The Northern League of Legends Championship (NLC) 2025 Spring Finals has finally arrived at the legendary K.B. Hallen in Copenhagen, Denmark.
After a slew of tech issues and delays, the finals kicked off to the fans’ delight.
Los Ratones came out on top after a swift series against fellow British-based team, Ruddy Sack.
They’ll now face Nord Esports in the Grand Finals tomorrow at 10am BST.
Los Ratones take Game 1
The fan favourites stormed through Ruddy Sack in a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ first game.
It only took a matter of minutes for the action to start as both junglers took particular interest in the bot lane.
What looked like an easy pick for Ruddy Sack onto Martin ‘Rekkles’ Larsson quickly turned into a bot lane skirmish, which they simply weren’t prepared for.
The Ruddy Sack support, Igor ‘marlon’ Tomczyk, did take down Rekkles in the end, but also joined him in the process along with his AD carry, Nataniel ”Nata’ Asrat.
This also led to Los Ratones securing one part of the all-important ‘Feats of Strength’, as Veljko ‘Velja’ Čamdžić also secured a kill in the top lane.
Ruddy would fight back after Nata gained a shutdown on Juš ‘Crownie’ Marušič, which led to the team taking an Ocean Dragon.
However, it all came down to a crucial teamfight around the Rift Herald.
A teamfight where Ruddy Sack were left without their main tank before the fight properly began. Ultimately leading to Los Ratones taking the lead.
The game was all but over from there, but not before Simon ‘Baus’ Hofverberg treated viewers to a death-defying escape.
Ruddy Sack bites back in Game 2
The second game looked to be going the same way as Baus showed Ruddy Sack and the crowd how Quinn can be hard to catch.
Meanwhile, Velja would play very aggressively as he was often found in the Ruddy Sack jungle.
Skirmishing was the name of the game, and Ruddy Sack fought back with vengeance.
Both teams would go back-and-forth and blow-for-blow in constant high-octane action.
However, with each exchange, Los Ratones would emerge with the advantage, which steadily started to mount.
This proved to be too much for Ruddy Sack to handle as the game slowly slipped away from them.
After a longer and substantially more exciting game, Los Rotaones took down Ruddy Sack once again to leave themselves on match point.
Game 2 also goes to LR!
— Jack Freeman (@JackelBat) May 31, 2025
Hope @Hiprain hasn’t lost his voice for the rest of the series pic.twitter.com/9buu3GcONH
Curtain call in Game 3
Third time’s the charm, or at least for pauses, as the crowd were gifted with yet another tech pause at the start of the game.
Eventually, the game got underway, and magic was in the air as Ruddy Sack took the early lead thanks to marlon on the Pyke.
However, Los Ratones refused to go out quietly, after taking down Gaëthan ‘Gaëthan’ Baron.
Thus scoring the shut down and tempo for Los Ratones.
This came to a head near the thirty minute mark as Los Ratones were able to take control of the game after a divisive teamfight.
In the end, the rats brought it back from the jaws of defeat, or at least the jaws of being behind in overall team gold.
Eventually closing out the game to win the series 3-0.
That makes game 3 to Los Ratones! pic.twitter.com/eywBF18bLL
— Jack Freeman (@JackelBat) May 31, 2025
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