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British Twitch streamer, Marc “Caedrel” Lamont, has finally received the EMEA Masters Winter 2025 trophy that his Los Ratones team earned earlier this year, making them the first UK-registered organisation to win the League of Legends tournament.
He took to his stream to show off the prestigious trophy after he helped coach the team to victories against the strongest LoL teams from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa in the region’s second tier of competition. The British streamer was beaming and couldn’t stop “oohing and aahing” as he proudly held his team’s prize for the first time, seeing as he coached the event remotely.
Caedrel created Los Ratones team as a passion project at the start of the year and things have quickly escalated. They are now one of the most popular LoL teams in the world, they added over 100,000 peak viewers to smash the EMEA Masters viewership record as a peak audience of 484,533 tuned in to watch them defeat French team Ici Japon Corp. Esport 3-0 in the Winter final.
And it’s no surprise considering the star power on the roster along with Caedrel’s own popularity, considering he hit the number one spot on Twitch during last year’s LoL World Championships. Support Martin Erik “Rekkles” Larsson and midlaner Tim “Nemesis” Lipovšek already had huge followings from their time on Fnatic, as did notorious top lane Twitch streamer Simon “TheBausffs” Hofverberg. And on top of that, many were excited to watch the known talents of former Team Vitality and SK Gaming LEC veteran botlaner Juš “Crownie” Marušič and the exciting potential of rookie jungler Veljko “Velja” Čamdžić.
Having already dominated the NLC, the regional league for the UK and Nordics, and then the biggest EMEA tournament they can enter in the Masters, Los Ratones fans are already clamoring for the team to join the LEC just as Karmine Corp and KOI did to bring their respective cult followings from France and Spain to the region’s premier competition.
However, Caedrel has explained to his viewers that this won’t be easy and he won’t be paying the €20 million (£17m) to join the LEC franchise. Still, he is exploring the team’s options, including a possible move to another region altogether.
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