With the conclusion of the Group Stage, UCI Esports’ varsity League of Legends (LoL) team—the defending national champions—is moving onto the live finals in Los Angeles, CA for the second consecutive year!
The 2019 West Conference semifinal match against Cal (UC Berkeley) could have been a thrilling match to watch, but unfortunately a family emergency for one of their starting players forced the team to forfeit for failing to field a full roster. (Wish our sister campus luck in the Pacific Esports (PAC-E) League of Legends Invitational, hosted by UCLA Esports!) The final match against Cal Poly Pomona resulted in another UCI win, taking the top spot in the West conference.
As the West is one of the top four conferences, we receive an auto-berth into the College Championship where eight teams will play a three-round single elimination tournament. The first round is best-of-three and all other rounds are best-of-five. So a UCI repeat championship could entail as few as eight more matches, or as many as thirteen!
Maryville University, University of Ontario, and University of Illinois also won their conferences and joined us in the auto-berths. University of Waterloo, Michigan State University, Columbia College, and North Carolina State University battled their way through the remaining teams to complete the “great eight” of the Championship Finals. (You can see the Round 1 brackets here.)
Our Round 1 bout will be an intensely noteworthy rematch against Columbia College, our grand final match opponents from last year whom we defeated 3-0 to become the 2018 League of Legends College Champions. Tune in to catch our quarterfinals match on Friday, May 24th at 6pm Pacific Time on Riot’s Twitch channel.
Once again, your 2018-2019 UCI LoL varsity team is:
Evan “Captain Nuke” Phu (Top Laner),
Avi “Im Avi” Behar (Jungle),
Jeffrey “Descraton” Du (Mid Laner),
Youngbin “Youngbin” Chung (Bot Laner)
Lyubomir “BloodWater” Spasov (Support),
and Ethan “Kim Down” Song (Support, Substitute).
We must not forget the amazing support staff behind the team:
James “Coachman” Bates (Head Coach),
James “Lattman” Lattman (Assistant Coach),
Allison “Shoogle” Le (Team Manager),
Milo “PhDodson” Dodson (Team Psychologist),
Haylesh “Haylo” Patel (Team Physiologist),
and Hillary “Hillabeans” Phan (Player Support Coordinator).
Don’t forget to tune in May 23rd – May 26th for the College Championship matches!
Follow UCIEsports and College League of Legends on Twitter for updates.
Update: Riot recently posted an official announcement and information page with the schedule of matches.
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