The EU League of Legends Challenger Series Qualifiers are over – and two teams have progressed to the summer 2017 split.
Wind and Rain (WAR), the team formerly known as PAM/Polite and Mature, are the first to qualify. They originally progressed to the CSQs through Ragnarok 2017 with UK coach Alex “Kazehaya” Hirst, who predicted they would upset some teams.
See their full story on how they stomped the start of the CSQs here.
The other team that qualified this weekend is Red Bulls, the team that made it through the open qualifiers with British former LCS player Raymond “Kasing” Tsang.
WAR and Red Bulls will join Giants, PSG, Schalke and Origen in the summer 2017 EU Challenger Series. However, it’s rumoured that Origen will sell their spot, potentially to German football club Hertha Berlin.
Both WAR and Red Bulls made easy work in the finals today, with Wind and Rain beating Tricked Esports 3-0 and Red Bulls defeating Team LDLC 3-0.
While WAR’s games were slightly closer (you can see the full scores on Reddit here), Red Bulls were more dominant with shorter games.
In fact, Red Bulls picked up a perfect KDA in their first game versus LDLC, with ten kills, no deaths and 20 assists.
Gg LDLC if we lost I would’ve probably quit the game and realise how bad I am. Thanks to my team and your support, love you all ? #RBWIN
— Raymond Tsang (@kasinglol) 28 May 2017
We are now officially a Challenger Series team who can stop the storm of wind and rain!
— Kazehaya (@Coach_Kazehaya) 28 May 2017
Since today’s results, a bold prediction tweet made by Tricked stand-in P1noy last week has been retweeted more than 40 times.
Me and @WendelboLoL will smash people this CSQ, only helping tricked out for this CSQ and then I have other plans, so hopefully it’s succes.
— Kristoffer Pedersen (@P1noyLoL) May 23, 2017
Matches were streamed on the UK Masters Twitch channel.
The team representing UK & Ireland, MnM Gaming, were knocked out of the Challenger Series Qualifiers last Friday.
Further reading: In an esports industry obsessed with winning, MnM have shown us something more
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.
