, Xesevi, Yipz, Driney, Maevey, Exile, Goop, Sang, Imfiredup, Boomie, Atlas, Trill, Tobo, Thdlock, Shakib, Impec, Kingfly, Lip, Drenaco, Splat, Riku, Rivenz, Daizr, Ksp, Malarkus, Ceredas, Hardy, Smacked, Siory, Telegon, Lumi, Bart, Ironi and Orisa.
Casters for Liquid’s latest race include Eiya, Dratnos, Meeix, Kalamazi, Kams, Automaticjak, Xyronic and Tettles.
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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.
